Akame ga KILL! To Air On Toonami

Written By Samantha Ferreira

Source: Sentai Filmworks
Summary:

Sentai Filmworks announced that Akame ga Kill! will air on Adult Swim’s Toonami block. The series premiere will be on August 8th, though a specific time was not revealed.

Sentai Filmworks announced that Akame ga Kill! will air on Adult Swim’s Toonami block. The series premiere will be on August 8th, though a specific time was not revealed.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

“AKAME GA KILL! INFILTRATES TOONAMI™”

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HOUSTON, June 1, 2015 – Television gets seriously dangerous as Akame ga Kill! infiltrates Toonami, the hugely popular Adult Swim™ block.

Over the weekend at MomoCon, Adult Swim, basic cable’s #1 network with young adults for over a decade, announced their addition of Akame ga Kill! to the Toonami anime lineup beginning this August.

Adapted from the original manga written by Takahiro and illustrated by Tetsuya Tashiro, Akame ga Kill! follows a desperate team of assassins known as Night Raid, as they take on the brutal tyranny of a corrupt empire.

Detailed broadcast schedule information will be released as soon as it becomes available.

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About Adult Swim
Adult Swim (AdultSwim.com), launched in 2001, is Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.’s network offering of original and acquired animated and live-action series for young adults. Airing nightly from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. (ET/PT), Adult Swim is basic cable’s #1 network and is seen in 96 million U.S. homes. [adult swim] is a trademark of and © Cartoon Network.

About Sentai Filmworks, LLC
Sentai Filmworks curates one of largest and most beloved anime and genre programming libraries, containing thousands of hours of content released across traditional and digital media platforms.  Boasting hit series that include Parasyte –the maxim–, Log Horizon, High School of the Dead, and Persona 4: The Animation, Sentai’s catalogue continues to grow with new favorites such as Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? and MY love STORY!!  Visit www.sentaifilmworks.com for more information.

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Samantha Ferreira

Samantha Ferreira is Anime Herald’s founder and editor-in-chief. A Rhode Island native, Samantha has been an anime fan since 1992, and an active member of the anime press since 2002, when she began working as a reviewer for Anime Dream. She launched Anime Herald in 2010, and continues to oversee its operations to this day. Outside of journalism, Samantha actively studies the history of the North American anime fandom and industry, with a particular focus on the 2000s anime boom and bust. She’s a huge fan of all things Sakura Wars, and maintains series fansite Combat Revue Review when she has free time available. When not in the Anime Herald Discord, Samantha can typically be found on Bluesky.

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