Blatch

It's not about a particular day more than that I haven't had much time to watch anime yet. I did have a rough day at work last Wednesday, even if some of it was self-inflicted, but things have been going well overall. 🙂

To Your Eternity S2E5 Man, I've got nothing.

Sakura Trick 3-5 No idea what the reason is, but the Crunchyroll simulcast for U149 is delayed. The first episode was beaten to the punch by a fansub, and that never happens nowadays! Yet this might be a good thing, since I haven't been in the right headspace to watch the episode and then twiddle my fingers while I opt not to make the necessary ratings clips for it. BTW, as I mentioned in my edit in the ratings thread, I neglected to mention that I gave Bakuon!! the rarest of all PG-caliber ratings a long time ago. So here are the (SD) screenshots I made for it again, because I have much love and respect for you. [crazy little thing...]

All right! I've been hoping for them to do this ever since they opened the investigation into Ticketmaster/LiveNation. Who knows if this is going to go anywhere, but I at least hope this leads to a hearing where Liz Warren grills Zaslav. That seems like something most of us would enjoy. It's more the fact that the title has another forced reference to writing off shows. But hey, it's better than bringing up The Owl House again.

Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal S1E1 (rewatch) From my Blu-ray, which presumably counts. God, this show looks even better here than it does on [as]. The colors are brighter, the lines sharper (some of them exhibit an aliasing effect, though this might be native to the show), and the actual content is as gripping as ever. Kinda wish the surround mix was more exaggerated, but if you turn it up loud it probably sounds theatrical enough as is.

I haven't watched the premiere yet, though I haven't decided if I want to. From the looks of it, [as] is pushing this show really hard, w/ a three-episode premiere, encores on Monday and Saturday, and they've already given it a second season as I mentioned elsewhere. The only thing I don't know is if they're airing promos for it non-stop on the network itself. I'm pretty sure I heard it mentioned on at least one NCAA tournament game, though disappointingly it was never aired as a sneak preview after one of the Turner networks' slate of games. All this is enough to make me wonder if they seriously think this show can be their next Rick and Morty; if so, then they should probably come out and say it, because there's no shame in it. Even if R&M is still on the air.

Okay, you got a laugh out of me this time. Not many running gags have this trajectory.

Prior to the recent schedule drop, I was expecting either a Royal Crackers world premiere super-spectacular, or Post's Game v2 featuring a different musical artist... maybe Goose? Now I'm expecting it to be the latter, with or without melts. More than anything, I'm happy that they're seemingly actually going to do something this year, as I thought there was a non-insignificant chance [as] would forsake doing gags due to their new corporate parent. Not to mention, who (outside of Japan) celebrates April Fool's anymore? As for Toonami, I'm not expecting anything on that front, but I do think there's enough in development for the block that they could throw together a night of stealth premieres/pilots. Come oooooon first episode of Uzumaki!

[raises eyebrows]

Here's an interview that explains things: So now we have context as to why Unicorn: Warriors Eternal and My Adventures with Superman are making the jump to [as]. Should be really interesting to see how this plays out. Hopefully, with [adult swim jr.] now having came to fruition, kind of, they decide to take on young adult-skewing projects that CN would've either passed on or screwed over in the past.

Well cool. I was A-OK with Primal sloppy seconds, so I'll watch the Toonami airing of this. Seems like [as] is largely doing this because they're desperate for any sort of content. We still don't know anything about the immediate future other than Royal Crackers, which, funnily enough, just got renewed. Network brass finally did it!

I wasn't trying to imply you were being critical of it. Maybe I should've worded it differently. Onimai: I'm You're Sister Now! 2 [i'm still upside-down]

Hmm, seems kinda weaksauce. The Primal rerun, I mean. Can't they at least go back to Season 1? At this point, I wouldn't expect them to have anything itneresting to cover for the next S2 loop anyway.

The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls 20 takt op.Destiny 10/11 Touhou Fantasy Kaleidoscope ~The Memories of Phantasm~ 1 The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls Episode 20: "Which way should I go to get to the castle?"

They're playing Irish music at the grocery store I work at today. Pretty cool, even if it's mostly fiddle-based songs that tend to blend together. Oh, and U2, of course. So I suppose I'll send a kiss to @PokeNirvash, the reasons for which should be obvious. May your cup of content ratings be filled, as will mine. [congratulations, you coaxed me out of my anime-and-toonami-general hole. also, hbd toonami!]

