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Well, well, well. I bet no one expected Toonami to last another year, did we? With the finales of Attack on Titan and Naruto Shippuden, the Toonami Rewind block on Friday afternoons, and the sudden return of Blue Exorcist, it's been a hectic year. Then again, every year has its ups and downs, especially in the anime industry. And I did say I would try to predict what Toonami could look like next year.

But you know what? Screw the wait, I'm starting my predictions early.

December 2024

  • 12.0 AM: Invincible Fight Girl
  • 12.5 AM: Mashle: Magic and Muscles
  • 1.0 AM: Blue Exorcist (rerun)
  • 1.5 AM: One Piece (half-rerun)
  • 2.0 AM: Dragon Ball Z Kai (rerun)
  • 2.5 AM: IGPX: Season 2 (half-rerun)
  • 3.0 AM: Rick and Morty: The Anime (dubbed premiere)

Toonami Rewind:

  • 5.0 PM: Sailor Moon
  • 5.5 PM: Dragon Ball Z Kai
  • 6.0 PM: Naruto
  • 6.5 PM: Naruto / IGPX / Invincible Fight Girl

January 2025

  • 12.0 AM: Dragon Ball Daima
  • 12.5 AM: Mashle: Magic and Muscles
  • 1.0 AM: Blue Exorcist (rerun)
  • 1.5 AM: One Piece (half-rerun)
  • 2.0 AM: Dragon Ball Z Kai (rerun)
  • 2.5 AM: IGPX: Season 2 (half-rerun)
  • 3.0 AM: Lycoris Recoil (rerun)

February 2025

  • 12.0 AM: Dragon Ball Daima
  • 12.5 AM: My Hero Academia: Season 7
  • 1.0 AM: Blue Exorcist (rerun)
  • 1.5 AM: One Piece (half-rerun)
  • 2.0 AM: Dragon Ball Z Kai (rerun)
  • 2.5 AM: IGPX: Season 2 (half-rerun)
  • 3.0 AM: Lycoris Recoil (rerun)

March 2025

  • 12.0 AM: Dragon Ball Daima
  • 12.5 AM: My Hero Academia: Season 7
  • 1.0 AM: Blue Exorcist (rerun)
  • 1.5 AM: One Piece (half-rerun)
  • 2.0 AM: Dragon Ball Z Kai (rerun)
  • 2.5 AM: Lycoris Recoil (rerun)
  • 3.0 AM: My Adventures with Superman (rerun)

Mid-April 2025

  • 12.0 AM: Dragon Ball Daima
  • 12.5 AM: My Hero Academia: Season 7
  • 1.0 AM: Blue Exorcist (rerun)
  • 1.5 AM: One Piece (half-rerun)
  • 2.0 AM: Dragon Ball Z Kai (rerun)
  • 2.5 AM: My Adventures with Superman (x2; reruns)

May 2025

  • 12.0 AM: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Hashira Training Arc
  • 12.5 AM: Dragon Ball Daima
  • 1.0 AM: My Hero Academia: Season 7
  • 1.5 AM: One Piece (half-rerun)
  • 2.0 AM: Dragon Ball Z Kai (rerun)
  • 2.5 AM: My Adventures with Superman (x2; reruns)

Early June 2025

  • 12.0 AM: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Hashira Training Arc
  • 1.0 AM: My Hero Academia: Season 7
  • 1.5 AM: One Piece (half-rerun)
  • 2.0 AM: Dragon Ball Z Kai (rerun)
  • 2.5 AM: Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal (x2; reruns)

Mid-June or July 2025

  • 12.0 AM: My Adventures with Superman: Season 3
  • 12.5 AM: Dr. Stone: Science Future: Cour #1
  • 1.0 AM: Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Arc
  • 1.5 AM: One Piece (half-rerun)
  • 2.0 AM: Dragon Ball Z Kai (rerun)
  • 2.5 AM: Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal (x2; reruns)

Mid-August 2025

  • 12.0 AM: My Adventures with Superman: Season 3
  • 12.5 AM: Dr. Stone: Science Future
  • 1.0 AM: Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Arc
  • 1.5 AM: One Piece (half-rerun)
  • 2.0 AM: Dragon Ball Z Kai (rerun)
  • 2.5 AM: Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (x2; reruns)

September 2025

  • 12.0 AM: Lazarus
  • 12.5 AM: Creature Commandos
  • 1.0 AM: Blue Exorcist: Shimane Illuminati Saga
  • 1.5 AM: Fire Force: Season 3
  • 2.0 AM: One Piece (half-rerun)
  • 2.5 AM: Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (x2; reruns)

