SDCC [as] Preview Discussion Thread!!

[OwlChemist81]

Ummm... 🐔

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[Jman]

 

 

[OwlChemist81]

Oh looky who's back in the pit of despair that is X!

 

 

[Toonamiguy321]

Well that explains why they had to do fast damage control, this wasn’t their announcement to make. 
 

This feels like it could be its seasons fun meme show like Vending Machine Isekai or the current seasons deer girl show. Unusual main character. Hopefully Demarco keeps his dick beaters off of it as much as possible. The very first fight we see in the trailer being beamspam has me wary though.

Probably something for next year. Since Viz is jointly responsible for cracking the whip, I don’t expect an Uzumaki repeat. 

[EmpressAngel]

"One cock to save the world" is a slogan that I need on multiple pieces of merchandise. 10/10 this looks hilarious.

[Mr. Idea Box]

Okay, this show's concept has got me interested in checking out the first episode. It at least has that going for them.

And hey, since Viz is footing the bill, maybe that Ranma 1/2 remake could do what the original couldn't and air on Toonami.

But in all seriousness, if Rooster Fighter wasn't based on a manga, it still would've been an Adult Swim project anyhow.

[Jman]

7 minutes ago, Mr. Idea Box said:

Okay, this show's concept has got me interested in checking out the first episode. It at least has that going for them.

And hey, since Viz is footing the bill, maybe that Ranma 1/2 remake could do what the original couldn't and air on Toonami.

But in all seriousness, if Rooster Fighter wasn't based on a manga, it still would've been an Adult Swim project anyhow.

Ranma looks to be a Netflix show.  They’re probably the only ones who could show nipples and not raise a stink.

Edited July 26 by Jman

[Mr. Idea Box]

49 minutes ago, Jman said:

Ranma looks to be a Netflix show.  They’re probably the only ones who could show nipples and not raise a stink.

You know what? I'm not even mad at that reason. But I did know that it's coming to Netflix beforehand. Just thought it could eventually go to Toonami at some point.

[Sketch]

Working with Viz is very interesting. I've been saying for years that they should be getting in on the ground floor with a adaptation of a action manga and while this is far from the most conventional pick it also feels very Adult Swim and probably was an affordable project.

[Toonamiguy321]

2 hours ago, Jman said:

Ranma looks to be a Netflix show.  They’re probably the only ones who could show nipples and not raise a stink.

Is it keeping the nudity? Usually when an old series gets a modern remake, step number 1 is deleting all the nudity that made people like the show in the first place. 

[Jman]

Here's the first trailer for Kinnikuman but boring - 

 

[DangerMouse]

One Punch Rooster  

Nice animation. Channeling some OPM S1.

Edited July 26 by DangerMouse

[KageRageX]

Rooster Fighter: Looks good. Could be the show as well as Lazuars to turn things around.

Invincible FIght Girl: Remind me why the fuck this is airing on Adult Swim again.....but it looks like it could be interesting. Just not on AS.

Anything else we should be on the lookout for today?

[Jman]

So if you want to see the first episode of Kinnikuman But Boring here you go.

[Jman]

On a semi-wrestling related note, AEW joined Adult Swim’s setup for an impromptu house show.

 

[OwlChemist81]

Here we go!! R&M Anime panel time...

...and potentially other Toonami developments!

[Toonamiguy321]

Uzumaki on 9/28. Toonami does NOT get the premier, Thursday does. Really not inspiring confidence that this block has a future 

[Jman]

 

[Toonamiguy321]

On an unrelated note, there was NO schedule update on Facebook today. So that basically confirms they will announce Swordsmith for 8/10 tomorrow night. 

[OwlChemist81]

46 minutes ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

Uzumaki on 9/28. Toonami does NOT get the premier, Thursday does. Really not inspiring confidence that this block has a future 

That's actually not right. Toonami gets the SUBTITLED WORLD PREMIERE, while the dub airs the next Thursday (beginning 10/3).

Holy moly, since Halloween falls on a Thursday this year, my unlikely prediction of a Halloween Night Uzumaki marathon MIGHT actually happen!!!

[DangerMouse]

Really nice animation in that Invicible Fight Girl teaser. I'll be curious about the show.

