"Toonami" News & Discussion Thread

[Yojimbo]

Saw a Fire Force promo!

 

[RDG]

Saw a Fire Force promo!

Here it is

 

[Vampire_King]

I'm surprised that we're gonna be getting weekly fire force S2 promo's

 

[Darklordavaitor]

In October 2019, he said, "It's taking a break for now. It will be back at some point I'm sure."

By 2020, his tune changed. When asked in March 2020, he said, "I won't say it will never come back but there are no plans to bring back at the present."

Some were affected but I think for the most part, BC never really took a hiatus this year until now. There was only like brief 1 or 2 week breaks in July and August I believe.

Alright, I guess I remembered their first comment on Boruto differently. That, or I took their removal of the show at any point to simply stem from lack of interest. For whatever reason, I never really expected it to come back, and my gut instinct was right.

As for Black Clover, alright. I could've sworn I read that the series was going to pause its animation for COVID, but I guess that never happened. I don't totally understand why it's sticking to the classic weekly format instead of cutting into seasons like other recent series do, but if it works, it works.

 

[Daikun]

Pre-Flight is finally coming back after an extended hiatus. Check out Adult Swim's YouTube page this Saturday night at 11:20pm for AS Festival's Toonami panel.

 

[PicardMan]

Interesting tidbit I read on Reddit. It seems Demarco did try to get Konosuba and Shield Hero, but they were way too expensive. Crunchyroll apparently charges an arm and a leg. I guess that's why we're stuck with Gemusetto Ratings Pit instead. Shame we couldn't get Re:Zero as season 2 is my personal vote for anime of the year in pretty dismal year. On the other hand, it's good we aren't getting most of the Crunchyroll originals because most of them are pretty awful. We are most likely spared from Ex Arm getting on Toonami and I wonder what kind of reaction everyone would get if this kind of show were to air:

 

[Yojimbo]

That looks awful. There's no way that was finished animation. What studio worked on that?

I'd still defend Tower of God, God of High School, and In/Spectre when it comes to the Crunchyroll Originals.

 

[Daikun]

Wow, that trailer was hilariously bad. It's like a third-rate gen:LOCK.
And what is that Tony Hawk-like music? Is that for real?

 

[PicardMan]

hat looks awful. There's no way that was finished animation. What studio worked on that?

Visual Flight, Visual Flight - Anime News Network, which is the first anime they've ever worked on. Based on what I've seen, this may be their last too. God of High School was blessed with amazing animation from MAPPA and is probably the visually best series. Good thing Toonami is teaming up with well respected studios like Production IG.

 

[Light Lucario]

I was more thrown off by the music. It sounded so much like a light rock song from the early 2000's instead of something from a modern anime. The animation and character designs were pretty off putting though.

 

[Gold Guy]

For those curious, Anime News Network did an article about why Ex-Arm looks so bad. But the too long, didn't read version is that the staff/director just weren't suitable.

EDIT: I almost forgot to mention, it has been confirmed that Sword Art Online: Progressive will actually be a movie. Which, um, lessens the chance of a Toonami airing, I think.

 

[veemonjosh]

Just announced on the Toonami Pre-Flight panel:

SSSS Gridman
Coming January 2021

 

[PicardMan]

Been a really long time since a non Gundam mecha aired. Watched it on Funimation and it's lots of fun. Like Assassination Classroom, you can stream it for free so you can watch it right now if you don't want to wait. I guess it will replace Gemessetto or SAO?

 

[Vampire_King]

Been a really long time since a non Gundam mecha aired. Watched it on Funimation and it's lots of fun. Like Assassination Classroom, you can stream it for free so you can watch it right now if you don't want to wait. I guess it will replace Gemessetto or SAO?

It'll probably replace SAO since Gemusetto's replacement will be the return of black clover(no doubt)

unless funimation just doesn't have enough dubbed episodes by january for toonami to bring it back

 

[veemonjosh]

Huh, apparently this was the final Toonami Pre-Flight.

Considering the news that broke earlier about how a ton of Adult Swim employees involved with the streaming shows just got laid off, I guess that makes sense.

 

[Gold Guy]

Sad to hear about pre-Flight.

But Gridman is an anime I've heard good things about, so at least that'll give me a new anime to watch.

 

[Daikun]

It's not showing on Adult Swim's channel for some reason, so here's the link.

 

[Frontier]

Just announced on the Toonami Pre-Flight panel:

SSSS Gridman
Coming January 2021

That's awesome! I think Gridman is a great choice for Toonami and I'm glad to see it getting more love .

I wonder if more people who grew up with Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad will get to watch it now ?

 

[PicardMan]

I wonder if more people who grew up with Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad will get to watch it now ?

I was only three in '94, so not really for me.

Demarco also mentioned his favorite anime that hasn't aired on Toonami and it's Fist of the North Star. always wondered if they ever considered airing it in the ASA days. Showtime Beyond apparently beat them to it. It is possible if it aired on ASA that it could have had a surge of popularity enough for the dub to continue beyond 36 episodes. It is really rare for older anime to have redubs, especially long runners, and Gundam Seed and Escaflowne's redubs probably only happened because they were short. Even without a redub, Fist of the North Star is interesting in that it seems to still get new fans because of video game adaptations. Now that I think about it, the most notable long running old anime with a new dub is the Netflix Saint Seiya redub. That reminds me, weird that Saint Seiya's old Knights of the Zodiac dub did not air on Toonami itself despite being a Shonen Jump property and therefore up its alley.

 

[Frontier]

I was only three in '94, so not really for me.

Demarco also mentioned his favorite anime that hasn't aired on Toonami and it's Fist of the North Star. always wondered if they ever considered airing it in the ASA days. Showtime Beyond apparently beat them to it. It is possible if it aired on ASA that it could have had a surge of popularity enough for the dub to continue beyond 36 episodes. It is really rare for older anime to have redubs, especially long runners, and Gundam Seed and Escaflowne's redubs probably only happened because they were short. Even without a redub, Fist of the North Star is interesting in that it seems to still get new fans because of video game adaptations. Now that I think about it, the most notable long running old anime with a new dub is the Netflix Saint Seiya redub. That reminds me, weird that Saint Seiya's old Knights of the Zodiac dub did not air on Toonami itself despite being a Shonen Jump property and therefore up its alley.

I think the "official" reasoning for the Seed and Escaflowne redubs were that the remastered footage they were using didn't match with the original dubs.