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Common Side Effects 2 They need to release the soundtrack for this show, because it's moody as hell.

Okay, so that was just Episode 1. Whew! Saw a lot of ads for Jameson whisky, and it turns out they're actually fitting. Also, speaking of which, there was one more commercial break than last week for some reason. Don't think my rating will diverge from Poke's this time: TV-14LV.

Yeah, I wouldn't expect it to abruptly switch to a show Aniplex doesn't have. Not even the most back-alley anime operation in town (so Mnet America) would do that!

So it's almost time for Episodes 1 and 2 of UBW, except that Xfinity is showing a one-hour slot for just Episode 2... of the 2006 Fate anime. I think it was like this last week, too, though I didn't think anything of it at the time. No unique episode blurb either, just an awkwardly-worded blurb for the DEEN show. Pretty ramshackle, inn't it?

Yeesh. If we had more emote variety, I would've gone with a grimace. [but maybe fire force ends up replacing kai?]

We have a date! Plus, Toonami gets the actual premiere run.

Well, they got me pretty good. Let's see if I'll keep paying once I'm caught up with Common Side Effects.

Hi. Just posting here to wipe the dust off, get this back to the top, and provide an update. I haven't forgotten about content ratings, oh no, but I still have some work to do before my next update. Sorry guys... I mean, you'd think I'd at least have gotten the last clip for Memories of Phantasm done by now. At this point, it's been long enough since I last left off on these shows that I'm going to be rewatching them from the beginning, perhaps sadly. On the other hand, VTuber Legend is going to hit different now that I have gotten familiar with the real thing. I have no idea what I should put for an ETA... maybe the second week of March? [now what about you, mr. richard poker]

Oh hell yeah. I've been posting some good clips (and occasionally whole streams) of various VTubers in the YT thread.

The thing about NFTs is that, while the general public has largely moved on (assuming they ever really took to them in the first place), there's always going to be a niche market of hyper-whales who are willing to stake money on a proof of stake that may or may not pay off. It's like how some anime mobile games stay afloat, the difference being that rolling for SSRs is cut and dry, while NFTs are often a means to an end that the token collectors probably don't care about. So how many people who buy the Anime.com tokens do you think will actually watch the show it's promoting? If something like this didn't work out for Neopets, it probably ain't gonna for you, blud.

Common Side Effects 1 The female lead is basically an aged-up Nao Kamiya. I'm sold! And how about that reference to the New Hampshire Lottery?

Oh yay, I can't wait to watch a bunch of shows with TOM making surface-level and probably unnecessary comments, plus an occasional goodie! Except I forked over $21 to the House of Zaslav for the privilege of catching up on CSE, so that won't be necessary, and next time I'll just DVR the premieres. Toonami's branding has fallen so far that sometimes I wonder if we'd be better off without it, and if the future is going to contain a lot of encores from [as] proper that may or may not fit, then that would make the problem even more apparent.

[hot dog]

Seriously? They do this right after I shell out for a Max subscription to watch Common Side Effects on my own? Damnit. But at least I can watch right away and get caught up with the actual premiere run.

So clearly, the solution is to kill Toonami before Lazarus premieres.

I think part of it was to get away from the negativity ahead of Trump 2.0 (which... one of my hottest takes is that this is probably what we all should be doing), but yeah.

Okay, just watched the premiere. I had a good time, but given the content of the first episode, I don't know if people are going to stick with this one. The character mentioned in the show blurb seemingly doesn't appear in it, unless he was the

Fate/stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works 0 [this ain't no kurosanji radio]

Meanwhile, I can only stream Common Side Effects on Max, as opposed to watching it on-demand through Xfinity. To me, streaming services still feel like a racket, but I guess I'm gonna have to start putting up with them.

The fact that this block is going to be promoting a Web3 (re: metaverse, NFTs, etc.) business makes me feel icky, but hey: it's anime on cable TV, so I'm gonna try to watch this. And the last time I made a point of watching AXS was when they were airing a Yes concert, which was a long time ago.

[the sun comes up and i'm all washed out / is this what—]

Oh dear. Jesus. Not to sound alarmist, but not going into Mashle S2 feels like "we're sunsetting the block" territory. Here's hoping this is just a budgetary issue, because who knows what they have left at this point.