#Toonami Trending Plans

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"Hold on, before we start: If you think you can beat me, think again. Cause I'm gonna beat the stuffing out of you, with my fists." Mash Burnedead, Mashle (Ep. 08)

This is the Toonami Trending Rundown for the month of January 2025. Toonami begins its 13th year back on Adult Swim as the block is in a “transitional period” of sorts with Invincible Fight Girl presently rerunning after completing its first season and Toonami Rewind being “merged back” into the block at the rear half of the lineup.

The first scheduled Toonami of the year, January 4-5, was a holiday marathon night of Uzumaki, so no trends were spotted during the 4-episode marathon. For the night of January 11-12, #Toonami trended in the USA on Twitter alongside Mashle, Invincible Fight Girl, and Blue Exorcist. On the night of January 18-19, only Toonami would trend. And for the night of January 25-26, #Toonami would trend alongside Mashle and Blue Exorcist.

The feature for the January 4-5 edition of Toonami featured a new Toonami ID titled “Laser TOM.” You can check it out below:

January 11-12’s feature was a game review for Squirrel with a Gun, an indie action-adventure game developed by Dee Dee Creations and published by Maximum Entertainment. It received a 7.5 out of 10 score.

The developers of Squirrel with a Gun, were quite happy about the Toonami bump on Twitter.

January 18-19 saw another new Toonami ID, titled “Strange Ritual.”

And the feature for January 25-26 was supposed to be a game review for the newest Indiana Jones video game by Bethesda, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Game. I say supposed to as the Cartoon Network broadcast control accidentally showcased a promo for Barney’s World, the newest animated series in the Barney franchise, which was probably meant to be showcased during the Cartoonito early morning hours rather than on Adult Swim/Toonami. Nonetheless, it received a score of 9/10 and you can check out that game review below.

Unfortunately, Adult Swim has decided to pull the plug on Toonami Rewind in the new year as the Friday afternoon throwback lineup was retired by the end of the year, with said timeslots being given back to Checkered Past. No official reason was given why Toonami Rewind was canceled. Alongside potential issues with Toonami bringing in additional programming for Rewind, it is likely that Adult Swim is seeing a change in strategy with the network inking a deal with Disney to bring Family Guy back to the late-night programming block for the first time since 2021. It’s not all lost, however, as the Rewind lineup would be “merged back” into the Saturday night Toonami lineup, with Naruto starting over from the beginning starting January 11th, while Sailor Moon returning on January 25th.

Mike McFarland, voice actor and ADR Director whom has lent his talents to many Toonami shows over the years including Dragon Ball, Full Metal Alchemist and Attack on Titan, was diagnosed with a massive brain tumor after originally dealing with symptoms of an ear infection. Fortunately, Mike underwent emergency surgery to successfully remove the tumor and is presently recovering. Our thoughts go out to Mike as he recovers, and if you wish to help Mike in a philanthropic way, feel free to donate to his GoFundMe set up by his colleagues.

Studio MAPPA on Friday has released new info and a key visual for Shinichiro Watanabe’s new series Lazarus. The season will be 13 episodes in length and will be airing in Japan on TV Tokyo this April 2025. Adult Swim has also announced on Instagram that Lazarus will also be airing on Toonami stateside in April with a concrete premiere date TBA. We’ll keep you posted.

Finally, The Pillows, the band best known among anime fans for creating the theme music for FLCL, has just announced that they have disbanded after 35 years following their January 31st concert in Yokohama. The band members plan on continuing their respective careers individually. All I can say is, Thank you, our twilights, and Ride on Shooting Star.

Until next time, hope you have a Happy Black History month, congratulations to the Ohio State Buckeyes for winning the National Championship, and of course, our thoughts go out to all those affected by the Southern California Wildfires. While the major fires have been fully contained after weeks of effort from first responders, at least 29 people have lost their lives; and thousands of residents, including voice actors Amanda Winn Lee and Melissa Fahn, have lost their homes. If you wish to help in a philanthropic way, make sure to donate to a reputable organization, including the Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles, the California Community Foundation, the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation, The Los Angeles Police Foundation, and gofundme (including one for Melissa Fahn. Amanda herself, in lieu of donations, has requested donators to purchase something from her Amazon Registry for her.)

Legend: The shows listed are ordered based on their appearance on the schedule. Show trends are listed in bold. The number next to the listed trend represents the highest it trended on the list (not counting the promoted trend), judging only by the images placed in the rundown. For the Twitter tweet counts, the listed number of tweets are also sorely based on the highest number shown based on the images on the rundown.

January 11-12, 2025 Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#6]

#Mashle [#14]

#InvincibleFightGirl [Trended with #Toonami and #BlueExorcist]

#BlueExorcist [#13]

Tweet Counts:

#Toonami [2,505 tweets]

#Mashle [1,379 tweets]

#BlueExorcist [1,825 tweets]

January 18-19, 2025 Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#27]

Tweet Counts:

#Toonami [2,224 tweets]

January 25-26, 2025 Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#4]

#Mashle [Trended with #Toonami]

#BlueExorcist [Trended with #Toonami]

Tweet Counts:

#Toonami [2,445 tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#one piece [#7]

If you wish to send me a tip for the work on the trending rundown, donations can be sent to PayPal.Me/DanielLimjoco.

It’s not the year, SARA. It’s the mileage. Only Toonami on [adult swim] on Cartoon Network.

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Toonami Trending Rundown for May 7-8, 2022

Toonami Trending Rundown for May 7-8, 2022.

“That look. I love it when he stares dead ahead like that. It’s so intense. Not that long ago, revenge with my whole life. I should have been crushed when my plan failed, but I wasn’t, because it was Nagisa who stopped me. He’s the kindest soul I’ve ever known. Sure, he’s an assassin, but his blood lust filled the hole in my heart.” –     Kaede Kayano, Assassination Classroom (Season 2, Episode…

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You're the resident Ben 10 expert, do you have any idea when the next series could be announced? I finished everything, including the reboot, twice over and I still have cravings :(

Glad to accept the title (I’m not worthy!!) 😭😆

A few folks have asked Duncan Rouleau and a few other Man Of Action members what the future of Ben 10 is. Answer has been a resounding “something”! The short version is, Duncan gave us an estimate of ‘by the end of 2021’ to expect an announcement or some news in one way or another (though he’d also said the same about Ben 10 Vs The Universe and had been a goooood number of months off).

The way he worded his answer was essentially that something is being developed, but he likely isn’t involved. How much/little he knows is very likely locked behind NDA.

With the nature of shows CN’s greenlit on their lineup mainly consisting of 11-15 min short-format mostly-comedy programming, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the next show would be similar in that respect. It is however worth noting CN is planning on bringing back (possibly half hour) action shows being overseen via the return of Toonami’s creator.

Ben 10 is a constant case of flip flopping for CN. In the mid 2000’s when it premiered it was just another show amidst its lineup, but approaching the 2010’s, became enough of a cash cow that they were confident enough to have it alongside Generator Rex as the proverbial face of the network. This proved to be short-lived as the popularity of Adventure Time BLEW UP very soon after. Rob Sorcher (chief content) was more intent on green lighting shows in the same vein as AT in any attempt to replicate its success/profitability, which largely resulted in the exodus of half hour plot-driven action on the network.

Additionally of note, Ben 10 has always been far more popular internationally than it has been domestically (put simply, it does better outside the US), though I would largely attribute this to CN US’s lack of promotion for the brand domestically and lack of risk-taking when it comes to very easy opportunities revolving around expanding Ben 10 to the next level (ex: the two canned live action movies Ryan Kelly signed on for initially that were cancelled because CN got cold feet, not wanting to be the only people doing the trend of live action cartoon movie adaptations for television).

After the last 30 episodes of Omniverse were burned up, airing at 5am each day with absolutely zero advertising of its return (to ensure low ratings, which would ensure a tax write-off), that was kind of it for the show… until one of the older CN employees who originally got the ball rolling on Ben 10 stuff ran into Sorcher and scoffed at its cancellation due to how INSANELY PROFITABLE it’s been for the network over the past decade. Thus, the reboot began development.

We got our first look at the reboot at the Annecy Festival in summer 2015 and (I *think*) it began airing internationally in 2016, then domestically in 2017.

