“Kill La Kill” Joins Toonami February 7th
Toonami’s first new show of 2015 is certainly a surprise. Studio Trigger’s Kill La Kill will be joining the lineup starting February 7th at 11:30pm ET. The show’s English dub is produced by Aniplex of America. This will be the first time that two Aniplex animes are running simultaneously on Toonami (the other being Gurren Lagann).
This acquisition brings some questions on how the schedule will look, as Toonami has yet to release the new schedule for February 7th. Since 11:30pm ET is the timeslot for Attack on Titan re-runs, one could infer that it will be either pushed down to a later timeslot, or removed entirely from the lineup (the latter is not likely, considering the purpose for another run in the first place was to “get their money’s worth” out of the high-profile show).
This also leads to questioning over what will replace Gurren Lagann. Normally, Toonami replaces Aniplex shows with other Aniplex shows (as seen with Sword Art Online, Blue Exorcist, and Gurren Lagann itself). The 2nd season of Sword Art Online (SAO II) wrapped up its Japanese run on December 20th, 2014, so an English dub will take a while to produce.
With Kill La Kill joining Toonami, the possibilities on what’s to come now are endless…