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Kaguya-Sama: Love is War S1E7 Laid-Back Camp S2E4

The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls 1 Kaguya-Sama: Love is War S1E4-6 Laid-Back Camp S2E1-3 Promare Don't worry, because I've kept busy. I've also been rewatching Tanaka-kun with the dub.

Vinland Saga 27-29 Mizutama Honey Boy 17/18 Cells at Work! Vol. 3

I'm surprised they brought back the classic "broke the scale" ratings for this one, just like Zac used to do; I figured they retired those when the stars (and corresponding community ratings) were introduced. It's definitely warranted considering how awesomely terrible this show seems to be, but it makes me wonder if they'll do something similar when Redo of Healer drops.

Re:Stage! Deam Days 6 Kaguya-sama: Love is War S1E3 Pretty neat that the last anime thing I saw this year was Chika's meme dance. I'm not even that keen on this show, but this episode made me warm up to it a bit. [keep on being awesome]

They're putting this show behind AssClass? Come on. Fortunately, I've been DVR-ing the latter for a while now, even when it was on a half hour earlier.

Excellent. As I've said before, Funi probably wanted to make sure this could be dubbed quickly even during a pandemic. I hope it rewards them with good ratings.

Well, it's nice that Gemusetto gets to wrap up its run on Toonami proper, but they could've planned this better. Unless the two-week reprieve is to somehow accommodate for AoT coming back, but I doubt it.

Golden Kamuy S3E11/12 VladLove 1 The Ancient Magus' Bride 16 [well, that took a while]

So what was up with SARA saying that the normal lineup will be back next week? That's a bold-faced lie. Did no one get the memo about the Bebop marathon?

MAPPA doing adaptations of popular shonen anime is quickly becoming the new "Fire Emblem characters in Smash". But hey: everyone loves Chainsaw Man, assuming they've read it.

Golden Kamuy S3E10 Re:Stage! Dream Days 5

Cells at Work! Vol. 2 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Wild Wind Girl 4 WWG is out of translated chapters for now. God, what a tease, because I'd love to read more of it, especially with the implication that Nao will show up.

I'd prefer an AssClass marathon myself, although AoT would have a neat practical purpose. As for the other major topic of this thread, I don't think they'll randomly preempt the normal schedule to do an HBO Max-related thing at least outside of special times. The Batman movie nights only happened because Toonami felt it would be a cool diversion from the monotony of the normal schedule, as there wasn't going to be a usual Labor Day marathon. It worked for me, although I still have DVR copies of the two parts of The Dark Knight Returns that I need to watch. And as for this special schedule, it's merely turning a one-week break into two weeks, in a spot Toonami normally does marathons to start with. If they end up piling on a second marathon after New Year's, you totally have the right to complain (but I wouldn't mind it), but you should focus your anger on that rather than random attempts at corporate synergy.

Sounds good to me. I should parlay this into actually watching much of Toonami live again and even tweeting while it's on. Haven't done that in what feels like years. On the other hand, I actually feel bad for whoever's watching Gemusetto. Your finale got shunted off to a Sunday night for the new (old) DC hotness. I mean, I wasn't watching it, but I felt it was nice to have some unbridled variety on the block.

Well, I hope all the people who wanted Funi and CR to come back together again after their initial partnership was squashed are happy now, even if corporate consolidation is never a good thing for any industry. 😶 More than anything, I just feel bad for Sentai amidst all this. They've been struggling to get really good and popular titles for years already, and now with two giants trying to compete against each other, I worry they'll be priced out of getting simulcasts entirely. Maybe having more two-way bidding wars as opposed to three-ways will somehow keep prices down and allow them to be competitive on more shows, but I doubt that. Ironically, they've been dabbling in licensing Netflix shows for home video lately, so maybe they'll be able to find a hit or two that way. But the way I see it, they've basically become Discotek Lite.

If the decision to stop making topicals was because of AT&T's budget cuts, that kind of makes sense... because this is a really low-effort thing to do. All you need are two canned lines from the announcer and the ability to clip ten seconds or so from the episode. It's the kind of thing DeMarco could do in his spare time. 🥴

The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Wild Wind Girl 2/3 Cells at Work! Vol. 1 Bokura no Hentai 11 Vinland Saga 25/26

Golden Kamuy S3E8/9 Re:Stage! Dream Days 4 Rewatches: the whole first cour of The Ancient Magus Bride, the first three episodes of Re:Stage!, plus I'm still going with Space Dandy. And I just finished up with my yearly Akira rewatch. This time it was the original dub, in all of its fair-for-its-day glory. [babe, it's been far too long]

The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Wild Wind Girl 1 Vinland Saga 22-24 Yeah, another spin-off. It was good, but what really impressed me about it was the translation: remarkably natural and flowing with smart dialogue choices and even some character tics accounted for. Considering that I've put up with more than seventy chapters of U149 with a very sterile, often machine-like translation, and even a change in who translated it didn't work, making me either think this is a case of terrible luck or the series itself is badly written. Compared to that, this was godly. Even more impressive considering it doesn't have a group attached. That changes for the next few chapters (but they're very long, you see), so I'm hoping things don't go south.

Golden Kamuy S3E2-E7 Symphogear S1E11-13 These are out of sequence, but I figured it would be smarter to get them all in one post. As always, the record of virtually everything I watch is publicly available, so you can check it as you please. Some thoughts vomit about the shows is below.

Sounds good to me. Jason mentioned that they haven't gotten a mecha show in a while, and this is one lots of people have raved about... including people on this board.

I heard that Aniplex was aiming to put it in theaters over here in early 2021. I don't know how the pandemic will play into that, but at the same time, they're releasing the new Fate movie this weekend. God knows how many cases they'll shrug off to try and make a quick buck. At least Japan has the excuse of having the virus under control, although I think their luck will run out at some point. More than anything, I'm just amazed that Demon Slayer not only continues to be huge, but is giving Shueisha a lifeline at a time when they don't have any major hits outside of some long runners, a prospective hit was cancelled swiftly and brutally due to the author being a creep, and even their titles with cult appeal (like Chainsaw Man, which is seemingly ending soon) have been fleeting.

Golden Kamuy S2E10-S3E1 Symphogear S1E9/10 [to unlimited devotion]

It's only Monday, so I'm sure they'll quickly put something together. But if not... LOL, considering that the show apparently improves a bit in S2.