"Dragon Ball Z Kai" Re-Runs Pulled From Adult Swim Schedule

 

Prime-time anime, unfortunately, seems not long for this world. Starting this Saturday (October 31st), Dragon Ball Z Kai will no longer air re-runs at the beginning of the Adult Swim block. This sudden change is not, however, due to low ratings with the re-run slot (the re-run slot on October 17th gained 714,000 viewers), but rather Adult Swim itself is losing the entire 8pm ET hour starting tonight (October 26th). As of this writing, Cartoon Network has regained the 8pm hour through at least the week of November 16th, airing rarely seen original shows Adventure Time and Regular Show (the former of which will be airing a week of new episodes starting November 2nd) as well as the mini-series Over The Garden Wall during the week of October 26th. 

It is currently unknown whether or not Adult Swim will regain the 8pm hour back in the near future or if Cartoon Network has truly regained these time slots, which it lost to Adult Swim way back on March 31st, 2014. The timeslot change could be a way to better segue way into the Adult Swim timeslots, with programs that attract a higher adult audience than other Cartoon Network originals, yet still are targeted towards children.

Dragon Ball Z Kai will continue to air new episodes on Toonami every Saturday night at Midnight ET/PT. 

"Akame Ga Kill" Marathon October 31st on Toonami

Night Raid has decided to go on a Halloween mass-murder spree. On October 31st, Toonami will be running an Akame ga Kill marathon, re-running Episodes 3-11 of the series from 12:00am ET/PT - 3:30am ET/PT. As an added bonus, Daylight Savings Time falls that night (which would be November 1st at 2:00am ET/PT), which means Toonami will run for 4 and a 1/2 hours instead of the usual 3 and a 1/2 hours. This marks the first time since the block was downsized back in February that Toonami has run longer than 3 and a 1/2 hours.

This move is slightly unexpected, as another Toonami marathon was not supposed to happen until November. This is not only the first time a Sentai Filmworks show has been re-run, but it is also the first year that Toonami won't be doing anything out of the ordinary for its extra Daylight Savings Time hour (although arguably, a marathon could count, but Toonami show marathons have been shown many times this year).

The schedule for the marathon on October 31st can be found below (all times Eastern/Pacific time):
12:00am Akame ga Kill - Episode 3
12:30am Akame ga Kill - Episode 4
1:00am Akame ga Kill - Episode 5
1:30am Akame ga Kill - Episode 6
2:00am Akame ga Kill - Episode 7
2:30am Akame ga Kill - Episode 8
2:00am DST Akame ga Kill - Episode 9
2:30am DST Akame ga Kill - Episode 10
3:00am  Akame ga Kill - Episode 11 

All news in this article courtesy of the official Toonami Tumblr page.