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“No, I hardly did anything at all. Maybe I managed to help things along a little. But it’s really all thanks to the bonds that Naruto forged. Everyone’s here today all because of Naruto. I’m sure that he’s going to make Hinata very happy.”
- Kakashi Hatake, Naruto Shippuden (Ep. 500)
The Toonami Trending Rundown for the month of August 2024. After over a decade on the lineup with 22 seasons and 500 episodes, we say goodbye to Naruto Shippuden as the show completes its long run on Toonami. Toonami viewers would also get to see the premiere of Rick and Morty: The Anime, a side story of the popular Rick and Morty television series that was directed by Takeshi Sano.
For the night of August 10, #Toonami trended in the USA on Twitter alongside Demon Slayer and a character trend from One Piece in Usopp. Demon Slayer also trended on Tumblr. On August 17, Toonami trended in the USA alongside Rick and Morty, Demon Slayer, and Naruto Shippuden. And on the nights of August 24 and 31, Toonami trended in the US alongside Demon Slayer and Shippuden. In addition, on August 31, Toonami trended on Tumblr alongside One Piece and #mha and #bnha.
As for Toonami Rewind, #Toonami would trend in the USA alongside Sailor Moon on the broadcasts of August 2 and 9.
August 24-25’s feature was a new Toonami ID titled “Engine Test.” You can check it out below.
And the August 31 edition of Toonami saw a game review of Hauntii by Moonloop Games. It received an 8/10 score.
If you missed it, check out my interview with Jason DeMarco at San Diego Comic-Con, as we discuss Rick and Morty: The Anime.
Naruto does have a finale and epilogue besides this final episode of Shippuden, that being The Last: Naruto the Movie which came out in Japan in 2014, that goes into more detail on how Naruto and Hinata hooked up and eventually got married. And there’s Boruto: Naruto the Movie released in 2015, which serves as the bridge to the Boruto anime series.
Unfortunately, as with the likes of Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale, Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul, and Dr. Stone: Ryusei, getting anime movies has been very difficult for Toonami to acquire nowadays, so fans will have to watch those parts of the story elsewhere. Alongside budgetary issues, anime movies are usually separately licensed from the shows themselves, and tend to have a bigger and/or different production committee from the anime. And not all companies are willing to give Toonami a discount for a broadcast deal, or even let them air it at all regardless of being essential to the storyline.
Speaking of Boruto, while Toonami aired the first 52 episodes in 2019, the show has been put into an indefinite hiatus (if not outright canceled) from the block due to low ratings (and likely a high asking licensing price from Viz and Shueisha, et. al). Despite that Studio Pierrot has made an additional 241 episodes of the series, its last airing on March 2023.
Given that Toonami has opted to rerun Naruto from the beginning again for Rewind, and given that’s it’s been six years since Boruto left, it’s likely that the Naruto franchise has premiered its last episode on Toonami. But as Jason DeMarco has regularly said: “never say never.” And perhaps one day, this franchise will make its return (outside of reruns). Nonetheless, it was a fun ride watching the Knuckleheaded Ninja of the Leaf Village grow up to become the 7th Hokage. Believe it!
Unfortunately, due to personal reasons, I’m unfortunately running a bit late on posting Trending Rundowns, so expect the editions for the rest of 2024 to be posted in the coming weeks. Apologies for the inconvenience. Until next time, stay gold as always.
Legend: The shows listed are ordered based on their appearance on the schedule. Show trends are listed in bold. The number next to the listed trend represents the highest it trended on the list (not counting the promoted trend), judging only by the images placed in the rundown. For the Twitter tweet counts, the listed number of tweets are also sorely based on the highest number shown based on the images on the rundown.
August 2, 2024 Toonami Rewind Trends
United States Trends:
- #ToonamiRewind [#15]
- #SailorMoon [#24]
August 9, 2024 Toonami Rewind Trends
United States Trends:
- #ToonamiRewind [#19]
- #SailorMoon [Trended with #ToonamiRewind]
Tweet Counts:
- #SailorMoon [2,852 tweets]
August 10-11, 2024 Toonami Trends
United States Trends:
- #Toonami [#10]
- #DemonSlayer [Trended with #Toonami]
- Usopp (From One Piece) [#23]
Tweet Counts:
- #Toonami [3,141 tweets]
- #DemonSlayer [4,866 tweets]
- Usopp (From One Piece) [7,869 tweets]
Tumblr Trends:
- #demon slayer [#3]
August 17-18, 2024 Toonami Trends
United States Trends:
- #Toonami [#11]
- #RickAndMorty [Trended with #Toonami]
- #DemonSlayer [Trended with #Toonami]
- #NarutoShippuden [Trended with #Toonami]
Tweet Counts:
- #Toonami [3,034 tweets]
- #DemonSlayer [3,649 tweets]
August 24-25, 2024 Toonami Trends
United States Trends:
- #Toonami [#8]
- #DemonSlayer [Trended with #Toonami]
- #Shippuden [Trended with #Toonami]
Tweet Counts:
- #DemonSlayer [6,601 tweets]
- #OnePiece [36k tweets]
Tumblr Trends:
- #Toonami [#2]
August 31-September 1, 2024 Toonami Trends
United States Trends:
- #Toonami [#7]
- #DemonSlayer [Trended with #Toonami]
- #Shippuden [Trended with #Toonami]
Tumblr Trends:
- #Toonami [#4]
- #one piece [#3]
- #mha and #bnha [#6]
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