Predict Toonami in 2025

[Sketch]

Welp Family Guy is back in January airing 10-11:30 and unless they lost King of the Hill or Bob’s Burgers that means they can easily fill 5pm-10pm with 3 episodes of American Dad, 3 episodes of Bob’s Burgers and 4 episodes of King of the Hill before Planet Namek even explodes so you might be right about them only getting 50-52 eps of DBZ Kai Guy.

[Jman]

Meanwhile, we have a date for the Daima dub.

New year.  

[Sketch]

Jan 4th on Toonami isn’t improbable yet but Jan 11th seems much more likely unless CR gets the dub exclusively for a bit.

[brianycpht]

1 hour ago, Sketch said:

Jan 4th on Toonami isn’t improbable yet but Jan 11th seems much more likely unless CR gets the dub exclusively for a bit.

A day isn’t a big deal, but if they don’t get it for months then it’s kind of an L for them because it’ll probably be on all sorts of platforms by then. 

[Toonamiguy321]

1 hour ago, Sketch said:

Jan 4th on Toonami isn’t improbable yet but Jan 11th seems much more likely unless CR gets the dub exclusively for a bit.

If either of those are correct, Toonami needs to be making an announcement like, right now on the matter. It would be moronic for them to wait till two weeks before now that CR has their cards on the table. 

[brianycpht]

3 minutes ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

If either of those are correct, Toonami needs to be making an announcement like, right now on the matter. It would be moronic for them to wait till two weeks before now that CR has their cards on the table. 

It’s annoying that they only seem to drop news at noon on Friday 

[Toonamiguy321]

12 minutes ago, brianycpht said:

It’s annoying that they only seem to drop news at noon on Friday 

I’d be fine with them dropping the news Friday. Not perfect, but still a solid 1 month lead up to the potential airing. 

[brianycpht]

3 minutes ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

I’d be fine with them dropping the news Friday. Not perfect, but still a solid 1 month lead up to the potential airing. 

This definitely isn’t something you sit on until 2 weeks before 

[OwlChemist81]

The real reason Dragon Ball Daima's dub is coming to Crunchyroll on 1/10 is to stay 2 months behind the theatrical release.

Bump R&M on Saturdays and lead-in to Toonami with Family Guy, kicking off with Daima at 11:30 on 1/11. The week before can be an Invincible Fight Girl marathon from 11:30 to 4:30.

[OwlChemist81]

4 minutes ago, brianycpht said:

This definitely isn’t something you sit on until 2 weeks before 

We didn't get the news about Super and KFC until like a month before.

[brianycpht]

7 minutes ago, OwlChemist81 said:

The real reason Dragon Ball Daima's dub is coming to Crunchyroll on 1/10 is to stay 2 months behind the theatrical release.

Bump R&M on Saturdays and lead-in to Toonami with Family Guy, kicking off with Daima at 11:30 on 1/11. The week before can be an Invincible Fight Girl marathon from 11:30 to 4:30.

If they drop all 3 theater episodes on 1-10, Toonami will always be behind them at least 2 episodes I guess 

[Toonamiguy321]

1 hour ago, OwlChemist81 said:

The real reason Dragon Ball Daima's dub is coming to Crunchyroll on 1/10 is to stay 2 months behind the theatrical release.

Bump R&M on Saturdays and lead-in to Toonami with Family Guy, kicking off with Daima at 11:30 on 1/11. The week before can be an Invincible Fight Girl marathon from 11:30 to 4:30.

Family Guy is back, you may as well permanently put those forward expansion dreams to rest. 
 

1 hour ago, OwlChemist81 said:

We didn't get the news about Super and KFC until like a month before.

Both of those were ancient relics by the time they got dubbed. The news wasn’t that urgent. Daima is gonna still be airing in Japan if we do get it in January, they need the fanbase to know as early as they can possibly announce that they have it so people make plans to watch it with Toonami and not CR. 

[Sketch]

Eh… if they value Daima as much as they valued Super then 11:30 isn’t entirely off the table but that’s only if it’s required by Toei or (much less likely) they actually have 5-6 other premieres airing at the same time as Daima. But yeah it’s probably only going to happen if Toei insists on it.

