"Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

It's still possible that a Viz show could replace Attack on Titan on November 8th and have AoT moved down into the little re-runs area they've got going later in the night. I am happy to see that Sailor Moon and Kill La Kill are being highly requested for Toonami. Kai's debut date was almost a given at this point, but glad to have confirmation as always.

EDIT: Missed the part about another month of movies. Wonder what they'll show this year (Betting on Evangelion showing up somewhere)
 
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It's still possible that a Viz show could replace Attack on Titan on November 8th and have AoT moved down into the little re-runs area they've got going later in the night. I am happy to see that Sailor Moon and Kill La Kill are being highly requested for Toonami. Kai's debut date was almost a given at this point, but glad to have confirmation as always.

EDIT: Missed the part about another month of movies. Wonder what they'll show this year (Betting on Evangelion showing up somewhere)
I guess an Evangelion movie could end up on the month of movies,but I also hope that a Bleach or Naruto movie from Viz and Blue Exorcist The Movie from Aniplex could end up on the month of movies in December.
 
Companions,


makes sense but even as a dbz fan i wish it would air at a much later time slot but whatever.


to be expected but i was sorta wish they didn't.


wonder whats up with this.


that sucks but i didn't expect them to air it again.


i accept that.


hopefully a viz anime will air at at 11:30 and not another funi show. hellsing ultimate should be replaced by gantz, gungrave or baki the grappler.


i think its on hd on adult swim on demand but i haven't actually watched any of the episodes to check.


nothing immediately comes to mind but as long as the show is good that's all that matters. i wonder if they would consider double premiers of a show instead of ova length stuff.


boo! tell the higher ups to stop being cheap. rerunning a 366 episode series is expensive but its better than rerunning the same 26 episode anime ad nauseam.


cool. hopfully its not just funi movies and we get some aniplex and viz movies too. they should air the blue exorcist, gurren lagann, berserk and the fourth bleach movie. maybe a naruto shippudden movie too.


i can see sword art online 2 or kill la kill airing after gurren laganns run. can't wait for those two. sailor moon hd or the 2014 series might air but its hard to say when.


didn't want it on anyway.


couldn't care less.


even more reason to troll the higher ups by pretending expensive acquisitions are much cheaper than the really are jaja.


did anyone honestly think otherwise? i doubt it would be any different even if the majority of shows had large female casts.


i'm usually anti-episode skipping but even as naruto fan i must admit most of the shippudden filler arcs are way too long and boring as hell.


guess the finale episode is longer than usually thats good. as one of toonami and adult swims longest running and successful anime they had better do something special for its sendoff.


i don't know, kinda sounds like bs to be honest. big prime time shows and exclusives series are snatched up but with a niche like anime one would think companies would want as much exposure as possible unless netflix and these other services are paying top dollar for anime, which i doubt.
 
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So we replace a bad long-running shonen series (Bleach) with a glorified rerun (DBZ Kai)

Eh, I pretty much expected it. I don't think I'll be watching it.
 
i don't know, kinda sounds like bs to be honest. big prime time shows and exclusives series are snatched up but with a niche like anime one would think companies would want as much exposure as possible unless netflix and these other services are paying top dollar for anime, which i doubt.

If they're talking specifically about Knights of Sidonia (the show that Netflix dubbed themselves), it makes sense.

Bleach and Titan air their final episodes the same night. So 11:30 the next week is either gonna be Titan reruns, a Viz show (Final Act? Tiger and Bunny? Surprise license of Jojo's? Old Sailor Moon might be on the table but starting Toonami off with an hour of old nostalgia shows seems like overkill), or possibly if they don't have anything special lined up they could be reverting to comedy at that time (they did mention "shorter" as a possibility in their "Rewriting the Manual" ad, though hopefully they don't go for it).
 
Viz appears to be dead on Toonami outside of Shippuden as of November.
 
Viz appears to be dead on Toonami outside of Shippuden as of November.
Yeah,Adult Swim would never be the same without Bleach.They could have replace Attack on Titan with DBZ Kai instead.As of now,my predictions of the next Viz anime to be on Toonami is either Tiger and Bunny,Nura,or Sailor Moon.
 
boo! tell the higher ups to stop being cheap. rerunning a 366 episode series is expensive but its better than rerunning the same 26 episode anime ad nauseam.

I don't think that they're being cheap. Since they're still not getting paid, it most likely means that they still don't have a large budget to play around with. Either that or it's still difficult for them to get shows from Viz Media due to their prices. I didn't think that they would rerun the whole series anyway, but just get the first fifty-two episodes or so like what they did with Naruto. Since they couldn't do that, I think that they just weren't able to get it. Considering how long Bleach has been on Adult Swim, one would think that they would be open to the idea of giving it a rerun slot after it finished, especially when it has been doing pretty well ratings wise.

