Toonami Trending Rundown for September 25-26 and October 2-3, 2021

Last Updated on by Daniel Limjoco

“My whole life, things kept on happening to me. I never knew why and didn’t know what to do. But now, I’ll find those answers in the Eden. That is what I’ve come to believe. Because when I think about it, Eden is want brought me to all of you. I’m aware of it, I’d be making a bunch of trouble for you again, but I want to travel the world with all of you and take this journey together. I don’t know what’s waiting for us up ahead, but if you don’t put your faith in me and follow my lead, I won’t let you down. Now set a course for Eden, we go together!”

–          Fena Houtman, Fena: Pirate Princess (Ep. 09)

This Toonami Trending Rundown is a double-feature for the nights of September 25-26 and October 2-3, 2021.

For the night of September 25-26, #Toonami trended in the United States on Twitter alongside Fena: Pirate Princess, My Hero Academia, Food Wars, and Black Clover. #Toonami also trended on Tumblr. Meanwhile on the night of October 2-3, #Toonami trended in the U.S. on Twitter alongside Fena: Pirate Princess, Yashahime, Food Wars, and Black Clover. The full list, including statistics and tweet counts from the Twitter app, can be seen below.


Last week’s feature was a video game review for Golf Club Wasteland. It received a 8.0 out of 10 score.

This week’s feature was a new animated music video for “Chivalry Is Not Dead” by Hiatus Kaiyote. You can check it out below.

Aniplex revealed that Sword Art Online fans in the west will get their chance to see the upcoming Sword Art Online: Progressive film, Aria of a Starless Night in theaters on December 3, 2021, 34 days after the Japanese premiere. The theatrical viewings of Aria of a Starless Night will include both subbed and dubbed viewings, meaning that a dub on the film is already in production for December. There will also be options for those wishing to view the film on IMAX theaters.

Funimation has begun preorders for the upcoming My Hero Academia feature film, World Heroes Mission, scheduled to hit select theaters this coming October 29. For those interested, click here to check out showtimes near your area.

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On October 16, DC Comics will be organizing the third “DC FanDome” virtual event, and following the regularly scheduled premiere episode of Fena: Pirate Princess at midnight, Toonami will taking part in the festivities by airing a doubleheader of Batman animated films. From 12:30 to 2:30 a.m, Toonami will air Batman Ninja. Then from 2:30 to 4:15 a.m, Toonami will air Batman: Under the Red Hood. To cap things off for the night on 4:15 a.m, Toonami will air a new Rick and Morty horror short, titled The Great Yokai Battle of Akihabara.

Finally, during New York Comic Con this week, Toonami and Crunchyroll revealed new trailers and information for their next two upcoming co-productionsShenmue: The Animation and Blade Runner: Black Lotus. While Shenmue will be scheduled to release sometime next year, Blade Runner fans meanwhile won’t have to wait long, as the first two episodes of Black Lotus are scheduled to air on November 13, 2021 at midnight.

Tune in tonight for a doubleheader of the last two episodes of Black Clover before the show goes into hiatus, among other great moments. Until next week, stay safe, be sure to visit blacklivesmatters.carrd.co and anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co to see what you can do to help the fight against racial inequality, and continue to do your part to stop the spread of COVID-19 and protect others by following your local health advisories. Get fully vaccinated if you are able to, wear a mask in public and practice social distancing by staying six feet/two meters away from one another, if possible, and wash your hands thoroughly for at least 20 seconds.


Legend: The shows listed are ordered based on their appearance on the schedule. Show trends are listed in bold. The number next to the listed trend represents the highest it trended on the list (not counting the promoted trend), judging only by the images placed in the rundown. For the Twitter tweet counts, the listed number of tweets are also sorely based on the highest number shown based on the images on the rundown.

September 25-26, 2021 Trends

United States Trends:

  • #Toonami [#7]
  • #FenaPiratePrincess [#7]
  • #MyHeroAcademia [Trended with #FenaPiratePrincess]
  • #FoodWars [Trended with #Toonami]
  • #BlackClover [Trended with #Toonami]

Tweet Counts:

  • #Toonami [5,610 tweets]
  • #Yashahime [2,105 tweets]
  • #FoodWars [1,683 tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

  • #Toonami

Notes and Other Statistics:

October 2-3, 2021 Trends

United States Trends:

  • #Toonami [#14]
  • #FenaPiratePrincess [#10]
  • #Yashahime [Trended with #Toonami and #FenaPiratePrincess]
  • #FoodWars [#20]
  • #BlackClover [Trended with #Toonami]

Tweet Counts:

  • #Toonami [4,864 tweets]
  • #FenaPiratePrincess [3,020 tweets]
  • #MyHeroAcademia [5,833 tweets]
  • #FoodWars [1,927 tweets]

Notes and Other Statistics:

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Daniel Limjoco

Editor of the “Toonami Trending Rundown” a weekly article cataloging Toonami’s social media impact. News editor and social media curator for Toonami Squad. Former news editor and social media curator to ToonamiFaithful.com from 2013-2021.