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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?

It’s probably not that. More likely Toonami wasn’t interested in the side-story right now and Aniplex wasn’t gonna let that delay them. If it was this or Megalo then I’d say they made the right call.

Ironically people have since warmed up to Clover and now feel that Toonami shouldn't have buried it when they did. I don't really care either way but since it often beats shows airing ahead of it, it does seem like they made a mistake demoting it so much.

Nah all the characters are uniformly rounder in the anime and because of that they lose some distinct features, particularly the faces but in the bodies as well. For a lack of better terms the manga has more human proportions despite maybe unrealistic breasts and hips.

At this point they probably need to dedicate one slot to a total shot in the dark brand new show as often as possible. Dimension W wasn't a great show by any means but people watched it.

Well the manga art seems quite a bit better than the anime. Noted. That must be Cow Girl and she's a cutie in the anime but dang son the manga has that beat.

The first episode of Goblin Slayer is pretty dang graphic, plenty is not shown but you know exactly what's going on. I've seen every episode thus far and that's by far the most graphic encounter. That one episodes makes the cartoonish sexual assault in SAO look like nothing by comparison but it's still not Berserk. It could air on Toonami probably with no additional editing. Maybe they could take advantage of the fact that people may not immediately subscribe to FUNimation to keep watching those dubs but it's probably already too late to grab those viewers. People don't wait. They find other means legal or otherwise.

What is this... asking for a friend.

Not this time.

They kind of already are but so far the results show Naruto still isn’t Dragon Ball.

I see some people suggest that if they ditch DB then they'll be healthier for it by eliminating the outlier to their ratings. I kind of get what they're saying because right now (and this has probably always been the case) DBS is an island. People tune in for that and only that and then leave. By eliminating DBZ/DBS they will inevitably lose a lot of viewers but the bar will then be set lower for the rest of the shows because nothing will stand-out much. The thing is though without at least one big draw, Toonami may do badly enough to finally get cancelled. It's more likely DB reruns will survive somewhere on Adult Swim than any show that isn't an original. Based on what we're seeing with Kai, a Super rerun would probably be on level with the remaining premieres. It would likely surprise no one if Toonami started with DBZ Kai and DBS reruns back to back by the end of next year, especially if they still have 9pm by then.

Much easier said than done. Japanese animation production schedules can get brutal. The delays are to ensure they don’t have the same issues season 1 had.

Yeah with a 6 month break it should be called season 4 but maybe it was planned conceptually as a 24 episode season and they couldn't manage it. It's possible the second half was delayed due to WIT's work load. Oh well.

Really? Well that’s a let down. Marathoning the show only to restart the season in the same slot for two more weeks before FLCLA finishes its rerun so it can move in and make way for Megalo Box. As bleh as three weeks of Titan reruns at midnight would be it’s preferable to a marathon that nukes the rest of the premieres for a week.

While it's possible they maybe had other options but didn't go with them, it does seem odd that they didn't finalize this schedule till now when it's just a recent rerun anyway.

It's replacing One-Punch Man. Technically Mob replaced Cowboy Bebop or more technically Mob replaced a 2nd Jack which replaced Bebop. But let's not be THAT technical. That and FLCL moved down to the rerun block to make room for Mob at 11:30PM.

Very peculiar but if it means we get Megalo Box on November 24th, then so be it. It's entirely possible that they are able to start airing it two weeks earlier than originally planned. I think that’s what’s up because otherwise they could have used filler for Titan’s slot on November 17th, done this marathon on November 24th and started Megalo Box on December 1st. They're really not flexing their creative muscle if they felt this was the best way to dealing with Titan ending two weeks before Thanksgiving weekend. Doubling up JoJo, Clover or Jack at the end is simple enough. If this means two marathons in November then they should have just took Oct 27th off and started Mob this week but we should at least get Megalo Box on December 1st which would allow it to air 3 episodes before the December break instead of just two. However if I'm right about the regular line-up airing on November 24th then Megalo Box gets 4 episodes to establish itself before the December break and that's preferable. Thanksgiving weekend doesn't always do poorly for Toonami so they could run the regular line-up that weekend. While AL might be right on the money about a DBS marathon taking advantage of the fact that Goku Blue is appearing in the Macy's parade, it's not like DBS wouldn't be airing one way or the other and a DBS marathon could be held on December 22nd instead. So okay if they actually do two marathons in November then they definitely should have taken October 27th off and this would be the oddest Saturday to run a marathon on thus far but we'll live. And if they actually can't start Megalo Box until December 8th regardless that better be strictly because the dub won't be ready till then, which unfortunately is possible but I'm hoping that won't be the case.

People got tired of waiting for the anime and just read the manga until they even lost interest in that. I do think season 2 actually did decently for Toonami at the time despite losing plenty of viewers from DBZ Kai but season three is showing more apparent apathy.

I was thinking that Wrap article was making something out of nothing but DeMarco went and said this so I don’t know anymore. https://ask.fm/Clarknova/answers/150733725929

DBZ Kai gained 18+ viewers from the Regular Show Halloween episodes. Can’t really fault it there.

A 5 hour block that just repeats at 1AM seems like a waste. They'd also have to make sure that the 12:30AM show that would repeat at 5:30AM isn't TV-MA or preferably not a heavy TV-14. With as many premieres as they have now, 5 hours arguably isn't enough space. I mean do you guys really want this to be all of what Toonami is? 08:00 - Dragon Ball Z Kai 08:30 - My Hero Academia 09:00 - Black Clover 09:30 - Boruto 10:00 - Dragon Ball Super 10:30 - Megalo Box 11:00 - Mob Psycho 100 11:30 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 12:00 - Hunter x Hunter 12:30 - Naruto Shippuden Even if they were to dump Kai to weeknights in favor of having a recent rerun after all 9 premieres, they'd potentially run into the content issue with that rerun slot that would repeat at 5:30AM.