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If it's dubbed in-house at Crunchyroll that would be a somewhat interesting development given Sabat's own Okatron5000 studio has been dubbing Dragon Ball anime since Kai. But it's not at all unheard of for Crunchyroll's own studio to dub a Toei show / film since they've been doing that for One Piece for years now.

The absolute state of cable television ratings... Two American Dads and two Rick & Morty episodes were in the top 20 with the 11pm Rick and Morty at #5 for 18-49 with such low numbers as 0.144 18-49 and 246,000 viewers and that was a good 30,000 higher than anything else on Adult Swim that week. Given that, the retention from R&M at 11:30 to RATAM isn't very good and Demon Slayer cooked it, had DS been at midnight and something worthwhile was at 12:30 they might have managed 200k from 10pm till 1am, as it stands they still almost did that despite the drop at midnight. At least that week it could be argued that Adult Swim's best performing night was Saturday and that just feels bizarre. As long as the 11pm hour Rick and Morty episodes keep doing that well, there's gonna be no incentive to shift Toonami earlier. The Rick subs aren't doing Toonami any favors currently but given all those airings of RickAniMorty charted in the top 200, its safe to say the network will be satisfied with the performance overall. Ninja Kamui finishing out it's rerun with an episode that charts in the top 200 ain't too shabby at all. It managed to beat DBZ Kai given Kai is nowhere on this chart. Billy and Mandy squeek into the top 200 again but no sign of anything else on Checkered Past and nothing on Toonami Rewind.

The simulcast is confirmed for Crunchyroll but no mention of a dub or exclusivity.

Well if these keeps up at least we'll be able to see how Uzumaki does. Maybe someone can convince them to include RATAM in the Thursday numbers.

What they should do is have Daima and IFG in the 7pm hour after Rewind, directly after Kai. That would mean Toonami is lead off by two encores though which could leave only One Piece for a premiere… yikes. I don’t think getting Daima completely eliminates the possibility of another acquisition before next year but if Daima doesn’t even premiere on Saturday Toonami then it would screw over anything other than an already established show like MHA or Demon Slayer. I would not want them to do that to a franchise that is new to the block. Having it stuck behind potentially two reruns reeks. At least wait till IFG is over early next year.

None of ya'll are watching this gem? Or at least saying anything about it? That's a shame. I went in not expecting much but gave it a shot and am glad I did because it can be downright hilarious. I suppose I don't have much else to say but I am genuinely enjoying it and I think it's great that Adult Swim is airing it in the US.

Double MHA won't last past November unless they're trying to start season 7 in December. It will dial back to 1 episode to drag things to January. The obvious choice to fill the rerun slot MHA will open up is Demon Slayer. That is of course unless Aniplex actually let Toonami have the Hashira Training arc already. I completely dismissed that as plausible before but we have no idea how good this relationship with Aniplex actually is so it's worth considering. So let's say Toonami actually does managed to get first dibs on the dub of Daima and it's only two or three weeks behind Japan. Here's some potential schedules. In all of these scenarios I expect Invincible Fight Girl to join the block the week after Daima has it's long episode premiere. November 2nd Daima Premiere (also works for October 26th if they choose not to do an Uzumaki marathon because of Daima) 12:00 AM - Dragon Ball Daima 01:00 AM - Mashle / One Piece / Demon Slayer Hashira Training Arc (also a long episode so no 1:30 show if so) 01:30 AM - One Piece 02:00 AM - MHA (shifted up in anticipation of S7 in January) 02:30 AM - Dragon Ball Z Kai 03:00 AM - Demon Slayer Swordsmith Village Arc October 26th Daima Premiere followed by Uzumaki marathon because they can't help themselves 12:00 AM - Dragon Ball Daima 01:00 AM - Uzumaki Dub Marathon 03:00 AM - Dragon Ball Z Kai (to keep pace with Rewind) And if Daima needs 3-4 weeks AND MHA has been secured then we could see this on November 2nd or 9th following an MHA marathon the week prior 12:00 AM - Dragon Ball Daima (IFG starts the next Saturday at 12:30 between DBD and MHA) 01:00 AM - MHA Season 7 01:30 AM - One Piece 02:00 AM - Dragon Ball Z Kai 02:30 AM - Demon Slayer Swordsmith Village Arc A much better scenario would be if Toonami got 11:30 back with Daima but given they don't even have a premiere for 2am there's no sense in expanding unless Toei demands the slightly earlier time slot. Hey if they'll throw in some extra One Piece for the trouble then Toonami wouldn't struggle to fill another premiere slot. What I'd most like to see in the scenario Toonami got the Daima dub premiere? 11:30 PM - Dragon Ball Daima 12:00 AM - Invincible Fight Girl 12:30 AM - My Hero Academia Season 7 / Demon Slayer Hashira 1:00 AM - Something from Sentai / Mashle 1:30 AM - One Piece 2:00 AM - One Piece 2:30 AM - IGPX Season 2