If Toonami has Daima then they probably will announce it soon. Friday seems likely. And if they aren’t starting it till Jan 11th then they will announce a marathon for Jan 4th (probably Fight Girl but they could certainly f around and run a DBZ Kai marathon or something).

Really wondering if CR will upload the first 3 episodes of Daima on Jan 10th, just 2 eps or only the first one. And maybe just maybe Toonami will air more than 1 ep the first night. It’s already a long first episode but they could maybe show the first two as an event premiere. It’s wishful thinking I know.

[brianycpht]

9 minutes ago, Sketch said:

Eh… if they value Daima as much as they valued Super then 11:30 isn’t entirely off the table but that’s only if it’s required by Toei or (much less likely) they actually have 5-6 other premieres airing at the same time as Daima. But yeah it’s probably only going to happen if Toei insists on it.

If Toonami has Daima then they probably will announce it soon. Friday seems likely. And if they aren’t starting it till Jan 11th then they will announce a marathon for Jan 4th (probably Fight Girl but they could certainly f around and run a DBZ Kai marathon or something).

Really wondering if CR will upload the first 3 episodes of Daima on Jan 10th, just 2 eps or only the first one. And maybe just maybe Toonami will air more than 1 ep the first night. It’s already a long first episode but they could maybe show the first two as an event premiere. It’s wishful thinking I know.

I have to wonder, if this has nothing to do with Toonami, why would CR wait until January when (from what I hear), much of the dub is ready. They could literally drop several episodes right now, which is how CR usually does things 

[Sketch]

Toei will Toei but it does seem rather likely Toonami is part of the reason for the wait.

[brianycpht]

1 hour ago, Sketch said:

Toei will Toei but it does seem rather likely Toonami is part of the reason for the wait.

The dates and timing work out way too well.

If not it’s going to be very disappointing 

 

[OwlChemist81]

Looks like Rewind is done, UNLESS it's moving to Saturdays.

Checkered Past is down to an hour beginning Monday, December 30.

[Toonamiguy321]

Mashle promo tonight states it will not return until Jan 11th, so something is happening on the 4th. Let’s see what the Blue Exorcist promo says. If it stays on the 4th, that means the new midnight show is a 1 hour premier. If it’s gone, it’s a marathon night. 

[Mr. Idea Box]

20 minutes ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

Mashle promo tonight states it will not return until Jan 11th, so something is happening on the 4th. Let’s see what the Blue Exorcist promo says. If it stays on the 4th, that means the new midnight show is a 1 hour premier. If it’s gone, it’s a marathon night. 

If it's a hour premiere, likely gonna be Daima. If it's a marathon night, Fight Girl.

[Toonamiguy321]

Blue Exorcist also out till the 11th, so it’s a marathon 

[Mr. Idea Box]

5 minutes ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

Blue Exorcist also out till the 11th, so it’s a marathon 

Well, that's quick.

[Sketch]

Baring the extremely peculiar scenario where Toonami not only gets Daima before CR and also runs eps 1-3 as an event to mirror the theatrical release because Toei wills it… all signs point toward an IFG marathon to stall an extra week for Daima (1 day after CR), MHA S7 or another show.

So probably IFG marathon on 1/4, Daima on 1/11 shifting everything down at least 1 week and maybe MHA on 1/18 at 12:30

DeMarco has redeclared his intention to leave social media after Jan 1st so expect no answers from him about anything.

[Toonamiguy321]

5 minutes ago, Sketch said:

Baring the extremely peculiar scenario where Toonami not only gets Daima before CR and also runs eps 1-3 as an event to mirror the theatrical release because Toei wills it… all signs point toward an IFG marathon to stall an extra week for Daima (1 day after CR), MHA S7 or another show.

Another interesting observation is timeslots were not given for either show. If it is Daima, Mashle should still stay at 12:30. So that means it’s either more than one new show, or they are shuffling things are just for funsies. 
 

 

6 minutes ago, Sketch said:

DeMarco has redeclared his intention to leave social media after Jan 1st so expect no answers from him about anything.