[Toonamiguy321]

33 minutes ago, OwlChemist81 said:

That's actually not right. Toonami gets the SUBTITLED WORLD PREMIERE, while the dub airs the next Thursday (beginning 10/3).

Holy moly, since Halloween falls on a Thursday this year, my unlikely prediction of a Halloween Night Uzumaki marathon MIGHT actually happen!!!

Ok, I read the tweets explaining it wrong then. Thats marginally better. But that also means the first hour of Toonami will be subbed shows. That will be rough for whatever airs after it. 
 

I’d say there are two options. They either run dub then sub on Halloween, or run dub then HCC after, assuming they still have it. 

[OwlChemist81]

58 minutes ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

Ok, I read the tweets explaining it wrong then. Thats marginally better. But that also means the first hour of Toonami will be subbed shows. That will be rough for whatever airs after it. 
 

I’d say there are two options. They either run dub then sub on Halloween, or run dub then HCC after, assuming they still have it. 

Maybe they'll "ham" it up and bring back TOM and SARA'S Japanese voices from April Fool's 2018. That would be cool!!

[KageRageX]

Why are they suddenly making the anime air subbed on Saturdays and dubbed on Thursdays? This sounds like a recipe for failure.
                                                                                                       

[Jman]

Just now, Otakuninja9000 said:

Why are they suddenly making the anime air subbed on Saturdays and dubbed on Thursdays? This sounds like a recipe for failure.
                                                                                                       

Because if MAWS and Ninja Kamui were any indication, they expect the bulk of their viewership to come from Max.

[MasqueradeOverture]

2 hours ago, Jman said:

 

Ok so this thing actually looks like it took a milllion years to animate.

Well done.

[Mr. Idea Box]

Man, I missed a lot. Speedrun:

Invincible Fight Girl: I still don't understand why this is on Adult Swim, but if they have a whole episode planned to go live, I should expect this to be the November original.

Mr. Frog in a wrestling ring: A neat gag, but I haven't seen enough Smiling Friends to love it as much as others do.

Uzumaki: Not only is the show ACTUALLY coming out this year, but Toonami's getting the subbed version first. Scratch that, the US is getting the anime sub BEFORE the dub. I don't think that's ever happened in the history of anime on television. At least, never to this extent.

Swordsmith Village: No schedule update this week? I guess they don't want to have another Rooster Fighter scenario on their hands.

I guess between Rick and Morty, Uzumaki, Invincible Fight Girl, and Demon Slayer, Toonami's all but booked until January.

[Toonamiguy321]

46 minutes ago, Mr. Idea Box said:

I guess between Rick and Morty, Uzumaki, Invincible Fight Girl, and Demon Slayer, Toonami's all but booked until January.

We still have the Naruto opening coming up, but after that things are pretty tight. So here’s a pretty good guess at our Aug 17th schedule

12 - Rick and Morty Anime (sub) 

12:30 - Demon Slayer: Swordsmith Village

1 - One Piece

1:30 - Naruto Shippuden

2 - DBZ Kai

2:30 - Ninja Kamui

3 - ???

 

The question to ask, how do they wedge in Uzumaki on 9/28? The way I see it there is 2 options

Cringe option - when Naruto ends, double up OP for however many weeks till Uzumaki takes 12:30 on the 28th

Based option - actually get a new show to replace Naruto, and come 9/28 either drop Kai or do something to make sure Ninja Kamui ends the week prior.

I know which one I prefer, but seeing as they are likely farting out the last puff of the budget on Swordsmith, I doubt we will be so lucky unless Aniplex sends it over with a bonus like they did with Lycoris. 
 

IFG remains in wildcard territory. None of the material thus far has implied a Toonami run. So it could end up somewhere else on the schedule, or it could premier Thursday and rerun on Toonami. 

[Sketch]

Wouldn't be the worst thing for double OP to replace Shippuden a few weeks but that's not preferable to a fresh show by any means. That said, Demon Slayer will only premiere for 11 weeks and be done by November unless they actually got the Hashira Training arc (fat chance of that) so they're probably gonna save a premiere for November given both Rickanime and Uzumaki will be done by then. A fine time to bring in Mashle or something else Aniplex might throw in with Demon Slayer or whatever else they might have acquired from the few distributors still willing to work with them.

