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Somali and the Forest Spirit 5 Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! 6 Speed Grapher 1 Arakawa Under the Bridge 1 A show about famous pedophiles (and I wonder if Poke likes it) followed by textbook SHAFT. Not a bad slate.

Especially when Raphtalia won Best Girl. 😬 Also, I'm surprised nobody's brought this up:

The movie they just released was probably made that way because of content concerns. As for the OP... wow. That's: a) Hilarious, b) Fucked up, and c) Hilariously fucked up.

Somali and the Forest Spirit 4 Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! 5 Terror in Resonance 1

I already kind of feel that way... but at the same time, I don't know if my indifference with Toonami and its community is because I'm unwilling to put in the effort to catch up the shows and interact with the community, my stubborn nature when it comes to watching anything new in general, or even mental health problems. It really sucks. Then there's the fact that this community feels stagnant, with seemingly fewer people coming here than ever. I wish I knew what I could do to help. 😕 As for the shortened schedule, it's going to be better for you if you don't care about an hour of reruns that can easily be watched elsewhere (save TPN, but that dub will soon be available on Blu-ray and maybe streaming soon anyway). I don't have much else to say about it. I also don't think 2020 is going to be a "down year" for the block when we have two new co-productions scheduled for this year and at least four more in the works that'll premiere at some point. Maybe this means they won't focus as much effort into acquisitions outside of lengthy shonen, which was the case for 2017 and most of '18, but we should wait a few months to judge that.

Well, having six new Toonami shows in production certainly assuages my fears. It doesn't make much sense that they're getting rid of an hour of reruns despite knowing about it ahead of time and slotting in different shows after the fact, but perhaps DeMarco still wanted them to get a partial run? Blade Runner and Uzumaki coming down the pike gives them a golden opportunity to advertise. Just throw some ads on TNT during the NBA playoffs saying "Hey world, anime is cool, and we've got some great new shows! Come on over and give them a try." And air them more than once, which was seemingly the case back when the FLCL sequels were being hyped.

This is pretty worrying. I actually think the worst part is the sudden deletion of an hour of reruns. Could they have at least let TPN finish all its episodes? This move gives the impression that the Toonami schedulers thing the ratings aren't good enough and they want immediate improvements, which goes against DeMarco's comments that the block has been doing fine and even better than ever at some points. I mean, I haven't heard him say that for a while, but I assume this has still been the case up to now. At least when the sudden cuts in 2015 took place, we still had a hype new show coming in. But we don't this time, and the next premiere slot doesn't open until April. It's a good thing the Toonami staff didn't put a negative spin on this news, because I'm sure us fans will be annoyed either way. 😬

Considering the murmurs I've heard about Sony not liking sexual content in various PlayStation games, I strongly think this is the case. And that stuff is cheesecake compared to this. I wasn't watching this show either, and while I briefly considered doing so as a result of the controversy (which is warranted), I decided I'm too cool for that. It's going to be interesting to see if any other licensors are able to acquire this, because there are probably lots of people who either ignored the show or had no idea who now want to stream it.

Futaba's Family Twins 29-41 And that's all of the released chapters, which I pounded out during winter break. I have to say, it's really strange to have read a manga that went on hiatus and might never return because the author prefers producing VTubers. This one is/was a really generic incest comedy, though, and I saw some of the plot beats coming from so far away that they were painful. I would only recommend it to anyone who's a Norio completionist or is kind of dumb. 😘

Somali and the Forest Spirit 2/3 Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! 3/4 Golden Kamuy S1E7 Plunderer 1/2 Well, that's a little better. [anime club viewings now in gold]

Neither particularly good nor bad... just like my life. 😌

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! 1 and 2 Golden Kamuy S1E5 and S1E6 I really need to speed this up. 😕

The only people I'm seeing promote it are a few English dub VAs who actually worked on the show. They haven't come off too badly.