Uh oh, Demarco having a tantrum about leaving social media usually comes on the heels of disastrous Toonami news. Why would he leave before soaking up the positive attention from getting Daima? 

[Sketch]

They could shift everything down for Daima on Jan 11th then back up on Jan 18th if they have nothing else but I am inclined to think they have 2 shows lined up for January, especially if they’ve been sitting on MHA S7.

[Toonamiguy321]

9 minutes ago, Sketch said:

They could shift everything down for Daima on Jan 11th then back up on Jan 18th if they have nothing else but I am inclined to think they have 2 shows lined up for January, especially if they’ve been sitting on MHA S7.

It certainly is looking more like multiple shows are incoming at once. If it is those two, it makes Lazarus kind of tricky to work around since I highly doubt its premier will wait till early summer. There are shorter options though. If Demon Slayer is one of the choices, that’s only 8 weeks. Of course, that means it has to have an hour premier on Jan 11th

[Jman]

The Flop Girl getting a marathon is an extremely inauspicious start to the new year.  I'm fully expecting Lazarus to come out sooner rather than later now that they revealed the opening theme.  I'm also expecting that to be another DeMarco disasterpiece.  

2025 is going to be rough, especially since all the good stuff Toonami could theoretically get access to is either behind Max's paywalls or Crunchyroll's.  If things were like they were in 2018, we'd have Solo Leveling leading off the block for the new year, not a marathon of the Flop Girl.  Hell, at this rate, I'd settle for Harley Quinn and that show has fallen off big time since Season 3 (it's suffering a terminal case of Moonlighting Syndrome).

[Sketch]

14 hours ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

It certainly is looking more like multiple shows are incoming at once. If it is those two, it makes Lazarus kind of tricky to work around since I highly doubt its premier will wait till early summer. There are shorter options though. If Demon Slayer is one of the choices, that’s only 8 weeks. Of course, that means it has to have an hour premier on Jan 11th

Mashle has 6 weeks left for season 1 which would put them in late February and that's about when I'd expect Lazarus anyway. Sure they could roll right into season 2 but they can also pace it out as needed.

[Jman]

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-12-13/crunchyroll-announces-release-schedule-for-winter-2025-season/.219009

As per Crunchyroll's release of their Winter 2025 schedule, the Daima dub is exclusive to them.  Hope you're all ready for Flop Girl reruns.

[Mr. Idea Box]

1 hour ago, Jman said:

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-12-13/crunchyroll-announces-release-schedule-for-winter-2025-season/.219009

As per Crunchyroll's release of their Winter 2025 schedule, the Daima dub is exclusive to them.  Hope you're all ready for Flop Girl reruns.

Yeah, that tracks. It's the final product with Akira Toriyama's involvement attached. Of course Crunchyroll would want it exclusively theirs. At least My Hero Academia has a full season to pull from.

[brianycpht]

1 hour ago, Mr. Idea Box said:

Yeah, that tracks. It's the final product with Akira Toriyama's involvement attached. Of course Crunchyroll would want it exclusively theirs. At least My Hero Academia has a full season to pull from.

It only says that on ANN, not on Crunchyroll own site 

But if it’s true, then that means the other steamerrs are also left out 

[OwlChemist81]

On 12/15/2024 at 1:27 AM, Sketch said:

Baring the extremely peculiar scenario where Toonami not only gets Daima before CR and also runs eps 1-3 as an event to mirror the theatrical release because Toei wills it… all signs point toward an IFG marathon to stall an extra week for Daima (1 day after CR), MHA S7 or another show.

So probably IFG marathon on 1/4, Daima on 1/11 shifting everything down at least 1 week and maybe MHA on 1/18 at 12:30

DeMarco has redeclared his intention to leave social media after Jan 1st so expect no answers from him about anything.

I believe he actually said 1/31/25...

[OwlChemist81]

3 hours ago, Jman said:

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-12-13/crunchyroll-announces-release-schedule-for-winter-2025-season/.219009

As per Crunchyroll's release of their Winter 2025 schedule, the Daima dub is exclusive to them.  Hope you're all ready for Flop Girl reruns.