I see I was spot on thinking they would pair up Rickanime with Uzumaki at the top of the block for 4 weeks, I was also thinking a subbed power hour wasn't out of the question but I still didn't think they were crazy enough to do it. Evidently they are actually that crazy. I did not however bank on Uzumaki airing outside of Toonami on Thursdays. On one hand its pretty stupid for Toonami to not air the dub (they might still toss it in the back, we'll see) but on the other hand it's pretty cool that Adult Swim is willing to show the subbed airing before 3am. The thing that really brings the subbed hour down for me is the fact that Rickanime dubs premiere on Thursday and it looks like Max will have the sub before it even airs on Toonami (not confirmed yet but I'm very weary of that reality).

And if the Demon Slayer panel doesn't tell us Swordsmith Village is coming on August 10th then hooooo boy. Hopefully they have something else before Uzumaki.

Now for my thoughts on the previews...

Uzumaki looks great. Hopefully the story isn't a mess due to pacing it for 4 standard length episodes.

Rick and Morty: The Anime has a mid-2000s cerebral anime vibe and feels very little like R&M. It was rather confusing if there was even point being made in that first episode. The side characters in the dub also give it a mid-2000s sci-fi anime dub feel to me. Some of them were amusing. Morty's voice is good, Summer's is fine, Rick has his moments but Beth and Jerry just don't sound right. Luci Christian is voicing the new girl and she's great as per usual. Its just so freak'n weird to watch Rick & Morty dubbed by Sentai Studios. Overall, I didn't dislike it but I'm not eager to watch more.

Women Wearing Shoulder Pads is very different for Adult Swim. Some dialogue is witty but it's not particularly funny and played straight even when things get ridiculous. The closest thing AS has shown to that is The Shivering Truth but that was dark humor most of the time and this isn't dark humor so far but maybe it could go that direction. Also it was shown in Spanish with English subs. AS really is open to subtitled shows now huh?

Common Side Effects is also quite different from Adult Swim's usual. The closest comparison I would make is the Max series Fired on Mars. It has some jokes but overall it looks to be a serialized drama. It's got a interesting vibe and I'm the most excited to see more of that. I hope the audience is receptive to it because I want to see more mature animation like this.

Invincible Fight Girl was not boring Kinikuman. I enjoyed the first episode a lot. Its a very silly premise but it had a lot of charm to it. The animation was great. This show looks expensive so the one season is probably all that we'll ever get. The wrestling was pretty brutal for CN daytime so I somewhat understand why they got cold feet but it should be fine for tweens. This show should be promoted to kids but it's a darn fine all ages show that I don't think would feel entirely wrong on Toonami next to My Hero Academia.

With anime airing outside of Toonami and shows like WWSP and Common Side Effects being made for the network. I really feel like Adult Swim is looking to grow beyond it's trappings of  being a stoner comedy block. I'm quite interested to see how these shows do with the general AS audience.

[Toonamiguy321]

1 hour ago, Sketch said:

Wouldn't be the worst thing for double OP to replace Shippuden

I never get this argument. Where are we racing to? The next poorly paced arc? Where people will complain it needs to be doubled up at all times to make any progress? 
 

Dont forget all the pointless delays that will surely come up. 2 weeks of Rick and Morty rerun marathon, probably dubbed? Yes sir. Halloween marathon? You know it. Other completely meaningless delays? Absolutely. It’s election year, maybe another Calamavote style event? I’d say November is when One Piece gets the double up treatment just to carry us into the new year. We have seen them coast as early as mid October so come November that’s only 5-6 weeks left in the year with regular Toonami nights to cover. 

[Jman]

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With anime airing outside of Toonami and shows like WWSP and Common Side Effects being made for the network. I really feel like Adult Swim is looking to grow beyond it's trappings of  being a stoner comedy block. I'm quite interested to see how these shows do with the general AS audience.

I'm not sure how wise that is.

Mike Lazzo's whole thing was "Bring the funny or look for another job."  Rebrands like this usually mean they lost support in key demographics.

