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The webcomic is readily available to read if you are interested in getting a taster. It really doesn’t feel like Toonami material, really it doesn’t feel like AS material either. More something I’d expect to see on Netflix. As for BD and VB, I think those are just from an era when Toonami...

While we did get spared from that show, it’s really only because Daima and Bleach showed up in time. Without those, we likely would have been stuck with it. What I’m thinking of for comparison is Common Side Effects. Really had no business at all being on Toonami, but was a full half hour slot...

So I know we were going back and forth on where Get Jiro will premier, which got me thinking, do we think reruns of President Curtis could end up on Toonami? The promo for it is really action dense, and while I don’t think AS would EVER cross the R&M stream with Toonami, I feel like this is far...

Yea I really liked Gakkou Gurashi when I watched it. Wouldn’t mind seeing it on the block. I’d assume part of it was a budget issue, Madoka was a hot commodity and the money wasn’t flowing in those early days. I don’t recall the specifics but I feel like Madoka may have had an exclusivity...

What really makes it strange is that they use Sentai to dub a bunch of their originals. By Demarco’s accidental admission, because they are the cheapest option on the market. But unintentional diss or not, having them actually dubbing a bunch of your shows seems like it would be an easy foot in...

These are the exact same arguments Demarco made at the time too. Just because the message is something we can get behind doesn’t mean you can just walk around your job with the F bomb on your shirt. This wasn’t just some random stream, it was an official, Adult Swim X Production IG industry...

He did but I’d have a hell of a time finding it without his social media pages, assuming it would even be on there. The message of the shirt doesn’t matter, it’s the uncensored F bomb for everyone to see. I feel like I shouldn’t need to explain this further, on a forum that does not even allow...

He pounded the ground after the livestream as he did not know he was censored until after the fact. Really, even going to an official business function of any kind with an F bomb on your shirt shows a lack of business tact. That’s what he said before he exited social media, however this most...

Oh, he is. We know for a fact he has rejected shows he does not personally like. And we have also heard through the grapevine that he rejected SAO GGO because he wanted to virtue signal about gun violence. But then on the flip side, he would show bias towards shows he DOES like, even if ratings...

Just one example, he went onto a live stream meant to represent both AS and Production IG wearing a T-shirt that said “F**K RACISM” in huge letters, uncensored of course. And then was confused and upset about them blurring his shirt on stream. We also know he has an inflated sense of Toonami’s...

I believe they made similar compromises to land Bleach. While it’s unfortunate for those who fall behind, I think it’s the right course of action to prioritize the main cable block and have side things like on demand available to sacrifice if necessary. Cable rights are some of the least...

Yea, had Toonami still been alive, it very easily could have aired there with little to no edits. Kekkaishi just hit at the worst possible time. You have the first generation anime fans who grew up on Toonami hitting their teenage years growing out of the medium, as well as the aggressively...

If nothing else, they will probably give us a packaging refresh.

They brought out spin doctor TOM tonight. It’s not that they didn’t get a new show, it was an intentional and tactical choice so they could move up Blue Lock since the World Cup is going on! And of course, a big chunk of the idiot viewerbase will eat that excuse right up.

A long while back I tried to watch ASA era shows I missed, and I didn’t get far into it. It’s like a the bad parts of shonen wrapped into one and I couldn’t stomach another bite.

Because due to many years of mismanagement, Cartoon Network has a foot in the grave and the show surely would have failed there. Not because of its content, but because no one watches CN anymore. Despite being part of AS now, it is still engaging in kid oriented censorship, such as laser guns...

Not profitable according to? Not interested according to? You are acting like you are on the Nick board of directors or something. If nothing else, Nick doesn’t need the money, so it makes more sense for them to just sit on it forever than let a competitor have it.

“Demarco hates it” is usually a reason to lead with, but it’s such a non factor suggestion that has a literal 0% chance of happening, that Demarco’s opinion on it hardly matters. It’s like walking into a CN thread and saying they are gonna air Spongebob soon. It’s completely nonsensical to...

If AS owns it and it’s even mildly Toonami themed, we are gonna get it as a cheap slot filler. They don’t care about the block theme, they care about saving money. CSE had absolutely zero business being on Toonami, but since they got away with it once, they are gonna try to do it again. SMMA...

We need a middle grounder. Demarco is way too shonen obsessed, to the point of getting shows like Boruto and One Piece that are blatantly for children, just because it’s shonen. On the flip side, Manning will go for more mature oriented shows, but often ends up landing on things that are...

