Predict Toonami in 2025

[Mr. Idea Box]

37 minutes ago, EmpressAngel said:

Air my horny Disney pretty boy anime, you cowards.

While I would be happy to see this anime on Toonami, the main thing holding Twisted Wonderland back is its reliance on existing Disney characters. As such, if this show were to see a cable debut, it would be to prop up a Jetix revival instead.

But I do understand your point of view, and support your cause either way.

[Jman]

Warner is not going to host a Disney show.

Anyway, best case scenario is Bleach lasting till Get Jiro is ready.  I doubt Undead Unluck or Sand Land are affordable at this point.

[KageRageX]

I could see Naruto and Sailor Moon expiring bringing about the Lazarus sub and likely another show (whether it's Dr. Stone, Fire Force, Lycoris Recoil, Mashle, Demon Slayer or MHA, or even a original like Supes, Primal or Jiro remains to be seen)...

Hopefully the double OP is gone by then.

[Mr. Idea Box]

So, when could we see the June schedule reveal? Odds are it's announced next week.

[Toonamiguy321]

12 hours ago, Mr. Idea Box said:

So, when could we see the June schedule reveal? Odds are it's announced next week.

Unless Sailor Moon or Naruto is expiring and being pulled, there is nothing to reveal. The schedule won’t have any changes till the first week of July when Lazarus ends. 
 

Tomorrow night the schedule for the first Saturday of June will populate on the official schedule. 

[Toonamiguy321]

Well, on the topic of June, the schedule for 6/7 comes up blank. The previous Saturday lands on 5/31, exactly one year on the money when Rewind started. And that schedule is up. 
 

No shows end on 6/7, and there is no logical reason for a marathon that night. So the most educated guess here is that Sailor Moon and/or Naruto are shipping out for good after their one year contract expires. 
 

As for what they fill the time with? Who knows. Plenty of original trash in the archive they can use.

[Mr. Idea Box]

7 minutes ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

Well, on the topic of June, the schedule for 6/7 comes up blank. The previous Saturday lands on 5/31, exactly one year on the money when Rewind started. And that schedule is up. 
 

No shows end on 6/7, and there is no logical reason for a marathon that night. So the most educated guess here is that Sailor Moon and/or Naruto are shipping out for good after their one year contract expires. 
 

As for what they fill the time with? Who knows. Plenty of original trash in the archive they can use.

I was kinda sure May 31st would be the last day of Naruto and Sailor Moon. If anything, I'm just glad they didn't skip the same arc they did last time the kitsune ninja aired this recently. Although I will definitely miss seeing the latter on television.

As for what can fill their slots? I think I'll go with the safe prediction that one of them is going to be subbed Lazarus. The other slot is a mystery, unless they're blowing their entire One Piece load this early. Which I hope isn't the case.

[Sketch]

Honestly was starting to look like Naruto if not also Sailor Moon would stick around but they did start airing on May 31st so they can still air on May 31st even if it's technically June 1st by the time they do air.

Best case scenario, they actually have another acquisition to either stick at 1 or 1:30 and One Piece takes the full 2AM hour followed by Lazarus Sub. If they do that then we're better than BACK we're STACK, at least until Lazarus ends.

[Toonamiguy321]

So it’s the end of the day now, and 6/14 remains blank. Last week, the schedule updated around noon. So it seems like whatever is happening on 6/14 is going forward. 

[Toonamiguy321]

As expected, there will be a marathon on 7/5

As not expected, they are going with MAWS S2

[Jman]

5 minutes ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

As expected, there will be a marathon on 7/5

As not expected, they are going with MAWS S2

Synergy!

That’s the only reason.

[Top Gun]

Was hoping it might be a precursor to concrete season 3 news, but nope, of course it's a tie-in to whatever new movie they've crapped out. 

[Toonamiguy321]

3 hours ago, Jman said:

Synergy!

That’s the only reason.

I don’t care about taking the 5th off, but I hope we don’t have to do another marathon for the second half of Lazarus. 

[Mr. Idea Box]

1 hour ago, Top Gun said:

Was hoping it might be a precursor to concrete season 3 news, but nope, of course it's a tie-in to whatever new movie they've crapped out. 

Who knows? They may make an announcement during the marathon. That, and this is being held the day after the 4th of July, and nothing says "willingly blowing up chunks of America" like the Last Son of Krypton.

