Double Bebop March 24th

[korosu]

 

[OwlChemist81]

Hmmm, interesting. This is what we suspected! Yes, I now believe it will be an hour long Re:Zero on April 7, and then another show on April 14.

But will JoJo/Gundam move down to 1 and 1:30??

Edited March 15, 2018 by OwlChemist81

[Blatch]

Fucking finally.

It's going to be awkward for Space Dandy to air one episode at 2:00, and then maybe get preempted followed by probably moving back down when Re:Zero the new show premieres, but there's really no other option.

[PokeNirvash]

EVEN MY IMMEDIATE FAMILY CALLED IT.

[mochi]

14 minutes ago, OwlChemist81 said:

Hmmm, interesting. This is what we suspected! Yes, I now believe it will be an hour long Re:Zero on April 7, and then another show on April 14.

But will JoJo/Gundam move down to 1 and 1:30??

Man, you really freaking want Re:Zero on Toonami don't you

[Blatch]

Make that two of us... at least.

[Daos]

Why wouldn't you want 2016's biggest anime on Toonami?

[brianycpht]

56 minutes ago, OwlChemist81 said:

Hmmm, interesting. This is what we suspected! Yes, I now believe it will be an hour long Re:Zero on April 7, and then another show on April 14.

But will JoJo/Gundam move down to 1 and 1:30??

Lets see...

2:30 and 3:00 AM will open up after 3/24. 

3/31 will not have the normal stuff after midnight probably

From the language, it seems that Space Dandy will be on at 2:00 moving forward.I don't know if they will immediately shift it back again.

Trying to see where they would put ReZero. It really should be before midnight. But I don't know what they are going to do without having to shift the whole lineup again.

[Jman]

Boooo!  Boooo!

[brianycpht]

59 minutes ago, Blatch said:

Fucking finally.

It's going to be awkward for Space Dandy to air one episode at 2:00, and then maybe get preempted followed by probably moving back down when Re:Zero the new show premieres, but there's really no other option.

They aree talking like Space Dandy is at 2 from now on.

The only way I see it working (if we are getting a real new show and not another rerun) is expanding to 10. 

I'm thinking we get a FLCL rerun at 2:30 and another library title at 3:00. Lets hope we are also getting a new show after all this time!

[Blatch]

That doesn't guarantee it'll stay there. And truth be told, I can't see how Re:Zero could air in the first half of the block without moving stuff down.

I would say that Toonami isn't going to expand again just four months after the last time, but they have surprised me multiple times in the past, so I guess it could be the case. But I do think Dandy at 2:00 will be just a one-time thing.

[brianycpht]

Just now, Blatch said:

That doesn't guarantee it'll stay there. And truth be told, I can't see how Re:Zero could air in the first half of the block without moving stuff down.

I would say that Toonami isn't going to expand again just four months after the last time, but they have surprised me multiple times in the past, so I guess it could be the case. But I do think Dandy at 2:00 will be just a one-time thing.

Possibly, I'm only going off of the language "Starting next Saturday, Dandy is on at 2:00"

[Daos]

If they get Re Zero it should air before Super. They aired OPM after Kai and OPM could actually have beaten Kai easily if it had aired first. If they don't air it before Super they'll have to air it after Super/Kai, and airing a huge anime like that 3rd.... would be a fucking waste.

I'm still skeptical that Demarco is smart enough to get Re Zero though =P

[The1gairon]

Yep. On March 24th Space Dandy is going to move up to 2 AM, replacing OutLaw Star's place. To fill in the 2:30 AM slot, Cowboy Bebop reruns will be doubled up.  I LOVE Dandy so that's good news to me, but now we have double Bebop and GITS is ending the block again.

So it turns out NOTHING is replacing OutLaw Star! Not even in another slot! 

Also, them doubling up Bebop with the show nearing its end makes me think they're just cycle it back to episode 1 for the umpteenth time.

[The1gairon]

2 hours ago, mochi said:

Man, you really freaking want Re:Zero on Toonami don't you

I actually do not blame him. Re:Zero was really popular when it was airing, it's got a lot of action with dark moments, and the tone, along with the announcement of a dub, seems perfect for the block.

