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Fire Force resumes in this week.

Nothing has been said about when episode 3 will air. No need to jump to conclusions yet.

Fire fighters who use fire to fight fire. What they actually fight are human beings who have spontaneously combusted and become demons called "the infernal". The second episode makes a point of showing how gut-wrenching their work really is. It's a horrifying concept if you take some time to think about it. Regardless of it being about the people putting out the fires and extinguishing the evil whenever possible, the subject matter and the frequent sight of people burning alive is going to be hard to swallow for some people after the arson attack on Kyoto Animation studio one and the massive amount injuries and deaths that occurred there.

If I had to guess, Fire Force will take no more than two weeks off in Japan. That could bode well for Toonami if they are allowed to keep airing it uninterrupted. Any more than two weeks hiatus and Fire Force would probably have to get pulled from Japanese broadcast until October or as late as some time in 2020. It's not so easy to reschedule shows on Japanese television. They'll probably air episode 3 in Japan next week but there's really no telling for sure. Honestly, announcing this show for Toonami while people are still reeling from what happened to Kyoto Animation's studio one isn't something I would have done. I would have waited another week and just kept doubled up Titan for two weeks or start gen:LOCK a week earlier. This is incredibly bad timing. Could you imagine if they had announced Fire Force a day earlier, or worse were airing it this Saturday? Hell, they probably would have delayed airing it until July 27th or August 3rd even if they had announced it for July 20th last week. As it stands I would not blame them for delaying it until August despite just announcing it for July 27th but I expect it will air on July 27th and we'll have to see what happens after that.

I strongly suspect it was either Dr. Stone or Mob Psycho 100 season 2... maybe both.

A continuation for Bleach or maybe Hunter x Hunter.

They only do them live at conventions lately. They usually record it on Tuesday or Wednesday and play it Friday. They stopped doing regular episodes live a long time ago. I get the feeling the schedule wasn’t decided until Wednesday or even Thursday morning. As for the podcast, Jason was talking about the upcoming Adult Swim Festival lineup saying they would announce it next week. So that must have been recorded more than a week ago because the Festival lineup was announced last week.

Both of those were recorded before this schedule was decided.

It’s getting hard to doubt it. MHA season 4 will probably air but it’s looking like it won’t get to until maybe Fall of 2020. Given season 3 started airing on Toonami this year but it finished in Japan last Fall. Any chance of MHA season 4 airing on Toonami in time to replace DBS in October are pretty slim. So no need to keep it toward the front aside from trying not to piss off the fans and keeping a spot warm for something else. If it’s at 3:30 it can be shoved out of the spotlight and quietly phased out, taking the 3:30 slot with it when it ends in 8 weeks.

This is legitimately surprising. I recall they showed interest during a Pre-Flight (where they did not realize it was dubbed yet) but having it on seemed like a pipe dream. They tend to avoid fanservice shows and haven’t picked up a series from Sentai since Parasyte. I was hoping Made in Abyss would be the show to put Sentai back on the menu but I’m all for Food Wars spicing up the lineup. I can keep going with these food puns all day, I assure you. I guess they found another shounen that will last over a year. That’s probably the main reason they got it. But it’s a bold move to be sure. They are taking a risk on a 50+ episode show that’s way outside their wheel house. I hope it does well but if it flops then it’s decent fodder for 3am. I am happy to see they can still surprise me with their show pickups.

No, no it doesn’t. i cannot fathom why this isn’t the schedule 11:00 - Dragon Ball Super 11:30 - My Hero Academia 12:00 - Attack on Titan 12:30 - SAO Alicization 1:00 - Food Wars 1:30 - Black Clover 2:00 - Lupin Part 5 2:30 - Boruto 3:00 - Shippuden 3:30 - Gundam: The Origin Or even have Lupin at 3am after its mediocre performance.

We can hope. If this schedule was the same but Lupin and MHA flipped, I would have believed it.

I hate to believe such theories but once AoT ends and MHA season 3 ends the only FUNimation dubs could be DBS and Black Clover. Toei calls the shots with DBS and CR or maybe TV Tokyo will endure Clover stays but that may be it. FUNimation doesn’t tweet about Toonami broadcasts or mention them during panels like they used to. Aniplex, Viz and Sentai do exactly that. While I don’t think DeMarco would intentionally toss MHA to 3:30 to make a statement to FUNi. Whether it’s malicious or just practical, the programming department seems to see no reason to give MHA the limelight any longer. It’s probably not intended to be malicious or petty but it sure comes off that way.

3am is a bit late but 1:30 or 2am makes sense. Though at 3am it would get the DVR bump at least. That has done wonders for HxH lately.

It should have years ago but I would not say it’s too late to bring it in.

I meant announcements but I do think they will probably air back to back. SAO might shift up since it will end sooner and it’s better to pair with Attack on Titan. I think HxH will just be replaced by a rerun but if it isn’t then they might do double up Shippuden a week so they can start two shows on July 6th. Making a big change on the 29th and then another on July 6th would be obnoxious though I suppose it’s not improbable.

When the dub didn’t pop up on CR it did give me the inclination that Toonami would air the TV cut of The Origin. I enjoyed the OVAs that I saw, particularly compared to Unicorn. Two old man anime picks back to back? Probably not a good call but we’ll see how it goes.

Well I can't speak for anyone else but I have at least two friends I regularly watch anime with. *shrugs*

If show creators like Genndy Tartakovsky don’t even value Toonami as a platform, it basically loses all purpose aside from airing anime for people who have cable but don’t have decent internet for streaming. The block has plenty of dub premieres but more and more people will watch subs for free if it’s an option. All Toonami has going for it is atmosphere (and not all that many people care about that expect die hards) and the shared experience but the later can be managed by watching shows with friends. They’ll have exclusives every once in a while but those can later be watched outside of the block. Toonami is nice to have around but it’s lost pretty much any purpose at this point.

What who gets for what?

According to DeMarco, it’s not going to be on Toonami.

Either that or they will drop 10:30 after MHA season 3 ends. Putting Super at 10:30 would have been much safer but MHA did alright as the lead at 10pm. We’ll see how it goes this time. I’m just happy there isn’t a big shift across the board and HxH and DIU aren’t getting moved again in their final stretches.

Yeah and people say AccelWorld is his GOOD writing

Rainbow blood splatter? ACCEPTABLE Yeah it does sort of mix the other OPs together.

Given SAO is on its 3rd season, many of the familiar actors have already been in it and Mami Okada casting these for BangZoom has done a good job at not double casting. BZ is trying new people all the time now and also using more people who have done VO before but are barely in dubs. I think that’s great. Dubs are often criticized for using the same actors all the time.