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“TOMORROW!!!” But if they really have nothing, I wonder what they will pull out of their asses next? A mini marathon of Shippuden premieres to make up for all the weeks it was preempted? DC Movies or other things they begged WarnerMedia for? An Attack on Titan marathon? A DBS marathon? A second Fena marathon? Another Bebop marathon? ANOTHER attempt to shove Black Lotus down our throats? I’m really curious what they’ll consider doing to stall even longer.

If they don’t announce a show this week, it’s pretty much guaranteed that 1/8/22 will also be a wash.

He debunked the budget fan theory years ago at this point and multiple times within the past few years but it doesn't hurt to reiterate it since plenty of people still assume it all comes from the same pot. What he said about his current level of transparency leading to misunderstanding... That's a good reason to simply not say anything. Basically anything he says will get spun as DeMarco saying "nothing is my fault, I tried the best I could" and people stopped buying that years ago if they ever bought it in the first place. Business IS complicated and he's gotten screwed out of deals several times for various reasons that were out of his control. I believe that much to be true. But as often as he throws his hands up publicly and bemoans how nothing is ever his fault, I can totally understand why more and more people think he's full of it.

Another meh turnout for Black Lotus. That Christmas Day marathon is all but certain to have episodes in the 5 digit club.

Well it's licensed by Viz already so that should save it from Netflix jail and put Toonami in a good position to get it. Too bad it's not airing in Japan until next Fall and same goes for MHA season 6. So if Toonami doesn't get Demon Slayer season 2 then Attack on Titan is probably the only big title they can air until late 2022 and early 2023.

I’m down for Bebop. It hasn’t aired regularly since 2018 at this point. Just that marathon last year. So moving on to 1/8/22, Bebop will either replace Dr. Stone (unless season 2 is getting another full run) or one of the 3 premiere slots. The later would be quite disappointing. And we’re looking at 2-3 other show additions. 1/8/22 could be a big night for Toonami but I shudder at the thought that they will need to stall for yet another week. At this point I’m begging them to announce the upcoming premieres before Christmas.

Geez Jman that's not what the actor of Gren actually said. Mason was talking about a right the wrongs of representation in other things, not Cowboy Bebop. If you read the article you will see the context of the quote that the writer used in the wrong context.

More from DeMarco So they have things and have had them for a while (one can wonder if they were ready to air a week or two ago but I guess we'll never know). What happened in the last few months is unprecedented and they may have to try some new things going forward to avoid a repeat of the past few months. Well I sure hope they get creative because it sounds like they're going to have to.

The thought never crossed my mind but that is kind of neat.

This show can actually be hilarious. Episode 7 had me rolling when they were juxtaposing Jet watching his daughter's recital and Spike fighting a bunch of goons right outside the room. At it's best when it's not trying to adapt scenes from the anime the Bebop crew has great chemistry. But it also had so many absolutely terrible dialogue exchanges and anything involving Vicious and Julia is boring, overly campy and painful to watch. These are not the characters from the anime, especially in Faye's case. Jet is the closest but they had to go and make him a divorced guy with a kid so there's all this family drama. Shakir is honestly a fantastic Jet but they don't give him good enough material to show it. Expanding on Vicious and Julia's storyline was a huge mistake and made only worse by the way Vicious doesn't feel threatening at all. He's quite frankly a little bitch boy. They left so much out yet picked some baffling episodes to adapt and then changed them in ways that usually made them even more nonsensical. But I will give them credit for one thing. They came up with a way for Faye to receive the video tape (VHS not Beta) without the tremendous leaps in logic the anime expected you to believe. The tape is all that Faye had when she was put on ice. That totally makes sense and doesn't purport that space UPS is incredible at tracking people down after decades but Faye had no other way to learn of her past. It's a shame Jet just had a VHS player on the Bebop so there's no hijinks of tracking one down but overall it is a better choice and when Faye watches the tape I actually felt something. It was an astonishingly sweet moment in a show that otherwise couldn't manage a sentimental or dramatic scene to save its life. It doesn't make up for how un-Bebop the whole show is but I'll give it that much. All and all it's not a terrible sci-fi romp when it's not taking itself seriously. But it tremendously lacks chill and greatly misses the point of Bebop. It's fine but it is not Cowboy Bebop. The crew would have been much better off adapting Outlaw Star (lol Firefly already exists) or Space Dandy. But I actually think One Piece might turn out watchable.

