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I sympathize, but when you consider that the Toonami staff has other roles in addition to running the block, which is something they do on the side anyway, it's not that unreasonable that they could half-ass it like this. As for the art itself, I didn't know that this was also the paywalled art that got stolen. Too bad, because this was a power move, even if I'd have picked bondage before fat fetishism.

Touhou Hifuu Club ~The Sealed Esoteric History~ Episode 3 [part one]: "Wish" And that does it for this one for a while. I'd rather not explain myself, but I think you know what's next.

Oh hey, it's me again, having come to reclaim my perch for the start of 2023. I figure I can send this out right at midnight and still get a decent amount of sleep. So, it looks like it's time to go deeper into the horrifying backstory of this village. Who knows what questions will be answered? Maybe we'll find out why there are so many hollows here. Honestly, I wish I could be a little more hyped for the rest of this season, but having read Anime News Network's recent year-in-review feature, one of the articles has some big spoilers for how this season ends. I mean, I figured it wouldn't be pretty either way, but I wanted to be blissfully unaware until it actually happened. So don't click on the "Best Moments" article and scroll downward if you value your... something. Maybe just your value. But hey, this has been a fun season on the whole, somehow not as horrifying as I expected so far.

CountFrylock moment.

Spy×Family 14-16 Touhou Project Side Story: Memory of Stars Made in Abyss S2E6 Last Period: the journey to the end of the despair 10/11 Birdie Wing -Golf Girl's Story- 11 [auld lang signed]

Touhou Project Side Story: Memory of Stars And I do believe we are at the end of the year. Hope you had a good 2022; I felt like I got better as the world got worse. See you all for Touhou 19, let alone all of this fanime.

Personally, I like it. Gives me nostalgia for the mid-2010s when I first got my feet wet with the block. And it's at least fitting, since they're traveling through space again. Maybe we could get new bars at some point, but there haven't been any new shows in 4:3 to warrant them, and it's not like the block has enough resources for something like that anyway.

I'm still impressed that Toonami was able to get Made in Abyss, since it's so unlike anything else they've shown interest in. It's not even bolstered my hopes for other Sentai titles, but hey, maybe Kaiji is possible at this point? So that would probably be my number one. On the other hand, while I wasn't too keen on Housing Complex C, the final episode was gory and overblown and almost made the show worth it by itself. Almost. So I loved that, which I guess is compensation for not liking Shenmue as much as I did, though most of my problems there were in the second half. Also, Blade Runner: Black Lotus was a thing. I neither loved it nor hated it, though I edge toward liking it. Anybody else gonna mention that? Funny to think any of it aired this year, as it's been consigned to the write-off bin where it shall spend an eternity. At least we still have that comic book continuation in the works, unless that's been cancelled too. The worst? Probably having to see the "Gross, stop drooling!" bump for the umpteenth time. It's tough for me to come up with anything particularly egregious because, even despite the lack of premieres over the summer, Primal was new to me, and it was a real thrill getting to watch it for the first time. Season 3 announcement soon? Come on Zaslav. At least I'm not paranoid enough to think Uzumaki could be cancelled any day now. If anything, they'll give it to someone else like they're doing with the DC shows now.

Not having Toonami air at all on certain weeks would be an interesting idea, but I'm not a fan of it. Because when you can have a few hours of an action show you produced/own in perpetuity air for free, what's the point of putting on comedy instead? Unless they're getting so frugal they don't even want Steve and Dana to come in to record lines for the special intro and make new bumps to air afterward. At this point, whoever's running this block seemingly can't announce a single schedule change/special lineup without something going awry and bringing out the pessimism in this fandom. It's comical, though I hope it ends soon.

Birdie Wing -Golf Girl's Story- 10 Made in Abyss S2E5 Spy×Family 13

(response to Poke about Dawn of the Deep Soul) Touhou Hifuu Club ~The Sealed Esoteric History~ Episode 2: "Wish" - TV-PG Birdie Wing -Golf Girl's Story- Episode 9: "Ichina Saotome Wants to Be a Pro Caddy!" - TV-14S Episode 10: "Evangeline is Frightfully Upset" - TV-PGD Lycoris Recoil Episode 2: "The more the merrier" - TV-14LV Girls' Last Tour (four): "Photograph / Temple" - TV-PG Last Period -the journey to the end of the despair- Episode 8: "Swimsuit Episode" - TV-14S Episode 9: "Expanding Galaxy" - TV-14DS Interviews with Monster Girls Episode #9: "Demi-chans Want to Learn" - TV-14 takt op.Destiny Episode 9: "Family -Eroica-" - TV-PG The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls Episode 16: "The light shines in my heart." - TV-G Re:Stage! Dream Days Episode 1: "Stick Together, Lyrical Tradition Dance Club" - TV-PGDV Episode 2: "Nothing More Than a Water Flea" - TV-PG Episode 3: "Didn't I Say I'm Not Interested?" - TV-PGV To Your Eternity Season 2 Episode 1: "Infatuation Reborn" - TV-14V Episode 2: "Beating Will" - TV-14LV Episode 3: "The Awaited" - TV-14V Episode 4: "The Boy Who Could See" - TV-PGV For my next omnibus, I have one priority: watch and rate Spy×Family, because the next batch of episodes has almost finished airing! No guarantees, but look forward to it by the end of the year. [in a zany combination of wayne's pet youngin']

