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I'm under the impression Zaslav doesn't do that anymore, but.. you know what? Let him cook. Getting rid of that show would be no big loss.

Keeping with the Star Wars theme... "Somehow, Haruko returned."

Spy×Family S1E22 FLCL Alternative 4/5

I remember hearing that! And the show has arrived just in time for NFTs to be basically worthless. Talk about an unintentional period piece. [come out, ye black and tans and bored apes]

Will be interesting to see whether they went for a pure impressionist, like Family Guy did w/ Cleveland, or an established name. Either way, I like the new voice, though Rick's definitely struggling with the highs a bit.

FLCL Alternative 1-3 Tanaka-kun is Always Listless 5 Spy×Family S1E20/21

Funnily enough, I didn't at first, but after how badly FLCL Grunge went, I'm gonna be kinder to it if only because I feel Toonami's quota for shitty content has been filled. Not to mention that part where the last two epsiodes were delayed, and people apparently didn't watch the finale because they thought it was something called "X: The Movie".

The cool thing about this panel will be that the writers should be back in action and able to appear at it, and maybe the actors will be able to also. Looking forward to S2 of Smiling Friends in particular; hopefully Michael and Zack will give us the deets personally.

Happy happy, you fine people. I had the block for birthdays on this forum disabled for a while, but not right now, and I noticed this before the actual thread.

They be mergin', and people are understandably concerned. Apparently TRSI's shipping operations have taken a level in suck-ass since the acquisition, and who knows if this will make things any better.

He sort of has to, given that this is all Toonami has at the moment, and given how things are going in the anime industry right now (I'll be making bumping a thread about a particular event soon), things probably won't get better.

Oh man, I remember that one! But not because I watched it. It generated a memorable A.V. Club running gag: Ballers' Rob Corddry.

Yeah, I agree. If only the people who were making these were more knowledgeable about such things as narrative economy. On the other hand, even a seasoned creative might have trouble making something meaningful out of three episodes. Maybe [as] should've ordered these two recent seasons as movies instead? Funnily enough, finding this out actually makes me more interested in watching Grunge, because if it's only three episodes, then if it's bad, it won't be for long. And it doesn't feel so bad now, doesn't it? But it also means that Shoegaze's peak won't be very tall; it might not even be a 4000-footer...

Nope. It was just announced, seemingly for the first time, that Grunge is only going to be three episodes, and so will Shoegaze. So who knows how they're going to wrap this all up. [classic toonami dysfunction]

And confirmation from Maki on my latter point: Who the hell saw this coming?

Must be up in Canada.

Hey, at least Shoegaze looks like it's going to be peak, even though we've seen all of ten seconds of it so far.

Atsumare! Fushigi Kenkyu-bu 136-139 Delicious in Dungeon 9 [gotta bold it here too]

To Your Eternity S2E11 Touhou Fantasy Kaleidoscope ~The Memories of Phantasm~ 3

I haven't watched anything on Toonami since Made in Abyss S2 ended, and that was a while ago. Funnily enough, I'm more interested in rewatching FLCL Progressive via the marathon than getting to my DVR recordings of Unicorn, my disinterest in the latter simply because I've heard other people say it's mid. And I didn't even bother to tape Superman. So yeah, it's been a slow year even by the usual standards of the post-COVID era.

I would say they'd do it next time Pete Smith Day rolls around, but they're apparently going to be losing Bob's Burgers soon. Maybe if they ever need to do an American Dad! marathon, they'll resort to that.

I work 8-5 five days a week, but at least I get Monday and Tuesday off. I thought about the block's beginning today, though I was out at 5:00 for other matters and wasn't interested once I got home. I'll have to do all of you a solid one of these days, as even back in the day I didn't watch these shows much.

I will, but only via my DVR. I kind of wanted to tape Progressive this week, but eh, it's the weaker of the two FLCL sequels and the one I'm not as keen on revisiting. And when it comes to 9/9, I'll be ponying up for da Grunge, and maybe even livetweeting it.

Hey, here's an idea: if Toonami's gonna air something from Sentai, how about Reincarnated as a Sword? The show is popular enough that they've actually managed to sell out their initial BD pressing. On top of that, it would help the block finally pop their isekai cherry and I hear it's anti-slavery! I'd definitely make an effort to watch this one if it popped up, and I'm normally averse to isekai.

Touhou Fantasy Kaleidoscope: The Memories of Phantasm Episode 2: "The Scarlet Mist Incident" [part one] a.k.a. "Interview Without the Vampire"