Edited July 27 by Jman

[Sketch]

7 hours ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

I never get this argument. Where are we racing to? The next poorly paced arc? Where people will complain it needs to be doubled up at all times to make any progress? 
 

Dont forget all the pointless delays that will surely come up. 2 weeks of Rick and Morty rerun marathon, probably dubbed? Yes sir. Halloween marathon? You know it. Other completely meaningless delays? Absolutely. It’s election year, maybe another Calamavote style event? I’d say November is when One Piece gets the double up treatment just to carry us into the new year. We have seen them coast as early as mid October so come November that’s only 5-6 weeks left in the year with regular Toonami nights to cover. 

Dressrosa’s pacing is worse than most One Piece arcs if not all of them. We’re just trying to ease that suffering a bit.

There will certainly be a marathon on October 26th and maybe one on November 2nd to stall or milk Rickanime one more time but they’ll likely start IFG in early November so that could avoid more interruptions till the last two weeks of December. I won’t rule out the possibility of a Thanksgiving weekend preemption of some kind but it depends on what they have going on mid November.

Another attempt to get people to vote? I suppose that could happen but maybe it won’t affect Toonami much if at all since they have 5 hours before Toonami to work with.

[Jman]

As for Kinnikuman But Boring, I saw some quotes that really put my issues with a lot of this "Diet Anime" in perspective, and why I'm hoping between X-Men 97, Invincible, and Creature Commandos, we see a return to the 90s era comic art in animation, something that feels like its own thing, rather than aping the parts of others poorly.

 

 

There's too many people who see 5 seconds of an anime and think they can make their own version, but they consider so much of anime "prOBLEmaTIC!" and they create this boring slurry.  No one commits to the bit because the bit offends them somehow.  If you’re going to do anime, you gotta go for it.  Blood, dynamic angles, stuff that looks original, etc.

If you were going to make a Diet Anime wrestling show, you should be required to marathon Tiger Mask W first.

https://tubitv.com/series/1854/tiger-mask-w

Edited July 27 by Jman

[Jman]

In more positive news, Lazarus is coming along nicely.

[[classic swim]]

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Stoner 

That remark in of itself was historically always norms not being clever or smart enough to categorize the comedy any other way because it was weird in comparison to the other dry and vapid bullshit they watch.

You can like the random cartoon Judge tossed a portion of his millions at (which will inevitably be cancelled in a year or two) without it being a big statement against the old guard.

The fucking Goonies has aired on Adult Swim. Royal Crackers and some CN reject block. But yeah leaps and bounds from “hurr durr I never smoked weed before but duh weeeeeeeeeed.”

[Jman]

MAWS chugs along to Season 3, and is set to introduce 90s Chippendale’s Dancer Superboy.

Note this costume IS comics accurate.

[Mr. Idea Box]

20 minutes ago, Jman said:

MAWS chugs along to Season 3, and is set to introduce 90s Chippendale’s Dancer Superboy.

Note this costume IS comics accurate.

Now that we already have Supergirl, I wonder how Superboy is going to be handled in Season 3.

Sidenote, but does anyone think the next season will be a Summer 2025 headliner to promote the James Gunn movie?

[OwlChemist81]

On 7/25/2024 at 6:46 PM, Jman said:

 

VIZ is serving up some chicken with a KICK!!

[Toonamiguy321]

5 hours ago, Jman said:

As for Kinnikuman But Boring, I saw some quotes that really put my issues with a lot of this "Diet Anime" in perspective, and why I'm hoping between X-Men 97, Invincible, and Creature Commandos, we see a return to the 90s era comic art in animation, something that feels like its own thing, rather than aping the parts of others poorly.

 

 

There's too many people who see 5 seconds of an anime and think they can make their own version, but they consider so much of anime "prOBLEmaTIC!" and they create this boring slurry.  No one commits to the bit because the bit offends them somehow.  If you’re going to do anime, you gotta go for it.  Blood, dynamic angles, stuff that looks original, etc.