TLDR; I would optimistically anticipate a press kit announcement around CN Upfront/Turner Upfront/Annecy around summer of 2022, and then some kind of premiere roughly one year following. Rule of thumb is, if you know it’s in development at the moment, you can expect to see it airing in at LEAST one years’ time from that point with TV animation.

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Custom Toonami Block Week 70 Rundown

Code Geass: So Lelouch is gonna go join Nunally’s ‘let’s all hold hands and get along’ area but literally no one wants to go after Euphy murdered everyone last time. You’d think there’d be at least one dumbass like “Maybe it won’t be a massacre.” But yeah Zero’s like “Oh well I just happen to have a million people I can give to the zone if you exile me and let me go scott free” and everyone’s like “that’s a super shitty thing to do but okay” so then Zero tells Suzaku that culture is stored in the titty and all the one million people do their I am Spartacus thing and wear Zero’s costume which had to be a logistical nightmare, like Zero’s outfit already is pretty expensive with the fancy clothes and the helmet and shit and some of them are randomly customized even though that defeats the purpose like how do you do this on a terrorist budget in a few days without anyone in the government finding out. Like “we received an order for a million pounds of the thing used in Zero’s helmet on the black market” seems like it’d stand out. But yeah, the million Zeros get away, partially because of the “dogs playing basketball” rule that they’re all Zero because their culture of being Zero is stored in their titty which wouldn’t hold up in court but also because if they just kill a million people who’re just trying to leave that’d be bad for the government, not that they’re not used to genocide and being hated as Imperialists but Suzaku specifically doesn’t want that on his and Nunally’s hands while they’re trying to actually do shit for Japan for once. Feel like there’s probably a good cause for peaceful detainment and not letting them just walk out but it’s not like they’d find Lelouch or whoever the supposed second Zero was anyway even if they strip-searched everyone since he was never there and if it isn’t Lelouch the only thing that makes him Zero sight-wise is the mask.

Inuyasha: So yeah we get the conclusion of Shiori’s story for Inuyasha and I just can’t help thinking about how nice it is that she went on to help a lot of other half-demons in Yashahime because of an act of kindness that Inuyasha showed her right here, really good ripple effect shit. But yeah Shiori gets pissed that her grandpa killed her dad and Kekkaishi YEETs him and his followers out of the barrier so Inuyasha can backlash wave the lot of them. We still got fifteen minutes left though so even after Inuyasha says he’s not going to murder a little girl for a powerup that’ll get power crept in a few seasons, Shiori offers him the blood coral crystal to break to give him the powerup instead as thanks for not fucking murdering her. We can’t have the climax of the episode just be Inuyasha smacking a crystal ball though so Taigokumaru’s spirit yeets itself out of the crystal and fights with Inuyasha and attacks Shiori but her dad makes a barrier to bounce him off of so Inuyasha can kill him a second time and get the Red Tessaiga. There’s some navelgazing about how life as a half demon is rough but how Inuyasha thinks that hardship will be good for Shiori and he’s rooting for her in his own way and in Yashahime we see he’s right and all in all that’s pretty nice. Anyway next time we have the Panther Demon filler arc which is honestly probably one of my favorite filler arcs in Inuyasha so that’ll be fun.

Yu Yu Hakusho: Yusuke continues his fight with Suzaku and Suzaku splits himself into seven, which this doesn’t seem to be the Multi-Form or Shadow Clones deal where it divides his energy, each one seems as strong as the original so that’s just kind of broken. Keiko pulls a bait and switch on the zombies which neither Suzaku nor Yusuke see coming despite watching the whole thing on Spirit TV, guess Suzaku had the camera point at the door instead of on Keiko for some reason even though the point is to make Yusuke watch her die. Anyway Yusuke flashes back to Genkai telling him he’s a little bitch that always doubts himself and splits his energy across multiple plans instead of having the confidence to go for something with everything he has and make it work instead of holding back in case it doesn’t. This and remembering his mom crying over his death and all the relationships he’s formed makes him go Super Saiyan in what I can only describe as a Fully Body Shotgun which I don’t think ever comes up again. He knocks down all the Suzakus but it’s just time to start the real fight since Yusuke’s lifted his limiter again like he does in every fight.

Fate Zero: So the clusterfuck in the middle of Saber and Lancer’s battle continues to grow as Iskandar just fucking dares everyone to come at him and five of the seven servants actually do. Gilgamesh is all like “Ugh, why do I have to do this shit, breathing sucks, I’m a king, someone breathe for me.” And tries to murder everyone with spears and shit but turns out Berserker is Darth Vader this time around and uses the force to steal his stolen weapons until Rin’s dad is all like “Dude you’re showing the whole world our fucking moveset, get the fuck out of there. Which given that Gilgamesh is an archer which are supposed to be independent and he’s a fucking snobby asshole, even with a Command Seal I’m surprised that worked. Also Waver’s racist teacher is all “hah wow, I was supposed to have Rider and the token teenager character stole it from me” and Iskandar’s like “I like this kid that’s ride or die with me even though he cries all the time way more than someone who doesn’t even step onto the battlefield you stuck up prick” and then Lancer and Berserker double-team Saber (giggity) and Lancer’s not happy about it because he was fighting Saber first and doesn’t wanna just jump her with Darth Vader but more Command Seals are thrown around until Iskander runs over Darth Vader with his fucking Lightning Chariot and that’s kind of shitty because Racist Teacher man wasted a Command Seal to have Lancer attack Saber for like five seconds before making him retreat. Bug Dude is also kinda freaked out that Berserker just kinda went for Saber meaning she must be pretty pissed at Saber about something anyway so basically everyone runs away and nothing is really accomplished, we didn’t even really need Kiritsugu’s sniper shit or Assassins’s Ninja Bullshit for this everyone’s just had enough and goes home. Also Caster is a creepy yandere simp for Saber but really who isn’t in this series.

Konosuba: So Aqua’s ready to sit in a lake for a few hours to make some money but for the first time in her live her divine booty is not enough to solve this problem. She gets traumatized by getting attacked by demon alligators and Kazuma and co. are honestly uncharacteristically worried about her and ready to try and help her. Meanwhile generic isekai protagonist has a crush on Aqua despite already having his own harem of bland girls and wants to steal Aqua back but basically the whole group is so totally anti-White Knight they can see right through his shit and turn him down. Kazuma beats him up in the most Kazuma way possible and steals his magic sword, proving that not only is he not doing anything to defeat the devil king but he’s actively sabotaging those that are. Aqua fucking decks the guy and blackmails him so she’s rich now and Kazuma’s rich from selling his OP Isekai Cheat Sword. Also the Dullahan dude is back for revenge about bombing his castle and Kazuma’s like “Wait were we still doing that? Thought we stopped, oh well everyone in this world’s problems are our fault somehow so it sounds about right.”

Sailor Moon Crystal: So this time we get Makoto’s story who’s probably my favorite thus far because her job is punching shit and making sure Usagi doesn’t die from the hundreds of things ready to hit her on a daily basis. I have sort of found a redeeming trait for Usaig in that she’s willing to reach out to anyone and everyone, like she’s not what I would call traditionally ‘nice’ but she is friendly and that ability to pull disparate people together does kind of make more sense for why she’d be the leader rather than the other girls who have useful but more specific talents. But yeah continuing with the trend of things teen girls like trying to destroy the world, haunted bridal shop that also reveals Makoto’s tragic backstory of being a more believable version of Tall Girl. Makoto transforms and beats up the Bride lady with a combination of Zenbonzakura Kageyoshi and Azula’s lightning bending, no fair that she gets two powers but I guess she is the tough one so it make sense. Now we’ve basically got the whole crew except for the one that we already know is active but hasn’t joined the group yet so we’ll see how this goes.

Durarara!!: So Mikado’s in deep shit after stealing the girl away that half the town is looking for, all because he has it hammered into his head that whenever a girl asks for his help he has to give it. There’s a bit of discussion about the nature of the Dollars that I’m sure won’t be important later but both Izaya and Celty show up outside Mikado’s school and he’s kind of in an awkward position since there’s nowhere he can really go but home and lead them to the girl. So he decides to find out about them, or at least Celty, Izaya’s just kinda along for the ride. He gets Celty’s backstory and agrees to take her to the other girl only to get jumped by Yagiri thugs and pull out some Death Note animation internet shit that has even Izaya stunned, Mikado about to actually become the main character of this anime for a bit.