They really haven't updated the chart in weeks... This might be the end of the road for ratings reports.

Toei most likely will spread it around unless Disney comes along with F YOU money demanding an exclusive. They haven't actually done that with a Toei show yet to my knowledge but they got Sand Land and seem very pleased to have DBZ Kai (which Crunchyroll does not) and Disney can see the international value of having Dragon Ball Daima which gives them all the more reason to not let Crunchyroll or someone else have it in Latin America and other parts of the world. I suppose I shouldn't entirely rule out Netflix given they got WIT Piece from Toei but if they had Daima then we'd probably know that by now.

So I'm just gonna throw it out there that there's rumors that Dragon Ball Daima will be simuldubbed and casting is already underway with new actors filling the roles of the younger versions of established characters. I think there's a handful of reasonably likely scenarios that could play out depending on what Toei wants to do. A) Disney throws money at Toei to get it first on Hulu, maybe a same day dub or 2+ weeks behind the Japanese simulcast, CR at least gets to stream the Japanese simulcast B) Toei sticks with Toonami since they still value television and the dub premieres on Toonami 2-4 weeks after the simulcast, Japanese simulcast is on CR and/or Hulu, one or both get to stream the dub eventually C) CR gets the premiere with a simuldub either same day or 2+ weeks behind the Japanese simulcast but it also airs on Toonami within 1-3 months, Hulu probably gets it later D) CR and Hulu get same day Japanese simulcast and a simuldub 2+ weeks after, Toonami airs it within 1-3 months The most unlikely thing would be for any of them to get it completely exclusively but I suppose that could happen for at least a window of time. All of that said, if those rumors hold merit then whether Toonami gets the dub premiere or not we could still see it on the block as early as November.

Here’s an option that will probably grate on everyone. Toonami takes two weeks off the regular lineup on 10/26 and 11/02 causing Kai to fall behind Rewind but from then on Kai remains on both blocks with Rewind staying ahead of Toonami. Although, a preemption of Rewind on November 29th is even more likely than a marathon on Saturday November 30th so that could also affect which block is ahead with Kai until at least December 21st. It would get through Naruto faster and take Kai off Rewind but I’d rather not see Rewind devolve into two hour blocks like Checkered Past has.

Truly a union isn’t necessary if the workers are fairly compensated for their work and maybe it’s too naive to think Stoopid Buddy had good pay and working conditions without union involvement but more often than not animators get screwed without a union contract in place (sadly also WITH one but less so). So that’s probably a bad look for Green especially if he was threatening to move production.

Viz added that very recently too. They get it! Hulu seems to be required to keep the dub uploads about a year behind Toonami so unless people bought the DVD/BD or digital, Toonami was the first way they could have seen dubbed episodes in the past several years. So it’s very nice of Viz to offer The Last on Netflix for those kinds of folks who were following it on Toonami.

It requires basically no money. If they had Steve for a 2 hour session recently (VA standard) for the game review and the special intro for RAMTA they easily could have had him record some lines about saying goodbye to Shippuden. They didn’t even mention the show was leaving on Facebook. You would only notice Shippuden wasn’t on the schedule anymore if you cared enough to look carefully at the schedule image itself. It’s like they don’t want to admit it’s gone.