If you were going to make a Diet Anime wrestling show, you should be required to marathon Tiger Mask W first.

https://tubitv.com/series/1854/tiger-mask-w

This dude just wants to ignore the problem. Everything that is cited as Calarts trash has earned it. If your character has the beanmouth, you have already failed. You will notice no one ever bitches about Primal, because it actually checks the box of having its own style. Calarts slop is not “its own style” and that’s why those shows are rightfully roasted. But Genndy seems to be a dying breed of people with their own style so we end up with either Calarts garbo or pretend anime. And you can’t really blame people for going the pretend anime route since every single year anime eats up another slice of the market. 
 

2 hours ago, Mr. Idea Box said:

Now that we already have Supergirl, I wonder how Superboy is going to be handled in Season 3.

Sidenote, but does anyone think the next season will be a Summer 2025 headliner to promote the James Gunn movie?

What I wonder is now after seeing the finale, that absolutely reeked of “we know we aren’t getting a new season so let’s wrap it all up ASAP”, will S3 take advantage of the show being on AS? They clearly did not get their renewal notice until well into the move to AS. Or will they want to keep the tone for its demographic on Max? 

[KageRageX]

On 7/26/2024 at 6:21 PM, Jman said:

Because if MAWS and Ninja Kamui were any indication, they expect the bulk of their viewership to come from Max.

THey're fucking dumb for that then and I hope this whole plan bombs.

 

23 hours ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

We still have the Naruto opening coming up, but after that things are pretty tight. So here’s a pretty good guess at our Aug 17th schedule

12 - Rick and Morty Anime (sub) 

12:30 - Demon Slayer: Swordsmith Village

1 - One Piece

1:30 - Naruto Shippuden

2 - DBZ Kai

2:30 - Ninja Kamui

3 - ???

 

The question to ask, how do they wedge in Uzumaki on 9/28? The way I see it there is 2 options

Cringe option - when Naruto ends, double up OP for however many weeks till Uzumaki takes 12:30 on the 28th

Based option - actually get a new show to replace Naruto, and come 9/28 either drop Kai or do something to make sure Ninja Kamui ends the week prior.

I know which one I prefer, but seeing as they are likely farting out the last puff of the budget on Swordsmith, I doubt we will be so lucky unless Aniplex sends it over with a bonus like they did with Lycoris. 
 

IFG remains in wildcard territory. None of the material thus far has implied a Toonami run. So it could end up somewhere else on the schedule, or it could premier Thursday and rerun on Toonami. 

I see cringe option happening, then we get MHA in October with Uzumaki and a new show in November alongside IFG.

 

18 hours ago, Sketch said:

Wouldn't be the worst thing for double OP to replace Shippuden a few weeks but that's not preferable to a fresh show by any means. That said, Demon Slayer will only premiere for 11 weeks and be done by November unless they actually got the Hashira Training arc (fat chance of that) so they're probably gonna save a premiere for November given both Rickanime and Uzumaki will be done by then. A fine time to bring in Mashle or something else Aniplex might throw in with Demon Slayer or whatever else they might have acquired from the few distributors still willing to work with them.

I see I was spot on thinking they would pair up Rickanime with Uzumaki at the top of the block for 4 weeks, I was also thinking a subbed power hour wasn't out of the question but I still didn't think they were crazy enough to do it. Evidently they are actually that crazy. I did not however bank on Uzumaki airing outside of Toonami on Thursdays. On one hand its pretty stupid for Toonami to not air the dub (they might still toss it in the back, we'll see) but on the other hand it's pretty cool that Adult Swim is willing to show the subbed airing before 3am. The thing that really brings the subbed hour down for me is the fact that Rickanime dubs premiere on Thursday and it looks like Max will have the sub before it even airs on Toonami (not confirmed yet but I'm very weary of that reality).

And if the Demon Slayer panel doesn't tell us Swordsmith Village is coming on August 10th then hooooo boy. Hopefully they have something else before Uzumaki.

Now for my thoughts on the previews...

Uzumaki looks great. Hopefully the story isn't a mess due to pacing it for 4 standard length episodes.

Rick and Morty: The Anime has a mid-2000s cerebral anime vibe and feels very little like R&M. It was rather confusing if there was even point being made in that first episode. The side characters in the dub also give it a mid-2000s sci-fi anime dub feel to me. Some of them were amusing. Morty's voice is good, Summer's is fine, Rick has his moments but Beth and Jerry just don't sound right. Luci Christian is voicing the new girl and she's great as per usual. Its just so freak'n weird to watch Rick & Morty dubbed by Sentai Studios. Overall, I didn't dislike it but I'm not eager to watch more.

