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And I’m expecting a new November 7th premiere date for Fire Force season 2 to be announced any day now. But what will the lineup look like with Gemusetto at 1am? Either Fire Force or Assassination Classroom gets 12:30 and the other gets 1:30 I guess. Black Clover either takes a break or moves back to 2am. Is it so much to ask that they let Fire Force or Ass Class lead the block? Or at least give 11:30 back if DBS has to start the block. They’re gonna need another early slot when Attack on Titan or SAO resumes.

That seems to work. I really hope there’s only one marathon in December if there’s one on Halloween (confirmed) and Thanksgiving (likely). There doesn’t need to be one on December 19th.

There’s a Neverland marathon on Halloween.

I said adult audiences, I didn’t say mature. 🙃

Well yeah it doesn’t really fit next to Japanese kids shows like Ass Class, DBS and Black Clover... because it was written for adult audiences. 🤣

Supposedly the second season will be much more of a show than the first season was. And an action adventure show at that. But this is far from the first time Toonami's thrown on a bizarre show. Pop Team Epic and Bo-Bobo for two. From Adult Swim's perspective, a show that's loaded with anime references makes sense for a block that contains many of the shows that are getting referenced. And the general Adult Swim audience probably doesn't appreciate Gamusetto, so they're experimenting with airing it on Toonami. It's a gamble but Adult Swim likes to gamble.

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.