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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.

It all comes down to Comcast throwing enough money at SYFY to get stuff and Warner Media not doing much of that for Adult Swim.

Here's the thing about Jason and Gill. They're not the best when it comes to remembering shows that aired on Toonami.

I filled it out. Apologies to Batman, Cowboy Bebop and especially Space Dandy but they lost to shows I hold more dear. If I was going by more objective reasoning the final four would have been those three and either FLCL or JLU but there was no freak'n way I wasn't going to give those wins to Megas XLR, Gurren Lagann and One Piece respectively.

Adult Swim doesn't even have a service, they put their shows on Hulu. Now they'll be on HBO Max instead of Hulu. I'm still thinking the CR library will be very limited on HBO Max, possibly to just CR co-productions and other shows they have the master license for. But there might also be some catalog anime from other providers like Toei, TV Tokyo, Discotek, Nozomi, etc but far from the entire catalog. Meanwhile... Syfy just acquired the Harley Quinn animated series. That definitely would have done better on Adult Swim or even TBS but Syfy was willing to pay for it.

The only time you’re gonna see Bebop lead Toonami, will be for a marathon of Bebop on one of the last two weeks of a year. They’d much much sooner rerun MHA at the top or Kai or Super if they had nothing fresh to try.

They should totally replace Demon Slayer with the recent Boogiepop anime. That would pair well with Paranoia Agent.

They must have really wanted to replay this gem, considering they are throwing it on very quickly after it escaped licensing limbo. FUNimation probably see's this as an opportunity to promote the upcoming Blu-ray release. It's pretty wild they are throwing this on in the middle of Weekly Shounen Jump. If anything I would have expected it to slide in after Shippuden and have the rest move up. So I do give them props for not burying it because that would have felt pointless like when they brought back Outlaw Star and it went largely unnoticed. I would have liked to see something else get a chance to air for the first time but it's such a great show and new anime viewers ought to see it, so I'm for it.

The Gundam Thunderbolt films might be doable since they're on good terms with Sunrise. They didn't run the OVA versions of Unicorn or The Origin but it's either short episodes or movies in Thunderbolt's case. I don't know if they'd try leading with Gundam even for a few weeks but they could try leading with Food Wars for a special schedule.

Yeah they probably can't do 1 episode a week like this. We'll have to wait and see. I would not want to be Cliffy C's neighbor right about now.

I strongly had my doubts but it looks like buying one week with a DBZ Kai marathon was exactly what Toonami needed to do for My Hero Academia. FUNimation is pulling off something really wild here.

Yeah but he probably draws the line with “positive” slavery and false rape accusations from a woman being two major parts of a series.

The best deals tend to be for whatever show the licensor wants to pimp at the time. They have been known to raise the price of older shows when they’re not trying to pimp a new Bluray or DVD set.

If he did. It’s probably not that one.

It should be quite interesting to see what they managed to get during this situation.

A very bad flu doesn't require a ventilator to survive. The burden on the healthcare system greatly sets this apart from many other ways people die in the thousands every year. If you don't take COVID-19 seriously enough to avoid coming in contact with other people as much as you feasibly can, you're essentially asking doctors to choose whether someone less likey to survive should get a ventilator and proper care for their recovery over someone who is more likely to survive. They shouldn't have to make that choice. I can't even imagine having to make that choice. That's not a concern with those other ways people commonly die. The spread is much too rapid to ignore. You don't lock down the country over a bad flu season. This is an entirely different beast.

That's what I get for thinking this was a safe place.

Back in 2008.

Does that pre-date the ReZero chibi show?

LOL only Ace episodes of One Piece. They uh.... run out of those pretty quick. Princess Principle is an inspired pick.