if this can get on Toonami, and I’m actually surprised it did, I can’t see why Needless or Medaka Box can’t either.
I have a feeling it’s who’s has the US license that causes this.
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Posted: Tue January 20th, 2015 at 2:16pm
Toonami Tumblr: Line Up Changes - EFFECTIVE TOMORROW
Got a bit of bad news here, AoT fans. Starting tomorrow night, Toonami will be running from 11:30p-5:30a, and the week after will be 11:30p-5:00a for the foreseeable future. There will be no Attack on Titan episode THIS week, and we will pick back up where we left off with Titan next week, when it moves to 2:30am. Adult Swim proper will be picking back up after Toonami in the 5am hour with King of the Hill(s). Full Line-Ups for each week are below. And don’t worry, Sam Jack fans, we haven’t forgotten about you! Starting 1/31, the last two episodes of Samurai Jack (the ones we’ll be skipping) will be up on adultswim.com and VOD for you Jack fans to finish out the show. IGPX will be going on hiatus but will likely be back at some point, as will Sam Jack. Got all that? WHEW!
Sorry for the last minute changes, and thanks for watching!
[size=15]Lineups below-[/size]
1/24
11:30 – DBZ Kai
12:00 – Naruto: Shippūden
12:30 – Inuyasha the Final Act
01:00 – One Piece
01:30 – Gurren Lagann
02:00 – Deadman Wonderland
02:30 – Bleach
03:00 – Space Dandy
03:30 – Cowboy Bebop
04:00 – Ghost in the Shell
04:30 – IGPX
05:00 – Samurai Jack
1/31
11:30 – DBZ Kai
12:00 – Naruto: Shippūden
12:30 – Inuyasha the Final Act
01:00 – One Piece
01:30 – Gurren Lagann
02:00 – Deadman Wonderland
02:30 – Attack on Titan
03:00 – Bleach
03:30 – Space Dandy
04:00 – Cowboy Bebop
04:30 – Ghost in the Shell
Posted: Fri January 23rd, 2015 at 2:24pm
http://ask.fm/Clarknova/answer/123654824937
Q. Great, Toonami is being cut back due to low rating. Have you guys even considered airing one of Sentai Filmworks’s anime in Toonami to help save your asses? Log Horizon and Akame Ga Kill are good choices.
A. It’s not about one show “saving our asses,” and you’re high if you think the answer to ratings issues is “just work with this one company!” Come on.
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Kinda brusque for an official answer, and kind of funny given CN’s rep. Still, I think the response is right as Toonami needs to get into a better time slot, the kind that caters to people besides nostalgic Toonami fans and people who are up that late on Saturday nights anyhow.
Why aren’t they running it 8pm - 12 AM daily, or from 12-5am every day (save Sundays), instead of yet another showing of KotH and Seth MacFarlane reruns (which appear all over the CN channel schedule)?
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Possibly has something to do with the discussion in this thread.
I went to the Ask.fm page and it was weird. Some people out there are taking “ask me anything” too literally IMO.
The other recent answer about Sentai works on Toonami was kind of disappointing: I’d like to know if Toonami/CN and Sentai have buried the hatchet but that question was the only one I found in skimming the thread where DeMarco didn’t actually answer the (legitimate) question. 
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http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-01-23/toonami-loses-an-hour-of-programming/.83636
Toonami Loses an Hour of Programming
posted on 2015-01-23 17:00 EST
IGPX, Samurai Jack go on hiatus; no new Attack on Titan this week
The official Tumblr for Adult Swim’s Toonami block announced on Friday that the block will lose an one half hour of programming this Saturday, and one hour of programming starting next Saturday.
This Saturday, January 24, the block will run from 11:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. EST and will not air a new episode of Attack on Titan. On Saturday, January 31 the block will run from 11:30 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. and not air IGPX and Samurai Jack.
The announcement explained that IGPX will go on hiatus, and both IGPX and Samurai Jack “will likely be back at some point.” The final two episodes of Samurai Jack will be available on Adult Swim’s website and video on demand.
Vice-president of strategic marketing and promotions for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim Jason DeMarco commented on his Twitter account:
yes we are being shortened due to ratings. We aren’t going anywhere, but we may shrink a bit…If things don’t pick up.
He also said that Kill la Kill will still run on Toonami as planned but with a new air time.
maybe they should try a different approach with Toonami: instead of a weekend 6 hour block, go for a daily 1 hour block mon-sat
either way, oh well…
I don’t think this is a big deal. It is one less hour for them to worry about for the time being. On the other hand, [adult swim]'s party poo-pooing attitude suddenly is unsettling and now there’s the lingering fear of further damage to the 4am hour if ratings don’t improve. They matter more than ever now.
There is good news though. They’ve stated the 5AM hour can be reclaimed.
As for Kill la Kill, chances are Bleach or Gurren Lagann gets gutted for it. We’ll have to wait and see.
Toonami Q&A - January 25, 2015
•The 5 AM hour cut doesn’t impact Intruder 2 at all.
•On the schedule shrink: “We aren’t super happy about it, but we don’t really think it’s a big deal, either.”
•The cut also does not affect the block’s budget or prospects for “surprises” this year.
•Intruder 2 on track for 2015,
•The Toonami webcomic will come out with Intruder 2.
•They perceive their audience as split between newcomers and those who were fans during the days Toonami 1.0 on Cartoon Network, and they try to serve both groups.