Eh, these articles have been wrong from time to time. It's possible it comes to Toonami but NOT streaming on [as].com--THAT might track!

[brianycpht]

9 minutes ago, OwlChemist81 said:

Eh, these articles have been wrong from time to time. It's possible it comes to Toonami but NOT streaming on [as].com--THAT might track!

Again, the article is on ANN, it’s not CR that is saying this 

This is more likely to mean that it’s shut out of Netflix, Hulu, ect

If Toonami couldn’t convince TOEI to make a deal than this is just another nail in Toonami’s irrelevance as a place seen to reach a wide audience. That and the market just being on a level where Toonami can’t get things without extreme charity 

[OwlChemist81]

That outta the way, I still want to know what the hell is airing January 4th. Will Rewind's demise lead to Toonami's expansion?

[Toonamiguy321]

4 hours ago, OwlChemist81 said:

That outta the way, I still want to know what the hell is airing January 4th. Will Rewind's demise lead to Toonami's expansion?

Online schedule still shows a 7 slot gap for Jan 4 so it doesn’t seem to be. And that’s a good thing, they should focus on making the block we have not suck so hard before they even think about adding more time. 

[Sketch]

12 hours ago, OwlChemist81 said:

I believe he actually said 1/31/25...

Not most recently

https://bsky.app/profile/clarknova.bsky.social/post/3ldcnk6v7m22n

January 4th is a big 'ol question mark. While it's entirely possible the prelim schedule can change if they want to do a marathon of all 10 episodes of IFG if the plan was an IFG marathon then why not just block off 12-5AM like they did for RATAM the week prior?

But let's say it's not a full season marathon of IFG... what are the options?

It's not likely they would blow 2-3 episodes of Daima unless Toei really pushed for an event premiere but it cooooooooould happen, maybe.

For marathons there's Blue Exorcist which has had 7 episodes air so far, they could do just 7 episodes of IFG or maybe Sailor Moon leading into the show joining Saturday Toonami... it's DBZ Kai isn't? 

 

[Toonamiguy321]

13 hours ago, OwlChemist81 said:

I believe he actually said 1/31/25...

Does it even matter? Within two weeks he will turn it back on. There is no way he can avoid making comments on a certain event  happening on January 20th. How many times has he left social media now? 
 

1 hour ago, Sketch said:

January 4th is a big 'ol question mark. While it's entirely possible the prelim schedule can change if they want to do a marathon of all 10 episodes of IFG if the plan was an IFG marathon then why not just block off 12-5AM like they did for RATAM the week prior?

But let's say it's not a full season marathon of IFG... what are the options?

It's not likely they would blow 2-3 episodes of Daima unless Toei really pushed for an event premiere but it cooooooooould happen, maybe.

For marathons there's Blue Exorcist which has had 7 episodes air so far, they could do just 7 episodes of IFG or maybe Sailor Moon leading into the show joining Saturday Toonami... it's DBZ Kai isn't? 

I figure there are a few options. 
 

1. It actually is an IFG marathon, but they only recently decided to do it so the late night AS shows have not been removed from the schedule yet. Remember, we are looking 3 full weeks ahead here. 
 

2. The promos are not 100% accurate, as they often have been in the past. Blue Exorcist may not be off on Jan 4, with either MHA or DS airing their 1 hour premier. Certainly not an option to write off with how often promos have been straight up incorrect in recent years. 
 

3. Daima does a 3 episode drop as those episodes have already technically premiered, and Toonami proceeds to operate one day off of Crunchyroll. 
 

4. Standard length block where they marathon something else just to burn time. Not sure why they would want to start the year this way but it’s possible. 
 

5. Some kind of event meant to send off Rewind. Honestly probably in their better interest to just hide its end as much as possible given how desperate many people are to believe it isn’t dead. 

[KageRageX]

If they were smart and not cheap, they'd do this in January:

11:00 Dragon Ball Daima
11:30 Creature Commandos
12:00 My Hero Academia
12:30 Mashle
01:00 One Piece
01:30 Blue Exoricst
02:00 Sailor Moon
02:30 Dragon Ball Z Kai
03:00 Invincible Fight Girl
03:30 Naruto

[Toonamiguy321]

They just dropped the official word, Rewind is cancelled. Enjoy laughing at those who were high on copium. 

