[quote=“Slowhand”]
DeMarco added that Toonami will not be showing Naruto, Dragon Ball Z, and similar titles since “the rights to those shows are owned by our competition or are out of our price range.” He continued, “Something you should know about THIS Toonami: We have very, very little $$. This experiment will need ratings success to receive more funding for new shows, more [mascot character] Tom animation, etc. I’m thankful for the $$ we’ve gotten, but it isn’t a lot.”[/quote]
Had to pull this from 10 months ago just to point out how much things have changed since then. Looks like the Toonami block return was successful enough that they got funding to show Naruto now, for instance. And the new TOM too![/quote]
Naruto Shippūden is owned by their competition, so that will likely not be shown.
Toonami to Re-Air IGPX in April
posted on 2013-03-26 23:42 EDT
Toonami announced on Tuesday that it will rerun IGPX on April 27. As a result, it will be “very slightly shuffling the lineup” and will reveal the new schedule later. Toonami will also “relaunch with a new TOM, a new Absolution, and a new on-air look.” IGPX was Toonami’s first original series; it ran as a series of short episodes in 2003, and again as a full series in 2005.[/quote]
This year has been full of awesome surprises. This is just another date to look forward to. Loved IGPX. It was the first show where CN actually allowed the words bitch and ass.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-04-12/adult-swim-to-begin-one-piece-with-episode-207-on-may-18
[size=20]Adult Swim to Begin One Piece with Episode 207 on May 18[/size]
posted on 2013-04-12 22:33 EDT
North American distributor Funimation announced that One Piece will begin running on Adult Swim’s Toonami block on Saturday, May 18 at 1:00 a.m. EST (effectively Sunday morning). The series will start on episode 207, “Great Adventure At Long Ring Long Land!” Soul Eater will continue to air but move to the 1:30 a.m. slot.
Toonami confirmed the series would run on the late-night programming block at Momocon on March 10.
[quote=“TheCoffeeGod”] http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-04-12/adult-swim-to-begin-one-piece-with-episode-207-on-may-18 Adult Swim to Begin One Piece with Episode 207 on May 18
posted on 2013-04-12 22:33 EDT
North American distributor Funimation announced that One Piece will begin running on Adult Swim’s Toonami block on Saturday, May 18 at 1:00 a.m. EST (effectively Sunday morning). The series will start on episode 207, “Great Adventure At Long Ring Long Land!” Soul Eater will continue to air but move to the 1:30 a.m. slot.
Toonami confirmed the series would run on the late-night programming block at Momocon on March 10.
May 18th Line Up. ONE PIECE ADDED
5/18:
12:00 – Bleach
12:30 – (Uncut) Naruto
01:00 – One Piece
01:30 – Soul Eater
02:00 – IGPX
02:30 – Eureka 7
03:00 – Thundercats
03:30 – Symbionic Titan
04:00 – Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
04:30 – Cowboy Bebop
05:00 – Inuyasha
05:30 – Inuyasha][/quote]
This does suck. I guess I’ll have to try and watch a few episodes a day until I reach 207. That may not happen, but I’ll try.
Slick
They could at least start back where they left off 168 . Wonder if this is Toei’s doing . This could be that is the episodes start of where Funimation has TV rights.
You may have the right answer, I read on Funi’s site that the Toonami airing is starting after the last of the Disks that they have released. So it may well be that Funi did not have conventional broadcast rights to the earlier episodes.
You may have the right answer, I read on Funi’s site that the Toonami airing is starting after the last of the Disks that they have released. So it may well be that Funi did not have conventional broadcast rights to the earlier episodes.
Mark Gosdin[/quote]
Funimation had previously stated that Toei had broadcast rights for the show and any TV deals would have to go through them. They actually arranged the original airing on Cartoon Network.
Adult Swim’s Toonami block began airing commercials for the One Piece premiere, including a rhyming pirate ad. The series is slated to start on Saturday, May 18 at 1:00 a.m. EDT (effectively Sunday morning).
A second commercial with the redesigned TOM also aired.
The series will start with episode 207, “Great Adventure At Long Ring Long Land!” Toonami confirmed in March that the series would run on the late-night programming block.
I LOVE that promo with the pirate voice. Very creative. There’s a lot of excitement surrounding One Piece’s return even to the point of FUNimation doing something crazy of their own.
I went down to my folks house this weekend and they are doing a “nielsen TV Viewing Survey” this week, I am going to marathon Toonami this weekend then write it down that we watched the whole Toonami block.
Premiere sees highest ratings on Saturday’s six-hour late-night block
The TV Media Insights website reported on Tuesday that One Piece’s new premiere on Adult Swim’s Toonami block early on Sunday morning garnered 995,000 viewers. According to the website’s listings, One Piece received the most viewers during the Toonami block from 12:00a.m. - 6:00 a.m.
TV Media Insights also released ratings for the rest of the programming block:
[QUOTE][B]Sword Art Online to Air on Toonami Starting in August[/B]
Aniplex of America announced at its panel at Anime Boston on Friday that the Sword Art Online television anime series will air on Adult Swim’s Toonami block starting this August.[/QUOTE]