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We’ve gotten a lot of interest and a lot of questions about this zine project, so we thought we’d provide an update on who we are and where we’re trending based on initial feedback.

Our team lead / head mod for this effort is @lifeaftermeteor. She’s been a fan of Gundam Wing since the initial airing on Toonami nearly 20 years ago and has been an active contributor in the fandom since 2014, producing playlists, fanfic, meta, and a slew of headcanons. She also wrangles (one of) the Gundam Wing Discord Servers alongside @amyole and @simulacraryn. She’s only recently gotten off of a four-month sprint working with 16 exceptional fans on the @acworldbuildingzine (which was released in May in all its 140-page glory) and is ready for more! Judging by brainstorming sessions with the last zine crew, she’s not alone. ;)

@rose--whip has been a fan of Gundam Wing since its debut on Toonami. Though not always active in the fandom, they have returned to the series in celebration of the 25th anniversary. In addition to joining forces with @lifeaftermeteor on this project, they also are head mod for @yuyuzine.

Gundam Wing has been a cornerstone for our fandom experience, and we expect it’s been much the same for all of you. We want to celebrate this milestone year and do something special for the show’s 25th anniversary with all of you: as a family, as a team, as a fandom.

@roscwhip posted an interest check trying to see if there was an interest among the fandom to do a 25th anniversary zine. As it turns out, @lifeaftermeteor had been ginning up a similar zine project with the folks on the Discord Server. Rather than duplicate efforts, we’ve opted to combine forces and produce an exceptional product that pulls in as many corners of the fandom that we can reach.

What’s that mean in practice? Well… more content! Based on initial discussions this spring, we’re aiming at two zine products. The primary zine will be a “milestones/history/celebration” focus; the “bonus” zine will leverage feedback from the interest check and be focused on that chosen theme. In both instances we plan to cast a wide net for content creation and participation!

Right now, we are also looking at this project resulting in a FREE PDF digital release and will work with contributors to determine a (list of) charity organization(s) which we would encourage folks donate to should they be able to do so. This is what the community did for the @acworldbuildingzine, and we think it was a really good idea.

As energized and excited as we are about this project, we can’t do it alone! We’re going to be looking for some fellow mods to help shoulder the burden and will be posting a Mod Application form on July 1. Once we have full team on deck, we’ll be able to follow up with more fidelity on everything from timelines to content parameters. Stay tuned!! And don’t forget about the interest check!

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My Review of The Promised Neverland

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Season 15 Of One Piece Is Not Returning To Toonami

Well there were rumors lately about the releasing something about the season 15 of the One Piece Manga. And many anime and Japanese manga lovers was excited about this. Because as we know One Piece is an all time favorite Japanese Manga since 1997 and up until now many kids and adults are still hook with this Manga even if we are already 2019. Imagine that 22 years of existing of the Manga World and never goes out of style or trend of the people’s eyes.

So now we are going to get down about the news that is  plentiful more often than not, and it can be difficult sorting through what’s what. The unfortunate proliferation of fake news has managed to infect the fandom as rumors try their best to become fact. So, we need to know which is which and was it fake or legit. So let’s get basis of the Toonami report...

No, One Piece is not set to return to the late night block. Sorry for the inconvenience though!

Recently, reports began cropping up online after a reported press release from Funimation was made public. The piece said One Piece was slated to make a Toonami return with season 15, and fans were asked to stay tuned for details about its premiere date. And fans are really on hook by this and constantly waiting.

The staff at Toonami Faithful also received this press release. So Toonami news reached out to the Funimation to confirm whether is it real or not. This press released was shared to several online forums as well as news sites before a staffer with Toonami News reached out to Funimation for comment.

And the result were .. “The staff at Toonami Faithful also received this press release. We reached out to FUNimation and was told this is fake,” CJ Maffris shared. So as you can see there were evidence or testimony from a liable source that season 15 has no premier date and it is not releasing.

So when the press knew about this they release  and blasted out fake news in order that fans would be alarm and stop waiting for nothing. There are no plans to bring back One Piece to Toonami at the moment, and fans admit they are not surprised to hear this news while still disappointed. After all, the press release did have a couple major discrepancies which made fans double take. For instance, the anime’s synopsis for season 15 does not align with the one Funimation fans are familiar with, and no official announcement was shared on the legit social media pages.

Now, fans know that never happened because there’s no truth behind the report. For now, Toonami will remain without the Straw Hat crew as Monkey D. Luffy prepares to tackle a new anime arc this summer. And that will keep the fans heads up for the moment.

Eiichiro Oda's One Piece first began serialization in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997. It is already in 80 volumes collected so far, and has been a critical and commercial success worldwide with many of the volumes breaking printing records in Japan. The manga has even set a Guinness World Record for the most copies published for the same comic book by a single author, and is the best-selling manga series worldwide with over 430 million copies sold. The series still ranked number one in manga sales in 2018, which surprised fans of major new entries. 

So therefore to conclude, NO ONE PIECE SEASON 15 IS ANNOUNCED TO BE RELEASED YET OR PUBLISH.

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How I would do Dragonball Super

I’m 40+ episodes into Dragon Ball Super on Toonami and it’s mostly not very good.  But there are some elements of it that I do enjoy, so I’m going to write down how I would do the series if I was in charge.

- I won’t get bogged down thinking about how I would do it from scratch, no one would want to read that anyway.  It’d just be fanfiction.  I’m going to use what we already have as a base. - The overarching thing connecting most of the plots in Super is the focus on gods and the higher workings of the DB universe.  This is a good idea.  There’s always been sort of an upward trend of that through the entire franchise, where we start thinking Shenron is a sort of god, then meeting Kami and Piccolo who are like god and the devil, learning how heaven works at the beginning of Z, and so on until we get to Supreme and Elder Kai.  This works especially because the power levels at the end of Z are so high that it feels right that we need to go into those higher strata and eventually into other universes to find higher power levels. - Starting from there, I’m going to go through the whole show and say what I would keep and not keep.

- So, for Battle of Gods, I like that Goku never actually matches Beerus’s power.  It sets a goal for him to continually get to throughout Super and it feels very cosmic.  What I don’t like is the lack of explanation about almost anything interesting that’s introduced here.  Heck, there’s explanations for things that we didn’t need, like how Beerus met Vegeta’s dad, but there’s no explanation on how the Saiyans have this insane ritual that lets them become gods. - Remember how Dragonball Z was much more serious than Dragonball?  Well, the change from DBZ to my DB Super is that a lot more is explained.  There’s more mythology, so we can explain where all these super high power levels come from.  They can’t just get away with having them go higher and higher with no real change in how they train, or no explanation for how Super Saiyan God works.  That’s one of the most annoying things about Super to me.  They just throw any real sense of progression out the window.  It’s almost like a challenge to the writers: So you want to make a new Dragonball series.  How do you justify having powers continually grow beyond their already insane amounts (there’s a hint of this in the Buu arc, where almost every powerup in that arc is due to magic)?  I think that warrants explanation, and I myself am explaining this choice a lot because I know it’s kind of controversial to think of DB with a bunch of exposition.  But think how much cooler Super Saiyan God would be if it got more buildup than “I heard this thing exists?” and then asking Shenron about it?  What if Bulma actually had to do some kind of intergalactic research about this, like she does a bit later in the show?  The Saiyans need to have some concrete connection with the gods in order for SSG to be a thing.  There’s talk in that arc about “Divine Power” and it seems to almost be different from regular power.  That’s never explored, but it’s interesting.  

