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Yeah, I know. So original. [speaking of lizzie freeman...]

The iDOLM@STER Million Live! 6 Himegoto 7-9 Wasn't planning on watching the latter, but a couple nights ago I had a dream that I blew off work to see Himegoto: The Movie, which was apparently a Big Damn Movie take on the series. 18+ got killed in it! Now I really want it to be a thing. I'll have to fit it in between my ideas for Touhou fanfictions and the original anime I've been wanting to write up.

If that is the case, at least this means they see value in the block. In this environment, you should take a freebie whenever you can get one.

Holy shit. First non-sequel acquisition in two whole years! And it came out of nowhere. I knew next year wasn't going to be a total loss. It's one of the more well-liked original action shows from the past couple years. I've seen the first two episodes, and I liked 'em very much. I even went with the dub. Not sure if I'll try to cram the rest of the show in for content ratings purposes before the premiere.

Hell to the yeah. The lesson here? Public shaming works, at least sometimes. I'll have to support this film somehow if it does get a proper release.

Tanaka-kun is Always Listless 7-9 The Idolm@ster Million Live! 5 Birdie Wing -Golf Girls' Story- 14/15 [slay the mighty set]

They sure did. And here I thought WBD was done with this bullshit and 2024 was gonna be normal. I'm worried for Toonami in particular.

So, I agree with this, but I also feel like you could take this logic further: why bother working on U149 when I haven't even finished screenshots for the OG Cinderella Girls? So I'm going to try and go back and do that, but at the same time, watching it at the same time as the ongoing Million Live! is going to feel awkward. Maybe I'll wait until the new year to finally finish the job. We'll see what happens. And now, a quickie update: The Idolm@ster Million Live! Episode 2: "Auditions Are the Doorway to Dreams" - TV-PG Episode 3: "Sparkling World! Our Theater!" - TV-G Episode 4: "We're Putting On a Concert in a Field?!" - TV-PG Touhou Fantasy Kaleidoscope: The Memories of Phantasm Episode 5: "The Flower Incident" [part one] - TV-PG Episode 6: "The Flower Incident" [part two] - TV-PGS Next time, let's focus on killing that backlog. Iknow this is in complete defiance of last time, but it just feels right.

Touché.

Are they really going to be airing past the first two episodes? My understanding is that it's a big enough undertaking for Jose that we can't expect a weekly run. Maybe these are just repeats of the first two to stall, but I don't know what they would be stalling for or if it would even be practical.

Need another treat for Halloween? Did your kids not get any full-size candy bars this year? I've got you covered, though I wasn't intending to do it this way. Touhou Fantasy Kaleidoscope: The Memories of Phantasm Episodes 5 and 6: "The Flower Incident" a.k.a. "Judgment Day"

I had a Pizza Hut in town once, which was eventually closed, turned into a local breakfast/lunch dining spot, and then bulldozed to make way for a larger plaza of resturants. Only time I've eaten in recent memory was a few months ago on vacation in Maine. It's fine; though my family has always preferred Domino's, though maybe they wouldn't if there was a Pizza Hut close by.

If only he was talking about the drummer for that Grateful Dead cover band.

Oof, sorry about that. Shouldn't have gone with such charged language there; I was just preoccupied with using it in some situation. The Idolm@ster Million Live! 4

Well, so much for DeMarco having to air Velma. This is good news. Not much to it other than that. Granted, it's not as good as it could've been given that this is years-old sloppy seconds. Would've been better if they'd been able to air the Mugen Train movie instead, that pandemic-era smash hit, since this adaptation of it is apparently inferior in every way. But hey, we didn't think Toonami would be able to do this, so good for them. I personally think this is an act of mercy on CR's behalf rather than Toonami figuring out a loophole or scrounging up enough money to meet their unreasonable demands. And in regards to next year, while they might blow the budget to smithereens getting the Entertainment District arc, I'm a little more optimistic on that front. Between a pandemic, an ugly corporate merger, and then multiple strikes in the entertainment industry, Warners hasn't had a normal year since 2019, but they're going to next year barring something really unexpected, so I think they'll be a little more charitable toward the block. I mean, who knows if there will be anything left to license, but if so, they can always spend it on such banal desires as a packaging refresh. [space ghost is fuc-]

What if I want to watch it without having to subscribe to Max?

Berigoo! I have this show on DVD, but I wasn't planning on watching it until seeing all the other iM@S shows, and given my standoffishness on all things Cinderella Girls right now, that doesn't seem like it's going to happen for a while. I earnestly await your content ratings recaps of it. FLCL Shoegaze 2/3 (end) The Idolm@ster Million Live! 1-3 Touhou Fantasy Kaleidoscope ~The Memories of Phantasm~ 5/6 Shoegaze was eh, though I didn't think the ending was as deporable as other people did.

