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Good but it's depressing once you realize GioGio was the only show not considered a rerun last week by the ratings, and it's gonna be even more depressing when they rerun MHA,

Yup, especially if they want to continue pairing PA with something as dark as Demon Slayer and what a dream team it would be. Although I think that Boogiepop would probably be too much for 12:30am but if it's the second newest show on the block after MHA then it would make sense

That was quick, and is a pleasant surprise. Darn though, well there's still Dr.Stone and Fire Force's replacements coming up.

Boogiepop and Others, hopefully

Could Boogiepop and Others be coming to Toonami?

Jiggle* :fap:

I included Bebop purely on the merit of it having iconic and original ship designs, same thing with OS, which crosses the boundary further into mecha with the Arms. I actually originally included Super into this but I didn't know if I wanted to open that can of worms. Also I assume that there is general space mafia business in Bebop, it's my first time watching so I'm not too sure. So if you remove the mobile suits, IBO would technically be around the same level.

This is so great, there's going to be 3 space-themed shows on the block now, it's quite refreshing. Not just that but there will be 4 mecha-type shows as well; Gundam, Outlaw, Bebop and Titan. We'll be eating in October, boyos! Speaking of October, Blade Runner 2049 comes out the day before IBO premieres, would be great promotional material.

With the right amount of mental gymnastics anything can be canon, and vice versa, filler.

Kakegurui blowing up is pretty damn astounding, mainly because its main focus is gambling but there it is. Goes to show how objectively strong character designs and good direction can make an appealing impression to casuals. I'm surprisingly tore on Netflix's acquisition of MHA, on one hand they may have done Toonami a favor taking away yet another shonen series from the already saturated block. But on the other, with how popular the show is becoming and depending on if we would have gotten it this year, we possibly could have seen the successor to OPM. Definitely, with the addition of what's in store for 2018, Godzilla, Devilman Crybaby, and their original anime, Netflix really knows how to pick em'. Maybe violent and dark anime with interesting concepts are the way to go, Demarco should take notes. Hopefully he'd learned his lesson from this crisis and will put the future of Toonami over giving the loud majority their fads (I am looking forward to IBOS2 though). Edit-Arguably Jojo part 3 and some other shows fit that description but apparently the general audience doesn't see it!

Honestly I knew what the anime was, I just wanted to be an arse. I can't speak personally about the quality of it but from the impressions of avid anime watchers, it's great wank material, with good characters and a serviceable plot. Call me slowpoke but it should mentioned again how surprising it is that Netflix has come so far with anime and how it's now able to take most of Toonami's lunch. Not just with My Hero Academia and Kakegurui but with other action series like Seven Deadly Sins and Fate Apocrypha, the latter of which could have been a good introduction of the popular Fate Franchise to the Toonami brand. Of course this road was paved by Toonami since its revival but the existence of the service softens the blow if worst comes to worst.

They made a Usogui anime?!

Considering the director is confirmed to take on the job for FLCL2, I would say that this is a excellent idea. However I can't see it in anything other than 12:30am or later since I'm not sure how receptive the general audience would be towards the occasional scenes of lolis either naked or in suggestive situations. I haven't actually watched the show but I've seen enough screengrabs to get that idea.

I hope that eventually word of mouth on social media will give Lupin the boost it deserves.

Almost exactly what they're doing, I seriously hope we do get IBO season 2 sometime though.

The manga is an all-time shonen classic with great art to boot, so that works out. But I wouldn't worry about it though since the anime covers all the essential chapters and feels it has a complete story, the cut stuff will just be gravy. There's still some fluff especially in the last season that I didn't feel bothered by marathoning it but I can imagine this making the show really drag its feet on a week to week basis. Also like Parasyte, the anime retains some of the same annoying 80s environmentalism soap-boxing but thankfully that's just in one episode. I found that particular ep though to be really stupid and kinda soured me on an arc that was gearing up to be great beforehand, also it has two VERY important characters in it...So yeah, but hopefully you'll have a different opinion about it.

Remake, the original ovas didn't get far at all into the manga which the new one covers all the way there's a lot of cut content though but you wouldn't notice. It's actually more like 39 eps since it's 3 cours long.

The manga still sells well and it's consistently the third most popular show on Crunchyroll so while it's considerably niche there's still a sizable audience for it. Maybe it will get a resurgence in popularity in America in the future, maybe not but it's not the end of the world.

They're airing both seasons, so 24 eps. Absolutely, they did all they possibly could have done for the show.

Tbh I'm happy about this decision, Demarco made the decision everyone thought would be impossible for him and we get a good hatewatch show out of it. Win-win.

SEPW's videos are always great and consistently surprising, and he's just such a swell guy that even if you disagree with him, he's hard to hate. But you probably won't, since he's usually always right. Recommended for those who already liked these shows but I don't think it will persuade the haters.

It's more entertaining to watch than Kai at least, only because the material is completely new but it's certainly not better than those two. It's a good show on its own though and not a cashgrab like those new Star Wars films, feels more like a natural continuation of the story in the DB universe imo.

Good, to hell with Fairy Tail. I'm glad I dropped it before that alternate universe arc and didn't get suckered into wasting my time with it. The manga was decent until that point but I got the feeling of fatigue from the plot redundancy.

Awesome. ;D

That's absolutely fair to think, Togashi shouldn't be immune to criticism even though he writes whatever the hell he wants. Personally I think that the man is too in love with explaining mundane things and thinking that they're interesting enough to spin tension of them. It's really hit or miss a lot of times. Like there's this fight in the arc after this one that should be the most boring thing for a action anime to spend multiple eps on but it's actually pretty hype. Every character gets their time in the spotlight to contribute and it's overall really fun and one of the highlights of that arc. But I can see most people would be like, "eh, just get on with it already". It does, every single death of a important character is memorable enough that I can remember it off the top of my head. I can list the aspects of them that I like but that would be getting into spoiler territory. The most I can say is that they're rarely the cliché flashback, happy memories then death thing that tricks you into caring about a underdeveloped character, which is kinda refreshing. Unfortunately, not even half of that is spare for the nameless unlucky redcoats who get swept up into the carnage. That's pretty much one thing that will stick out like a sore thumb if you're bothered by it and doesn't get improved on, it's really bad. I think that it's kinda justifiable because they're in a survival of the fittest type test and they knew that they can die coming in but even that would require a bit of mental gymnastics. I mean it's fine to have "heroes"(I wouldn't say anyone in the main cast except Leorio is heroic) with grey morals and everyone except Gon has a kind of character defining backstory revolving around death. But even characters who are forced to take lives as part of their job have a reaction to death and acknowledges the weight of it, so you're right there's no excuse to not explain that. If they just had a like a small five seconds scene of the applicants having a moment of silent or a plaque for all those who died at the end of the arc it would have fixed so much and we wouldn't be having this discussion. It doesn't break the immersion of the story for me and I will accept that as a mark against the show. But it just is, what it is. Funny enough, it's the Zoldycks, you know Killua's crazy ass assassin family that realize how terrible death is and willingly goes out of their way to avoid innocent casualties.