Blatch

No exclamation points for this one? I would've expected nothing less from the guy who loves any and all horror abime on Toonami. Hey, once Made in Abyss ends, maybe we can get a Hellsing Ultimate rerun. 😛 I'll be watching this tonight, which will be a combination of it airing at midnight and the fact that Sundays at my job are really chill, so I can afford less sleep.

Another month without an omnibus, going on two now. But I won't let that happen. The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls Episode 15: "When the spell is broken..." - TV-PG Birdie Wing -Golf Girl's Story- Episode 6: "Rebellion's Cry" - TV-14L Episode 7: "Purple Bullet" - TV-PGLV Episode 8: "Final Bullet" - TV-14L Touhou Hifuu Club ~The Sealed Esoteric History~ Episode 1: "Moon" - TV-PGLV Laid-Back Camp Season 2 Episode 11: "Izu Camping!! On the Way" Episode 12: "Izu Camping!!! Birthdays!" - TV-PG Episode 13: "I'm [We're] Home" - TV-PG (man it feels like I finished this rewatch ages ago) Interviews with Monster Girls Episode 6: "The Takanashi Sisters are Undeniable" - TV-PGD Episode 7: "Succubus-san is Inquisitive" - TV-14D Episode 8: "Demi-chans Want to Learn": TV-PGDV Last Period -the journey to the end of the despair- Episode 6: "Confessions of a Mask" - TV-PG Episode 7: "Animal Land" - TV-PG takt op.Destiny Episode 8: "Destiny -Cosette-" - TV-14V Lycoris Recoil Episode 1: "Easy does it" - TV-14V Girls' Last Tour (three): "Encounter / City / Streetlights" - TV-PGV And that'll do it. This time it was a matter of me thinking this post would be too skimpy and piling on two more Demi-chans episodes to compensate, and I didn't get to that until after the recent Crunchyroll controversy which incurred a delay. Also, GLT had to do with it, sort of. I can never expect when these are going to happen. It seems that all of these posts are corresponding with anniversaries of certain things I like. So without further ado: happy birthday, Trey Anastasio. Who knows if he's ever thought about the finer points of content ratings. And even I don't know what my next post is gonna be like, because we've got, like, three shows I've previously rated coming back. [backwards down the venus line?]

Hell yeah. If I didn't know this was the last stand-alone episode before finishing up the story, I think I would've been able to tell. Lots of unexpected swings, like Jigen being called "Dandy", and you gotta love sexy mermaid Fujiko. I could quickly see why blueraven1999 didn't like it, though I was cool with it. If anything, the shipfic writer's tendency to talk out loud and make up elaborate stories in her head made me wonder if she was neurodivergent. [no episode this time; hifuu club #2 is next up]

And that deals a blow to my hopes of Made in Abyss S2. This was probably just a happy coincidence that allows them to finish the refund without having to expand the block for one night. Well see what the schedule is like on October 29, but at this point I'm thinking of skipping a potential Toonami run and getting it over with via HIDIVE. Related point: these three shows being written off thins the rerun library for Toonami. Who knows what they'll put on in November? At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Lupin the 3rd, Part VI gets a rerun just because. Maybe they were savvy enough to write one into the contract for that show and others?

Would there be a chance that Crunchyroll could take whatever rights they have and commission a S2 with it? Then again, they're a mess right now too. So the three CR co-pros are gone. I'll preach for the choir and say that I'm sad Shenmue isn't getting continued, at least for now, while the other two are no big loss. I do think it's interesting on Blade Runner's end because Black Lotus is being continued through a comic book, while Amazon has commissioned a new live-action series of it. It would be funny if the latter ends up mentioning this show that you can no longer legally stream, and who knows if you'll be able to buy it by then. It makes the GameRant scoop about how WBD isn't going to touch Toonami ring hollow, don't you think? Or maybe we're just being paranoid. I do think that if Uzumaki needs to be delayed one more time, WBD will try to can it rather than see it out. The only thing that could save it in that case is having to comply with a contract signed on the JP side.

