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Hopefully someone asks DC about this at NYCC. While Toonami would be better than nothing for DC Nation, it would probably mean no new seasons for Young Justice or Green Lantern.

From the perspective of a reader fairly new to comics, Marvel NOW! isn't doing a lot for me so far. While I had picked up a few graphic novels over the years, I never regularly bought comics until the New 52. I had been interested, but I never really knew where to jump in. DC's New 52 finally...

"Its too dangerous to go help Ichigo" - Everybody (Except if the situation was reversed Ichigo would help anyway.)

Yep, and I believe Superman actually aired first in the hour. They started Superman from episode 1, and it was the first time I had watched the episodes in order. I watched the whole first season that way and found it to be surprisingly good. I'd say it rivals Batman Beyond for the best first...

There really isn't time for it to have happened that way. Based on when they have said the character will be revealed, it will be within a month, or close to it, from the date they were asked about it. The June solicitations were released a few months ago. It's way to late for them to be going...

That's a nifty looking new banner, thanks Jeff Harris and James Harvey! As for the Talkback threads, I'll be sure to post in those. I may just be delayed since I need to take my wife out tomorrow night. Thank goodness for DVR!

Glad to see I'm not the only one who liked Kikaider. I never understood why it got so little love back in the day. I'm even more excited for Casshern SIns now!

It could also be a situation where Via presumes "of course Adult Swim/Toonami will air Inu Yasha: The Final Act considering how big of a success Inu Yasha was for them!" and is therefore is demanding more money than it turns out Adult Swim is willing to pay.

I still can't see Boondocks or Venture Brothers on the block. While Toonami did air The Powerpuff Girls from time to time, that was an action comedy. Heck, violence was used to solve the problem in most episodes. Boondocks and Venture Brothers have some action oriented episodes, but overall...

Has it been confirmed that it will definitely be a character we haven't yet seen in the new 52, as opposed to a character who has already appeared in the new 52, but that the storyline so far hasn't given any indication so far of that characters orientation? I bring it up because it sounds like...

While two years could generally be the standard length, I presume the length of the license is one of the many things that can be negotiated along with cost, digital rights, a package deal with other shows, etc. As far as Inu Yasha: The Final Act goes, I wonder if Adult Swim could even air it...

Not only that, but Toonami was on over 20 hours a week at times during that era, and that means the new shows to hours available ratio is even better now.

At 291 episodes, even if somehow the per episode price was cheap, that is a ton of money that could be used to pick up a lot of different shows. For the cost of DBZ you might be able to program the entire block with other stuff Even if they just picked up a saga, paying for 50-100 episodes...

Especially considering the financial situation, I think the new schedule is a great start. Plus, while I wasn't familiar with either of these series before Toonami picked them up, they sound quite a bit different from anything Adult Swim Action has picked up in a long time. It shows that Toonami...

So far, based on the image on the Adult Swim website, it looks like we are going back to TOM 3, or a minor variation thereof.

When FUNimation went back and redubbed the Saban/Pioneer episodes, Cartoon Network ran them uncut 5 days a week in the evening one summer (I think it was summer at least). Later, they also ran the uncut episodes from the beginning on Saturday evening Toonami. (However, it should be noted that...

Fascinating! While there is no proof yet, this looks like a sign pointing in the right direction. When it was made clear that Toonami wasn't going to happen immediately, I didn't think it would end up being this soon. Thus, I am rather cautiously optomistic. I wonder if one of the slots could...

I'm surprised this thread hasn't seen more activity because that was all kinds of awesome. While as others have noted, the plot itself was nothing necessarily special, it was still solid. And it definitely wasn't anything that detracted from the main draw so far here, the look and style of the...

I'm not sure where else to put this, but if you DVR'd the episode and haven't watched it yet, you may want to make sure it recorded. My Tivo didn't record it because it now lists the title as Young Justice: Invasion. Luckily, if you missed it, the show airs again Sunday morning. Only 12 or so...

Considering we haven't seen certain characters appear in the previews so far, I wonder if perhaps the team starts out split up at the beginning of the season and someone (Nightwing maybe?) has to get the band back together. Regardless of what is going on, I'm intrigued, especially now that...

While I think it would have been great to see One Piece on NickToons, I think that if they were going to pick it up they probably would have done so by now. Considering Kai and now GT air on there, I would guess that FUNimation may have even pitched it to them multiple times.

