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Blatch Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 It has, but now it has its own thread, so cool. TFW Toonami couldn't get its own SDCC panel and had to piggyback off of Rickanime for this legit big announcement. Has this block ever been more washed? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwlChemist81 Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 Well, I guess that makes sense since the show will most definitely be "piggybacking" off R&M: The Anime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonamiguy321 Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 3 hours ago, OwlChemist81 said: Well, I guess that makes sense since the show will most definitely be "piggybacking" off R&M: The Anime. But since Rick will be subbed it will be like the pig is old and only has 1 leg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketch Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 Absolutely freak'n nuts that they're starting Toonami with an hour of subtitled shows. They went from barely acknowledging they run Ninja Kamui subbed at 3am to sticking subbed anime at the top of the block. Toonami viewers are anime fans and most aren't strangers to watching subs but if they're bothering to watch dubs on cable television then they probably prefer watching dubs. So why even do this on Toonami? Seems like an odd pivot even if it gives both the sub and the dub some limelight in the midnight hour. There are other options for midnight premieres of the subbed versions besides the first hour of Toonami. They could for instance do a subbed anime hour (or longer with HCC, FLCLs or Ninja Kamui) on Thursday or Friday and run the dubs on Toonami. Admittedly they could do worse than Uzumaki subbed in the midnight hour as a short test of the Toonami audience's interest in subbed broadcasts. The IP is prestige enough to attract both current viewers and new ones including people who dislike dubs. RickAniMorty subs on the other hand have several points against going against them. Not all Toonami fans are R&M fans, some straight up hate that show and have no interest in some Japanese writer's interpretation of the brand. A relatively small amount of R&M fans watch Toonami now and subbed airings of the a dub they could watch on Thursday aren't going to get them to tune into Toonami unless they can't stand the dub voices and also don't have Max to watch the sub on Friday or at their own leisure. I'm not sure if I want this to succeed or fail but regardless of my feelings on the matter I think I can say more objectively that this is likely to fail miserably. Maybe Demon Slayer can salvage things but probably not and this will inevitably knee-cap the performance of Uzumaki if they don't at least swap that to midnight when the time comes. Toonami will survive this experiment but it could end up weakening the blocks position within the network and that's the last thing we need. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 (edited) Leading with an hour of subs? Edited July 31 by Jman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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