I would've went for something referencing The Oblongs. [down in the valley near a chemical spill... or is it "by"?]

Lycoris Recoil 1 Girls' Last Tour 3 (rewatch) Birdie Wing -Golf Girl's Story- 8 Interviews with Monster Girls 7/8 I just want to say that I like how Birdie Wing's title has the words "Girl's" and "Golf" reversed. I bet a few people have mentally swapped those two, because, if only to me, it feels like a more natural phrasing.

I may have been on the ASMB for a few years, but I don't have a whole lot of memories from it. The biggest one is the Ben/Gman arguments that would go on for many pages at a time. I also remember John quite well, and in fact I thought a lot of his posts were more interesting than the Toonami ratings analysis. Since I rarely left the Toonami folder, I wasn't exposed to the clientele at large until the switch to NodeBB happened. Too bad that coincided with the political chaos of 2016, not to mention possibly the peak of Amy Schumer's career. I've got enough insufferable BS on this forum. Judging by the fact that I got banned twice on the NodeBB forums, I'm guessing I was even worse there. Hey, at least I made sure to archive me and Poke's show reviews and other chat about content ratings. [woah, 2,500th post? fitting...]

Cool. Independent of everything else going on, I really need to use my HIDIVE subscription.

Well, this stinks. I stand in solidarity with any VA not working on this project, wether they got recast or are passing on it in protest. I also sympathize with everyone cancelling their CR subscriptions over this, but it's awkaard for me because I have a yearly subscription and I paid for mine a while ago. I want to keep watching shows (I was thinking two more episodes of Demi-chans and then I make the next content ratings post... hopefully that's what you were referring to, Poke), but now I have more of an appetite to watch things on other services. I heard he got barely a raise from that, maybe even nothing at all. But it did boost his morale because of all the fans who stood with him. It's apparently a great state with lots of great people (many Funi and Sentai VAs among them), but it's ruled by ass-backward politicians, which is nothing new for America. Not to get political or anything, but I hope that state gets bluer in the midterms.

Just for that, I decided to watch this last episode live. (Though I was also concerned I would be in agony thinking about getting home to watch it when I worked the next day.) And what a capper it was! On top of hitting the major plot beats I expected (mostly fighting the hellish lava golem Vidarr turned into), it was touching to see Spear struggle with his legacy and manage to contribute... something else to the world. That sex scene managed to be funny, poignant, and actually kind of awesome at the same time. I also enjoy the fact that Genndy's kid (or one of them) got to voice Spear and Mira's daughter. Hope this isn't the end, though with the current situation at WBD I feel it could go either way.

So how many of these shows do you think will be from Sentai? Because, outside of the shows Sketch mentioned, I can't see anything that the Sony behemoth would willingly give up. At least there are still some good pickings on their end. Kaiji is finally getting dubbed, though it's just as likely to show up on HIDIVE as Toonami. And there are a good number of catalog titles too. I'm still holding out hope that Log Horizon finally gets on the block, even if it's been spoiled by Funi taking Season 3.

Nice call. This episode makes too much sense not to air as a belated finale. The only reason it wasn't the actual finale was because it'd feel underwhelming. So MiA now airs its double-length finale on October 22. I'm thinking they'll have another double shot of Shippuden that day to fill Lupin's slot. All signs now point to October 29 as the day they premiere Dawn of the Deep Soul, maybe with a Housing Complex C marathon before or after, and I'm really hoping this happens because it would be vindication (sweet, sweet vindication... not to be confused with the ship) for putting off watching the movie for so long. Too bad I don't think I'll be able to watch it live, because I usually work on Sundays.