Surprise Note: Between the time I started writing this and the time I posted it, Toriyama actually tried to explain a little bit about Super Saiyan God in an interview, which is amazing.  However, the explanation is more related to the original SS form, and also is about as good as the one I come up with here, so I’m keeping the following in the post. The Saiyans are this race that are wildly amazing warriors, turn into giant monkeys, and get stronger every time they heal from injuries.  What if there was a battle-obsessed Kai a long time ago who made this race somehow, and SSG was invoking his spirit?  That doesn’t sound too complicated, right? - You can keep the ritual itself and especially Videl’s involvement, which is the most creative thing in Super thus far.  You can keep the cruise ship setting because that’s new and interesting.  You can even keep Pilaf’s involvement because why not. - We need to explain why Goku can still breathe in space and retain the god power after it supposedly runs out, or just have it not run out at all.  We need to change the scene where Beerus hits Bulma, because it doesn’t really amount to anything except another declaration from Vegeta that he loves his family, which we know.  That could easily be a smaller more subtle moment where he simply takes that hit for her without saying anything.  And we need to change those weird-ass energy waves created by Goku and Beerus clashing that threaten to destroy the world or universe or whatever.  Those were so stupid.  Where did they come from?  Why do we never see them again?  They’re unneeded because this arc should be about Goku proving himself and realizing how much further there is still to ascend.  And Beerus threatening to destroy the world is enough, we don’t need these energy waves. - One final thing we need to get into is what exactly being a Destroyer means.  I don’t mind them existing, but we need to get into what the Kais do that counteracts the destroying - do they create new worlds? - And we need to understand how it is that Beerus can seemingly stop destroying anything after this arc, when that’s supposedly his purpose.  In one of the more recent episodes that aired on Toonami, Zeno actually says that it is their purpose to destroy.  So why aren’t they doing it anymore?  Yes, it would be weird to have him still running around destroying entire civilizations in a show with a light tone like this, but that’s just something that needs to be reconciled with what we know about Beerus. We saw him destroying planets early on in the show, and that was also weirdly lighthearted when it should be a bigger deal.  You can’t just introduce a character who blows up billions of people every day and treat it like it ain’t no thing.  So just, figure that stuff out I guess. - I don’t have too many problems with the beginning of the Golden Frieza arc.  It’s fine to have a plotline focusing around Pan’s birth.  I would say the Mr. Satan stuff is unneeded - it’s yet another story about him being confused for being stronger than he is.  Just have him be more involved in the Pan storyline, he’s her grandfather after all.  Mr. Satan can be funny without doing that one thing. -I don’t mind that Whis trains Vegeta and Goku either.  It’s kind of a cool twist to have him be Beerus’s teacher, and gives you the idea that there’s stuff about the higher workings of the universe that still have yet to be explained (and of course, at this point, there are).  I think Beerus should also still be relatively hostile to Goku and Vegeta at this point, because I assume we don’t want to make him not a destroyer, so the other option is that he’s still planning to go around destroying at this point, which means he should be less quick to be friends with them.  This isn’t too hard to do since he’s a pretty ornery guy anyway.  But the training itself needs to be more interesting.  They get into this a little bit, with Whis teaching them to move without taking the time to sense ki and stuff.  There should be more unique methods and things like that - these are crazy levels of power, it has to be unorthodox.  Also, if we’re going to do Super Saiyan Blue in this arc (and I’m not sure that we will), hint at that a little bit beforehand. - Don’t show Champa and Vados so early though.  They distract from the main threat this arc, and sort of make you want it to end so you can see what’s up with them.  Or actually, maybe you could show them and...Hold on, I’ll get to this in a minute. - So, Frieza.  Some stuff about his reintroduction can be improved.  In Super, he just has some remnants of his army running around, and they use the Dragonballs to wish for pieces of his body, and then reform him using technology.  I just feel like this should be more hard-fought.  I see why the Dragonballs need to be used, so we can keep those.  But instead of his army just running around in a ship somewhere, we should see what it’s like still pledging your life to this dead empire.  What have they been doing in the many intervening years?  Are they space pirates?  Do they recruit people?  Are they viewed as something like a cult on other planets?  Let’s see how far they had to come to get to this point.  Then, after they use the Dragonballs, they shouldn’t just be able to get Freiza into tip-top shape just like that.  Maybe once they revive him he’s in a much weaker, almost emaciated state, and has to train harder than ever to even get back to how strong he was before.  And yes, we’re removing that stupid bit about Freiza never having to had to train before.  The dude had three different forms to conserve his power because he had so much.  You can say that he was born with some of that, but don’t say that he didn’t train at all.  Since he’s weak, we can also have him be a bit more grateful to the people that revived him, and I’m either-or on whether he should still shoot Tagama or not because I tend not to like it when villains hurt their henchmen, having seen it eighty billion times in One Piece.  So, now, instead of making a new form to conserve his power, he’s making a new form to attain higher power, which he’s never done before.  Of course, we don’t know about Golden Freiza until he transforms into it later, but we can hint that that’s what he’s trying to do.  I think we should see a little bit of his training, and that technology should be a big part of it.  Instead of it completely reviving him to his former strength, it can revive him into a weaker form and then help him get back to normal, and further.  He’d be like Ivan Drago from Rocky.  Golden Frieza would be a testament to the power of technology, that it could be used to get Frieza to the level of gods.  But if he comes back weaker, it could take him a long time to train.  Longer than it takes in the show, which is already awhile.  Maybe we could have something happen during his and Goku and Vegeta’s training.  Maybe something like...A Tournament? - Yes, I’m thinking about putting the Beerus Vs. Champa arc here, before Frieza comes to earth and before Super Saiyan Blue.  I don’t think it’s a terrible idea, though I’m not married to it.  Let’s just think about it. - You would lose almost nothing by doing it.  Don’t want to lose the surprise reveal of SS Blue during the Frieza fight?  No one said putting the tournament before it meant that Goku uses that instead of Kaio-Ken at the end.  Just make him use the Kaio-Ken with regular SS God.  It’s a Super Red Super Saiyan, and you still get your surprise reveal.  Frieza’s eventual comeback may only be made more interesting by having Frost show up before him (or before he comes to Earth in any case).  Seeing who is essentially a more powerful Frieza get put down easily by Vegeta shows you how far our Frieza has to go.  It’s not too important that Jaco’s introduction is when it is, he’s not that good of a character anyway.  Introducing the revelation of multiple universes and King Zeno’s promise of a tournament in the future might serve to make viewers impatient during Frieza’s return, but I’m pretty sure Goku Black doesn’t have much to do with the Tournament of Power either, so why not two arcs that don’t?  The Frieza thing is pretty short anyway. - I don’t really know if there’d be a net gain from putting this tournament where it is.  I think part of why I want to do it is so we can have more time with SS God before it stops being used completely.  And after the tournament arc, Goku and Vegeta continue to train with Whis and everything continues like normal.  So, it’s just something to think about.  I’ll get to what I would change about the 6&7 Tournament later.  First I have a few more things to say about Frieza. - I think the leadup to the Frieza fight itself should generally be more intresting but I’m not sure how.  It’s just a battle with a bunch of Frieza’s henchmen, and Tagama is the only one that really gives them any trouble.  Even just having the army attack a city instead of some random place would be more interesting. - Since it might seem like I’m being pretty hard on the series here I just want to say that a lot of Frieza’s dialogue is really good.  At least (maybe especially) in the dub.  He has a lot of really great and funny lines about how pissed off he is.  I hope Chris Ayres can recover quick and continue voicing the character because I know he shows up again.  I also like the hell Frieza was in.  That can stay also. - The main thing I want changed about Resurrection F is that it should be Vegeta’s big win.  Super tries to use Vegeta well, I can tell, but they still don’t use him the right way.  This second Frieza fight is his opportunity to have a real win, against the guy that destroyed his planet no less.  I know this is something some fans wanted when the movie came out, and I agree with them.  The whole time reversal thing is bullcrap the writers did so they could have both Vegeta AND Goku win, but that’s not really how it works.  Goku’s win is second, Goku’s win is final, so it’s Goku’s win in the end.  No.  Keep the time reversal and switch their roles, or do something else, I don’t know.  Vegeta should deal the final blow here. - Golden Frieza could probably be changed a bit.  Make him look slightly different, or make it so it’s made of nanites or something, like a weird upgrade of Cyborg Frieza.  I don’t mind the gold and purple coloring itself though. - Piccolo dying is a bit overdone, also.  Kill Kr- wait he died twice.  Kill Yam- wait he also died twice.  Kill Tien. - The arc isn’t that long so there’s not much more to comment on.  Moving on. - Okay, so let’s talk about the 6&7 tournament now that we’re at the point where it is in the real Super. - Surprise: I don’t mind Monaka.  This is actually pretty funny because I was under the impression that he was actually a strong fighter, because when these episodes first aired my friends showed me a picture of him on the wiki and said “This guy is supposed to be stronger than Goku!”  He’s a gag character and he doesn’t hurt anybody, so whatever. - But I really don’t like Zuno-sama.  The only saving grace of that whole episode is them randomly running into the dine-and-dashing frogman that Jaco was looking for.  The rest of the episode is mean jokes about Bulma being old and other uselessness.  Zuno lives on this weird planet that’s shaped like some piece of Japanese esoterica that makes no sense, and he knows all.  Why?  We don’t know.  He’s lame and Bulma can just learn about the Super Dragonballs some other way. - The Super Dragonballs are fine, though it’s a bit weird that they’re used this early on.  I guess they’ll probably be used again in the final arc?  And where did these things even come from?  It’s said that the Namekian ones were carved from these, but I thought that Kami created the Earth dragonballs - shouldn’t that mean Guru the Namekian elder created the Namekian ones, with magic or something?  This isn’t something I necessarily want explained, but it is weird. - Goku should use his other Super Saiyan forms more.  These are cool-looking forms, let’s see them.  Goku’s in base form for most of this.  Why? - I don’t really mind the fights and fighters from this arc.  The first guy could maybe be replaced with someone more interesting, but everyone else is cool.  Frost’s thing where he seems nice and turns out to be evil is good.  There are some pretty good wins for Vegeta this arc, though they didn’t quite satisfy me as I said previously.  The Cabba fight, especially, is another “Vegeta is cool/cares about stuff” moment that isn’t handled as well as it could be.  The audience actually thinking Vegeta might be turning evil again is so damn stupid.  I don’t really like the alternative - the classic battle shonen thing where the hero’s friends deduce his true actions and nod their heads and smile knowingly - but these people know Vegeta pretty well by now, it’s been like two decades since the Frieza arc where he started to turn good. There doesn’t need to be any real tension here.  This fight is like a break from the tension. - The Magetta battle is pretty good, though I have no idea if you were supposed to understand what he was saying most of the time.  I guess that’s a dub issue. - And then we come to Hit.  Hit’s cool, but his look needs an update.  He’s just a purple man in some clothes.  Give him some tattoos, or something.  Some indication that this guy has been through a lot.  Also, as the strongest man from his universe, assassin is a pretty interesting job for him.  He could be pretty much anything he wanted, so I wonder if there’s a story behind that. - And his ability is also pretty cool, but it was weird - he essentially uses it to close the distance between him and an enemy, right?  But when he’s going, like, half a second or one second, well, that’s probably more than it would take him to just fly to the enemy....I’m not really sure how it works.  Is it like King Crimson from Jojo?  Maybe just make this a little more clear.  Also have it so his body gets pretty effed up when he continues improving it near the end of the fight.  That’s gotta take a toll on him.  But I don’t really need an explanation for how he learned it or anything.  It’s just one of those weird abilities that a single character will have in Dragonball. - Goku’s way of winning the fight is fine I guess.  Though, it’s weird that he went Kaio Ken x20 when fighting Frieza, but now x3 or 4 is okay.  If we’re putting this arc before Golden Frieza, I definitely think that having him just do Kaio Ken with regular SSG is a better move than having him go Blue right there. - Grand Zeno can be introduced here, but maybe make it after the Super Dragonballs are used?  It kind of depends on which one you consider more important.  Just something to think about. - The Super Dragon should look slightly different.  Its design is fine but its arms especially are weird. At the current point, we’re one episode after that, which was a fillerish episode where Goku fought Beerus who was disguised as Monaka.  I don’t know if I would make that a full episode, but it’s not insulting enough for me to be mad about it or anything.  The show, to its credit, does try to involve side characters a fair amount.  It’s not surprising that this is the Goku and Vegeta show at this point, so I’m not going to complain that I want to see others more - I do personally wish Uub could have been in this series, but I understand why they set it when they did, too. Obviously though, there’s still one elephant in the room:  The show looks kinda bad most of the time.  It’s regular Toei crap, where even though they should be able to hire the best in the biz, they hire people who don’t seem to care that much.  It’s lame.  The show just looks kind of glossy most of the time which kind of hurts it.  The old anime had this sort of rough look to it that a lot of old anime have, and it might partially be nostalgia that I like that better,t surely they could have tried to be evocative of that here, in HD?  I don’t know.  The show could definitely look better and be better animated.  There should be effects everywhere to showcase the massive power levels.  And maybe, just maybe, the characters could.....look a little closer to their actual age.  Just a little, maybe!!!  I dunno.  That’s it.  Thanks for reading.