Well, that settles the question on whether or not Super Mutant Magic Academy is Toonami bound. They say they can’t compete with streamers for acquisitions, but I can almost guarantee the reason for that is they are only looking at hyper popular shows everyone wants. There are around 50 anime...

So I did the math, and they are doing this to make sure all of S1 can air before it expires in November. It started its run the first week of November 2024, so with a 2 year contract is set to expire this November. At one episode a week, even without counting marathons, it would come up short 6...

I’m still really not on board with the idea that Get Jiro will not be a Toonami premier. So whatever Curtis is doing won’t matter. They may have a Sunday rerun for Jiro as they did for Rooster Fighter though. If they were to bring in an anime to replace Superman, I think the presumed Lazarus...

This show was actually what got me back into anime after a long hiatus. I was still in high school when this started, and I was deep into an “anime is teh suck” phase because one, liking anime was a social death sentence back then, and two, it was that harsh downturn period for anime in the west...

So that’s gonna leave a pretty big gap between the end of Superman and this starting, if we are going by the actual start of fall which is late September. If the dub turnaround is fast enough, and Viz is cooperative enough, maybe that’s where Bleach slides in to cover the lead for awhile, then...

I mean, I don’t think it’s fair to lay all the blame for that episode on Curtis. That’s generally considered on of the worst episodes in the entire series, and it really was a boiling point for Harmon’s obsession with incest. The one perk of that episode is it’s the closest possible thing to...

Title has to go to their weird, experimental 3am shows like Xavier, 12oz, Drinky Crow, Assy McGee, etc. The kind of stuff you really gotta be deep into AS culture to appreciate. You can’t just sit someone down in front of these shows and have them enjoy them, they are too abstract.

I have said it before, but we are long past the point of Toonami operating like it’s a powerhouse of anything. Its only goal should be attempting to be enjoyable, rather than trying to chase trends and fads it can’t possibly keep up with. Just air good shows people can enjoy and an audience will...

Common Side Effects isn’t really a Toonami brand show though. The only reason we ended up having it was because it was that drought period where they had literally nothing else to air. Even when they started it, they had to have a custom TOM intro where he flat out admitted it wasn’t a Toonami...

The only reason they even do that for Primal is because Genndy has a thing against Toonami. Without an outside reason, I don’t see why they wouldn’t let Toonami have the premier. Especially with the current subpar state the block is in,

Strange not to have any internal cross promotion, but I’d guess they wrote most of this season long before it was even greenlit. I wonder if Curtis will appear in this season at all.

Toei won’t even allow the original to be purchased. The only version they want available is the Kai cut. The original cut also has internal rights issues with Falconer that they are never going to fix. Plus, even if they could get it, I can’t imagine anyone willingly sitting through that after...

Where exactly are you seeing this? Outside of Toonami communities, there is basically zero discussion about RF at all. Even in anime communities, it was not on anyone’s spring radar. Among those who watched it, the most notable praise it’s gotten is it was NOT god awful terrible garbage like the...

It will depend on the cost/benefit breakdown of how the current batch of episodes are performing. It’s mostly just a slot filler for the transition to CN hours, looping what they have forever may achieve the intended result just fine over licensing more. Buu Kai is much less liked the previous...

They used to have a cap of 50 episodes per year. As we saw last year, they went over 50, so they have boosted their limit to 55-60. But throwing on IGPX is basically them saying “no we won’t get something in 5-10 weeks”. It also means they still have a time filler in their pocket for later in...

Problem is a space issue. Multiple sources over the years have tied Get Jiro to Toonami. Will it premiere here? Can’t say, but it does seem certain it will air on the block. That leaves the only room for flexibility on the possibility of Revengers or BL not moving forward with its next season...

I guess it would depend on the authors pace. This isn’t like a Shonen Jump series where it has mandatory chapters every couple weeks. This is a manga where the author writes chapters when he feels like it. If he is motivated, maybe he could speed things up, but there are no guarantees. What I...

Well, that’s not a good look for a June schedule update. The block is officially back to being half reruns, and they chose a full 2 season one as a filler, so things aren’t changing anytime soon. If Blue Lock and Revengers move forward into their next season, the only flexible slots for the rest...

The chapters don’t have much meat to them though. And this season skipped a lot of fan favorite chapters to get it to end at this point. I can’t see it getting a renewal with so little to work with. Maybe many years down the road when there is enough for a full season, but even then, hundreds of...

This was supposed to premier at an event in London like a week ago, did anything ever come of that?