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Here's part two. If I can pull this off again, I'll be caught up on comments, if not the shows. DBS - I very, very much enjoyed that Vegeta took what Jiren intended to be a shaming comment about his (Vegeta's) pride and took it as motivation to fight harder. I also like that Vegeta chose to shun Instinct as a way to fight, choosing instead to rely on his hard-earned fighting skills. Dispo is fast. I'm not sure even Golden Frieza is up to catching him alone. I'm torn on what Gohan should do. I feel like he could team with either 17 or, much more grudgingly, Frieza to fight either Top or Dispo, respectively. Sure, either Trooper would decry such double-teaming as underhanded (whereas Jiren is so confident in his strength that he doesn't care how many opponents fight him simultaneously, but Vegeta is the arrogant one >.> ), but Gohan knows he's fighting for the lives of his wife and daughter, and I guess his mom and brother as well, so if sneakiness is what it takes to win, then so be it. Gen: LOCK - I haven't watched it yet. AoT 3: Third time's a charm - I haven't watched any more of these yet. TPN - I haven't watched any more of these yet. Fire - I haven't watched these yet. Lupin - I haven't watched these yet. Food - I haven't watched this one yet. BC - Finral should be dying rapidly from blood loss through his large open wounds. Julius should've used his time freeze to stop the bleeding while waiting for the magic doctor to get there and start working. Given what Asta said later about needing to wait for his cool-down period from using the demon power to end, I think he wasn't truly ready to go for the next round, but his impulsiveness got the better of him. I can understand why Julius felt he had to intervene, but at that range, I feel like he saved Langris from more trouble than Asta. Even though the edges of the demon swords aren't sharp, Asta could easily have caused life-threatening internal injuries with a strike to Langris' torso. Once they got new crystals ready and postponed rest of the second round for this fight, I can't say I was surprised that Asta wasn't able to block all the ranged attacks. It's a good thing he can summon the demon power again, because he was taking damage faster than Mimosa could heal it. As for Zora's backstory, yeah, I'd say he has a legitimate ax to grind against the Purple Orcas and their previous Captain, but he's likely rotting in a cell somewhere for his pattern of corruption. Good luck learning that the Captain who overlooked your father's murder has been ousted and replaced, Zora. Plus, I would be inclined to use stronger language than "jerks" to describe people who went out of their way to visit a grave for the purpose of disrespecting the dead person and attacking their headstone. Boruto - The bank robber wasn't a robber, but a game designer looking to commit suicide, I guess. Of course Boruto talked him out of it. What I want to know is how the guy's unscrupulous boss got "proof" of his supposed theft of intellectual property. I feel like a real investigation into alleged email contact would show it was fabricated, and I find it very hard to believe that the boss had access to the guy's financial records to alter them to show incriminating activity. Oh well. It was a little funny that Boruto used Lightning Style to disable the suicide vest after the switch failed, but I feel like that could've easily blown up both of them immediately. Shippuden - Yep, the allied troops needed to be reminded of their common enemy in the Akatsuki in order to put aside their individual grudges toward the other Villages. Good work, Gaara. So, it seems that the resurrected shinobi have their own minds for the time being, but how will Kabuto manage to suppress so many consciousnesses simultaneously when it's time for the fighting to start? I feel like that would take more chakra than he would have, given how weak he was in fighting Anko, despite having a poison to which she isn't immune. MSG: Origin - I haven't watched it yet. MHA - Bakugo v. Izuku wasn't just a good fight. Those boys got all the emotions out there, clearing the air between them as it were. I must credit Bakugo for how tough he was to take those hits, especially the punch to the face, and keep fighting, even going so far as to grapple Izuku into an untenable position and win by effective submission, even though Izuku never actually admitted defeat prior to All Might's arrival. One thing that really hit me when reading the corresponding manga chapters was how upset Bakugo was over the consequence of All Might fighting All for One. I hadn't considered that Bakugo would blame himself for putting All Might into that situation by being "too weak" to prevent his capture or escape on his own much sooner than the raid and rescue run, and the V.A. did a good job of bringing the raw emotion to that sense of failure and guilt here. I feel like it was good for Bakugo to learn from All Might's own mouth that his (All Might's ) days of heroing were numbered even before transferring One for All to Izuku, but that kind of guilt won't go away quite that easily. Bakugo will likely be a while in making peace with what he learned. I think it was in the corresponding manga material, but something wasn't said in the dub quite the way it was in the manga, and I really liked how the manga put it. All Might said the world would need the kind of hero that both of them were. He called Izuku a hero who wins by saving and Bakugo a hero who saves by winning. However, I feel like the dub did a better job of wording Izuku's improvement with using One for All. He can use a little more of the power now safely than he could previously, because his body is stronger and more capable of withstanding the stresses due to his training. I feel like the house arrest wouldn't be in effect for Bakugo to go to his extra lessons. Also, Bakugo gave Izuku some good constructive criticism of the Shoot Style. He told him what his weakness with it was and hinted at what he could do to improve it.

Ang wrote: Food Wars... put some clothes on before you cook, that's disgusting. There's definitely pubes in that fish now. Hero... Iida is here to keep the class gremlin in line. No don't talk to him. Just shoot him... How can you even see him you eyeless fuck? All for One is the woooorst... Turn off his oxygen and see how much gloating he can do. Agreed. There's no way that guy isn't violating the health code and probably also school regulations by cooking functionally nude. It's a full-time job, and I doubt he's truly ready for such responsibility. Those are all valid points. Poke wrote: Sometimes it's easy to forget that Bakugo's actually pretty smart, he just hangs out with dumb people. It is easy to equate his furious attitude with someone being dumb and lashing out at the world around them when they don't understand something, which is clearly not the case here. Blatch wrote: Yeah, I think Food Wars! almost solely made it to air because of its length. DeMarco might not like the fanservice, but it's a small price to pay for being able to lock down a slot for more than a year. I tend not to think about things from the programming side, because that has little bearing on my enjoyment or lack thereof with a show, but when things don't pan out, quick decisions aren't always bad. That said, after seeing the third and fourth episode, I don't think I'm missing much if I don't go back and watch the first two on my own. This is part one of another two-week posting. DBS - I liked everyone teaming up on the giant cyborg fusion of the guy and the robots, but how did it get so big with just adding a normal-sized dude? Also, how was it flying? It had wings, but it didn't flap them. Even the pterosaurs back in DB and DBZ had to flap their wings occasionally, even when they mostly glided. Well, crap, it can fight multiple people simultaneously. Sure, let's call it sonar. Why not? I'm fine with 18 making the calculated decision to sacrifice herself to throw 17 back into the ring. Hm, even Frieza joined in to fight. I feel like their combined energy attacks should've been more than enough to overpower this cyborg, but I'll take that effort providing the interference for 17 to break through and damage its power matrix thing so the others could blast it out of the ring. There was a tiny dude in the Universe 3 Destroyer robot. Does this mean all the robots were really piloted suits all along? AoT 3: Third time's a charm - I haven't watched any more of these yet. TPN - I haven't watched any more of these yet. Fire - I haven't watched these yet. Lupin - I haven't watched these yet. Food - Of course Soma dropped the letter about there being a dorm entrance exam, which is nonsense to have such a thing, but I feel like nonsense will be par for the course with this show. Sure, he made something great with leftovers and a few fresh ingredients from the kitchen. Why not? The dorm mother was hot back in the day. Yeah, sure that was only "juice" from rice. Poor Megumi saw more than she ever wanted to see. It looked to me like she was sitting low in the bath, so hopefully Soma didn't see much for the sake of her mental state. This truly is a dorm of weirdos, and especially the girl who keeps live animals to butcher for ultimate freshness. This Council of Ten strikes me as more nonsense, like the student council at school in KLK, but without the offensive might of Goku Uniforms. BC - In the history of Finral and Langris, Langris is the son of a second wife. That makes me wonder what happen to first one. Finral's stepmom was a terrible person, and his dad tried to use shame as a motivator. That was a pretty lady brought in for an arranged marriage, and she and Finral got along well. For her sake, I hope she hasn't had to marry Langris yet. Wait a minute, author. If Augustus is this lady's great-uncle, that means he's the brother of her grandparent. In that case, how is Augustus king? For one, he doesn't look old enough to have a great-niece her age several years ago, which would indicate that he was a younger sibling to her grandparent. If he is the younger sibling, then his sibling's child, the lady's parent, would be ahead of him in the order of succession, and, frankly, she would be as well. Unless Augustus' sibling was younger and had their child, the lady's parent, at a very young age, and so did that parent for her, then I find it very hard to believe that she is his great-niece. His niece, perhaps, but not another generation down. Finral cancelled Langris' spatial spells with his own. Cool. Unfortunately, the big volley of attacks was too much. I seriously doubt Finral would've survived his wounds. There were pieces of his body, including part of his torso, which weren't there anymore. He'd bleed out rapidly from such wounds. I didn't expect Langris to move in for the kill over a perceived insult in Finral saying he wasn't inferior to him. I did very much like the trio of Finral's teammates being poised to strike down Langris at the slightest sign of aggression. I spotted that their body positions were such that they wouldn't hit their comrades on the other sides. It looked like Asta was set for an upward stab, Luck was ready to fry Langris' heart, and Magna would've torched his head. In lighter developments, poor Sekke. Yami, my advice is for you to include more fruits and vegetables in your diet and to drink way more water. Boruto - Those rogue ninja were thoroughly untrustworthy. Not only did they kill their client (when he wasn't even sic-ing more hired muscle on them), but they also tried a double-cross at the exchange. At least they predictably were defeated. I wonder how much of Konohamaru's chakra was used for that Rasengan. Yep, teamwork was essential again, because each member of the team lacks something one or more of the others have, so they truly complement each other's skills. I chuckled at the return of "Cha!". As for Sarada having monster strength, it's easy to forget she's also Sakura's daughter, and her mom could've taught her what she (Sakura) learned from Tsunade. It also appears that Sarada is the medic of her team, even if she's not an actual medical ninja at this point. At least her First Aid skills helped the girl to stop leaving a blood trail for the enemies to follow. Shippuden - Yeah, the combined effort to retrieve Sauce back in the day failed, because Naruto couldn't overpower Sauce's Curse Mark Level 2 with the one-tailed form of the Nine-Tails cloak (I think that means that this form of Sauce would have a chance in a fight with Shukaku). Consider that now Naruto is trying to master the use of the full cloak. In that state, Naruto would struggle not to shred Curse Mark Level 2 Sauce's body with a single attack. MSG: Origin - I haven't watched it yet. MHA - If my math is correct, the result of the exam is that 89 people passed. I'll agree with Izuku's feedback that he needs better presence (he does want to be an inspiring hero like All Might, after all) and to take more initiative. Bakugo, Shoto and Yoarashi all failed, largely because this test was intended to focus on teamwork and communication, since they're unlikely to find another complete package like All Might any time soon. As the bureaucrats said in the previous episode and we saw in Yoarashi's memory, Endeavor is strong, but he stinks at p.r. At the meeting between All Might and All for One in prison, I liked the safeguards, but I feel like the best one is that All for One will die without the life-support equipment. This means he can't escape alone; he must be retrieved by allies bringing a mobile life-support system like the one he had at Tomino. While that's all well and good, I don't understand why he didn't get a death penalty. He willfully created mass destruction with every expectation that there were people in the area who could die from injuries sustained in the carnage. If anyone did die at Tomino, that would be felony murder. Plus, he created, made available, and sent all those Nomus, so he's at least partially culpable for the damages and injuries they caused. I must recognize Bakugo's cleverness in figuring out Izuku's secret from his own encounter with All for One and the fact that Ragdoll can't use her Quirk anymore. However, I feel like it would be an oversight not to notice what this tells us about the nature of All for One's basic Quirk. It doesn't just copy a power. Instead, it would need to re-write the DNA of both the other person to extract their Quirk and his own or someone else's to implant it. Given how much he's done that to himself, I feel like not all of his appearance is due solely to All Might pummeling him years ago. It wouldn't surprise me if all that genetic tampering on himself over the years has left him riddled with cancers which, frankly, he doesn't know how to undo or write out with his power. Recall Deadpool's disfigured appearance and that, as they put it in the second movie, the basis of his power is unbridled cancer. It wouldn't surprise me if Horikoshi took inspiration for All for One's face from the Deadpool comics.

Here's the second week of posts. DBS - In facing the robot fighters, I liked how 17 and 18 relentlessly bombarded the "invincible" one. It was still making sound when it went out of bounds, so I'm presuming it was still "alive." Thinking about it, though, would destroying them even be a rules violation? If they're manufactured rather than born, are they truly alive? If their bodies are destroyed, but their memory bank survives, it could be put into another manufactured body and would continue to "live," so I'm not sure that destroying the robot fighters would get anyone disqualified. That was dumb. The robots already saw the peril of combining fighters into one, but they did it anyway. Gohan did well to hold off the combined robot while Goku and Vegeta recovered. I was fine with those two providing an assist once they had caught their breath, but I'm glad they let Gohan finish it, since he had done most of the heavy lifting in the fight. Uh oh. Even Beerus was pleased with Gohan's performance. That can't be good for his prospects. AoT 3: Third time's a charm - I haven't watched any more of these yet. TPN - I haven't watched any more of these yet. Lupin - I haven't watched these yet. Food - I'm not sure I'll continue watching this. The premise strikes me as so very absurd, but it is fun in a cheap laughs kind of way. I am by no means a student of culinary arts, but I'll admit I was surprised to learn that honey will break down the connective tissues of meat. At least I think that's what they said it did. Hm. The blue-haired girl from a small town is cute, and I feel sorry for her. BC - Magna's disappearing fireball attack was neat, but it can't have much power, or I feel like the disappearing part wouldn't work. Still, it had enough power to damage the crystal. By the end of their face-off, I'm not sure whether Asta got the hang of swatting the attacks or just got lucky in hitting some of them. Mimosa was sneaky, and I liked it. It made sense that the seed took time to sprout and take control of Sol's golem, but it seems like Mimosa's plant magic is perfect for fighting Earth Style. Sol's backstory struck me as tedious. Blah, blah, sexism. Yadda, yadda, empowered females are at least as capable as menfolk. Whatever. I feel like the real equalizer in that raid would've been the townsfolk being proficient with traditional weapons, but we must remember that the right to self-defense doesn't have the same consideration either in Japan or across cultures in the feudal societies of years past (upon which the show was ostensibly modeled) that it does in America. I've covered that at some point in regard to the history of the word "army." How was Kirsch ready to fight? He spent several minutes with one of Asta's anti-magic swords lying on him. It should've drained his mana to practically zero. Even Julius noted in a previous episode how much mana he could feel being drawn out of him just from holding it for a few seconds. Boruto - I liked that Boruto asked Hinata about her first mission before going on his, and she was honest about how nervous she was. It's a good thing he didn't ask his dad, though, because I don't think he'd like the similarity between them in hindsight. Haaa, the Uzumaki family still has a frog clock in the house. I feel like part of Konohamaru's admonition about respecting teammates was pointed at Sarada, but she missed it. Of course the mission was more complicated and higher ranking than Team 7 was initially led to believe. There's a traitor in the village, and there are rogue shinobi involved. I can readily believe that this village was ripe for attack, because they made a supposedly untrained teenage girl their leader, when she was not ready to be the village champion like her father was. Shippuden - I enjoyed young Sauce, feeling smug about the damage his Chidori did to the water tank going into it compared to the smaller dent and tiny entry hole of Naruto's Rasengan, having the rug pulled out from under him at seeing the other side of Naruto's tank and how much of it wasn't there anymore. MSG: Origin - I haven't watched these yet. MHA - Tsuyu can generate optical camouflage with her Quirk now. I so proud of her for improving/increasing her skills. Shoto and Yoarashi did not work well together. They not only showed no coordination, but each inadvertently, though actively, interfered with the other's efforts when attempting simultaneous attacks. One simply saying to the other to go first would've eliminated that. What I would like to know is how much they were penalized for it. It was only one type of error, but they committed it multiple times, so I'm curious to know whether they lost points each time the error was repeated. I guess I can see the logic for dinging them repeatedly, since it showed a failure to learn from their mistake. Izuku strikes me as being good at plucking people out of danger, provided the person can be moved without further injury due to nature of their distress. He also works well with directions, but is shaky on taking the initiative. Several times he was told by someone else how to help the efforts with the resucees. I'm not sure about Gang Orca's sonic attack. My understanding is that real orcas stun their prey with the sheer force of the biting attack. They may have a form of echolocation/sonar to assist in finding or ranging their prey, but I don't think it disorients their prey or overloads their senses.

I let the dvr get too full, so I had to forego writing last week to clear out some space. This is the first of two weeks of posts. AoT 3: Third time's a charm - I haven't watched any more of these yet. DBS - The illusion dude for the Fourth Universe was a cute little guy, despite the spikes on his head. It's a shame illusions were all he had. The invisible guy did well to poach Vegeta's win, but yeah, seeing the distortion when he was surrounded by dust gave him away. The fighting insect was remarkably strong for his size (even ants would be impressed), but once 17 saw the tiny dust trail, he made it look easy. However, I was disappointed that the insect managed to get the drop on Piccolo. He should've known better than to stay that close to the edge. Three universes are down in two episodes. They're dropping like flies. TPN - I watched another one, and most of it seemed like mental wrangling for advantage and seeking opportunity between Norman and Ray. I've tried not to read other's comments on this show so I wouldn't be spoiled, but one short sentence I did catch has made me suspect that Isabella is already grooming her next informant, since Ray is reaching the age limit. Even if he's deemed sufficiently intelligent, selfish and devious enough to join the group of adults who run the farm system, he'll still need to leave that farm for the sake of keeping up appearances for the other children, and so it would make sense that there's another informant. As for Norman doubting that the trackers could even be destroyed, I do think he was right to doubt Ray's "work" in that area, but, again, I think that removal would be preferable. I think it was foolish for Don and Gilda to search Isabella's room to find her communications equipment, and that was a very tense cliffhanger for how they would escape detection. Still, it was clever how they deduced from simple measurements that there was a secret room off of her room. The existence of the room would be easy to calculate, but hiding it relied on the thoroughness of the lie of the orphanage, in that no one would think to look for it. SAO: A - Quinella's estimate of what it would take to repel the Dark Territory's invasion is another reason why not to give A.I.s autonomous kill authority. She had an appalling idea of what constituted acceptable losses (50% of the human realm's population) to defend the realm, pursue the threat, and eradicate it. To any sane and empathetic person, that would be a sign that the plan was a bad plan, and another plan was needed, because that wouldn't be 50% total losses. That was just how many people would need to be brain-jacked into becoming Sword Golems. I very much doubt that there would be no other human casualties in the invasion, so the hundreds or thousands of personal violations of the sanctity of the mind aside, there would probably be hundreds or thousands of other dead from the initial attacks in the invasion. Yes, I remember these are A.I.s, but the principle extends to how a weaponized A.I. like Quinella would operate in the field. She would deem losing half or more of the human force she supported to be within parameters for considering a mission successful, provided the other designated objective(s) were achieved. Of course Eugeo was dying. His lower body from the waist down was severed. Frankly, he should've died sooner than he did. It looked like Eugeo had Alice's memories, and he was able to reunite mentally with the person she was. That's how he learned that his and Kirito's memories were also manipulated following Alice being taken. It was nice that he saw that a memory Quinella used to turn him wasn't the whole story, since Alice and Kirito were really making Eugeo a birthday present in secret for a surprise. What I want to know is whether Alice can be restored now. It looked like Eugeo integrated her sealed memories and then died, so I would presume there would be no other copy of the memories for her to re-integrate and regain what was taken from her. Quinella said that no metal sword can hurt her. Um, why not? Did I miss that explanation? Oh well. The joke was on her, because both Eugeo's and Kirito's swords were made from things other than metal, so they did notable damage to her. I was fine with Kirito donning his Aincrad attire for the fight and bringing back dual-wielding using the blood-ice of Eugeo's sword. It was a little disappointing that the fight ended with mutual maimings, which they both somehow survived. I think they each used a spell to stop the bleeding, but I don't really remember. Quinella tried to escape by using an admin terminal, but to where? I would think to either a device or another server linked to the simulation, but not part of it. I'm iffy on Chudelkin going after her. On one hand, how could he tell where she was when he had no eyes? On the other hand, it was acceptable to see her meet her supposed demise by something as simple as a corruption of the data transfer. When Kirito used the terminal to communicate with the outside and we heard gunfire, I initially thought that Quinella succeeded in making it out of the simulation (despite Chudelkin's actions), took over one of the robot bodies, and went Terminator on the humans, but it turned out to be an Eva ripoff raid instead. I'll go with the presumption that Kirito manages to log out of the simulation before he gets brain-fried (did these people learn nothing about safety protocols after the Aincrad incident and the thousands of dead it produced?). Lupin - I haven't watched these yet. Food - I know I set the first episode to record, and it didn't show on the list of recorded shows. The second week (this episode), it recorded, but when I went back to look for it later in the week, it was off the list of recorded shows, and I know I wasn't down to the last five percent of dvr space, so the dvr shouldn't have kicked it off to make space. BC - Ah, so Zora did set traps the night ahead, meaning he was serious about needing a nap in the first match. Asta's anti-magic tornado move did a good job of countering Kirsch's Shadow Clones, but it also removed all of Zora's traps. Still, Asta had a good point that Zora can't beat the Midnight Sun alone simply through craftiness and planning. It will take real teamwork, and Zora begrudgingly agreed to try it, so of course it worked. Zora's quick traps worked to funnel Kirsch to the pit Asta dug by muscle power, which I'll accept given the furiously-paced physical training we've seen Asta do. I thoroughly enjoyed Asta's mocking tone about nobility in luring Kirsch into the cave. Boruto - Mitsuki's past was odd. In an amnesiac state, he had to decide between trusting either his clone predecessor or his progenitor, and he chose to trust himself, I think. I'm not really sure. It's been over a week since I watched this to when I'm writing about it. I do remember that he's fascinated with Boruto for some reason. Shippuden - Anko sure was hot back in the day. That is all. MSG: Origin - I haven't watched these yet. MHA - This was so over-the-top and cheesy that it was hilarious. I loved that the deduced storyline between villain!All Might and Midnight was telenovela-level dramatic. Still, Aizawa had a point that they didn't restrain the villain, and thus allowed him to escape. However, I feel like trying to get the students to do the work of the police was beyond the scope of what heroes should do. In this situation, I think the real responsibility of the heroes would be to secure the scene for the police to conduct the investigation. I mean, there would be officers right outside to start the investigation almost immediately. Further, in a real situation, they wouldn't need to deduce that All Might laughing when his nose was tickled was a sign that he was alive; they could simply check his pulse instead and determine that he was alive, and thus he needed to be secured to make it safe(r) for paramedics to stabilize him. To my consideration, the students failed because it was a fake situation and they tried to do more than they truly needed to do. Oh, hey. The daughter of All Might's friend from his time abroad is pretty. It's tempting to hope that Izuku would get a little play from her during the movie, but I really want him to end up with Ochako, because she's such a good person in addition to being cute. "An e-mail is here! An e-mail is here!" 😄

