Anime News: Toonami And Netflix Tease New Shit On The Way

Adult Swim Toonami head Jason Clark is teasing the fact that there are a number of unannounced acquisitions that will be on the way for the rest of 2023. Right now, the action-toon block is enjoying fresh premieres of FLCL: Grunge which will then lead into FLCL: Shoegaze by the end of September 2023.

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Netflix is teasing anime originals of its own. Season Two Part One of Kengan Ashura is premiering September 21st (which we knew) and now we know that Season Two Part Two will premiere sometime in 2024.

In slightly bigger news,the biggest streaming service in the world has announced a November 2nd start date for the long-awaited adaptation of the classic Capcom game, Onimusha. 

Capcom’s “Onimusha,” the landmark survival action video game series set in Japan’s feudal Sengoku period, is being adapted into an anime series that will start streaming from Thursday, November 2, only on Netflix. Directed by Takashi Miike, this ambitious series will focus on Miyamoto Musashi, who is modeled after Toshiro Mifune, the Japanese film icon known around the globe. This is the beginning of an intense series full of realistic action in which Musashi’s blade slices through evil as he traverses a land plagued by poverty.