I'm pretty sure they either never lost the rights OR they did renew it a while ago. Netflix never had it exclusively. I'm here for TOM ribbing on Netflix though, that would be classic TOM. So I wasn't expecting new shows for 1/1 but it's pretty obvious that if YashaHime episode 24 aired like intended then 1/1 would have just been Black Lotus and a Bebop marathon (maybe finishing with DBS, who knows?) This Christmas schedule though? It's just laughable how much they're marathoning Black Lotus. Did they seriously have no other options? Can't do a marathon of MHA? We KNOW they can rerun Shippuden episodes and it's never gotten a marathon. I'd even take a DBS marathon over even more Black Lotus reruns. They are bound and determined to make their regular viewers sick of that show. So they had better bring it on 1/8/2021 and preferably announce the shows for those before Christmas.

He’s either doing a crappy job trying to force their hand or basically giving up DS season 2 (at least for now). Let’s try not to read too much into this one comment.

Netflix isn’t getting the dub before FUNimation and Aniplex didn’t let them take the simulcast but they can easily outbid Toonami for the 2nd run rights. But until the dub is announced for FUNimation’s service, it’s still possible Toonami could get first dibs on the dub if they have first right to refusal and they can afford it.

Nobody gave a crap about that Black Lotus marathon and I still haven’t watched the new episode from that night. The Friday marathon will surely do even worse.

I'm a little surprised they're running a new episode of their big co-production on January 1st. We'll see if that means they're doing full lineup that week or just sticking Black Lotus in front of a marathon or movie.

LASTMAN freak'n rules I'm all for Toonami airing animated series from other countries. LINK CLICK is a banger and I hope FUNimation will dub it.

They can probably marathon MHA, Food Wars or YashaHime but genLOCK is an interesting option. How about a Titan marathon though? They’d have to extend the lineup a lot to fit all 16 episodes in but maybe they could do the last 7 or 8.

AEW airing before Toonami? Now that might be a winner.

I had a feeling but honestly I forgot about Mittypip so it hasn't crossed my mind they could be the same person in quite a while.

Last time I checked, Toonami France is a channel. They have an Adult Swim block on a Toonami channel. What kind of alternate universe are they living in?

That's never gonna happen. Their sole purpose on that board is to rain on any potential parade. But if they some how managed to start the year with six shows in premieres then they might actually compliment Toonami for once before going back to their usual routine of doom posting. My current expectations (which I think are pretty reasonable) are that they will start two shows by January 8th. I have almost zero hope they will run a regular lineup on January 1st unless they double up multiple shows or start a 4th rerun that night (and that means replacing Dr. Stone with another rerun as well). I don't think they'll exceed 3 reruns but they might temporarily have 4 while they wait for Attack on Titan.

Given the length of the time slot, Blade Runner 2049 probably piqued around 0.09 maybe even 0.10 but dropped half those viewers by the end. Kind of wonder if it would have done better on Saturday. I get the feeling the Black Lotus marathon on Friday December 10th will sink to five digits by the end. We'll see how The Hills and the Smiths boost Black Lotus on Saturday but it's still a holiday weekend so we'll see.

I said they have the streaming rights not the TV rights, or so it would seem. They are streaming the HD version with the piss poor cut of Tank.

No we didn't but they are absolutely desperate to get people to watch Black Lotus.

Yeah about that. Based on DeMarco's tweets touting the years that Adult Swim was airing it, it would seem that Bebop being on the AS website doesn't necessarily mean they have the TV rights still. It's apparently a different deal. Granted, he might be misinformed but it wouldn't be the first time they had a show on their website that they seemingly could not air on the block.