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NEWS: Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Anime to Premiere on Toonami on September 29

Weird we're getting Boruto before Shippuden's dub finishes, but I'm not complaining.

Looking forward to this. I've been wanting to check the anime out for a while now but wanted to wait for the dub. Glad it's coming a lot sooner than expected.

dont forget season 2 of one punch man is likely to find its way into the rotation when it finally shows up..

LagannImpact wrote:

Now the question becomes "what does Toonami do with Naruto Shippuden?" Call me crazy, but I believe it may actually get a weeknight run, at 8:30 after Dragon Ball Super reruns.

not quite. its more than likely they will replace jojo's timeslot or FLCL alternative's timeslot since it will be a while before diamond is unbreakable is released!


however, for what their going to do about shippuden, even I'm wondering about that!

considering that their in the 5 kage summit arc RIGHT NOW which is a long time away from the 4th great war arc let alone the kaguya arc & the final valley arc, having the series show would have a lot of people that DON'T watch subs or the manga really confused!

also the other question is that will the dub be a world time premiere on toonami Ala bleach & hunter x hunter, or will they give it the shippuden treatment??????

the worst case scenario would be for them to completely drop the series just like with one piece which would not bode well!

the series is more or less paying for the mistakes viz and CN did by letting the series premiere on Disney X.D which have hindered it ever since. if it was allowed to be shown on AS from the start, we would probably be in the wedding arc already!

I don't like this because it looks like DeMarco and crew are digging a hole that they can't or don't want to get out of.

Granted long running shows provide stability for the block, but this just look bad for the block.

Right now Toonami has just two time slots to play around with for new shows. The PTE/FLCL slots. Every other slot either belongs to a long runner or a rerun.
-Super has over a year left. But by then Toei will probaly have some new DB show to trot out.
-Jojo is going into part 4 and MHA will probably go into S2.
BC and HxH have less than a year left
-Naruto is not gonna finish till like 2024/25 if Toonami is still airing unless you move it to weeknights now that Adultswim has lost both King of the Hill and Cleveland Show to Comedy Central. But I don't see that happening
-The final hour and a half are taken up by Dandy and the 5395483219160294th airing of Bebop and Ghost in the Shell.

Seeing as Boruto is airing right when PTE end, that leaves literally 1 slot for something new unless he replaces Dandy with something. That one slot is the FLCL slot which is gonna be doubled which will take us to November/December. By then who know if we get another rerun or something new. 2019 is gonna be a grind waiting for Black Clover and HunterxHutner to end.

CatSword wrote:

This is the safe choice - potentially for the future of Toonami - but I do wish it would've been something like Megalo Box or Re:Zero.

Stuff like that comes when shows like Fooly Cooly/HunterxHunter/PTE/BC end.

I don't like this because it looks like DeMarco and crew are digging a hole that they can't or don't want to get out of.

Granted long running shows provide stability for the block, but this just look bad for the block.


-Naruto is not gonna finish till like 2024/25 if Toonami is still airing unless you move it to weeknights now that Adultswim has lost both King of the Hill and Cleveland Show to Comedy Central. But I don't see that happening

I was just wondering what would take Pop Team Epic’s spot on September 29th, but think I would rather have Pop Team Epic reruns than Boruto. Just way too soon for it since having Shippuden only being 1 episode a week is just not cutting it. That was probably why One Piece left. Long series are just a bad idea for Toonami as long as they remain weekly instead of like weekdays. Hell even just having Toonami being on Saturday and Sunday would be better so could at least get double Shippuden episodes.

Toonami could speed up the shippuden run if they just cut out all of the filler episodes.

Toonami could speed up the shippuden run if they just cut out all of the filler episodes.

AnimeLordLuis wrote:

Toonami could speed up the shippuden run if they just cut out all of the filler episodes.

They cannot do that. Also, filler material seems to get better ratings than canon. The working theory is that people have already watched Shippuden, and are watching the filler material on Toonami for the first time, because they skipped over it initially

ECW28 wrote:

AnimeLordLuis wrote: Toonami could speed up the shippuden run if they just cut out all of the filler episodes. They cannot do that. Also, filler material seems to get better ratings than canon. The working theory is that people have already watched Shippuden, and are watching the filler material on Toonami for the first time, because they skipped over it initially

That makes sense. At least personally speaking, I'm aware of how the story turns out, but not so much with the filler.

I'm sure that the licensors have a say in whether Toonami is able to skip filler, and I would assume that answer is no. It's also possible they don't want to get too wrapped up in what is filler that they could cut. There was a muli-episode arc about capturing the Three-Tailed Beast that wasn't in the manga, but still ties into it, for example.