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Were they really gonna pay off the government to get it back?

As expected, there will be a marathon on 7/5 As not expected, they are going with MAWS S2

Yamaji did have that weird dual eye that I don’t believe was ever touched on beyond revealing he had it. I suppose that could be an ayy lmao pivot. I feel like a lot of the hate towards the gear is centered on it being where most of the mediocre CGI is found, rather than the concept of the gear itself. We went from cool 2d fights to CGI sloppa. If the gear was less CGI (no way some of those parts like the fade guys snakes could have been 2d) then the hate wouldn’t be nearly as strong.

Why is it so hard for people to just adapt the material in the west? “We like this series and want to animate it” ”We are going to change a bunch of things because we don’t like them and feel the original creator was wrong”

What even is there to do with the characters now? Everyone got their closure and MC ditched his ninja mech suit at the end. These are gonna feel really forced

“PUSH THE BIRDCAGE PUSH HARDER” for 44 straight minutes was likely seen as skippable by most.

Even if it did, the creator is so obtuse about how his story is told, it only would have covered the third game, which is regarded as filler by fans. Probably would have caused some resentment towards the series. I didn’t say anything about the block itself, just the originals. Which have been embarrassing failure after failure and a clear reason why acquired content has decreased. The only one of which I ever see any positive acclaim for is Shenmue, which just repurposed the game story into an anime. Not many areas to diverge and mess that up. If they stop making originals and go back to just licensing shows, that will be wonderful. I really thought Lazarus might have been able to break the curse, but it gets worse every week.

We can only hope we will be so lucky. I suppose it’s a good sign no new ones have been announced this year, so maybe Rooster Fighter really be the end of this blight on anime history.

Not too frequently. Across the year we see various televised sports events that occasionally have an event run over midnight, but it’s never the norm.

Well, Rewind had a lot of mismanagement that led to its failure, primarily the lack of interest in old anime. The Saturday block is just hard to relocate. It can’t be early due to (some) of its content. Dragonball Diaper would be fine at 5pm, Bleach not so much. And we know AS would never dream of giving up primetime hours anywhere, so it would have to go somewhere post midnight. Sunday-Thursday is a bust due to people working. Not gonna get people staying up till 3am when they gotta be up at 6am. That really only leaves Friday at midnight as an alternative. Maybe it could work but it would take months for people to form new habits and actually tune in regularly. Luckily I don’t see them landing UFC, so this is likely just a hypothetical scenario we never have to actually worry about.

The info is dubious, I did all the exercises just like they said and I don’t look like this yet.

I don’t think there has been a peep about Superman besides its initial confirmation of getting new seasons. Wasn’t really realistic to expect that in summer. I still stand by the team working on it anticipating its cancellation and wrapping up S2 in a mostly conclusive way. So they probably have a lot of legwork still to do.

Being realistic, is Toonami REALLY a competitor to AEW? Pretty much since the block came back, wrestling has always been cited as direct competition, but I have never really believed it. And it this point, we are talking about a block with one show barely over 100k viewers. I can’t really see WB being a genuine competitor at the negotiating table though. Not when you have to sit next to Amazon and Netflix. And they may not have the wallet size to compare, but UFC and ESPN aren’t going down without a fight either. I know we overreact about things here often, but a day shift is something I do not think Toonami could survive. It’s got 13 year old roots on Saturday nights, you can’t just ask people to shift somewhere else.

Well, Toonami news usually hits at a specific time Friday afternoon, so I’d assume not many were checking the Facebook today. Anyway, if there was any lingering doubts about the budget being blown for the year, those should be put to rest. I have to wonder though, why start this now? If they would have waited till July, it could have just taken midnight where it’s likely going regardless when Lazarus ends. They stalled for nearly 6 months straight, so I don’t see why this couldnt have waited. Especially after all those times they stalled the schedule to prevent show timeslot shifts. Bleach is probably going right back to 12:30 in July. If the issue was OP running out of episodes, they easily could have put Naruto on double duty for a few weeks. On the topic of Naruto, we are now beyond a reasonable window of expecting the Rewind shows to expire, so it seems those are gonna hang around and shit up the schedule for a full run. Unfortunate. My long standing criticism of them sacrificing the entire block just to roll out the red carpet for Dragonball mediocrity remains unphased.

Yuck, this is a show that’s humor heavily relies on the staff being forced to tow a PG line. Without that limitation, this will just be another copy and paste adult comedy with dude weed lmao and excessive swearing because adult comedy doesn’t know how to do anything else.