•How Toonami chooses programming
•Subtitles will not be televised, ever.
•Deadman Wonderland probably won’t be rerun anytime soon after it finishes again.
•Plans change, but Dragon Ball Z Kai will be at 11:30 for the “forseeable future”
*Sports anime are a non-starter for the block. (I often wondered about that.)
*Comedy anime aren’t considered a good fit for Toonami either.
*Teen Titans and Justice League and Young Justice are not happening.
•“Not likely”: the return of Death Note.
•Movie month did not do as well as they hoped in 2014. - Another one in 2015 is possible, but unlikely.
•Kill la Kill and edits
•It’s “pretty likely” the Toonami crew will be at Momocon again.
•Attack on Titan and DBZ Kai are considered their most well received shows in 2014.
•DVR recordings are typically recorded in Nielsen ratings if viewed within 3 days.
•The rights to televise Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods were “not available”.
•5 episodes of Bleach were skipped for contract reasons.
•Several shows were wanted by Toonami but couldn’t be gotten.
•No chance of Transformers: Prime. (Or any prior TF series, for that matter)
•The Toonami crew know nothing about AoT season 2.
•Akame ga Kill is the most requested Sentai Filmworks show.
•As much as they love Steven Universe, they don’t think it’d work on Toonami if CN were to dump it.
•They’re still interested in dark shows.
•They’re game for girlier anime with heavy action.
*They believe Attack on Titan reruns starting off the block hurt more than helped.
•The SM requests mean Crystal.
So people are requesting Sentai anime and AgK is the most requested of them.
Here’s hoping they know that Crystal means DOA.
That sucks but I can understand it as the show has, somehow, not been remade in bona fide HD and the DVD-quality video probably shouldn’t be shown on an HD channel in 2015.
Not Space Dandy? 
Time to rotate out GitS, which IIRC is a non-HD show, for Funi’s Ergo Proxy then, motivating Funi to finally get the Ergo Proxy blurays. 
“dark shows” they say, but what exactly to they mean by dark shows: visuals, story, buckets full o’ blood…
is Mardock Scramble a “dark show”?
how bout From the New World?
Madoka Magica?
Zetman? Flowers of Evil?
I wonder why they don’t have Psycho-pass on there. Run it before, or after, Bebop just to highlight the similarities. I don’t like the show myself, but it’s definitely in the same spirit as darker Toonami staples GitS and Bebop. TBF the Talisman arc is wonky (and 100% skippable) but other than that the show has gore, action, reasonably age appropriate looking characters all with a “serious” artstyle.
Why isn’t Psycho-pass on there? There’s a question that ought to have been asked IMO.
The current Toonami lineup is too heavy on the zany stuff. DBZ Kai is one of the more “serious” shows in their lineup and that just ain’t right.
11:30 p.m. Dragon Ball Z Kai
12:00 p.m. Naruto Shippūden
12:30 p.m. InuYasha: The Final Act
01:00 a.m. One Piece
01:30 a.m. Gurren Lagann
02:00 a.m. Deadman Wonderland
02:30 a.m. Attack on Titan
03:00 a.m. Bleach
03:30 a.m. Space Dandy
04:00 a.m. Cowboy Bebop
04:30 a.m. Ghost in the Shell
if they do get it, they’d want to run at the beginning of the block where they can get the most eyeballs (and ratings) not at the end when most are either out about town or sleeping. Why isn’t it on, maybe they’ve seen season two and said "ohhh no, nuh uh…what happened here… 
They could completely skip Season 2 though, right?
I’m sure opinions vary but Black Lagoon is a great example.
I wouldn’t rule it out. Psycho-Pass is brilliant and it has a second season too.
[size=20]Kill la Kill’s Toonami Premiere Time Set[/size]
posted on 2015-01-27 14:01 EST
Aniplex USA announced on Tuesday that Kill la Kill’s new premiere time on Adult Swim’s Toonami block will be February 8 at 12:30 a.m. The series was originally slated to premiere at 11:30 p.m. on the same night, but Toonami’s schedule changed after losing an hour of programming.
Toonami’s Adjusted Schedule Cuts Attack on Titan, Cowboy Bebop, GiTS, Space Dandy
posted on 2015-01-27 18:15 EST
Programming block reduced to 3.5 hours on Saturdays
The official Tumblr for Adult Swim’s Toonami block announced on Tuesday that Attack on Titan, Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, and Space Dandy will no longer air after February 7. The block was reduced to 12:00 a.m. to 3:30 a.m. on Saturdays, running for a total of 3.5 hours. The update promised more new shows in the future. Toonami did not guarantee any of the cut shows would return to the schedule. Toonami credited low ratings in the later hours as the reason why the shows were cut.
Toonami posted the following schedule starting on February 7:
12:00 a.m. Dragon Ball Z Kai
12:30 a.m. Kill la Kill
01:00 a.m. Naruto Shippūden
01:30 a.m. InuYasha: The Final Act
02:00 a.m. Gurren Lagann
02:30 a.m. One Piece
03:00 a.m. Deadman Wonderland
This Saturday, January 24, the block will run from 11:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. EST and will not air a new episode of Attack on Titan. On Saturday, January 31 the block will run from 11:30 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. and not air IGPX and Samurai Jack. IGPX will also go on hiatus, and both IGPX and Samurai Jack “will likely be back at some point.” The final two episodes of Samurai Jack will be available on Adult Swim’s website and video on demand.