If Discotek had TV rights to everything they license, I'd be pushing for the block to air Symphogear, with or without a dub. Mind you, I have all five seasons on Blu-ray, though I haven't watched past the second yet. [and i'd love to do content ratings images of it... or even clips]

The fact that they're airing the special twice is a row is pretty funny. Further proof that, yup, they got nothin'. But I also wasn't expecting IGPX to return, presumably using Discotek's new version, which is really cool. This is the best use of the DST hour for Toonami since Children Who Chase Lost Voices aired in 2016. No schedule for 11/11 yet; I suppose we'll use this thread for when it's ready, but it's nice to get confirmation now.

I feel like they could do reruns of the new FLCL sequels because the timing lines up really nicely: Grunge, Thanksgiving marathon, Shoegaze, Christmas marathons. But Scavengers Reign will probably get its [as] airing soon and it's definitely leading off Toonami shortly after, so those would be better off stuffed in the back. Maybe after this we can finally get a proper rerun rotation of all the FLCLs? What I find particularly interesting are the marathons: My Adventures with Superman hasn't gotten the treatment yet, so they might marathon it in December and spread it out over two weeks, just to remind people it exists and is getting another season. Who knows what the Thanksgiving marathon will be, but I think it'd be cool if they could do it for either One Piece or Shippuden, just for old times' sake, and as a parting gift if they go with the latter. But at this point, who knows if they're writing that stuff into the contracts?

Didn't Elon Musk appear as himself in an episode?

Technically it is, but it's being made with a new anamorphic source that is closer to the original resolution, which is part of why the remaster looks as good as it does. We're at the point where Production I.G. giving access to the masters probably wouldn't be much of an improvement. This is a cool surprise, and it contributed to a strong Discotek Day overall. The last few editions actually haven't had much that interested me, but not this one. This set, Lyrical Nanoha S1, Belladonna of Sadness, and even that live-action film Kamikaze Girls are all on my wishlist.

I mean, we're talking about a show that's been running for a decade. Though I also hear people say it started going downhill with Season 3, so I guess there's merit to this. [current status: haven't finished season 4]

Hey, look at that: I set a deadline for myself and I almost managed to stick to it. I was going to upload this on Saturday before I realized I needed to make one more MoP clip then I thought, and then I opted not to post it yesterday thanks to a combination of semantics over whether or not Sunday is the start of the week... and a Phish webcast. To Your Eternity Season 2 Episode 10: "Resonance" - TV-14L Episode 11: "The Value of Flesh" - TV-PGV Spy×Family Mission:19 - "A REVENGE PLOT AGAINST DESMOND / MAMA BECOMES THE WIND" - TV-14L Mission:20 - "INVESTIGATE THE GENERAL HOSPITAL / DECIPHER THE PERPLEXING CODE" - TV-14 Mission:21 - "NIGHTFALL / FIRST FIT OF JEALOUSY" - TV-PG Mission:22 - "THE UNDERGROUND TENNIS TOURNAMENT: THE CAMPBELLDON" - TV-14L Mission:23 - "THE UNWAVERING PATH" - TV-PGV Tanaka-kun is Always Listless Episode 1: "Tanaka-kun and Ohta-kun" - TV-PG Episode 2: "The Apprentice Application" - TV-PG Episode 3: "Gap Girl Echizen" - TV-PGL Episode 4: "Shiraishi's Secret" - TV-PGD Episode 5: "Tanaka-kun's Routine" - TV-PG Himegoto Episodes 1-3: TV-14DS Episodes 4-6: TV-14DLS Touhou Fantasy Kaleidoscope: The Memories of Phantasm Episode 2: "The Scarlet Mist Incident [part one]" - TV-14L Episode 3: "The Scarlet Mist Incident [part two]" - TV-14S Episode 4: "The Scarlet Mist Incident [part three]" - TV-14 The Idolm@ster Million Live! Episode 1: "My Very Own Dream Just for Me" - TV-G Four and a half months' worth of watching anime, and this is all I have to show for it. Too bad. I know I'm juggling, like, 15 shows right now that I'm doing ratings for in various forms, but don't think I'm going to stop with this fuckery, because here comes a new simulcast! It's called 16bit Sensation: Another Layer, and it's a show I've decided to watch for no reasons other than because it seems like it might be raunchy, and I don't know what's good for me. BTW, I'm doing clips of it. Look forward to that in a special slimmed-down edition of the usual rundown that will focus on currently-airing shows plus Memories of Phantasm.

So I watched the first episode of this live but opted for a DVR replay of the second, mostly because I thought I needed a tiny bit of extra sleep to help power through grocery inventory. Spoiler alert: things turned out about the same, which for me was good enough. So anyway, I was personally a tiny bit disappointed by the second ep if only because I was expecting it to pile on that cool imagery we saw in the next-episode preview: our protagonists entering "imaginary time" and creating a giant chrome brain. It was so intriguing, but it turned out that was where they were hiding the necessary plot-relevant science experiment. At least the stuff focusing on Kana was good. If only she hadn't bailed on visiting the coming-of-age ceremony with her friends... Hopefully I'll pop in the thread tomorrow. Enjoy what will presumably be the last episode ever of FLCL, in all its unnecessarily-franchised glory.