Well, can’t say last week was a fluke anymore. This seems to be where we are gonna stabilize till the next schedule shuffle. Audience patience with Lazarus seems to have completely exhausted. This might be the year we see 5 digits at midnight.

A firearm recovered from the scene is registered to one Rusty Shackleford, who is now the prime suspect in the crime.

So it’s the end of the day now, and 6/14 remains blank. Last week, the schedule updated around noon. So it seems like whatever is happening on 6/14 is going forward.

You can really smell the production delays in this sequence, especially with the Covid masks. And of course they have to wedge in a Trump parody with Dale running for some kind of office. Who is the black guy? New character? And does this imply Hank sells his house?

Yeesh, maybe it was a bit presumptuous on our end to think a 200% increase in viewership was gonna hold, but to lose ALL of that boost + some of already tiny minimum in a single week hurts. I don’t know how much of the budget AS blew on Bleach, but for it to only chart 86k in its second week is terrible optics. Especially since the block will have to buy each cour separately. If this ends up being the average for Bleach, it would not surprise me if they just stop airing it because the cost will simply be too high for the return. It just doesn’t make any sense at all. Are you insinuating that Toonami viewers look ahead, see a show rated MA, and turn their nose up at it? This is a midnight block. I can’t imagine there is anyone out there who makes viewing choices based on that. Don’t be so sure. The schedule for 6/7 was left blank till Friday, and then was updated to show the normal block. 6/14 as of right now, is still coming up blank. The only potential reasons for that right now would either be OP trimming down to 1 episode, or Naruto and Sailor Moon leaving. What I assume is happening is they don’t know exactly which week the show is gonna run out so they are just playing the schedule a week at a time until they are certain they are over the expiration line. We will see tomorrow if anything changes.

Occasional spurts of decent animation designed purely to be bait for YouTube soyface reaction videos does not a show make. I’ll admit, compared previous arcs, there has been noteworthy improvement. But when the baseline is bottom of the barrel shit, there is a long ways to go up before you are competitive with other shows. And the pacing issue hasn’t really been resolved because for years Toei has been right on the bumper of the manga and only just recently caved to putting the anime on a hiatus. Demon Slayer has a panned arc and it’s wrapped up in 8 episodes. Not even a full anime cour. For One Piece, that would take 50-60 episodes. When The One Piece gets moving, that might be a series worthy of praise and awards if they do it right and keep their foot on the gas. Current One Piece not being awarded anything gives me a slight sliver of belief that this award show was legitimate and not just handing out trophies to the highest grossing franchises.

What are the criteria voted upon? I could see how an actionslop show could beat seasonal SoL if most of the people voting are brain rotted shonenbabies. And whether we like it or not, Ninja Kamui did start strong at least. And that’s a good thing. One Piece shouldn’t just be handed awards because it’s trendy. Toei animation and pacing is dogshit not worthy of praise. Panned or not, at least Demon Slayer makes an effort to look good, and has an author that knows how to pace a story.

Wow, I figured Bleach would be a shot in the arm, but not like this. That is a crazy boost in viewership across the board, and in just one week of Bleach airing. If you said 200k at 2am One Piece was possible earlier in the year, you would have been laughed out of the room. I hope the suits put the pieces together here. If you actually buy shows for the block, people will tune in. Yes, even for your mediocre originals, as long as it’s a BLOCK and not just one show and a bunch of reruns.

I’m not sure, given it has many overlapping VAs with Naruto, I would also perceive it as one. Lodge did say he was willing to take back the role. I can see why they wouldn’t want him back though because he handled the dispute he had way back in the day in a pretty ass way that made work for people who weren’t to blame. I believe even he has vaguely admitted in interviews that he could have approached the situation better. Lee had every right to be as upset as she was. Let’s not sugar coat it, with a cast list this enormous and needing to contact quite a few big name or lapsed VAs, there was no mistake made that Lee wasn’t available. Chad’s VA dropped out because he didn’t want to voice a Spanish character, and the studio just assumed Lee would also be ok being recasted by a black VA. If Chad’s VA wants to do that, fine, it’s his own initiative to do so. But don’t unilaterally recast other characters and think they are just gonna be ok with it. If Lee didn’t go to social media and get others to kick up a storm, she never would have got the role back. Yoruichi is one of the series most iconic characters, she knew she could leverage fan outrage to force the studios hand. With the dub already under way it’s not like she had time to dick around with more tactful means of resolution. Every episode that passed was lowering her chances at getting the role back.

Family Guy jabs at Robot Chicken are always funny because they are meta. Making Chris into a hardcore RC fan always gets a laugh out of me. Can’t say Simpsons got Smiling Friends wrong, it leans hard on screaming as comedy.