This will be the first time since Toonami was canceled where it'll only run two hours. Eep. The only reason I can think of for why they'd do this is because they want to run the yule log horror movie again in the back half. I really hope this isn't setting a precedent for the block, because the normal schedule going under three hours would be concerning. Can't they at least wait until, say, Shippuden ends to cut things back? Hopefully the OG FLCL marathonning is a sign that Grunge and/or Shoegaze are close. I'm curious as to why they still haven't rerun the last two new ones since right after their original runs. I would've done a marathon for each of then to fill out the holidays, not because they're any good (well, Alternative was fine), but to remind the audience that they exist.

I meant April 1 after 8:00P. 🥴

They've done numerous gags on April 1, the last one being Bushworld Adventures. It probably won't be about Toonami unless they expand the block, but you never know. [probably just a little too early for the premiere of cinderella girls u149... 😒]

Not much embellishment, just my gut talking: 2023 is a good year for Toonami, but the block still suffers on some fronts. I don't expect that Crunchyroll giving them an inch will lead to catalog titles airing. We'll probably get more Fire Force and/or Dr. Stone and that's it. And they'll still drag their feet on Sentai's catalog, only getting Lupin Zero early in the year and then Ushio & Tora later on. Or maybe Log Horizon, because I'm trying to will this into existence by talking about it enough times. Thank Icculus we're getting more AoT. And I'd say Bleach: TYBW is a given too, given the Viz connection. As for the new shows: they'll all be nothingburgers, although one of the FLCL sequels (and only one of them) is as good as Progressive was. I didn't know (reference not intended) Ninja Kamui is only six episodes, which is too bad... or not, given Toonami's usual track record for originals. Finally, is there anything else I want Toonami to air that they could reasonably get? Nah. Except for Memories of Phantasm as an April Fools' joke.

takt op. Destiny 9 The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls 16 Made in Abyss S2E2-4 To Your Eternity S2E1-4 Akira (yearly rewatch; subbed version) Up until now, I've never included Toonami viewings in this thread, but I think I should. And now it's time to get on with the business. The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls Episode 16: "The light shines in my heart."

Blame Crunchyroll, basically.

Interesting choices, and one of them is supposed to be the villain of the second half of the 2015 anime, let alone not an idol. I hear ya about the games not being available in English. If you like these franchises, then at some point you learn to live with it. Though it's awkward nowadays given how much Touhou stuff has been localized; that franchise was considered similarly impenetrable in the past, though it also isn't the product of a corporation. For now, I'm okay with the anime being available through the usual channels (except for the 2011 series, whose streaming contract expired last year), leaving the fans to full in the gaps, because they tend to do a good job.

Coming this April. It'll be a better experience than the scans, which I've never liked the translations of up until recently. Also, it'll almost certainly be out before the Million Live anime, which has seemingly had a troubled production so far.

Hey, you forgot to cross out the Ms this week! And this year's installment of The Game is quite meaningful, so what gives? [don't worry, i'm only lightly trolling you]

Dude pulled a Norio Tsukudani. I guess being a VTuber really is more fun.

Touhou Suzunaan ~ Forbidden Scrollery 3 Atsumare! Fushigi Kenkyu-bu 109 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls U149 72 Two of these numbers are special to me. I wonder if you can figure out why. [🤘]

This is making me think of Squid Girl's original dub, which had a few voice actors like that. Eiko was Heather Pennington's only major role, and one of her only roles in general. It was probably for this reason that they opted only to get Christine Marie Cabanos back as the MC and recast everyone else. A shrewd move, but after watching the dub I was able to gel with most of the new voices. Now, there's been talk of Fena's dub as well as union dubs in this thread, so I'd like to drop this link here, even though it doesn't have to do with Bleach. Basically, [adult swim] was open to doing a union dub for Fena, but CR stepped in and denied it. Maybe this is why they went with Sentai for Shenmue's dub?

Watched the episode tonight! So far, I'm impressed at how slow of a burn this season is so far, though I know it's only been two episodes. Nothing really gross, and I thought the MAV this episode got was overblown (as has often been the case in recent years). And the production values have been good, although I agree that Brittany Lauda sounded off as Riko this week. Feels like she was in the first episode, too, but I had no problem with Dawn of the Deep Soul despite that also having been recorded in the COVID era. I just mentioned this on Twitter but I'll go into more detail here: I'm surprised this series hasn't had any spin-offs. I feel like there's a lot of different stories you can tell with the Abyss; we've already gotten slice-of-life anime shorts staring Marulk and Prushka (yes, the latter exists; I guess they're on the S2 Blu-rays, though I don't know if those have been released yet), so why not a story focusing on Nat and Shiggy's adventures on the surface? It'd be nice to check back in with them, as Riko wants to. Also, who wouldn't love a foodie series based on this show? Delicious in Dungeon is really popular, so why not apply that formula to running around the various layers and grabbing Relics?