I never thought about that last part. It'd be a surprisingly elegant way to finish off Primal's rerun without having to change the schedule. I think they'd do double YashaHime first because that's what's been happening in recent Toonami times, but you never know. Heck, maybe we could get a one-off special for the 23rd? Or maybe then can do something really complex and bring on a new show (yeah right), air two episodes of it, and then fiddle with the schedule so it starts at 12:30A on 10/1 to accommodate Housing Complex "C"?

Ha. I knew they were going to come up with an excuse to do this outside of FanDome. I never got around to watching The Long Halloween last year, so I might not even tape this next new one. But Mask of the Phantasm is by all means kino (and classic kino, of course), so I'll make sure to see it. [by the way, where'd countfrylock go off to...?]

Funny how this happens after I randomly thought of the 90s Mega Man cartoon at work today, which the latter was also in. It's also nice to see Emi Lo pop up in more stuff. [dun-nuuuuuuuuh]

I wouldn't be surprised if Toonami still finds some way to fit animated DC movies in. After all, we've got... Black Adam? That's the only live-action one for the rest of the year. Guess they could just throw some more Batman movies on. How about the animated adaptation of The Killing Joke?

I just thumbed through the article and this sounds pretty bad. Sucks that Haddish is implicated of all people, since Tuca & Bertie is a well-liked show on [as]. I feel like they would recast her character before the show itself is cancelled, but with Zaslav able to pull the strings, you never know.

takt op.destiny 8 Last Period -the journey to the end of the despair- 6/7 Got one more episode picked out to commemorate the end of Crunchyroll's Wii U app, assuming it still works tomorrow morning. It starts a new show, and it's gonna be fun and filled with action.

Probably just because they're the biggest name in the American anime business.

Really late on this, but I'm sorry for whatever happened, and it's great to see you posting here again. Would be nice of some of the other former regulars could come crawling out of their holes too. You got that right. This week has been pretty good for me, actually. Got more days off then usual, found out I just got a raise today, and I'm preparing to go on vacation next week. And said vacation includes Sunday, so I'll be able to watch the shows live and maybe pop in here to chat. By the way... surprise. I'll chat right now. Primal: Really good episode this week (or last week, relatively speaking), with lots of action. The only thing that I wasn't keen on was the vultures, which had annoying voices. Wasn't expecting Vidarr's kid to be killed so cleanly like that, but it was still visceral. Lupin Part VI: Just a really well-written episode. I do wish they'd gone further with the head of the security company's love for Lupin, but there's only so much you can do with 22 minutes worth of content.

Daisuki? Now that's a rave from the grave. I never used that service, but I primarily remember it for being the first streaming home of Cinderella Girls.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Really, at this point I'm just concerened the Uzumaki series might get shitcanned rather than any of the other originals. But also, it's promising that they're shopping around that Batman series rather than writing it off and consigning it to the dustbin of lost media history. Seems like all that trolling on social media is working. So maybe these co-pros could survive if WBD decides they don't want 'em anymore. It could be as simple as shipping them off to Crunchyroll, or maybe HIDIVE given the Sentai partnership (and AMC's wallet, which is probably big). I'll think about buying Infinity Train and the like on iTunes, but... I don't know. That platform never sat well with me due to applying DRM to their video content. And I'm definitely not going to bother with Amazon. So at least for now, I've dusted off my MySpleen account and am finally going to use it properly. Back when I made it, I had no idea how torrent clients worked, which left me with a horrible ratio. 😵

Well, it looks like I can finally watch Dawn of the Deep Soul. I probably should've done it right before the season started, but I didn't want to have to switch to the sub. As for a Toonami airing, I'm sure it'll happen eventually, since nothing has changed on their relationship with Sentai. It's just a matter of having the money, which... LOL.

I never cared much for this whole clown show, so I guess I'm happy that it's over... even though there's a chance it never will be. It feels like everything Vic has done has sucked air out of the room that could've gone toward making things better for other women affected by creeps in the dubbing industry. Granted, I don't know how bad things actually are, but I've heard some rumblings. Am I the only one who even remembers how all of this started, with Hazukari and all?