Woah, this thread briefly went Type II. I wanted to contribute earlier, but I have nothing to offer about the whole G4 mess. It's too bad Bakuon!! isn't dubbed and probably never will at this point, because if it was, you know I'd be going hard in the paint for it. It's got action, though not what most Toonami fans would expect, though the presence of moe and fanservice probably makes it radioactive relative to DeMarco. I've made my peace about Log Horizon never airing on Toonami, but you have a bit of a point. I wouldn't call it dull, but cerebral, and shows like that aren't for everyone. I'm expecting to finally get around to my rewatch of it at some point and find out it hasn't held up, assuming it ever did. So what is there that I would like to see Toonami get from Sentai that has a realistic chance? All I can think of is Season 1 of The Big O. Maybe cut a deal with them to finally get an HD version of Season 2 out there on top of that.

I'm one of those people who torrents a lot of stuff, but it's not really about piracy. Granted, I did just download a big e-hentai archive of a Touhou artist where you have to pay to get certain images, so I'll have to shoot them a donation at some point. [r.i.p. yeeshkul!]

Ohhh, I forgot about that! Good call. I mean, the fact that the dub was delayed may have played a role in me thinking Toonami was more likely to get it, since they'd premiere it. I haven't watched many isekai, and most of them are normie picks regardless of if I only saw one episode in my community college's anime club. The only one I can think of that would be fit to air on Toonami is HameFura... which would be more likely if they were still committed to airing more diverse shows. Too bad, because I've always thought Knight's and Magic, the one under-the-radar isekai I watched, would be a cool pick for the block. But Funimation snapped it up and now Crunchyroll has it, so what're you gonna do? [sadly, it doesn't seem to exist anymore]

I remember when I was pretty keen on Re:Zero and I wanted Toonami to air the hell out of that show. When they didn't, that was when my interest in the block started to drift. But nowadays I get the feeling that this was at the start of Crunchyroll giving them the stiff-arm, so I shouldn't have been as disappointed.

Finally, some good fucking... uh, maybe. I mean, MHA is still doubled up, Attack on Titan will have to wait at least one more week, and FLCL Grunge is nowhere in sight, so it seems they're still stalling to some extent. And Food Wars! is a series I punted on a long time ago, so I won't be tuning in. But hey, this is a sign that Toonami isn't totally screwed.

Girls' Last Tour 6 The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls 19/20 That's right: I've got a review backlog going. 😤 The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls Episode 19: "If you're lost, let's sing aloud!"

Yeah, that's how I feel. And while the right-wing talking points this user may or may not be peddling are unfortunate, I can put those aside in the game of good-faith debates in this tiny little Internet forum where I doubt most of this will have implications elsewhere.

Man, at this point I just want to know when FLCL Grunge is coming out. They still have that, even if they can't get any acquisitions... unless Zaslav has decided to write off both of the new sequels.

You should be able to get it working again if you just click on the "Let's go!" button and wait. But I can't imagine it would be a bad thing to leave it like that for a while, especially for someone like you. 😏

What Shimabukuro did may have been less inherently cancellable than Watsuki's crime, but it's not like I'd be caught dead reading Toriko either. Still, if you're gonna watch this weirdo crossover episode, I hope you have a good time. Now for a general comment: nobody's brought up yet the fact that March 11 is when we lose an hour due to DST. I wonder if [as] might use this as an excuse to schedule another weirdo two-hour Toonami, and who knows how stalling could play into that. My idea was that they'd air the last few episode of Made in Abyss S1, either three or five depending on how they want to play it, and use that as an excuse to throw on a rerun of S2 in the back, because at this point I doubt we're getting anything more than FLCL Grunge once the schedule is ready to ramp back up. Personally, I see them stalling all the way through March 18. Helps that it's ZUN's birthday the weekend of Toonami's anniversary, plus the new AoT thingy should be ready to go by then. The only problem with all this is that it would be weird to go back to a full-scale stall since we're getting new One Piece back even outside of the crossover. And maybe Grunge will be ready by then too? I figure recording for it should be done by now, but I've thought that for, like, a few weeks?