I figured that DBZ Kai would start at midnight. It would help them to potentially get good ratings at the start of the block after Bleach wraps up. I would have been fine if they put it on later, but I didn't think that was going to happen. I enjoyed IGPX and FLCL, so I'm happy to hear that they'll be on the block again at some point. Attack on Titan getting another run is a bit of a surprise. With its performance, especially during that marathon, I thought that they'd at least go for another marathon for the second half of the series. I am surprised that Bleach isn't getting a rerun. I thought that it would get the Naruto treatment with airing some of the early episodes for awhile, but since I've never cared for the series, I'm fine with that.

I liked most of the movies they aired last December, so hopefully they'll have some good ones for this year as well. I honestly don't care if they're all from Funimation. While getting movies from other licensors would be fine, it doesn't really matter to me as long as the movies themselves are good/enjoyable. I would like to see Sailor Moon on the lineup, although at this point only the new dub from Viz could air on the lineup anytime soon, and I wouldn't mind checking out Kill La Kill. I absolutely hated Sword Art Online, so I would greatly prefer if they didn't get the second season. I wouldn't be surprised if they did simply because the first season did so well and they usually try to get some of their most requested shows. I'll just avoid the show like the plague if that happens because I do not want to make the mistake of sitting through another show that I absolutely hate just because of my habit of sticking with a show until it finishes.

I'm also fine with Young Justice not airing on Toonami. While I would like to see more DC shows/movies on the lineup, I also thought that Young Justice was really overrated and had far too much on its plate to do it well, especially with the second season, so there's no loss there in my opinion.
 
I absolutely hated Sword Art Online, so I would greatly prefer if they didn't get the second season. I wouldn't be surprised if they did simply because the first season did so well and they usually try to get some of their most requested shows. I'll just avoid the show like the plague if that happens because I do not want to make the mistake of sitting through another show that I absolutely hate just because of my habit of sticking with a show until it finishes.
Yeah, I'm avoiding SAO based on what I've heard of it. Apparently, in Season 2,
they decided to go the near-rape route AGAIN.

As for the Q&A itself, some of my questions were just requests, though I did ask the one about Toonami getting beaten to shows by other parties (largely inspired by another answer about how Fox screwed them out of Escaflowne). Also, I'm betting The Big O isn't available because Sentai's trying to get the HD masters before letting anyone air it (they did say they wanted to give it the best release possible).
 
God what the hell is wrong with this sever? It take a minute and a half for me to just quote a post!

Yeah,Adult Swim would never be the same without Bleach.They could have replace Attack on Titan with DBZ Kai instead.As of now,my predictions of the next Viz anime to be on Toonami is either Tiger and Bunny,Nura,or Sailor Moon.

Tiger and Bunny seems to be a lost cause at this point I wouldn't even bother waiting for an announcement on it. As for Nura, maybe although we'll probably get Kingdom instead. Sailor Moon... I'm sorry once you get past "nostalgia" (and even that's not really a good enough reason anymore), it just doesn't fit the current form of the block. I mean it worked in '98 because back then they didn't know what the hell they were doing. Now... I can't really see it airing alongside Titan and whatever seinen they replace Hellsing with, especially Crystal. I mean if we're going to use this "Oh Madoka can't run because it looks (EMPHASIS ON LOOKS) like a show for little girls" line of thought on that thing (BTW, Madoka's a seinen), why on Earth would you air a legitimate shojo, especially one the old school fans seem to hate with a passion, on Toonami? It doesn't make any sense.

Really the two shows they should be selling to Toonami are Hunter x Hunter 2011 for which they do not own the rights to as far as we know and, to date, have shown no interest in licensing whatsoever, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, for which they have gone out of their way to do everything that says "We have JoJo's" (manga reprints, WHV relationship, THREE ACTUAL DUBBED EPISODES!!!!) without the we have JoJo's part.

Long and short of it is its probably going to be a long time before something new from Viz shows up.
 
I absolutely hated Sword Art Online, so I would greatly prefer if they didn't get the second season. I wouldn't be surprised if they did simply because the first season did so well and they usually try to get some of their most requested shows. I'll just avoid the show like the plague if that happens because I do not want to make the mistake of sitting through another show that I absolutely hate just because of my habit of sticking with a show until it finishes.
I do agree with you on SAO.I am one of those SAO haters out there.The series should have never aired on Toonami.I hate everything about the series including its fanbase.I don't know why people like this series or why this series is popular.
 
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At this point its unavoidable. I expect to see this airing this time next year with Bryce punching JYB or Eric Klemerer in the face.
 
I do agree with you on SAO.I am one of those SAO haters out there.The series should have never aired on Toonami.I hate everything about the series including its fanbase.I don't know why people like this series or why this series is popular.