October 2025

  • 12.0 AM: Creature Commandos
  • 12.5 AM: Lazarus
  • 1.0 AM: Blue Exorcist: Shimane Illuminati Saga
  • 1.5 AM: Fire Force: Season 3
  • 2.0 AM: One Piece (half-rerun)
  • 2.5 AM: Uzumaki (dubbed premiere)

November 2025

  • 12.0 AM: Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: Season 3
  • 12.5 AM: Lazarus
  • 1.0 AM: Fire Force: Season 3
  • 1.5 AM: Blue Exorcist: Shimane Illuminati Saga
  • 2.0 AM: Mashle: Magic and Muscles: The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam Arc
  • 2.5 AM: One Piece (half-rerun)
  • 3.0 AM: Dragon Ball Z Kai (rerun)

December 2025

  • 12.0 AM: Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: Season 3
  • 12.5 AM: Dr. Stone: Science Future: Cour #2
  • 1.0 AM: Blue Exorcist: Shimane Illuminati Saga
  • 1.5 AM: Mashle: Magic and Muscles: The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam Arc
  • 2.0 AM: One Piece (x2; half-reruns)
  • 3.0 AM: Dragon Ball Z Kai (rerun)

Now watch this be entirely inaccurate by New Years.

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Smarter money would have been waiting another month to see if anything with Daima or MHA materializes in November. 
 

Clarify what exactly “half rerun” means. I’m seeing that on One Piece which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense since these are premier episodes. 

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6 hours ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

Smarter money would have been waiting another month to see if anything with Daima or MHA materializes in November. 

Yeah, I can see that. But I think it would be easier if Daima and MHA were headliners at the beginning of the year, rather than headlining the month of Christmas.

6 hours ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

Clarify what exactly “half rerun” means. I’m seeing that on One Piece which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense since these are premier episodes. 

Yes, those episodes are technically premieres. But since those episodes are a decade old, I tend to think of them as half rerun, half premiere. Or, for those who used to watch Nick at Nite, an "instant rerun".

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No Thanksgiving marathon keeps IFG on track to end by 2025. Rumor has it eps 9 and 10 will air on December 21st so I’m not surprised but confirmation there will be no week off in November is nice. We might only have one week with no new content on Toonami for the rest of 2024, December 28th. If they need to stall one more week they might take January 4th off but that seems rather unnecessary.

 

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My predictions of various degrees of plausibility:

  • Sailor Moon continues into Sailor Moon R (though that's more a "two weeks from now" prediction)
  • Gundam Wing shows up on Rewind at some point
  • MHA 7, Mashle 2, Dr. Stone: Science Future inevitably show up
  • Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga is announced at the last possible moment so the claims that anything beyond season 1 was an uncertainty seem more legit
  • Lazarus in mid-winter a la Ninja Kamui and gets a lot of forced hate from people who claim it isn't forced actually (TM)
  • Another outta-nowhere Aniplex pickup shows itself - maybe SK8 finally, as a show of solidarity for David Wald in the face of Crunchyroll stealing his mail being the straw that broke the camel's back and forced him to cut ties with them?
  • Demarco has a meltdown on Bluesky
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10 hours ago, Sketch said:

No Thanksgiving marathon keeps IFG on track to end by 2025. Rumor has it eps 9 and 10 will air on December 21st so I’m not surprised but confirmation there will be no week off in November is nice. We might only have one week with no new content on Toonami for the rest of 2024, December 28th. If they need to stall one more week they might take January 4th off but that seems rather unnecessary.

 

Who am I to refuse an announcement like that?

6 hours ago, PokeNirvash said:

My predictions of various degrees of plausibility:

  • Sailor Moon continues into Sailor Moon R (though that's more a "two weeks from now" prediction)
  • Gundam Wing shows up on Rewind at some point

That's a Rewind lineup I wouldn't mind seeing.

6 hours ago, PokeNirvash said:
  • MHA 7, Mashle 2, Dr. Stone: Science Future inevitably show up

I mean, we've blown through most of Demon Slayer by this point, and MHA has become an evergreen property by now.

6 hours ago, PokeNirvash said:
  • Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga is announced at the last possible moment so the claims that anything beyond season 1 was an uncertainty seem more legit

Given the PR track record over the past 5 years, this would not surprise me. Which is sad.

6 hours ago, PokeNirvash said:
  • Lazarus in mid-winter a la Ninja Kamui and gets a lot of forced hate from people who claim it isn't forced actually (TM)

I really hope Lazarus isn't a February show. Do they want the creator of Cowboy Bebop to have something as rushed as Uzumaki under his belt?