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“That gloomy sea, and that Sinister lighthouse. Insidious mountains and looming cityscape. every inch of this place gets under my skin. Wait, that's it. This town is driving me insane, winding me up. It's making me spiral. Everywhere I look, spirals are taking over.” -          Shuichi Saito, Uzumaki (Ep. 01)

This Toonami Trending Rundown is for the month of September 2024. After first being announced in 2019, and going through four years of delays, this month that would culminate in the world premiere of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki.

For the night of September 7, #Toonami would trend in the U.S. alongside Demon Slayer. #Toonami would also trend on Tumblr alongside One Piece and My Hero Academia. On September 14, #Toonami trended in the United States and on Tumblr, with One Piece also trending on Tumblr. For the night of September 21, Toonami trended in the US on Twitter and on Tumblr, while Demon Slayer also trended in the USA. Finally, September 28th would see the premiere of Uzumaki, and as result of the buzz, both Uzumaki and Rick and Morty: The Anime would trend in the USA on Twitter, while Uzumaki also trended on Tumblr.

Meanwhile for Toonami Rewind, #ToonamiRewind would trend on both September 13 and 27. Sailor Moon would also trend on the 13th. Full trending statistics can be seen below.

The feature for September 14 was a new Toonami ID titled “Doppelganger.” You can check it out below.

On September 28, Toonami released a new Criminal Threats/Building You a Better Cartoon Show promo. You can check it out below.

The production for Uzumaki has not been easy and has since seen significant delays from its original release date since the show’s announcement at Crunchyroll Expo 2019. First from 2020, then to October 2022 thanks to the pandemic, until Toonami just stopped giving out an ETA release date altogether. During SDCC 2023, Toonami creator and Uzumaki producer Jason DeMarco noted that the reason for these delays, among other things, is “Because it turns out it’s very, very hard to replicate Junji Ito’s lines faithfully, but that hasn’t stopped us from continuing to work on it.” It wasn’t until 2024 that we finally got the news that the show was ready to go.

While Uzumaki’s first episode aired without a hitch, episodes 2, 3, and 4 on the other hand, saw some recognizable hitches in regards to the animation quality. According to show producer Jason DeMarco in a now deleted Bluesky post, he mentioned that they were “screwed over” during the show’s production, which ultimately played a major role in the show’s delays and animation quality dip. Unfortunately, the choices given to the Uzumaki production team in the end were to either cancel the production and call it a total loss (and presumably see the production written off in a similar fashion to Coyote vs Acme), only release Episode 1 and leave the series incomplete, or to release the series despite its flaws. The latter of the three was ultimately the decision chosen.

Jason couldn't point fingers to who was responsible for Uzumaki's production issues, though it surely wasn’t helped that this miniseries was produced during the ongoing upheaval with Warner Bros Discovery, with CEO David Zaslav infamously going on a cost cutting and tax write off spree to make up for WBD’s post-merger debts. And given that this series was announced at the now-defunct Crunchyroll Expo, its likely this series would have been available to stream on Crunchyroll as well, had Sony not burn bridges with WBD.

Oftentimes, if a show has such animation quality issues due to a rushed schedule, it tends to be smoothed out for the Blu-ray release and reruns. However, it is unknown if and when Production I.G and Cartoon Network plans on fixing these mistakes for a BD release, much less if we will have a Blu-ray release at all. Regardless of what happened and what happens going forward, Toonami, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, and Warner Bros Discovery as a whole will no doubt need to get their acts together on this front, especially if Lazarus, Rooster Fighter, and other future Toonami originals are to be the smash hits fans are hoping will be.

