Blatch

Episode 218 airs this weekend, and there are exactly 500 Shippudens in total. You can do basic math, but if you'd rather I get to the point, we have... 282 left. With holiday weekends factored in, there's about six years to go.

Good. That gives all the righteous people more time to blithely ignore it. You know, while I completely understand the appeal of Klein, I don't think a show featuring him would be much more exciting than SAO. He's supposed to be your everyman who got trapped inside the game and was the only sane person while people were dying... but that's largely all he is. It comes down to being as bland and inoffensive of a character as possible, and I don't think that would translate to an exciting story.

Holy shit. So they finally went out and negotiated for a Kai rerun, eh? And they took the fans' advice (but not mine) and moved Shippuden early. Personally, I'd rather have them just get that show over with, move it to weekdays, and premiere as many episodes as it fiscally makes sense to every week. Anything to make it go by faster, although you know they're doing this just so they can keep pimping one of the long-runners. And then you have Samurai Jack making a rather pointless return at the ass-end of the block. We could get reruns of the new FLCL seasons after it finishes, although I think they'd be better off in a slightly earlier slot. Either way, this is smiles all around. But to get to the biggest point I want to make... I think the block is starting too early now. Anything earlier than 11 p.m. was already pushing it, and I was hoping 10:00 would be the limit. While it's nice to have even more anime than ever before airing on Saturdays, I'd much rather be out and about and doing stuff with friends and/or family in the evening hours, and then get back by some point before midnight so I don't miss much. At this point, I'll probably DVR My Hero Academia and watch it at 11 or so (if at all) before joining the block live. At least this will do a tiny bit to prevent people from saying the ratings suck and Toonami will be cancelled soon.

Wow! My Hero Academia has largely closed the gap to DB Super. So much for it being "the forgotten show". Of course, if the ratings actually mattered, I'd be even more pumped.

Having not had the usual Independence Day marathon this year makes me think they'll push for Halloween's to stay, even if I think that one shouldn't exist at all. Now, the list: Halloween: Black Clover Thanksgiving: Samurai Jack (S5) Christmas week: Attack on Titan New Year's week: Both FLCL sequels

I don't necessarily agree, although I will admit that the first episode didn't do much for me. I think the best parts were getting to hear Marieve Herington in a dub again, as well as a few of the trippy-like animation of a few moments. On the other hand, I was a little frazzled for all the Toonami shows I watched due due to not having ideal viewing conditions, but that's a meaningless story.

I've heard the manga is more than a hundred chapters ahead of the anime, so they shouldn't/might not ever need to rely on filler. That must be why they immediately barged ahead with a new season.

Eh, I'm not sure. There are apparently a lot of people who went to the Alternative screenings and hated it, although many of them aren't as vicious with their criticism. And I'm sure there are people who went and liked it, with some thinking it was better than Progressive. The thing is, you're going to get differing opinions like that all the time. On the plus side, Poke, you might end up liking it even more out of spite just because other people hate it so much. That must be the plan in this day and age.

Uh... fuck. You'll see excerpted complaints threaded to the tweet. Basically, about the only things people liked from the screening were the new music from the pillows and a scene involving basketball. I wouldn't take this as a guarantee that the new season will be bad, if not worse than Progressive, but this isn't a good sign.

For what it's worth, I'm really looking forward to the rest of DiU. Even despite the smaller scope of this part, the bar has definitely been raised regarding creative and/or epic fights, at least with the Jotaro and Josuke vs. Angelo encounter from two weeks ago. It managed to make quite a few epic moments out of the typical water-emitting utilities in a house. So what crazy shit did Araki manage to come up with next? It boggles the mind to wonder.

Here's another new topic: Could Outlaw Star non-spinoff Totally Spies! be headed to Toonami?

Wow... this thread certainly took a turn. And yet I think we're all the better for it.

Was there any good reason to post the entire top 50? But yeah, Black Clover is popular now. For better or worse, the campaign to make this show a genuine success has genuinely succeeded, and now the haters have to live with it.

The way I see it, Toonami will have to keep making originals if they want to stay afloat. This is a side effect of what the industry has become, as fewer anime are available to air on TV compared to ten years ago. They apparently have plans for stuff for about the next three years (mid-2021), and I'm sure they consist mostly of co-productions. It's just that we haven't heard about anything on the level of Samurai Jack S5 and the FLCL sequels since those were announced, which was a long time ago, and Alternative will be over and done with pretty soon. We can complain that Jason and friends aren't doing a good enough job of airing new anime, but that regards licensed shows they have to wrangle the TV rights for. I have no reason to be pessimistic about original content.

