Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of April 30
As we exit April and enter May, here’s what Adult Swim has in the works to make your weekend weird.
Shenmue
Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of April 16
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:
Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of April 9
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.
Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of April 2
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.
Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of March 26
This weekend’s premieres on Adult Swim include robots, chickens, more robots, and the possible return of an old friend.
Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of March 19
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.
Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of March 12
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.
Robot Chicken Returns In This Week’s Adult Swim Premieres
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.”
Shenmue: The Animation Now Running On Adult Swim
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.
Shenmue: The Animation Will Premiere February 5
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 Reborn As Anime Series
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.
E3 2019: Shenmue 3 Might Not Truly Be The End
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?