[Top Gun]

 

[Sketch]

1 hour ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

They just dropped the official word, Rewind is cancelled. Enjoy laughing at those who were high on copium. 

Honestly surprised they posted a confirmation but it is appreciated.

Now they had better give us a Saturday block update tomorrow before they F off for the holidays.

[OwlChemist81]

I for one wouldn't mind a Blue Exorcist marathon--it would fit the timeslot with episodes already aired (in 2024), and we never got one back in the day.

[PokeNirvash]

2 hours ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

They just dropped the official word, Rewind is cancelled. Enjoy laughing at those who were high on copium. 

Truly, they brought this upon themselves.

[Toonamiguy321]

58 minutes ago, OwlChemist81 said:

I for one wouldn't mind a Blue Exorcist marathon--it would fit the timeslot with episodes already aired (in 2024), and we never got one back in the day.

I had a shower theory I had to trash a few minute later when I realized the promo debunks it. As we know the BE rerun is tanking ratings for OP, on Jan 4 they blow through 7 “new” episodes. That gets us within the strike zone of the filler, which they can just not air at all, and start S2 sometime in January. 
 

Would be neat, but the promo tells us that won’t be happening.

38 minutes ago, PokeNirvash said:

Truly, they brought this upon themselves.

My absolute favorite ones are the ones who are 100% certain Rewind was doing amazing. Based on, absolutely nothing because we have never seen its ratings. And completely ignoring the schedule choices that indicate the block was NOT doing well. 

[Mr. Idea Box]

So, Toonami Rewind lasted only six months. Frankly, I should've seen this coming.

I mean, I wanted it to last into 2025, but between Family Guy coming back to Adult Swim and Checkered Past losing the 6 PM hour, I knew it wouldn't last long. They went to where the money was, or at least where their own studio vault was. I'm just glad they ended it with Goku turning Super Saiyan for the first time. If there was any way to cap off the Friday afternoon block, it would've been with such a captivating moment in anime history.

My only hope is that Sailor Moon and Naruto air at 2 AM on Saturdays. I used to hope against it, but if that's the only way we're getting those shows on cable television? It's either this or back to the streaming wars.

[Jman]

When the shows are available on demand everywhere else a Friday afternoon block was not going to do great.  
 

Meanwhile Eternal did surprisingly well on Netflix so it’s clear Dumpling Head is blame free.  

[Toonamiguy321]

21 minutes ago, Mr. Idea Box said:

My only hope is that Sailor Moon and Naruto air at 2 AM on Saturdays. I used to hope against it, but if that's the only way we're getting those shows on cable television? It's either this or back to the streaming wars.

They don’t need to be on cable. They were already on cable in the past. Give something else a chance.

There isn’t even a streaming wars for these shows. They are readily and freely available on a variety of services. And when you watch them that way, you don’t have to sit through over 100 shitty filler episodes of Naruto. 

[Mr. Idea Box]

3 hours ago, Toonamiguy321 said:

They don’t need to be on cable. They were already on cable in the past. Give something else a chance.

There isn’t even a streaming wars for these shows. They are readily and freely available on a variety of services. And when you watch them that way, you don’t have to sit through over 100 shitty filler episodes of Naruto. 

Good point.

[Sketch]

Sure, Sailor Moon is on Hulu but so are a bunch of other shows that people would like to see on Toonami, including some with over 100 episodes that have never aired on Toonami. I don’t think they should abandon the audience that was watching it on Rewind unless the numbers were dismal enough that they weren’t gonna get more even if they couldn’t bring back Family Guy.

[brianycpht]

6 minutes ago, Sketch said:

Sure, Sailor Moon is on Hulu but so are a bunch of other shows that people would like to see on Toonami, including some with over 100 episodes that have never aired on Toonami. I don’t think they should abandon the audience that was watching it on Rewind unless the numbers were dismal enough that they weren’t gonna get more even if they couldn’t bring back Family Guy.

The 2 episodes a week helped big time. The show is so slow at just 1 and I don’t see Toonami giving it a full hour