Adult Swim Shakes Up Saturdays
That vid above is the last bit of Code Geass plot development you'll see for a good while. You'll have to wait at least two months to see what happens next in the dub. Once again, Adult Swim has retooled their Saturday night schedule. Usually this means bad news for anime, but this time it's actually a combination of good & bad. The change, quick as usual, begins this Saturday.
Starting with the good, AS will be increasing the Action portion of the night by one hour, meaning the comedy portion at the beginning will be cut down from three hours to two. The Blaxploitation hour of the PJs & Boondocks is now gone. Starting at midnight (Eastern/Pacific time), a non-anime show will be kicking off the Action lineup- repeats of Star Wars: the Clone Wars. An unexpected but pleasant & welcome surprise to be sure. I know I (& pretty much everyone else) was a little rough on the Clone Wars movie when it first came out, & I still feel that the thing never belonged on the big screen. But as a television series, it's actually become pretty enjoyable. Especially after the first few, the series really got rolling. Maybe AS will even show the "uncut" version (after the first few eps, Cartoon Network had to remove the word "hell" from all episodes due to parental complaints).
After that, Adult Swim will now be airing a full hour of Bleach. For the first few weeks for whatever reason, the first ep will be a repeat from the previous week, followed by a new episode at 1am. But starting April 18, AS will be showing two back-back new episodes! It's about time too, I must say. Viz & CN have been working their butts off for a long time now trying to get Naruto closer to the Japanese releases. With Bleach now over 100 episodes & more than two years behind the Japanese anime, it's about time that series plays a little catchup of its own. & considering how Shonen Jump likes to stay ahead of their anime counterparts, perhaps Bleach will be seeing its own manga blitz sometime soon as well.
Now onto the bad. New episodes of Code Geass R2 are once again being put on hold. & this time for a lot longer. Code Geass will also be extended to an hour beginning at 1:30, & the series will be starting from the beginning of R2 & carry on from there. Now if you do your math, then two reruns a week means we'll be caught up again in 8 weeks. Adult Swim's schedule does go up to that point (& no further), & lists last week's episode 15 (what they're labeling Code Geass 40) repeating on May 2 at 1:30, followed by the not-yet-seen episode 16 (aka 41) at 2am. Now while that ep is on the schedule, AS is not listing it as new. This can either mean a) a mistake on their part not to list it as new, or b) they're not confident that new episodes will resume at that point. I've expressed before how impressed I was with the speed of which Bandai was dubbing R2. As it turns out, it was indeed too quick for them to keep up with.
More Geass of course means somethings got to give. Unfortunately, that means Shin-Chan has once again been removed from AS's schedule. Perhaps this time for good. Meanwhile, Moribito is still dead. I had hoped that its removal from the schedule was only temporary, & that it would return to AS eventually. But it's been awhile now, & this new schedule shakeup would've been the perfect opportunity to return it to TV. Now I've given up hope on it. It's inability to never make it past episode 10 never made much sense. Being a Geneon rescue license, they should have finished dubbing the series a long time ago, despite Media Blaster's very slow release of it on DVD.
Finally, a new series will be premiering on (really late) Saturday nights beginning April 18. Titled "Rising Son," it'll air from 5am-5:15, replacing the first half-hour of InuYasha that AS has at that time now, along with the Brak Show at from 5:15-5:30. Adult Swim's being pretty coy about what this series is. Clearly it's not anime but rather AS's typical 15 minute fair. But as to why it's only on so late on Saturdays & why it's called "Rising Son" (like Japan's nickname Rising Sun) is unknown. Could it be AS's second attempt to make fun of anime, after Perfect Hair Forever? Guess we'll have to wait & see.
Source: http://www.adultswim.com/schedule/onair.html