Blatch

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.

There really isn't any. It's just that a lot of people have the irrational mindset of liking stuff that triggers a political group they loathe. I don't support this at all, but the people are free to watch what and how they want.

NT is a theatrical film. As for Thunderbolt... well, you're the only person I've ever seen want it to be on Toonami, so I don't think it's going to happen.

Since ratings talk hasn't been banned yet, I tried to post the chart directly to this thread, but I can't for the life of me get it to look good. What kind of black magic fuckery does Al have to use to make it show that way? Well, here's the link. My Hero Academia had a good rebound for its second week. I hope it's actually starting to grow an audience now that we've reached what's considered to be the great part.

I would argue that GamerGate is still very much alive. It's just twisted and transmogrified into different forms over the years, but the overall goal remains the same. Some of the people I've seen trash this new Crunchyroll show are at least GG-adjacent.

PUCHiM@S S1E1 and S1E2 Planet With #1 [psychedeliiiiiiiics]

Before you go out and start giving the anti-SJWs a platform, you should consider that many other right-wing ideas might soon spew out of their mouths. Who knows if that's a good thing or not.

Thanks to Sketch for keeping this thread alive. I completely ignored it after just one weekend because I didn't think my thoughts would be complete without the Lupin rerun. I'm now eight episodes behind on that show, so I have no hope of doing this competently at any point soon. Now, just as a scratch... My Hero Academia (Like I said... spider eagles.) Attack on Titan (That great animation was the only thing enabling my enjoyment of this one. When it ended, I lost all focus.) Attack on Titan rerun (And this one had none of it, so it's even further down.)

Because of that, I think the rationale is that they want people who like the show already to tune into the rerun... except they probably already have alternate ways to watch, so this might as well be (and have been) pointless.

It feels dishonest of them to put scenes from the second season in when they're only playing all of S1. I mean, why not play those first three episodes and extend the marathon all the way to 6:00A? As well, while this promo is okay to mention that Deku used to not have a quirk, they should probably stop whoring that out after this. It's become largely irrelevant to the story after around the fourth episode. For that matter, the official promos should stop saying it as well. Just tell us the plot of whatever's happening now, damnit.

How kinky. Wow, they renged on the Venture Bros. encore really fast. Now I'm wondering why they even scheduled it to begin with, as these attempts never seem to work.

Well then... okay. As far as the four temperaments are concerned, I am easily melancholic.

I've used Crunchy's Wii U app for years, and I haven't had a lot of problems with it. On the other hand, there was an issue with my streams being dropped, so I would often have to restart the console... but that turned out to be a problem with the wireless internet in my house. It went away after we switched providers.

Why in the fuck would you not watch a series because you already know how it sounds? I mean, if you think that the dub isn't very good and you'll hold out for the sub instead, that's reasonable... but not bothering with it at all defeats the entire purpose of watching things to begin with.

My biggest issue is why they're premiering this on Crunchyroll and not VRV, as that service has been adding a lot of classic western cartoons lately and also already has several originals. Also, how come Jman's post isn't that the next thing they should do is make a Cannon God Exaxxion anime?

Yeah... I'm convinced Children Who Chase Lost Voices was a fluke, while Mind Game was an intentional exception for April Fools'. Toonami ain't ever doing movies again. On the other hand, early 2020 for them premiering a new Dragon Ball show does sound realistic. And isn't Dragon Ball Heroes a short series? That's probably never going to air on our block.

I halfway think it was actually me who coined the term. "Unholy megabomb" does feel like something four years ago's Blatch would come up with, and one that I would constantly cringe at. When did they do the FLCL Alternative premiere? It couldn't have been after the SDCC panel, because I remember the stream showing the final episode of Progressive (for the stream only) instead.