6 hours ago, PokeNirvash said:
  • Another outta-nowhere Aniplex pickup shows itself - maybe SK8 finally, as a show of solidarity for David Wald in the face of Crunchyroll stealing his mail being the straw that broke the camel's back and forced him to cut ties with them?

This depends. Would Toonami risk never getting Crunchyroll shows if it meant showing solidarity to their staff? Odds are unlikely if you ask me.

6 hours ago, PokeNirvash said:
  • Demarco has a meltdown on Bluesky

Yeah, that would happen next year, wouldn't it?

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11 hours ago, PokeNirvash said:

MHA 7, Mashle 2, Dr. Stone: Science Future inevitably show up

The most recent season of Demon Slayer should be here too. It’s only 8 episodes so it won’t be hard to fit in. Also, if we can swing MHA, we should still be able to swing Fire Force too. 
 

11 hours ago, PokeNirvash said:

Another outta-nowhere Aniplex pickup shows itself - maybe SK8 finally, as a show of solidarity for David Wald in the face of Crunchyroll stealing his mail being the straw that broke the camel's back and forced him to cut ties with them?

Demarco barely knows anything about current anime, I highly doubt he is up to date on current VA drama. 
 

4 hours ago, Mr. Idea Box said:

This depends. Would Toonami risk never getting Crunchyroll shows if it meant showing solidarity to their staff? Odds are unlikely if you ask me.

But on that topic, Crunchyroll doesn’t give us shit anyway so what’s the worry? 
 

11 hours ago, PokeNirvash said:

Demarco has a meltdown on Bluesky

Come on, that’s not a fair prediction to make. That’s like saying the sun will rise tomorrow. 

 

4 hours ago, Mr. Idea Box said:

really hope Lazarus isn't a February show. Do they want the creator of Cowboy Bebop to have something as rushed as Uzumaki under his belt?

According to the most recent panel, the show is basically already done. Finish up the voice work, cross some T’s and it should be ready to roll so February sounds right. That will carry it to mid May just like Kamui did this year. 
 

Uzumaki should be a lesson that more time does not result in a better end product. 

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7 hours ago, Mr. Idea Box said:

This depends. Would Toonami risk never getting Crunchyroll shows if it meant showing solidarity to their staff? Odds are unlikely if you ask me.

Hey, I never specified the solidarity had to be outspoken. Think of it as implied solidarity. For some it's a show of support for Wald, for others it's homoerotic skateboarding boys on broadcast television.

Besides, it's not like I'm anticipating Toonami to go for a solidarity pickup. Otherwise, they'd have aired Haruhi and/or Beyond the Boundary in response to the KyoAni arson attack already.

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32 minutes ago, PokeNirvash said:

Hey, I never specified the solidarity had to be outspoken. Think of it as implied solidarity. For some it's a show of support for Wald, for others it's homoerotic skateboarding boys on broadcast television.

Besides, it's not like I'm anticipating Toonami to go for a solidarity pickup. Otherwise, they'd have aired Haruhi and/or Beyond the Boundary in response to the KyoAni arson attack already.

Good points on your end.

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So it ended up being kinda low key, but the Daima theater premier came and went without any type of news regarding the home for the rest of the dub. 
 

We need a schedule update by next Friday so we will see if they managed anything. We also may be getting a Rewind update unless SM is just gonna slide ride into S2. Perhaps my Daima premier on Rewind theory will come to fruition. 

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Advanced schedules show a DBZ Kai marathon (the next 4 episodes not repeats of recently aired ones) airing on December 6th which doesn't bode well for Sailor Moon continuing into season 2 before early 2025. On the other hand it could serve as promotion for Daima but that seems a little too optimistic to think.

A lack of news for Daima's dub streaming anywhere remains a good sign that Toonami can get it before streaming but it's far from a sure thing.

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5 hours ago, Sketch said:

Advanced schedules show a DBZ Kai marathon (the next 4 episodes not repeats of recently aired ones) airing on December 6th which doesn't bode well for Sailor Moon continuing into season 2 before early 2025. On the other hand it could serve as promotion for Daima but that seems a little too optimistic to think.

A lack of news for Daima's dub streaming anywhere remains a good sign that Toonami can get it before streaming but it's far from a sure thing.

That's what I'm thinking, too. Of course, I was actually thinking Sailor Moon would be done for good after the 29th, but let's see how time tells this story.

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