Joker's situation is probably the result of a monkey's paw wish: a superhero movie is critically acclaimed, financially successful, and gets nominated for all the awards, but in exchange... you have to live in a society. As for the animated movies situation, I am very mildly disappointed but not surprised that no anime was nominated. And even if there were, it wouldn't be everything. I still remember the brouhaha over The Wind Rises getting snuffed out by Frozen some years ago. But in an amusing twist, the latter film's sequel isn't up for Best Animated Feature Film.

I have no horse in this race, but... LOL. I wonder if they deathslotted it because they were actually scared by the bean mouth controversy. Now that I think of it, I wouldn't be shocked if this happens to High Guardian Spice as well. I wouldn't hate that one either, but there's no good reason to stick it on Crunchyroll.

Yeah. You're thinking of the Buffalo/Houston game. It was a pretty good weekend for football, but at least Toonami won't have to worry about it after this weekend.

Virtual-san Looking 9 to 12 Golden Kamuy S1E4 Somali and the Forest Spirit 1 Well, that felt good to finish off. For a show that was supposedly a look into the weird and wacky world of VTubers, it was disappointing to have most of the time be taken up by the same banal improvised talking-about-things segments every week. At least it was still fairly funny, and I liked Kerrin Slayer. 6/10.

I have no intentions of seeing this movie, and frankly, the tepid critical reception and slightly-less-than-historically-great box office receipts for it bring a smile to my face. That's what Disney deserves for trying to taking a beloved movie franchise and bending it to the wills of late capitalism. It makes me wonder why I even defended TLJ as much as I did against Daos, since I was going to bat for the absolute seediest entertainment megacorp in the process. So yeah... Star Wars. If you like it, then more power to you, but if I ever want to dive back in, it'll be after the controversy surrounding this franchise boils over.

Funny you mention that, because I was recently reminiscing about my early Toonami fandom days when I watched SAO, thought it sucked, and liked to casually bash it. A number of things since then have made me seen the light, and I sure am glad I don't do that anymore. As for this series, I stopped watching it after the sixth episode. It's a textbook case of how good animation and production design doesn't excuse a bad story... although I guess it's attracted lots of fans in spite of that.

Akira Tokyo Godfathers And that's about it. At least I kept up with my yearly tradition of rewatching the former on the first Saturday of December, which marks the first time Toonami aired it and arguably the start of my serious anime fandom. It was subbed this time, too. December seems to be that one month of the year where I don't watch much anime. I assume that's seasonal depression talking, and maybe some end-of-the-year regrets as well. 😒

An average of about 359K is solidly between the other two marathons for this year. Here's hoping Dr. Stone can do similar business.

I actually DVR'd the entire OPM marathon, so in a way, I will be watching it as a means of catching up. I previously did this with most of the Food Wars! 'thon and I probably will for Dr. Stone as well. Basically, imagine being one of those schmucks who follows the linear broadcast. [this post brought to you by mental illness gang]

My biggest hope following this recent TIE is that the decreased workload (and maybe not having to go to Japan as much) will allow the crew to focus on the packaging more. I really hope we don't go literally seven months before our next bumps refresh. Two or three months is more reasonable. And also, more content that isn't game reviews (and external music videos) would be nice. As for shows, I'm sure the first new addition will come very soon. Heck, we might even have three open slots, as Food Wars! could break either way. In the situation where it does go on break for a while, I'm sure it'll come back eventually.

Well, that was a nice finale, although it didn't feel flashy enough. I actually didn't realize that SARA talked to TOM 6 about her plan to destroy the alien crew's ships in the prior episode and thought it was an ass pull when I saw it. Then said ships quietly imploded and their leader was unceremoniously knocked unconscious and ejected into the void. Between that and the yellow TOMs and Georgia sailing off into parts unknown, it was a little bittersweet. But hey, we got a new robot and a pretty new base to broadcast Malaysian cartoons from, so it's all good. This is the first time Toonami is being broadcast from a space station, which is something I saw Masquerade say they wanted a long time ago. And on top of that, the new packaging looks very fine. Gaudy blues and purples for the win! I should buy a new T-shirt to complement the one with the 2017 look I have.

I was just shocked to see this trending to begin with... and then my mind went to "eh, it's not going to help Toonami's ratings, so why bother?" 😜