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Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of April 30

Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of April 30

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As we exit April and enter May, here’s what Adult Swim has in the works to make your weekend weird. First off, the Three Busy Debras are back with two brand-new episodes. According to Adult Swim’s official description of what’s happening, “In ‘The Honorable Order of the Debras,’ Debra goes missing, and Debra and Debra must step in to save her before it’s too late. Or worse! Afterward, watch a story in three brunches in ‘To Have Debra, To Hold Debra.’” The episodes air this Sunday, May 1 at 12 a.m. ET/PT. One day before then, Toonami kicks off with another new episode of the latest AS / Crunchyroll co-production, Shenmue: The Animation. This time, we can definitely confirm it’s the season finale, and possibly the last episode given that Toonami and Crunchyroll aren’t joined at the hip anymore. Here’s where we are in the story: “1986, Yokosuka. Ryo Hazuki has trained to master the Hazuki Style Jujitsu under his strict father in the Hazuki Dojo from his childhood. However,

Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of April 16

Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of April 16

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With Robot Chicken having finished its latest season, there aren’t as many new premieres on Adult Swim this week — just one. On Saturday evening Toonami kicks off with another new episode of the latest AS / Crunchyroll co-production, Shenmue: The Animation. Here’s where we are in the story: “1986, Yokosuka. Ryo Hazuki has trained to master the Hazuki Style Jujitsu under his strict father in the Hazuki Dojo from his childhood. However, one day a mysterious man named Lan Di murders his father and takes the “mirror” his father was protecting. Ryo is determined to find the truth behind his father’s murder, but soon finds himself getting stuck in a war between the underground organizations…. Traveling from Yokosuka to Hong Kong, Ryo’s long journey begins! “In “Entangled,” Ryo and Ren finally find Yuanda Zhu. However, they are soon attacked by the Yellow Heads and Yuanda gets kidnapped. Ryo gets cornered but is saved by Xiuying. Xiuying was worried that Ryo would fall in to the evil course blinded by

Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of April 9

Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of April 9

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Last week we printed the episode of Shenmue that aired that week would be the season finale. I swear that’s what the press release told us — we can’t be held liable for typos from official sources. THIS week they claim Robot Chicken will be airing its season finale — I guess we’ll just see if another one shows up next week. First off is the first-ever airing of the Robot Chicken episode “May Cause Season 11 to End” (if this is another typo, it’s a pretty big one). According to Adult Swim’s official description of the episode, “The Robot Chicken gang thinks Barbie George Washington would’ve made a fine Floundering Father and the Nerd fixes the Mandela Effect with disastrous results. Robot Chicken says farewell, but is it goodbye?” Very unlikely — this show makes too much money. One day before then, Toonami kicks off with another new episode of the latest AS / Crunchyroll co-production, Shenmue: The Animation. Here’s where we are in the story: “In “Comeback,” To

Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of April 2

Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of April 2

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After you’ve had your fill of phony news stories and prank posts from every corner of the Internet this April 1, Adult Swim is here to extend the insanity two more days. First off is the first-ever airing of the Robot Chicken episode “May Cause Weebles to Fall Down.” According to Adult Swim’s official description of the episode, “It’s once again time for Discovery’s Mark Week courtesy of Robot Chicken, nobody realizes Daria is being sarcastic until it’s too late, & the Wayne family’s Murder Alley gets commercialized and Bruce is pissed.” Mark Week sounds a lot more terrifying than Shark Week, to be honest. SyFy should get cracking on a Marknado movie. One day before then, Toonami kicks off with another new episode of the latest AS / Crunchyroll co-production, Shenmue: The Animation. Here’s where we are in the story: “In “Distinct,” Ryo finds a book written by Yuanda Zhu in Xiuying’s library. In the book he finds a memo of chawan sign, which could lead to danger with

Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of March 26

Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of March 26

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This weekend’s premieres on Adult Swim include robots, chickens, more robots, and the possible return of an old friend. First off is the first-ever airing of the Robot Chicken episode “May Cause Internal Diarrhea.” According to Adult Swim’s official description of the episode, “Robot Chicken helps Dexter bring his robot mother to market… but buyers go off-label. Plus, the Itsy Bitsy Spider doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing, and take a visit to the land of Disney’s dead parents.” Such a land would lean female by a ratio of at least 5 to 1. Disney always kills off the mom first! One day before then, Toonami kicks off with another new episode of the latest AS / Crunchyroll co-production, Shenmue: The Animation. Here’s where we are in the story: “In “Aspiration,” Ryo is living at Xiuying Hong’s house. Xiuying ignores Ryo’s wish to meet Yuanda Zhu and keeps making him do chores for Man Mo Temple. To understand Xiuying’s notion, Ryo must learn wude the principles of martial arts.”

Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of March 19

Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of March 19

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This weekend’s Adult Swim premieres are a lot like last weekend’s Adult Swim premieres, only with slightly different events. For example, instead of Yoshi, you get Bea Arthur. First off is the first-ever airing of the Robot Chicken episode “May Cause an Excess of Ham.” According to Adult Swim’s official description of the episode, “Robot Chicken tells the Lion King tale from the POV of the wildebeests. Check out what happens when a mouse accepts a browser cookie, and watch the Golden Girls discover the otherworldly and deadly secret behind St. Olaf!” I never knew what denomination the Golden Girls belonged to, but it’s apparently the little-known branch of Catholicism that worships the snowman from Frozen. One day before then, Toonami kicks off with another new episode of the latest AS / Crunchyroll co-production, Shenmue: The Animation. Here’s where we are in the story: “In “Future,” Ryo meets Lishao Tao, the person he was looking for. Lishao, a martial arts master, easily defeats Ryo and tells him to go home.

Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of March 12

Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of March 12

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Last weekend, Robot Chicken commenced its latest season, and this coming weekend it shall continue commencing further. This week Adult Swim has two new premieres to show you, on two different nights. First off is the first-ever airing of the Robot Chicken episode “May Cause Involuntary Political Discharge.” According to Adult Swim’s official description of the episode, “Robot Chicken lets Yoshi get his revenge on Mario once and for all, a period gets so bad it requires a famous exorcist to fix, and Snoopy trains a new crew of WWI flying aces.” We have no clue what, exactly, Yoshi wants revenge on Mario for. By Robot Chicken logic it could be for all those years of riding on him, but that completely defies the canon of the games, where Yoshi is just fine with it. In fact you can’t make Yoshi do anything he doesn’t WANT to do, or he’ll swallow you and poop you out as an egg, and that’s really unpleasant. The new episode premieres Sunday, March 6

Robot Chicken Returns In This Week’s Adult Swim Premieres

Robot Chicken Returns In This Week’s Adult Swim Premieres

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As long as there is pop culture media to make fun of, Robot Chicken will always be around…well, Adult Swim ceasing broadcast would throw a wrench in it, but maybe it could continue on somewhere else. It leads this weekend’s list of AS premieres with the brand new episode “May Cause a Squeakquel.” According to Adult Swim’s official description of the episode, “Robot Chicken takes Mojo Jojo’s side against the Powerpuff Girls; Nightwing demands criminals butt out; Dilbert dies hard with a vengeance… of laughter!” You heard correct — this will be one of those rare episodes where the Robot Chicken himself participates in a sketch. (Or that could actually mean the SHOW is taking Mojo’s side.) The new episode premieres Sunday, March 6 at 12 a.m. ET/PT. Keep in mind an Adult Swim Sunday lasts until 6 AM on Monday. One day before then, Toonami kicks off with another new episode of the latest AS / Crunchyroll co-production, Shenmue: The Animation. Here’s where we are in the story: In

Shenmue: The Animation Now Running On Adult Swim

Shenmue: The Animation Now Running On Adult Swim

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Shenmue: The Animation was announced in 2020 as one of the “partner” shows between Crunchyroll and Adult Swim. At the time both companies were owned by telecom AT&T. The phone giant has already sold off one and is in the process of unloading the other onto Discovery, so no one knows how long the partnership will actually last. But it got us a Shenmue anime. So far, Adult Swim hasn’t had very good luck with producing original anime, even with Crunchyroll assisting. The continuation of FLCL was a major disappointment, and though Fena: Pirate Princess originally gained critical interest, they changed their minds once they saw the weird direction the story was going. I didn’t mind Blade Runner: Black Lotus very much, but some people couldn’t get over how plastic the cheap CGI looked. In a separate industry, Yu Suzuki hasn’t been lucky either. He spent years trying to get Shenmue III made, and when he was finally able to scrape together enough cash, the end result displeased a lot

Shenmue: The Animation Will Premiere February 5

Shenmue: The Animation Will Premiere February 5

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It’s 1986, and Ryo Hazuki’s father has been murdered. It’s up to Ryo to find out why, and he sets off on a long journey of investigation. That’s how the cult video game Shenmue begins, but it’s also how the anime adaption will play out — which was finally given a release date yesterday. Shenmue: The Animation was announced in 2020 as one of the “partner” shows between Crunchyroll and Adult Swim. At the time both companies were owned by telecom AT&T. The phone giant has already sold off one and is in the process of unloading the other onto Discovery, so no one knows how long the partnership will actually last. But it got us a Shenmue anime. Though the Shenmue story is a classic revenge tale, the video game was far more relaxed than that. Creator Yu Suzuki sought to create the most realistic game technology would allow at the time, so Ryo’s average day involved walking around and talking to random people to gather clues, and when

Shenmue Reborn As Anime Series

Shenmue Reborn As Anime Series

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It has been a weird ride for fans of Yu Suzuki’s RPG-slash-life-simulator Shenmue. The original game, released in 2000 for the Dreamcast, was one of the most innovative of its time, one of the first to attempt an authentic, living, breathing world where people went about their activities as they do in reality. Suzuki managed to get a sequel out before the Dreamcast prematurely bit it, but only Europe would see the original release — Americans got an XBox port. Then, for over fifteen years, fans demanded another Shenmue. It wasn’t until the invention of crowdfunding that it became possible for Suzuki to sidestep executives with closed pocketbooks and appeal directly to the fans. The Shenmue 3 Kickstarter shattered records and the finished product was released in 2019, to…mixed reactions. It was the expectation that Suzuki would choose to close out the story and make this a “trilogy.” He chose not to, and it’s unlikely there will ever be a Shenmue 4. But the series will live on in other

E3 2019: Shenmue 3 Might Not Truly Be The End

E3 2019: Shenmue 3 Might Not Truly Be The End

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Here’s something we never expected to hear. The websute USGamer caught up with Yu Suzuki, director, writer and pretty much everything behind the existence of the Shenmue series. The reporter asked Suzuki if Shenmue 3 would be concluding the story of protagonist Ryo…not really a question most other reporters felt like asking, because obviously it would, right? Think again. USGamer reports that “Suzuki took out his water bottle and placed it on the table between us and pointed to about the halfway point.” Then he said “Whole story of this bottle, about here,” through a translator. The reporter asked for clarification, and if he meant halfway. He meant even less. “40 percent,” said Suzuki. Shenmue fans know the game’s storyline was originally intended to be very long. When it was conceived on Dreamcast, a long number of games were planned — plans that had to change when the Dreamcast started collapsing and Shenmue II didn’t sell well on the XBox. What is Suzuki betting here — that he can crowdfund

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