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Toonami Adds 1 Hour to Programming

I might be wrong since I haven't cared much about Toonami lately but the block starts at 11:30pm or it did last week, right? So the block isn't "moving up an hour" but gaining back 30 minutes that it previously lost at the front end and every show moves up 30 minutes. Right?

So why is the tagline for the article saying Toonami has gained an hour of programming?

TAKE OFF SHIPPUDEN! Unless the episodes are fresh off the latest dub then DONT AIR EPISODES from 5 yrs ago!

@ digidragon:

It's because no articles here acknowledged that Samurai Jack was the reason Toonami started at 11pm and when reruns started, it eventually moved to 3:30pm, causing the block to lose the 11:30pm slot for several weeks (which I believe Adult Swim was just experimenting to see how an exclusive season of an American animated action show would do on reruns in the same time slot).

By the way, none of this is me arguing Samurai Jack is an anime, because it's not and there's nothing wrong with that. I'm just explaining why ANN likely never reported any of this.

Count me in as one of those who doesn't stream. Not everyone in the US is rolling in money (in fact...most are not), and Cartoon Network is part of basic cable. Toonami is the only block on CN worth watching....at least for me.

Thorfinn wrote:

I'm kind of shocked that people still care about a TV block for anime in the West. Their ratings seem to be going down, which isn't shocking since the internet exists now and I feel like the nostalgia people initially had when the block was brought back is slowly fading away as well.

the problem is that new eps of super shows early well before the block even starts, and even then the only series people are interested was AoT which ended its run and hunter x hunter but that show way too late. and dont want to admit it, but like with one piece, its too late run shippuden on AS anymore UNLESS they decide to actually run new episodes or an arc close to it. if they had just skipped to the paramount arc or at least to the impel down arc, then one piece would still be on the lineup. its still not too late for shippuden. they should just skip these eps that were shown 5 years ago as well as the fillers and go straight to the start of the tail beast training arc/ 4th great ninja war arc.

also what the hell were they thinking in bringing stardust crusaders? i mean viz media only dubbed THREE EPISODES before seemingly abandoning the whole thing. and so far there haven't been any sign that the even have the license of that series let alone that they even dubbed the rest of the episodes. would have been better off if AS had gotten another popular shounen type series like my hero academia S1.

a part of me wonders whats going to happen once kai finishes and we no longer have Dragon Ball power hour

Thats why they aired Death Note(AS) Hellsing and Black Lagoon right? Toonami is on Adult Swim at the end of the day so it doesnt have to always continue as a definitive action oriented anime block. If u like retarded battle shonen with screams, friendship powers and plot armor ass pulls then do you dude.

I'm kind of shocked that people still care about a TV block for anime in the West. Their ratings seem to be going down, which isn't shocking since the internet exists now and I feel like the nostalgia people initially had when the block was brought back is slowly fading away as well.

Have u payed attention to Shippuden's ratings dude? they have been below 580k for almost the entire year...! U actually like the fact that you're watching washed up reruns of a series 99% of people have seen over 5 yrs ago and continue having that stink up the latter half of a block that doesn't need Shippuden to survive??