Toonami’s first new
show of 2015 is certainly a surprise. Studio Trigger’s Kill La
Kill will be joining the lineup starting February 7th at 11:30pm
ET. The show’s English dub is produced by Aniplex of America. This will be
the first time that two Aniplex animes are running simultaneously on Toonami
(the other being Gurren Lagann).
This acquisition
brings some questions on how the schedule will look, as Toonami has yet to
release the new schedule for February 7th. Since 11:30pm ET is the timeslot
for Attack on Titan re-runs, one could infer that it
will be either pushed down to a later timeslot, or removed entirely from the
lineup (the latter is not likely, considering the purpose for another run in
the first place was to “get their money’s worth” out of the high-profile show).
This also leads to
questioning over what will replace Gurren Lagann. Normally, Toonami
replaces Aniplex shows with other Aniplex shows (as seen with Sword Art
Online, Blue Exorcist, and Gurren Lagann itself).
The 2nd season of Sword Art Online (SAO II) wrapped up its
Japanese run on December 20th, 2014, so an English dub will take a while to
produce.
With Kill La
Kill joining Toonami, the possibilities on what’s to come now are
endless…
