OwlChemist81

Here's my Top Ten for 8/19/17 Toonami (and beyond) 11 PM-4 AM: #10: Tokyo Ghoul - Seriously? We go from the awesomeness of JoJo: Stardust Crusaders to THIS!? One minute of action and 23 of "what the hell WAS that!?" #09: Naruto - Yes, no "Shippuden" this time, folks. Episode 170 was actually "Episode 221" of the original series! #08: Dragon Ball Z Kai - Master Roshi, you're a dirty, flatulent old man!! #07: Samurai Jack - "Everybody Needs Some Lovin' Sometimes..." #06: Attack on Titan - Ymir's secret, finally revealed amid some impressive tower assault scenes!! #05: Dragon Ball Super - Questioning this? Well the comedy cranked it up a notch, and it was full of plenty of good exposition despite being half-recap! #04: Lupin the 3rd - Lupin's ghost story!! #03: Hunter x Hunter - Wow, Bisky! You make Pai Mei from Kill Bill look like Mr. Rogers! And Will Zeppeli and Whis' training was like child's play! #02: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders - Well, it wasn't "Snakes On A Plane", but "Stands On A Plane"! And then what's worse than going to a Chinese restaurant and the food making you sick? The nightmare that awaited Team JoJo! #01: Outlaw Star - Damn, it's NICE having this back on the air! Gene Starwind's world just drips with intrigue and I hope over 500,000 Faithful will be along for the ride!

I would say despite the fact that this episode was half-recap, it was actually a bit better than your average DBS episode since silly stuff like Sonny Strait voicing all the characters for a flashback and Goku talking to the narrator and him getting annoyed and quitting was hilarious!! Oh, and there were some interesting revelations surrounding Beerus, a character that usually provides commentary/comic relief!

You mean when they stretch the screen from 4:3 to 16:9 and circular objects become ovals? Is THAT what they did with O.G. Naruto and InuYasha?? Because I really don't remember. Although lately I've been thinking HD InuYasha might be a potential future direction this block goes in, if we didn't already have it back in 2012-13. Maybe if it came back to replace AOT S2 in October or Lupin or Outlaw Star in 2018 this time they would do it right and pillarbox it? I suppose it also could regain its old graveyard slots and be an "expansion show". But yeah, I DO also remember what they used to do to FMA:B which was letterboxing it although it was already 16:9 which was beyond ridiculous, and then some shows even got the dreaded "DOUBLE-letterbox" which left only like 60% of the screen active and squished the content to hell! Thank goodness THOSE days are over, even if they tended to get higher ratings!

DBZ Kai Final Chapters: Buu Saga marathon 11 PM Saturday 9/2-3:30 AM Sunday 9/3 Rick & Morty Season 3 marathon 11 PM Sunday 9/3-5 AM Monday 9/4 Is that clear enough?

My best guess is that we get DBZ Kai Final Chapters in 16:9 widescreen, because that's how it was done in Japan. Now HOW it was cut into that I'm not sure. It could be that the top and bottom of the screen were edited out in the transition of DBZ to DBZ KFC, because that would certainly qualify as a "directors cut." But I have no idea if that really is the case. Still, it's not stretched significantly, so I suppose so?

I think it's Christa, actually...

Reiner is a meathead moron! Christa isn't the least bit interested in him!!

What? You DO realize the original SD version would ALSO be pillarboxed, right?? Might as well have better resolution, but unless you want the show stretched or for the top and bottom to be cut off, there IS no other option besides drawing new animation for the pillarboxes, which may be possible for older shows but was NOT done for Outlaw Star! So keeping it SD would fix none of that. TVs were largely still square in the late '90s and have just recently been wider, and rectangular, mainly because theatrical movies were forced to lose the sides when they aired on TV, and because of that, it evolved that TVs be elongated just as theatrical movies are. Of course, the unfortunate side-effect is that older shows don't quite fit the new TV width, which is why we have pillarboxing.

Let's finish the night with a dose of horror!!!

THANK YOU, Funimation!! THANK YOU, Toonami!! Uhhh, I already am home! I wouldn't trust me to drive right now...because I'm tired!

They HAVE to do that if it wasn't originally in widescreen! There's nothing wrong with pillarboxing. The only viable alternatives are a zoomed-in screen, which cuts off the top and bottom, and "Stretch-O-Vision". Other than somehow creating new animation outside the original frame, THERE IS NO OTHER WAY!!! >

Believe it or not, his real name was J. Crow! ohno

I can hardly believe this is really happening!!! Yes, we've got the old "space" pillarboxes, but it still looks great!!!

Naruto is a DUMB ASS! But he got rid of that summoned spider...

So this isn't actually Naruto Shippuden, but episode 221 of Naruto?? Interesting...

ANOTHER character figured out the "Sexy Jutsu!?"

It was more or less implied since they showed her tombstone right next to Adela/Adele's!

Wow, it turned out Carla was a ghost!! I didn't see that coming!!

This reminds me of the Yasogami arc of Dimension W...

Boy, he REALLY got his ass kicked!

SHE'S 57!!! ::spin:: Deceptively old woman vs. bargain bin Hisoka, takin' all bets...

Ready for "Hunter x .hack?"

That wouldn't involve a new timeslot, just moving shows around.