Blatch
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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.
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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.
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16 minutes ago, Daos said:
Is Demarco really this delusional or does he just say things like this for attention?
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
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7 hours ago, Jman said:
Ballers (about The Rock as a former NFL player turned agent)
Oh man, I remember that one! But not because I watched it. It generated a memorable A.V. Club running gag: Ballers' Rob Corddry.
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21 hours ago, Top Gun said:
It would have been nice to know this going in. Grunge's second episode was honestly pretty good, and it had me cautiously optimistic about where it was going to go, but with only one more episode it feels like it's going to wind up half-baked at best. Pretty much the exact opposite problem of Progressive, which could have stood with having a whole bunch of...whatever the fuck it was trying to do sliced out.
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...
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2 minutes ago, Dark_Cloud_Overhead said:
How many episodes is this supposed to be anyway? Is it 6 like the rest of them?
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]
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And confirmation from Maki on my latter point:
Who the hell saw this coming?
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8 minutes ago, Icarus27k said:
Must be up in Canada.
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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.
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Atsumare! Fushigi Kenkyu-bu 136-139
Delicious in Dungeon 9[gotta bold it here too]
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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.
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35 minutes ago, CountFrylock said:
It’s sad how it’s entirely possible adultswim will air ten episodes in a row of koth as the normal schedule one day
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.
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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.
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7 minutes ago, OwlChemist81 said:
I guess you won't even bother with Toonami next week, but NO ONE sleeps early on 9/9 when Titans attack!
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.
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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.
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Touhou Fantasy Kaleidoscope: The Memories of Phantasm
Episode 2: "The Scarlet Mist Incident" [part one] a.k.a. "Interview Without the Vampire"SpoilerSo... so.
There's a new Touhou game. And ZUN announced it back in April right in the middle of when Phish was playing a 43-minute version of "Tweezer". So how is it? It's aight. Like, in terms of plot, characters, and overall production values, it's the best official Touhou game ever. But too bad about the gameplay, because it's very unbalanced and a little functionally jank. Who knows how much of it will be fixed w/ patches. So yeah, I'll talk about it more as time goes on. I had a bunch of other crazy shit I wanted to talk about, but I'll dispense with that also. Onto the main review.
Continuing from last episode's invocation of messing with the natural timeline of the games, the cold opening jumps straight into Mountain of Faith, as Sanae and Suwako are doing menial work around the Moriya Shrine. A party is taking place inside, and basically everybody is invited! See how many characters you recognize from this shot. Even the OP doesn't help with how indecisive the show is, as it features the moon turning red along with a credit stating that it's adapting the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, but the events in it primarily deal with Subterranean Animism. I mean, I have no problem with it, but it does feel like something I should mention. So Marisa notices the "Scarlet Devil cast", and then Aya gets involved as some characters notice an old edition of Bunbunmaru. This provides the framing device for the arc, and presumably future ones: Sanae, who's a little physically spent, wants to learn about past incidents in Gensokyo. Reimu opts not to join in, though, enjoying a quiet moment with Yukari behind the shrine. So here it goes with the EoSD reimagining, where Marisa is the central character.
Cirno and Daiyousei (the green fairy) are playing in the Misty Lake and Marisa accompanies them, taking advantage of their antics to get free cooling. Aya's there too. The Scarlet Devil Mansion, which in this show looks the size of a city block (complete with freestanding clocktower!) is nearby, and at this point nobody's managed to get beyond the main gate. Aya has tried, looking to get a scoop, but every time she attempts it she either gets teleported back SM64-endless-staircase-style or enters a window and teleports back outside. Marisa, on the other hand, manages to ride her broomstick to the outer wall and gets in with no resistance. She didn't even have to bother with Meiling, the perpetually-tired-but-still-trying-her-best gatekeeper. After traveling through dark halls, she comes across a bedroom... with no one in it. Is she supposed to be here? Nope. Flandre jumpscare.
Lest you think that this will be a fanwork that dispenses with common tropes, Flandre tries to act nice regarding the fact that no one ever plays with her, but she eventually goes psycho. She also turns into four versions of herself, which is one of her Spell Cards. At the same time, Remilia introduces herself to Gensokyo and starts to carry out her plan, which causes other unintroduced-in-canon characters to take notice. After a brief intermission, Marisa and Flandre take their fight into the SDM's great library and suddenly it's A Summer Day's Dream Episode 1 all over again. Then Patchouli enters the fray as a means to neutralize Flandre, and Koakuma comes in behind her, acting like an unapologetic fangirl. But this isn't meant as a means to help Marisa. Maybe the latter could've gotten off scot-free if she hadn't told off a natural-born youkai magician as opposed to a human that only dabbles a little in magic and doesn't intend on using her powers to become a youkai. Patchouli readies a big spell card, and Marisa can only watch as the colors go away. End part one of three.
So that was... definitely something all right. Feels more like an actual introduction to this series rather than "Baby's First Touhou Fan Work". So many scenes have been turned into GIFs I've seen on various Discord servers, and some of them have been shared as videos, so I recognize the voices. Still weird that this series doesn't have A-list voice talent, but what are you gonna do? I don't have any problem with the plot being remixed and off-kilter, because I feel like this is something ZUN would do himself. Besides, to have anything like this back in the early 2010s was presumably a dream come true for hardcore Touhou fans. And I do like how Marisa is the focus of this one, as well as Cirno and Dai getting their yuks in plus the sheer amount of cameos in the present-day scenes.
Random thoughts:
- Rated TV-14L.
