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The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls U149 65-71.2 Vinland Saga 20/21

Somali and the Forest Spirit 12 Symphogear S1E3/4 Another series down. I took way to long to finish the last three episodes, but it doesn't matter. This is a good show with some nice parental dynamics, and Somali is as cute as a button. It looks really nice, too, and I particularly appreciated the use of blue in its forest environments.

Somali and the Forest Spirit 10/11 Tanaka-kun is Always Listless 11/12 Symphogear S1E1/2 (got my Blu-rays today) Finished Tanaka-kun over the weekend, and I really liked it. It's one of the better anime comedies I've seen in a while, but it was also unexpectedly moe. I love the MC, although I wasn't expecting Ohta to be his right-hand man throughout most of the show. Compared to him, it feels like Miyano (who is the star of many an emote on my Discord servers) was barely in it at all. I also feel the show didn't utilize its cast well enough. The blue-haired girl who appears on the OP was never named nor played a major role in any plots. But despite that, I still liked the show lots and lots.

Tanaka-kun is Always Listless 10 Golden Kamuy S2E4 Yu-Gi-Oh! 1 to 3 The latter is dubbed, just in case you were wondering if I was revisiting childhood memories.

It's really not even about the FOX shows. They could buffer Holy Calamavote with an hour of Fam Gs if they really wanted to, unless they think switching the slots would decay viewers.

Attack on Titan is the kind of show where I would expect the production company to work with Funi to get the dub out as early as possible. This season will be a particular challenge because they'll have to get the cast set up to do recording at home, some of whom probably don't live in Texas. I expect dubbed episodes to drop the same week as the sub, just like last season, as well as a possible delay later on after which they come out one or two week afterward. As for how this might affect Toonami, they could fit it in with a premiere on the 12th and lead off the block with a new episode a week later before a holiday marathon. But considering that the last two seasons didn't air until after the simuldub was off and running, I'm not counting on it.

Speaking of nonconformism, I wonder if said audiences are likely to realize that this election involves a sitting president who might not agree to a peaceful transfer of power. If it's close enough and Trump decides to call bullshit on the election results, voting will have amounted to jack squat. Frankly, I feel like it would be a better use of our time if all these companies telling us to go out and vote called for more drastic measures, like nonstop civil protest and jamming the gears of the system to a halt. But I doubt they'll ever do that, because it'll impact their yearly profits for some reason. 😐 So yeah, this feels like a means to an end that isn't particularly satisfying. And it's egregious for DeMarco because he's a fairly vocal leftist. More to the left of the majority of TV executives, anyway.

The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Theater S5E16/17 Tanaka-kun is Always Listless 9 Golden Kamuy S2E3

Bokura no Hentai 9/10 Atsumare! Fushigi Kenkyu-bu 1-5 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls U149 62-64.5 Vinland Saga 17-19 [never get your cornmeal made]

This is a novel idea, but focusing the special around the idea of getting people to vote when so many companies are also parroting that advice makes it come off as forced. They must really be banking on Toonami viewers liking RTJ or Ben and Jerry's (which, admittedly, I'm a huge fan of) so they'll watch this.

Tanaka-kun is Always Listless 7 and 8 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Theater S5E13-15 Golden Kamuy S2E2 I also started a rewatch of Space Dandy, although I historically haven't listed shows I've seen before in my forum posts. At least it's as funny as I remember (and in some ways, even better) from when I saw it on the Tiinamo. Also, one post for the entire month of August? And it was in here? Man, I have to step up my game.

Tanaka-kun is Always Listless 6 Golden Kamuy S2E1 Kaguya-sama: Love is War S1E2 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Theater Extra Stage 12 All watched on a new, larger TV in my bedroom that used to be in the living room. Life is good, I guess.

Toonami announcing an acquisition more than a week in advance? Now that's a throwback. I imagine it's to give the dubbing team lots of leeway, so for me, it just means more time to keep blithely ignoring this show. 😶

I think it's going to be a rerun, but I don't know which one. So I went with FLCL to stand out. It'd be nice if they could play all three series in a row this time, even if casuals only like two of them.

The iDOLM@STER MOVIE: To the other side of the light! Welp, done with all of the original anime now. I'd have moved on to Cinderella Girls yesterday, but I want to do that one right... if you know what I mean.

While I agree that we can almost write off the rest of 2020 at this point, it's worth noting that even if Toonami has a lot of things planned for next year, they're not going to take up a lot of time. Uzumaki is a four-episode miniseries, Blade Runner will be 13 episodes, and that Pirate Princess show is only a single cour. If they air consecutively, that's only a little over half a year's worth of content for a single slot. Economic conditions will likely be better by then so they can pick up other new shows, but considering how slim the pickings were before things got bad, can we really expect them to fill up the rest of the three hours or so with enough fresh content? People love to drag DeMarco and friends for relying on too much long-running shonen and prolific franchises (Gundam, et al.) since 2016, but with the current situation in mind, it makes that island of stability look much more appealing. Basically, if we're going to have people complain about either a glut of formulaic shows or... nothing at all, I'd happily take the former, because at least we'd have something interesting to talk and make jokes about. But the industry has changed, and it's gotten to the point where I share some of CountFrylock's fears about endless reruns. Heck, after the lack of a show replacement on Saturday night, I really was afraid they'd try to sic Bebop or FLCL on us!

Well, looks like we have an answer as to next weekend: JoJo's is coming back. Assuming it was settled by yesterday night, I don't know why they didn't announce it as part of the con. But there you go.

The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Theater Extra Stage 11 Deca-Dence 3 Tanaka-kun is Always Listless 5 [back in the garden]

Golden Kamuy S1E11 and S1E12 The iDOLM@STER Shiny Festa OVAs The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Theater Extra Stage 10 Deca-Dence 1 and 2 I ended up picking up the latter solely because people on Twitter were gushing about the twist in the second episode, and I wasn't disappointed. Needless to say, I think it's been cemented as a must-watch show of this season, to the point where I've lined up to buy a whole year of Funi's premium streaming service to watch it.

Even so, we've already discussed this week's numbers. Now to stay quiet for even longer... unless you're psyched about the Million Live anime like me.

The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls U149 59-61 Mizutama Honey Boy 15/16

Going out on a high note... and yet it got just under 500K. Taking bronze for the night is nice, but damn.

This isn't an issue of starting early enough so much as sharing channel space with Cartoon Network. No matter what, [as] has tended to place shows that aren't TV-MA in its first hour, because some kids may still be watching the channel at this time. But on the other hand, they've had no problem airing Rick and Morty in the 8:00 p.m. hour, and some of what that show can get away with under a TV-14 is egregious. This also loosely explains why they still edit their shows to censor the worst swears and sexual content, even if there's no reason to on any network. That's what the watershed was invented for, after all.

I'm indifferent, as you might expect. I could never blame them for all that's going on, especially when Georgia is one of those states that's seen the brunt of reopening-induced outbreaks. At this point, Jason and friends might as well stay at home, relax, and telegram the scheduler who's resorted to living in the control center what reruns to put on. Also, I think you should cool it with the defeatism. Not that there's any scientific reason for doing so, but because sometimes, optimism is just better. I have my fingers tightly crossed a vaccine will enter mass production by the start of next year.

I suppose the only way this could be worse was if they brought back Dragon Ball Z reruns on top of Super. But let's not even think about that. Also, if don't know about the "convention" Sketch is referring to, it's this.