Now that is a show I love seeing brought up again. People loved it upon release and thought it was wholesome as fuck... but, as with seemingly everything nowadays, it was forgotten in the deluge of new shows coming out, as well as because of the anime community's desire to accentuate the negative. CG Gekijou S3E8 and S3E9 Nichijou #4 CG Gekijou S3E10 Planet With #2

Well, they forced the seiyuus for the anime apologize for the creative team getting fired, and that was the end of it for a lot of people. The only reason why Kadokawa is going through with this is because, as I've alluded to, the show has become a genuine juggernaut over in Japan. It's caused tons of otaku to start getting out of the house and visiting zoos, which local establishments then milked for all that was worth. Remember the story of Grape-kun? And then you have that they made idol groups out of the show, including PPP, and those have become pretty popular. While I wouldn't be opposed to supporting this, the fact that I started watching the anime because it had a wholesome story that was undermined by the capitalistic goals of the rights holder. At this point, I'm waiting for any headlining seiyuu to voice a Cinderella Girls character (except Aya Uchida, obviously) so I can give them support that way. It's all very unfortunate and bad. The anime is not a direct adaption of the manga. The latter is more in line with the original mobile game, as it began while that was still in service. You can probably check it out if you watch the show and like it enough, but do be aware of what you're getting into. Look up the "Welcome to Japari Park" shorts on Nyaa to see what I'm talking about. And then you can stare at the footage in unbridled existential horror!

After making a cheaply-animated Flash cartoon vaguely related to the franchise, Kadokawa went out and announced what everyone wanted all along: a new CG animal girls anime! The first trailer for it isn't too long, but it has animation that's more fluid and slightly more detailed compared to the first season. In other words, they're trying to emulate it as tastelessly as possible. But then a controversy broke involving a plagiarized audition script for aspiring seiyuus to use. The company in charge of this (as in, not Kadokawa) has since apologized, but I think this is an unnerving harbinger for the new anime's potential quality. People are already skeptical because the original creative team isn't involved here, but if you can't get what should be a non-issue like this right for what's become a huge media franchise in Japan in not even two years... well, that's a paddlin'. Watch this be a bigger disaster than High Guardian Spice.

This should've gone in the Toonami folder for maximum smarm.

Why? It has nowhere near the same level of nostalgia as its predecessor. Methinks you're scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one.

Well, it's either we support the show and its writer who thinks men are evil, or we side with the anti-SJWs who think that women are genuinely evil and want to commit violence against them... and also minorities. Considering that GamerGate and its associated crowds have lead to a mass profitileration of the alt-right, I'm not going to support any of their efforts to defame shows like this. But on the other hand, the actual product we're seeing is milquetoast enough that I'll just be ignorant rather than give it spite support. This is one of the few situations where I will support neutrality, even though the indifference in not taking a side has played a major part in our current hell timeline being created. I'm willing to bet that most people on Twitter have moved on from this, including a good chunk of the GG crowd. We should follow suit and put this one to bed, at least until it actually premieres.

Why did you bump this thread to ask instead of looking it up yourself?

It's been more than a day since this was first revealed. Why are you so l8?

All fictional works are inherently political. This is because they were shaped by the general views of the people who made them. It's impossible for something to not be political unless its creator had no opinions on anything to begin with, which is virtually impossible. Regarding Japan, they currently have a conservative government in power. Militarism has always been a part of Japanese culture, but this has become more prominent in recent years due to the Abe administration increasing the responsibilities of the JSDF. I don't know enough about their politics to formulate a conclusion about this, but I guess more people are afraid that Japan might go full bloodthirsty and join any country in kicking off World War III. The country definitely has certain problems regarding sexism, LGBTQ causes, and a myriad of other things, but there have been protests by activist groups challenging the bigotry. You don't hear about these much (of course, neither have I) because the anime news outlets stick to their namesake hobby, and not every single thing coming out of Japan.

In the meantime, you could always... uh, log off of this place, plus any Twitter account you may have.

This thread needs to die already. I loathe the fact that we're giving the opposition towards CR more support by posting their videos here.