Thread:Invader Rob II/@comment-17964257-20190203213330/@comment-24549565-20190205054916

Kaantantr wrote: The key bit is that in Japan, anime has a weekly schedule. Unless they take a break somewhere (which will be referenced due to breaking fixed schedule), it's always one episode per week on the same day, same time.

As Gsi mentioned, the western release dates vary wildly. From my understanding, for AGGO for example, Netflix and Hulu are just dumping the entire series of 12 episodes in one go, whereas we do not even know how Alicization Dub will be covered. Week by week? Doing more than one episode per week and slowly attempt to close in on the original? Bi-weekly because dubbing takes time? Dump a bunch of episodes at one date, dump the rest once they are available? These are the key bits that require western release date to have a stricter reference policy.

And yeah, on top of that, most of us are Europeans and can't even access the US show pages to check due to licensing issues.

If you want more info, Toonami works on a week by week schedule with some holiday breaks off here and there (last 2 weeks of December, sometimes July 4th, or Thanksgiving, etc). Perhaps 6 breaks a year at most. They don’t do anything like episode dumping because they always have other anime filling in the same time slots. Sometimes the schedule switches a few things as it’s a flexible block Adult Swim US runs, but I’ve never seen them air more than one new episode of an anime per week.