I’d say that’s by design. As we see with regular Toonami, it’s a huge struggle for them to land content. I’d imagine they want to “set and forget” this block so they don’t have to shop for new content for a long time. The extra episode of Kai is their flexibility zone, so if this block does better than they expect they can grab another show to keep people engaged.
Seems doable. It’s a discotek title with a dub made by Toei, after all. However, I don’t think an uncut dub exists. When I bought the blu ray it seemed to be the Toonami TV edit.
Toei dubbed Bobobo uncut. The one that aired on tv was near uncut as well.
The main thing that seemed edited to me was that Softon is still based on ice cream in the anime on the blu ray. However, looking this up now, apparently that was even a thing in the Japanese version of the anime. I remember in the manga he was more blatantly a poop head with brown swirls. Weirdly the anime has some jokes alluding to this even in the dub, but it seemed like they decided to slightly disguise it by having ice cream as plausible deniability. I am sure the double meaning is obvious in Japan because his purple head looks just like the purple poop on a stick that Arale often has in Dr. Slump.
How would a new Bobobo-Bo-Bobo season look like?
Well there are a bunch of manga chapters that were never adapted. But it has been so long that they would probably remake it from chapter one. I have no idea if the series is even still popular or well known in Japan, but the manga did outlast the anime by a while.
It’s a product of an old era, there is no way it has enough traction these days to get a new anime.
Bobobo is from too late in the original Toonami run to air, too. It premiered a little after Naruto in fall 2005. You mentioned before that Naruto may be a weak link here. It does stick out like a sore thumb compared to Sailor Moon and DBZ which came to Toonam in *1998* and aired on weekday afternoons for years. Naruto came along seven years later, and mainly aired on Saturday nights.
The problem with airing IGPX is it got removed halfway through its run at 2:30 am. If it can’t survive there, could it survive in a higher stakes slot between 5-7 pm? If they air season 2 remastered at some point, I suspect they’ll air it at 2 or 3 am once they have a free slot. That could be a few months. I am still not even fully convinced we will have a free slot opening up from DBZ Kai moving to Rewind. It seems like they still plan to air it on both Toonami blocks, until we get a schedule update saying otherwise…
I don’t think it’s age that will hurt Naruto, but rather as you said, it’s extremely garbage first stretch of episodes at 1 per week. If instead, they were doing curated episodes, for example starting immediately with the Chunin exams, I would have more confidence in the show’s success. But Demarco has such an antiquitated mindset on “every episode matters
” that it will never happen that way. I still think Kai is currently just a placeholder for MHA, somewhere around mid June. It will take 12:30, then midnight when Superman ends. Then in July something will replace Zom and Shippuden.
You don't think toonami won't expand to weekdays?I don’t think it’s age that will hurt Naruto, but rather as you said, it’s extremely garbage first stretch of episodes at 1 per week. If instead, they were doing curated episodes, for example starting immediately with the Chunin exams, I would have more confidence in the show’s success. But Demarco has such an antiquitated mindset on “every episode matters
This is a nostalgia block, which means anyone tuning in already has watched these shows. They want to see the good parts, not the garbage. And when it comes to Naruto, there is a lot of garbage.
I still think Kai is currently just a placeholder for MHA, somewhere around mid June. It will take 12:30, then midnight when Superman ends. Then in July something will replace Zom and Shippuden.
Am I being too optimistic? Perhaps, but let me have the hope.
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