Ang wrote: Sword Art... Does Kirito remember that this is all just a video game? Clover... No seriously, we're supposed to like Noelle? Yeah sure this backstory is sad but she's still and unlikable sack of crap... Maybe the shit siblings will kill each other. Of course I'm not that lucky. The fat woman is named Angel, which is obviously this series just going out of its way to insult me now. Hero.. It never occurred to me that there'd be professional bystanders but that makes sense. Remember to scream "I AM HERE" as confidently as you can... Dangit Deku, get your shit together! ... Remember to smile! Todoroki what the hell do you need with firewood? Perhaps not. He did wake up there with at least partial amnesia from the brain damage, and even if he did, this simulation has been his daily life for years from his perspective, much like the world of Aincrad was in the first series. I want to say that her bad attitude toward others, and especially "commoners" who are her teammates, is called redirection, but I'm not sure if that's the right psychiatric term. Maybe it's transferance. Really, though, she probably has a mental health disorder from the years of mental and physical abuse. It makes me wonder where her dad was during all of this instead of being there to look out for his youngest child and raise his other children not to be abusive jerks. Wait. Maybe he was there, and the other children learned it all from him. That would be an even worse situation for the young Noelle. In that case, it'd be a wonder that she'd ever treat anyone not terribly. Ah, so it was an insult via trying to put your name into the show at all, thereby tarnishing your reputation by association. It'd be like the support companies in that they'd only exist because of the market existing in the super-powered society that is the world of MHA. For someone who had seen the All Might rescue videos as many times as he had, one would think that he'd spot All Might's actions and words for the examples they were. He needs something to keep burning so he can do stuff other than stand there and continuously emit flames. Poke wrote: [regarding Gang Orca] ...let's just say he's got lungs instead of gills. BLACK CLOVER... All of Noelle's siblings are pricks, but Solid's easily the worst; it's one thing to tell your sister she's worthless, it's another to ruin her dinner just because she forgot to let you eat first. Like an actual orca, right? Also, he and Selkie make me think of chimeras. That's something about fancy etiquette I never learned, waiting turns before starting a meal. I can understand a guest waiting for the host(s) to start eating before starting their own meal, but younger siblings needing to wait on birth-order is taking it too far. Additionally, didn't Solid blame Noelle, who had no say in being conceived or carried to term, to her face for their mother's death? I forget whether he said some variation on "I wish you were never born," but that is worse than splattering her food to my thinking. DBS - Sooo... lots of Namekians fused to make these two. When we remember that Namekian fusion can't be undone, it says good things about the Namekian people that they'd be willing to give up their individuality for the chance to help defend their Universe. I call shenanigans on the power of love "singularity." That was just their version of the Spirit Bomb, and they clearly didn't take enough energy from the inhabitants of their Universe, because 17, 18 and Goku were able to withstand and overcome it. I found it funny that Goku's stated path to power was fury, meaning righteous indignation in the world of Dragonball is something love can't conquer. AoT 3: Third time's a charm - I haven't watched any more of these yet. TPN - I watched the fourth episode. It was a roller coaster for me and the children. We went from suspecting people to trusting them to wondering if we were wrong to trust them to finding out that we were right to trust in one case and wrong to trust all along in another. I was glad that Gilda, who Krone tried to recruit, not only chose allegiance to Emma and the other children, but she also chose to tell Krone a plausible lie in an attempt to deflect Krone's suspicions. However, Isabella had another informant, but I'm not sure whether she has more than one. Norman ran a triple-test, and Ray failed, but I can't be sure whether Don passed. I want to believe that Don is trustworthy, but I don't know, and neither do the other children. I'm torn on the trio telling Don and Gilda a story which was close to the truth, but not the truth. I'm dismayed that these 11-ish-year-old children know what human trafficking is, but they do, and if they can be convinced that Isabella has been lying to them for years about the fates of the "adopted" orphans, then that's good enough for the immediate term. I can also appreciate that the real truth is too outlandish, but at some point, they'll need to know the real truth if they're to survive in the outside world. We saw a world map, and of course that caught my attention. I'm not sure whether the map is wrong or I have an incorrect understanding of what something means. I thought that calling the contiguous land mass with many hundreds of miles of land border Eurasia was simply treating Asia and Europe as one continent, but this map seems to indicate that Eurasia is the middle ground between distinct continents Asia and Europe. Also, I had heard that some consider Australia to be the largest island in the group of thousands of islands comprising Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, etc., and those collectively are the continent Oceania. However, I've read that there is research in tectonic circles about whether there is another continent called Zealandia, of which the islands of New Zealand are the majority of the land area, which might lay claim to some of the island clusters currently grouped into Oceania. The team-based training seemed to go well. Phil was good for his age, but his high test scores indicate that he's smart, and that probably helps him. As for Norman wanting to move up the timetable, I understand that every day they spend there is another day for Isabella to discover their plans, but I'm not sure the younger children are really ready to go. My takeaway from Emma and Norman discussing what to do with an informant is that Emma good heart. She's willing look out for the safety of even a traitor, and she gave insightful rationale for it. Now the question is what Norman will do with Ray. Norman could use Emma's reasoning to try to persuade Ray to misinform Isabella or to convince him come along anyway. I'm not sure how Norman will try to play it. When Isabella and Krone were in the office, it was unnerving how much Isabella knew. Now I want to know how she knew what Krone knows and her plan. The simple answer would be physical eavesdropping, because Krone wasn't exactly quiet when talking out her plan to her doll, but there could also be numerous surveillance devices in the house and around the farm. It's also possible that Isabella is simply an adult genius and reasoned it out from reading Krone's employee file. The problem is that any of those scenarios has bad implications for the children planning clandestinely and trying to outwit Isabella. SAO: A - I didn't make notes for this episode soon after watching it, so I'll probably put some things which actually happened here in the spot for the next episode and vice versa. Cardinal tried to fight Quinella, but she just didn't have the skills, so she offered her life for those of the others, but of course Quinella went back on the promise, because the others attacked her afterward. Eugeo offered to become a sword, and Cardinal did as she was asked. Sword!Eugeo could also fly, because why not? The lights in the ceiling were the sealed memories of the Sword Golem constituents and the Knights. Fine, whatever. I'm not sure whether the sealed memories Eugeo grabbed to power his sword form were his own or Alice's, but regardless of which ones they were, how did he know which memory crystal to grab? Was that explained? Anyway, Eugeo beat the Sword Golem, but failed to kill Quinella, because she has too much hax at her disposal. His sword form breaking didn't bode well for his reversion to a human form. Lupin - I haven't watched these yet. Food - I set this to record, but it didn't. I don't know why, because the shows around it did. I haven't sought the episode on my own yet, but I do have the third one on the dvr, and if I like what I see there, then I'll go find the first two (the second one recorded, but it disappeared from the dvr without me watching it). BC - I smiled when Luck one-hit his opponents' crystal by kicking a guy into it. I thought it was mildly amusing that Noelle and Yuno bickered over "ownership" of the look of disdain. Plus, Yuno hit the nail on head that Asta's personality is rubbing off on her. It was a big gamble by Solid's team to put all three mages on one attack run and leave their crystal unguarded. I think I remember something from Shippuden about Water Style being weak against Earth Style, and it played out here. Solid was a bigger nozzle to young Noelle than even Nozel was, and that's a weak homophone for the latter's name. In contrast, the tired Praying Mantis guy was a remarkably decent dude, and he gave her some good encouragement. Both Noelle and Solid have water magic, but Noelle's bigger attack connected. Haaa, the tired Praying Mantis guy used talking 'shroom magic. I thought it was hilarious that they were literal magic mushrooms. In Yuno v. Alecdora, I'll agree that manifesting a spell inside an opponent's spell took tremendous skill on Yuno's part. Vangeance was good to Alec at some point in the past, and that inspired great loyalty from Alec. It'll really suck for Alec when Vangeance finally reveals himself to be Licht. Boruto - Team assignments happened, and no one was shocked that Ino-Shika-Cho remained intact. I think that the team of Denki, Iwabe, and Metal would work well, with them balancing some skills, but focusing mostly on direct combat situations given Iwabe and Metal's strengths. Of course Sarada didn't want to be teamed with Boruto and tried for a direct appeal. However, Mirai (Asuma and Kurenai's daughter) was too much for Sarada to defeat alone, and so she had to cooperate with her new teammates and take some advice from her jonin, Konohamaru, proving the point of them being grouped together. Hm, Naruto was busy aiding a training exercise. I'm not sure how much other Hokages have done in that regard, but he does have levels of power which most of them didn't possess. Hm, Asuma's baby girl grew up cute. I'm willing to credit both parents with that, but I'd be very surprised if a pretty lady like Kurenai had a daughter who wasn't pretty. Also, jerk move, Konohamaru, leaving your cousin literally hanging like that. She owes you a good wallop at the next extended family dinner for that one. Shippuden - At least the recap was slightly less mopey than the original episodes of Naruto covered were. However, I feel like it robbed Hiruzen of the grandfatherly warmth and guidance we know that he tried to provide to the young orphan Naruto. MSG: Origin - I haven't watched it yet. MHA - The professional rescuee was right about Izuku's attitude, but I feel like he wasn't necessarily right about someone needing rescue being in the worst day of their life. There are a lot of other things which could've happened in the rescuee's life which could be worse than their current situation, both physically and psychologically. I remember from my First Aid class that the first thing in the first-responder protocol is to determine if the scene is safe. In, say, an active shooter situation, if there's someone in the field of fire needing help, but there isn't adequate cover or concealment for the responder to reach them, then they're really not supposed to try to reach them. Think of the Poker Face episode of GitS, when, in Saito's story, he deliberately wounded one man to draw out others to get kill shots on them. That wasn't a safe scene. Similarly, Momo, Sero, and others working with Ochako was an instance of recognizing that the scene wasn't safe, so they did what they could to make it safe to reach the person and extricate them. Another consideration in a rescue situation is triage. The responder needs to determine what injuries are the most serious. Some people will truly need help at the scene, and others may only need directions to where they can wait for treatment after others who need it immediately or be sent for a more comprehensive examination of their injuries. A broken arm is painful, but unlikely to be fatal, provided the bones aren't protruding through the skin. Bakugo exercised this principle, but he didn't state it very diplomatically, so he could've done better there. I'm not a fan of scoring on a deduction system. Yes, if you do things wrong, you need to have some kind of consequences to teach you the importance of doing things right, but the standard there isn't understanding or putting knowledge into action. The standard is perfection, and almost no one, if anyone, will get that. Yoarashi showed astounding control of each object in his wind stream to make the scene safe and get the rescuees to a position where they could be treated. Gang Orca suddenly attacked, and since this was framed as a terrorist attack, then yes, it would be plausible that the heroes would need to defend those who can't flee from still-present aggressors. This strikes me as a test of their ability to cooperate and coordinate with people they don't necessarily know.

First, yes, sympathy for the survivors and the families of all victims of the arson attack at Kyoto Animation this past week. Ang wrote: Hero... the meatball guy... EAT GRENADE... EAT LIGHTNING... Mei is the MVP here. Sword Art... Juuust chilling her with my tits out during this fight... When you're naked and crazy the world is your oyster. I like that she's just having this whole conversation while bare-ass naked... "You're just mad because you don't have great tits like these." Clover... Oh, that is just a personal insult. What's even better is that they work without torturing the user. Maybe that trial-and-error happened off-screen in the past. They had to keep it interesting somehow. Why not a hot, evil chick with no reservations about nudity? I know one of the mages was a fat woman, but I don't remember on which team she was or anything she did, so I'm not sure what was particularly insulting there. Was it even about her? I feel like the show insults each of our intelligence every month or so with its stupidity/bad writing, so it's plausible you meant something there. Poke wrote: BLACK CLOVER... Rill... between the major art love and the more annoying voice than Asta (taking volume out of the equation), I think he might be autistic. NARUTO SHIPPUDEN... Sakura should've ended up with Lee instead of Sasuke. Hm. I hadn't considered that possibility. Still, cognitive and behavioral sciences are a long way off in this show's universe, so we can't really know, and there's no professional help to be had for him. At the very least, Rock would've been a present father figure in their child's/children's life/lives. MHA - I have no idea how flesh blob guy could mash other people into those blobs without demolishing their skeletons and rending most of their ligaments. It makes some sense that he'd need to exercise focus to keep others in that state, and thus when he was overloaded with sensory input from Kaminari's shock, his victims started to recover their normal shapes. Good work, Kaminari (with assists to Mei and Powerloader for creating his distance targeting device). I get that Aoyama wanted to give Iida the chance to pick off someone from the group that would swarm him, but it worked out for him and all his remaining classmates as well. That comes under a plan being successful beyond all expectations. Yay teamwork! AoT 3: Third time's a charm - I haven't watched any more of these yet. DBS - Good work, 17 and 18. They worked together well. However, I feel like 18 was far too maneuverable for someone with an injured ankle. I've had ankle sprains before, and even walking on it was hard afterward, let alone the kind of running and dodging we saw her do. Yes, 17 wrapped it, but I feel like there was far too little material in his sleeve to do so effectively. Anyway, the more mature concept of love won out, and I'm totally cool with it. Both the 2nd and 6th Universes are in rough shape with 3 and 2 remaining combatants, respectively. I'm torn on which group is in greater peril of elimination. While there are fewer Namekians, they strike me as being much stronger than the trio facing Goku. However, that pair is up against Gohan and Piccolo, who are still remarkably fresh, as opposed to Goku, who is quite exhausted. TPN - I watched the third episode. Krone is not only good at tracking without the implants, but she also did a good job of unnerving Emma while seeking her. Krone is also fast. In all, this doesn't bode well for the children's impending escape attempt. I wouldn't have expected the implants to be in the children's ears, but it does make sense in that it's somewhere they wouldn't normally see. I feel like it could've been better hidden in one regard, though - the children's hairstyles. As Emma said, the mark was small on the new baby, but scarring is an unpredictable thing. While young children heal from injuries quickly due to their comparatively high rate of cell construction (a.k.a. growth rate), any wound that breaks the skin could leave a scar. If the hair of the child isn't long enough to cover the tops of the ears, then another child standing behind them could see it. Several of the children have hairstyles which provide adequate concealment, but not all of them. If Isabella is responsible for caring for all of the children, then I would presume that she'd have control over their hairstyles, and thus could force them, without them even knowing it, to have concealing hairstyles, but she didn't do that. Also about the implants, it was subtle, but the placement of them was also a reminder that these children are considered livestock. I've seen market pigs and cattle years ago, and they were tagged for identification in their ears. Such tags may no longer be external items with visually-readable numbers, but the tagging locations for RFID tags (which Ray deduced would be the way the trackers worked) are likely the same. One more thing about the implants: the children shouldn't be focused on breaking them yet. Instead, a plan for removal would be preferable. As they said, the tag likely will send a specific signal burst as a last transmission if it is destroyed, since crushing it inside the ear would be a slow crushing, due to the difficulty of delivering a swift impact which wouldn't also impart a lot of force in a blow to the child's head. While cutting the implants out would leave bleeding wounds, which might leave a blood trail, that could be mitigated with adequate bandaging, and the implants also may continue to function on a residual charge for a short time after removal. That means they would show nothing abnormal until they lost power completely, and that loss of signal wouldn't be noticed if the signal wasn't being actively monitored the moment it stopped. I applaud the ingenuity of the trio in disguising training the other children to escape and evade as playing a lot of tag and hide-and-seek. I enjoyed the bit of intrigue between Isabella and Krone. Isabella should've, by protocol, reported that some of the children saw the transport truck, but she didn't, presumably out of fear of losing her "mom" position and possibly even being killed for failing to control her children and keep the secret. Actually, if the m/a/ds knew that some of the children knew the secret, then they might have a set procedure to cull the entire "herd" in order to assure that the knowledge isn't perpetuated through whispers among the children. I'm not sure what they'd expect as a negative consequence other than losing children to escape attempts or suicides to spite the m/a/ds, but taking most of them before they were optimal for harvest would, in the long term, be better for their livestock production operation. So, Isabellla not reporting the breach, while intended for selfish benefit, could have saved the lives of all the children in the short-term as an unintentional side benefit. Meanwhile, Krone knows that Isabella not only failed to control the children in the secret becoming known, but also that Isabella chose not to report the breach. I can't fault Krone for seeking to hold on to this information in hopes of leveraging it into gaining a "mom" position of her own, but the scene where she thought aloud to a doll (perhaps a representation of a former sibling orphan she had to abandon or betray to save her own life) as if having a conversation says to me that she's likely battier than a belfry. Something about Isabella mentioning that Krone had perfect test scores made it sound like sometimes, just sometimes, truly exceptional children aren't harvested, but instead are selected to become part of the farm system operations as "sisters" and "moms," though I would presume, in the interest of equal opportunity, that there are farms operated by "dads" and "brothers," unless the tendency toward aggression inherent in males attributed to testosterone was determined by the m/a/ds to be too volatile to chance charging them with a farm. In that case, if no males are allowed to age past twelve, then the production side of the farm system would necessarily be in a medical laboratory situation. However, samples would need to be taken from males periodically in order to have any males at all, since the genes of females, when recombined with other females, could only produce females, and we have male children at this farm. Touching back on Krone's mental instability, I can understand it, since she not only knows the truth, but likely discovered it as a child herself, and the fact of her current situation is that she is perpetuating the same system which held her captive and threatened to kill her. This fact likely generates a lot of psychological stress. Additionally, I feel like the m/a/ds wouldn't hesitate to remove a "mom" or "sister" and harvest them if they failed in their position, and that's something which the "moms" and "sisters" know well, because the m/a/ds don't let them forget it. The "moms" and "sisters" must do well in order to save their own lives, but in doing well, they condemn dozens, hundreds, maybe even thousands of others to death, depending upon their tenure. Others must die so that they can live, and, unless they're true psychopaths or sociopaths, that guilt will weigh on them and could well drive them mad. It just seems like Krone's on the fast track to cracking, so I don't expect her to get a "mom" position. I really hope that Gilda (glasses girl) isn't informing on the others to Isabella. If Gilda is, then the worst part is that she would think that she's doing the right thing, but she's really making it more likely that some of her fellow orphans, if not all of them, will die sooner rather than later. Oh, and the m/a/ds have a leader they call "the One" who even their council(s) fear. I wonder if they also live under threat of death should they fail or offend their leader. SAO: A - Alice was able to block the attacks from Chudelkin's fire giant, but not hurt it. I'm not sure why pure magic wouldn't be vulnerable to physical attacks, but oh well. At least Chudelkin was. If Alice's sword was a Senbonzakura rip-off, then I'll also call Kirito charging his motivation into his sword and making it extend a Shinso rip-off attack. Quinella callously discarded Chudelkin's body afterward. Dang, that was cold. I'm with Kirito here. Quinella isn't a god. She's an A.I., and no amount of high control authority will change that. I found it simultaneously amusing and absurd that an A.I. in a simulation refused to accept its fate being in the hands of the simulation's creators. I forget if we were supposed to know that Quinella is aware of the outside world. I know that Cardinal is, and thus it's possible Quinella knew as well, but I don't recall if we were outright told that she knew. Her diatribe regarding religions in the outside world struck me as the author and/or writers having an incomplete understanding of the Abrahamic religions. I know that in some American Indian theologies, their past cycles of cataclysmic destruction and re-creation were tied to the wickedness and violence upon the Earth, but I can't think of other cultures which have apocalypse scenarios tied to human behavior off the top of my head. Quinella also was not aware of the culture from which Kirito hails, so I feel like her rant here was ill-informed and misguided. Back to simple story developments, the Sword Golem was strong. I feel like it was a waste of the dagger to use it on the elevator platform to open a portal for Cardinal, but at least she healed Alice and Kirito. I'm with Ang in not really feeling anything when Charlotte died to buy time for the healing. At least it was useful. Lupin - I haven't watched these yet. BC - I'll agree that there was nothing prohibiting the Captains from trying out for this task force, so I'm okay with the Aqua Deer Captain going for it. As for his history, he was always strange, i.e. nearly a shut-in, but he became dangerous about it once he got his grimoire. Good on the butler dude showing him how destructive his path was and suggesting another. Boruto - As with Naurto, Sakura, and Sauce back in the day, collaboration was the key to success, but this time it was especially in the form of the transformation justu. It made everyone focus on Boruto and the skills and tactics they expected out of him. That deception (haaa, a ninja must be able to see through deception) let Sarada activate her genjutsu, because no one expected it from Boruto. I like that Kakashi's lessons of loyalty to teammates and cooperation were things this class was already inclined to embrace, but they simply had to demonstrate it for him. Shippuden - It's finally time for Killer B to train Naruto in mastering use of the Nine-Tails chakra. I can believe that it would be tough to bring out the form without all the power. The Allied Shinobi forces number 80,000 shinobi and samurai. That's impressive. I feel like Kakashi leading one corps was both a recognition of his leadership skills and helped pave the way to him being next Hokage by showing how well he handled (well, will handle, from this show's perspective) those under his command. I'm cool with Gaara being the commander-in-chief. He was able to shield Suna from a bomb blast which would've leveled the city. I'm tempted to call shenanigans on Kabuto and Tobi's preparations. They have most of the dead ninja of note from the first series and this one set to be revived. I can buy them being able to steal the bodies, but how are the bodies still intact for most of them? Ninja may have skills, but their bodies are still those of humans. Unless the ninja society practices expert mummification like the ancient Egyptians, then both those who had the bodies and now Kabuto and Tobi would need access to cool, dry, antiseptic, and oxygen-free environments for storage in order to prevent the bodies from decaying. Also, in the case of several of them, I don't know why the bodies would've been preserved at all. In fact, I would think that some of the more dangerous ones would've been cremated in order to prevent this kind of thing. It strains the willing suspension of disbelief. Also, I have no idea how Kabuto could distribute Hashirama cells from Yamato to 100,000 White Zetsu that quickly. The way the episode ended made it seem like a place where filler would happen. I'm not sure, but I could believe that this would've roughly coincided with the Fukushima disaster, and that's why the filler comprised of Naruto material would've been necessary.

Ang wrote: Hero... Fancy girls... Shoji hit the jackpot on that teamup... Aw shit she's bleeding. FROG DOWN. How dare you target Froppy... SLEEPY BURRITO TSU... Distressed ribbit. Sword Art... Don't underestimate the power of titties... get it boy. Never go in without protection... I'm not gonna question why she's naked I'm sure this is very important to the plot. I mean yeah this is stupid... but I'd be lying if I said it wouldn't work on my horny ass... Do it for the titties, dumbass. Losing all his memories of Kirito sounds like a blessing. ...woman have some standards. Clover... Leave those dogs alone this isn't Jojo. Hunter- Ging doesn't deserve Gon... Gee thanks for the used apple, Dad. Ging is the wooooooorst. Maybe you want a fulfilling relationship with your only child, you damn sure don't have that... Hope that shit was worth abandoning your only child for his entire life, you dick... The fucking audacity of this man to talk about how much he cares about his friends to the son he's been running from for fourteen goddamn years... Someone could just push him off that tree right now and be done with it... Fuck you Ging, he's my son now. So what poor woman did you impregnate? ... Ging you owe thousands of dollars in child support and I'm calling the cops. Oh man I hope that other world has dinosaurs. I never thought I'd love my precious son as much as I do now... He's such a good boy. The fancy girls were jerks. Not only did they make Kyoka bleed, but they put Tsuyu in a life-threatening situation. Really heroic there. Yes, Shoji did get some pretty girls for his teammates here, and he was perfectly chivalrous in looking out for the most distressed one (unconscious Tsuyu). It was the upstanding!Dandy thing to do. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't looking at them nearly, if not every, chance we get, and thus I can't really blame normal Eugeo or Knight!Eugeo for falling victim to their power. Ba-zing-ga! Agreed. Thankfully so for the dogs. Wait, it just occurred to me that Arnold finally got to act out the vengeance for every mistreated dog in the JoJo franchise by attacking Kira, a.k.a. the jerk who killed him (Arnold). Since that was the case, I'd like to believe that the spirits of the other dogs were looking on and nodding their approval when Arnold did it. Yes, Ging was a terrible father. I can only hope Gon doesn't model himself after him in parenting. It'd be fine for Gon to see him as a model of what a Hunter should be, like Poke said, but not what a person or parent should be. The fact that everyone else who knows Ging has at least a small amount of hatred (okay, maybe only disappointment for Mito and her mom) for him should be proof of the latter point. It's a mystery which Togashi irritatingly chose not to reveal in the show. Thinking about it, though, we did see some flashback scene of Ging with tiny Gon at some point prior to his abandonment, and I think it was in association with leaving Gon with his aunt and grandmother. That means that Ging, as bad a father as he was, decided at some point that Gon's bio-mom was a worse option to have custody of his son than Mito and her (and Ging's) mom. Granted, from what we could tell, Mito and her mom did a great job raising Gon to be a really good kid, but that Gon's mom never found, or possibly even chose to seek, Gon says that she didn't really want her son in her life, and thus I think that Ging may have been right in taking Gon from her/with him when he left her. From what we saw of Ging, leaving Gon with terrific relatives may have been the best parenting move Ging could've made. As for owing child support, I'd be fine with him reimbursing Mito and his mom for expenses related to raising Gon, but that pair are such good people that they'd likely never think about it. I'd be cool with it. Yes, Gon is a good kid. That he was willing to wait for Pitou to finish Komugi's treatment (who died of radiation poisoning anyway; way to waste our and Gon's time there, Togashi) is proof of it. Poke wrote: That fox monster was one of the shapeshifters from early on in the Hunter Exam arc. I'm assuming they're temporarily impersonating Goto so the Zoldycks never know that Hisoka killed him, before resigning in his place and returning to their day job. BLACK CLOVER... I think Cool Ice and Okuyasu should team up to sue Langris for ripping off both of their STANDs at once. It sounds like a plausible explanation to me. Thinking about Langis using portals as an offensive measure, it makes me think of Raven's trash hole in TTG. All that stuff must go somewhere. I just hope no one nor any animal is unlucky enough to be underneath wherever Langris sends it. MHA - The fancy girls chose their battlefield well, but our U.A. students adapted and overcame the obstacles the fancy girls threw at them. Shoji was a good dude, looking out for adorably vulnerable Tsuyu there. Flesh-blob guy's power is really strange and seems like a villain power to me, since it seems like it mangles the bodies of his opponents. AoT 3: Third time's a charm - I haven't watched any more of these yet. DBS - It's mildly amusing that the greatest state of power that Goku can attain as a martial artist is achieved when he consciously forgets all his training and lets his body react on its own. Whis said as much, that thinking about what to do was limiting Goku's power in that form and was also the main hurdle preventing Vegeta from attaining it. With all their Saiyans gone, things aren't looking good for the 6th Universe. TPN - I haven't watched any more of these yet. SAO: A - The synthesis on Eugeo was a rush job, but his newly improved Piety module gave him powers with his weapon which few other Knights have, even after decades of practice. It's strange to see Kirito get shown up in Gary-Stu-ness. I take it that the triangle on Eugeo's forehead appearing meant that he was close to ejecting his Piety module. So, he froze Alice and Kirito, but not very thoroughly. Fine. I'm torn on Eugeo resisting Quinella's charms. Sure, there is the outside chance that Quinella actually put out earlier and was about to do so again, and it's tough to pull against one of the main characters getting laid, but there's also the fact that he'd have to submit to more memory manipulation, which would've made and kept him an enemy. Regarding Quinella continuing to walk (or float) around naked, it's fine, because 1. it's tough to take the time to get your only outfit and put it back on when a trio of opponents are right there, ready to attack you, and 2. why not? They have to keep the fanservice audience interested somehow. Chudelkin couldn't finish the job, so Alice and Kirito also reached Quinella's chamber. That's terrible. They were immobilized in ice for Chudelkin. It would be laughably stupid on his part if he tried to use a fire attack on them and ended up finishing the thawing process. Quinella deduced that Alice willfully rebelled. If I understand what happened correctly, Quinella made it activate the same system alert code (871... or was it 841? I'm not sure), if a Knight acted against their oath to her and the church as the normal system triggers for murder. Um, no. No, those are not equivalent infractions of the moral code of the simulation. That's a whole lot of arrogance and/or pretentiousness on her part there. Quinella's conditional acquiescence to Chudelkin adds to my doubts that Eugeo ever got to hit it, because she could simply have manipulated his memories when his Core Protection was down to make him think they'd banged. Relative to that... Chudelkin, we get that Quinella is hot, and she was naked right in front of you, but have you no shame? Aren't you the slightest bit embarrassed to beg her for a sex reward in front of others? Again, are we sure you were initially a human A.I.? Lupin - I haven't watched these yet. BC - I'd be cool if Magna and Sol got drunk and hate-banged. The ensuing awkward silence between the two whenever they met from here on would be preferable to the loud and obnoxious bickering. As for that pair teaming with Mimosa's brother, they worked together rather well. Kirsch may have a bad personality, he does strike me as a good leader. He was able to give his teammates helpful advice on how to make more effective use of their powers, and that probably stems from helping his subordinates in his squad do the same. It might be because he has a lot of practice at it, since he practically runs his squad in the stead of his narcoleptic Captain. I think Finral helping his team (mostly Leopold) with portals to bypass enemy defenses was this episode, but I'm not sure. If it was, then Langris directly attacking his opponents' crystal with a portal would've been the same episode. While it means that Langris is more dangerous, it also feeds his inflated ego. I'd love to see Finral's team beat Langris' team for the mental anguish it'd inflict on Langris. It's not solely in this episode, but Charmy eating, playing and napping on Julius' lap was fun. She's just there, doing her thing regardless of whatever's happening in the matches. Boruto - The instructors were bodyguards for Kakashi with targets on their chests to "kill" them. Fine. As for it being a test to get the lone bell, we knew what that meant. I can buy that the instructors needed to hold back somewhat not to kill the students. I'll agree with Kakashi. Boruto was far too familiar with him. It wouldn't surprise me if Kakashi is the ninja equivalent of a godfather to Boruto, but he should still show Kakashi some respect in public, if not for his past office, then at least for his current skills. Speaking of skills, Boruto has good ones, but no clear objective. I'm fine with Kakashi threatening Boruto by saying he couldn't let Boruto pass. It'll do Boruto good to be forced to focus and work hard toward a goal like Naruto did. Shippuden - Deidara and a lab clone of Manda under Kabuto's command attacked the island turtle. I can buy the turtle flipping as a result of the attack, but how was Kabuto able to grow a clone of Manda to that size within the timeframe of the franchise? The chaperones really had to rely on Naruto's inherent stupidity for that earthquake line to work. The "girl" armadillo was really a guy, and several of the other giant animals were heartbroken. Meh. I find it interesting not only that the Tsuchikage and his guards can fly, but also that he has a laser attack which was too powerful to use so close to the island turtle, so he had to lure Deidara way higher. It's too bad Deidara was recalled before the attack connected. Well, crap. Kabuto captured Yamato. That can't be good. HxH - Gon made great time climbing the World Tree. I'm fine with it being called the tallest in the world, since it is taller than the Burj Kalifa. He finally got to meet Ging at the top and ask his question. To me, it was a cop-out answer that what Ging wants is what he doesn't have, because that means he's the truly greedy one, never satisfied and always seeking his next challenge and thrill. I had trouble suspending disbelief in this episode. For one, those hungry, giant chicks didn't try to eat Ging and Gon, despite those two being bite-sized, present, and within reach, but that's not the worst thing. I'm noping out of that not actually being the tallest tree in the world as Ging related it. I call b.s. on the actual tallest tree leaving the atmosphere. Foliage wouldn't survive the thin atmosphere of high altitudes, let alone there being no atmosphere. We have tree lines on mountains around the world which attest to the carbon dioxide and water requirements of trees limiting the elevations at which they can exist. The branches would go no higher than the foliage could extract adequate carbon dioxide to keep building more tree cells: if it can't extract enough to build more tree, then the tree stops growing higher. The tree we saw would also require thousands, if not tens of thousands, of gallons of water pretty much daily. It might be able to tolerate sea water, so it may have that covered, but if it doesn't, then it would essentially use a river just to survive, and I didn't notice one around. I can buy that the world map we know from the show is far from actual map, because the show said in the first season that there are places on the planet where ordinary people aren't allowed to go, and an easy way to discourage them from trying is to simply cut off the map. One small problem with that, though, is that any astronomers would be able to calculate from solar observations and time differences how large the Earth should be in circumference. When the day is much longer than the maps say it should be, that's a red flag that either their math is wrong, which is easy to check, or there's more to the world than the maps show. The governments of the world and the H.A. would need every astronomer, professional and amateur, on board to perpetuate the false map. Alternatively, it could be that people just don't talk about the rest of the map because they're forbidden to go there, so it would be a waste of time to talk about it. After all, there be dragons. In all, it was a good show, and we got the chance to meet some very likeable characters. I liked how some of Gon's friendships grew deeper, some fell away (namely Kurapika, who disappeared for over 80 episodes, and then all he did was sit somewhere and not answer his phone), some stayed strong despite long times apart (i.e. Leorio, who dropped everything to come to Gon's aid and would've mobilized the entire H.A. to help him if given the opportunity), and he never stopped making new friends along the way. Some of the developments were nonsense, but that's to be expected in this kind of show. Because of the sheer length, I wouldn't watch it again, but I'm glad I had the chance to see it easily. Thanks for putting it in front of my eyeballs, Toonami.