[PokeNirvash]

17 minutes ago, elfie said:

Yep. On March 24th Space Dandy is going to move up to 2 AM, replacing OutLaw Star's place. To fill in the 2:30 AM slot, Cowboy Bebop reruns will be doubled up.  I LOVE Dandy so that's good news to me, but now we have double Bebop and GITS is ending the block again.

You're literally repeating what he just said.

17 minutes ago, elfie said:

So it turns out NOTHING is replacing OutLaw Star! Not even in another slot!

You don't know that.

17 minutes ago, elfie said:

Also, them doubling up Bebop with the show nearing its end makes me think they're just cycle it back to episode 1 for the umpteenth time.

FOR THE LOVE OF-

16 minutes ago, elfie said:

I actually do not blame him. Re:Zero was really popular when it was airing, it's got a lot of action with dark moments, and the tone, along with the announcement of a dub, seems perfect for the block.

...You know what? You're cool.

[brianycpht]

30 minutes ago, elfie said:

I actually do not blame him. Re:Zero was really popular when it was airing, it's got a lot of action with dark moments, and the tone, along with the announcement of a dub, seems perfect for the block.

Bebops gone after this. No point in doubling up the finale, just to rerun it again. They could’ve doubled up on something else that isn’t ending instead, like Dandy.

[mochi]

59 minutes ago, elfie said:

I actually do not blame him. Re:Zero was really popular when it was airing, it's got a lot of action with dark moments, and the tone, along with the announcement of a dub, seems perfect for the block.

I mean I'll watch Re:Zero if they get it but based on what I looked up it has a character similar to Puri Puri prisoner in it so I'm not gonna hold my tongue while discussing it

Edited March 16, 2018 by mochi

[Jman]

59 minutes ago, mochi said:

I mean I'll watch Re:Zero if they get it but based on what I looked up it has a character similar to Puri Puri prisoner in it so I'm not gonna hold my tongue while discussing it

You could always just recycle your old rants since it’ll be the same thing.

[The1gairon]

3 hours ago, PokeNirvash said:

You're literally repeating what he just said.

Cool well maybe not everyone remembers to read new posts when they see a thread before replying first.

[OwlChemist81]

5 hours ago, brianycpht said:

Bebops gone after this. No point in doubling up the finale, just to rerun it again. They could’ve doubled up on something else that isn’t ending instead, like Dandy.

Yeah, I'm thinking after this, Bebop's taking a good long break.

Toonami may even be losing the rights to it, which apparently DID happen for almost 8 months in 2014. Don't really know for sure though!

But it IS apparent that they have lost the rights now to both Dimension W and Samurai Champloo, the latter of which I thought might be a potential replacement for GITS. So much for that though!

I think it's probably a foregone conclusion that DBZ Kai will end up rerunning somewhere in the back end--or is it?? There are back episodes of Season 1 of both JoJo and Gundam IBO available on the app, but that is NOT the case for DBZ Kai! I wonder if Gundam IBO would possibly get a back-end rerun, especially if paired up with an older Gundam series? Doubtful though. It will be interesting to see what they do with the block after 2 AM going forward, though one potential direction might be just repeating it until 6 AM like they did in 2012. Perhaps Toonami will contract to 8 shows, begin at 10 PM, go to 2 AM, and then rerun from 2 AM to 6 AM? With the recent demise of the weekend block stream it seems it has potential. But then again, if they CAN get more "nostalgic" shows like Outlaw Star, which had a major portion of its run at 2:30 AM, maybe airing classic shows in HD from 2 AM-4 AM will remain their m.o. for a bit longer!

Edited March 16, 2018 by OwlChemist81

[CaptainStarwind]

5 hours ago, OwlChemist81 said:

Yeah, I'm thinking after this, Bebop's taking a good long break.

Toonami may even be losing the rights to it, which apparently DID happen for almost 8 months in 2014. Don't really know for sure though!

But it IS apparent that they have lost the rights now to both Dimension W and Samurai Champloo, the latter of which I thought might be a potential replacement for GITS. So much for that though!