Women Wearing Shoulder Pads is very different for Adult Swim. Some dialogue is witty but it's not particularly funny and played straight even when things get ridiculous. The closest thing AS has shown to that is The Shivering Truth but that was dark humor most of the time and this isn't dark humor so far but maybe it could go that direction. Also it was shown in Spanish with English subs. AS really is open to subtitled shows now huh?

Common Side Effects is also quite different from Adult Swim's usual. The closest comparison I would make is the Max series Fired on Mars. It has some jokes but overall it looks to be a serialized drama. It's got a interesting vibe and I'm the most excited to see more of that. I hope the audience is receptive to it because I want to see more mature animation like this.

Invincible Fight Girl was not boring Kinikuman. I enjoyed the first episode a lot. Its a very silly premise but it had a lot of charm to it. The animation was great. This show looks expensive so the one season is probably all that we'll ever get. The wrestling was pretty brutal for CN daytime so I somewhat understand why they got cold feet but it should be fine for tweens. This show should be promoted to kids but it's a darn fine all ages show that I don't think would feel entirely wrong on Toonami next to My Hero Academia.

With anime airing outside of Toonami and shows like WWSP and Common Side Effects being made for the network. I really feel like Adult Swim is looking to grow beyond it's trappings of  being a stoner comedy block. I'm quite interested to see how these shows do with the general AS audience.

All of that is interesting, but sad part about it is that it took them this long to do that.

10 hours ago, Jman said:

I'm not sure how wise that is.

Mike Lazzo's whole thing was "Bring the funny or look for another job."  Rebrands like this usually mean they lost support in key demographics.

And that's why Lazzo's not there anymore. He was just kinda incompentent IMHO now looking at some of the things... And when everyone's basically a stoner in some form now, the novelty kinda wears off, especially if you're been doing it for 20 years and kinda been screwing over your fanbase while you're at it. AS gets what they deserve. They made their bed, now they gotta sleep in it, and Family Guy showed us that.

 

9 hours ago, Jman said:

As for Kinnikuman But Boring, I saw some quotes that really put my issues with a lot of this "Diet Anime" in perspective, and why I'm hoping between X-Men 97, Invincible, and Creature Commandos, we see a return to the 90s era comic art in animation, something that feels like its own thing, rather than aping the parts of others poorly.

 

 

There's too many people who see 5 seconds of an anime and think they can make their own version, but they consider so much of anime "prOBLEmaTIC!" and they create this boring slurry.  No one commits to the bit because the bit offends them somehow.  If you’re going to do anime, you gotta go for it.  Blood, dynamic angles, stuff that looks original, etc.

If you were going to make a Diet Anime wrestling show, you should be required to marathon Tiger Mask W first.

https://tubitv.com/series/1854/tiger-mask-w

bruh.....I could actually create a decent anime-inspired wrestling series AND make it actually edgy and shit.

 

9 hours ago, Jman said:

In more positive news, Lazarus is coming along nicely.

Nice.

3 hours ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

This dude just wants to ignore the problem. Everything that is cited as Calarts trash has earned it. If your character has the beanmouth, you have already failed. You will notice no one ever bitches about Primal, because it actually checks the box of having its own style. Calarts slop is not “its own style” and that’s why those shows are rightfully roasted. But Genndy seems to be a dying breed of people with their own style so we end up with either Calarts garbo or pretend anime. And you can’t really blame people for going the pretend anime route since every single year anime eats up another slice of the market. 

Bruh......all because it has the CalArts style or the people come from CalArts, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT'S AUTOMATICALLY BAD! The style just got that reputation because networks stopped giving a fuck in the late 2000s.....and trust me, as someone who predominately was a 2010s kid and shit, when I saw the 90s/2000s shit in reruns, I started noticing too......

 

Also, it's also the networks' fault why US Animation is dying.......And that live-action crap on Disney and Nick....and just kids....US Animation basically has no future at this point.....I'm just gonna go indie.