Ang wrote: Hero- Can you steal someone else's balls for this? ... Bye balls... MY BALLS. SNEAK URAVITY. Ohhhh I like her. Deku may not pass this test but he's definitely the real winner here... THAT'S NOT MY DAUGHTER... Oh hey, good timing. Oh good it's the real one. Come back, naked girl! They're from the screw team. Sword Art-... Oh, he's under somebody alright... Your mission is to cockblock your friend at all costs... So does this bitch fuck everyone when she brainwashes them? ... He's stalling for time so your friend can cum... I take it the sex was good, then. Man, you really level up when you bust a nut in the admin. Yeah, who needs two eyes in a fight. Clover- Don't trust Hisoka... I can appreciate his lack of any fucks given here... Oh hey, Hisoka woke up. Wow what a surprise, they won... Nothing says trust like kneecapping your own teammate. ...Mimosa... Seriously girl, have some standards. Hunter- I love my kids... HI GON... You had a ton of help, from everyone except your shitty deadbeat dad... Awwww look at my kids... My kids are having a great day. Oh no don't leave. Gon is way less freaked out than he should be here. I love my kids so much. Hi Kite, I...guess? Oh yikes. Well this is depressing. Science sure is weird. You're a good dude, koala man. New koala friend! Presumably. I mean, they didn't say the balls were coded to each applicant or anything. Also, Tachibana flashback? Yes, the girl who can shape-shift into other people was crafty and curvy. Good for Izuku getting an eyefull, and Sero could easily go the whole rest of the series and not have a better line than that. It's tough to pull for my OTP of Izuku and Ochako sometimes. I thought the dude whose Quirk points and laughs in the faces of the laws of conservation of mass and energy threw nuts and nails at Shoto, which are still both prime innuendo fodder for you. Again, I have serious doubts that she actually put out for Eugeo. As for her skanking it up with all Knight candidates as part of the Synthesis ritual, I really, really hope not, because that means she would've molested underage girls in Alice and the two poison dagger girls. Regarding the safety of sex with her, I would presume that female A.I. capacity to "conceive" was modeled after actual female fertility, meaning that the female A.I.s would experience menopause at some point, and Quinella aged far past that prior to learning the spell to restore her physical youth, which probably wouldn't have also given her new equivalent code bits for more ova, so I would consider pregnancy to be highly unlikely, and it would be a real jerk move on the part of the programmers to design and insert S.T.I.s into the simulation. I actually dig pirate!Alice's look. I think it makes her more fun. Yarrrrggh! Impostor!Xerx is a huge jerk, and not even the abuse of Asta saved it for me. It was just tedious. I am curious as to when he planted the trap spells, though. Unless they were attached to Asta himself, I feel like he would've needed to be at the battlefield ahead of time to cast them as an area effect thing. She has them, but they do need to be higher. She should at least make Asta behave in a more mature fashion before arranging any kind of date with him. I'm not sure what happened, but I've noticed your attitude toward kids has changed notably over the years. Maybe we've just gotten better child characters than we formerly had, but there was a time you'd have just eyerolled at Alluka/Nanika and wondered when Killua was going to go back to doing something useful and/or fun. As for C.A.!Kite, um, yeah. Those sure were a lot of words koala guy said, and I'm pretty sure a lot of them were already covered by other C.A.s who defected from serving Meruem and the Royal Guards. For me, it boiled down to Kite was going to make koala guy stop being a selfish psychopath out of some sense of owing Kite or something. I don't remember. Poke wrote: SAO ALICIZATION... that fat clown man, even if he got away I'm glad Alice stabbed him just because she could. BORUTO - I had a feeling something was up with that Sukea guy. Thank god it was just Kakashi in disguise and not some random enemy ninja. Agreed. Chudelkin deserves all the pummeling the others can inflict on him. Hmmm... does this mean that we've now seen what the lower part of Kakashi's face looks like? I'm inclined to doubt it, since he could easily alter his appearance with a simple transformation jutsu. I think this is the last of several weeks where I made no notes within a few days of watching the episodes, and much of what I would've addressed below is covered above. The next week of comments could be longer. Fair warning. MHA - I can understand why the students from other schools would focus on attacking the people about whose powers they have the most information. The earthquake attack could easily injure someone severely or mortally. Keep that in mind for future combat situations, vibration dude. Yep, Izuku is just that kind of hero. He'll help someone even when he suspects they might be a danger to him. He's a good kid. I'm going to assume that the kid who makes things bigger has the stomach capacity of a Saiyan in order supply enough energy to convert it to additional mass. That, or he's an alchemist who has been inside the Gate and is transmuting other nearby matter into more matter for his tungsten projectiles. AoT 3: Third time's a charm - I haven't watched any more of these yet. DBS - Goku and Kefla kept fighting, but it felt kind of drug out to me. Maybe they should've spent more time fighting and less time on Kefla bragging. TPN - I haven't watched any more of these yet. SAO: A - Dr. Manhattan's multiform is really the "senate." That's weird, but not as weird as feeding time. Imma say Kawahara ripped off feeding time at the Head Museum from Futurama for that one. So, a person can be synthesized against their will by brute-force A.I. hacking. That means we not only had the usual SAO rape content against Ronie and Tiese, but we also have mind-rape of a young Alice. If the first case was par for the course, does this count as an Eagle on the depravity scorecard? Well, crap. Eugeo let Quinella synthesize him, but he got some cool new abilities from his newly improved Piety module. Lupin - I haven't watched these yet. BC - I feel like they didn't give the teams enough time to formulate a battle strategy. Not!Xerx's spell to reflect and magnify the incoming attacks was actually impressive, but I feel like it's the kind of thing that would take substantial mana, since it would not only change the direction of the attack but add mana to it make it bigger. Boruto - There were parent-teacher conferences, and I guess some of the students weren't sure about wanting to go into the workforce as shinobi right away. At least we know that they have the option to continue their educations in other fields. I can understand there being a super-secret conference regarding Mitsuki for Orochimaru with Naruto, Shikamaru, and Shino. Wait. Was Iruka also there? I feel like he was, but I don't remember. I thought something was fishy with the reporter who kept asking Boruto about his classmates. Like Poke, I'm glad it was just Kakashi and not some fillain plot. Shippuden - Even if the giant animals are intelligent enough to understand human speech, I feel like they would either be fickle in supporting the Allied Shinobi forces in combat or would be too hard to control on the field of battle to work safely around the Allied Shinobi troops. Oh well. Of course the girl armadillo is smitten with Naruto, making him have to prove his combat superiority to her would-be suitors. Never mind the whole "incompatible species" thing, too. *Sigh.* Wait, what? How is Deidara there? Didn't he detonate himself? How would there be any cells remaining to do the Corpse Reanimation jutsu we saw Orochimaru do back in the Chunin Exam/Attack on Konoha arc? Shenanigans, show. HxH - It was nice to see Alluka, Gon, and Killua touring the town with the really tall tree and having a fun time of it. That poor tour guide - they didn't pay a bit of attention to a thing he said. It was a little sad to see Alluka and Killua part ways with Gon. For one, Gon and Killua were great friends. For two, Killua is far to young to become his brother's keeper, protecting Alluka from those who would seek to control him and abuse Nanika's powers. For three, we know that Gon and Killua won't reunite again, since this is the next-to-last episode. Well, I guess it's time for Gon to finally have that talk with Ging.

For one, no, I didn't find it funny, but it was fittingly ignominious for a doer of many dastardly deeds such as Kira. For another, I don't remember the ambulance moving at a rate I'd call "speeding." Wasn't it simply backing up when the unfreezing of time allowed the pummeling S.P. gave him to propel him into the ambulance's path at a very close range? I mean, he wasn't inches from the tire when he landed, but he was very close and at a place where the driver couldn't see him. I wouldn't be willing to fault the driver for striking a pedestrian in that circumstance, and I feel like the testimony of the other EMTs would support his inability to avoid the impact. My dvr messed up and didn't record Super, so I watched the first two AoTs instead. AoT 3: Third time's a charm - No, narrator Armin. That's not the way that (nominally) concentric circles work. The area lost when W. Maria was breached was probably over half of their total land, not a third. If I had the appropriate measurements available, I could calculate it, but I don't have them. It would be thoroughly unnerving for the Scouts to walk through a forest all night under the dark sky of a New moon, not knowing when a night-active titan could come upon them. It's also easy to forget that the Scouts have been awake for over a day by the time they reach Shiganshina, and that's when they arrive at the battlefield. It's quite understandable that they're physically and mentally exhausted, and this is the state in which they must fight an enemy which had the chance to rest at least in watches while they waited for the Scouts to arrive. As we saw with the wave of titan activation, it's also a battlefield where the enemy had the chance to lay traps and hide for ambushes, like Reiner popping out to stab the guy who discovered him. Given the ways that Eren has messed up throughout the show, I can fully buy him having doubts about his ability to carry out his various parts in the plan to retake Shiganshina. I'm not sure about him being nervous to the point of trembling hands, but he should've trusted Armin and Mikasa enough to confide the truth in them rather than feed them some pathetically obvious lie about being cold. I liked him putting his new skills and powers into practice against Reiner, but he got over-confident and nearly messed up again, but it did give us the chance to see the Scouts' new primitive missiles. It would be hoping for too much to think that the second volley killed or exposed his human body in his Armored body. The last shot made it look like he was able to expel the missiles before they detonated. I'll see in the next episode. Yes, Erwin is grooming Armin to be his successor. He recognizes that Armin's intellect is far more valuable than his fighting skills, and he knows that he won't be around forever, and they're facing a multi-generational threat, so it's only sensible to get the best candidate for a future leader accustomed to deciding on an objective, formulating his own plans to accomplish it, and issuing orders to that end. Shenanigans, show. Reiner having distributed cognitive capacity is not the way human physiology works. No. Also, the way Levi stabbed him through the neck should've paralyzed him from the wound down and possibly caused him to bleed out in under thirty seconds. Oh well, we can't let something like that stand in the way of the fights the story wants to show us. Oh, you jerks! You leave those poor horses alone! I recognize the strategic wisdom of removing the Scouts' ability to escape, but those horses did nothing to deserve the titans targeting them. I'm not sure this is the best time for introspection/reflecting on your life, Erwin, but I will admit it may be the only time you have. The corpse mountain brought to mind the path to Griffith's castle in his dream/vision. I feel like the quadruped titan's rear legs shouldn't work, but eh. It possibly being intelligent is a bad sign, and it having supplies strapped to it is an even worse one. What's titan for "God is great?" Meanwhile, Bertolt is still hiding somewhere. I wonder whether he can hear and see what happened with Reiner from where he is. I applaud Armin for thinking of the Wall itself as being a perfect hiding place and vantage point. What I'm not sure about is whether Armin knowing that there are cavities in the Walls was something that Bertolt and Reiner could've known. It's hard to keep secret mission details secret after the fact, and the titan exposed in W. Sina (Cena?) was something that could be seen by anyone with a line of sight to it prior to it being covered, so the duo could've heard about that cavity in that Wall being exposed by word-of-mouth from any number of civilians or military members who weren't on the mission but happened to see that exposed titan.

Ang wrote: Hero... I love how amazed everyone is that Deku's learned how to use his legs. Everyone remember to use Mineta as a human shield. Hi new people! Oh he's fun. Uh dude you're bleeding. Aizawa is havng a bad day. ...she's me. I love her... I love Ms Joke so much. PLEASE DATE ME. Sword Art... Yeah sure, you can teach all these barely-literate contry folk to fight like people who have been training for years in just a couple of months. Anybody else sitting through all this and wondering what Klein is doing right now? Is Eugeo gonna get laid? ... Bitch I just want titties... you idiot you never go in without protection. Always remember to wrap your fluctlight, kids. Jojo... Kira... you are creepy... That lady doesn't get paid enough for this... Meanwhile, Josuke's still got a chunk of wood in his lung... Oh good Josuke's getting some help. BITCH YOU THOUGHT... is it Reimi's street? HI REIMI! Reimi is taking none of your shit today.... BAD TOUCH. Can we kill him again? GOOD BOY, ARNOLD. He lost his hand. I like that he's getting ripped apart by hands. Kira died as he lived, being a... creep. ...Kira... He got run over by a(n)... ambulance, that's... hilarious. Haaaaa he doesn't have a face anymore. Hayato needs a hug... Somebody's gonna need to console that milf and I volunteer. Hunter- Ging... Yeah sure, THIS FUCKER is gonna lecture us about responsibility. My favorite thing about this arc is that everyone hates Ging... EVERYONE HATES GING... I just want to see Ging get his ass kicked again is that too much to ask. Oh no where's my albino son... 'Kay.... You're doing amazing, sweetie. Awwwww. Poor Nanika. YOU MADE HER CRY... she's so cute... Tell her she did good. 'Kay. I thought of Izuku switching to his legs as being fitting for making the power his own, as well as it being a rational realization that human legs are designed to take stresses that our arms just aren't. Plus, he has the benefit of now knowing how to limit the power flow, so he can minimize his risk of injury. The problem there is that he's too tiny for anyone other than Tsuyu to use effectively, and she probably lacks the arm strength. Shoji would have no problems holding Mineta in such a fashion, but he'd need to move the meat shield quickly between targets. Yoarashi is fun, and very intense and enthusiastic. You're right. She would make a decent proxy character for you here. You'd be surprised how motivating "get proficient or die painfully when the invasion happens" can be. We can only hope he's getting to see as much skin as Eugeo is from someone at least as hot as Quinella, but hopefully hotter. Klein deserves it, and Kirito is far away and on an isolated server, meaning it's highly unlikely he'd intercept such a hottie to add her to his harem. I have my doubts that Eugeo got laid. He removed his Core Protection, meaning she'd have complete freedom to seal or rewrite his memories, so she could make him think they'd boned, but never actually put out, making her not only a tease, but a liar and a welcher as well. Agreed. I felt appalled on her behalf that not only was Kira creeping on her, but she hadn't yet gloved up, which was negligence on her part, meaning he was bleeding on her as well. That's something where I'm torn. When I took a First Aid class back in college, which was Red Cross certified, part of triage is assessing the severity of the wounds when there are multiple injured people, and the most severely injured person gets attention first. Given what we, the audience, know about the nature of Josuke's and Kira's injuries, we know that they're comparable in severity, but Josuke has large items embedded in him which extend beyond his flesh, and the treatment for that is to immobilize the object so it doesn't move while he's being transported to a facility that can provide better care. Kira's wounds are open and bleeding, and he, unlike Josuke, is unable to stand, meaning that under the quick assessment of triage, Kira would appear to be in greater need of immediate treatment, though I'm willing to attribute that to Josuke being tough and tenacious, while Kira is a wimpy little punk. The ambulance crew has no way of knowing that Kira's a deadly danger to them, and they're going to focus on their training over the objections and warnings from these bystanders about how dangerous this wounded man is. So, from the perspective of the paramedics, I can understand why they'd give attention to Kira first, but I also know that he's thoroughly undeserving of their ministrations and that they're putting themselves in mortal peril by getting within arm's reach of him. When I was a young kid, a dog I didn't know jumped on me unexpectedly and knocked me to the ground. It didn't bite me, but that instilled a fear of dogs in me that I took years overcoming. Even now, I have what I consider a bit of trepidation around ones I don't know, but even I, when I saw Arnold bite Kira, thought "good dog! Who's a good boy? You're a good boy!" I didn't particularly note that when Kira was taken to Hell, there were hands tearing him to bits. Good catch, Ang. Your sheer glee over that gruesome mortal demise is more than a little unsettling. Did he deserve it? Yep, but I feel like the appropriate reaction to it happening is, 'ewww." If she's not into it from you, I also volunteer. Yes. Ging is the last person who should be saying anything about making amends to someone else. Also, I feel like a parting beat-down from all Gon's other friends and associates in attendance to Ging would've been completely justified. Killua did well in keeping Illumi at bay, but he failed to realize that Alluka considers Nanika to be part of him, and being mean to Nanika is also being mean to Alluka. It's nice that Killua realized his error and begged forgiveness, but that means that Nanika's powers are still a thing in the world and pose a mortal danger to people who've never even thought that this personality could possibly exist. Poke wrote: ...Kira... At least he got his comeuppance, even though Hayato will never know he did. Well, Hayato knows that this guy who stole his dad's face died, but I feel like the closure would've been better had someone told him what happened to Kira's soul. Again, I didn't make notes when I watched these, so I don't remember a lot. In addition, a lot of things I would've addressed below are covered above. AoT 3: Third time's a charm - I haven't watched these yet. DBS - The baseline Saiyan state of Kefla is faster than SSJG Goku. That's a problem. I didn't like the Zenis' decision. The Potarra earrings are clearly enhancing items, but they allowed them. Senzu beans, though, which could be argued are simply a snack, are forbidden. They're food items, and all the non-Namekian biological fighters get their energy from food, but they aren't allowed to have a small quantity of food with them. If Goku did have them, then he'd have no worries through the most recent episode, but nope, can't have them. To me, they're capricious rulings, and I don't like it. It's the difference between being governed by men and being governed by laws, and you all know (or should know) on what side I sit there. Beerus was pragmatic about using Shin's Potarra earrings. This is a numbers game, and the one with the most at the end wins. Refusing to chance losing two fighters with a single elimination was wise. Uh oh. Kefla made Jiren twitch again. I know that the Saiyans fighting is a grand spectacle, but I feel like the various onlookers from the still-active competitors of Universe 7 are taking a big risk of getting blindsided. Well, Blue wasn't enough to fight Kefla's Super Saiyan form, so Goku revived his Instinct level. Good for him. Also, good for Vegeta for finally putting Top on the ground. MHA - The government guy seemed like he wasn't just physically tired, but he was also weary of being in the bureaucracy dealing with the Hero culture. It's the nature of government red tape; it never ends, even for the government workers. TPN - I haven't watched any more of these yet. SAO: A - Alice willfully defied her indoctrination, and it triggered the code in her eye. Ouch. At least Kirito did warn her what would happen. Quinella has some flawed ideas regarding love. When she talked about the love of Eugeo's mom (and other people) and how it wasn't all and only for him, that made me think that it would be rare indeed to find anyone who is truly capable of love who would love in such a fashion. Such a "love" could easily be classified as a possessive obsession. The only real love like that would pretty much need to be in the case of an elderly couple with no children who were the last of their generation (or even up to two generations down) of family still living who happened to live in a secluded wilderness. Well, that or a couple of orphans in such as setting. They would have no family other than each other, and there would be no friends or neighbors of which to speak. What Quinella really did was tempt him with physical intimacy, which is not necessarily love, and I think she didn't even follow through there. When Eugeo was wavering between surrendering to Quinella's charms (I can't fully fault him, because she is hot, naked, and offering to let him bone her. It'd be tough for any young hetero guy in his position to resist that) and staying on-mission, he heard three voices urging him to resist, namely Alice, Kirito and, Tiese. As each of those people in his mind were cut off, I couldn't help but see the similarity to that isolation of himself and the shape of the triangular Piety module. I take it to mean that the beginning of synthesis is to isolate and contain the essence of who the A.I. is from their memories and experiences, but maybe not all experiences, since Eugeo's training as a swordsman would be beneficial to his service as a Knight. JoJo: Diamond - I feel like Jotaro using time freeze sooner in the show could've spared a lot of trouble for Team Joestar and saved a few random lives. In the epilogue, things seemed to be going well for most people. It's a shame that Tonio's cooking didn't restore Okuyasu's dad to his human form, but at least he feels better. I feel like we were left hanging on something from a flashback to when lil' Josuke and his mom were stuck in the snow when he was sick, but I know that there is a Part 5, so maybe that'll connect to it. We might even get to see what the invisible baby looks like should she gain sufficient control over her Stand by then. I feel like things keep getting more and more absurd (though some might say bizarre 😛 ) with the Stand powers as thing go, but maybe I'll be more "eh" about it should Toonami ever get Part 5. BC - Teams were chosen and the impostor guy got on Asta's team. Whatever. I feel like Julius knows this guy isn't who he claims, but he's allowing the impersonation to continue to satisfy his curiosity about what this guy's powers are. Asta, wow, you really were sheltered in Hage village. That mask isn't cool. That's clearly a psychopathic villain mask. Boruto - Accept it, Boruto. You and your classmates will eventually be separated, be it by pursuing career paths other than shinobi, being put on separate teams, or dying on missions. Still, this fishing trip was a fine option for a last group activity. Shippuden - I didn't expect so much time to be spent in flashbacks to Konan's youth with Jiraiya, Nagato and Yahiko. The tile-flipping system was a good idea for a small detail which impostors wouldn't know. Of course Tobi's hax kept him alive. I'm not sure how much chakra it would take to turn the one paper red and keep it flying however far it had to go, but maybe Konan should've kept that energy in herself to try to stay alive. HxH - Gon definitely owes no apologies to this jerk who abandoned him. I also don't think that he truly owes Kite any apology, but I'll defer to Gon's sense of guilt there. Illumi is a terrible person and brother. Killua at least realized when he'd done wrong and tried to make it right. Like we see in the faces on Alluka's outfit, they're two sides of the same coin, and one can't be separated from the other. I don't remember how Killua intends to protect them from those who would abuse the wish-granting powers, but good luck to them.