A fine final episode though what a tease to not show the ceremony. Seeing Iruka and Naruto's relationship come to this conclusion was nice. I think he's much more of a big brother than a father figure but he did somewhat raise the kid. It's a happy ending for Naruto, Hinata and pretty much everyone. Because I fell off of Shippuden early on and only occasionally glanced back at it, it kind of feels like my High School reunion with people I haven't seen in decades. All that said, WTF Toonami you didn't do ANYTHING for the occasion? No mention in the block intro, no promo, no tribute video, not even bumps specific to the wedding. Absolutely nothing. Business as usual and they didn't even get a tape from Viz that contained the full ending sequence for the final episode. Total bullshit. This is not how you send off a show that has been airing for a decade. This is emblematic of how lifeless Toonami has become. Sure they made a new video game review but why do that right now instead of celebrate this show in any way at all? You had Steve in a recording session for that review and the intro for the RickAniMorty block debut and you couldn't have him say a few words for the end of Naruto Shippuden? They make bumps for marathons for pete sake but won't do special bumps for this? They really aren't allowed to do anything fun besides game reviews now it seems and I'm not sure why they even bother with those when most aren't sponsored. The absolute state of the Toonami experience right now...

Probably not. He's just letting Sano do whatever the heck he wants for better or worse. He's too afraid to reign in any director and only puts the kabosh on fanservice when he's aware of it.

Giving me flashbacks to 90s Spider-Man when a bunch of bad guys attacked during the wedding and The Kingpin helped fight some of them off in a robot.

They certainly could drop 3am in November but they probably won't if they only have the Swordsmith Village arc of Demon Slayer because they can immediately rerun it on the back. But if they have Hashira Training arc (which I think is very unlikely) then they'll probably dial back on MHA unless they can start airing season 7 in December.

By my count they can double up One Piece 2 more weeks for 50 episodes or 4 more weeks for 52. The first episode that aired in 2024 was 649 so they should finish at 699 or 701 depending on if its 50 or 52 a year. That could easily fill a slot in November if they can't start 3 shows in November. Sure would be nice if they could double up One Piece 1:30-2:30AM again and have 3 other premieres but that's clearly asking for too much at this point.

There’s no good reason to side step the rich lore to do a glorified fanfic. Who made this decision to focus on a character that wasn’t even named in the text rather than the legendary king? If it was DeMarco then he truly doesn’t understand what people want from animated films and shows based on existing IP (As if FLCL wasn’t already enough evidence). If it was Kamiyama then his track record is only getting worse with each new project.

Yet another “oh no he’s hot” casting choice. Even Wapol’s actor ain’t a bad looker. Crocodile is gonna be deadly handsome but for real I’ve never been so attracted to the old king. Katey Sagal is a fun choice for Kureha. Probably best that they didn’t get a very new actress who would get the brunt of the backlash over JLC not getting the role. Sagal at least has been in the industry for decades and has some following between a handful of beloved characters. I guess they’re trying not to spoil that Wednesday turns out to be Vivi but I mean… people who don’t know that are very unlikely to be following the cast announcements. Following their logic though, Robin will be announced as Sunday. I wonder if they’ll keep it Miss All Sunday or drop the All? I always thought that was a peculiar choice.

Comment sections are pissed that it looks like a girl boss movie about Helm’s daughter. This will be the first WBA film I will support in theaters since Wonka but I fully expect it to bomb.

That CGI fight was baaaaad The rest was decently entertaining and much easier to follow than the first episode.

That RickAniMorty encore is doing Psi Cops no favors on Sunday. Honestly not terrible for Toonami this week and a good 38k ahead of Demon Slayer and the rest but we’ll see how eps 2 and 3 hold the audience’s attention (or don’t).

No if they don’t have 3 shows to start in November I will definitely not reason it’s because of marathons. Any use of marathons after October 26th and before the 2nd to last week of December is a stall tactic. They don’t always do one in November and we’ve had enough off weeks to fill the quota. They’d just be punting till January if they don’t have 3 new block premieres in November. The only marathon I won’t give them shit for is an MHA catch-up marathon the first weekend of November if season 7 starts the next week but even that is only sensible because they stupidly put MHA S6 reruns on and seem intent on reairing all of it even double stripping it.