3 hours ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

 

What I wonder is now after seeing the finale, that absolutely reeked of “we know we aren’t getting a new season so let’s wrap it all up ASAP”, will S3 take advantage of the show being on AS? They clearly did not get their renewal notice until well into the move to AS. Or will they want to keep the tone for its demographic on Max? 

I hope they keep it consistent. All because it's on a teen/adult-oriented network doesn't mean that it has to be all-out edgy. Calm shows like MAWS is actually nice to have to calm down/warm up with the edgier stuff.

[Toonamiguy321]

24 minutes ago, Otakuninja9000 said:

And that's why Lazzo's not there anymore. He was just kinda incompentent IMHO now looking at some of the things... And when everyone's basically a stoner in some form now, the novelty kinda wears off, especially if you're been doing it for 20 years and kinda been screwing over your fanbase while you're at it. AS gets what they deserve. They made their bed, now they gotta sleep in it, and Family Guy showed us that.

Not true. Lazzo knew his shit and wasn’t afraid to tell people harsh truths. People don’t like everything he did but he ran a smart ship and the decline in AS quality is notable when he left. 
 

 

27 minutes ago, Otakuninja9000 said:

Bruh......all because it has the CalArts style or the people come from CalArts, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT'S AUTOMATICALLY BAD! The style just got that reputation because networks stopped giving a fuck in the late 2000s.....and trust me, as someone who predominately was a 2010s kid and shit, when I saw the 90s/2000s shit in reruns, I started noticing too......

Ain’t never seen a Calarts beanmouth show that was good. Dont expect I ever will.

27 minutes ago, Otakuninja9000 said:

I hope they keep it consistent. All because it's on a teen/adult-oriented network doesn't mean that it has to be all-out edgy. Calm shows like MAWS is actually nice to have to calm down/warm up with the edgier stuff.

I think they can strike a balance. Dont go full edge, but do drop some of the obvious censorship things like everyone’s weird giant space guns. 
 

Anyways, I believe the Demon Slayer panel starts in a few minutes so let’s hope there is some news 

[Toonamiguy321]

Swordsmith confirmed for 8/10 as we all deduced ourselves 

[KageRageX]

1 hour ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

Not true. Lazzo knew his shit and wasn’t afraid to tell people harsh truths. People don’t like everything he did but he ran a smart ship and the decline in AS quality is notable when he left. 

Less because he left and more because they had ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING BACKUP PLAN FOR WHEN FAMILY GUY LEFT.

1 hour ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

Ain’t never seen a Calarts beanmouth show that was good. Dont expect I ever will.

Adventure Time? Star Vs. The Forces of Evil? We Bare Bears? Mao Mao? Gravity Falls? Gumball?

1 hour ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

I think they can strike a balance. Dont go full edge, but do drop some of the obvious censorship things like everyone’s weird giant space guns. 
 

Anyways, I believe the Demon Slayer panel starts in a few minutes so let’s hope there is some news 

Right.

 

24 minutes ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

Swordsmith confirmed for 8/10 as we all deduced ourselves 

Called it. So this confirms that MHA's not coming this year because they blew the damn budget(again) or that Sony's finally putting their foot down on even MHA. Doesn't bode well for Dr. Stone.

[Mr. Idea Box]

41 minutes ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

Swordsmith confirmed for 8/10 as we all deduced ourselves 

Glad to hear confirmation, at least. Explains why both Mugen Train and Entertainment District were airing this summer.

17 minutes ago, Otakuninja9000 said:

Called it. So this confirms that MHA's not coming this year because they blew the damn budget(again) or that Sony's finally putting their foot down on even MHA. Doesn't bode well for Dr. Stone.

Whichever way you can take it, it doesn't look good for MHA's final two seasons.

[Sketch]

1 hour ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

Swordsmith confirmed for 8/10 as we all deduced ourselves 

It's always the most obvious choice. Well this ensures Toonami isn't a complete snore in August. Now we await the disappointing reveal of what they do when Shippuden ends. Aniplex is coming in clutch this year (Viz too). Hearing Aiko at Aniplex said "Toonami a special place in our hearts" gets me a little choked up.