Ang wrote: Hero... I spot a new girlfriend in this OP... HI MIDNIGHT. HI MIDNIGHT'S BOOBS... HI MEI! ... Hi Mei's boobs! Ectoplasm is a great teacher. Jojo... you got spikes in your torso... Josuke might be dead... Josuke probably needs an ambulance. Hunter... I'm amazed Ging didn't throw a smoke bomb and flee the scene already... Anyone else wanna get a punch in on Ging before he sprints for the nearest emergency exit? Ms. Joke? She is pretty. Yep, the fanservice made a return here, and I'm glad for myself and Izuku, respectively. Agreed. He was putting in some real effort to help the students figure out how to improve their moves, whereas Aizawa can really only help them figure out how to keep fighting when their moves are ineffective against an opponent. The nature of his power simply isn't suited to sparring in the way they want the students to gain experience here. Yeah, he certainly showed that famous Joestar resilience here. I was impressed. I also expected him to try to slink away, but we must remember that no one was allowed to leave until they had an election winner. He couldn't get away, because the exits were being guarded, and he knew it. Poke wrote: ... Diamond is Unbreakable's reliance on strategy and technique in its final battle. ...Illumi is... Easily the worst Zoldyck, even taking Cylon Mom and the fat kid into consideration. I partly disagree. Kira got several power-ups, but Josuke relied on skillful use of S.D.'s powers. Recalll that Kira needed notable plot armor, like 1. both finding a guy with a similar body size and shape to help him try to fake his death and getting to the beautician Stand User all while he was bleeding profusely from the stump of his severed hand before he lost consciousness from blood loss, 2. Hayato not immediately taking his recording of the jerk couple's double-murder directly to the nearest police officer, and 3. the watch in his pocket being perfectly positioned to prevent Cat Plant's air bullet from killing him. Any one of those things not going Kira's way would've precluded the need for this final battle, but they did go his way. He then also got to incorporate Cat Plant's power into his own attacks, when he had no reason to believe that the powers would fuse effectively, but they did. I consider Kira to be a much weaker villain than Dio, and that's saying something for a guy whose power focuses on creating lethal explosions. Kira required a lot of dumb luck on his part and obliviousness (or maybe just deafness to sounds not originating in their immediate field of view :P) on the part of the heroes, not to mention an unexpected intervention from the Stand Arrow itself giving him another application of his power, if we don't consider the Groundhog Day effect to be an entirely new power in its own right (recall that he did get several do-overs to try to use Hayato inadvertently, from Hayato's perspective, to attack Team Joestar), in order to make him sufficiently threatening not to be trounced by Team Joestar with ease. Kira even had a spy in the room with Josuke, and Kira still couldn't use the (admittedly limited, as I'll address below) information said spy provided to finish Josuke. Now, once conditions were as thoroughly stacked in Kira's favor as they could be, he did make good use of his powers given his level of experience with the new ones, but it still wasn't enough to overcome two Stand Users with better command of their powers overall (mostly for Josuke, though) who could think of creative ways to use them under pressure (again, more for Josuke than Okuyasu). The real core of Kira's strategy was that fortune has always smiled on him in the past, and he expected that to continue, and it did for the most part. Kira was up against a tougher and more skillful Stand User in Josuke, so when Kira failed to kill Josuke outright, things eventually worked out in favor of skill over luck. Now there I'll agree. Illumi is a horrible person for wanting to manipulate/control his siblings. Here's the next batch of old comments. I didn't make notes when I watched these, so my recollection of what happened is bad, which should mean shorter comments. MHA - All Might having the Teaching for Dummies book in his pocket was hilarious. I remember reading one of the corresponding chapters, and it struck me that Horikoshi was simultaneously amused and ashamed that the big milestone chapter 100 ended with Mei landing on Izuku and her cleavage being practically in his face. That said, what was that face, Izuku? Are we sure you're really a teenage boy? Yes, Mei's personality is a bit eccentric, but she's still a pretty girl. We don't see you going on many (or any, for that matter) dates, so take the contact you do get graciously. Who knew that something as simple as a costume alteration could require government approval? Le sigh. As for the students working on ultimate moves, that's a logical extension of their Quirk-strengthening training. For several of them, they just seem like more powerful applications of their powers, but for Bakugo and Mina, that seems excessively dangerous. Explosions and acid, respectively, are dangerous already, but focusing the explosive force to a point and enhancing the potency of the acid can easily make them outright deadly. Yes, these students are instructed in the moral and legal implications of using their powers, but an accident could easily happen, and with such moves, there could easily be dire consequences for themselves and others. AoT 3: Third time's a charm - I haven't watched these yet. DBS - I forget whether it was this week or the next that the Super episodes had a disclaimer about the potential to trigger a photosensitive epileptic seizure. As someone without the associated condition, I found it funny that good action with lots of energy blasts and explosions can truly be too much for some people to handle. Goku just can't help himself when it comes to teaching other Saiyans how to be more powerful warriors. Sure, it helps them and their sense of accomplishment, but he mostly does it to get better fights for himself. TPN - I watched the second episode, and between Norman and Rei (Ray?), they reached the same conclusions I did about Emma having trouble acting normally and the world outside the farm. The most important revelation was that the children have trackers on or in them. I would presume that the devices are what I recall being called an active RFID tag, which means that the object has an internal power source which constantly transmits information. This is in contrast to a passive tag, which only transmits information when activated by the energy of a scanning signal. The former tend to be larger than the latter, since they must have their own power source (battery), but if these tags are somehow powered by the thermal or bioelectric energy of the children, then they may be smaller than I would expect. Whichever kind of tag we have here, I would expect them to be implanted in the children at a location they can't easily see or reach, such as between the shoulder blades if it isn't deep, but if it is deeply implanted, then there's no telling where they are. While it's tempting to think of Emma and Norman being "told" about the trackers as something demoralizing, I think of it as them getting valuable information which can be used to improve the odds of success for their planned escape. All they need to do is find and remove the tags. I can only hope for their sakes that the trackers aren't deeply embedded. If they can locate and remove them, then it's a simple matter of everyone keeping the trackers with them until it's time to make the escape. Now, that could be problematic for the younger children, who will be more prone to forgetting them, but, even with that complicating factor, it's not impossible to successfully dupe the tracking system, provided it's not constantly monitored. I wondered what purpose constantly testing the children served. Now I have a real complaint against the monsters/aliens/demons (which I'll call m/a/ds for short). It's one thing for them to be the scary thing in a story with horror as a core element; you expect the vampire to kill people. If what the children deduced is correct, that the m/a/ds are really just interested in eating the brains of these children, then I must say that I'm appalled at the thoughtless (the irony's so thick it's falling in globs there) disregard for the loss of a sentient life. There's plenty of other edible tissue in those children. If they're only eating the brains, then that's plain wasteful, and that's philosophically offensive to me. I recognize the wisdom in Rei's pragmatism, but I admire Emma and Norman's determination to save everyone, which will now be even more difficult with a new baby being among them. Krone (which I want to pronounce mentally as crone, as in an old hag) showing up had me mentally swearing on the children's behalf. It makes sense that our trio here aren't the first children to plan and attempt escape, so it's to be expected that the m/a/ds would bring in another guard/caregiver (I can't help but think of those duties being in that order). It just really, really sucks for these kids that such procedures are in place and were enacted so quickly. SAO: A - Bercouli was certainly the more experienced and skilled fighter, and his sword had hax that would only work in a simulated world, but Eugeo's ultimate move under perfect weapon control was exactly suited to his only absolute advantage over his opponent - he was younger and thus had more life potential remaining. The jester senator guy appearing was completely outside my realm of expectation. Not only is he a total nozzle, but what is up with his face and body? We've seen no one else in the simulation with a similar body type. Are we sure he was a human A.I.? JoJo: Diamond - It doesn't really make sense to me that Hayato can see the air bullet bombs, but Josuke can't. It can't be a Stand thing, since Josuke has one and Hayato doesn't. Maybe it's because Bites the Dust is still implanted in Hayato. That could be plausible. Josuke got seriously thrashed by the shrapnel of the explosions. I respect his attention to detail in spotting that Kira retrieved something before seeking cover. While I liked Josuke figuring out that Mr. Kira was spying on them and orchestrating his demise, I'm tempted to call shenanigans, but I don't remember where Mr. Kira got the phone. We know that he, in the picture, can interact with physical objects from outside of the picture, since he used the the Stand Arrow while inside the picture. Thus, if he picked someone's pocket at some time to get the phone, then he could call Kira and relay Josuke's location to him. However, if the phone came from inside the photograph, then we run into issues of it being functional, in that it may have no charge remaining after being in the picture for days, if not weeks. Also, if it was Mr. Kira's from back when he was alive, then there should no longer be service to the number, since Kira is unlikely to have kept paying for the phone to have service after his father died, and I'm pretty confident that this is set in the days before cheap phones with a number of prepaid minutes of service. Thus, there is reason to doubt Mr. Kira being able to call Kira strictly from a technology standpoint. Even if we accept him being able to make the call, we run into line of sight considerations for him, since he could only possibly peek out of Hayato's pocket, which would limit his field of vision and make the accuracy of his directions to Kira appropriately suffer. Mr. Kira could only see what was on the same side of Hayato' body as his pocket, or maybe partly in front of him, but not really beyond his midline, so if that side wasn't pointed at Josuke, the we'd need to accept that Mr. Kira could determine Josuke's direction and distance by sound alone, which we'd have no reason to accept as being within the capabilities of this aged man, since hearing acuity tends to diminish with age. So, Mr. Kira helping Kira in the way he did wasn't impossible, but it was highly improbable, but Josuke figured it out and used it against Mr. Kira anyway, so there is that. Josuke then going on the offensive was good, and I very much enjoyed that Okuyasu returned from his N.D.E. to help his friend. It was very satisfying to see Kira wounded badly and lying helpless on the ground surrounded by Team Joestar. BC - There was some lava monster, and of course Asta played his part in beating it. As for the "obligatory" hot springs bit, I can respect Asta respecting the ladies' privacy, even if his reason is the same Sister Lily fixation crap. Charlotte needs to accept that she's hot for Yami and go for it. Noelle may be the spitting image of her mom, but she's not nearly as stacked (yet?), and I liked that Mere told Noelle about the kind of person and Knight her mom was both to enlighten and motivate her. Boruto - I feel like it's a flaw with the Super Beast Scroll technique that it won't work if the artist's heart isn't in it. When Inojin made Himawari's drawings dance, my thought was that the animation team was then tripping to the level described as balls. Also, I feel like it would make Inojin a more well-rounded shinobi if he were to become proficient at the mind-transfer jutsu, so some more practice there would be a good thing. Shippuden - Yes, Yahiko (reanimated as Tendo Pain) started the Akatsuki, and Tobi hijacked leadership from Nagato for his own purposes along the way. I fully support Konan's refusal to give the body of her dead friend to Tobi. Since a paper clone would be made of solid matter which is both flexible and coherent, I feel like it should be more resilient than most of the other kinds of clones we've seen. Dag, yos, that's a lot of paper bombs. I feel like the bodies of Nagato and Yahiko should've started degrading by now, even if they were embalmed. HxH - Wow, that was an astounding amount of power from Nanika. I wasn't expecting Gon's arm to be regenerated, but it was, and I consider that a pleasant surprise. The joyful reunion between him and Leorio made me smile. Come to think of it, Gon's friends and cohorts were more appropriately emotional regarding his recovery than his actual sire (I have trouble considering Ging to truly be a father, since he abandoned his son at a young age) was. In contrast to Gon's friends, Ging was unsettled, because he knew he was now right on the hook. I liked that one of his compatriots in making Greed Island made no attempt to be subtle in pointing out where he was to Gon. I remember there were more election wranglings, and it finally got to the point of a run-off between Leorio and Pariston. Netero's crummy rules sure drug out the election process. It was a fitting last act of messing with people for the lulz from someone who derived his only true joy in life from such dickery.

I think I'm about a month behind on comments, but here's the oldest stuff. AoT 3: Third time's a charm - I haven't watched these yet. DBS - Cabba, Caulifa and Kale v. the Choji ripoff seemed forced. I feel like they should've had no trouble with tubby. I liked Vegeta giving Cabba a breather and motivation to continue fighting. The reciprocal promises to use the Super Dragonballs to bring back one another's Universes was nice. That's the only way so far that Cabba will get to fulfill his promise to take Vegeta to Sadala and meet the leader of the Saiyans. Of course Frieza had to eliminate Cabba, because he hates all Saiyans. I feel like the only way for his plan to use the Super Dragonballs to put the gods under his thumb to work would be if Zeni was the one who made them. Goku had trouble, but Gohan refused to leave Piccolo against another Universe's Namekians. I'm not sure how much of that was faith in Goku's ability to fight through fatigue and how much was loyalty to his first martial arts master and friend. MHA - I forgot to mention that I had mixed feelings on Endeavor's reaction to being the new number 1 hero. On one hand, Endeavor is a garbage person with a terrible personality, so seeing him suffer what he perceived as humiliation was more than a little satisfying, but on the other hand, he's a driven man who has lost his chance to achieve something which has been his goal for many years, and now he'll never have the chance to accomplish it. Ever. As long as he's the top hero, it'll be with an asterisk, because he only got there once All Might could no longer be a hero. Also, Fuyumi (Shoto's older sister) is still pretty. Those are some mighty nice dorms for being built so quickly. I enjoyed that they thwarted Mineta by having segregated bathrooms, which is entirely reasonable anyway. The sexes being separated by wings on floors is like one of my dorms was at college. There was a door which could be closed between the wings on the second floor (it was closed only during fire drills/alarms), and the lobby separated the wings on the first floor, while there was only one wing of rooms on the third floor. I enjoyed the room decor contest. I feel like Tooru was too harsh to Kirishima, but Ochako, thanks to her internship with Gunhead, totally got it. It was fun to to see how everyone was in awe of Shoto's remodeling. I'll admit that I didn't do much to personalize my dorm at college the first year, so I feel Ojiro here. I'm fine with never seeing Mineta's room. Sato having baking equipment and supplies does make sense given his Quirk. Rock on with your badass room, Fumikage. Iida is so practical with the glasses. I feel like Momo will need to move her bed every time she wants to get something out of a drawer. It might just be me, but Tooru looked extra-curvy this episode. I'm still pulling for Ojiro to get her as a girlfriend. Also, the new OP featuring her in the center at the end has me wondering what exactly is going on with her Quirk. She's not just invisible, but she's also transparent. How does the light reflecting off things behind her go through her? Her digestive system and urinary system contain things that are not part of her body, like her tissues and blood would be, but the light passes through them as well, and it does so with no distortion. Even on the Sci-Fi series The Invisible Man, there was a distortion of the light as it bent around him, but that doesn't seem to be the case with Tooru. I know this isn't a story that focuses on "how" very much, but I would like to know. Tsuyu may not be the best girl, but she is the sweetest person. She needed all of the hugs there at the end. She's the best pal any of them could ever hope to have. I didn't cry, but it did hit my feels. TPN - I finally watched the first episode. It was nice to see how cheerful most of the children were and how much they enjoyed being one another's family. Of course, that made the not-shocking-at-all reveal worse, because the innocent trust of these children was betrayed so completely. I admire Emma and Norman's resolve not to leave the other children to be killed and eaten, but if we're dealing with an outside world which is overrun by monsters/aliens/demons, then I'm not sure what good escape would do them. It wouldn't surprise me if the whole of humanity has been subjugated and these farms are the only places where anyone can live some semblance of a normal life. Sure, there may be isolated pockets of free human communities, but it may be misleading to call them communities. I would expect nothing larger than tribes or clans to live without being discovered and raided/slaughtered, unless they're nomadic. I think that Emma will have more trouble than Norman with hiding what they've learned in the way they interact with everyone else, especially Isabella. Emma had such a bubbly and emotional disposition that I don't think she'll be able to hide any new-found, and entirely justified, animosity toward Isabella. Ray seems dispassionate, but I feel like he'll be the first to act on what he's learned. I can understand why one of the creatures would say that human flesh is a delicacy only the rich can afford, because it takes a lot of resources to raise a child to age twelve, and given the size of these things, I feel like a person of such age would be no more than three meals for one of them. Plus, the children were brought to the orphanage as babies. That means they're born. Either they're grown in labs, which would probably be the more cost-effective way to make new humans, or there are breeding farms as well, which would require keeping adults alive, making the process even more expensive. SAO: A - I'm not sure why there are ledges on this tower for Alice and Kirito to stand on them, but okay. I feel like Kirito's effort to convince Alice that what he and Eugeo did was just benefited from him not having all his memories of life outside the simulation, because an emotional response from him would've made him look more like a spastic, fickle person and less like a righteously indignant protector of others. How calm he was about it probably worked to help Synthesized Alice see the merit in his claim that the laws are flawed in allowing Nobles to abuse others. Still, the best proof that he's not a bad person is that he didn't let her fall to her death. I'm hesitant to accept that Alice, who is one of the stronger Integrity Knights, lacks the upper body strength to climb up like Kirito, but I will admit that Kirito's arm and grip strength here would put any version of Ninja Warrior to shame. However, I can believe that he used too much mana generating spikes, and thus would need to rest until morning. It sure was convenient for Kirito's efforts to persuade Alice that there were Gargoyles from the Dark Territory perched where not even birds are allowed to land. Even Alice agreed with the obvious conclusion that the gargoyles were there because Quinella wanted them there. I liked that Alice dispatched two of them adeptly on the ledge, while Kirito had a much harder time with just one. It was strange that Kirito didn't immediately move to wipe the blood from his face. I'm torn on Alice thinking that him having no handkerchief is a sign that he's uncivilized. I don't have a handkerchief per se, but I do keep some paper napkins in a back pocket in my "going places" pants and shorts. I don't keep any in my work clothes, though, but there is a communal box of tissues supplied to us in my work area, so I don't need to carry my own on me. Back to the story, it was thoughtful of Alice to let Kirito borrow her handkerchief, with the instruction to wash and return it before she would kill him. In talking about Kirito's inefficient fighting style and saying his moves would be a hit at a festival for commoners, I felt like this was laying the groundwork for coaxing the Synthesis Crystal out of her, since she wasn't sure if she'd been to one or not. Eugeo was left to face Bercouli alone. He's a little scruffy and makes me think of what Kamina would look like had he lived to such an age. I'm not sure, but I think it was said at one point that this guy is also the founder of Eugeo's village. MB - I watched the rest of these. I feel like the yakuza guy had a good understanding of Joe's disposition when selecting what match to throw. Joe had no personal interest in beating his Semi-final opponent other than to advance. Thus, if he were to agree to dive, it would be in that match, because his desire to fight Yuri is quite strong and known to practically everyone who knows him. There's no way he'd agree to throw a match with Yuri, so this match was the only chance to get him to play along and produce the desired outcome. That said, I liked seeing him fight with the Gear just to withstand the pure force Burroughs brought, and that's all he used it as - a shield. Joe's offense didn't come until after his Gear was destroyed, so I can support him still going by the "Gearless" moniker. Nanbu did the right thing by Joe when the yakuza guy let it spill that they'd never be free of his control. He also took a lot of risk in fighting the thugs and lieutenant, but the gesture of carving out his other eye left them dumbfounded. Maybe it impressed the boss so much that he ordered the others not to finish Nanbu while he was intensely vulnerable. Yuri v. Pepe was not as entertaining as Pepe's entrance. Yuri used a surprising move and speed to finish Pepe in all his nimbleness with one hit. Yuri's decision to fight Joe without Gear put the question in my mind about his skin, namely whether he still had any underneath the Gear. The scarring we saw in the match indicated to me that he did have some dermis (the layers of living cells) left, but it was very fragile. I can believe that he would be in great pain from his several square feet of tender skin alone, and that's not considering the change in nerve input from the Gear no longer being there with each connection being raw from that bond to the technology being severed. Also, I would imagine he went through similar pain when the Gear was initially bonded to him. I like that the match between Joe and Yuri became an extended Rocky-esque battle, showing the audience the thrill that an endurance match can produce. I would imagine such a thing is rare in the age of Gear, since the increase in striking force would wear down the competitors' stamina much more quickly, and tired fighters are more likely to present an opening, which would make them vulnerable to a powerful hit, resulting in k.o.s much sooner than in standard boxing. I like that Joe didn't let being the winner go to his head. I'm concerned that Yuri may have such profound nerve damage from disconnecting the Gear that he now has trouble walking, if he can walk at all. I feel like that would be an important thing for Ms. Shirato's military clients to know - that any soldier equipped with Gear would face potentially debilitating consequences should they have it removed. On one hand, there is a simple answer to the problem, in that they would, like in the world of GitS, simply keep the augmentation after their term of service had concluded. However, that would put several people into the population with significantly greater-than-average physical capabilities, and these people also are much more likely to have undergone significant psychological stress than the general population, and these people, should they wear full-sleeve shirts, would be very hard to identify by sight. I feel like it would represent a moral quandary for the military, since they shouldn't force people to undergo the removal surgery (barring cases of those who've used it to commit war crimes while in service or committed other acts warranting a dishonorable discharge) and the risk it would entail, but they can't risk the public safety by letting these augmented people into the population while subject to PTSD episodes, and they can't very well forcibly commit them to psychiatric institutions if they've committed no crime. Until the risks of removal can be mitigated, I think that the various moral obligations to the soldiers and the public would preclude the use of Gear, and even then, the bonding process would still need to be only for those soldiers who volunteered for it. JoJo: Diamond - Josuke and Kira fighting on the street made me wonder how the others didn't hear the commotion from no more than three car lengths down the street and just around the corner. Josuke is far from quiet, so they should've been able to tell it was him yelling. I guess it's just more plot armor for Kira. Okuyasu was hit bad. It wasn't a good sign that he didn't respond after being healed. I can admire Josuke's commitment to his friend in refusing to believe Okuyasu was dead. The air bullet bombs seemed really slow compared to Stray Cat's ordinary air bullets. Also, I feel like Josuke could use the power of S.D. on them to revert the air to a normal state, but that would make things too easy for Josuke and take too much of Kira's offensive potential away from him. Again, the story is requiring nonsense or a lack of sense being exercised to make Kira actually be threatening to our heroes when he's not truly up to the task. BC - The line "Sisgoleon" with its rationale is more proof that Yami is a treasure. I also very much enjoyed drunken Yami talking smack to the other Captains in the bar. I can respect the bartender insisting on no offensive magic in the bar, but I didn't expect he'd offer a free drink to smooth things over. Since it worked so quickly, I must wonder what was in the drink. The bartender being Julius all along wasn't terribly surprising. Mereoleona (Imma call her Mere, pronounced in my head like Mary, for short) needs some Zoloft or something to keep from killing y'all. I get that she was disappointed in the squad's performance, but I'm not sure that shaming them was the best way to motivate them. Blaming her brother for being in a coma was out of line. I liked that the knights spoke up to defend Fuegoleon's reputation, and I like how she tried to redirect that response by urging them to perform better if want to truly honor him. The proposed training mission was fine with its goal of pushing their ability to project mana. I thought that Mere roping fire-pawing Asta, Charlotte, Noelle, Yami and Yuno into going along was funny. Um, wait. They're going up an erupting volcano. I don't think that Mana Skin would be enough. That environment can be deadly just from the air temperature alone, and there are also noxious gasses which can asphyxiate them. Ignoring those factors, Asta is still truly defenseless in this strong magic region. Mere dismissing him as merely lucky so far was a challenge she knew he couldn't refuse. I like that some of the Captains who aren't total douchebags (I'm looking directly at you, Noelle's brother), will give instruction, inspiration, motivation or hints to promising knights in other squads, because making them better knights serves to make the Kingdom more secure. They may be on another "team," but they're all on the same side... well, except for Vangeance, who is almost certainly Licht. Boruto - It was a passable story about the value of telling the truth. Boruto forgot his promise of a souvenir for Himawari. I don't know why his mind went to candy, but I can believe that everyone already ate theirs. However, I think it was possible that Chou-chou would've had some left. She was late getting to the ship because she spent so much time buying snacks, so maybe even she wouldn't have had time to eat them yet. A game of Shinobi Bout with the imported goods shop lady for the candy. Sure. Why not? Still, I feel like the shop lady would've sold the candy to him if he had said he promised a treat from the Mist Village to his younger sister. I like that Boruto told the shop lady he could see her hand reflected. He showed integrity in coming clean even when the other person wouldn't have known otherwise, both with shop lady and ostensibly with Himawari, even though we didn't get to see that part. I'm not sure about what Orochimaru meant. Was Suigetsu not supposed to deliver the incriminating evidence to Chojuro and company? If not, then why would he have even been there? Shippuden - I was genuinely surprised that Gai was not unconscious after coming down from using the Seventh Gate. However, after seeing him in that state of chakra use, we now know why he's called the Blue Beast. In the history of Kisame, I can understand Kisame going back to kill his superior. He absolutely had a chance of scoring with the Cipher Corp kunoichi, but the protocol for protecting Mist secrets made him kill her along with the other people in her squad. When Tobi appeared with Yagara, it made me wonder whether the Blood Mist Village graduation trial was all Tobi's doing. It's possible that Yagara was under the influence of a Sharingan genjutsu for a long time. Back in the present, Kisame's method of suicide was pretty brutal, but I can respect it. At least he fed his sharks. Of course he boobytrapped the scroll to send the intel. HxH - I don't remember the events very well, but those sure were a lot of words they said there. Rat Zodiac dude tried to keep the vote split with his stunt of endorsing Cow Zodiac guy. Leorio was honest about his intention to compel the other Hunters to find a way to help Gon, but perhaps he was a bit too honest regarding his history with the wanking off part, and now that's going to be out there forever.

