Toonami has released via Facebook their new schedule for January 17, 2026. The main change is that Primal returns to the block at midnight with a new season.
At midnight, Primal begins its third season. The previous two seasons have had multiple Toonami runs. However, like past seasons of Primal and other Genndy Tartakovsky shows, Toonami is deprioritized as a premiere location. The new episodes will premiere on Sundays beginning January 11, then encore six days later on Saturdays for Toonami. After the violent ending of season two, fans have been wondering how Spear and Fang will reunite in this caveman action series. Initially teased as a anthology akin to the episode set in later times, season three has pivoted back to a focus on the core characters, with Spear being revived as main character.
At 12:30 AM, Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War: the Conflict moves down a half hour from its previous opening slot. This may or may not affect the opening, as traditionally Toonami edits 90 second openings to 30 seconds outside of the first slot. Bleach will likely continue to receive regular promotional videos for each episode. Toonami has consistently only advertised midnight hour shows in recent months, dropping Bleach from weekly episode previews when it passed 1:00 AM. Adult Swim began restoring weekly ads shortly after it moved back up to midnight.
At 1:00 AM, Blue Exorcist: -Beyond the Snow Saga- shifts a half hour later from its previous slot of 12:30 to 1:00. This likely places it outside of receiving further episode promos, as it has only been advertised in the 12:30 slot previously. Like Bleach, its time in 1:00 hour went unpromoted.
At 1:30 AM, Mashle: Magic and Muscles: the Divine Visionary Candidate Exam arc continues at a new later time. The season two run is approaching its first run’s end on January 31.
At 2:00 AM, One Piece has moved from 1:30 to 2:00. Luffy’s adventures in the animal kingdom of Zou continue.
At 2:30 AM, Dragon Ball Daima continues its second run. Dan Da Dan has been removed from the lineup. Despite teasing a second season, and even airing the first episode of season 2 during a pre new years marathon on December 27, Dan Da Dan has only aired season one reruns on January 3 and 10, 2026.
At 3:00 AM, Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead continues its surprise return to the block. This zombie comedy anime had previously run on Toonami and was thought to have expired, but Adult Swim has surprisingly resurrected certain anime licenses thought expired, such as Dragon Ball Z Kai, now airing on weekdays at 5 AM.
At 3:30 AM, Rick and Morty: the Anime is receiving another run. Toonami expanded back to 4 AM at the beginning of 2026. This controversial original has been used as a closer since that time, replacing the slot previously often utilized for Toonami adjacent programming like My Adventures with Superman reruns.
Meanwhile, on Disney XD, the one other network to still air anime on cable after the fall of Axs’ anime.com hour, Beyblade X premieres are set to resume the following week. On Saturday morning January 24, Beyblade X will have a three hour marathon from 3:30-6:30 AM, airing episodes 13-18 of season 2. After Bakugan and Yu-Gi-Oh! Go Rush air in their 6:30 and 7:00 slots, Beyblade X is returning with new episodes at 7:30 AM. Yu-Gi-Oh Go Rush also continues to air new episodes including new bumpers as of January 10, while Bakugan remains in reruns. Season 1 of Go Rush is anticipated to have its finale on February 14. It is unknown if Konami CrossMedia will continue directly into season 2. Yu-Gi-oh! Go Rush has received considerably less reruns than Beyblade X, rarely getting anything besides a Sunday encore aside from a brief hiatus in late summer where reruns also aired on Saturday mornings for a month or two. Beyblade X received extensive airing of season one on weekdays at 3 PM before recently shifting to airing the first batch of season 2 on weekdays as well.
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