[OwlChemist81]

Completely insane to say Shippuden's replacement could be MHA, but that might actually be the case. I'd take that over a Crunchyroll freeze-out.

But the September-October schedule would be THIS...

12 AM - R&M The Anime

12:30 - Demon Slayer/Uzumaki

1 AM - MHA/Demon Slayer

1:30 - One Piece/MHA

2 AM - DBZ Kai/One Piece

2:30 - ???/DBZ Kai

3 AM - Uhhh, Zom 100?

Hopefully that's the case, but I guess we'll see!

[Sketch]

3 hours ago, OwlChemist81 said:

Completely insane to say Shippuden's replacement could be MHA, but that might actually be the case. I'd take that over a Crunchyroll freeze-out.

But the September-October schedule would be THIS...

12 AM - R&M The Anime

12:30 - Demon Slayer/Uzumaki

1 AM - MHA/Demon Slayer

1:30 - One Piece/MHA

2 AM - DBZ Kai/One Piece

2:30 - ???/DBZ Kai

3 AM - Uhhh, Zom 100?

Hopefully that's the case, but I guess we'll see!

I suppose MHA could replace Shippuden if they get it soon but at that point they might as well save it for November when they have 3 show openings rather than bring it in then move it in 3 weeks when Uzumaki starts then move it back up when 3 shows end. It’s bad enough they’re gonna push Demon Slayer to make room for Uzumaki because they can’t even give Toonami 11:30 temporarily to house Uzumaki or RickAniMorty and not bump every other premiere later for 4 weeks in the process.

The only reason I think they would opt for starting something else before November is to avoid having 3 holes on November 2nd (November 11th if they stall with an extra marathon).

[KageRageX]

On 7/28/2024 at 12:11 AM, Sketch said:

It's always the most obvious choice. Well this ensures Toonami isn't a complete snore in August. Now we await the disappointing reveal of what they do when Shippuden ends. Aniplex is coming in clutch this year (Viz too). Hearing Aiko at Aniplex said "Toonami a special place in our hearts" gets me a little choked up.

If Aniplex said that, then why did they abandon them for 3 years?

21 hours ago, OwlChemist81 said:

Completely insane to say Shippuden's replacement could be MHA, but that might actually be the case. I'd take that over a Crunchyroll freeze-out.

But the September-October schedule would be THIS...

12 AM - R&M The Anime

12:30 - Demon Slayer/Uzumaki

1 AM - MHA/Demon Slayer

1:30 - One Piece/MHA

2 AM - DBZ Kai/One Piece

2:30 - ???/DBZ Kai

3 AM - Uhhh, Zom 100?

Hopefully that's the case, but I guess we'll see!

I could see it happening.

18 hours ago, Sketch said:

I suppose MHA could replace Shippuden if they get it soon but at that point they might as well save it for November when they have 3 show openings rather than bring it in then move it in 3 weeks when Uzumaki starts then move it back up when 3 shows end. It’s bad enough they’re gonna push Demon Slayer to make room for Uzumaki because they can’t even give Toonami 11:30 temporarily to house Uzumaki or RickAniMorty and not bump every other premiere later for 4 weeks in the process.

The only reason I think they would opt for starting something else before November is to avoid having 3 holes on November 2nd (November 11th if they stall with an extra marathon).

Right.

[PokeNirvash]

17 hours ago, Otakuninja9000 said:

If Aniplex said that, then why did they abandon them for 3 years?

Looks like someone missed out on all the mentions of Sony (Aniplex's parent company) being too expensive for their budget during that period. Whenever the question of "when new Demon Slayer?" came up, the answer was always some form of "it costs too much".

[Toonamiguy321]

8 hours ago, PokeNirvash said:

Looks like someone missed out on all the mentions of Sony (Aniplex's parent company) being too expensive for their budget during that period. Whenever the question of "when new Demon Slayer?" came up, the answer was always some form of "it costs too much".

Good, good. That explains Demon Slayer, the most popular anime of the 2020s and a cultural phenomenon all on its own. Unsurprisingly, very expensive. 
 

So, what about the rest of their catalog? Demon Slayer being too expensive doesn’t automatically mean they were priced out of every show Aniplex owns, just the one that was selling out movie theaters.