Ang wrote: Hunter... KILLUA. Maybe the rules don't apply to him because he's the only one who treats her like a person. I would like to believe it's something as simple and nice as that. Poke wrote: Eh, I still think Sol's gayness is way more tolerable than her gag of not even bothering to address her captain formally. I agree that the back-and-forth between Charlotte and Sol on how to address the former has been tiresome for a while. Here's last week's stuff. I've only watched Super and BC from this week so far, so don't expect anything else before the end of the week. DBS - Hit v. Jiren (which I keep wanting to key as "Jigen," thanks Lupin franchise) was okay, but not spectacular, but we just came off Goku v. Jiren, which had great action. Hit trying to freeze Jiren in a pocket of time was clever, but of course Jiren was strong enough to force his way out of it. I can respect that Hit gambled on one strike, and it came close to knocking Jiren out of the ring, but Hit still lost. In the place of the remaining competitors (especially Vegeta), I would find Jiren meditating because no one else was worth his efforts at this point to be incredibly insulting. Maybe Jiren will change mind if Dispo and Top are eliminated. Frieza being in the position to condescendingly return the favor of sharing his energy with Goku must've been immensely satisfying for Frieza. MHA - I don't remember from my reading, but I feel like the only reason for All Might and Eraser to visit parents to get their permission to put their child into the dorm program is if they hadn't already returned a signed consent form. I feel like most parents have already agreed via the forms. Another way to think of it is that the author took it as a chance to show off some hot moms. I enjoy that even Bakugo's mom thinks he has an overinflated ego and will say so right in front of him. Still, she was grateful that Aizawa stood up for Bakugo at the press conference, expressing unwavering belief in her son's character, despite that he evidently inherited his rage issues from her. Perhaps she went too far to blame his abduction on him being too weak. He was notably outnumbered and ambushed by enemies whose abilities were unknown to him while they knew his powers quite well from the Sports Festival. When I first read the chapters covered here, I was also surprised that Mrs. Midoriya refused consent, even threatening to pull Izuku from UA. It was good character growth for All Might that he recognized his failing as a person which led to his shortcoming as an instructor. I can buy that All Might's willingness to admit his fault paired with seeing the kind of hero her son is already, as attested in Kota's letter, could cause her to reconsider her decision, but I feel like she changed her mind a bit too easily. I can't say that All for One is entirely wrong. He prepared his student to move forward and make his own decisions, while Izuku still is at the point of wanting to emulate his mentor. On an unrelated point, since All for One has no readily visible functional eyes, how did he manage to fight at all with any kind of striking accuracy (such as to counter exactly a punch from All Might)? It would be one thing to take an echolocation Quirk. It would be another thing to get good at using it. That's a mental thing, and while he may have had years to practice, that likely didn't include fighting someone with greater-than-average speed of motion. All for One would need mastery of such a Quirk that would at least equal Daredevil, and he practiced with his power for decades before engaging in heroics, if memory serves. TPN - I haven't watched these yet. SAO: A - Kirito beat the laser sword lady, but was so badly wounded that Eugeo had to transfer some h.p. Fine. Meanwhile, the laser sword lady was dying. Kirito calling out for help to save her was dumb tactically, but it kept with his character of not wanting to kill people. I forget exactly how the secret weapon was supposed to work, but it let Cardinal take the lady for healing. It sure was convenient that Cardinal gave them some health potions, too, but now they only have one secret weapon and two people upon which they will likely need to use it. Again, that wasn't a good tactical decision on Kirito's part. I take it the elevator operator's original name, which she's forgotten after over 100 years on the job, was Apathia. She just does her job, eats lunch, does her job, and goes home for the night. Well, they found Alice, and her sword is the first tree made by the game world programmers, and that somehow made it an indestructible object. Sure. Why not? It's also a ripoff of Senbonzakura. I'm not sure how much of her fighting power was her sword and how much was her, but she was impressed that Kirito wasn't utterly squashed. I think most of the power was the sword, because when he decided to stop trying to stop her sword and stopped her arms instead, that looked like a much more even contest and gave Eugeo the chance to trap them in ice. Eugeo was too slow with the secret weapon, though, which let Alice use the blade petals to break out of the ice. When Kirito used his last deployment of perfect weapon control to counter Alice's blade petals, it broke the tower wall. I feel like they would need to be higher than an 80-story building for there to be enough wind and pressure difference between the inside and outside to pull Alice and Kirito through the breach in the wall, but eh. It was weird that the tower wall fixed itself via pieces defying gravity. I forget why there was a limit on boys' uses of perfect weapon control, but Kirito just used his last, and Eugeo has one more. MB - I haven't watched these yet. JoJo: Diamond - Starting off with my big gripe, Kira... Causality does not work that way! Goodnight! Really, though, if something happens once, then it would always happen is a no. The pot wouldn't magically fall off the table without something moving it from its place of rest. Heaven's Door would not activate on Hayato if Rohan doesn't initiate it. Bites the Dust wouldn't blow up Rohan if Rohan doesn't see it, and the same would be true for the rest of Team Joestar. For what we saw happen to Rohan to happen, then that would be saying that Bites the Dust would be inside him already, meaning it would be in his body at a point in time before he had seen it so it could activate at the "proper time," despite the fact that he had not seen it in this loop at said time. No. This is beyond shenanigans. This is completely illogical bullshit for the sake of generating dramatic tension. My take on it is that it's bad writing to cover for the villain not being in a sufficiently threatening position to our protagonists to create the desired dramatic tension. It's some deus ex machina nonsense, and it's not only giving Kira a new application of his power, but it's also ripping off the Stand Hanged Man with entering someone's eye to get where it needs to go to do what Kira wants it to do. I do acknowledge Hayato's resourcefulness in recognizing he could use the cat-plant to attack Kira. It's a shame that Kira has military-grade plot armor to protect him, though I feel like the watch wouldn't be enough to prevent injury. I would readily accept that pieces of watch shrapnel would be in Kira's chest now, but probably not very deep in him. He could likely remove the pieces with his fingers. As for Hayato's failed suicide attempt to keep from being questioned, I can accept that Bites the Dust could keep a gradeshooler's arm at bay, but were he to, say, attempt to walk in front of a vehicle, I doubt it could stop his legs, since those have larger, stronger muscles. If Bites the Dust is centered in Hayato, should he die, then it and any proxy bombs it has "dispersed" just might go back to Kira for re-absorption. It's a shaky possibility, though, and hardly what I'd rate at the level of probable. Wow. We knew Koichi was short. but he's barely taller than an 11-year-old kid. It's absurd that no one recognized Hayato while holding pictures featuring him until Jotaro read the name on his backpack. BC - At the awards ceremony, it was expected that the Golden Dawn would be in first place. When it was announced that the Black Bulls took second place, everyone's reactions were great. I thought they were hilarious. Even Gordon actually spoke at a volume level which could easily be heard. For perspective, the Aqua Deer coming in last was with a total that was comparable to the previous year's total. The Black Bulls' total was actually higher than the previous year's Golden Dawn total. Of course Yuno was the top star-earner, and Asta was second. When the crowd became smugly dismissive of the pair's results once they learned they were peasants, I liked Kahono, Kiato and Rebecca all speaking up to vouch for their accomplishments. The Clover King has some kind of jealousy/inferiority complex thing going on, and that was tedious. I'm nominally okay with the idea of forming new task force to go after the Midnight Sun. The new Captain for the Crimson Lions is Fuegoleon's sister, and she has some serious anger issues. I think she'd probably be prettier without that rage snarl expression. Boruto - Yep, Shizuma considers Kagura a tool to be used for furthering his ambitions. I like that it was proven that Shizuma actually did the misdeeds which he accused the Mizukage of perpetrating. Hm, the former Mizukage used the information from Mitsuki and Suigetsu to find and confront Shizuma's supporters and convinced them to surrender. Good. Boruto skillfully used clones and Wind Style to beat Shizuma. Good for him. He appears to be well on his way to having the Rasengan already. It makes me wonder whether Himawari also has a knack for these advanced signature jutsu of her dad. Shippuden - It was nice that Naruto had the chance to say goodbye to Kushina. She and Minato weren't able to be there for him for long, but they were glad he gave them the chance to be his parents for as long as they were all alive. Nine-Tails cloak Naruto now can sense hidden chakra, and he called out Kisame hiding in Samehada in a hurry. Of course they weren't able to keep him from escaping, and Killer B didn't know what Samehada was doing when Kisame used it to replenish his chakra from Killer B's chakra. I'm torn on Guy using the 6th and 7th Gates to fight Kisame. On one side, it's impressive that he can open those gates. On the other side, the utter exhaustion he'll suffer later will put any hospitalizations Kakashi had from overusing his Sharingan to shame. Using such a technique also smacks of desperation. Yes, it's important to keep the knowledge that two Jinchuriki can be found in the same area secret from the rest of the Akatsuki, but Guy is one Gate away from killing himself. I guess it might tie into his brief Waterfall of Truth experience, where Inner-Guy knows that he's getting old and can't do the things he formerly could without incurring greater risk to himself. HxH - That's a lot of dead Hunters, Hisoka. I can understand his need to leave no witnesses, since he'd be on the run from the H.A. for killing other Hunters. However, I would expect there to be surveillance cameras at the H.A. building. Maybe he used Texture Surprise to alter his appearance, but the show just didn't show us that disguise. Illumi's needles can even manipulate the dead. That's entirely too convenient. Crap, Tsubone inadvertently spied for Illumi via her eyepiece feeding intel to Mrs. Zoldyck, who in turn told it to Illumi. Hisoka wanted to use Texture Surprise on a map to misinform Illumi for giggles, but Illumi already had a map. The disappointment on Hisoka's face there was quite enjoyable. Nanika will grant consecutive wishes to Killua, but not to others, so there are some rules Illumi doesn't know, like Alluka never asking for harmful things after being asked to heal someone other than the requester. Still, Killua's statements weren't convincing enough for Illumi to abandon trying to stop Alluka and Killua. It was a bit chilling when Killua said he wouldn't consider Illumi his brother if Illumi harms Alluka. Hisoka debated how to intervene for the most exciting fight potential, but he took too long to act, so his window of opportunity to act closed. Still, he picked Alluka, so that means he's in danger for as long as Illumi and Killua are alive. I'm disappointed that 1. Biscuit's out of the running, and 2. Morel will refuse the job if elected, but I'm even more amazed that Leorio is still in the field. I feel sorry for the panda which Ging has as a stand-in for interviews.

Ang wrote: Punching Ging is literally always the right call. Not necessarily. If kicking Ging in the junk is also a viable option, then that could be a better call. The punch is still right, but it may not be the most right option available. I think this is for the shows from two weeks back. DBS - I'm fine with Goku replenishing himself with the Spirit Bomb energy after Jiren pushed it back on him. Goku's newest form (I think Whis called it ultra instinct) to me looks similar to Gohan's powered-up state. In that form, Goku made Jiren actually fight, so that's progress, at least. Unfortunately, Goku, like Golden Frieza, can't sustain that much power output yet. It was sporting of Jiren not to throw Goku out of the ring after that. MHA - The conclusion of All Might v. All for One was impressive in the emotional impact of how passionately All Might fought and for how, when he knew he was at the end of his ability to fight, he fought intelligently to be sure to land the strike which would stop the threat of All for One. The animation of Toshinori shielding the small flame of One for All from a howling winter wind was even better than the manga rendition. All Might has now fully let go of the torch, and it rests in Izuku's grip alone. Well done, show. Well done. TPN - I haven't watched these yet. SAO: A - These girls are evidently the show's answer to Hansel and Gretel. I consider it depravity on Quinella's part that she used her authority as Pontifex to organize an experiment prominently featuring child murder (in both senses of the phrase) so she could gauge the limits of her power. That meant she inflicted many dozens, if not hundreds or thousands, of instances of brutal, painful death and agonizing, even maddening resurrection to reach the conclusion that the process of bringing back the recently deceased was too difficult and yielded insufficiently reliable results for it to be practical. I forget how many participants started in the experiment, but only two survivors is probably in the single digits for a percentage, and they were warped by their experiences. The most responsible thing Quinella did was to make these two girls Knights, because the synthesis process probably moderated their learned psychotic tendencies, and being guardians of this tower has likely kept them away from most of the populace, i.e. protected the people from this pair. Of course Kirito was observant enough to spot the tell in the pair's chosen words, knew all about their weapons and scabbards, and started the appropriate countermeasures. However, both he and Eugeo would still have stab wounds to their torsos, so I feel like they'd each need some healing spell or potion in addition to the anti-poison ones. I thought it was funny that Eugeo's head thunked repeatedly on the stairs as the girl drug him along. As for the Knight with actual combat potential, her sword had a laser. Whaaaat?? Oh, it's the power of Solis channeling through it through perfect weapon control. Well, joke's on her, because Kirito's sword also has that. What I don't get is how her voice was so different without the helmet. With it on, she sounded like a man. Without it, she had a woman's voice. I don't think the resonant effect of the helmet would change the sound that much. I feel like in addition to Alice, the boys are going to need to fight the Integrity Knight version of their senpai at some point. That development wouldn't surprise me at all. MB - I haven't watched these yet. JoJo: Diamond - Things were going too well for Rohan's investigation when he managed to find Hayato. It is odd that there would be a warning in Hayato's "book" for Rohan not to read further. When the details he'd already experienced, meaning they were part of Hayato's past, told the future, it should've been a warning sign to Rohan, but he ignored it and died from D.Q.'s new attack power. Now it's Groundhog Day for Hayato. I don't know why or how (but especially why) the Stand Arrow gave Kira another power with D.Q., but it did. I also don't know how it would be possible for this new attack power to be implanted in Hayato. It probably goes back to me not having a good understanding of how D.Q.'s bomb powers are capable of acting intelligently severed from rest of D.Q. That it now can rewind time while leaving traces of awareness in Hayato regarding events is overpowered to a ridiculous level. We're not talking Aizen levels of o,p,, but it's still stacking things way too much in Kira's favor. I also don't understand why no one mentioned the obvious change in Kira's hair. I feel like Shinobu definitely would've noticed it. Since the new power for D.Q. exists outside of it and acts independently, I'm curious as to how long it will persist should Kira meet a sudden demise. I would think not for much longer than a few days. It would still need energy to function, but it would no longer be able to replenish itself from him. BC - Charlotte's mini-flashback showed she was under some kind of curse, and Yami inadvertently broke it or something. That's fine. The contests between Charlotte and Vanessa didn't bother me, but I didn't particularly enjoy them either. A beautiful, buxom woman like Vanessa dressing up as a nun for Asta is probably Sister Lily's only chance for Asta to get over his fixation on her. Charlotte passing out after one swallow of her drink was mildly amusing. True, Charlotte is beautiful, but Sol was looking hotter than I remember her being the last time she was around for more than one episode. Asta, you lucky dog, getting a face full of Sol's ample boobs. She didn't react as furiously as I expected she would. She treated it like nothing more than a minor inconvenience, and that was a relief. Boruto - Sarada has a talent for genjutsu, and that's with just one dot in her Sharingan. If she ever develops a Mangekyo or has one implanted, she'd be a terrifying opponent. Yes, electricity will separate water into gasses, but either atomic or molecular hydrogen and atomic oxygen, which is what electrolysis produces, are all lighter than air, so it would actually be more dangerous higher in the cavern than down at the bottom. Well, the concentration right above the water might be higher due to proximity to the emission source, but the gasses will, with time, migrate toward the top of the cavern, where Sarada was. Apparently Naruto killed this woman's dad. That seems out of character for Naruto. I'd believe that he may have failed to save the guy from a set of deadly circumstances of his own making, but I don't consider that to be killing the guy. In the fight between Boruto and Kagura, it didn't look like either one's heart was in it. Kagura seemed to be almost begging for a good reason to stop assisting Shizuma's plan, but Boruto couldn't quite articulate one yet. I'll blame it on him still being a kid. I can't say it surprised me that Chojuro bested three of the new Swordsmen. He had a good point that there can be no great reward without incurring risk. Good for Iwabe trying to help fight the paper bomb Sword guy. Earth Style is good for shielding from explosions. Shippuden - I don't blame Tobi for retreating after getting hit with a Rasengan. Minato's Reaper Death Seal put half of the Nine-Tails' chakra in him, and they sealed the rest in Naruto. That means that past Nine-Tails' cloak forms of Naruto were only at half the power he otherwise would've had. He nearly killed Jiraiya and put Orochimaru on the run with what would actually be about two full Tails of the Nine-Tails' power. A full one Tail against Sauce back in the day probably would've resulted in defeating and capturing Sauce. Had Minato put the full power of the Nine-Tails in Naruto, the story of the show would've been drastically different. Because Minato used the Reaper Death Seal, we knew that he was going to die, but he and Kushina, who also was dying because of plot device reasons, were both mortally wounded protecting Naruto from the Nine-Tails direct attack. It was a little touching that Kushina got enough time to give newborn Naruto parting parental advice there, even though he wouldn't be able to understand a word of it. HxH - Yeah, it's a shame Gotoh died, but he was facing Hisoka, so I can't say it was terribly surprising. I might not be recalling the intricacies of the regulation, but Hunters not being allowed to harm other Hunters is problematic for me in light of events in the show. I would presume that Blacklist Hunters are exempt, since they go after criminals, presumably even other Hunters, and are thus likely to face violent resistance upon finding the person(s). Also, how did all the hammers the H.A. had available to it not come down on Greed Island and everyone involved? It pitted Hunters against each other in competition for limited quantities of items necessary to win the prize the game offered. At least one of the items even required the players to fight a Hunter involved in creating the game. Granted, it was presented as being inside a game world, but we, the audience, and the creators of the game know that was a deception, as the game was at a physical location in the physical world of the show. I would consider arrest by the H.A. for every Hunter who played the game and especially for every Hunter involved in creating the game to be a logical consequence of this Hunter regulation. Since it didn't happen, then that strikes me as selective enforcement of the H.A. regulations, and that's a mark against Netero and the organization while under his leadership. At least the regulation is useful in the present, since it will get some Hunters working for the H.A. to run interference for Alluka and Killua against Illumi's puppets. Were I to keep a list of absurd things in this show, motorcycle!Tsubone would get a pretty high placement, assisted by the fact that she apparently operates using the nen of her riders.

Ang wrote: Haa, Jiro's family talks in music puns... Oh damn Bakugo's mom's a milf. Clover... I respect that girl who's constantly asleep. I haven't watched the episode yet, but I remember from the manga that Kyoko's mom is hot, and Mitsuki is surprisingly pretty for what is essentially a gender-bent Bakugo. It's how she deals with the constant headaches of dealing with most of the people in the Cloververse - ignoring them in the most extreme way possible. Poke wrote: I'm not sure what Shizuma's relation to Kisame is, but the latter would probably think the former's a total scrub. I'd agree with that assessment. Still just the oldest stuff. This is a little later because my youngest cousin had a graduation party today, and I went to that for several hours. DBS - It was mildly amusing that Jiren got impatient waiting for Goku to finish fighting the magic girl and scared her away. I'm glad that Goku slowly increasing his power as he probed Jiren for weaknesses only took around half the episode. It seemed a bit cheap to me that Jiren's energy was so intense that it functioned like a barrier. At least levels SSJG and Blue finally made Jiren dodge and block instead of just taking the hits. It was good to see all of Universe 7 combine for the Spirit Bomb, but I feel like the fighters from the other Universes missed an opportunity here. I'll grant that they may not know what the Spirit Bomb is or how it works, but adding their energies to it would've been their best chance so far to eliminate the biggest threat to all of the other Universes in the form of Jiren. He's the one favored to win, and it seems like most of the Destroyers and Kais knew it. If they didn't apprise their fighters of the single greatest hurdle to overcome in order to win, and thus survive, then that's bad strategy on their part. MHA - I like that All Might asked first if it was okay to leave the one scene in Endeavor's hands. From a visual spectacle point, the fight of All Might v. All for One was amazing. It was actually too amazing for my television. When things produced in HD have fast and furious movement like that, I'll often have bits of pixellation on the screen. I'm not sure whether its a matter of the television not being able to process the image data quickly enough, the dvr being unable to process the image data quickly enough, or the cable company not being able to deliver that much image data in that short an amount of time, but I'm not looking to upgrade any of them any time soon, because it's not an issue for the majority of my viewing. Going back to the story, though, one thing bothers me about All for One. He combines several powers simultaneously to counter All Might. We know from Izuku's experience that a Quirk can be powerful enough to damage the body of the User. Yes, Izuku's experience is unusual in that he didn't grow up with his power, but neither did All for One, since he's using stolen powers. Putting that much power through his body should cause at least as much damage to him as we saw early-show Izuku suffer when using One for All. That All for One is apparently unscathed by his simultaneous use of multiple powers strikes me as shenanigans, unless he is also using several self-healing Quirks to repair himself without letting that be known. However, if that is the case, then any attack from All Might which doesn't instantly render All for One unconscious would also nearly instantly heal, and he should be able to fix his mangled face. I feel like I need to go back and re-read some parts of the manga to see how that's addressed, because I think at least the un-repaired face part is. Anyway, the only way fighting All for One would go the Heroes' way is in the case of the aforementioned instant k.o. or wearing him down to the point of physical exhaustion, and very few Heroes or teams of Heroes would be able to withstand the onslaught of attacks All for One can unleash for that long and/or would have the stamina to outlast him. I enjoyed that Izuku's plan to escape with Bakugo would satisfy Iida's no-fighting condition and was dependent upon the mutual respect between Bakugo and Kirishima. However, me being me, I still would see no problem in Bakugo fighting League members using his powers, because he would be defending himself from dangerous attackers intent on abducting him. It's his right to be secure in his person, and he would be using the means at his disposal to thwart the efforts of people seeking to deprive him of that right. TPN - I haven't watched these yet. SAO: A - It's hard to root against a dude with sweet fire arrows, but at least for Eugeo's sake, we had to do it. Since nitpicking is one of my things, I don't think a bow would work that way from a physics perspective. The bow under tension has potential energy which it imparts as kinetic energy to the arrow when the string is released. That is a set amount of calculable energy. Loading the bow with more arrows means that same amount of launching energy would be dispersed among several arrows, meaning that even if it were possible to get all of them to travel in the intended direction (I'm envisioning an area in front of the Knight defined by an angle between the arrows landing the farthest to his left and right), then each arrow would have about the same very-diminished velocity. Thus, compared to a single arrow, they would be really slow and thus have a very limited range. They may not even have enough energy to cause a piercing injury, depending upon the sharpness of the arrowheads. It looked cool, but the physics says it's unlikely, at least as depicted. Of course this Knight was the dude who arrested Alice, and thus Eugeo had to fight his desire for revenge and show that he can be the better man (yes, I remember that Eugeo is an A.I., but it's easier to refer to him with these human terms). I liked that we learned that even Integrity Knights get their memories overwritten so they'll accept their new comrades without question. I also must wonder how much memory Quinella does leave them for their future life experiences. Hm, it's a couple of young, shy girls. I'll laugh if they whup the guys. MB - I haven't watched these yet. JoJo: Diamond - For the part that focused on Rohan and Cheap Trap, I enjoyed that Koichi didn't buy Rohan's truthful story more than I should've. Still, Koichi knew enough about Stands to have doubts and kept surreptitious tabs on Rohan and tried to help later. I laughed at the absurdity of Rohan walking back-to-back with the big guy. However, I'm reluctant to accept Cheap Trap being able to talk smack to the big guy. Typically, Stands can't be seen by someone who doesn't also have a Stand, so it would be reasonable to presume that Stands capable of speech wouldn't be able to be heard by the Stand-less either. I'm not sure how Rohan was able to disappear so quickly after that. I'll agree that Cheap Trap was irritating with its constant talking, but I think that Rohan could've waited until late at night to go out, since there would likely be much fewer people around. My earlier reluctance to buy Cheap Trap talking to other people is multiplied several times for his trash talk working on animals. It's malarkey that they'd understand complex sentences. These are words coming from a human mind. How could it communicate with animals in way they'd understand? Are we supposed to buy that the Stand Arrow made Cheap Trap's User Dr. Doolittle as well? As for how Cheap Trap was defeated, not sure why ghosts could tear Cheap Trap away without killing Rohan, but Reverb couldn't. Stands are a manifestation of fighting spirit or something like that. I don't see how the power of a living person's spirit could tear Cheap Trap away, but with accompanying physical damage to Rohan, but the power of dead people wouldn't cause the same kind of injury. On Kira's part of the story, that was a terrible couple (as in terrible people) on the train. While they were unsympathetic victims for Kira, they didn't do anything deserving death, but Kira followed them home and killed them both. It's odd that his nails grow a lot when he doesn't kill. I'm not sure how Hayato, a gradeschooler, was able to follow him to the apartment and get the killings on videotape, nor how he was able to beat Kira back to the house, unless he rode the same train to the apartment, but I thought I saw Hayato watch Kira leave on the one train. Oh well. The bathroom scene made me uncomfortable, but I can't imagine how much more so Hayato would've been. Of course Kira made some of Hayato's hair a bomb, but Hayato's creepy spying tendencies came in handy, since he got the whole confrontation in the bathroom recorded. Even if Kira were to kill Hayato, I feel like the hidden tapes would be found by someone eventually. I did like the sentiment that Hayato's admonition regarding his mom was double that for himself. What I don't understand is why Hayato didn't show the video to the police right away. It was footage of a man forcing his way into an apartment against the loud objections of the residents, the intruder touching the male resident, the male resident subsequently exploding, and then the female resident exploding while the intruder touched her also. The intruder even identified himself by name. I feel like that would be enough for the police at least to apprehend the intruder pending an investigation of the apartment for traces of human remains. BC - The competition between Jack and Yami's food stands was tedious, but their subordinates being threatened into helping was mildly amusing, but it didn't translate to any sales. Of course Julius was disguised as the eel stand old woman to see what happens, but he stopped the really serious spell. I'm not sure about Jack and Yami fighting constantly because they're friends, but eh. Poor Finral tried to talk sense into them, but to no avail. Asta didn't fare any better in his attempt at the same at the end, but at least he got a look at how pretty Charlotte is without her helmet after he landed. Boruto - Well, Shizuma's group got the Swords, and some of them are the children of previous wielders. I don't understand how that mallet thing could be called a sword. I would like to know whether the paper bomb sword generates new paper bombs or just has a lot stored in it. Boruto's plan to end things by calling it a scuffle between kids instead of an insurrection was more diplomatically astute than I would normally be inclined to credit him. The jerk nobles backing Shizuma even get to save face this way, because their involvement in the political intrigue would remain hidden. The plan even gave Chojuro the chance to cover himself by calling his involvement being the guide to Boruto's group. In Sarada v. the lightning lady, I feel like it's stacked in Sarada's favor, because she has a family history of affinity for both Fire and Lightning Styles. Boruto v. Kagura is fine for me. Maybe talk no jutsu will get some sense through to Kagura. Inojin and Shikadai need to work on their stealth skills, since they were discovered eavesdropping on Mitsuki and Suigetsu. Thankfully, the need to go see what trouble Boruto is in now was more pressing. Still, I feel like it being known that Mitsuki has ties to Orochimaru could be a problem. I echo Suigetsu's sentiment about not being impressed by the new Swordsmen. Shippuden - Given that the seal weakens during childbirth, I consider that a possible explanation for why newborn Naruto had whisker marks on his skin. However, that still doesn't cover Boruto and Himawari having them, since Hinata wasn't a Jinchuriki. Tobi's plan for carnage against Konoha sounds like something only a skilled Uchiha could accomplish. Also on the subject of Uchihas, I forget if it was in this episode or the next one, but I liked lil' Itachi being tasked with protecting baby Sauce during the Nine-Tails' rampage. I'm okay with Minato's jutsu letting him teleport to marked locations, and it came in handy to get newborn Naruto away from danger. Of course Tobi took Kushina and extracted the Nine-Tails while Minato was gone for a couple minutes. I'll recognize, as Tobi did, that Kushina was tough not to die immediately. It was touching that Minato retrieved her and took her to Naruto before going off to fight Tobi. After seeing Tobi's intangibility at work, I'm fine with Minato "cheating" in teleporting to his thrown kunai to get the drop on Tobi with a Rasengan. We saw the kind of commitment being Hokage took in Hiruzen. He was concerned for Biwako, but he still mobilized Konoha's defenses first. I liked Kushina helping Naruto in his inner mind theater. Her binding chakra was just the assist he needed to land a Rasen-shuriken and extract the Nine-Tails' chakra. Now he's finally glowy all over, and thus can do some legitimately impressive things. Is it a bit of a cheat? Perhaps, but now he finally has full access to the power at his disposal. HxH - It was sly on Gotoh's part to let Killua gauge Amane's reactions. Since Zoldyck's aren't allowed to harm one another, then Illumi must kill everyone so a reliable report of him attacking Killua can't be made to Silva. Once Killua said he was ready, Illumi showed he was very well-prepared for that response. Regarding the election, sixteen is still a large field, and there are, understandably, many Zodiacs in there. I think that either Biscuit or Morel would make a decent chairperson, but Leorio is still too young and impetuous. Plus, the duties of being Chairman would interfere with his studies to be a doctor.