1 hour ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

I don’t care about taking the 5th off, but I hope we don’t have to do another marathon for the second half of Lazarus. 

Knowing what happened to Invincible Fight Girl's impromptu rerun cycle earlier this year, that may be a possibility.

[Mr. Idea Box]

So, what do you think would be the new headliner for July? The safe option would be Daima, but I wanna know if there's anything else that would fit. Rooster Fighter, maybe?

[Toonamiguy321]

19 minutes ago, Mr. Idea Box said:

So, what do you think would be the new headliner for July? The safe option would be Daima, but I wanna know if there's anything else that would fit. Rooster Fighter, maybe?

99.9% chance it’s gonna be Daima. No originals are ready, we would have heard something by now. Get Jiro was shown to still be in the production stages at Annecy, and we haven’t heard a thing about Rooster Fighter or MAWS S3 since their original announcements. 
 

And I don’t think there are any acquired titles they would place above a Dragonball show. So most likely scenario is our current lineup slides up 30 minutes, and Lazarus reruns get parked at 3am.

[OwlChemist81]

And there it is...

Oh, wait a minute!!

Holy cow, it's a full night of SUBTITLED Lazarus, and it starts at 11 PM!

Hopefully they keep THAT start time going on 7/19, like so...

11 PM MAWS S3

11:30 DB Daima

12 AM Bleach TYBW

12:30 Blue Exorcist Kyoto Saga

1 AM One Piece ×2

2 AM Naruto 

2:30 Sailor Moon

3 AM Lazarus SUB

3:30 Ninja Kamui SUB

Outside Toonami...

4 AM Futurama ×4

[Toonamiguy321]

Oh wow, they are actually sacrificing a night of primetime ratings to squeeze the whole Lazarus run in. We got a lot of weeks worth of double One Piece to pay back, so we shouldn’t be too surprised. 
 

1 hour ago, OwlChemist81 said:

Hopefully they keep THAT start time going on 7/19, like so...

11 PM MAWS S3

Why do I see so many people think MAWS S3 is a possibility when it hasn’t had any teasers, promos or discussion of any kind since being announced? They aren’t gonna just drop it on the schedule, we are gonna know about it many months before it goes on air. 

[Jman]

MAWS S3 likely will not air until Superman is on HBO Max.  Think October.

[Mr. Idea Box]

1 hour ago, OwlChemist81 said:

And there it is...

Oh, wait a minute!!

Holy cow, it's a full night of SUBTITLED Lazarus, and it starts at 11 PM!

I can safely say I didn't expect this! A subbed Lazarus marathon starting before Midnight? That was never on my bingo card.

1 hour ago, OwlChemist81 said:

Hopefully they keep THAT start time going on 7/19, like so...

11 PM MAWS S3

11:30 DB Daima

12 AM Bleach TYBW

12:30 Blue Exorcist Kyoto Saga

1 AM One Piece ×2

2 AM Naruto 

2:30 Sailor Moon

3 AM Lazarus SUB

3:30 Ninja Kamui SUB

Outside Toonami...

4 AM Futurama ×4

I appreciate your optimism, but I heavily doubt they would make this schedule. Yes, Ninja Kamui is greenlit up to Season 3, and Superman and Daima do fit the 11 PM slot by American standards, but we still have a One Piece debt to pay after this. Don't be surprised to see all of November and December as marathon months.

However, if your prediction comes true for the July schedule, I will eat my gym socks.

[OwlChemist81]

3 hours ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

Oh wow, they are actually sacrificing a night of primetime ratings to squeeze the whole Lazarus run in. We got a lot of weeks worth of double One Piece to pay back, so we shouldn’t be too surprised. 
 

Why do I see so many people think MAWS S3 is a possibility when it hasn’t had any teasers, promos or discussion of any kind since being announced? They aren’t gonna just drop it on the schedule, we are gonna know about it many months before it goes on air. 

The MAWS S2 marathon WOULD be the best time to announce/promote it...

[Sketch]

50 minutes ago, OwlChemist81 said:

The MAWS S2 marathon WOULD be the best time to announce/promote it...

It would… but nothing at Annecy leads me to think MAWS S3 isn’t airing this Summer. If they show it off at SDCC in late July then maybe it airs this Fall but otherwise it’s probably airing sometime in 2026.

Well taking 2 weeks off right after adding Daima is pretty stupid but on the bright side it gives the podcast a break.

