Toonami

[Rynnec]

I'm also enjoying this trend of picking up popular non-shounen anime. And with how surprisingly fun Ninja Kamui is I've actually been paying attention and watching the shows on the block for the first time in ages. Not sure how long this'll last, but I'll savor it.

[Avaitor]

Ninja Kamui is a pretty basic violent revenge story, but it's fun and better made than any of their other originals, so it gets a thumbs up from me for now too.

[Daikun]

Macross is coming to Disney+

[Rynnec]

Guess having 3 good shows and premieres on the block for more than a couple weeks was too much.

Ah well, it was nice while it lasted.

[Avaitor]

I'm not surprised, they're probably trying to save their money for the new season of MHA.

Ah well, I'm still enjoying Ninja Kamui and I like Lycoris aside from the odd bit of fanservice. Zom 100 is okay so far, too.

[Daikun]

I'm fine with OP getting hour-long blocks. It'll help us get through Dressrosa faster.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

I'm fine with OP getting hour-long blocks. It'll help us get through Dressrosa faster.

Honestly, it's stuff like this that makes me grateful for One Pace. Even that version dragged in some parts but I legitimately cannot understand how anybody could manage to get through the unedited version in the actual broadcast release. The pacing was so bad that it actually makes original Dragon Ball Z's pacing look slick by comparson, no exaggeration. The funny thing is that when I went through it again, I do feel like Dressrosa has a genuinely great story in there with one of the series' best villains, but it really is one of the few cases where it would have probably benefited Oda to be reined in by one of his editors more. I feel like the same story could have been told and potentially worked even better with a good 20-25% of excess trimmed out of it (and I don't often feel that way about One Piece arcs).

[Dr. Insomniac]

I checked how behind the One Piece airings are with the Japanese airings, and it's almost a decade. Even doubling up and keeping it up for the long-term would mean years before they get close to each other.

[Daikun]

My Adventures with Superman season 2 is premiering on Toonami on May 25.

[Daikun]

Well, Adult Swim FINALLY made an original anime with an ending that sticks the landing.
It only took them *checks watch* 21 GODDAMN YEARS, but they finally did it.

[Dr. Insomniac]

So Toonami's finally back on a weekday afternoon again.

[Daxdiv]

First time they've aired the Viz Dub of Sailor Moon on Cartoon Network, right? Naruto is OK for now and I love how they give Dragon Ball the king treatment of an hour. Interesting that they decided to air it on Friday

[Daikun]

It's pretty cool that they're able to expand beyond just Saturday, but only one other day a week while every slot is filled by 100+ episode shows?

I get that it's a Rewind block to fuel the nostalgia crowd (and it's cool to finally see Sailor Moon again in uncut form), but if they're going to air super-long shows one day a week, it's just the Saturday problem all over again. If it expands to more weekdays, it might be more justified, but I think airing shorter shows would be better if it's going to stay in this format.

It's ironic because Jason DeMarco started a poll asking what shows the viewers would like to see on this Rewind block. Bro, every show is over 100 episodes. We won't be seeing anything else for at least a couple of years.

BTW, DeMarco recently closed his Twitter account. He's on Bluesky now.

[Dr. Insomniac]

The one, and admittedly good, advantage Toonami Rewind has is it that it's on hours when most of the target audience isn't asleep. But yeah, shows like DBZ, Sailor Moon, all of those 100+ episode shows would benefit more from weekday airings than just Friday. They'd be better off finding the 26-episode shows they used to air and rerunning those.

As for the Twitter departure, it might be a coincidence, but a few days before DeMarco left, I saw him get into a Twitter fight with some rando accusing him of being a hypocrite for being pro-shoplifting but anti-TV-piracy. And then DeMarco proceeded to namesearch this guy and yell at him. He's always had a bad habit of randomly namesearching people who didn't even @ him and whining about them on his Twitter, which always left me wondering why he's doing this instead of negotiating with Discotek or GKIDS for some anime to air, and I guess someone else at CN finally told him to stop it so he migrated to a smaller website.

[Avaitor]

My guess is that it's only airing on Fridays as an experiment to see if this is worth replacing or complimenting Checkered Past. The CN shows are free for them to air, but these anime have to add up, and they may not think it's worth the investment if there isn't an audience right at the beginning.