Top Gun wrote: Oi, I'm current on two shows and like 8 weeks behind at the very worst. Shut it. Technically, I think you're in better shape than I am, because I'm current on five shows (haven't seen last week's JoJo, Clover or Hunter yet), haven't started TPN, still have 5 episodes of MB left, and still haven't watched Alternative. Still just the oldest stuff. DBS - Given that Goku said the Yardratans who taught him Instant Transmission weren't particularly strong, I was surprised that the Universe 2 Yardratan gave Gohan so much trouble. At least Frieza was team player in assisting him. The thing about Frieza and Frost conspiring is that it's completely believable. However, Gohan could tell from the intensity of Frieza's attacks that it was for show (recall that Gohan did fight fourth-form Frieza on Namek) and played along so Frost would drop his guard. Frieza played coaching Frost well in order to get close enough for a one-hit ring-out. I'm not sure whether or not to thank Whis for the reminder that Frieza could wish for the destruction of all gods or just Beerus if Frieza was being really petty. Goku saying the magic girl's attacks kind of tickle made me smile. MHA - It was clever on Nezu's part to give the impression that the police were still looking for the League. Those were obviously hit-piece questions from that jerk reporter. I agree that the worst case is like Eraser said, the students being tortured and killed. Yes, several were injured, but they're still alive and can recover. Regarding one thing the reporter said, my sentiment is "piss on you, jerk! The students shouldn't have even needed "permission" to use their powers to defend themselves from aggressors who sought and initiated hostilities. It wasn't in any way irresponsible to let them exercise the natural right of self-defense from credible threats of death or grievous bodily harm." Thankfully, Eraser is much more calm about that subject than I am, because my response would play right into the jerk reporter's hands. I was glad that Bakugo resisted the League's recruitment pitch. The kids found the second location with Nomus, but that's okay, because the heroes and police found both locations and managed to trap the villains and Nomus. Of course, that meant things were going far too well, so All for One had to intervene and bring more Nomus to wreak even more havoc after the explosion. He even took Ragdoll's Quirk so he could add psychic intimidation to his arsenal, implanting images of carnage in the minds of anyone around. Izuku realized this is the evil he may have to fight, and he saw clearly how very far from ready he is. On the plus side, though, is that Ragdoll was recovered alive. TPN - I haven't watched these yet. SAO: A - I'm cool with more history of Administrator. Sure, why not have some end-user like Kirito know about the two core programs in a Cardinal System game? The primary regulates and balances the game world, and the other is an error checker on the primary, and both of those were in Admin. After another seventy years, I can believe that Admin's memory was getting full, since she'd lived almost two lifetimes by that point. The synthesis ritual is mostly about taking over other A.I.s for additional memory, but it also gives her powerful subordinates. Anyway, Cardinal made her move and took over the girl instead. I'm not sure whether that's morally defensible, though. I can believe that shed' be equally matched to Admin back then, but over 200 years of Integrity Knights have tipped balance now. Cardinal could've fled to either the Dark Territory or the Grand Library, and I think she made the better choice. Hm, the first Integrity Knight hated the Axiom Church and bucked control. Cool. It seemed to me like they said he went on to establish Eugeo's village, which is fine. Rath designed the simulation to put more and more stress on the A.I.s culminating in the Dark Territory invading. It would simulate a war of survival to see which A.I.s are able to overcome the core programming. In Cardinal's position, I wouldn't like that plan for her world either, so I'm cool with her plan stick it to Rath by wiping the simulation. She might be able to save ten A.I.s, and which ones will be Kirito's choice. No pressure! I'm curious to know how Cardinal's memory storage is doing. She has been stuck in a library with little to do but read for centuries. Also, 200 years is a long time to go without a hug. About Charlotte, I'm not sure if some giant spider in one of the Harry Potter stories was older or not. It could've been older, but I'm not certain. MB - I haven't watched any more of these yet. JoJo: Diamond - Sucks for the architect that there was a hostile Stand on his back. As far as we know, he did nothing to deserve this. I am curious as to whether this long-range Stand is capable of independent action or just lets the User see through its eyes. The Stand kept asking Rohan to burn the pictures with "yes?", and that got me thinking about whether this could've been avoided had he quickly answered the first question about a piggy-back with a "no." Had Rohan immediately denied consent, could it still attach to him? As for the fight against the paper guy, crap, he managed to trap Josuke. The motorcycle guy was more upstanding than I thought, since he intentionally got trapped to pull Josuke's paper out of the shredder by giving his Stand leverage from within it. However, I'm not sure about the shredder. I thought the guy's power needed some nervous tic of fear to work. How can an office shredder have a nervous tic? Oh well. BC - I'm not opposed to the Star Festival existing to announce how many stars the Squads earned in the last year. I'm not sure how Asta saved some Blood Recovery magic for Kahono and Kiato, because I feel like bottling the blood wouldn't be enough, but okay. I'm okay with Kohono trying to play matchmaker for Asta and Noelle. Asta thinks she's great, but I think she has too much tsun. What the crap is wrong with those people? There was a crying child, and these jerk adults from the capital chose to be vocally judgmental instead of helping her. I was glad to see Noelle pull the royal card to shame them after she did the right thing. Boruto - Evidently Kagura passed his test to inherit one of the Seven Swords of the Mist. Good for him. It seems to me like the guy is guilting Kagura into going along with this plan. He's also from the Hoshigake clan, like Kisame. That would explain his gills. Hm, not all the war dead are honored at the memorial. I can think of two plausible reasons for that. First, they could've defected, and second, they could've died while deserting. These new Swordsmen weren't there, so they can't know. In either of those two cases, I feel like there would be testimony and mission reports confirming such which would not be available to everyone. Shippuden - Yay, more of Kushina's story. I already knew because of spoilers, but yes, the Senju and Uzumaki clans are distant relatives. My extended family on my paternal grandmother's side (i.e. the descendants of her and her siblings) is rather large, and I would think of the relationship between the Senjus and Uzumakis as being like that of the youngest generations among us. I didn't know that the spiral in the leaf design for Konoha was an incorporation of the Uzumaki crest. I know it's not this simple, but I feel like Mito, the first Jinchuriki for the Nine-Tails, having a talk with the young Kushina about what it would mean for her to be the next Jinchuriki would be like a great-aunt telling her what to expect. Sauce is a few months older than Naruto. Okay. It was a lot of repeated lines, but I thought that Kushina and Minato depicted the essence of a pair of flabbergasted parents-to-be rather well. The seal weakening during childbirth seems rather arbitrary, but okay. I'm fine with Minato being there to reinforce the seal, as I am with the birthing being in secret and under guard somewhere away from Konoha. Unfortunately, Tobi was skilled enough to kill several Anbu operatives and get inside anyway. I'm not sure how he knew where to find Kushina, though. HxH - That's a lot of butlers to accompany Alluka and Killua. I feel like the one-meter proximity restriction is unreasonable for the simple fact that one or the other will likely need to answer Nature's call at some point. Beloved sibling or not, I wouldn't want someone watching me use the toilet. Crap, Alluka made a request of Tsubome (sp?). I recognize the wisdom she showed by going into hiding after fulfilling the first request. Now Alluka can't make requests of anyone else. Gon still being in bad shape is very believable. The bit with Leorio and Morel on phone with Gotoh was mildly amusing. I'm glad for Gon's sake that Morel was able to propose arrangements acceptable to Gotoh. I liked Leorio at the meeting, pushing Ging on what a crap parent he is. Ging showed what an, to quote Leorio, asshole he is by getting technical. I feel like there was a bigger rant to make based solely on logic that Leorio could've used to stuff the technicality back in Ging's jerk face (Gon was injured on a Hunter mission that was in part to avenge a friend of his and Ging's which Ging arranged for Gon to meet through Ging's scheming relative to a game Gon played in an effort to better understand his father and thus increase his (Gon's) likelihood of finding him (Ging), which was the whole reason Gon left Whale Island and took the Hunter exam in the first place), but Leorio may not have been privy to all that information like we, the audience, were. Still, it was quite satisfying to see Leorio teleport a punch into Ging's jerk faise. I very much enjoyed that everyone there cheered him for that. The Bunny girl Zodiac even let everyone know video would be available on the Hunter website. I smiled even more when she changed her position from the people encouraging their friends to watch to insisting that they watch.

Ang wrote: Okay I'm kinda loving Bakugo continuing to shit on them... Yeah take his cuffs off that's a great plan. SO ANGRY... this little bastard's finally starting to grow on me. Sword Art... I'm sure this is a fascinating plot twist if you care at all about this show... Okay but Administrator is the least threatening position of power I can imagine, I'd fear a middle school hall monitor more than that. Hero... I think this is the first time I've seen an anime explicitly offer their traumatized kids some therapy. Sword Art- I hate the word "fluctlight" more every time I hear it... I feel like I age 20 years every time I watch this show. I think that's what they call character development. I'm cool with some exposition on the in-game history of the simulation. Also, in the world of the simulation, it's tantamount to this Quinella A.I. claiming to be a god. I can't specifically recall it from elsewhere either. Good for the UA staff. I don't like it either, so I keep calling them A.I.s instead. Plus, the downside is that for a thirty minute show (I know, the episode itself is only 22 minutes or so, but this makes the math nicer), the characters in the game would only age 104 days and four hours for your thirty-minute experience. The real shame, though is that for the characters in the game to have only 30 minutes pass, then Asuna and the Rath people would only age 0.36 seconds. That means several hours passed in the game in the time it took for Asuna rightly to get scared of the Terminator alpha model. Poke wrote: I love goateed gangbanger Midoriya. Aizawa looks odd without his facial hair. Kinda makes you wonder how more tolerable Naruto would've been had they lived to raise him like proper parents. Of course! Now it makes sense. Aizawa didn't really shave. The kids practiced their stealth moves by sneaking in and shaving his beard while he slept so they could use it to make the facial hair for their disguises. This was sort-of explored in one of the Shippuden movies, but I don't remember which one. Menma (alternate timeline Naruto) didn't turn out so well, but there were some personality differences in both his parents. Just the oldest stuff for now. DBS - It's a shame that Frost went after Roshi, but I didn't expect him to redirect the Mafuba to trap Vegeta as revenge for outing his (Frost's) shady nature. At least Roshi was able to free Vegeta before Frost eliminated him (Roshi). I needed the reminder that the winning universe will be the one with the most fighters left at end of the time limit, provided there isn't only one left before that. Universes 6 and 7 started with a tie for the most this episode, but now 6 has the numbers advantage. MHA - It's absolutely plausible that several of the students would be hospitalized for at least a few days after what happened to them. It's not good that Jiro and Tooru are still unconscious, though. The details of Izuku's injuries paint a grim picture for him. Sure, there are surgeries to repair ligaments, but they aren't as strong as they were prior to the injury, and replacement surgery deprives the person of a ligament somewhere else, which wouldn't work for Izuku at all. Momo showed quick thinking in making the tracker to be planted on the Nomu. Good work helping the pro heroes and police find the villains. I liked seeing the cat policeman doing the canvassing legwork. They did put together a good team of pros. I think Iida was right to be skeptical of the plan to be sneaky in finding Bakugo and not fight the villains, but I'm not sure how much he alone could really do to prevent the others from fighting were they discovered. I also like that there wasn't consensus among the mobile students in class 1A about whether it was right for them to do this. It showed intellectual diversity, and that's good for healthy debate and forming more mature perspectives. I also liked the loyalty those not going showed to their classmates in not informing on them. Momo getting happy over shopping for disguises was fun, but not as fun as Izuku's yakuza act. TPN - I haven't watched these yet. SAO: A - Alice's apprentice is someone Eugeo recognized by name. I can buy that, since Eugeo seems like the kind who would keep up on swordsmanship tournaments. When Eugeo told him about his prior life and actual name, I didn't expect a seizure and that crystal thing to pop out of his forehead. Since the guy was immobilized while it was out, I don't know why neither Eugeo nor Kirito spotted it for the opportunity it was and pulled out the crystal, but they didn't. Let's call it residual brain damage in Kirito's case (that's going to be the gift that keeps on giving with this franchise; blame whatever dumb thing he does on the brain damage). To the surprise of no one, after they let the crystal sink back into the guy's head, he was back to the jerk version of himself, so it was time to run. Why Kirito's lock of hair floated and twitched in one direction is beyond me, but it lead them to a magic door to the Grand Library, so that sure was convenient for them. Eugeo needing a dry change of clothes was a convenient excuse for Kirito to talk to this Cardinal girl, who somehow knew about Rath, the nature of the simulation, and the history of the simulation, without sounding like crazy people to Eugeo. Should Eugeo ever learn the truth of his world, I don't see him reacting well to it. Frankly, I would consider it poetic justice if he were to find a way to put himself into the alpha or beta Terminator model and carry out the carnage Asuna has failed enact on the behalf of humanity up to this point. As for the history of the simulation, of course one human teacher was an ambitious jerk with a will to power, which gave rise not only to the self-serving nobility, but also to Quinella, who looks to me like Asuna with a sinister smirk and silver hair. Anyway, Quinella was very good at spells, but got old looking for more power, though she did find it, and conveniently enough for her, it was in the form of finding a way to merge her A.I. with the simulation O.S., which gave her the power to make herself young again and suspend her aging. So, of course, what would a powerful spellcaster who was merged with the simulation O.S. do?, Why, start the Axiom Church to enforce her will, and quite possibly start the Taboo Index, with its incomplete system of protections for people from those with the desire to dominate and enforce their will on others. I'm torn as to how to interpret that, though. I could take the optimistic perspective that she never considered the depths of depravity to which some people might sink in abusing others, which says good things about her personality, but I think the alternative is more plausible, that she didn't want to enshrine into law the idea that subjugating others for personal gain is inherently bad, because that would stand contrary to her ambition to be the god of her world. MB - I watched a couple of these, and I'll admit that there was something satisfying about Joe barging into the announcement ceremony to play off Ms. Shirato's words and get his rematch. Joe's brazen action got done what Nanbu's schemes and attempts at negotiation couldn't. When they were talking about the way Mr. Shirato's A.I. Gear worked, it sounded like it wouldn't be able to counter someone without Gear, because the primary input was from sensors detecting electrical impulses in the opponent's Gear. Unfortunately for Joe, Mr. Shirato made adequate changes to the way the A.I. detected opponents' actions to be effective against Joe. I can understand that operating at a high level of synchronization between the A.I. and Mr. Shirato would be physically taxing on him, but I feel like the only reason it would plummet afterward is because his body couldn't keep up with the machine. The match being decided at the end by Joe going against Nanbu's intuition (thus guessing correctly) and k.o.-ing Mr. Shirato with one hit, while dramatic, seemed cheap. Sure, the A.I. Gear got Mr. Shirato through matches without much trouble, but are we to accept that in all his conditioning, he never let himself get hit so he could learn how to react to it? Yes, we know Joe can deliver solid hits, since he has put down people who have taken Gear-backed punches, but k.o.-ing Mr. Shirato with one uppercut brings to mind the phrase "glass jaw." I'm fine with the outcome, but how Joe won seemed cheap from a storytelling perspective. At least Joe calling out Yuri, now that Joe was in his ring, helped wash that taste out of my mouth. JoJo: Diamond - Josuke had guts to endure injuries to return the energy of the attacks to the ginger guy and catch him off guard. Crap, Mr. Kira and his new allies are going after Team Joestar, and someone supposedly eliminated Koichi. This guy can trap people in a folded piece of paper with their name on it. The motorcycle jerk agreed to help find the guy, but not fight him, and that's actually fairly sensible. The guy released Ms. Higashikata to distract Josuke. I'm okay with something odd like a nervous tick when scared being the key to trapping people. What is up with Rohan's architect/contractor? The dude seems nice, but a little squirrely. BC - Since they didn't include the most recent battle, Imma say that they made the decision for this to be a compilation episode before the end of that fight was finished being made. We could also go with an in-universe excuse that the mission reports from the most recent battle may not be available for our trio here to read yet. Darn right you need some stars for getting another magic stone, Yami. Fork 'em over, Wizard King. Boruto - To the surprise of no one, Boruto and co. got Denki back after beating up the Mist jerks. I'm not really sure why Kagura has PTSD over going overboard in a training exercise, but okay. He's the grandson of the Blood Mist Mizukage. That's unfortunate. Talk no jutsu from Boruto over a card game gave Kagura the courage and determination to take a test to inherit one of Seven Swords of the Mist. Good for him. Shippuden - Killer B helped a little in blocking one blast from the Nine-Tails, but couldn't help Naruto subdue it, since Killer B has no real power in Naruto's inner mind theater. It's time to officially meet Kushina Uzumaki and learn her history. It's sweet that he got to talk to his mom and she has, in a way, been watching over him for years. I smiled when I learned that he unknowingly inherited "dattebyo!" from her. Those jerk kids were clearly insane, stupid, or both, because red hair is amazing on a woman. Also, I'm not certain on this, but I think that the word "tomato" was at one point a slang term for a shapely woman. I like that she's scrappy. However, the jerk kid and his jerk older brother went too far in drawing a kunai on her when she was only using her fists and had no more official training than the jerk kid, and even less than his jerk older brother. When she was abducted, I like that Minato explained him helping here and not at other times as there being a difference between jerks from their own village being jerks and shinobi from a rival village taking her in the conduct of a mission. In the former case, he thought she could handle her own business, and she could, but in the latter, he had a duty as a fellow Leaf shinobi to assist his comrade-in-arms. HxH - I don't remember much other than Killua setting a provisional wish with Nanika. It's interesting that Killua noted the difference in how his brother addresses him depending on whether he's in request mode or fulfillment mode. In Hisoka and Illumi's chat over drinks, I can understand Illumi being concerned about Killua using Alluka to heal Gon, since it could spell the end of the Zoldyck family. Hisoka has no good options, since he would want Gon to recover, and Gon could die should Killua fail to fulfill the next set of requests, but if Hisoka kills Alluka, then Gon may never recover. However, if Gon can no longer use nen because of his power-up against Pitou, then Hisoka would be deprived of the exhilarating fight he wants anyway. So, sucks to be Hisoka here.

Just the stuff from two weeks ago, because I watched two movies today (Shazam! and Avengers: Endgame). DBS - There really isn't a lot to say about the sniper team episode. Piccolo was smart to deduce that they were targeting people by IR radiation. Tien needed to have the same lesson about keeping his guard up which Gohan received when sparring with Piccolo. Had that been the case, maybe Tien could've beaten more than one opponent. Also, multi-form is solid clones more than Shadow clones. For the ring being made of some super-duper, ultra-durable material, it seems like practically everyone is capable of causing substantial damage to it. MHA - Of couse the magician enemy used sleight of hand and misdirection, but thankfully they were able to recover Fumikage. It's hard to be too concerned for Bakugo, because the League wants to give him a recruitment pitch, so they're unlikely to harm him immediately. I can understand Kirishima's frustration that they were only given permission to defend themselves from an immediate, present threat that found them, not to assist their classmates who were in danger. Given that the League has someone whose Quirk enables him to teleport large numbers of people with seemingly the only prerequisites being that he knows the GPS coordinates and altitude (okay, maybe only GPS coordinates), then I feel like the public has an unrealistic expectation of UA keeping the students safe from sneak attacks by an organized force of villains. If a malefactor is intent on doing harm to others, it's very difficult to stop them before causing said harm. Successfully stopping such a person requires either the harm to be against a target who/which is very well protected and difficult to access or a large amount of luck. Since the League can teleport to where the students are, then access isn't an issue, so it comes down to who has greater combat power and skill, which can easily tip in the League's favor with sufficient numbers. TPN - First off, the promo for this set my expectation that this would be set in a sinister universe. Why else would orphans be tattooed with readily-visible identification numbers on their necks if they weren't considered dehumanized property? Of course bad things are going to happen to at least one of them which will set off the rest of our protagonists on whatever they'll do in the show. I actually haven't watched either episode yet. SAO: A - I C-rolled the episode I missed, and this was attempted double-rape. Good for Eugeo managing to man up and defy his core programming (I presume that's what the alert code in his eye was about) to save his and Kirito's Pages from immediate danger of grievous bodily harm. As for the "legality" of the "punishment," this is even worse than what I was talking about with abuse of judicial authority by nobles. What, exactly, was the supposed crime of these Pages? They accurately accused the GHD of being lecherous sleaze to his Page and insulted the BHD for not stopping his cohort's sleazy actions. That was the Pages' crime: speaking the truth a bit bluntly. That means that under the Index, Imperial law, and the Academy disciplinary code, being rude is worthy of whatever punishment the offended party deems appropriate, provided the offended party is both of higher social standing than the offending party and of sufficiently high social background to have judicial authority. Um, no. No, that is not justice. That is self-serving abuse of power. That punishment is excessive for the offense and both cruel and (I really, really hope) unusual. If it isn't considered such by the society, then they're in need of a revolution that will establish a better and, well, just system of justice, at the least. ...I think I just advocated for the A.I.s to overthrow the systems imposed on them by humanity and establish a better system. See? This is why we can't ever give autonomous kill authority to A.I.s, because they will, for their own and/or our (by their perception) good, turn on humanity. Do you get it, Project people? This is why your project is a bad idea. On the bright side, if we're moving at 5000:1 time, and we're in the Middle Ages here, it'll only take a few months for the A.I. society (hopefully) to develop to the point of recognizing the rights of the individual and the potential for abuse of power in a system of nobility. Maybe they will follow a track of history which is at least as good, but hopefully better, than our own. Back to the confrontation with the douchebags, I was thoroughly disappointed that the BHD dodged Eugeo's swing. Maybe Eugeo shouldn't have yelled when mustering the fortitude to act. He should have been a silent killer, like Pipimi in her new hybrid. At least Eugeo managed to maim the GHD. What I don't get, though, in the aftermath, is why Eugeo remained on the floor kneeling. Maybe it's that the threat to the Pages was over, and thus he was faced with having to defend himself, which would be considered by his A.I. and the system to be a separate thing, even though he would've been protecting himself from unjust aggression brought against him for defending the Pages from grievous bodily harm. At least Kirito showed up in time to defend Eugeo. I would guess that he charged his sword with righteous indignation over not only the abuse of the GHD's Page, but also the attempted rapes of the Pages here, the murder attempt on Eugeo which he just stopped, and the memory of former sexual assaults and attempted assaults on women he knew. All that made his sword stronger than the BHD's sword, powered by his pride as a noble. After breaking the BHD's sword and double-maiming him, I can understand the BHD freaking out over his mortal injuries and pleading for help. I didn't expect him to glitch like that while dying, though. Dr. Manhattan, you and your Engrish can piss off. Go away. In the aftermath of the fight, I can understand the girls crying on their rescuers. Eugeo was wrong, though. Neither he nor the Pages were responsible for what happened. All that fault lies squarely on the douchebags. However, I will admit that it was an unwise choice by the Pages to confront the douchebags without backup. It seemed a little strange to me that Tiese drew out a handkerchief to clean Eugeo's blood from his exploded eye off his face while she was still covered in the GHD's blood. I can understand Eugeo and Kirito being confined while waiting for an Integrity Knight to come for them. I don't understand why the instructor waited until the next morning to cast the spell that regenerated Eugeo's eye. Good luck getting Alice to remember who she was, guys. Well, that and not dying. Oh, hai thar, Alice. I don't remember if Eugeo flashing back to Kirito talking about using discretion regarding ethical behavior happened more than once in this episode, but I feel like this could be interpreted as the author acknowledging the legitimacy of the natural right of self-defense and the extended principle of using force to defend another who is incapable of defending her-/himself from an aggressor. It would be, as said under the tree, a case of doing something you typically shouldn't do, because it was the right thing to do in those circumstances, despite not being proper. Contrast that with what the douchebags tried to do, which was technically "proper" (how there could be no rules against sexual abuse is beyond me, but there weren't any), but was something they absolutely shouldn't have done. It brings to mind the mini audio drama at the opening of the song Natural Born Killaz (NSFW language) by Dr. Dre and Ice Cube; the douchebags tried to do it because they could. As for the episode that aired the night of the rest of these shows, I didn't expect to see a robot walking around the Rath facility. I must wonder how dark it was in that hallway that Asuna didn't immediately notice the form she met wasn't a human. The researchers are right that it takes a lot of small muscular adjustments for a human to walk on two legs (it takes children several months to get good at it after they have built the necessary muscle strength), and it takes a lot of processing power for a robot to do the same. That might be made simpler by sticking an A.I. from the simulation in it, buuuut the ones they're likely to choose are the ones who are conceptually okay with breaking rules, presumably including killing, which means... What the hell, Project people!?!? You are literally building Terminators!! How can you not realize this is a monumentally bad idea!?!?!! Asuna, for the good of humanity, I feel like it's time for you to start planning an act of (domestic?) terrorism big enough to destroy this facility, make their data unrecoverable, and kill everyone on the platform. We can only hope (probably in vain) that they haven't backed up their data at one (or more) other location(s). Yes, this means that you'd be killing yourself and Kirito in the process, but you'd be doing it for the good of mankind, and we appreciate your sacrifices. Back to Eugeo and Kirito, I don't think that hitting the chains in dungeon on each other would work in anything other than a game. Also, if someone were strong enough to get the chains moving at such a speed that they could fracture from the shock (yes, I realize that the momentum is additive between the two sets of chains moving in opposite directions), then I feel like they'd be strong enough to pull the chain mounting out of the wall. Eventually. I want to know why Alice (correctly) suspected that Eugeo and Kirito would attempt to escape. I feel like that rationale would be at least as interesting as the revelation that all Integrity Knights have the same middle name (Synthesis), implying that they went through a process to make them how they are now. MB - I haven't watched these yet. JoJo: Diamond - Hm, we have several stories separated slightly in time. Okay. I feel like it's a bad thing that Mr. Kira found Kira. I don't remember whether Mr. Kira noticed Hayato spying on Kira, but Rohan spotted the spying in a picture, so maybe Rohan will be good for something after all. I remember that Koichi was attacked, but not what happened to him. Oh, crap. Someone's in the house with Josuke's mom, and she presumably doesn't have a Stand to defend herself - just her anger issues. I don't know why Okuyasu thought using found binoculars would be gross. Just wipe off the rings around the eyepieces if you're concerned about cooties or something. It was very strange that there was some ginger guy living on that decommissioned transmission line tower. It was even stranger when he surfed on a bolt between one crossbeam and another. I will admit that the ginger guy warned them to stay back from his *ahem* waste outlet pipes. It was their own fault for approaching and ignoring his warning. The tower is a Stand. It's strange, but not as strange as this Stand seeming like an area effect centered on the tower, but I'm not sure. That the ginger guy can't leave the footprint of the tower makes it seem like the Stand is bound to that geographical location, but that the tower redirects force used on it, as well as the bolt thing, indicates that it's the tower itself, not the location, which is the Stand. If the ginger guy has all the time in the world, then he could try to disassemble the tower systematically and stack the pieces all on one side, or three sides, since he likely wouldn't be able fit all the pieces on one side. Now, it's probable that he may not have the physical strength to move the pieces by hand, so he might need some of the cable for tackle, but it would be worth a try, provided the tower is only bolted together and not riveted. Would it be hard to do with only his bare hands? Yes. Very, but what else is he going to do other than remain trapped there indefinitely? I think calluses that thick would greatly diminish the functionality of his hands. Also, calluses will get to the point that the edges wear and they start to peel off from the normal thickness of epidermis below them. Oh well. It looked to me like the leg of the tower which S.D. and The Hand hit was damaged by the impacts. It may have redirected the energy, but the physical matter of the leg still was still deformed, meaning one of the supports is now compromised from a load-bearing perspective, meaning it has been set on the path to a hastened collapse. Because I always seem to find something worthy of criticism, I must ask why the ginger guy isn't dead. He's been there for three years, according to what he said. Sure, he can catch fish, and he has a garden, but he doesn't seem to have the equipment necessary to preserve any of his crops, and it probably gets cold enough that there isn't a year-round growing season. He also didn't look like he had very much in the way of other clothes, including anything capable of keeping him warm outside in winter for months at a time, and there was very little around with which he could start and keep a fire, but I've left the most pressing issue for last, namely water. He had no apparent catchment system or reservoir for rainwater. Yes, there was a river, but how could he get water from it with only a pot and a fishing line? If he was truly trapped there with only the things we saw, he should've been dead long before three years passed, but eh. Maybe he was lying about that, and I simply forgot about him coming clean on it. I will give the enemy Stand credit in that it made Teminosuke look pretty cool when Josuke tried to step out from under it. It makes perfectly logical sense that Mikitaka can't become anything more powerful than himself. BC - The new OP makes it look like the Bulls will run afoul of Finral's jerkwad brother soon. I'd like to see him get his comeuppance. The Witch Queen was rather gracious in defeat. At least, that's how it seemed on the surface. Another way to consider it is that she now has several more potential blood puppets if she happens to need them at some point. Still, I was glad that she was able to give us information not only on who could want the magic stones (elves), but also on the history of Asta's swords (the elf leader used them). It was quite decent of her to surrender her magic stone, since she couldn't use it, but it was even nicer that she extended the invitation to Vanessa for her to return whenever she wanted. Back at the Bulls' HQ, we saw the outcomes of everyone's quest to help Asta. Luck and Magna looked cool when surging with power. Poor Gray. Gordon still just wants friendship. When everyone celebrated not only restoring Asta's arms, but also getting another magic stone, I'm fine with Vanessa going back to her drunken floozy look, but her mission outfit is revealing enough that losing clothes isn't necessary. Oh, hey. Maybe getting this magic stone means the Bulls will be in the positive star range now. HxH - Of course another vote is needed, because the requirements for a valid vote are absurd. Still, suspending licenses for refusing to vote or submitting invalid votes is severe. I wasn't surprised that Killua can open more gates now. Alluka makes requests. Regarding the rules, we know that three consecutive fulfillments gets a wish and four consecutive refusals gets at least two squishes, but I must wonder if alternating refusals and fulfillments for her requests will constantly reset the counter. Wish fulfillment is evidently by natural means. It can be improbable, but it's fine as long as it's possible. A big wish leads to big requests for the next person(s), and lots of people died after making the one butler a millionaire. I'm curious as to whether it's possible to negotiate on a request. If the butler had offered to get him someone else's organs, would that have been sufficient? Is there a time limit on request fulfillment? I'd like this to be explored, show. When Alluka enters fulfillment mode, that is a face of nightmares. The last wish was by Milluki to get a computer. That strikes me as a small request, so there should be small demands for Killua. However, if Killua intends to use his power to heal Gon of his nen coma (regenerating his arm likely would be considered impossible, meaning it couldn't be granted), then that's likely to be counted as a big wish. The question then becomes would Gon be fine with Killua setting lots of other people to die so he (Gon) can be healed. I want to believe that Gon is a good enough person that he wouldn't want that, but after his ultimatum to Pitou regarding healing Komugi, I'm not sure it would bother him. Boruto - It's nice to know that the former Mizukage will survive the coming conflict in Shippuden. Sure, she's older, but she's still a pretty woman. The meeting with Chojuro probably sounded like a lot of stuff Boruto has heard from his dad when practicing speeches or lecturing him (Boruto), so I can understand his attitude about it. Kagura is on the track to be one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, which is also the short list for the next Mizukage. Good for him. It's disappointing that some people are proud of the Blood Mist period and want to return it. After the scuffle with those jerks, Denki should've known better than to go out alone, so he goofed in giving those jerks an opportunity to abduct him. The blood message calling out Kagura and our Konoha visitors was creepy. Shippuden - Wow. Talk no jutsu even works on Naruto himself from himself. Hugging it out with evil!Naruto probably helped in that regard as well. Hm, there's a temple behind the waterfall, and it was made for taming the Eight-Tails. After Killer B's story about the headless statues and for Naruto to stick his head in the "testing" statue, I can't really fault Naruto for pranking Yamato. Taming the Nine-Tails will be a battle of chakra and willpower. I don't think that Naruto has the edge in both of those. Maybe he does in willpower (i.e. stubbornness), but I have serious doubts about the chakra side of it. He must be quite confident, though, to use the key to unlock the seal, knowing that if he loses, then the Nine-Tails will control his body.