Unfortunately, Uzumaki’s case is not unique in the anime world. From Attack on Titan, to Dragon Ball Super, to One Punch Man, to Zom 100, to anything made by Studio MAPPA, no small amount of anime titles in the modern era have seen frequent delays and are occasionally rushed out the door with animation flaws. A big reason for that is a shortage in manpower. From the high demand for anime productions from domestic and international licensors alike, to the low pay and grueling work conditions of its animators, production cast and crews, and manga artists (not to mention Japan’s declining birth and immigration rates), the anime industry has backed themselves into a corner with less and less people being able to get into the industry as a viable career path. It’s a big reason many anime series don’t go beyond 12-14 episodes a season nowadays. And it certainly played a role in the Great Anime Crash of 2008 and is playing a role in the current anime dark age we’re seeing today.  For more on that, check out my Op-Ed “The 2020’s Anime and Streaming Service Bubble Burst.”

As previously mentioned, due to personal reasons, I’m unfortunately running a bit late on posting Trending Rundowns, so expect the editions for the rest of 2024 to be posted in the coming weeks. Apologies for the inconvenience. Until next time, stay gold as always.

Legend: The shows listed are ordered based on their appearance on the schedule. Show trends are listed in bold. The number next to the listed trend represents the highest it trended on the list (not counting the promoted trend), judging only by the images placed in the rundown. For the Twitter tweet counts, the listed number of tweets are also sorely based on the highest number shown based on the images on the rundown.

September 7-8, 2024 Toonami Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#10]

#DemonSlayer [Trended with #Toonami]

Tweet Counts:

#Toonami [3,008 tweets]

#DemonSlayer [3,777 tweets]

#OnePiece [35.6k tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#Toonami [#1]

#one piece [#4]

#my hero academia [Trended with #bnha]

#boku no hero academia [Trended with #bnha]

#bnha [#6]

September 13, 2024 Toonami Rewind Trends

United States Trends:

#ToonamiRewind [#9]

#SailorMoon [#27]

Tweet Counts:

#SailorMoon [1,291 tweets]

September 14-15, 2024 Toonami Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#13]

Tweet Counts:

#Toonami [2,137 tweets]

#DemonSlayer [3.206 tweets]

#MyHeroAcademia [10.1k tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#Toonami [#7]

#one piece [#3]

September 21-22, 2024 Toonami Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#22]

#DemonSlayer [Trended with #Toonami]

Tweet Counts:

#Toonami [2,097 tweets]

#DemonSlayer [2,136 tweets]

#MyHeroAcademia [11.1k tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#Toonami [#6]

September 27, 2024 Toonami Rewind Trends

United States Trends:

#ToonamiRewind [#23]

September 28-29, 2024 Toonami Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#13]

#Uzumaki [#4]

#RickAndMortyTheAnime [Trended with #Uzumaki]

Tweet Counts:

#Toonami [3,627 tweets]

#Uzumaki [3,790 tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#Toonami [#6]

#uzumaki [#9]

If you wish to send me a tip for the work on the trending rundown, donations can be sent to PayPal.Me/DanielLimjoco.

Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned. Only Toonami on [adult swim] on Cartoon Network.

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Toonami Trending Rundown for March 16th-17th, 2019, By @AnimeSavior

Toonami Trending Rundown for March 16th-17th, 2019, By @AnimeSavior

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The Toonami Trending Rundown for March 16-17, 2019. The night marked the 22nd anniversary of the better cartoon show and while Toonami didn’t have anything planned this year, this anniversary night is one we won’t be forgetting anytime soon to say the least.

Around 6 minutes into this week’s scheduled Sword Art Online, when Kikuoka…

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Guide to Toonami Trending: The reason I made this guide is so everyone will have a better understanding of why we try to trend shows every Saturday night during Toonami. First of all the reason we trend shows is to show the popularity and interest of the show which is counted toward ratings, when trending you use a hashtag in your tweet (Ex: #ShowName is on Toonami!) we only hashtag and trend the show name because that is what actually counts, in order for a show to better trend we all must use the same hashtag when tweeting, using different hashtags and multiple hashtags limits the ability of getting a show to trend, by everyone using different versions of hashtags we are just essentially fighting ourselves trying to get the shows trending, I see a lot of people using different versions of hashtags and that needs to stop, everyone needs to use the official hashtags that toonami uses. Rules for Trending: ONLY HASHTAG AND TREND THE SHOW NAME: EX: #DBZKai is on Toonami! 1. Don't over tag your tweets,only one hashtag per tweet, more than one hash tag makes a tweet spam and won't help with trending. Don’t used the same hash tag multiple times in the same tweet as it will be counted as spam. 2. Your tweet must be relevant to your hashtag, in other words don't tweet anything off topic with the hashtag or it will not be counted. Also hashtags cannot be tweeted by themselves are they will not be counted as well. 3. Do not repeatedly tweet the same tweet over and over as it will also be consider spam. 4. Your account must be public if it is private your tweets will not count toward trending, you can change your account back to private after Toonami is over if you wish to do so. 5. Retweeting does not count toward trending unless you quote/manually retweet the tweet. (Ex: “@Username: #ShowName is on Toonami!”) Submitting Trends: When submitting screens captures to @AnimeSavior or @ToonamiNews for the trending rundown you must make sure your trends list are set to United States or Worldwide, Tailored trends do not count as anything, so please make sure you trends list are set properly. TOONAMI TRENDING SCHEDULE: Here is the trending schedule. Remember: 1. Only use the hashtag for shows and no hashtag for Toonami. 2. This is for Eastern Time. Subtract 1 hour for your time zone. 8:00 pm: #DBZKai is on AdultSwim 11:00 PM - 12:00 AM: Tweet #WatchToonami. 12:00 AM: #DBZKai is on Toonami 12:30 AM: #KillLAKill is on Toonami 1:00 AM: #SwordArtOnlineII is on Toonami 1:30 AM: #InuYashaTheFinalAct is on Toonami 2:00 AM: #Shippuden is on Toonami 2:30 AM: #OnePiece is on Toonami 3:00 AM: #AttackOnTitan is on Toonami This about covers everything there is to know about Trending, Please read and share the trending schedule and guide, If you have any questions be sure to tweet me @JMB_70056 or @PaulPescrillo on twitter.

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“Kal-El of Krypton! I answered your call. The Beacon reached me across your Galaxy, the only other Kryptonian in existence. And I arrive, only to see you brought me to this...sickening display. [Superman: "You're Kara, you're my cousin?"] And you're a disappointment. I thought I would find a warrior. Instead, I find a joke, a lapdog, serving his entertainment to a weak and dissolute world. I'm not saying that there aren't temptations here. But a true Kryptonian pushes through. This planet it's made you soft. [Superman: "What are you saying?"] You have two choices, join me in conquering this planet, or kneel before your new Kryptonian Empire.” -          Kara Zor-El, My Adventures with Superman (Season 2, Ep. 05)

The Toonami Trending Rundown for June 15-16, 2024. We reach the halfway point of My Adventures with Superman season 2 as Clark reunites with his long-lost cousin Kara. And among other great moments, we’re coming down the stretch with three more episodes of Zom 100’s first season after this week, as Akira returns home to his family; while Usopp and the Dwarves attack Sugar to try and stop her control of the toys.

For this week’s trending on Saturday, #Toonami trended in the USA on Twitter alongside My Adventures with Superman and Zom 100. No trends for Toonami Rewind on Friday were spotted this week.

This week’s feature was a new bumper ID titled “Screen Updates.” You can check it out below:

While there have been rumors and inclinations from Adult Swim that they do plan on producing a second season of Ninja Kamui, there is no official word on whether a second season is presently in production at this time. In a since-deleted news release by Business Wire, the article included a passage signifying that a second season of Ninja Kamui was in the works, saying ““NINJA KAMUI” anime series has become the most viewed anime ever in the history of both Adult Swim & MAX,” said Joseph Chou, CEO of Sola Entertainment. “We hope this game will continue to entertain the fans around the world while we work on Season 2 of the anime.””

However, Jason DeMarco has denied such an announcement, saying that “A second season has not been announced.” Chou later clarified to Anime News Network on Wednesday: “that the game's PR staff inserted the quote about Sola Entertainment "working on" a second season. While he said that they are considering new ideas, "there is nothing official at all."”

