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I had a feeling the delay was due to dubbing both episodes at the same time. That works out for the best.

Patrick probably already recorded for episode 88.

They could run the new episode and then air an All-Might marathon...

That just makes me think they should play the episode with the United States of Smash on 4th of July. So Black Clover has another dubbed episode finally and MHA 87 should be able to air next Saturday. I hope that they held back on 87 so that they could stream 88 the week after but we'll see how it goes.

Disappointing but not entirely unexpected. This is actually a more inspired decision for buying time then I was expecting. I think this is a good way to keep the regular viewers engaged and avoid a schedule shake up while they wait for the next dub episode to be ready. I’d like to see more “power to the people” airings like this as opposed to repeating the same episodes. Why does this site not let we copy text from anywhere without screwing up the formatting?

I recall that show did pretty good ratings at 3AM. And I also recall the ratings of the whole block took an interesting downward turn the week after Dandy ended and Beware the Batman was burned off. Almost as if having a Batman show did garner some viewers that didn't stick around after it was gone and maybe Dandy did as well.

Ballmastrz is hilarious and awesome

The reaction to Mob reruns wasn’t super favorable either so I don’t know about people being satisfied with more anime reruns. Maybe FUNi kind of did that with Paranoia Agent. We don’t really know. It would be nice for Sentai, Viz, Aniplex, CR or FUNi to throw them a bone though.

I was talking CF but thanks for the cool guy comment.

It seems like they intend to only air Ballmastrz for 5 or so weeks, however long it takes for JoJo to return (it is being dubbed from home currently). By airing something so "non-committal" they can pull it whenever they need to. If they tried to say rerun the latest 5 JoJo and find out they can't resume after then they have another dilemma. BM buys them up to 10 weeks without repeating but gives them the flexibility to swap it out any time. Personally I think they should be running Primal but if Gennedy really doesn't want that on Toonami then that's not an option. As for if there's any hope for Toonami getting something fresh in the near future, there's at least this: They were not expecting to put JoJo on a break (maybe they should have been by now but I digress) but they do intend to air some already dubbed anime eventually. That at least gives me hope that something fresh is coming before the end of Summer. Maybe to replace MHA, maybe to replace Paranoia, maybe season 2 of Mob following season 1. By all means, don't bother watching Toonami. At this point I only watch Paranoia Agent, MHA (when its new) and JoJo and now I'm down to 2 shows I care about maybe just 1 per week. So I don't go out of my way to watch live and don't expect you to either. I don't think any of us should "give up" on Toonami because I'm sure they're not just sitting on their laurels right now. We have no idea what it takes to get a show right now but they're at least looking into what they can get. It may get worse before it gets better though. Black Clover is only 5 episodes behind FUNimation and they haven't released an episode in over a month despite dubbing one from home. So if JoJo is ready in 5 weeks it might end up replacing Clover while Ballmastrz sticks around for another 1-5 weeks.

Shield Hero ain't even on HBO Max yet. Their initial selection of shows makes me feel if that's how they intend to curate for HBO Max, we're better off with DeMarco running Toonami.

There are plenty of shows they can potentially get but the budget cuts mean they have to spread out their resources more, especially if some money is tied up in sequel seasons they cannot air this year.

I doubt it will drop below 3 premieres. They’d probably maintain 4 if not for MHA’s production issues. They can hold off on replacing MHA until July due to rerunning 84-86. JoJo ends in August and Clover could run out of episodes by September. I’m sure one or both can be replaced by block premieres by then. As I said in a prior thread, I figure they are spreading out their budget this year so that they don’t end up with mostly reruns by September. 4 premieres now and 4 later is better than 6 now and 2 later.

It should be plenty of time. I don't know why they didn't just opt for a marathon on a holiday weekend but I don't mind having just 1 rerun (well 2 or 3 depending on how you look at it) vs a whole block of reruns in marathon form. I'm guessing that FUNimation has told them that episode 87 might not be ready by June 6th and they decided it was best not do a marathon this week and replay 86 on June 6th. But then again if they need more than 2 weeks for 87 then it might be cutting it close with 88. Replaying the entire fight between Deku and Gentle over the next 3 weeks is probably a better call and potentially less confusing to the viewers. They should really say something on Facebook though.

It's not so much that the schedules are incorrect but it's possible they will change. I'm particularly doubtful that episodes 87 and 88 of MHA will air on May 23rd and May 30th. 87 was listed for this week on TV Guide until 86 got delayed a week, so a similar situation may occur. However, if they were going to have a marathon on May 23rd you'd think they'd have announced that by now. Though it is possible they'll do an on air announcement with a promo. It's looking more like they decided not to have a marathon for Memorial Day weekend. Rick & Morty, Shivering Truth and JJ Villard's Fairy Tails are all airing new episodes on May 24th. If they have to rerun MHA episode 86 because 87 isn't ready by then, they'll just do that. It would be rather nice of them to not run a marathon since we already had the DBZ Kai one recently and people who would have been traveling that weekend most likely are staying home.