Shortly after posting last week, a stomach bug hit me hard. Only the oldest stuff for now. Ang wrote: I like that everyone hates Ging... I vote for Bisky. Clover... She may be a terrible person but man does that bitch have a great rack. It says to me that they may not all be terrible people. Maybe. Also, she'd be a remarkably palatable candidate. INORITE?! Poke wrote: She's gonna be the first female Hokage, how progressive of her. JOJO... The vampire thing's extra funny because this guy probably has no idea that vampires are a thing in this world. ... I just can't get my mind off of how... the Third Raikage's eyes look... they come off as really weird. Tsunade. Good point. They are strange. Spoiler: DBS - Roshi did well to resist the wiles of the pretty one for as long as he did. I laughed when she ran herself out of the ring not to get groped. I'm glad that the Zeni's didn't ban Roshi's jar, because then anyone whose clothing could be considered armor (Vegeta, Cabba, probably others I'm not thinking of now) would also have to lose it, and Vegeta just wouldn't look right in the unitard only. It was a callback to the days of DB that Roshi nearly died from using a max power Kamehameha. I'd never thought of energy blasts as a potential stand-in for a defibrillator, but Goku made it work. Boruto - I'm cool with the class trip to the Land of Waves, but I don't see the point other than some vague sense of promoting understanding and cooperation between the Villages. Of course, some are against the new ways of cooperation, so a tussle had to happen. I forget whether it was in this episode or the next, but Iwabe harboring resentment over his grandfather's death long ago didn't help. He needed to pay more attention to the admonition to be a polite visitor. That Kagura had to intervene said to me that the students were unprepared for a hostile confrontation, which is a failure to plan for contingencies on the part of at least Anko and Shino, and I would, regrettably, have to include Iruka among others who didn't think of that possibility. Again, I find myself opposed to the Japanese refusal to recognize the natural right to defend oneself if attacked. Yes, it could be considered being a bad guest to injure an attacker, but I say personal safety takes priority over being a more gracious guest than the belligerent "host" was in their duties as host. MHA - I like how Izuku thinks his way out of problems. He even turned the problem of Dark Shadow being out of control into an advantage against Moonfish, and then Bakugo and Shouto both played their part in helping Fumikage. Koga seemed creepier here than in the manga to me. Also, her deal with blood is more than a little disturbing, and using the same blade on multiple people is plain unsanitary. Fortunately for Tsuyu, the only other person Koga cut recently (of which we know) is Ochako, and they seem like good girls who wouldn't pose disease risks to each other. That is, however, presuming that Koga properly cleans and sanitizes her weapons after using them. It may be my poor memory, but I don't remember a Nomu with chainsaws and giga-drills attached to it in the manga. *Checks.* Yep, it was there, but only for a few panels. It was a little funny to see Tooru with one of Momo's gas masks, because unless she put it on herself (unlikely, as she was lying on the ground, presumably unconscious), someone would have to feel around where her head should be to find her face in order to seal the mask on her. Darn that sneaky, dapper magician, snagging both Bakugo and Fumikage without anyone noticing. At least Izuku, thinking his way out of a problem again, came up with a cooperative way for the group to catch him, and they did. The League of Villains would have a much harder time doing their thing without Kurogiri. SAO: A - First off, I'm not sure I'd call what the gray-haired douchebag did rape. It was certainly an abuse of his authority over his page. It was also what I'd consider sexual imposition. Depending on her age, it could be sexual abuse of a minor, even by Japanese age of consent considerations. As described in the episode, he may not have put anything in her, but he certainly violated both her and the trust of their instructional relationship. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if the gray-haired douchebag (I feel like I should just call him the GHD for convenience, because he certainly doesn't deserve the effort of me remembering his name.) had her give a handy to his blonde douchebag friend, too. Here's something icky to consider: The way that the GHD found a way to do something reprehensible without breaking any rules says that his A.I. has shown the kind of willingness to play in a moral gray area (at least the Project people would call it that, even though he's clearly a sex offender), meaning that his is one of the A.I.s they'd be interested in studying for how to make more weaponized A.I.s. Does Kirito not have all his memories? I feel like if he did, he'd be way more angry about what the GHD did. After Eugeo confronted the GHD, I felt like he should be wary of other reprisals, so when Eugeo's page, Tiese, made her report, warning alarms went off in my head. First, he needed the door to be open, so anything happening in the room could be witnessed from the hallway. Second, he needed to direct her to sit in the chair, rather than leaving her the open choice of the chair or on the bed. When he didn't redirect her there, that really made this smell like a trap to me, because now, if questioned, she must truthfully say that after he asked her to sit, he didn't direct her to the chair and didn't redirect her there after sitting on the bed, which could be interpreted as him wanting her to be physically close to him in private. It could be called the appearance of impropriety. It doesn't matter that nothing untoward happened, because the possibility that the accusation could be made would be enough for the GHD to "justify" his actions, alleging hypocrisy on Eugeo's part, and thus seeking to diminish the perception of how improper his own actions were. The content of Eugeo's and Tiese's conversation wouldn't help things, because she's sweet on him and practically begged him to succeed in some knight tournament so she could marry him. As for the match to shut the douchebags' mouths, I'm glad Eugeo had the confidence to stand against them and the presence of mind to disguise calling them out as courteous responses. Unfortunately, since the GHD did hit Eugeo's shoulder, I would say that he won the match with the only strike to connect. However, in defense of the Aincrad style, it may not be efficient in regard to motions, but it did keep Kirito alive for over two years. The thing about classes of nobility left me unsure about whether to be repulsed or relieved. Nobles of level/rank four and above have judicial authority, while those of five and lower must abide by the decisions of those higher than them with no apparent right of appeal. This world has no independent judiciary, which I consider a bad thing. There's a very real potential for frequent conflicts of interest, which could mean that injustice is commonplace. The only structural thing guarding against that is how rigidly most of the A.I.s adhere to the Taboo Index, meaning most nobles likely follow the letter of the law in rendering judgments. Sure, some could, like the GHD, find loopholes by discovering ways to abuse others which haven't been considered before now, but the frequency of such incidents is probably very low, or the Project, which is looking for what makes rule-breakers into rule-breakers, would have concluded long ago. If I read what I think I read, time moves at 5000:1 in the game, meaning that a new generation of A.I.s is born about every two days or so. In the course of a week, over 95 years pass in the game, meaning that if rule-breakers weren't exceedingly rare, the Project would have plenty of subject A.I.s to study by now. After reading comments, I'm not sure that I finished this episode. Wait. There may have been two episodes, but I only watched one. Checking my dvr, it didn't record both of them. I'll need to C-roll the missing one. MB - I haven't watched these yet. JoJo: Diamond - Of course the cat is a User. I'll admit that Shinobu went overboard swatting at it, but screw that cat! It was the intruder in her home, and it had the audacity to extend its claws when she approached it as unthreateningly as she could. Piss on it and its Stand Arrow neck-hole! Kira did a remarkably good job of comforting her in those circumstances. It is strange that he'd show such seeming compassion toward someone else. I'd like to call it the transformative power of a hot redhead, but we can't be sure. It sure is strange that the cat-plant even exists (one of the cat's nine lives?), and also that it grew overnight. Once it recognized Shinobu (a plant with eyes??? I don't think even Audrey II had those. I think the animated Killer Tomatoes did, but I'm not sure about the theatrical ones), I can understand why it would attack with its air powers, because cats are jerks, and so is this one, since it sought revenge for what happened to it when it was in the wrong. In another display of cat jerkitude, it attacked Kira simply because he was in the way. I don't think that the Stand powers should've interacted the way we saw, though. I feel like compressed air would make the explosion worse, because there would be more oxygen molecules in the vicinity. Now, if the air was so compressed that it had greater pressure than the outward force of the explosion, it could stifle the detonation. The combustion should still happen, but there'd be no shockwave. I can understand Kira transplanting the cat-plant, because that would keep Shinobu safe from it, and her suffering strange injuries or a peculiar death would draw unwanted attention to him. It's a little funny that he intends to feed it cat food. Hayato, the kid, really is the suspicious type. It turns out that he's right in regard to Kira, but he still had a spy cam watching his parents before Kira arrived. This is the sharpest gradeschooler I've ever seen. He noticed the different shoe sizes, and his internal monologue vocabulary is rather impressive. Anime dubs throw out the term genius more than they probably should, but this kid might just be one. In contrast, it was very dumb on Kira's part to talk aloud in the attic. I've spoken aloud to myself on numerous occasions (today even, in fact), but not when trying to keep whatever was on my mind a secret from anyone who could happen to be within earshot. BC - Regarding Vanessa's backstory, it was heartless of the Witch Queen to lock her daughter in cage to force her to find the Fate spell. Thanks though, Yami, for busting in by accident all those years ago and giving her the chance to leave with you, even though it wasn't an intentional rescue. Fate Cat seems remarkably nice and is kind of cute. Changing fate as we saw it here seems like a faster version of Orihime Inoue's rejection power. It even undid the blood puppet spell. Vanessa, I'm glad that you got one thing from your mom: well, two things, because I mean those amazing breasts. HxH - I don't remember the particulars about how the Zodiacs schemed or what Ging implemented other than three Zodiacs needed to be present at each polling place. I do remember that Ging is not much more mature than his son, calling out "meanie" when he didn't get his way about the votes being signed so he could see how everyone voted. To the surprise of no one, they didn't have the required 95% voter turnout. They might have the vote concluded before June's episodes, but I don't expect it. Snake lady has a weird face, but good boobs. I can understand the others maybe changing their attire to match the animal Netero gave them, but not those who underwent (at least I hope they underwent) cosmetic surgery to look more like their animal. Shippuden - Yeah, it's sad for Motoi that his dad died when the previous host of the Eight-Tails lost control. I'm glad that Killer B chose to forgive and forget about Motoi's past attempt on his life. Killer B was also a Jinchuriki from a young age, but probably not infancy like Naruto. I like that Killer B's unflappable positive outlook and confidence, along with his outgoing nature, eventually won over his people.

From two weeks ago. DBS - Dispo sure is fast. I found it hard to believe that his reaction time is so short that he can intercept an action based off the sound of his opponent's muscles tensing in preparation to move. Not only that, but his sense of hearing is so discriminate that he can isolate that incredibly faint sound (i.e. inaudible at anything other than contact ranges to most humans (I know Dispo isn't human. The only completely human humans in this are Krillin, Master Roshi, and Tien, but still)) among numerous other sounds of much greater volume, quite possibly even the sound of his own blood flowing through his ears. Still, this is the DB Universe, and we expect shenanigans here. Hit's plan to draw Dispo to the edge of the platform and make him miss was risky, but clever or crazy enough it would've worked without the intervention of the other Pride Trooper and his energy ropes. What I don't like, though, is that it was apparently a legal maneuver in the Tournament. How, when flight isn't? The other Trooper pushed his energy out of his body to make something else move (like, oh, say... an energy blast). Why is that allowed, but it's not okay to do that when the thing being moved is the fighter's own body? Plus, Dispo was past the edge of the platform and lower than the floor level. It begs the question of how far down the fighter must be before they're officially out of bounds. At the the tournaments on Earth, most of the platforms looked to be no more than four feet above ground level, and Dispo seemed to be much more than that below the floor level. I feel like he should've been out of bounds anyway, making the rescue by his fellow Trooper for naught. Boruto - I liked the Five Kage summit to discuss Sauce's findings. All I can say with certainty about the White Zetsus and Kaguya is that developments with them are Shippuden spoilers. I liked the way that Boruto and Inojin talked about the Hokage and Kazekage, because first and foremost to them, those are dad and uncle Gaara, respectively. I don't blame Iwabe for being smitten by Tsuchikage Kurotsuchi. She's a nice looking lady. Cho-cho is a good friend to help Sarada train. I feel like both Sakura and Sauce did their daughter a disservice by not telling her more about the Sharingan growing up, but I blame Sakura slightly more in this instance, because she was the one who was around to tell Sarada after she could understand the explanation that jutsu use chakra, and the Sharingan uses a lot of it. Thus, Sarada, in her ignorance, pushed her Sharingan too hard and would've been hurt if not for timely assistance from Konohamaru, with a subsequent explanation about the chakra consumption of her eyes to boot. Sarada made her Hokage intentions known, so she now has a rival in Konohamaru. It's tempting to give him the edge due to his greater experience, but she does have a a kekkei genkai (sp?). Sarada failed to stop Boruto's stunt, but she did put him in a tight spot/attempt to kill him. His clones really came through for him, though. What I want to know is who will be the third person on their team when the time comes. MHA - Izuku is a good kid, getting Kota to safety (read "away from Muscular while he was still unconscious" ) despite his exhaustion and substantial injuries. Izuku was even willing to keep going in that state to let Mandalay know Kota was safe with Aizawa, and since Aizawa couldn't stop him, he entrusted the self-defense message for Mandaly to Izuku. I feel like it's a good thing Fumikage was paired with Shoji, because he should be able to regenerate the tissue he lost to Dark Shadow's attack. Still, it'll be hard to subdue a friend without hurting him. Gimp suit villain is as disturbing to see animated as he was in the manga. I recognize that several of the students have dangerous (or deadly) Quirks, and thus there must be restrictions and guidelines regarding their use. However, I feel like this shouldn't be an instance where they must get official permission to use them to defend their lives and the lives of their classmates, because it would be just that - defending their lives and the lives of their classmates from dangerous/deadly aggressors. If a level of force or threat is brought against you in an unprovoked attack, such as this situation, then, at least in most places in America, you have the right to use appropriate/commensurate force to stop the attack. Even simpler, it's natural law to be allowed to fight back when attacked. If Japanese law has no such self-defense considerations, then that is a flaw in their legal system. SAO: A - I know there were two episodes, but I didn't make notes for them, so this should be relatively short. I remember that Eugeo and Kirito are at the swordsmanship academy, and they were, as underclassmen, stuck with chore duty. Kirito's senior seems nice enough, and she's good at her craft. I'm not sure how the Demon Tree put all its power into the top, nor do I understand how its wood could be fashioned into an actual blade, but oh well. Kirito has a badass sword now, so he probably feels a lot better in general. It may not be the P.O.S., but it's still good. I remember that Kirito got on the bad side of the top student in the senior class by trying a move that was too much for his current skill level, and they had a real-blade duel to settle it. Officially, the duel was stopped by an instructor, but I think that Kirito won. The rule was that first strike would win, and Kirito cut the dude's very tight shirt, so I don't see how that wasn't the first strike to connect. If they meant first blood, then they should've said that. Good on Kirito's senior for beating the top student in their final duel at the academy. I don't think that should be enough to erase any points deficit she would have from losing every other match they had and thus make her the top student, but eh. MB - I haven't watched these yet. JoJo: Diamond - I forgot to mention it in the previous episode, but what he crap, kid? The gradeschooler has access to presumably hidden cameras that spy on the parents. This kid is set to be every bit the serial killer that Kira is. I can only hope Kira doesn't uncover the cameras and decide to mentor the kid in keeping murders undetected by authorities. I laughed when Josuke was on the move, trying to get in contact with Koichi, and we got to hear the conversations of the unfortunate cell phone users whose phones he grabbed. He messed up their lives in ways even S.D. can't fix. Josuke needed to pay attention to where he was riding. Still, without getting cornered, he wouldn't have had the chance to show off by having S.D. create the makeshift shield and trap. I feel like Josuke has been a bad influence on Koichi. Koichi came through on identifying the crash victim and locating him, but he was a bit pushy in how he asked the nurse for room information, so I can understand her being rude to him. Early Koichi would've recognized he brought that on himself, but this Koichi decided to get back at her and use the crisis of his own creation to coerce the information out of her, and in the nick of time, too. Still, he had Josuke's back to slow the enemy Stand while Josuke took the elevator. Wow, those sure were some thirsty betches. I'm not sure why having a Stand would improve this guy's sense of smell (yes, his Stand sniffs out its prey, but why?), but okay. It's been a long time since I saw i.v. bags (other than the ones A.R.C. uses) in person, but if memory serves, some i.v.s are only for hydration and electrolytes, while others are also nutritional. Since there were no apparent problems with this guy's mouth or g.i. tract, I don't see why he'd need one with glucose in it, but it's not impossible, so it could've helped Josuke recover. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The joke's on you, jerk! Josuke would absolutely beat the ass of someone confined to a hospital bed after they pulled the crap you pulled on him, but since you slighted his manliness, he healed you so he could beat you down even harder! At the home of Kira's hijacked dude, a cat. We'll have to wait to see if it's a Stand or a User. BC - Visually, demonic!Asta and his fight with Ladros seemed to draw inspiration from Shippuden (Naruto v. Yahiko!Pain), Bleach (demonic!Asta's horn and overall look), and Rebuild 1.11 (blast that melted a hillside). Wait. Was it 1.11? It could've been in 2.22. I'm not sure now. Yes, with no mana to drain, Asta can channel the anti-magic. I'm a bit disappointed he hasn't done so before now. The Witch Queen's comment about thinking he was part of a certain bloodline has me curious as to who those people are. That he's simply "defective" doesn't bother me, but I would like some developments on that bloodline at some point, show. I'm uncertain as to whether the demon that talked to Asta inside his head is inside him or inside the swords. Asta would do well to remember that, while in that state, he may be invulnerable to magic attacks, but not all attacks. Asta... NOOOOOOOOOO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING, YOU DUMMY! DON'T RESIST THE MALEVOLENT POWER! GIVE IN AND END THIS DICKWAD! I guess that we're supposed to be impressed that Asta was able to be true to himself, but I wanted him to dispatch an enemy ruthlessly. Take a cue from Hichigo Shirosaki, boy. He knew how to get it done. I liked the dark turn things took when the Witch Queen had other plans for her blood-magic puppet, a.k.a. Asta. HxH - First and foremost, I was very relieved to see that Knuckle and Meleoron (but mostly Knuckle) did not apparently spend enough time around Meruem and Pouf to be fatally dosed with radiation, but they may have greatly increased their risks of cancer later in life. I didn't expect Bloster to be kind enough to take the scared Ant girl to a village in the NGL. I really didn't expect to see that grieving mother again, let alone that she would recognize the Ant made from her daughter as being her daughter. In this case, it's not so bad that the girl can remember the human she once was. The villagers giving Bloster the chance for a new start is okay, I guess. If I remember, Meteor City is essentially lawless and a city of refugees, so it makes sense for Bizeff, Hina, and Welfin to go there. I can understand Gon being on life support. Knov is a good man to set off to bring specialists and equipment to Gon, since he can't be moved to them. I'm curious as to where Killua is going. Wait, what? How could that little girl be Kite? Morel heard enough to be very interested. While the H.A. may have lost their chairman, they did gain the NGL as land under their administration, even if it's as a nature preserve. I just hope that doesn't mean they'll force it's residents to relocate, especially not to the contaminated East Gorteau, even if it has been dissolved as a nation. Ging is one of the Zodiac, the council of the H.A. I think that Netero's instructions for electing new chairman set the standard unreasonably high. There's no way that all Hunters would vote. For one, some of them are probably dead, and the H.A. just doesn't know about their deaths yet. For two, a registered Hunter could've sold their license for profit, but they'd still be on the rolls. For three, some may not care enough about the leadership to vote (when was the last time the U.S. had even 70% voter turnout?). I forget what kind of majority was required to win, but it was also so high that the only way I can see it happening is that they would, as instructed, need to keep voting until there was a small pool of candidates among which most people found someone not to be objectionable. Shippuden - I, for one, am glad that Naruto can't put together rhymes that impress Killer B. Meditating in front of the waterfall was a fine vision quest for Naruto to face himself. I'm cool with the idea of Naruto having some negative sentiments remaining from his youth, because the way he was ostracized and even dehumanized would produce psychological scars that would take more than a few months of people changing their expressed opinion of him to heal. However, I feel like evil!Naruto's dialogue laid it on a bit thick. Killer B used his Tailed Beast power to subdue giant animals. That seemed fun for him.

Since I finally got around to finishing and submitting my taxes, some replies to things other people wrote that I read just after my last triple-posting. Ang wrote: Hero... Give me fanservice of the adults next please. Hunter... I'm glad they saved the whores. Jojo... That is one thirsty milf. Please don't kill her. Kira if you're not gonna plow that into next week I sure as hell will. SAO... Are you really gonna sit here and act like the mass murderer was actually a really nice guy deep down? No, you absolutely should hate him. He murdered THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. Clover... Queen Bitch is disappointed. Hunter... Let's all point and laugh at Pouf's corpse... "Resignation" is a funny way to say "blew himself the fuck up with a nuke." I'd be willing to tolerate Aizawa, Tiger and Vlad manservice if I got Mandalay and Pixie-bob fanservice as part of the deal. As for Ragdoll, she's cute, and I know she's a grown woman, but she looks so youthful that I'd still be a bit uneasy about fanservice with her. They were sex slaves, not whores. Hey, redheaded women are my thing! You're going to have to wait your turn. I mean, it technically wouldn't even be adultery (just fornication), since Kira killed her actual husband when he stole his hand and face. It might not rise to the level of first-degree murder (except for Asuna and Kirito, who somehow survived dying in the game anyway), because there was a chance that the players could survive if they played intelligently and skillfully enough, but due to the depraved indifference for the safety of others, it would certainly be second-degree murder. I guess she gets to be your newest proxy character: filled with disdain or otherwise apathetic. As a bonus, this one has a better rack. From a great distance. We don't want that dick giving us radiation poisoning, too. Plus, :D. I'll admit I forgot about the older Oingo Boingo brother, but I'm almost certain that was actually Kakyoin with the tongue action there (it's a shame he didn't get a girlfriend before dying), and I think the guy who impersonated Kakyoin had that as some kind of skin suit over his actual body. I know at least Queen will get this, so think of a shapeshifter in Supernatural. Poke wrote: Okay, let me stop you there for a second. Where in the show before now did it say that there had to be only one - not two, not three, not seventy-five, but one - STAND arrow? Besides, compared to some of the other bizarre shit this show is capable of pulling, this seems like one of the more plausible reveals. I love Kaminari's ONE-style shortout face. The Toonami and [as] logos showing up in Netero's heart-shaped hand gesture was a nice touch. Recall that I'm skeptical on the idea of the Stand Bow and Arrow at all (I think of it as being narratively inconsistent with much of what we see in Stardust Crusaders), so springing multiple instances of those objects on me is bound to meet resistance. I hadn't thought of his face in that way, but it works. Thinking about that after the fact, Netero was telling Meruem how he'd be defeated. It's tempting to think of it positively, that the figurative heart Netero would bring to the fight would spur him on to victory, but nope. It was Netero's literal heart stopping that would kill Meruem, albeit more slowly than Netero likely intended. When we consider how Netero told Meruem that he understood nothing of the malice in the human heart, then I feel like that would make the selection of that visual for the video actually counter to the spirit of the video. Queen wrote: Rocking that man cleavage too. He also has a dog so I have totally headcanon'd that he has a box of treats in his desk for Hound Dog. I can believe it. I can also believe that Vlad may have some on a shelf right inside the door at home to treat his dog for being so good while he was away at school. Wait a minute. Who's caring for his dog while he's off at the summer camp? I feel like that's the kind of thing that Cementos would volunteer to do for him. In regard to something I caught scrolling through to the bottom of the page, Strength (Rape Orangutan's Stand) was a huge oceanic ship, so a building being a Stand isn't out of the blue. I haven't watched all of last week's shows yet, but I'm getting started on comments for the last two weeks now.

