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They probably were trying to decide whether or not to stick to the October 24th air date up until recently. I'm pretty confident they'll announce it for November 7th within a week or two. Before that they'll probably announce a marathon for October 31st. They might make both of those announcements the same day or at least within days of each other.

While I agree they should communicate more, they already communicate more than most media platforms. It's unusual for any part of a TV network to be as transparent as Toonami usually has been since 2012.

Or... they might actually think this is a good idea.

Toonami already has episodes from season 2, as seen in the recent Better Cartoon Show promo. They’re really should announce it won’t start till November 7th (or the off chance October 31st) soon. Otherwise people will expect it to start October 24th. I very much doubt it is starting the week before JoJo ends, and at 2am. There’s no good reason to cut the rerun a week early.

I’m gonna enjoy having it on as well.

They're 11 minutes, there are supposedly 14 episodes in season 2 so that will be 7 half hours. Seems like a fine way to give Black Clover a break until January.

So they can arbitrarily move the event to a week later but not to 11pm. Sure...

That’s neat. Demon Slayer is worth a second airing IMO.

Bryce, Matt Mercer and basically anyone else from LA in the dub are already recording other anime from home so it shouldn’t be more difficult to include them than usual. But it will be just as much of an endeavor as any other show right now.

135 posts on Sunday. That gets them to 10/10.

I wonder if the late (in the Fall season) air date of December 7th will allow FUNi to the first two dub episodes by December 12th. Maybe Toonami could do a special premiere on that Saturday before the inevitable holiday marathons the last two weekends in December. Otherwise Toonami will probably have to wait until mid-January or early February to start airing Titan uninterrupted. They probably won’t be able to get the dub premieres due to FUNi’s staggered dubbing schedule. If the contract ensures Toonami gets the dub premieres, it would force FUNi to delay releasing the dub until at least mid-January and I just don’t FUNi doing that.

They could have used this to skip Clover for a week and extend JoJo but if they run the whole lineup after the concert then that doesn’t stall anything.

This will be a one night thing. No reason to assume Toonami is giving up midnight for a while.

I think even Jason see’s that as a bad idea. IMO they should be airing this at 11pm after a 10pm hour of Family Guy.

On the contrary. I suspect DeMarco wanted to do this and his bosses said he could only do it on Saturday during Toonami time.

They seem to be increasing their output lately. Hopefully that means they're in good shape and will be able to dub 3-4 episodes of Black Clover and Fire Force per month.

Toonami continues it's trend of getting involved in anime adaptation of things that are old and varying degrees of obscure. I guess that's a fine niche.

It's a mystery. Maybe there are some detectives who can crack the case? Maybe they live in New Jersey? Maybe they are sentient assorted food products? Maybe ...

This could (and probably should) be an update regarding one or more of their currently known co-productions. So I'm not expecting much at this point.

They would do that. Though I gotta say, Carey Means got a BAD deal. No royalties despite how often ATHF plays and how it airs in multiple countries. It seems like he's black listed or something because he rarely gets work now. I don't know what might have happened between him and the network and if he even tries to get more acting gigs but between that and how some part of Turner never paid C. Martin Croker for his work on various shows... I just don't know about the corporate culture within Turner.

Naming organizations to contact would probably be considered a bridge too far. Endorsing particular ones and not others would be a bad look and everyone has a different opinion on which organizations should be supported right? Like there's lots of people who say the organization named Black Lives Matter isn't trustworthy. I believe the key phrase in that whole thing is "have an honest conversation about racism" and I think that's a very good thing to present to their audience. "I don't see color" and "maybe racism exists but I don't base how I treat people on their race" are things we hear all the time but prejudice based on difference seems built into the human mind and its very easy to be influenced by what other people say about minorities. So it's good to combat that with honest self-examination. They're also saying bluntly stating that the shows we see on Toonami constantly discuss prejudice, classism and racism so TOM saying "black lives matter" shouldn't be offensive if you think the messages in those shows aren't offensive.

Totally random to have an action movie on a Friday but they could probably do that. Using the RC DC Specials to promote DC Fandome is a good use of existing resources.

It would make more sense to do that on September 5th than the same day as the 2nd event and the 5th is Labor Day Weekend as well. But I won’t rule out the possibility that they will have Toonami promote the second day on the second day.

Fucking Clowns. They love to rage.

Looks like Zap2it and probably other sites are now listing the regular line-up on September 5th with new JoJo, Ass Class ep 2, new Black Clover and new Shippuden (also DBS and Fire Force reruns). Given that, they might manage to keep the October 24th premiere for Fire Force season 2. They'll have to double it up one week to pull that off but it would be a fine stall tactic for Black Clover. They could still delay new Fire Force till November if they take off Halloween night.