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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

As I recall the 24/7 streaming channels are allowed to air episodes of shows that they aren't currently streaming on-demand. Like when the Toonami stream had marathons of shows going and it wasn't just episodes that were available on-demand at the time. Anyhoo here's a twitter post detailing shows that have recently left the AS site/app and will be leaving eventually. Already gone: Home Movies, Metalocalypse, Primal, Robot Chicken, Samurai Jack Leaving May 26th: Aqua Teen Leaving August 31st: Joe Pera season 1, Lazor Wulf, Squidbillies https://twitter.com/CNschedules/status/1255927252686180352?s=20

I very much doubt gen:LOCK season 2 is a launch show. I gotta eat some crow on my predictions though, Adult Swim shows are getting pulled off the app after all. Several shows including Primal and Samurai Jack have left the Adult Swim app and Aqua Teen leaves later in May. I don't particularly like that because it indicates the notable shows will be pulled off the Adult Swim site/app after probably only a short while. We'll see how it goes.

More like, if you can’t beat ‘em, buy them out

If you think Code Geass is even one of the worst mecha... take a gander at Cross Ange, Valrave the Liberator and Eureka 7’s sequel AO. The first two affectionately refereed to as Cross Anal and Valvrape. The later’s nickname is not without warrant. Oh and Gundam SEED Destiny is a shit stain. But that’s just mecha. There are much worse anime that exist.

I think his only voice credits to date are the hot dog vendor in IGPX and some of the creatures hosting Miguzi.

JoJo and the remaining to be dubbed episodes of Clover should last until September. Food Wars will probably be back by the time JoJo finishes. Paranoia and Mob season 1 take care of two slots until August. MHA is the only show that definitely needs to be replaced before August (probably in June). But they won’t air just anything in the first slot.

I don’t think he’s concerned about some bad PR from Niosi being involved and I doubt CR will pay to redub Reigan at this point.

I doubt the situation as a simple as you make it out to be.

It's at least the plan for now. So far they've been able to secure a new run of Paranoia Agent from FUNimation and a second run of Mob Psycho 100 season 1 from (I presume) Crunchyroll. What either of those cost is anyone's guess. We have no idea how much of their yearly budget was already set aside for the sequels we expected to see air this year much less other shows that just had their dubs delayed indefinitely. So far their moves have not inspired confidence and its clear that if they had held onto 3-4AM and 11:30pm, the rerun ratio would only be worse. Hopefully they can at least get one fresh show from the back catalog of one of their partners by June. I think that's a reasonable expectation and they'll probably manage that much (along with continuing to air new to the block episodes of Black Clover, JoJo and Shippuden). I wouldn't be surprised if the Japanese side of some deals is at a stand still until the those Japanese companies adapt to the situation and accept the new reality we're all living in. It's far from ideal but at least they're not resorting to Dragon Ball Kai and Super and are actually adding a bit more variety to the line-up. The past month or so has felt rather monotonous. Because seriously if they had replaced Demon Slayer or Food Wars with DBK or DBS, that would have been a declaration that they were not even going to try to make the block interesting. I'll tell you what's a real shame though that WarnerMedia hasn't helped Toonami out by having Harley Quinn or Young Justice: The Outsiders air on the block or have Crunchyroll provide something other than a rerun. Where is the synergy that lead of gen:LOCK airing last year? If it's actually Adult Swim who is swatting away WM's hand right now in order to prove their independence, then they should probably swallow their pride and accept the handout if it ever comes around again.

He didn't say.

Well this screams "we already have the tapes, can we play this again?" with a dash of "we'll play season 2 eventually we swear" Moving Paranoia Agent up a half hour almost immediately is showing an awful lot of confidence in it. One can only hope it doesn't actually bomb. While I would side with anyone saying "why not move up the other premieres" and especially JoJo but it's really not that big of a deal to leave those where they currently air. Consistency is probably better in the long run. While going from MHA to Paranoia Agent will be quite a jump, Mob isn't the worst show to stick between PA and Black Clover. I don't mind seeing Mob rerun and it's definitely more welcome than the upteenth Bebop or GITS rerun or trying to squeeze another airing out of the FLCL sequels. Space Dandy hasn't fared well as a rerun program but I wouldn't mind seeing it air again. I would have preferred a rerun of Megalo Box to Mob season 1 but that's my personal preference. I don't know what they can actually get during this current situation but at this point I'm fully expecting MHA season 4 to rerun at the top of the block, at least part of it. I hear JoJo went back to recording so it's probably not going to need an early break but things are starting to look dicey for Black Clover, especially with the Japanese broadcast also on hold.

Anime dubs was what I was referring to. JoJo, MHA and the Madoka spin-off are all recording from home so far. Likely more will follow. A month is unlikely but I would not be surprised if anime production was mostly in full swing again in Japan in 2 or 3 months.

I basically did that.

I hate to even say this but I think you're underestimating the Japanese side of the industry and what lengths they'll go to in order to get back on schedule. And on the US side of things more and more shows are getting recorded from home. Toonami has a good 10 weeks before they're caught up to the dub but if Black Clover does need to be pulled... Toonami will be fine without it.