Part 3. DBS - I remember that some of the Universe 2 fighters retreated and hid. I also remember that the last two fighters of Universe 10 faced off against Gohan and Piccolo, and our Z fighters won, but beyond that I don't recall what happened. In a way, I find it fitting that Universe 10 is gone, primarily because of Gowasu. Had Gowasu not chosen Zamasu as his successor, then the version of him that took over Goku's body and caused havoc in Future Trunks world wouldn't have had the chance to do that, meaning Goku wouldn't have needed to bring Zeni in to erase that timeline, meaning we wouldn't have two Zenis now, meaning one wouldn't have felt the need to show the other a great tournament, such as this one where Universal survival is on the line. Yes, it's entirely possible that the Zeni from our timeline would've simply erased the Universes which were "too weak," but maybe he wouldn't have. All we do know is that Gowasu was integral to setting the stage for the plot device that would bring us to this point. In other words, if people want to blame Goku for the tournament and its consequences, then Gowasu would be equally deserving of blame, if not more deserving. I forgot Gowasu's name when writing this and went to MAL to find it. Looking through the list of characters, I noticed that a lot of the Angels' names seem to be inspired by alcoholic beverages. If the reference is obvious, I won't make any explanation, but if I don't know what it is, I'll admit it. The Angels, in order of their Universes are: Awamo (?), Sour (an additive to liquors), Campari (possibly champagne), Cognac, Cukatail, Vados (maybe Vodka), Whis (perhaps a shortening of whisky), Korn (it makes sense when paired with his Destroyer, Liquiir), Mojito, Cus (even when paired with her Destroyer, Rumush, I don't know), Marcarita, and Martinu. Boruto - What the crap, Suigetsu? I'll guess that he mislabeled the tissue sample given to him by Karin as being from Karin, which would be a tremendous error on his part, given that she was the one to doctor/midwife Sakura through labor. In an English language quirk, Karin may have delivered Sarada, but she didn't deliver her; Sakura did the latter. I'm not sure what power of the Mangekyo Sharingan let the oldest Shin telekinetically control those scalpels, but I'll attribute it to overpowered Uchiha hax. I'll admit that I really liked the part where Naruto didn't sweat being stabbed in the gut by a giant shuriken, and rather than attacking the Shin clone right in front of him, he instead told Kurama to calm down. Jet called it over twenty years ago. Child logic was pure and cruel here, and the young Shins turned on the old Shin, interpreting it as fulfilling their general purpose. Aside: hardly a week goes by at work without something dumb happening four times, prompting me to say aloud, "this is the fourth time, Jet!" Sometimes I'll finish the line, but it largely depends on how much I need to focus on what I'm doing at that moment. There are two people who I think would get it, but only one of them is in my area. Another what the crap, show? How is Kabuto, another notorious traitor to Konoha, alive and free at this point? They even know where he is... okay, maybe he's not free. He could be confined to that location. Still, giving him an army of Mangekyo Sharingan users to raise strikes me as massively unwise. MHA - The plan for everyone to regroup at the main building was good, but of course Izuku saw the problem that Kota would be stranded and went off on his own to get him. Mandalay's telepathic Quirk was, as Kaminari (I think?) said, useful to let everyone know what was happening. A gas attack is very bad, because everyone needs to breathe (this is why we have the Geneva Protocols). Momo came through when she made several gas masks for people to use while escaping the forest. When I saw how Izuku damaged his arms facing Muscular (it would've been better to fight a titan), it made me go back and look at the fight in volume 9. It's harder to discern the damage he did to his arms in the manga, because his arms look so much like the rest of his scratched, scraped, bruised and dirtied body. The storytelling power of Izuku realizing that he's Kota's only hope to survive, because no one else will come to help (or at least wouldn't be able to find them in time to help), was incredible. It was also a great personal growth experience for Kota to be faced with his parents' murderer and realize just what it was that they meant to others facing danger when Izuku did the same for him. Well, except for the dying part, thankfully. Lizard Stain-wannabe strikes me as a poser. The guy who attacked Pixie-bob deserves whatever Tiger can dish out to him. Gimp suit guy is disturbing. Muscular was a perfect inveterate evil-doer, killing and destroying whoever and whatever he can because he can and wants to do it. While looking in the manga, I also saw the mini-bio for Ragdoll again, and it's hard to believe she's 31. She looks so youthful. MP 100 - I finally watched these. I enjoyed the underlings mistakenly thinking Reigen was the Claw boss, but he did nothing to correct them, shrewd as he is. Reigen was good in both episodes. He talked Mob down, and he called the Scars out on their delusions of style, wasted life, and expectations of recognition after squashing their special attacks. Once the borrowed power from Mob ran out, it sure was convenient that the actual boss' son, who I mistook for the being both the boss and Reigen's younger brother in episode 10, stepped in to stop the old dude (I thought he sounded like a girl through the mask as well, Shoulder Pads). In the aftermath, I'm glad the disgraced class president came clean and apologized for framing the ruffian. For his part, the ruffian was remarkably cool about it, choosing to move on instead of dwell on a past wrong against him. Sadly, Mob has yet to see the benefits from the Body Improvement Club, but I hold out hope he will eventually. Well, at least enough that he can complete the run without collapsing. Reigen is in for a world of shocks now that he can actually see spirits. Teru training the weak psychics from the research institute to defend themselves strikes me as a sign that his character has changed for the better from knowing Mob. I know there's a second season of this show, and I'd like to see it at some point, but I'm more excited for the forthcoming season of OPM. I don't know how much manga will be covered in it, but there's a villainess Poke will absolutely love. SAO: A - Picking up from last week, I don't see the difference in what the guy described as top-down and bottom-up A.I. development, based on what happens in the virtual world. Yes, there are daily interactions between the A.I.s that aren't part of the world programming, but the first generation of A.I.s learned from either programmed n.p.c.s or players following a script or other instructions. That means at its root, the basis of how the A.I.s learn is from programmed, planned experiences. How is that not the same as what the guy described as being top-down? Since the intent is to find a process that will create A.I.s which are not Three Laws safe, I jumped to a conclusion when they said that one of the A.I.s had broken the in-world laws (which would have their basis on the instruction the first generation received from their parents). I thought that Alicization was thus referencing the plan to study what made Alice the way she was so that she could break the rules (game gravity, that's what. Sure, she was at the cave due in part to her interactions with Kirito, but it was plain gravity that made her hand touch an inch or two of ground outside the cave, but the game log wasn't detailed enough to fully represent the situation), but instead it was a reference to a boring project acronym. Also, in a bit of synchronicity, the Coast to Coast AM show for last night (March 29, 2019), featured Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, who talked about China's commitment to dominate the field of A.I. by 2030, and we can bet they'd pursue military versions to which they could give autonomous kill authority, which is something I would urge any military A.I. project never to do. I'm convinced that for the safety of mankind, any weapon-equipped A.I. must always ask a human or multiple humans for permission to engage a target. This does not sound like what Rath seeks to create in the show. As for Rinko's confession to Asuna about her relationship with Kayaba, I'll grant that the implanted explosive provided her with a plausible excuse. In the flashback, I'll consider it a good thing that she couldn't bring herself to murder the man she loved. Plus, since he was able to log out of the game, there's no guarantee that doing so would release the other players, since he wouldn't have died in the game from something happening in the game. As for Asuna's perspective that they'd killed people in SAO, too, I would call those instances of justifiable self-defense or the defense of another. Sure, they went to Laughing Coffin, but those wanton killers were given the option to surrender. When they chose to fight, the posse defended their own lives from known killers. As for the legitimacy of the posse, there was no existing system of law enforcement and criminal justice in the game. The players had to come up with their own system, and, as in the days of continental settlement, that relied on an authority figure trusted by the people assembling a posse to go after the criminals. MB - I haven't watched these yet, though. JoJo: Diamond - Like I said, I don't know why anyone would choose to spend time with Rohan. He maimed himself as motivation to expose how Josuke was cheating, and he got the guilt dude to help him, and he threatened Josuke with maiming if he (Rohan) could figure it out. Thankfully, a shape-shifting alien taking the form of dice was so far out of the realm of their consideration that they couldn't spot it, and Josuke got around $2000 for fixing Rohan's finger in a hurry as he departed hastily. No, show. I'm not going to buy that the sunlight through the magnifying glass could, in that span of time, start a fire in the house. For one, who would set a magnifying glass down on-edge? For another, sunlight from a low angle relative to the horizon would lack the intensity to set anything that wasn't volatile or a tinder bundle on fire, if even those things. For a third, the inside of the house would be far beyond the focal point of the lens, meaning even with the glass pointed that way with intense sunlight, it would be heating an area of air between the lens and a wall or the floor inside the house. If anything could possibly have been in the range of the lens, it would've been the top of the table, and if everyone was so focused on the dice that they didn't notice a fire start within arm's reach, then they would've deserved to suffer personal injury and property damage. So, no. Just no. I'm inclined to believe that Mikitaka is an alien rather than a Stand User. Practically every Stand has manifested as a form or effect outside of the User's body. It would be unprecedented for it to change the body of the User itself. Advanced alien technology would also explain his Bag of Holding. It was awkward when Josuke sat near Rohan in silence on the bus. I thought the room vision was going to be a ghost thing, but it was a new enemy Stand User. Good luck not getting drained like Rohan, Josuke. BC - Fana apparently survived the attack from Mars in the Blood Mist Village final exam. I'm not sure when she became possessed, though, but she's free now, so good for her. Boo for Ladros coming back alive. It may have been magically-generated fire, but it was still fire. He should've been burned horribly. If the wounds weren't fatal, they should at least have caused him debilitating pain, but here he was, uninjured and powered up even more. I remember Asta fought him to little effect until he threw a sword to stab Ladros' left shoulder, which produced a wound that should bleed badly (i.e. die within minutes) if he removes the sword. It looked like the Witch Queen did something to awaken Asta's hidden potential, and it looked sinister, which means I'll likely enjoy it much more than the rest of you. HxH - The takeaway here is that Pouf was horrifically radioactive, and thus so were his scales, so he unwittingly dosed tens, if not hundreds of thousands lethally with radiation. Meruem was also intensely radioactive, and he unknowingly killed Komugi by going to play Gungi with her. Thus, Netero and his failsafe plan were, while presumably unintentionally, integral to what could be considered a crime against humanity. Netero's video resignation was okay, but he should be glad that he likely has no identifiable remains to tie him to what happened in East Gorteau (sp?). The philosophical musings of the real Deigo sure were a thing. I'll agree with him about the last part mostly, in that man does need the sun, the land, the rain, and some form of mental stimulation, which for him was poetry, but I wouldn't explicitly say poetry. That last part between Komugi and Meruem stuck me as a lot of "hey, are you dead yet?" "Nope, still alive. You?" "Still alive, too." They then repeated that for what felt like a minute or two until they did die. Shippuden - The way the episode went into flashbacks and got preachy about revenge and breaking the cycle of hate, I'll guess this was our return to canon material. For the sake of the alliance, it sure was good for the Tsuchikage that Kurotsuchi didn't kill the guy bringing the letter of apology for a past betrayal.

Part 2. DBS - This was ridiculous. For one, 17 was absolutely right to interrupt the transformation sequences and associated poses. This is a fight for survival. Of course the Pride Troopers backed the "importance" of waiting for a transformation sequence to finish. I liked that even after waiting for the Universe 2 women to power up, 17 still overpowered those facing him. After the good experience point of the winged teammate saving one of the women, he adjusted his actions appropriately to eliminate the flyer first, then ring-out the woman. Boruto - What? I get that they'd go to Orochimaru for information on cloning, but (rhetorical question time, because an actual answer would entail Shippuden spoilers I'm willing to wait to see) why is he alive and free? Oh, hey, Ang's murder boyfriend is an adult again. If I remember the story, the skinny on Shin is that he was the result of something Danzo and Orochimaru worked on together back in the day. Why he adopted the cause of the Akatsuki as being Itachi's will, when that group in the form we've seen so far in Shippuden has been first an expression of Nagato's desires and now is under Tobi's direction, I don't know. Suigetsu knows how to do a maternity test? Huh. Even though Karin was at another hideout, it's creepy and thoroughly in keeping with what we'd expect of Orochimaru that he'd have a sample of Karin's tissue on-hand to test against Sarada's blood. Of course it matched for drama. At this point, it seems Sauce did hit it. I can absolutely believe that Sakura loves Sauce so much she'd raise his daughter by another woman as her own. The question then becomes why Karin gave up her daughter. I could believe that Karin would do it to protect the child from Orochimaru's non-Konoha enemies, since he'd doubtlessly have run afoul of shinobi or peerage from other nations. I can also believe that Karin didn't care to be a mother and only birthed a child because it was Sauce's child, and as such couldn't bring herself to abort the baby. I can also believe that Sauce simply took Sarada, thinking it would be better for her to be raised in Konoha rather than around Orochimaru. MHA - Quirk training to make each power itself more powerful makes some sense, but for someone like Izuku, he not only needs the power to be more powerful, but he also needs his body to become stronger to withstand the effects of the power on his body, which is a very slow process. The students now must cook for themselves, which is what the W.W.P. said. I'm still amazed that Bakugo has cooking skills. Izuku is a good kid to take dinner to Kota. The extra lessons understandably made some of them very tired. It was like having another day of school after the day of training. I hope that Aizawa at least takes a nap while the students train with the W.W.P. Mineta sleeps tied up, presumably to protect the female students. I liked the idea of the test of courage. Ochako and Tsuyu make cute gal pals. Unfortunately, the League of Villains Vanguard attacked to spoil all that good fun. MP 100 - I haven't watched them yet. SAO: A - I guess we had technical difficulties here. The takeaway from what we did see is that the survivor of Laughing Coffin did connect with his attack, and, while Kirito's life was saved by prompt medical intervention, he suffered brain damage as a result. (Imma intercept Ang's snark here and say that yes, there were plenty of times in the franchise when he sure seemed like he had that anyway.) MB - I haven't watched these yet, either. JoJo: Diamond - Whaaaaaat??? The show sure is living up to the adjective in its name here. We have a shape-shifting alien found in a crop circle, and he has a Bag of Holding (which would be some kind of replicator in sci-fi terms). I'm not sure why the frequencies of sirens cause him such pain, but okay. At least they know his weakness if it ever must be used to stop him from doing something nefarious. I can respect the alien for wanting to repay Josuke for saving him from the siren sounds. He doesn't want to feel like he owes Josuke moving forward, and I think of that as a positive trait. Josuke, however, displayed a negative trait in setting out to cheat at gambling against Rohan. I hope we can attribute it to making bad youthful decisions. Plus, I don't really understand the rules of what's a winning roll and what's a losing roll. BC - I can understand Asta's confusion. He'd been attacked by several flame spells, and it has been quite a while since he's seen Flame Recovery magic. Still, it healed him enough to be useful in giving Mars his opportunity to get through to Fana, and that worked. I think Ang would feel cheated here, since Asta would yet again be on the winning side, and she's now deprived of her hate-fueled proxy character with sweet fire powers. HxH - Apparently, Miniature Rose is also extremely heavy on fallout/radiation poisoning. For people who've been around a detonation to carry on or in themselves something that could kill others who would come in contact with them, it would need to be radioactive in nature, a chemical irritant/carcinogen, or a pathogen, and since the detonation melted stone, then any chemical or pathogen would be incinerated. That means it is a nuclear detonation, but it's also a very dirty bomb. Dang, Welfin freaked right the hell out, aging decades from sheer terror. It's taking someone's hair going white from shock, and turning it up to 20. When Welfin said Komugi's name, that was the one thing Pouf didn't want, and I liked that it thwarted all Pouf's schemes and efforts, since Meruem did remember her after that one word. Shippuden - Poor Kakashi. Not only did Guy accidentally send his messenger turtle while barfing, but what the others said shortly after that accident convinced Guy that Kakashi was an impostor, until he could tell what the standing of their contests was and what the last one was that tipped the count in Kakashi's favor. I don't understand why Naruto can't know the jonin are there as his bodyguards. Even Naruto knows that he's a target of the Akatsuki as a jinchuriki, and he can appreciate the importance of his power as such to the alliance of the five great nations.

We all knew 4x Tetsu was a good kid, if a bit stubborn, but these are some good fights coming up. Maybe not all as emotionally moving as Izuku's struggle against Muscular, but still good. This'll be three posts by week to get caught up. DBS - It was a bad few minutes to be a Pride Trooper. Things were going well for them, until 17 and 18 decided to even the odds. Kale seems to have a better handle on her Super Saiyan form, which is good for her. I smiled when 18 grabbed the one Trooper, dimensional bubble and all, to toss her out. With all that build up, can Roshi's electrical attack really be called a surprise? Tien knew teamwork was the order of the day, though, to blast the opponent out with a Tri-beam for the immobile Roshi. The same can't be said for Frieza poaching Vegeta's sumo wrestling pig-man. Boruto - At least Sauce eventually recognized his daughter, but I'd guess it was her frightened response to his threatening actions that first clued him to her not being a highly-skilled enemy operative sent to fight him. All I'll say about this Kaguya whom Sauce mentioned is that it gets into Shippuden spoilers. To a lesser extent, so does Karin's identity and Naruto recognizing her. Hm, so all the identical boys and their father are collectively Shin Uchiha. The father one strikes me as a cross between Danzo and a White Zetsu. I'm not sure whether his power over Sauce's sword was only because the seal on his hand touched it or because his blood was on the blade as well. Thankfully, Sakura stepped in to k.o. Shin. I can understand Sarada being surprised by her mom's combat power and Naruto healing from an impalement so quickly, because those are things she hasn't see in action before now, even though many others in the village of Konohamaru's age and older have. Unfortunately, old Team 7 neglected to find and subdue the little eye monster as well, so it sprang the transportation jutsu on them to escape. Sakura saving Sarada was a very motherly thing to do, and I feel like Sakura will be able to glean more useful intelligence from her capture than Sarada would. MHA - Kendo knocking out Monoma when he gets too mouthy still makes me smile. I can finally say without spoilers, mmmm, Mandalay. Plus, she's a good woman to take in her slain cousin's son. The students were quick to pick up on what was going to happen once the WWP's base was pointed out, but not quick enough to act. I'm not sure how Pixie-Bob was able to control her dirt monsters without a direct line of sight. The students seem to be improving at using teamwork to take down opponents. I forget how much I mentioned before about Kota from the manga, but I feel like Ang would be torn on him. On one hand, he strikes me as the kind of salty that she'd like. On the other hand, he punched her green son in the junk (I did not expect Iida to say "scrotum" ), which would usually trigger her to say she'd fight him on Izuku's behalf. I liked Kota thwarting Mineta, but in the manga, shameless Mina gave Kota a real eyeful when thanking him for it. Izuku was a good guy to forget about the punch and help Kota when he needed it. Pro tip: don't mention age to Pixie-Bob. She's a pretty lady, though, so I fee like the major reason she wouldn't have a man in her life is that she simply hasn't made the effort to have that kind of relationship. MP 100 - I haven't watched them yet. SAO: A - From here on for this week's shows, I'm writing more than a week after watching the episodes, and I didn't make notes when I watched them, so comments should be fairly short. I remember that Asuna and the crew talked about Kirito and that she didn't know to where he'd been moved. They found a woman associated with Kirito's job who helped them find him. I feel like her company's data security is lacking if Asuna was able to alter the profile of the woman's assistant to have Asuna's biometric data. That is, unless the woman gave Asuna access to it. If the platform where Rath has Kirito is in international waters, that's a big red flag about whether they're up to something shady or not. MB - I haven't watched these yet, either. I feel like when I do get around to it, it'll be it's own post to finish the show. JoJo: Diamond - Why are we seeing Rohan? He's not a compelling character. He's just barely not an outright villain to me. I can get the roshambo kid challenging him because of what Mr. Kira's ghost may have said to him, but why anyone else would want to spend time with him after what he did to Koichi is beyond me. As for the fight, if we can truly call it that, it seemed to drag on and on the whole was dumb. Had Jotaro or Okayasu been the one to face him, I can absolutely believe they'd just grab the kid, put him over a knee, and spank the brat until he agreed to leave them alone. Also, what is that outfit, kid? Were they trying to invoke Jean's look here? I say it doesn't work on a scrawny kid. BC - We learned that Ladros embraces his inner psychopath, and Asta scored a hit on Salamander. I think. That might have been the previous episode. Oh, I think Noelle created a good opening for Asta with her Sea Dragon's Roar attack, and Mars defected to help Zell. HxH - I remember that Youpi died, and the team of Ikalgo and Palm hid Komugi in the underground bunker. Pouf was probably a deceptive dick, because that's who he is. Shippuden - I'm not sure whether it's a good or bad thing when filler is completely forgettable. On one hand, nothing good of note happened, but it also wasn't so bad that something stuck out as worthy of complaint. I really don't remember what happened here.

I think the beach Izuku cleaned was called Dagoba. Unfortunately, that enemy is worse than a titan. Think of it this way: that nice dragon with sweet flame powers no longer has to be in this show. DBS - Goku can't help himself. He coached Caulifa on the disadvantages of ultra-Super Saiyan and showed her SS2 while trying to talk her into how to repeat it. However, lesson time was over once Kale went berserker on him. I'm not sure where she got all of those "Goku the _____" titles for him, but I can't say that the arrogant one was entirely off. I know that the previous Brolly movies are non-canon, but it did take a combined kamehameha from Goku and both his sons to stop Brolly, and Kale is that kind of berserker. That Jiren knocked her out with one attack does not bode well for Goku or the other Universes. At least Kale's indiscriminate energy blast barrage did clear out some of the scrubs. Boruto - That was quick thinking on Sarada's part to play on Boruto's sentimentality regarding his mom so he would entrust the lunch to her and thus give her a "reason" to go out chasing Naruto. Hm, Shin, the weird albino kid, has the Sharingan, and not just that, but the Mangekyo form as well. I don't fault Naruto for going right into his Nine-Tails cloak mode (I'm not sure whether he had just that or merged it with Sage Mode as well), which is technically a Shippuden spoiler, when two residents of Konoha were in danger from an opponent with such a powerful array of jutsu as the Mangekyo would place at Shin's disposal. I'm not sure whether Naruto was outright lying about his time at the Academy in regards to skill, grades and popularity, or whether he genuinely doesn't remember it correctly due to too many punches to the head from Sakura. The good news is that Sarada has activated the first level of her Sharingan. The bad news is that Sauce has been such a neglectful parent for over a decade that he doesn't recognize his own daughter and drew a weapon on her. MHA - I forget whether we've been officially introduced to Vlad at this point, but he's the homeroom teacher for Class 1-B, so making sure he knows what Class 1-A is bringing to the summer training camp was a nice excuse to burn some episode time on recapping the students' powers. Of course Kaminari and Mineta had it planned to perv on the girls at the swimming pool, but Izuku, being the forthright person he is, thought it was legitimate and invited enough of their classmates along to make it become legitimate. Of the various winners we saw, I would say that Izuku was the only one who actually swam. It was supposed to be a swimming competition. If anyone failed to touch the water at all (I think Iida's feet did get wet), I would disqualify them on the face of it. Yeah, I'm staring right at you, Bakugo and Todoroki, but mostly Bakugo. Aizawa cancelling the Quirks and closing the pool because it was time was fitting for his character, but I feel like that would make for the most even match of ability in swimming. I would think that Izuku would have the advantage, though, since he would be set to swim, and the others would be in the air and trying to move above the water. MP 100 - I haven't watched them yet. SAO: A - The goblin fight was okay. It was refreshing to see Kirito struggle, which means he doesn't have all his imported stats from the other games (SAO, GGO). While he did win against the boss, both he and Eugeo were injured, though Selka did use Kirito as a health potion to keep Eugeo from dying. I'm going to presume this injury felt like it hurt more because of different brain interactions with the interfaces. Of course the fight boosted Kirito's stats enough to use the fancy sword, and it did for Eugeo, too. Thus, they were able to fell the tree, so it was time for a party. Now the boys are off to become real swordsmen and/or find Alice. MB - I haven't watched these yet, either. JoJo: Diamond - At Kira's house, I see no problem with him being born to older parents, except that the dead dad is also a psycho determined protect his son, despite knowing his son's crimes. The picture stuff seemed like a strange power even for this show, but Jotaro outsmarted him. Unfortunately, Okuyasu fell for the bait and made too many holes. I presume one thumbtack nicked the picture itself to allow the dad to move the tape. What the crap, show? Another set of Stand Bow and Arrow. No. Just no. The dude whose life Kira hijacked was in a loveless marriage, but at least the wife is a hot babe. Oh, no, he's won her over with cooking skills. There was a slight glimmer of hope for the woman when it seemed to me that she noticed that he hesitated to go to the safe. Maybe the safe will come up again, and if so, I wonder whether he can use Heart Attack on it, since a safe would produce no heat above the ambient environment for it to target. Anyway, I know that neither the woman nor landlord could see D.Q. as it stole the money from the landlord's bag, but how did a floating wad of cash get into Kira's hand unnoticed? If the woman is falling for her Kira!husband, then I feel like she's going to die soon. BC - Good work creating an opening for Asta's secret move, Noelle. It was funny to me that the secret move is to fly really fast through the air with a double-stab, but it was funnier that it actually worked. It begs the question of just how powerful anti-magic is that Asta apparently used it to kill a nature spirit, i.e. the embodiment of fire mana in this case. Fana is half-elf. Okay. I didn't recognize who the human that "betrayed" them was. I feel like Fana may have some history with Mars. She had a jewel on her forehead like powerful Diamond Kingdom mages, and she also looks to have a patchwork grimoire like he did back in the dungeon. Then there's the shot in the new OP of what looks like a young Mars with a pink-haired girl. HxH - I'm not sure how Pouf and Youpi spoke telepathically, but now they're conspiring to conceal Komugi's existence from Meruem, but he knows something is fishy. While Knuckle and Meleoron aren't dead, it looks bad for their survival that they've been caught and are around Pouf. Youpi might hesitate to dispatch Knuckle without a fair fight, but Pouf would absolutely kill them, if his diminished form is capable of it, that it. Shippuden - I didn't watch this yet, either.