I think showing that transition would have hurt the structure of the rest of the episode. The way it aired, we cut from the team discussing how to proceed and Black Canary's eyes suddenly opening to Black Canary, Red Tornado, and Red Arrow arriving at the Watchtower. Its a great setup because...

I rarely stream anime, but new Lupin was finally enough to get me to try it out. I've only checked out the first episode so far, but it was rather awesome. I love how it really goes for its own style with more of a rough look than something squeaky clean. It makes it more fell like the manga...

That's my guess for the missing sixteen hours; the Light had the League off instigating fights. I just wonder if they all went to one place, or if they were sent various places across the universe. My guess is the latter and thus how we end up with the big invasion. Either way, it would fit in...

The animation really puts this show over the top. Is there a better looking animated series on television right now? I love the episode and I'd say more about that, but this thread has it well covered. What I haven't been able to figure out is how Vandal Savage entered the watchtower as...

Didn't know that about Summer Wars content. Hopefully it makes its way to Cartoon Network at some point. I haven't seen it myself, I've just heard it is good.

While any acquisitions are possible (there have certainly been surprises in the past), my guess is that the best bet would be Funimation shows, considering their seemingly enthusiastic participation in Toonami on April 1st. Perhaps we could finally seen East of Eden or Soul Eater on television...

I think I really like this idea. If Toonami happens, it is a pretty good bet that Bleach will continue to lead off the block, and a high quality/big event Bleach episode sounds like a great way to kick things off. Wasn't Danger Mouse involved in the music at some point early on as well?

I think the success of April 1st was due to the programming block's packaging AND the content of the programming itself. It wasn't just that people were excited to see TOM back in action reviewing games and taking names, it was that a whole night of surprise programming came with it as well. The...

You are absolutely right; I missed the flip on Paradox's chart. I have updated my post, and the associated math accordingly. I would actually put Outlaw Star over DBZ. While DBZ's ratings were big, a lot of that may just be people getting word of what was happening and tuning in to see what was...

Let's Do the Numbers First of all, much thanks to Paradox for posting that awesome chart. Bleach Over the previous four weeks Bleach averaged 902,750 viewers. Bleach's Toonami rating for the night was 1,010,000 viewers, a 12% increase over the four week average. Pretty good I'd say. It should...

The situation of the American side of Bandai definitely puts a snag in anything new Gundam-wise. Although, considering all of the other stuff Funimation has picked up in the wake of the collapse of various other companies, I can't say I'd be surprised to see them at least try to give Gundam a...

Hopefully I haven't missed something in the thread about this, but I don't recall seeing much. So, how about a little franchise known as Gundam... Outside of Dragonball, there is no franchise more associated with Toonami, and while DBZ may have helped put Toonami on the map, Gundam Wing was...

That could work, but I think I'd rather they wait until everything is ready and really start with a bang. I'd worry that by just reskinning the block for now they would lose some of the more casual viewers before the full relaunch hit. I think part of the reason April 1st worked so well was...

Nothing through the start of FMA. I'm going to take this as a good sign that they probably aren't just going to do a quick re-skin of Adult Swim Action and instead thy are taking the time to put together something pretty cool. Maybe it wont even be TOM 3, a new TOM perhaps? If this does end up...

I'm not sure FOX could easily take them back. I think FX would have to bid and pay for the shows just like Adult Swim does. One of the bigger impediments to FOX taking that sort of action is deals with talent on the various shows that give some of the talent on the shows a piece of the back end...

This is very exciting! I can't think of any other way to take that tweet than "good". If it is coming back, I just wonder how soon. Was TOM being serious when he said Bleach would be on Toonami next Saturday? What seems more likely, (1) That a renegade group of employees used network time...

Two reasons. First, (for me at least) watching on the tv on the couch beats sitting in a desk chair watching on a smaller computer screen. Second, there is a community aspect to a defined set of episodes airing weekly (or daily). It provides distinct content to discuss with friends online and...

Good point about the people having Japanese names. That's a pretty dang good indication that they are supposed to be Japanese. Looks like I may have been overstating the multicultural potential a bit.

Has Kubo said which characters are asian? For instance, I believe Chad is supposed to be Mexican. While I presume some characters would be asian considering the setting, Bleach seems to have influences from various cultures around the world for some aspects of the story (even if it is just some...