History WMG / Toonami

* ''[[VideoGame/SakuraWars Sakura Wars TV]]''

Which would be another result of ''Space Dandy'' doing well. And with that half-hour, a recent show such as ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', ''Anime/PsychoPass'', ''Anime/{{Btooom}}'', ''Manga/FutureDiary'', ''Anime/AKB0048'', ''Anime/KillLaKill'', or ''Anime/MichikoAndHatchin'' will air.

** Well, they had almost certainly had ''Anime/CasshernSins'' and ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' ready to air on [as], replacing the shows that have [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist already]] [[Manga/{{Kekkaishi}} finished]] [[{{LightNovel/Durarara}} airing.]] But they may have found that people much preferred the Toonami-based bumpers to the weird crap they had on there before, so they set some up and called it Toonami.

* ''LightNovel/BlackBullet''

* ''LightNovel/GuinSaga''

* ''{{LightNovel/Campione}}''

** ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' (either the original one or the one based on Unlimited Blade Works) and ''LightNovel/FateZero''.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''

[[WMG: ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', original or ''Railgun'', will air on the block]]

** ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation'' (or ''Anime/Persona4GoldenTheAnimation'')

Straightforward. They just go back to TOM 3 and pretend that DorkAge never happened.

In his final promo, [=TOM 4=] mentioned that the eleven years preceding, including the years from the Moltar era through [=TOM 3=], happened. The current revival also likely shares that backstory, with [=TOM 3.5=] mentioning "if you've been down from the beginning", which implies that the "beginning" still happened. For two shows to share the entire backstory but not exist in the same continuity (as there's been [[DorkAge no mention whatsoever of the TOM 4 years]]), they practically have to be {{alternate timeline}}s instead of altogether different universes. My guess: whatever never-told event destroyed [=TOM 3=] and forced the regeneration into [=TOM 4=] would also have made it impossible for Toonami to ever come back. [=TOM 4=] knew this, and decided the mission, and the ability of some version of himself to continue the mission, was more important than his own current existence, especially on a timeline where he could no longer continue the mission. When he flew off, what he flew off to do was to research methods of time travel, and he found one. What he ended up traveling back to was the filming of an April Fool's episode, which he managed to shift over to Creator/AdultSwim with a teaser of The Room, something that likely made no sense to [=TOM 3=] despite it ending up saving his life. This erased [=TOM 4=] from the timeline, [[HeroicSacrifice but for the mission's sake, it was worth it]].

This might just be wishful thinking and hoping but with the shows they have gotten as of late such as Naruto and One Piece brought back and ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' airing in August they are making plans to air on weekdays since they got so many and won't have the time to air them, possibly a two hour run like they did before from 5-7 PM or 10-Midnight.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''

[[WMG: WesternAnimation/BlackDynamite will air on Toonami by 2014. Whether it's rerunning season 1 or premiering season 2.]]
Think about it. Toonami has a dearth of Western Animation action shows since WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011 and WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan (taking a hiatus) are leaving the block at the end of July. Black Dynamite, as hilarious as it is, is pretty action packed so why not air it on Toonami? It's already on Creator/AdultSwim and it would prevent the block from being all anime.

[[WMG:TOM will give another speech when [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]] airs]]
Like with WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011 and WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan, Toonami is getting flak from anime fans for putting another western cartoon, specifically Star Wars: The Clone Wars, on the lineup. I believe it's getting to the point where TOM might make a speech about giving things a chance, as well as why Toonami isn't just about anime.

[[WMG: Toonami will air the 2003 version of Fullmetal Alchemist]]
After the Brotherhood rerun is done, they will put on the original FMA anime to replace it. Tom will then make a comment about it 'being familiar'

[[WMG: Toonami will air Pokemon during either its time slot for Brotherhood or Bebop from Episode 1 onward]]
The length of the series will help fill up the lowest rating zone, and will be fueled in great part by Nostalgia. They will also use that as an excuse to do their first Pokemon game review for X and Y
* Correct me if I'm wrong, but Pokemon (all of the seasons, including Best Wishes, are considered to be part of the same show) is currently airing on Cartoon Network's regular schedule, which means they can't air it during [adult swim] hours due to the risk of young kids being exposed to age-inappropriate content (they're having a similar problem with WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack, which currently airs on Boomerang). Also, even if they did air Pokemon, they wouldn't use it as an excuse to review Pokemon X and Y since they don't need an excuse.