I think it's probably a foregone conclusion that DBZ Kai will end up rerunning somewhere in the back end--or is it?? There are back episodes of Season 1 of both JoJo and Gundam IBO available on the app, but that is NOT the case for DBZ Kai! I wonder if Gundam IBO would possibly get a back-end rerun, especially if paired up with an older Gundam series? Doubtful though. It will be interesting to see what they do with the block after 2 AM going forward, though one potential direction might be just repeating it until 6 AM like they did in 2012. Perhaps Toonami will contract to 8 shows, begin at 10 PM, go to 2 AM, and then rerun from 2 AM to 6 AM? With the recent demise of the weekend block stream it seems it has potential. But then again, if they CAN get more "nostalgic" shows like Outlaw Star, which had a major portion of its run at 2:30 AM, maybe airing classic shows in HD from 2 AM-4 AM will remain their m.o. for a bit longer!

I doubt they would reair DBZ Kai at the back of the block.  All the "new" Toonami shows that they've done reruns of at this point are shows that are 26 episodes or shorter.  I doubt they'd be willing to commit to reairing a longer show in full on the back end.

Double Bebop on Saturday, huh?  Can't say I'm not surprised.  They really do need to announce what's happening on the 24th, though.  With no show announcement so far, part of me wonders if they intend to just keep Bebop doubled up and do another run of that.  I'd prefer they not, but it wouldn't surprise me, to be honest.

[Jman]

LOLBEBOPAIRZ.

Saying the show is overplayed is an understatement.

[PokeNirvash]

Why must you try so hard to be so unlikable, JMan?

[Jman]

25 minutes ago, PokeNirvash said:

Why must you try so hard to be so unlikable, JMan?

I’m not the one who’s consistently ran Bebop since 2001.  There’s only so many times you can air a show.

[PokeNirvash]

And yet it's not like people absolutely have to watch them. We aren't all like Ben, the man who claims to have the dialogue exchanges from every episode of Samurai Champloo memorized even though it didn't rerun nearly as much as Bebop has.

[brianycpht]

3 hours ago, CaptainStarwind said:

I doubt they would reair DBZ Kai at the back of the block.  All the "new" Toonami shows that they've done reruns of at this point are shows that are 26 episodes or shorter.  I doubt they'd be willing to commit to reairing a longer show in full on the back end.

Double Bebop on Saturday, huh?  Can't say I'm not surprised.  They really do need to announce what's happening on the 24th, though.  With no show announcement so far, part of me wonders if they intend to just keep Bebop doubled up and do another run of that.  I'd prefer they not, but it wouldn't surprise me, to be honest.

To clarify,

The final Outlaw Star is this Saturday 3/17

Double Bebop is on 3/24.

Beyond that, we don’t know what’s happening!

[CaptainStarwind]

4 hours ago, brianycpht said:

To clarify,

The final Outlaw Star is this Saturday 3/17

Double Bebop is on 3/24.

Beyond that, we don’t know what’s happening!

Yeah this is why I don't write posts when I'm sleep deprived lol. 

Shift the dates but my point still stands. If we don't see a show promo or hear something this Saturday, next Saturday at the latest, I think we can assume double Bebop is going to be a thing for a while.

[korosu]

"to finish out the arc" is an interesting choice of words. still though, mike tyson mysteries is taking easter off so i have to assume they're gonna announce a black clover marathon or something. the same justification for skipping a week of mtm. the mtm episode was previously listed everywhere as airing on the first, otherwise it would be irrelevant. if they plan on "running the regular block" it wouldn't surprise me if they "start bebop over" but again that leaves a week for an april 7 show announcement.

we're getting flcl news next week, and it's the best opportunity to rerun season 1. perhaps they don't announce it's rerunning though if they want to pretend bebop is. and make that a week for 2 show announcements.

Edited March 16, 2018 by korosu

[OwlChemist81]

1 hour ago, CaptainStarwind said:

Yeah this is why I don't write posts when I'm sleep deprived lol. 

Shift the dates but my point still stands. If we don't see a show promo or hear something this Saturday, next Saturday at the latest, I think we can assume double Bebop is going to be a thing for a while.

