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He was applying for MeTV’s cartoon stuff before anyone even knew about MeTV Toons. It’s peculiar that he will say disparaging things about former employers and contractors but asks people not to request cameos where he trash talks those same organizations.

Unfortunately what Andy has experience in for television is a skill set very few networks even care about anymore (putting thought into schedules and having an extensive knowledge of programming libraries). MeTV was his best shot but after 5 interviews they ghosted him. He should write a book and spill all the tea about Turner Broadcasting, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. Tell everyone about their explosive contracts and working conditions over the years.

Not much has been reported about Get Jiro but I recall seeing someone talking about working on it on Twitter recently.

Viz was promoting the Japanese cast of Rooster Fighter at NYCC. I get the feeling it’s pretty far into production despite how recently it was announced. Primal season 3 and Get Jiro should be able to air in 2025. IFG might have 10 more episodes in its original order and MAWS could potentially air in Summer or Fall of 2025. If they have both Daima and MHA coming soon then they certainly could wait to bring in Lazarus till Daima ends but that’s nearly half the year and as mentioned above they could easily have 3 to 4 other originals besides Lazarus and Rooster Fighter so they should probably start the first original by March or even mid-February to end around Memorial Day weekend. Definitely don’t need to in January though.

If there ever was a year where having no holiday marathons in December made sense, it’s this year. I could see them run a regular block on December 21st at least but there’s honestly no good reason to preempt on the 28th either so many days after Christmas and before New Years Eve.

The filler part starts around episode 16 but it's all one license for 25 episodes. Kyoto Arc is next with 12 episodes, that was the one first relegated to Amazon's Anime Strike then the dub was exclusive to Hulu for years. Then there's 2 more arcs that have been animated (not by A1 Pictures), one aired earlier this year for 12 episodes and the other is airing right now. Within reason they can get at least the Kyoto arc, maybe by the time they finish that they can get Illuminati arc which aired in Spring of this year. Here's my latest builds. I still think they could swing getting Daima on in December but why bother if they're going to take at least 1 if not 2 weeks off because of Christmas and New Years? They won't finish IFG in 2025 unless they air both 9 and 10 on December 21st or actually run a premiere on December 28th and Lazarus looks to be right around the corner since it only needs to be dubbed and prepped for broadcast. I don't think they'll be dropping it in January though even though they did that with Space Dandy back in 2014. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eFK04dKeqeT2vurSRVSYO8EJsl0QLF3SRuMFuvyc-Hg/edit?usp=sharing

I’ll get bored first. I had trouble keeping my attention on it with the last 3 episodes. Overall a decent ending that didn’t look bad at all. I don’t care to revisit this soon if ever but I think it’s a B or a 7/10 which is still better than all the C tier originals they have co-produced but a huge let down after ep 1 was a 9/10.

I didn’t expect Aniplex reps to be able to say anything about additional seasons for Blue Exorcist so this doesn’t put a nail in the coffin by any means but it doesn’t improve the prospects either. There had better be a light at the end of this 6 month tunnel.

I’m honestly not sure what the total is at this point. Usually they green light 20 and split it as two 10 ep seasons.

I’d be fine with that schedule because I can peace out after One Piece. BE is at least better than Kai on both blocks even though they should not be spending more money on reruns for the main block. Come December MHA S6 is finished so that slot can go to Demon Slayer reruns or drop the slot. Quality of the shows aside, our current lineup has a good bit more variety than what’s coming. We’re going pretty much full PG-13 block and leading with a PG show. I’d rather have dubbed Uzumaki than dubbed RATAM but whatever.

It has been 10 years but IIRC the Kyoto Arc has a recap at the start so this really shouldn’t be ahead of One Piece if airing at all. So my one hope is BE bumps to 2am when Daima and/or MHA comes. That’s still just 4 premieres though. They shouldn’t waste any more money on reruns. Kai and BE it’s 2014 again but not in a good way. Should have been Cells at Work instead. Mashle is great so that’s cool but the rest of this is rather disappointing. Kai sticks around and Rick dub stinks up the back. They don’t even do something interesting with DST and just encore IFG. Aniplex continues to be the one company willing to put shows on Toonami that aren’t prior contracts.

Here I was expecting an episode where Morty frantically searches for Elle but ultimately accepts that she's gone. No that would be too normal for this show. Instead Morty lives a different life where Frank (the guy in the first episode returns) and Morty becomes an asshole after building a family with Elle. And the post credits takes us back to the cold open when Summer helped the rebels destroy the federation fleet which is apparently when Space Morty originally met Elle. The central theme repeated in this is there's meaning in the meaningless and nothing is insignificant. It really buys into it's own bullshit.

Daima panel came and went and little was said about the dub besides confirming some voice actors so I'm leaning toward any confirmation of where the dub will be available after the screening to occur after the screening, preferably at the screening.

To returns will continue to diminish till 2030!

They are also encoring ep 1 on Thursday after some actual wrestling, which only makes sense

Good point about keeping people in the dark and forcing them to see the theatrical screenings on one of those days. Then theoretically they could announce the broadcast for November 23rd, November 30th or December 7th (or January) at the end of the screening.