Next month, the block will be in a bit of a transition period as both Zom 100 and My Adventures with Superman will be completing their respective seasons on July 6 and July 20th respectively. For the nights of July 13 and 20th, both One Piece and Demon Slayer will have doubleheaders on the lineup on 12:30-1:30 a.m. and 3-4 a.m. respectively. Furthermore, on July 27, which ironically enough is Comic-Con week this year, My Adventures with Superman will be getting a marathon of all 10 episodes of its second season, a week after its season finale.

Not much else to say other than we hope you had a great Father's Day and Juneteenth, congratulations to the Boston Celtics on winning their record 18th NBA Championship, and stay gold.

Legend: The shows listed are ordered based on their appearance on the schedule. Show trends are listed in bold. The number next to the listed trend represents the highest it trended on the list (not counting the promoted trend), judging only by the images placed in the rundown. For the Twitter tweet counts, the listed number of tweets are also sorely based on the highest number shown based on the images on the rundown.

Toonami Rewind Trends

Tweet Counts:

Adult Swim [9,260 tweets]

#SailorMoon [2,886 tweets]

Toonami Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#17]

#MyAdventuresWithSuperman [#11]

#Zom100 [#9]

Tweet Counts:

#MyAdventuresWithSuperman [1,314 tweets]

If you wish to send me a tip for the work on the trending rundown, donations can be sent to PayPal.Me/DanielLimjoco.

Only Toonami on [adult swim] on Cartoon Network.

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Nezuko: "Thank Goodness…are you alright?" Tanjiro: "Thank Goodness. You didn't turn into ash and disappear." -          Demon Slayer: Swordsmith Village Arc (Ep. 11)

The Toonami Trending Rundown for October 2024. This month featured, among other things, the second, third and fourth episodes of Uzumaki airing on the block, while we would also see the completion of Demon Slayer’s Swordsmith Village arc and the season finale of Rick and Morty: The Anime.

For the trending report on Toonami Rewind, #ToonamiRewind would trend on October 4th alongside Sailor Moon. As for Toonami proper, the night of October 5 saw #Toonami trending in the USA on Twitter alongside Uzumaki and Demon Slayer. Uzumaki also trended on Tumblr. For the night of October 12, #Toonami trended in the USA, while Uzumaki trended in the US on Twitter and on Tumblr. And for the (season) finales of Uzumaki, Rick and Morty, and Demon Slayer on October 19, #Toonami trended in the US alongside Uzumaki and Demon Slayer. Both Uzumaki and Demon Slayer also trended on Tumblr.

Among the features for the month Toonami reviewed Still Wakes the Deep by The Chinese Room on October 5th. It received an 8 out of 10 score.

In an interview with Collider, Genndy Tartakovsky revealed some new information regarding Primal. Among other things, season 3 will be premiering on Adult Swim in 2025, the first two episodes are in post-production as of the interview, and half of the season is fully animated so far. We’ll keep you posted on the developments ahead.

New York Comic Con took place in October, and Adult Swim hosted a panel for Lazarus with producers Gil Austin, Joseph Chou, Takenari Maeda and Shinichirō Watanabe. Fans who were lucky enough to get in the room were treated to seeing the series’ first episode. Adult Swim plans on premiering the show this April 2025.

For those who couldn’t attend NYCC, Adult Swim has released a new “First Look” preview of Lazarus on their social media platforms. This 1:50 sneak peak of the premiere episode was first showcased to those who attended the Rick and Morty: The Anime panel in San Diego Comic-Con back in July and has now been released to the general public.

Also at NYCC, Aniplex revealed that two hit Shonen Jump franchises will come to Toonami as Demon Slayer goes on hiatus from the lineup. The first being the return of Blue Exorcist for the first time since 2014, airing on November 2nd at 1:00 a.m. EST. And the other being the U.S. television premiere of Mashle: Magic and Muscles the following week, on November 9th at 12:30 a.m.

Finally during the month, it was revealed that the new Cartoon Network Studios original series Invincible Fight Girl would join the lineup as Toonami’s newest original series on November 2nd at midnight.

Of course, Demon Slayer is far from done, as the wait continues for the eight-episode fourth season, the Hashira Training Arc, to reach Toonami airwaves. And Ufotable is presently working on the arc after, the Infinity Castle story arc, which as of now will be a film trilogy. Its first installment to hit theaters sometime in 2025. We’ll keep you posted on the developments ahead.

Not much to say until next edition of the trending rundown, congratulations to the New York Liberty for winning the WNBA Championship, congrats to the Los Angeles Dodgers for winning the World Series and stay gold as always.

Legend: The shows listed are ordered based on their appearance on the schedule. Show trends are listed in bold. The number next to the listed trend represents the highest it trended on the list (not counting the promoted trend), judging only by the images placed in the rundown. For the Twitter tweet counts, the listed number of tweets are also sorely based on the highest number shown based on the images on the rundown.

October 4, 2024 Toonami Rewind Trends

United States Trends:

#ToonamiRewind [#19]

#SailorMoon [Trended with #ToonamiRewind]

Tweet Counts:

#SailorMoon [2,646 tweets]

October 5-6, 2024 Toonami Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#23]

#Uzumaki [#24]

Tweet Counts:

#Toonami [3,295 tweets]

#Uzumaki [2,197 tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#uzumaki [#4]

October 19-20, 2024 Toonami Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#9]

#Uzumaki [#14]

#DemonSlayer [Trending with #Toonami and #Uzumaki]

Tweet Counts:

#Toonami [3,791 tweets]

#Uzumaki [2,165 tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#uzumaki [#1]

#demon slayer [#1]

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Thank Goodness. Only Toonami on [adult swim] on Cartoon Network.

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“Usagi, I need you to listen to me. Strange things are happening in the city. Even the Police can't handle what's going on. A dangerous enemy has appeared. You're the only one who can defeat this enemy. You're the guardian that's been chosen for this mission. But there's more than just that. you also have to find the other Guardians and our Princess.” -          Luna, Sailor Moon (Ep. 01)

The Toonami Trending Rundown for May 31 and June 1-2, 2024. For the first time since April 15, 2004, Toonami would return to airing on a weekday timeslot on Fridays with Toonami Rewind as part of Adult Swim’s expansion to 5pm to showcase classic Cartoon Network programming. The inaugural lineup featured the return of Sailor Moon to Toonami for the first time in 23 years alongside an hour of DBZ Kai and OG Naruto. 

And fans on social media responded very positively to Toonami Rerun’s debut. On Twitter, #ToonamiRewind trended in the USA alongside Sailor Moon and DBZ Kai.

Meanwhile on the regular Toonami late night lineup, Zom 100 returned from its three-week hiatus, and Demon Slayer begun its rerun of the Entertainment District arc in the meantime. In terms of trends, #Toonami trended in the USA on Twitter alongside My Adventures with Superman and Zom 100. #Toonami also trended on Tumblr.

This week’s feature was a game review of Dave the Diver, developed by Mintrocket studios. It received an 8.5 out of 10 score.

Despite the present upheaval at Warner Bros Discovery, the current success of Toonami was paramount to Cartoon Network and Adult Swim creating Toonami Rewind. According to Jason DeMarco on Blue Sky, “It was the network’s idea to try a second Toonami block since they are very happy with the performance of the Saturday night version. They wondered if a throwback Toonami would be interesting. We liked the idea!” And assuming things go well, Jason says he has “all kinds of cool plans to bring more shows in” including shows Toonami has aired in the past, Adult Swim action shows, western animated action classics and more.

Of course, that all depends on if people continue to watch Toonami Rewind every Friday as with regular Toonami every Saturday. So be sure to keep watching (or at least set your DVRs) and help contribute to the social media buzz if you’re into it. And as with any potential Toonami show, if you do wish to see a show air on Toonami or Toonami Rewind, feel free to let Toonami know on their Facebook page as well as letting Jason DeMarco know on his Bluesky @clarknova.bsky.social. It also doesn’t hurt to let your favorite show’s respective licensor(s) know (whether it’s Crunchyroll, Toei, Viz Media, and the like) on their respective social media outlets as well. On a related note, Jason DeMarco no longer posts on Twitter outside of “promotional information related to my work,” and has privatized his account (after previously deleting it) for archival purposes, so we’re not sure if he’ll still read any show requests and feedback that is sent to @clarknova1.

