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Blatch

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  1. Why would there be a correlation? The confirmation was over hours before Toonami started. If there was a contingent of viewers who didn't watch because they were so depressed at how unbelievably goddamn shitty the world is, I understand, but at the same time, escapist entertainment is self-care I'm sure all of these people deserve. And... well, I think I'm going to take a break from this thread for a while. It's like a knife jabbing bad thoughts into my thigh.
  2. This is the part where I'd ask you to stop projecting your fetish for this show, but instead, I'm going to reflect on what a huge fucking asshole I am for thinking that.
  3. I want to post something constructive in here, but that fat fetish avatar is unnerving me.
  4. I know you like to be optimistic, but considering they got away with rerunning all of Progressive without changing its slot, it's obvious they'll do the same for this. Pre-Flight is on tonight, but they don't seem to announce anything on there outside of simulcasted convention panels. Wait for a Facebook post this weekend, is what I'm saying.
  5. So what? Dragon Ball is Dragon Ball. Even other popular shonen series would struggle to fill that many seats, except for maybe My Hero Academia.
  6. People were expecting something new to replace FLCL Alternative on October 20, but now it looks like that show is rerunning. And there isn't an official schedule for that week yet, so we'll have to see if certain things get moved around.
  7. I've watched the first two episodes of Alternative, and although I've enjoyed both of them, it definitely feels like this show would've worked better as a completely independent project. One big complaint I have against both new FLCL shows is actually something I haven't seen anybody else mention: why do they have to be only six episodes? Just because the O.G. series was only this long doesn't mean you have to do that again. I feel like this is limiting the potential of both of them. Progressive suffered from not taking advantage of many plot points and having to abandon them by the season's end, like with amusement park and the shady dodo mascot running it. Also, they could've used more time to balance out the self-indulgence of the action scenes with more relaxed moments to make Hidomi more developed. I think if Production I.G. had only commissioned one new series, using Progressive's plot as a baseline and all the best ideas from it and Alternative expanded into a 12-episode plot, this idea might have worked better. And also, they could've used a budget higher than what most TV anime get. That won't always make a show look better, but it does seem to help most of the time.
  8. The key art seems to stylize it as two words. Personally, I just think typing it as one looks awkward, and it's worse if completely capitalized. But enough of discussing semantics... I'm hyped to see Joe take on the world all over again.
  9. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime #1 Planet With #5 I didn't watch the former willingly, but it was actually pretty fun.
  10. They even spelled the title correctly! Awesome. The premiere date is a little weird, but I'm sure other announcements will clarify why it is soon.
  11. If the FLCL sequels had aired at least two years ago and got proportional numbers to now, they'd probably be considered failures. But hey, at least Toonami's lowered expectations means you can spin practically anything into a success, and it's also why I think the fact that we still have a ratings discussion thread is proof of mass psychosis. As for Attack on Titan, the hype has definitely died down since Season 1 finished, and that's contributed to lower ratings. I blame this mostly on the current trend of hyperconsumption in the anime industry, where people get bored waiting for new seasons of shit and then get preoccupied with other shows. But, on the other hand, I don't think S3 starting with a very slow arc about politics is doing the show any favors. I didn't think the last season was too bad, but there are probably many who thought the show took a turn for the worse, and then this was the final straw that made them stop watching.
  12. Flower Fairies Mage Floral Yumi #1 Working!! #1
  13. I watched a tiny bit of the first episode before I went to bed on Saturday night/Sunday morning. One thing I noticed was that they didn't use the typical space-y graphics for the pillarboxing; there were pure black bars instead. I wonder if they were hardcoded in as part of the remaster, because there's no other reason to treat it differently.
  14. [why did I even make this post]
  15. Awesome. I'll have to get some shots in around here as well. You'll probably murder the ratings for tonight, but it'll be in good fun.
  16. You're seemingly the only person who cares. Meanwhile, everyone else is hyped for the new Broly movie coming in December/January.
  17. There you go all making assumptions again. Who says Toonami's ratings are bad? The fact that we still gloss this point over when it's been pointed out probably dozens of times that Toonami still does well on Saturdays makes me think that we don't actually want to believe it, because things would be boring without something to complain about. I also think it's pointless to talk about the logistics of how shows get popular. Deadman Wonderland finished its first run on Toonami over six years ago, so of course it won't be popular now. Very few shows can hold for that long. On the other hand, regarding its peak, I don't think it was as popular as that of Yuri!!! on Ice. At least more and more people are coming around on Megalo Box. I hope this proves a lesson that we should be asking for shows for the block to air that are good, instead of rejecting what isn't the most popular. That's how shows which hardly anyone knew about like Michiko & Hatchin have become TV hits.
  18. Do you unintentionally miss these, or is it because of work? I want to know how this tardiness set in so abruptly.
  19. YoI is a special case, as it attracted as large a crowd it did because of something other than the actual sports aspect. Free! is a similar case, although it's never really rose out of cult status. As for the others, Haikyu!! is at least popular enough to have been dubbed, but Kuroko's has never come out on home video in any form. Sports anime can be a crapshoot for anime licensors. For every show that manages to get IRL figure skaters talking, you get one like Big Windup!, which was an ignominious failure for Funimation when they tried releasing it. If you average all of them out, you'll generally get more unpopular shows than popular ones, unless we're dealing with boxing or martial arts.
  20. That's precisely why people love it so much. It (apparently) manages to squish the plot of a year-long mecha series into just 12 episodes, which makes it a triumphant example of how to competently direct and manage show composition. It could've been longer, but that's not the point. I'd much rather have it than the next Gundam show, owing to its uniqueness.
  21. I mean, it ostensibly is advertising for the featured anime, but this is from a column that's been CR has been running for a while, and it gives equal time to a wide variety of shows. And this kind of thing is a perfectly normal part of business for any company that deals in anime simulcasts. It may be embellishment to an annoying degree (in some cases), but it's too far embedded within them for me to complain to a large extent.
  22. KonoSuba! is probably never getting dubbed. I'm genuinely at a loss as to why a show can go almost three years to its premiere without Crunchyroll even sniffing it. Heck, maybe they somehow don't think it's as popular as it is. Either way, you're getting Planet With on Toonami, and you're going to like it, stupid.
  23. They aren't. The first sentence even leans on the show's checkered reputation. Why do you have to be such a buzzkill?
  24. Revue Starlight #1 Nichijou #5 CG Gekijou S3E11 and S3E12
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