I was told today that the Daima theatrical run is set to be just 3 days in one week. So November 16th on Toonami is plenty viable. This week is NYCC and Aniplex has a panel so if Demon Slayer is trucking onward on November 2nd or 11th we will hear about that there before the schedules post. You’d think if they had MHA S7 lined up that they would be able to announce that by now without issue since the dub is 2 eps away from finished on CR. Though I would not put it past CR to hold it at bay until after those last 2 eps are up.

Trimming is absolutely happening. They said it will be 21 episodes recut from the original amount (which is 58). That’s slightly more than a 3rd the original amount. I think at this point it’s more for the sake of being able to revisit the earlier arcs without all the bloat primarily for the existing audience. For new viewers there’s live action and WIT Piece. My statement about pacing was regarding newly adapted material like the next part of Egghead. But I suppose I should curb my expectations regarding that because Oda puts out less and less pages each year so Toei needed more of a buffer to compensate that or they’ll have to do less than a chapter per episode eventually. I shouldn’t expect them to suddenly be adapting 2-3 chapters per episode when things resume but 1.5-2 is pretty reasonable..

I dunno about replacing it with Daima exactly but they are now going to be behind Rewind so they might as well pull Kai off Saturday. And they decided to let One Piece air instead of prioritizing a rerun, which is how it should be.

Never thought I'd see the day but I welcome it with open arms for the sake of the pacing improving significantly. My one caveat is that it kinda sucks to do this in the middle of Egghead rather than before the arc started. I always dislike this kind of disruption mid-arc like they did in Bleach and Naruto Shippuden but it's a bit different this time because we're not getting a bunch of non-canon stuff out of nowhere. Fishman Island Kai wasn't on my bingo card but I like the prospect of cutting down that all that bloat from the original anime and they're going as far as to recomposite and recolor the whole thing and do new animation cuts. Seems like a lot of work, quite a lot more than Toei did for DBZ Kai. I'm salivating at the prospect of them doing this with Dressrosa or a trim down of Wano (obviously Wano alreadly looks great its just bloated) along with all the other post-time skip arcs. I'm all for them doing the same with Punk Hazard after they finish Egghead, that seems rather appropriate doesn't it? But if they don't remaster the living daylights out of Dressrosa that's a huge missed opportunity to make up for Toei's shoddy animation during that arc. If they alternate a new arc with a remastered arc that could essentially make One Piece a seasonal show. Though with the new time slot, its possible it will become seasonal even without remastering more arcs. And the decision to remaster Fishman Island and possibly other arcs after the time skip makes me a lot less concerned that The One Piece and Live Action One Piece will not make it to The New World and make Fishman Island, Punk Hazard, Zou, Whole Cake, especially Wano and Dressrosa more enjoyable to watch animated. One Piece fans are eating good. Anyone who whines about the main anime taking a break doesn't understand how good that will be for the anime pacing and the quality of the production overall.

I also want it to succeed and wish the premieres were on CN or at least at 7pm on Friday (probably will encore there though). Its stupid that they threw this to Adult Swim and I strongly doubt it will get renewed but here's hoping for a miracle.

They really shouldn't have tossed the Jack in the Box kid in at the end there, I know it's supposed to be a pay-off for the jump scare at the end of the 2nd episode but all he did was fall apart and then the scene was over. It was abrupt and pointless.

It's not episode 1 good but this was much better than episode 2. I can live with this if episode 4 is at least as decent as this one or better. This whole twisted town love Kirie it seems. Babies talking right out of the womb certainly was creepy, wanting to go back in is even creepier but the doctor performing a reverse c section? A very happy un-birthday.

They've given this a few different promos already. If they don't want it to succeed they sure are making it seem like they do.

We can't really base Toei's choices this time by what they did with Super because Super was when they were very stuck in their old ways and they didn't even simulcast the show in Japanese until the Goku Black arc. They're already doing something very unexpected by offering the dub in theaters a month after the Japanese broadcast starts. Given it's 3 episodes, that will put them just a few weeks behind the simulcast. They're also less than 30 episodes behind the sub with the dub of One Piece and that was unthinkable a few years ago. But it really depends on the show because most of the time they still wait a long time before dubbing things that aren't Dragon Ball or One Piece, even Digimon shows tend to take a while to get dubbed. Daima's dub is obviously a priority since the dub is already in production and I'm sure CR and other streamers would pay good money to get the dub on before next year and so would Adult Swim (even though they most likely can't outbid the streamers). It's a 20 episode show so it will lose it's luster much sooner than Super which ran 131 episodes and that also means the dub isn't nearly as much of a commitment and production delays shouldn't be a big concern either. And regardless of how well the screening does in theaters, they probably already have a finalized dub roll out set which will be announced soon (possibly during the theatrical premiere). Oh dang how cool would it be if at the end of theatrical screening they played a Toonami made promo announcing the show will start airing soon? That would be fantastic promotion! It would be more reasonable to expect Daima to air in January or even December (possibly without weeks off) but November 16th, 23rd and even 30th aren't out of the running just yet.