- The framing device alone has a lot of gems, like a Prismrivers performance with animation recycled from just last episode, a shot w/ SA characters where the difference between Parsee and Koishi couldn't be more obvious, and Nitori playing with a newspaper papercraft battleship and covering Hina's face for no good reason. Also, a cute scene with Suika walking on by, definitely at least tipsy, dragging Aya and nearly choking her.
- I really could do without these movie title parodies preceding the meat of each episode. But then again, referencing western works has been Touhou's forte just as much as anything Asian.
- From the "things you don't notice until thumbing through the episode much later" department: Cirno and Dai-chan both have pointy ears, whereas even most fan works tend to portray them with round ones. Aya has them too, but while canon has gone back and forth with that, tengu ears are usually pointy in fan art.
- This arc's chibi eyecatch: Flandre holding a teddy bear, maybe the same one she destroyed.
- I really like how the subs for this show are colored to match every character that speaks. It would be cool if Crunchyroll did this, but I would at least like them to do so whenever multiple characters are speaking at once. Of all the shows I've watched from them, one show I know has this is The Eccentric Family, though the subs for that show are also smaller for reasons unknown.
- Lotta weird names in the credits for this one, which includes one Michael J. Dog. Maybe he's the one dropping all these references to American films? Either that or he's just macking cheese in his wave.
- BTW, something I did want to mention that was going to be in here originally: Memories of Phantasm is in fact over. The final episode dropped at the recent spring Reitaisai, and in contrast to the rest of the show, it tells an original story. So we'll get to that eventually.
- Meme: Speaking of a Biten Blast...
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4 hours ago, CountFrylock said:
I’m really starting to think he is that guy from twitter with the meme demarco pfp that rants about how toonami is run by incompetent fools the names are too similar and they act the same
We decided this was probably the case a while ago, but personally, I don't mind it. It helps that he's seemingly a little less abrasive on here, and either way he provides some critical commentary I thought was missing from this place. Not everything has to be unicorns and rainbows, just as it wasn't back on the ASMB.
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3 hours ago, Jman said:
The rumor was they’re making a second season of CM and a movie but they didn’t say what kind of movie.
The same thing is happening to Spy×Family; in that case, the movie will be an original work, so I wouldn't get your hopes up... or down.
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On 8/18/2023 at 9:23 PM, MCPissPants said:
So far, this entire calendar year has been sequel seasons to shows they've already aired. Supposedly, Toonami's having better relations with Crunchyroll, but where's a non sequel? I mean even shitty generic isekai #45668235? I guess maybe it is true that Toonami would rather air nothing than spend money on view repellant, but with only about 100K viewers left, there aren't many viewers left to repell. Is Crunchyroll only offering Toonami Gibiate/Ex Arm tier stuff for a reasonable price?
If Crunchyroll is only offering the block one sequel series per year, then that's not a thawing of tensions at all. More like taking the knife out six inches.
The thing I always come back to in this regard is Sentai. Is their catalog actually open for business and DeMarco thinks he's too haughty for them, or does AMC have it locked up? I think the former is a lot more likely, but you never know. Either way, we've been talking about this for so long that the only way I can see this changing is if DeMarco is knocked off his perch and someone else takes the programming reins, and even then, that is by no means a guarantee. It's frustrating, and why I'm not as involved in speculative topics on here as much as I used to.
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51 minutes ago, MasqueradeOverture said:
but more-so with Chainsaw Man and Made In Abyss.
Where'd you hear that? I mean, I'm sort of with you, if only because Toonami couldn't air Dawn of the Deep Soul due to spooky rights voodoo, but I saw the movie and did enjoy it. I wouldn't be surprised if the next MiA anime is a movie, since the arc the series is on right now doesn't have a lot of material to cover.
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On 7/29/2023 at 2:20 PM, OwlChemist81 said:
Y'all, I am tempted to move this thread to Toonami and [adult swim], because it seems it belongs there and not here in Anime and Manga.
Any objections?
I think it does belong over there, simply because this thread is a holdover of when the Other Anime and Toonami folders on the ASMB had different clientele, but everyone in the OA folder wanted a place to discuss Toonami. Just because Trunks has been gone for ages and they or other departed members wouldn't raise a stink doesn't mean we should upend tradition. I mean, I kind of am, but on the other hand, I do like the idea of the Toonami folder having an all-purpose thread for discussion to placate the old-timers. It's been just Poke and Empress for a while now, though if I was watching any of Toonami live right now and was interested in more than one show I would join in. Would be nice to have other people either way. So you can do what you want with it for now.
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1 hour ago, Toonamiguy321 said:
Buddy, One Piece leaving was OPTIMISM. It staying and dooming us to two years of a single arc is the bad end.
Then hopefully they keep airing it two at a time, unless you think that's a bad end too.
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3 hours ago, Toonamiguy321 said:
=Looks like we either will stay at 2.5 hours, or they are weening us into a 2 hour block normalcy. This is just like last year during DST where they used the confusion of unusual schedules to sneak in an hour cut. If I had to take a guess, double Naruto will stick till 9/30, at which point Uzumaki will slip in at 12:30. Once Grunge ends is probably when they rip the band aid off on 2 hours. So in our future a few months from now probably this.
12 - Dr Stone S3 part 2
12:30 - One Piece
1 - Naruto
1:30 - original rerun
DeMarco has confirmed the MHA rerun will be staying. Gotta love the fact that you can never tell if something is intentional or an error nowadays. So how does that play into your theorizing? I do agree with you that double Shippuden is probably keeping a seat warm for Uzumaki.
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Predict Toonami in September/October 2023
in Toonami & [adult swim]
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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.