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Seems like it would be easier to manually set one episode every week than to manually cancel the other four. But I suppose you might forget to set it some weeks.

According to TV grids, Shippuden turns the clock back to episode 320 on Monday (actually Tuesday) at 5am. That’s not very far back from 355, just 35 episodes. Since they run 4 a week they will catch up to Toonami again early in November. I’m a bit surprised that can do a third run of those 35 episodes but I’m guessing they can rerun episodes more than once as long as they are still under contract. That’s probably a year but then you’d think they’d go 50 episodes back in that case so who knows? For now they are still rerunning Shippuden.

Nice to see such a good week for Fena. I hope it keeps that up!

Yeah they might be doing that but they could certainly start that sooner than November, perhaps replacing DBS in September.

I was really banking on a 20th anniversary of Cowboy Bebop broadcast starting September 4th but Dr. Stone season 2 reruns are a very acceptable choice. Maybe Bebop will replace Super.

I have mentioned this before but I want to say again that all the other ways viewership are measured through cable and satellite services and slim packages is data that the network sees and acknowledges. They don't just care about Nielsen ratings.

Adapt Outlaw Star? Firefly already exists

It should not affect Toonami but Adult Swim probably loses the 8pm hour that entire week.

Toonami catches up another week? Very nice.

Toonami is gonna have a rough time staying relevant but it’s not going off the air any time soon. So really there’s no reason to worry about it.

Exactly. Harley brings the views because it’s Harley. Not even every DC series will draw that many viewers.

Well there’s no doubt any number of DC series or films would appeal to a broader audience than YashaHime, Fire Force, Food Wars, Dr. Stone, Promised Neverland, Assassination Classroom and Black Clover do. There are some anime that are popular enough to compete and let’s not pretend Castlevania, MOTU Revelations and even Voltron Legendary Defender would do fantastic on Toonami just because they aren’t anime. The DC brand is way stronger than those. Same with Marvel and Star Wars. Marvel’s What If would do very well for Toonami but that’s not in the cards.

Sure but if it did that well with traditional ratings, it’s pretty likely people were also tuning in using slim packages, the AS app, etc along with DVR. HBO Max is in less homes than Adult Swim is.

It’s at least a good argument to air Harley Quinn on Toonami normally but I don’t see it as proof that old DC cartoons would do better than some newer anime.

A Japanese director for a live-action manga adaptation? What a novel concept. I kind of hope this gets made. But on the other hand.... Sky High already exists.

Kind of a shame the Voltron toys didn't sell, they looked pretty good compared to other stuff on the market. The Young Justice and ThunderCats 2011 toys from Mattel and Bandai respectively were very poor quality. I think the first two arcs of Infinity Train told worthwhile messages for young people to see. The third one I dunno and the fourth one was straight up spoke to the young adult experience which I appreciated but it's not something I'd aim at children. So part of me thinks Infinity Train should target older viewers but I also see potential for it as youth targeted series. The creator clearly wants to focus on older viewers though so I'm fine with that.

Hell yeah, remake Centurions! Pirates of Dark Water and that SWAT Kats revival too!

WarnerMedia is paying. We’ll see about who writes them.

Most of those started as light novels without a lot of illustrations. Some even as web novels. And the illustrations are often done by people who aren’t the author. Those stories feed into the desire to escape every day life so the readers can insert themselves into that other world. It’s basically a writing cheat and boy does it sell.

There was a time when I was sure that MHA would have been bigger for Toonami if they got it back in 2016 or even 2017. It most likely would have done One-Punch Man season 1 level ratings back then but I am not so sure if MHA would be any more popular for it. And I’m pretty sure it would not be doing better on Toonami right now than it already is due to a number of factors. Demon Slayer is a huge hit but that didn’t translate to significant success on Toonami. Attack on Titan is still very successful on streaming but the Toonami audience clearly decreased over the years. JoJo and One Piece did okay on Toonami but they are much more popular outside of Toonami. Just about every shounen is more successful outside of Toonami. But truthfully we have no idea what kind of reach Toonami still has. It’s probably wider than traditional ratings indicate. And as much as I’d like Toonami to be a bigger deal, it’s more than good enough that it stays on the air and it plays some good shows. What excites me most about DeMarco’s new gig is that there will be more action animation and anime produced that probably would not have been made otherwise. Everything else that’s on Toonami was already going to exist and find an audience somewhere. It’s just nice that Toonami could also show them and maybe expand the visibility of the lesser known ones.

That's referring to the way kid-targeted anime dubs abhor silence and avoid any real tension. Excellent case, 4Kids One Piece. Any instance of silence gone. Some happy go lucky music constantly playing even when it doesn't fit. Nami stabbed Usopp in front of Arlong to prove her loyalty? She tells Usopp and the audience that it was a rubber knife. Nami's mother figure didn't die, she just got sent to a dungeon (but was apparently never visited). Crocodile refers to his sand pit that is about to swallow up Luffy as a "big desert toilet". They make "Zolo" crack wise and cluck like a chicken. One Piece isn't always serious but good grief part of the charm is it has the heavy moments to go with the light ones. With 4Kids it's pretty much always goofy. But the same is also true of Falcouner era DBZ at least with regard to silence, they allowed DBZ to be plenty serious. Hell, they tried to make it MORE serious given the comparison of Falcouner music and Kikuchi's original score.

I do generally prefer dubs to not use very recent slang especially if the show isn't in a modern setting and referencing GamerGate was particularly stupid. That said, particularly with comedies I think some creative liberties greatly improve characterization and dialogue flow. Stiff dubs are pretty unpleasant to sit through as well. But when even the subtitles throw in terms like "they got cancelled online" (and the otherwise great sub of Kageki Shoujo did exactly that) it's at least a bit off-putting and feels out of place even in a modern setting. That could easily have been something less meme-y and they didn't even have to deal with lip flaps. But rest assured a LOT of people who scream at the top of their lungs that FUNimation is ruining anime are mostly mad because FUNimation won't work with Vic McNugget anymore and have a hate boner for Jamie Marchi who often wrote scripts for FUNimation dubs and of course Monica Rial.

You don’t have to imagine very hard, several existed. Rescue Heroes, Marvel Super Hero Squad, PJ Masks, Transformers Rescue Bots and Krypto the Superdog are some examples. WB is currently developing a Batmobile cartoon for CN’s upcoming preschool block.

Interesting tidbit. He’s gonna develop action animation for every age group including kids. Kids could certainly use some fresh action cartoons. For him that’s coming full circle from the CN Toonami days.

The news actually broke on Deadline, I think. So WB Aimation is starting a division specifically for action animation and anime. The co-creator and current producer of Toonami will be running it. This is like something out of a dream for me. I cannot wait to see what this new division brings to the world of animation. Jason will even be involved in DC projects. Perhaps Toonami’s best days are yet to come.