Attack on Titan will return to Toonami to finish off the show's final season.
Toonami announced on its official Facebook profile that Attack on Titan: The Final Season - Part 2 will be the next show to join the programming block's late-night schedule. The network will air the first episode from Part 2, Episode 76: "Sentencing," on Feb. 13, 2022 at 12:30 AM EST. The show will be sandwiched between two other new additions to Toonami's anime lineup, the video game adaptation Shenmue, which will air its first episode on Feb. 5, and the second season of Assassination Classroom, which premiered on the network earlier this year.
Toonami broadcast the first half of Attack on Titan: The Final Season in January of 2021. The programming block announced at the beginning of this year that it was planning to refresh its late-night Saturday/early Sunday schedule with several new anime shows, one of which would be announced every week "for the next month or so." Attack on Titan appears to be the next show in that initiative, which includes the previously mentioned Assassination Classroom, as well as the critically acclaimed fantasy dungeon-crawl Made in Abyss. The network also recently announced the return of the long-running and beloved One Piece anime to its schedule.
Attack on Titan: The Final Season - Part 2 is one of the most highly anticipated shows of the current anime season. The series premiered in Japan and on streaming services on Jan. 9. The first episode of the half-season generated so much demand that it briefly brought the servers of anime streamer Crunchyroll offline on its premiere date. The series' final run of episodes will adapt the remaining chapters from Hajime Isayama's original manga, which published its controversial final chapter in early 2021.
Attack on Titan was created by Isayama in 2009. The series is now one of the most commercially successful manga in history, with over 100 million copies worldwide. The anime adaptation premiered in 2014 and was originally produced in its first three critically-acclaimed seasons by Wit Studio (Ranking of Kings, Vivy: Fluorite Eyes' Song), but production was unexpectedly shifted to studio MAPPA (Jujutsu Kaisen, Yuri!! on Ice) for the series' final season.
The Toonami programming block originally premiered on Cartoon Network in 1997, and is widely credited with helping to promote and popularize anime with mainstream audiences in the United States. The block was relaunched in 2012 as a subset of the late-night Adult Swim lineup.
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