Finally, this past week was the birthday of yours truly, so I’d like to give a huge thank you to Jason, Steve, Dana, and everyone at Cartoon Network who are doing their part to rebuild the better cartoon show. as well as those that watch, record, and live tweet and blog this great block. No doubt that Toonami is the gift that keeps on giving and showing that hope springs eternal for the mainstream success of anime and action cartoons overall.

Legend: The shows listed are ordered based on their appearance on the schedule. Show trends are listed in bold. The number next to the listed trend represents the highest it trended on the list (not counting the promoted trend), judging only by the images placed in the rundown. For the Twitter tweet counts, the listed number of tweets are also sorely based on the highest number shown based on the images on the rundown.

Toonami Rewind May 31 Trends

United States Trends:

#ToonamiRewind [#3]

#SailorMoon [#9]

#DBZKai [Trended with #ToonamiRewind]

Tweet Counts:

#SailorMoon [5,245 tweets]

Toonami June 1-2, 2024 Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [Trended with #Toonami]

#MyAdventuresWithSuperman [#18]

#Zom100 [#8]

Tweet Counts:

#MyAdventuresWithSuperman [2,266 tweets]

#Zom100 [2,098 tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#toonami [#7]

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Bon Appetit. Only Toonami on [adult swim] on Cartoon Network.

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"The Earth just draw the attention of some of the most despicable beings the universe has to offer. If something isn't done soon, we could find ourselves in a lot of trouble. what can we do? We could try to wish our enemies away, but even the great Shenron might be powerless against their tremendous strength. Goku is the greatest Warrior the Earth has ever known. Yet to these Saiyans, he's nothing more than an inconvenience. I wonder if King Kai's instruction will even help? Until Goku returns, it seems Gohan is our best hope. He's young though, and there's so little time." -          Kami, Dragon Ball Z Kai (Ep. 04)

The Toonami Trending Rundown for March 2-4, 9-10, and 16-17, 2024. The 27th anniversary of the better cartoon came on a somber note, as it was reported on March 8th that Akira Toriyama, the creator of the Dragon Ball franchise, had passed away on March 1st at the age of 68 due to acute subdural hematoma. Dragon Ball is considered to be Toonami’s greatest success story, as since DBZ first aired in the lineup back in 1999, the show led the charge to bring about the 90’s-2000’s anime boom and the overall popularity of anime in the west today.

And as the anime world paid their respects to a legend, Toonami fans celebrated the life and legacy of Toriyama the best way they knew how, by enjoying Dragon Ball Z on Toonami.

Toonami made a quick tribute to Toriyama during the night of March 9 as the news came on short notice for the Toonami staff. But for the following week on the night of March 16-17, following the regular schedule (save for One Piece and Naruto which took the night off), Toonami aired a marathon of the first eight episodes of DBZ Kai.

In regards to social media buzz, For the night of March 2-3, #Toonami trended in the United States on Twitter alongside Ninja Kamui, Demon Slayer, and Lycoris Recoil. #Toonami also trended on Tumblr alongside Naruto Shippuden. Later, on the night of March 9-10, #Toonami also trended alongside Ninja Kamui, Demon Slayer, and Lycoris Recoil; with #Toonami and Demon Slayer trending alongside the late Akira Toriyama, Dragon Ball Z, and DBZ. And on the night of March 16-17, #Toonami trended on Twitter alongside Ninja Kamui, Lycoris Recoil and DBZ Kai. #Toonami also trended on Tumblr.

As a bonus, this rundown includes a list of trends that occurred when we got the news of Toriyama’s passing to showcase his impact to the world. Besides Akira Toriyama, #Toonami and other Dragon Ball related content trended as fans made their tributes to Toriyama.

On a more positive note, on March 8, Viz Media and Toonami announced that Zom 100, the hit new anime series by Haro Aso and Kotaro Takata, will be airing on Toonami beginning this March 30, 2024 at 12:30 a.m. Zom 100 will be replacing Demon Slayer on the lineup, which will be going on hiatus from the block after completing the Entertainment District Arc the week before on March 23. There is no word when Toonami and Aniplex plan on airing the show’s next season, the Swordsmith Village Arc, at this time.

In an interview with Variety released on March 22, James Gibbons, President of Warner Bros Discovery’s Asia-Pacific division, revealed that WBD plans on increasing its anime output for 2024 and beyond, saying “We have a Japanese anime studio, which has been producing five or ten anime series per year, over the last few years. [...] We’ve approved expansion to take that to more than ten series per year.” How many of those titles Toonami itself will get to broadcast is yet to be seen, but it's a good sign that WBD remains committed to anime overall.

Tune in tonight for the finale of Demon Slayer’s Entertainment District Arc, among other great moments. Do note that as the season finale of Demon Slayer is 45 minutes long, every show after will air 15 minutes later than usual tonight. Stay gold as always, and Toriyama-san, may you rest in peace in the Other World and thank you for everything. Until we meet again.

Legend: The shows listed are ordered based on their appearance on the schedule. Show trends are listed in bold. The number next to the listed trend represents the highest it trended on the list (not counting the promoted trend), judging only by the images placed in the rundown. For the Twitter tweet counts, the listed number of tweets are also sorely based on the highest number shown based on the images on the rundown.

March 2-3, 2024 Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#6]

#NinjaKamui [#3]

#DemonSlayer [#11]

#LycorisRecoil [#10]

Tweet Counts:

#Toonami [3,490 tweets]

#DemonSlayer [3,256 tweets]

#LycorisRecoil [1,812 tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#toonami [#4]

#naruto shippuden [Trended with #toonami]

March 9-10, 2024 Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#9]

#NinjaKamui [#10]

#DemonSlayer [Trended with #NinjaKamui]

#LycorisRecoil [#9]

Tweet Counts:

#Toonami [4,435 tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#toonami [#1]

#DemonSlayer [#6]

#akira toriyama [#7]

#dragon ball z [Trended with #akira toriyama]

#dbz [Trended with #akira toriyama]

March 16-17, 2024 Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#5]

#NinjaKamui [#8]

#LycorisRecoil [#Toonami]

#DBZKai [#Toonami]

Tumblr Trends:

#toonami [#2]

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Until we meet again…Only Toonami on [adult swim] on Cartoon Network.

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“It’s an Oni [mask]. I heard they’re scary demons from Japan. Oni are big baddies, and they’re mean.” -          Kyle Logan, Ninja Kamui (Ep. 01)

The Toonami Trending Rundown for February 10-11, 2024. Acclaimed director Sunghoo Park, known best for directing the Jujutsu Kaisen anime series, would bring his newest original anime series, Ninja Kamui, to the better cartoon show.

In regards to this week’s social media buzz, #Toonami trended in the United States on Twitter alongside Ninja Kamui and Lycoris Recoil. Toonami also trended on Tumblr.

For this week’s feature, Toonami showcased a sneak preview of the upcoming Rick and Morty: The Anime series, which is scheduled to air on the network sometime later this year.

Toonami has also revealed the opening theme for Ninja Kamui, titled Vengeance by coldrain. You can check it out below.

On Monday, Toonami revealed the schedule for the night of February 24th, announcing that DBZ Kai will be returning to the lineup at 2:30 a.m. EST. This also means that Toonami will be deferring airing the second season of IGPX remastered, as the season 1 finale will be airing tonight, February 17. In regards to if and when Toonami plans on airing it, Jose Argumedo, whom is in charge remastering the show, has said that: “Season 2’s done and turned into the network. Up to them when and if they want to air it.”

Not much else to say other than congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs on winning back-to-back Super Bowl titles and their fourth overall, and we'll see you again next time for another round of the better cartoon show. Later.

Legend: The shows listed are ordered based on their appearance on the schedule. Show trends are listed in bold. The number next to the listed trend represents the highest it trended on the list (not counting the promoted trend), judging only by the images placed in the rundown.Forthe Twitter tweet counts, the listed number of tweets are also sorely based on the highest number shown based on the images on the rundown.

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#10]

#NinjaKamui [#8]

#LycorisRecoil [#18]

Tweet Counts:

#Toonami [4,809 tweets]

#NinjaKamui [3,255 tweets]

#LycorisRecoil [2,160 tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#Toonami [#3]

If you wish to send me a tip for the work on the trending rundown, donations can be sent to PayPal.Me/DanielLimjoco.

Only Toonami on [adult swim] on Cartoon Network.