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Well damn, this thread barely managed a full page. Black Clover usually isn't this unpopular, so I guess my lack of confidence in the title drove some users away.

In other, somewhat unrelated news, bkub recently had his Twitter account suspended, although it does appear to be back for now. I was wondering if it was an intentional stunt to promote Hoshiiro Girldrop's new season, and I'm disappointed that it isn't.

So they're cramming as many plot twists as possible into the last part of the show to try and make it better? Meh. Something similar happened with Kill la Kill, but that show was inherently watchable to begin with.

We've always seemed to want Toonami to do a little more advertising outside of its parent network, but when an FLCL Progressive ad airs during an extremely-hyped NBA playoff game and fails to make a dent, that's a pretty big argument against this. They definitely should have aired it in an earlier slot. I'm not sure how you go to this from an 11:00 premiere for Samurai Jack S5. I think swapping it with DBZ Kai, although unfair to the latter show, would've been a better look, since it allows you to easily replace it with a more typical premiere.

Heh... this is rather lazy. Only when you come back to edit it, in giving this an image or two, will it be worthy of the vaunted "goo jah".

People are egregiously overusing exclamation points in their post titles. I'm on vacation in (or rather, close to) the mountains again and don't really give a crap about that.

Magical Girl Ore #10 Mr. Osomatsu #22 and #23

Not the guy who was directing this show. But yeah, Yamakan be crazy. This is a pretty insane controversy in general, and I've never seen anything like it. Of course, another thing we don't see much of nowadays is racists getting reprimanded for their views.

I see no reason to panic. Also, shouldn't Al have made a comment about this one not doing well in the female demographics? After all, it does have quite a lot of empowering female characters, which we like to the point of being masturbatory about it.

The tracing of Marvel/DC material seemed more suspect to me than taking from DBZ. This is something someone slightly more famous would be at least reprimanded for, so I feel like the other shoe should drop on this guy any day now... even if it's been a couple of weeks.

Personally, I almost never explicitly drop shows. I just take really long hiatuses between episodes. Even Recovery of an MMO Junkie, which I stopped watching because of something unrelated to the content of the show, I'll probably get back to in a few months or so, once the controversy with the director is nothing more than an unusual trivia question. On the other hand, I did drop Black Clover out of my own volition, but that should be obvious. Everyone else seemed to do it.

I'm thinking they'll play an HD remaster of G Gundam. It's seemingly not serious at all compared to the rest of the franchise, which could work to its advantage.

Mr. Osomatsu #21 Megalo Box #9 The Ancient Magus' Bride #14 [that's all... for now]

You could say "divisive", but while the opinions I saw were mostly all over the place, I didn't find anyone who said it sucked. Still, my limited view of the anime community probably isn't the best gauge of commercial appeal.

Well, the opinions I saw are very scattersho-... Actually, it's Jman. I'm not bothering with an explanation.

Or how he was wearing a skirt. And then his underwear got compared to panties in a conversation. Oh, this new season. In a way, it seems "Progressive" compared to what's come before, but in a good way. Hidomi feels like a take on the FLCL protagonist fit for the last couple of years, combining the struggles of adolescence with a big dose of millennial cynicism. She has no idea what she wants to be, and I have to wonder if it's because she feels the older generations have fucked her over to an extent. The fact that she's just sitting there in her room, watching apparently rotoscoped footage of an idol concert without emotion, seems to drive home the point, as does her dreams of becoming a zombie and/or giant robot and eventually collapsing into nothing. If you're not an unironic Posadist, that might be the way to go. I ended up being enamored by this premiere. While it may have leaned a little too much on the references (although I will say, if that was a text message reenactment of the manga scene describing "fooly cooly" from the original show's first episode, it was really cute), it did have some instant classic moments, like the aforementioned opening and skirt scene, the teacher showing pr0n to her students, and then her reveal as Haruko wearing a skinsuit at the end. I got up off my seat and cheered at that one. This really does feel like a new version of the show anime fans of my generation can call their own. I hope it gets even better over the next five episodes.

After the main character of the series (arguably) died? Touché. Personally, I do think another Cowboy Bebop show could work, if it becomes more of an anthology series like with the FLCL sequels. They could never get away with a direct sequel, of course, but I'm sure any new series would have cameos from Jet, Faye, Edward, Ein, and all our favorites.

Never forget... the episode that made Jman ragequit the show. But he did come back, because I guess he typically does.

I remember seeing him listed as "Cool Ice" from the credits.

Goo jah.

Well, Samurai Jack S5 was successful because so many people wanted it, and I expect the center to hold with the new FLCL seasons as well. When it comes to completely new productions, not all of them are going to be winners, but I hope Toonami's decreased reliance on ratings means that a show that would normally be an abject failure can still make money.

All I care about is the new season of Cinderella Girls Theater. Of course, I do tend to watch two or three simulcasts a season based on what's popular, so we'll see what happens. I am actually scared for Back Street Girls, though. Depending on how the premise is treated, that one'll either be one of the best shows of the season, or the absolute worst.

I was actually an active poster on the TF boards back in 2013-ish, when I first got into Toonami. It was fairly staid there, but fun. Ironically, I ended up abandoning it for a heap of shit in the shape of [adult swim]'s official boards.

For what it's worth, I still want to watch Amai Choubatsu (err, Sweet Punishment?) if it ever ends up being subbed. Magical Girl Ore #9 How to Keep a Mummy #4 Log Horizon S1E1

Nah, these are just bad. But that's okay. I feel like airing the promos during big sporting events is something Turner should have done by now, at least for the Samurai Jack revival or even a bigger dub premiere such as Attack on Titan (S1) or One-Punch Man. Nevertheless, we'll see how this does.