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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.

As it stands, the only FUNimation dubs that have aired on Toonami in a timely manner in the past three years have been Attack on Titan, Dragon Ball Super, Black Clover, Dimension W and I suppose you could say Pop Team Epic but it was more than a season behind still. None of their other big shows with fast dubs managed to air on Toonami for whatever reason so really this doesn't change much of anything. It might be a potential additional road block for some upcoming anime but it likely will not affect Toonami's ability to air shows from FUNimation's backlog. It seems like Toonami had to wait until Hulu's exclusivity window with Tokyo Ghoul and My Hero Academia dubs came to an end before they were able to get those series and I expect future FUNimation series that catch Hulu's eye will have an exclusivity window but not be locked down forever. Where this can be problematic for Toonami is Hulu is a much wider used service than FUNimation's own service so if Hulu gets a show and it streams for a year or so you can bet a lot more people will watch it there than they would have if it was just on FUNimation's service. By now it should be evident that airing popular shows after Hulu or another big streaming venue has had them for a year or so isn't the best use of Toonami's budget. They should give up on getting shows that have been heavily exposed and dig deeper for shows that aren't as well known. So yeah, this will potentially make more shows less worthwhile for Toonami to go after but 20 or so shows a year isn't all that many when you consider around 40 anime air every season in Japan. Maybe if they can't get the biggest titles due to this along with some shows going to Amazon and Netflix then focus more on building audiences for lesser known titles that might new viewers and interest the long-standing ones. Pretty sure that's better than a line-up that mostly screams "seen it already". At any rate the Hulu deal won't keep Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia, Dragon Ball Super and Black Clover off of Toonami. I fully expect any additional seasons to end up on Toonami eventually.

DeMarco has never wanted a sequel to Bebop and thank the stars for that.

I think if someone would foot the bill for a union dub recorded at NYAV Post’s LA studio they could get a lot of the original dub actors back for these. The major rub is Canadian actors though some have moved to California. If it’s non-union you won’t be hearing Blum back as Spike.

I forgot about that statement.

Alex wasn’t saying anything about the viewers. Rather that the staff might not want to air the show due to the school shootings frequently occurring this past year. AS did originally skip episodes of Bebop around 9/11. I know that was over 15 years ago but it set a precedent.

What makes you say that?