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Honestly, what's the point of citing a single Internet critic's opinion about the show? They don't represent the majority. There are even other ANN employees who've spoken negatively of Black Clover.

You know Poke, it's kind of refreshing to read a complete paragraph from you in this thread. Those stray observations all in a row usually make my eyes bug out. But yeah, talk about an amazing finale for an awesome show. Spike was a one-man wrecking ball for the entire syndicate, and he did it for Julia as well as to get one last attack in on Vicious in general, and it was tremendous to watch. The action, all of it, was so well choreographed. Being a big, dumb action show was theoretically all Cowboy Bebop needed to be for people to like it, but having so many emotional beats without getting bogged down in any of them is precisely what's caused it to shoot up to the status of being one of the greatest. And that final shot is the stuff of legend... I would often listen to "Blue" after any major Toonami show finished as a measure of finality, but being able to hear it on the real thing was second to none. Now I just wish my DVR hadn't gone all wonky and missed recording two episodes ("My Funny Valentine" and "Black Dog Serenade"), although I still need to watch the movie (which I don't own) anyway, so I guess I'll buy both releases at once. Either way, this is a must-watch for anyone else.

This is a pretty common belief. Admittedly, even I think they have feelings for each other. I heard a rumor that the newest chapters of HxH apparently have something regarding... gay stuff, but I have no idea what is for sure.

Joseph got off easy compared to the dude who was accidentally impaled. But at least Bast's powers ultimately provided a laugh riot of an episode.

Kakegurui #3 Violet Evergarden #1 Pop Team Epic #12 (END) Ethically, I'm against watching shows before they premiere on Netflix, even if I hate that service for not providing simulcasts.

There's already multiple dedicated threads for this in the Toonami folder. You can keep up the good vibes over there.

This is only a tangential observation, but I think Birdy the Mighty: Decode would've been a great choice for either [adult swim action] or Toonami to air. The problem was that it came almost perfectly between [asa]'s downfall and the revival of the latter. Still, I have to wonder what the opinions would've been if it had aired instead of Casshern Sins.

It was somewhat weird, but it's common for anime to go cosmic (or, at least beyond mere space) in their last episode, so I just accepted it. My major issue was that some of the dialogue, especially just before the final battle, was delivered too fast and felt rushed. Maybe they should've mapped things out a little better if they knew they were in a crunch.

Huh... that actually got by me as well. Maybe I should've let you take the JoJo's thread as a personal present?

I should probably take a break from doing this at some point, but considering that a thread only takes one minute on average to whip up, it's not really my loss for still doing it. Hey, at least someone will post a cute picture that means nothing to my self-worth in the process.

Actually, soon after I posted that, we got an announcement that Sentai is going to be simuldubbing stuff... err, they're called "dubcasts", since Funi owns the trademark for the basic term. It's kind of funny. I personally don't think that this'll impact whether or not more Sentai shows air on Toonami (since they already never do), but you never know.

I can disqualify it just because Aniplex never does simuldubs, unless they somehow outsource one to Funi. I think it's an underrated proposal, mostly since it would give some serious catharsis to people who were upset by Rick and Morty preempting anime last year. But I won't name anyone in particular.

They're not going to expand the block for that when Ghost in the Shell ends two weeks before. Everything should move down after Memorial Day. Speaking of which, if they preempt it for the April Fool's schedule, that would leave it with 8 episodes to air in seven normal weeks before the next holiday. They could rerun the original FLCL for six of them and then double up on GiTS for the last week just like with Bebop.

I have no idea where this date came from, so it's not official to me. Maybe the ANN writer made it up out of thin air. However, Ghost in the Shell does end the weekend before Memorial Day, so that would be the easiest show to replace.

Almost nobody expected that [adult swim] would preempt primetime for a second gag last year, so the risk of losing viewers was rational, albeit still rather overblown. You should cool it with the fearmongering for right now and just enjoy whatever funny shit ends up airing.

I don't think that's the implication at all. In fact, it might even bolster Re:Zero's chances, because it's a seinen and pretty deconstructive of the isekai tropes anime has been saturated with lately. More western cartoons on Toonami would be cool. I'm actually somewhat hoping for Children of Ether to show up, since the pilot Crunchyroll made showed some... uh, potential.

That could be interpreted in multiple ways, but maybe it refers to graphic content in a show. As in... children bleeding from their eyes?

Yeah, it is a good ED. Pat Metheny should've gotten more credit for that. I have a feeling Part 5 will use a song from the early 2000's as its ED, as they've generally trended towards the time the show is set (and Vento Aureo is an early 2000's thing)... but I also think a good potential choice would be "21st Century Schizoid Man", because it is a lengthy progressive rock song, and especially since the main villain's stand is literally named King Crimson. And with the sociopolitical lyrics that could reference anything happening in the show, what more could you want? [partitions: ambient intro/first two verses, long middle solo, and the last verse/ending]

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Actually, the KLK announcement was in January 2015. Hellsing had been over for a month by that point.

Maybe it'd just be better if the show had no gay characters at all... since you have annoyingly high standards regarding them. Alternatively, there's a good gay character but the show does a mean-spirited parody of Vegeta. That's how I'd expect things to shake out.

Yeah, I definitely sympathize with all who thought the "Seven" were underused as villains. Only one of them ever got any character development, and that was only for her to be killed off at the end of the episode.

Yeah, even if the wording of "finish out the arc" means they're going to restart Bebop in April (I don't think they would outside of trolling), it's not going to air for an hour, even on the April Fool's schedule. They must have something ready to replace either it or Outlaw Star.

I would recommend putting the episode number in here somewhere.