I have previously written about Adult Swim’s Saturday night schedule in terms of debuts but this time it is a frustrating schedule change that I am alerting people about. ANN reports that as of Saturday Sept. 13th, Bleach will jump ahead from 12:30am to 11pm while Code Geass and Moribito fall back FOUR HOURS to 5am and 5:30am, respectively. (Here‘s the full-res four-month schedule I saved this afternoon.) Why was this done? To make room for reairings of their original 11-minute comedies, of course! Other differences are the complete removal of Shin Chan (12am, 3am) and Inuyasha (reruns at 5am and 5:30am) along with a weekly reairing of Fullmetal Alchemist from the beginning at 11:30pm, the time slot it once occupied when the second season began the broadcast.
The main reason I’m irked is that I now have to set a recording for Moribito on the cable DVR, which is not a big hassle. The underlying reason is that the network is prioritizing its own shows over outside content in order to help people “catch up” if they missed an episode of Assy McGee, Tim and Eric, and other less serial content. This IS a smart business move in terms of promoting their in-house content but I wonder how Bandai and Media Blasters feel about their shows being shoved off into the least favorable times available. I think this could be a reflection of how non-Shonen Jump anime might fare on American television in the near future. I prefer AS’s natural commercial breaks over Sci-Fi Ani-Monday’s unnatural ones and don’t want to that disappear but expanding to a relatively broader audience (frankly not a large jump, considering the intersection of both viewer groups) has the potential to bolster sales a little bit.
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