[[WMG: ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' will switch places with ''Anime/SoulEater'' if it does well enough]]
On [[http://toonamifaithful.com/toonami-ratings-for-august-10th/#more-1784 August 10th]], Sword Art Online managed to beat both One Piece and Soul Eater in ratings. While One Piece being bumped down is unlikely, Sword Art Online might move up above Soul Eater if it manages to keep getting high amounts of ratings like that.

** Jossed. Soul Eater was pushed back a half-hour for the Blue Exorcist premiere, just after SAO was taken off.

The Rebuilds are doing well, and they have to take Bebop off eventually, right?
* While I agree that Bebop would have to go, that depends on whether or not whoever owns the show is willing to let Toonami air it (and personally, I think Trigun would be a better replacement for Cowboy Bebop).

[[WMG: The reason they are airing two Innuyasha episodes each week]]

Both of these shows come out (at the time of this edit) in a couple of days. ''Anime/TheBigO'' ends its run in October (specifically on the 26th). Assuming that they don't keep ''The Big O'' on for a second run, ''Anime/IGPXImmortalGrandPrix'' will be moved to 3:30 AM so that either ''Manga/FutureDiary'' or ''Anime/MichikoAndHatchin'' can premiere at 2:30 AM (or 2:00 AM, if they decide to move ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' as well). This guess is for two reasons...

[[WMG: The Rights to Naruto: Shippuden will revert to Toonami]]
If Thundercat's rights can be lost out of nowhere, same goes for Disney and Naruto. They may even just be nice after Toonami did that Ralph thing for them. I myself believe that Toonami's starting trio will end up being Shippuden, One Piece and either Fairy Tail or Final Act.

[[WMG: Toonami will air the Star Wars; The Clone Wars film, as well as One Piece and Bleach movies as part of their December movie lineup.]]
Due to where Naruto is at story wise, the movie's would be badly timed. Though I suppose I might as well guess the Brotherhood and Bebop movies are a possibility.
* If timing is an issue, then the opportunity to air the Star Wars: The Clone Wars film and Cowboy Bebop: The Movie are already long gone, since the former actually takes place before and leads into the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series, and the latter is a midquel that takes place in the middle of Cowboy Bebop.
* Not exactly, there are some season 1 episodes of Star Wars that do take place around the movie; Hidden Enemy for one. I don't know where the series is on that, so forgive me for temporal errors.

[[WMG: When ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' runs out of episodes, it will be replaced with ''Literature/AccelWorld''.]]

[[WMG: The first December movie will be one of the Naruto movies.]]
The show will be leaving on November 30th, and despite the vast amount of characterization and pacing problems (as well as the infamous "filler arc" that is widely despised and would most likely murder the ratings, regardless of whether or not the crew acknowledges filler as a concept), it's held in very high regard by the crew. It'd make sense if they wanted to give the original Naruto series one last hurrah before Shippuden officially starts.
** If so, I'm betting on the last original Naruto film that has not aired on Toonami; the Moon one.