[Toonamiguy321]

1 hour ago, OwlChemist81 said:

The MAWS S2 marathon WOULD be the best time to announce/promote it...

Yea, like announce that it’s being made, maybe drop a short teaser trailer. Not announce it premiering 2 weeks later. It’s gonna be a 2026 drop almost guaranteed. Maybe Jan-March for S3 and then S4 can drop in the fall. 
 

The MAWS marathon is happening to promote Superman in theaters. If not for that, this Lazarus marathon would probably be happening on the 5th instead. 

[Sketch]

One Piece was doubled up for 13 weeks. I don’t think they will take it off for 10 more weeks this year but I guess we’ll see.

[Toonamiguy321]

2 hours ago, Sketch said:

One Piece was doubled up for 13 weeks. I don’t think they will take it off for 10 more weeks this year but I guess we’ll see.

Uzumaki marathon at the start of the year, Lazarus part 1 marathon in May, two in July. So we have 9 to pay back. Yea, thats a tough debt to make up for, so they better hope they sprung for a few extra ones at the start of the year, otherwise it’s gonna have to leave Nov-Dec to make up for what isn’t covered. 
 

If they pull it once per month starting in August, that would cover 5, and the other 4 would be resolved through marathons. 

[Sketch]

They certainly don't need to only do marathons to take One Piece off for a night but if they have a marathon for Labor Day, Halloween and Thanksgiving that's 3 and they could take all of December off unless Rooster Fighter is playing at the time. That's 7 weeks but they still need 2 more pre-emptions.

Here's another option though. Once One Piece finishes post arc Dressrosa and they could simply take One Piece off until some time next year. I'd rather they not do that but it handles any debt problem they might have because they will have aired exactly 49 episodes this year.

Edited 3 hours ago by Sketch

[Sketch]

Promos for Daima and Bleach say they will return on July 19th but they don't say what time they will air.

[Toonamiguy321]

2 hours ago, Sketch said:

Here's another option though. Once One Piece finishes post arc Dressrosa and they could simply take One Piece off until some time next year. I'd rather they not do that but it handles any debt problem they might have because they will have aired exactly 49 episodes this year.

I suppose that would be a clean way to fix it, though I feel like it leaving again, likely with no proper replacement, would scare the few people watching it into thinking it’s cancelled again. Toonami would have to make a hard, dated commitment to it coming back to mitigate that. 
 

18 minutes ago, Sketch said:

Promos for Daima and Bleach say they will return on July 19th but they don't say what time they will air.

Why the secrecy? If all this smoke and mirrors is just to slide everything up 30 minutes, what does that accomplish? Most times when a Toonami show comes off for more than a week, they take the promos out of rotation during the week, so that shouldn’t be showing too often, but why not keep the audience in the loop? There is absolutely no reason they shouldn’t have been able to announce the 19th schedule yesterday along with the Lazarus marathon 

[Sketch]

11 minutes ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

I suppose that would be a clean way to fix it, though I feel like it leaving again, likely with no proper replacement, would scare the few people watching it into thinking it’s cancelled again. Toonami would have to make a hard, dated commitment to it coming back to mitigate that. 
 

Why the secrecy? If all this smoke and mirrors is just to slide everything up 30 minutes, what does that accomplish? Most times when a Toonami show comes off for more than a week, they take the promos out of rotation during the week, so that shouldn’t be showing too often, but why not keep the audience in the loop? There is absolutely no reason they shouldn’t have been able to announce the 19th schedule yesterday along with the Lazarus marathon 

At this point I don't think they care that much about audience perception. Taking it off obviously works much better if they have a cheap show to throw on in the meantime but they could very sensibly just cut a  time slot.

Not like it would be surprising at all if they intentionally waited another week to say a show is joining on July 19th. They're so annoyingly allergic to giving out info more than two weeks in advance unless a distributor announces it at a convention. Speaking of which, AX is next weekend. Much to my chagrin (because I was at AX) Aniplex waited till SDCC to announce Swordsmith last year but Aniplex (or Viz or lol even Sentai) could confirm something at any of their panels next weekend. With the movie coming September 12th, I very much expect Hashira Traiing arc to start on July 19th. I suppose there would have been no harm in confirming Daima at midnight and Bleach at 12:30 if that was the plan but confirming Bleach for 1:30 would have been an awfully big clue Hashira is starting July 19th.