Ugh, I have no reason whatsoever to believe that Double Bebop will be a thing more often than just this once. The idea is to have TWO slots open on 3/31 or 4/7, but for what, I haven't a much of a clue.

[StarPanda]

I see interesting 

[korosu]

restarting bebop is officially the plan

[brianycpht]

http://www.adultswim.com/adultswimdynsched/asXml/31.EST.xml

 

So going off of what Korosu just said, 3/31 indeed says that Cowboy Bebop will be restarting with episode 1 and 2 on 3/31.

I'm pretty certain this is a dummy schedule to set us up for the April Fools gag. The people at AS have to plug something in that schedule to at least make it seem a normal night.

[Jman]

3 hours ago, korosu said:

restarting bebop is officially the plan

They had better have a gag for April outside of LOLBEBOPAIRZ.  Even if it’s just The Room again.

 

[brianycpht]

51 minutes ago, Jman said:

They had better have a gag for April outside of LOLBEBOPAIRZ.  Even if it’s just The Room again.

 

I hope they have something good planned AND new shows after this. If double Bebop is still the schedule after this and they still haven’t secured a real replacement for Outlaw Star, they are probably going to lose a lot of good will with the fans. 

I don’t think it’s going to go that way though

[Blatch]

Yeah, even if the wording of "finish out the arc" means they're going to restart Bebop in April (I don't think they would outside of trolling), it's not going to air for an hour, even on the April Fool's schedule. They must have something ready to replace either it or Outlaw Star.

Edited March 17, 2018 by Blatch

[Jman]

I'm rooting for The Disaster Artist to air April Fools, but even after that, Bebop needs less airings, not more.  There's only so many timeslots and 3 are booked solid with Dragonball and Screamy McScreamington.

[CaptainStarwind]

I really do hope airing double Bebop from the start is just an April Fools joke.  I don't mind Bebop airing on the block but it's had a run and it needs a rest.  Six months at least, if not a full year.

Airing FLCL from the start is something that they should do anyway in preparation for the new seasons, so I can see that as a possibility.  There's also the option (if the new show is going to be airing at the top of the block) that they can pull another rerun out.  Even assuming they don't get some other old Toonami show, they still have some show contracts left so they can do a rerun if need be.  Or they can show Big O Season 2. 

Personally, I think we'll see Re: Zero premiere at the top of the block, and a rerun of FLCL at the end of the block.  Alternatively they could double up on FLCL and get a 4 airings of the show in 12 weeks, but I don't think they'd be willing to do that.

[Jman]

I just realize what they could do that would be worse.

Back in the early 90’s, during June, Cartoon Network aired a 25 hour marathon of Bugs Bunny cartoons.

April Bebop - 25 hours of LOLBEBOPAIRZ.  Because 24 doesn’t get DeMarco off enough.

Edited March 18, 2018 by Jman

[DangerMouse]

On 3/15/2018 at 8:41 PM, elfie said:

I actually do not blame him. Re:Zero was really popular when it was airing, it's got a lot of action with dark moments, and the tone, along with the announcement of a dub, seems perfect for the block.

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised since it was such a big show.

It also kind of fits the action mystery show mix that Toonami likes. The dub cast looks quite promising as well, in the cast list.

 

3 hours ago, CaptainStarwind said:

Airing FLCL from the start is something that they should do anyway in preparation for the new seasons, so I can see that as a possibility.

Yeah, whenever they plan for FLCL 2 to air I 100% expect a re-run of the original series first.

Edited March 18, 2018 by DangerMouse

[korosu]

57 minutes ago, Jman said:

I just realize what they could do that would be worse.

Back in the early 90’s, during June, Adult Swim aired a 25 hour marathon of Bugs Bunny cartoons.

April Bebop - 25 hours of LOLBEBOPAIRZ.  Because 24 doesn’t get DeMarco off enough.

actually June Bugs was a 48 hour thing 

[PokeNirvash]

And it was Cartoon Network proper, [as] didn't even exist in the '90s.