[[WMG: Fairy Tail can't appear until Bleach moves or ends]]
It's too long to be put in Soul Eater's spot, so it needs one of the top three (and Space Dandy) spots. Bleach is coming to an end well before Shippuden or One Piece will, and it's also coming up to the end arc. Thus, if Toonami adds Fairy Tail, Bleach either has to be removed from 12:00 with Shippuden and One Piece moving up a spot with Fairy Tail taking One Piece's, or Bleach moves to Soul Eater's spot while the same process occurs
* Well, Bleach is gone, but still no Fairy Tail. It could just be that they're waiting for 2 things to happen: a slot to open up (realistically, Dragon Ball Kai: The Final Chapters leaving is the most realistic scenario), and for the final season adapting the manga to air [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-07-20/fairy-tail-tv-anime-gets-final-season-in-2018/.119087 which will happen in 2018]].
** Considering that the only other thing I could see them replacing Dragon Ball Z Kai The Final Chapters with (Attack on Titan S3) won't be available for at least 5 weeks after the end of The Final Chapters[[note]]it starts airing on July 22; The Final Chapters will finish either June 16 or June 23, depending on if they play episode 165[[/note]], Fairy Tail has a better chance now if Toonami wants to keep DBZ Kai's slot for long-running shounen anime, since doing so would allow them to air all of Fairy Tail in one go (especially since by the time they do get to the final season, it would already have been dubbed). Diamond is Unbreakable hasn't had a dub announced yet, so it's unlikely they'd jump straight into part 4 after finishing Stardust Crusaders, meaning it's likely Attack on Titan S3 will replace that (since, assuming they don't do another marathon, Stardust Crusaders will finish airing in early August).

Toonami will air reruns of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' and ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries''. More western animation is always a plus, and ''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'', while a great show, really needs another western show or two to compliment it so that it doesn't feel like the black sheep of the lineup (it helps that both ''The Clone Wars'' and ''Green Lantern: The Animated Series'' are both animated in CG).
* Sadly, apparently DC programs are not eligible, but then again we thought the same of Shippuden and Clone Wars, so let's not loose faith too soon

* Its linked to the deal that allows Shippuden to play...so removing it could be problematic.

The show contains huge amounts of cursing that would obviously require bleeping, so much that it makes ''Deadman Wonderland'' look ([[IncrediblyLamePun or sound, in this case]]) like a Saturday morning cartoon. And speaking of which, Funimation did it with that show in the middle of its run. They could do it a second time for ''Black Lagoon''.

[[WMG: To help promote the upcoming ''[[{{Film/Godzilla2014}} Godzilla]]'' movie...]]

#TOM will get a distress signal and show off a sneak peek, like he did with ''[[{{Film/Oblivion2013}} Oblivion]]''.

[[WMG: Bleach will be replaced by Attack on Titan]]

* It did, but with Attack replacing ''IGPX'' and taking Space Dandy's 11:30 spot

[[WMG: Sword Art Online II will get the same simulcast deal as ''Anime/SpaceDandy''.]]

[[WMG: Toonami will air Code Geass]]
Funimation recently rescued its license and has yet to release it. Now, how does one advertise anime for a re-release these days? They re-released the rescued Erueka Seven after it ran on Toonami after all.

[[WMG:Bleach will be replaced by Free!]]

** Jossed, it was replaced by Dragon Ball Z Kai.

[[WMG: Dragon Ball Z Kai will be replacing Bleach.]]
First, it's confirmed that Kai is coming in the Fall, and Bleach's run is set to be completed in October. Second, they need a high-value property to headline in Bleach's place. Shippuden or One Piece may take the midnight slot, but Kai is going to be in the heart of the order.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', to go with WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline II'': Confirmed, starts 28 March, 2015

With the influx of live action TV series based on DC Comics properties (''Series/{{Gotham}}'', ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', ''Series/TheFlash2014'', ''Series/{{Constantine}}'', etc.), there's a possibility that we might be seeing more animated shows meant for mature audiences a la ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' and ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'', and Toonami would be the perfect place for said shows to air.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''

** To me, the most likely would be Generator Rex, Young Justice/ Green Lantern or one of the old Ben 10's.

[[WMG: Manga/RurouniKenshin will return to Toonami.]]
Not sure which series, or maybe just a movie, but Kenshin's bound to return.

[[WMG: LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex, original or Railgun, will air on the block]]

They can't cancel it again because of the backlash, but that doesn't mean they intend to put forth a serious effort supporting it. This is why they do things like cancelling ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' or failing to procure all ten episodes of Hellsing Ultimate.

[[WMG: Bleach is only re-running as filler before Movie Month.]]