We're gonna see a lot less new dubs be produced than we have been seeing in recent years but both LA studios and FUNimation are adapting to the situation in order to dub some shows. Crunchyroll just quietly released the last chunk of a couple of their Winter season dubs with plans to resume work on other dubs and start dubbing some additional shows, they actually seem to be moving faster than FUNimation now. However, FUNimation is trickling out episodes of their Winter season dubs at a reasonable pace. It does seem to take about 2 weeks for an episode of anything to be dubbed though. They announced plans to dub Kaguya-sama Love is War seasons 1 and 2 (season 2 is currently simulcasting) so if they find themselves at a point where they don't have brand new anime to dub they may end up dubbing some other Aniplex shows like Love is War (and I personally hope they do dub Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Senpai in particular). There are still plenty of shows FUNimation has licensed that could finally get dubbed. But I'm pretty confident that the Japanese production side will resume sooner than some would expect (for better or worse).

86 got 86’d till next week. 85 reruns this Saturday according to Facebook.

I fully expect episode 86 to stream on FUNimation before it airs on Toonami even if it's the same dang day. However, with no word from FUNi yet, if the actual schedule didn't say 86 was going to air this week there would be basically no reason to expect it to. But that's what the schedule shows and furthermore I believe the following week list episode 87. Dummy schedules don't usually use actual episode numbers so it would seem they have every intention of airing 86 and 87 this Saturday and next Saturday respectively. It's entirely possible that FUNimation will not be able to make the deadline but they're trying something entirely unprecedented here. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out but for now my guess is FUNi will say something in the next couple of days, the episode will stream by Saturday and the planned Toonami broadcast will not be 86ed.

That checks out. Though I haven't seen Mob season 2 yet so I can't really judge. I recall feeling season one was good but didn't blow my mind. I hear nothing but great things about season 2 and I've been foolishly waiting for Toonami. I have far too many shows to watch so I haven't minded waiting but it's getting a bit irritating at this point.

Let me break down the likely scenario here: It's gonna be an uneventful Summer with at best one fresh addition replacing MHA in June or some point before August. JoJo's still recording so it should be able to finish and Black Clover's current episode count will last until August. Food Wars season 3 can probably replace one of those once they work out that deal. I see no reason to assume they will not be able to get ANYTHING between now and the end of the year much less between now and the middle of 2021. They should be able to get at least a few backlog shows to plug the few holes they will have by August. And that's if animation production ceases entirely in Japan. Albeit slowly, dubbing is ramping back up over here and I really doubt (for better or worse) that animation production in Japan will cease all together for 12 to 18 months. Hell, people are already starting to go back to work in lots of states in the US (which probably isn't a good idea but I digress). And many Animators can work from home and studios are adapting to that. Since the budget has been affected by COVID-19, it stands to reason they would save the budget for when they are down to 3 premieres. When MHA ends then they'll be down to 4 block premieres if nothing new replaces it. What's a better scenario, they maintain 6 premieres over Summer and only had 2-3 for Fall or they had 4-5 during Summer and 3-4 during the Fall?

The international credit roll was there from day one so we knew who was in the dub but the English audio wasn't added until a few days ago.

The English dub has been up a few days now.

Well not to punch a hole in your argument but Netflix has been adding quite a few new anime lately. The new Ghost in the Shell just dropped along with Drifting Dragons and there's Dorohedoro soon along with Netflix getting first play of new Pokemon episodes. They're also adding One Piece (East Blue to the end of Alabasta) in June the same day as Pokemon. Partially because they often delay releasing shows until they're dubbed or subbed in multiple languages, Netflix's odd and staggered release schedule will actually ensure they have fresh stuff coming regularly for a while. BUT they'll eventually run out of material as well, it's just not happening for at least a few more months. The Fall television schedule is gonna be REAL interesting with all these live-action shows being unable to film right now. But ya know what, I'll flat out say it. If Toonami was 2 hours and only reruns, if the shows were good, I'd still have interest in watching it. As it stands I don't watch Clover and Shippuden so if Clover was off the line-up that would be a plus for me. I know I won't escape Shippuden... ever but that would be something. If Toonami has to rely heavily on reruns this year because we're in the middle of a global pandemic, that's not a big freak'n deal. Sure it will put off some viewers but maybe that can be offset by new viewers who didn't already see these shows? I'm pretty confident that Toonami would do well enough to stay on the air even if they were mostly or entirely reruns. If for no other reason than that AS will ride things out and let Toonami stay on the air so that their original anime will have a home when they're ready to air.

There’s unquestionably more important things to be concerned about than whether Toonami maintains 5 “premieres” or can get back to 6. Reruns aren’t always unappealing if they’re good shows. And if viewership is up due to people not going out, that’s potentially people who didn’t see Mob back in 2018/2019. Rerunning MHA is a different story though, especially if it’s reruns of season 4. I don’t expect we’ll see Clover reruns, they can just give it a break if necessary. I think you’re overly concerned with people bailing on Toonami in droves this year. Have a little more faith in the dedication of those viewers, their appreciation for the block and their empathy toward the whole situation.

We’ll see what they do about replacing MHA. Every other slot is set until about August. Reruns suck but yadda yadda