Toonami News & Notes

Well just a thought but it’s not like it’s gonna happen ever anyway. #famous last words.

https://www.nerdist.com/2014/02/rick-and-morty-gets-renewed-for-a-second-season-at-adult-swim/
[size=15]RICK AND MORTY Gets Renewed for a Second Season at Adult Swim[/size]

The Boondocks Season 4 will premiere April 21 @ 10:30 P.M.

According to the Toonami Tumblr, it seems Black Lagoon is being delayed a week from March 22nd to the 28th.

Edit: Looks like this was a mistake. Hell a Friday airing would’ve been sweet. lol

[quote]Sorry for the short notice, but we’re losing the rights to Inuyasha after this weekend, so starting Saturday 3/8 we’re replacing it with Symbionic Titan at 5:30a. Also Daylight Saving Time is 3/8, so we’re losing one hour JUST FOR THAT NIGHT. Soul Eater will not be affected, so Black Lagoon is still set to premiere on 3/22. GITS and FMAB will return as regularly scheduled on 3/15.

March 8th Line up will be -

Space Dandy

Bleach

Shippuden

One Piece

Blue Exorcist

Soul Eater

Uncut Naruto

Samurai Jack

IGPX

SWCW

Symbionic-Titan[/quote]

Reminder: Premiering this week!!! (March 22)

Toonami - Black Lagoon Promo

Yep, I posted the Toonami trailer in the Black Lagoon thread.

Along with the FUNi trailers for the first 2 episodes.

Name of thread changed to just Toonami. .

I was just thinking about this. Thank you for doing that psychopuppet. This thread will stand out so much better. :slight_smile:

I was wondering when you’d get around to that.

Toonami - April 5, 2014 Intro

With Space Dandy in reruns, I missed that.

The new look does make appear to be something easier to reproduce if someone wanted to. (Not saying it’s easy though, just easier than the old one)

Toonami Tumblr

[quote]Published on Apr 12, 2014

Click here for full press release: XXXXXXX
Saturday Nights on Toonami, beginning May 3, 2014.[/quote]
Toonami Tumblr

[quote]ATTACK ON TITAN IS COMING MAY 3rd at 11:30p!!!

You’ve asked for it for months, and we’ve said we can’t talk about future shows. But now we CAN, because we’re getting Attack on Titan!

Toonami will premiere Season1 starting Saturday May 3rd at 11:30p. Repeat Episodes of Space Dandy will move to 12:30a.

Full Line up below.

Get Ready for the Attack!

11:30 – Attack on Titan
12:00 – Bleach
12:30 – Space Dandy
1:00 – Naruto: Shippūden
1:30 – One Piece
2:00 – Blue Exorcist
2:30 – Black Lagoon
3:00 – Naruto
3:30 – GITS
4:00 – FMAB
4:30 – Samurai Jack
5:00 – SWCW
5:30 - Sym–bionic Titan[/quote]
IGPX will be leaving the line-up

There was definitely some chatter about this so it’s great to see an AoT confirmation at last from Toonami. As far as the schedule goes, it does make sense to kick off with premieres vs. a rerun to keep the numbers up. On the other hand, I also didn’t expect Space Dandy to move at all. That did come as a surprise.

It should be interesting to see how this recent schedule shake-up effects ratings with AoT starting and Naruto Shippuden/One Piece moving down a half hour each.

If only one of the last 3 shows in the lineup could have gone and IGPX could have thus stayed.

Space Dandy should be after Black Lagoon to keep all the new shows together and the reruns in the later park of the block.

Considering its advanced age-only naruto and gits are older anime-black lagoon might as well be a rerun.

From Nick and More:

[size=16]“Beware the Batman” Joins Toonami May 10th[/size]

[quote]As if the news of Attack on Titan joining the Toonami lineup wasn’t enough for you, Toonami came back with more. In a very odd and stunning move, Toonami announced via Twitter that the Cartoon Network series Beware the Batman will be joining the block May 10th at 3am ET, a week after Attack on Titan‘s anticipated premiere. Due to this switch, the original Naruto series will be moved down to 3:30am ET, and Ghost in the Shell will be leaving the block.

Beware the Batman has had a troubled history, from being pulled off Cartoon Network’s line-up last October after episode 11′s airing, episodes 12 and 13 making their debuts on an officially released DVD of Season 1 Part 1 back in February, and episodes of the show being aired in advanced in New Zealand (heck the entire show was just recently leaked onto Amazon UK!).

It has been confirmed by Cartoon Network that all 26 episodes will be shown by Toonami. This marks the 5th American program to hit the block since its revival in 2012.

The new schedule can be found below:
•11:30pm - Attack on Titan
•12am – Bleach
•12:30am – Space Dandy
•1am – Naruto: Shippuden
•1:30am – One Piece
•2am – Blue Exorcist
•2:30am – Black Lagoon
•3am – Beware the Batman
•3:30am – Naruto
•4am – Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
•4:30am – Samurai Jack
•5am – Star Wars: The Clone Wars
•5:30am – Sym-Bionic Titan[/quote]
This is beyond good news. Toonami saved this show from the darkness that CN pitched it in. Our heroes! :cheer:
So now May’s really looking good.

they should have put that crap with the other Ameri-trash like SWCW and Samurai Jack and left the REAL anime at the front.

Wah!

P.S. It’s not “real” anime if it’s not in Japanese…dur :S

I too am wondering why they put this Batman show into the anime block and deposed an anime to do it. Why not put it on the American block and depose Clone Wars? That show is far to childish for a late night cartoon block, it is closer to Nick Jr level programming; if it had been around in the time of Face then I could really see him announcing it “bur burr burrr!”

This batman series even has the same wonky CG animation style used in clone wars. Perfect to swap in for swcw.

Of course, they could make up for this by getting some Sentai anime on there or by getting a greater variety of Viz stuff. What happened poor ole Death Note? Would samurai jack really beat out samurai champloo?

The hits keep on coming.

Source - Nick and More:

[size=16]“Dragon Ball Z: Cooler’s Revenge” Airing May 24th on Toonami[/size]

[quote]The Dragon Ball Z fans finally got what then wanted…sort of. Announced on Funimation’s Tumblr page, the Dragon Ball Z movie “Cooler’s Revenge” will be airing on Toonami on May 24th at Midnight ET/PT.

Although it is a movie presentation, the movie only runs for an hour, pre-empting only Bleach and a re-run of Space Dandy. All other premieres and shows are scheduled to air on that night.[/quote]