Excluding the 1 April 2024 broadcast, serial experiments lain will be the first cartoon series to have an NGO live-stream premiere following the 404 TOON RESET (Error Toon Reset) arc. The decision was made to serve as a middle ground between school anime and the slew of KQED Plus (KQEH) science fiction night anime that I plan to live-stream in the future. Other than that, there will be an eighth U-PICK poll on Tumblr that will determine if my Saturday morning cartoon block will be given a makeover or not. Though I stopped hosting U-PICK polls since the start of the Separate Ways arc, I let some other person be in charge of the polls. Turns out we cannot stand the oversaturation of isekai anime in the 2010s and 2020s, but I started to appreciate school anime during these times.* My "hero" will use this idea of mine to give my Saturday morning cartoon block a makeover to counter-act the isekai phenomenon.
To tell you the truth, I feel bad about the upcoming LAZARUS anime being given Saturday/Sunday premieres here in America, giving a dilemma to someone who runs Saturday morning cartoon blocks (unofficial tribute blocks, that is) like me. Luckily, I prepared More One Night as a backup plan since the launch of Toon Time Theater's Separate Ways arc, to make up for canceling T3 Express upon the New Year, and to accommodate my tendency to stay awake by midnight on Saturdays/Sundays. I would have put LAZARUS on Saturday mornings, but since adult swim won't be premiering episodes on Thursdays/Fridays, I have decided to live-stream serial experiments lain on Saturday mornings as a trade-off, then live-stream LAZARUS (Japanese language track with English subtitles if available) during More One Night (Saturday nights m/c/p and Sunday mornings Eastern).
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Toon Time Theater(?), T3, Saturday Morning Animation Cram Session, SMACS, More One Night(?) and M1N are trademarks of the New Gabe Order.
* Before SWORD ART ONLINE, Re:Zero, LOG HORIZON and The Rising of the Shield Hero revolutionized isekai anime and made the genre mainstream, school anime used to be the most dominant, oversaturated genre. We used to get stuff like To Heart, Yu-Gi-Oh! (to an extent), School Rumble, Ouran High School Host Club, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Puella Magi Madoka Magica (to an extent), Love Hina, Tenjo Tenge, Fighting Spirit (to an extent), Please! Teacher, and many more I can't think at the top of my head.