* If that were the case they would probably just use Fooly Cooly to fill that slot.

[[WMG: Toonami will eventually air ''Anime/VisionOfEscaflowne'', ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', and ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'']]

* Almost confirmed, WordOfGod says they tried to get ''[[Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine The Woman Called Fujiko Mine]]'', but there was too many boobs for their censors, so they opted for Anime/SamuraiChamploo instead.
* Confirmed! They will air Lupin III: The Italian Adventure.

[[WMG: Kill La Kill will boost ratings back up, and with it return the lost hour]]
Toonami cannot loose it's programing time, to King of the Hill of all things!

* Jossed. There's STILL no confirmed release date for Jack, and the closest we got was a deleted and refuted Tweet.
** Reruns aren't returning, but we are getting more Samurai Jack - and we're getting a better deal. '''SEASON 5'''.

Ghost in the Shell's writer, an old Toonami show, recent release by Funimation, seems like a sure thing.

[[WMG: One day, Toonami will pick up original shows for the first time since ''[[{{Anime/IGPXImmortalGrandPrix}} IGPX]]'']]

[[WMG: The block's next dub acquisition will be Durarara x2]]
The original series aired not too long ago, just prior to the rebranding as Toonami, and seemed to be pretty well-liked on Adult Swim. Plus Sword Art Online got its sequel aired, so there's a precedence.

** Jossed - after ''Dimension W'' finished, ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' was the block's next dub acquisition - it wasn't immediate (an episode of DBKai took the place of ''Dimension W'' the week after that show finished, and the week after that, there was a Samurai Champloo Marathon), but still.

[[WMG: One Piece will return someday]]

It did so several times, so why not again? This is of course the optimist in me who assumes that the reason isn't because of rights or Adult Swim being idiots. Perhaps after they aren't running two Dragon Balls's at once....

[[WMG: Toonami will get their timeslot extended, either by a few slots, or even to more days, after Adult Swim Loses Family Guy in 2021.]]
A major timeslot filler on all days for Adult Swim is Family Guy, but they are slated to lose Family guy in 2021.
They are gonna have ALOT of empty slots to fill due to their overreliance on Family Guy, this will likely lead to several shows being brought back (Indeed, 12 oz. Mouse of all things is being brought back for a new season.) and Toonami being extended just to fill the empty slots.
If there is a particularly large number of slots to fill (Which is somewhat likely, Family Guy was a good percentage of their overall airings in any given week.), they might even Expand Toonami to more day much like it did in the days of old on Cartoon Network.

** Indeed, until we get close to the date in question, it's only speculation. But HOO BOY will this effect be doubled in 2023 when they also lose Bob's Burgers, where Original Content and Anime will be almost ALL the content they will have left, with the possible exception of American Dad (Not sure about if they get to keep that or not.) and Final Space. Gonna have quite a few more slots to fill then too.

[[WMG: When ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' runs out of episodes, it will be replaced with ''LightNovel/AccelWorld''.]]

* ''LightNovel/AccelWorld''

[[WMG:One of the movie "repeats" for Month of Movies 2014 will be ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD'']]

[[WMG: Toonami will air ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'']]

Because let's face it, when two things ''that'' bad happen at the same time, [[ThereAreNoCoincidences they've gotta be connected]]. The most likely theory right now is that [[ExecutiveMeddling Stuart Snyder]] is acting as one of ThoseTwoBadGuys (the other being [[Creator/{{Activision}} Bobby]] [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment Kotick]]) for an AncientConspiracy, and killed off Toonami in order to try to eliminate the last strand of hope. Why? To get [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama a politician running on hope and change]] a certain victory in his campaign for President of the United States, all so said President could push an agenda of increased weakness and moral degeneracy and hasten the coming destruction of the United States of America.

It will be another dub premiere a la ''Sword Art Online II'', and it will air at the 11:30 PM slot, being the type of show that would deserve such a timeslot (absolutely new, and part of a franchise that's both incredibly famous and [[Anime/LupinIIIRedJacket has some history with [adult swim]]]).