[ben0119]

On 3/16/2018 at 10:30 AM, PokeNirvash said:

And yet it's not like people absolutely have to watch them. We aren't all like Ben, the man who claims to have the dialogue exchanges from every episode of Samurai Champloo memorized even though it didn't rerun nearly as much as Bebop has.

I pretty much don't have to watch any of the ASA dead horses again any time soon thanks to how much they were run into the ground, a bad habit Demarco was all too willing to continue.  What made things even worse though was when he tried to sell Samurai Champloo as a "premiere" when Fujiko Mine was shockingly unable to pass S&P.

Edited March 19, 2018 by ben0119

[ben0119]

On 3/17/2018 at 7:30 AM, brianycpht said:

http://www.adultswim.com/adultswimdynsched/asXml/31.EST.xml

 

So going off of what Korosu just said, 3/31 indeed says that Cowboy Bebop will be restarting with episode 1 and 2 on 3/31.

I'm pretty certain this is a dummy schedule to set us up for the April Fools gag. The people at AS have to plug something in that schedule to at least make it seem a normal night.

If they really plan to just reair Bebop, much less do a marathon of it on April Fool's, it's fucking pathetic.

They realize what damage the Rick & Morty marathon did right?  Maybe they should concentrate more on stopping the hemorrhaging of viewers instead of doing these stupid stunts.  If they really must do something, why not mess with the bumps and packaging, etc?  Hell, I'd settle for the mustaches or farts.

[ben0119]

On 3/15/2018 at 8:42 PM, mochi said:

I mean I'll watch Re:Zero if they get it but based on what I looked up it has a character similar to Puri Puri prisoner in it so I'm not gonna hold my tongue while discussing it

Jesus fucking Christ

[ben0119]

On 3/16/2018 at 9:51 AM, Jman said:

I’m not the one who’s consistently ran Bebop since 2001.  There’s only so many times you can air a show.

Let the past die.  Kill it if you have to.

[brianycpht]

4 hours ago, ben0119 said:

If they really plan to just reair Bebop, much less do a marathon of it on April Fool's, it's fucking pathetic.

They realize what damage the Rick & Morty marathon did right?  Maybe they should concentrate more on stopping the hemorrhaging of viewers instead of doing these stupid stunts.  If they really must do something, why not mess with the bumps and packaging, etc?  Hell, I'd settle for the mustaches or farts.

Whatever they do, I hope it is something that adds value to the block Whether its a surprise premiere of a new show or them trying out a new genre like Jason has been talking about. In that regard, I think it will make up for the lack of the other premieres. If its something, for instance, like a Hamtaro marathon that's only a joke and doesn't add anything, that would be a huge waste of opportunity.

[Blatch]

4 hours ago, ben0119 said:

They realize what damage the Rick & Morty marathon did right?  Maybe they should concentrate more on stopping the hemorrhaging of viewers instead of doing these stupid stunts.

Almost nobody expected that [adult swim] would preempt primetime for a second gag last year, so the risk of losing viewers was rational, albeit still rather overblown. You should cool it with the fearmongering for right now and just enjoy whatever funny shit ends up airing.

[Sketch]

On 3/15/2018 at 4:27 PM, Daos said:

If they get Re Zero it should air before Super. They aired OPM after Kai and OPM could actually have beaten Kai easily if it had aired first. If they don't air it before Super they'll have to air it after Super/Kai, and airing a huge anime like that 3rd.... would be a fucking waste.

I'm still skeptical that Demarco is smart enough to get Re Zero though =P

I don’t see ReZero airing directly after Family Guy as a great idea. It should be at least third in the line-up though.

[Sketch]

7 hours ago, ben0119 said:

If they really plan to just reair Bebop, much less do a marathon of it on April Fool's, it's fucking pathetic.

They realize what damage the Rick & Morty marathon did right?  Maybe they should concentrate more on stopping the hemorrhaging of viewers instead of doing these stupid stunts.  If they really must do something, why not mess with the bumps and packaging, etc?  Hell, I'd settle for the mustaches or farts.

Angry folks on the internet made a stink but there was no actual damage from that stunt outside of the night it happened. Compare the ratings for the weeks before and after. Jack didn’t drop and the rest of Toonami was unaffected.