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Not that SAO has much hype material right now but most of those Boruto topicals only made it more apparent that not a dang interesting thing happens in that show.

Every single week they don't run a topical for Super the Facebook is flooded with comments asking if DBS was still airing. They should probably keep doing those.

I suppose we were all kind of waiting for this shoe to drop after the vague articles when Mob was announced and then the Blade Runner deal. This could be marvelous synergy for AT&T's anime and action animation offerings. They have a strong streaming platform and the only linear TV venue for non-toyetic action animation teaming up to ensure CR's content can reach additional casual audiences. Adult Swim has good connections internationally that can benefit Crunchyroll and CR will also partner with Toonami on future original co-productions. I don't think for a second that this means Crunchyroll series will take up the majority of the slots on Toonami any time soon and I don't expect any big changes until they finish a few more long running series. Next year and beyond though? That could be very interesting. This ensures Toonami will still have options if Hulu's FUNimation deal takes a bunch of good shows off the table and Viz ever decides to take their content elsewhere (we're not escaping Boruto and Shippuden any time soon though).

Samurai Jack and FLCL 2/3 should be on VRV Selects if nothing else but with this deal a Toonami section on VRV only makes sense.

Initially AS revived Toonami to recharge ASA out of its state of decay. From 2013 till probably at least 2016 AS thrived as a linear network on cable against TV competition and streaming but now it’s definitely losing that battle more and more every year. But I don’t think there ever was a point where making Toonami just a streaming service made sense. They’d never compete well against Netflix, Hulu or Crunchyroll as just a streaming service. Now any Toonami original can and should stream on VRV and/or CR after the TV broadcast but if Toonami tried to make its own paid service it would fail miserably.

I suppose that’s a reasonable theory. Though they did say Akame was heavily requested at the time so that may have been a factor. I have a couple. The most obvious was DBS was forced to air in prime time until Toei could see kids weren’t interested. I figure JoJo has gotten priority over several premieres due to the cost of airing it. The EDs play a big part in the cost. Black Clover was thrown at Toonami for a very good price. There was probably an initial stipulation it had to get a good time slot but as soon as they could they tossed it to the back because it was cheap.

They could certainly use more sci-fi in the mix.

Boon and BD did quite a bit worse the week after. Though it may just be one bad week.

They just keep making similar lines about making magic whenever they get to Black Clover. It’s pretty uninspired.

I’d rather they regularly show the lineup promo than do topicals for several shows. i don’t think Boruto and MHA are likely to shift down. Maybe MHA for Mob or new Titan but Boruto is holding Super better than MHA did.

I guess they don’t see any reason to announce Titan is going back to season 1 because the schedule hasn’t technically changed.

They probably won’t air the recap on Toonami. It may not even get dubbed.

That's totally fair, all schedules are subject to change and they make use of placeholders to avoid spoiling upcoming changes. I'm just saying there's no need to skeptical of things posted on Toonami Squad that aren't also posted on Toonami News. Sometimes they're just faster at getting these things confirmed than we are.

WTF were they thinking with that display? That's horrendous.

According to the director of the first season dub, season 2's dub doesn't exist yet. He may not be speaking totally transparently though. Shield Hero's dub finally surfaced and is now up to date with the Japanese broadcast. Curiously it has not been added to FUNimation's service. Perhaps Crunchyroll was waiting until they would no longer be under obligation to share the series with FUNimation. Likewise, Mob season 2 might not end up on FUNimation's service any time soon, if ever. As things stand now it's about equally likely for Mob season 2 to premiere on Toonami when MegaloBox finishes or for it to show up on Crunchyroll any given week. And the fact that the Japanese side thought the Reigan OVA was going to air on Toonami the week after season 1 ended has me thinking that Toonami has definitely secured beyond the first season. Maybe it's just the OVA for now and that would actually be a dub premiere because it's not streaming dubbed anywhere yet, but it seems just as likely that they will get season 2 once it's ready or once they have another opening. It's entirely possible that they intended to show the Reigan OVA and then go into season 2 but the dub for season 2 wasn't ready yet so delayed it's arrival until MegaloBox wraps up in March.

I ended up going. It was a pretty good story as small part of a larger whole. It had great animation and a good sound track. Seeing some massive destruction on the big screen was well worth the ticket price.

For the record AL, Toonami Squad is just as reliable a news source as the Toonami News twitter. Sometimes even more so because they verify schedule changes with Adult Swim public relations via e-mail. So you can trust their reports.

Though some people might dislike having two separate runs of the show going simultaneously clogging slots, I would prefer that to them just dumping the rerun as soon as the new episodes are ready. I'm also not a fan of the idea that Hunter could get pushed all the way to 3AM if they simply shifted Attack on Titan earlier. That's a real lousy way to go out but it would be even worse if they decided to put it at 3:30AM because it's on the way out. I wonder if they only recently re-obtained the ability to air season 1 on TV. Part of that season has been streaming on Adult Swim's website and app for years but we haven't seen season 1 on TV since September of 2015. It would have been a real good idea to rerun season 1 leading up to season 2 or at least rerunning season 1 and 2 before season 3 started. That probably would have helped Titan find some new viewers. But now the only two options are to cut off this rerun early or air season 3 part 2 and season 1 at the same time. It's not all that different from airing Super and Kai at the same time or Boruto and Shippuden but it's still kind of a waste of the single rerun slot. Frankly I don't care what airs at 3:30AM (or after that for that matter, I'm asleep by then) but it sure doesn't help Toonami's consistent lack of variety issue.

How horrific that would have been.

I must admit I'm quite surprised Bang Zoom is doing two super fast dubs this season but it's great news for Mob fans and potentially Toonami.

So the 8 of those Boruto's did worse than the regular reruns of Pop Team Epic, Iron-Blooded Orphans and Samurai Jack in the 18-49 demographic. That's hilariously sad. I'd have to figure the upswing in the back was due to a lack of competition as well as them being the most recent episodes. Boruto sure doesn't hold a candle to DBS. I do believe Toonami bet on the wrong horse this time.

It may not make sense but DBS following Family Guy does better than any other combination in recent years. DBS can in fact, out rate Family Guy reruns when Family Guy is right before it but DBS will not do as well without Family Guy leading into it. That implies a decent amount of cross-over audience. Family Guy itself struggles to get 1 million viewers on weeknights at 11:30PM, given that it's unlikely DBS will break 800,000 with the upcoming schedule. I just hope it see's an increase that puts it on par with FOX reruns again.

I’ll be a little shocked if they air every episode of Ballmasterz before pulling it. But hey 1.5 hours of ballz!

I was stoked for Megalobox but yeah, it’s too predictable lately or unpredictable in a bad way.

I hear the latest line-up promo uses a clip from the first episode of BC season 2. Also, CR has the master license to Black Clover not FUNimation.