Well, I don't think that I'd go as far as saying that I hate its fanbase, but I do seriously question why Sword Art Online is so popular when it's flaws are huge and obvious. Pretty designs and animation doesn't make up for everything else that's wrong with it. I'm not surprised that it did air on Toonami when it was a huge hit, although again I don't know why. If people like the show, that's fine. Everyone has different opinions and tastes, but I absolutely hate Sword Art Online, so I'd really prefer to not see them waste another slot on its second season. They probably will though and to be fair, it would make business sense given how well the first season did for them, but if/when that happens, I'll just avoid watching it.
 
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah....

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At this point its unavoidable. I expect to see this airing this time next year with Bryce punching JYB or Eric Klemerer in the face.
Yeah I know,this is a replay from Last Season.This proves how lazy the writers are and how lazy SAO is.

Well, I don't think that I'd go as far as saying that I hate its fanbase, but I do seriously question why Sword Art Online is so popular when it's flaws are huge and obvious. Pretty designs and animation doesn't make up for everything else that's wrong with it. I'm not surprised that it did air on Toonami when it was a huge hit, although again I don't know why. If people like the show, that's fine. Everyone has different opinions and tastes, but I absolutely hate Sword Art Online, so I'd really prefer to not see them waste another slot on its second season. They probably will though and to be fair, it would make business sense given how well the first season did for them, but if/when that happens, I'll just avoid watching it.
I think the reason why the series is popular is because it attracts its fans with romance and female characthers.I am okay if people like the series,I just don't know why people like it.As of now,I just wish Log Horzion would air on Toonami,(even though unlikely because of Sentai)that way I could see a way better show of its kind that is way better than the garbage that aired for a while.
 
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Ahh, Sword Art Online season one. Such memories...

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If they're talking specifically about Knights of Sidonia (the show that Netflix dubbed themselves), it makes sense.

Companion,

i heard the bd/dvd sales were good but I'd be a little surprised if they actually wanted it to air on toonami before netflix got it. i wonder if netflix plans on dubbing more anime.

Viz appears to be dead on Toonami outside of Shippuden as of November.

my guts telling me your right but i pray that's not the case.

I do agree with you on SAO.I am one of those SAO haters out there.The series should have never aired on Toonami.I hate everything about the series including its fanbase.I don't know why people like this series or why this series is popular.

what did we sword art online fans ever do to you lol. great characters, music, animation, comedy, fight scenes, designs, romance etc. the only problem i had with it is the the pacing. i felt the first arc should have been much longer. i never read the light novels it was based on but i'm assuming it was pretty faithful. i wish the anime staff used some filler episodes in between the source material to flesh out some of the side characters and world a bit more. other than that it was definitely one of my favorite shows on toonami. gotta import the blurays one of these days.
 
I'm actually glad Kai is replacing Bleach. They're both similar shows, so it works. What I don't like is that Titan reruns stay at 11:30. Kai and Titan should switch.
 
They've the rights to Space Dandy for a long time? ... Wow, that's a long time!! Glad it gets a full replay mode.

Hope after Big O S2 ends that the next time they play it, that they will be able to retain S1 then play S2 right after, even if it's been played to death. a full run would merit a full watch. I'll still watch S2 though cause I like it.

Not bummed of the original Naruto not airing, felt moot, despite "cheap"

Bleach not getting a repeat is not too surprising. Wonder how much cheaper each episode is now that soon all of them would have aired. Could have potentially made an abundance of filler to avoid overplaying a few low-count shows - and most would air for the 2nd time.

Looking forward to another month of movies. I'll assume a start time of 1am unless they move DBZKai to 11:30 for the month just so it doesn't air 8 then suddenly be off for 3 weeks whereas the others will have aired enough to be acceptable of that break - depending what time the movie ended.

I still remember the month of Miyazaki, one of my favorite times of Toonami. The four they played were fantastic.

The thought of YJ on Toonami didn't settle with me from the start (bias to say that not having seen it) so it doesn't bother me any

No world premiers anytime soon doesn't bother me either - next time they do though, hope it's more action orientated - granted, really enjoyed Dandy

I wonder what it'll take for the workers to be paid for Toonami ~~
 
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah....

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At this point its unavoidable. I expect to see this airing this time next year with Bryce punching JYB or Eric Klemerer in the face.

I vote Erik.
 
what did we sword art online fans ever do to you lol. great characters, music, animation, comedy, fight scenes, designs, romance etc. the only problem i had with it is the the pacing. i felt the first arc should have been much longer. i never read the light novels it was based on but i'm assuming it was pretty faithful. i wish the anime staff used some filler episodes in between the source material to flesh out some of the side characters and world a bit more. other than that it was definitely one of my favorite shows on toonami. gotta import the blurays one of these days.
If you like the series,then I don't mind.Just be aware that I just hate the series a lot.SAO does have a ton of flaws.Like I said before,I don't why people like the series if the writing of the series is just terrible.I gotta to say,there are some die hard SAO fans who would take this show way too seriously.
 

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