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Blatch

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  1. I think you just have to go to a post from the prior board that was converted and copy it over, then change the inside text.
  2. For the first time in what is similar to, but legally distinct from forever, Hunter × Hunter is on the stream. And as luck would have it, the very first thing you see after Pre-Flight ends is Gon entering Greed Island for the first time. So it's probably gonna be #61 to #65 all week. Not bad, even though moving ahead so far means the Yorknew arc will never appear in a marathon.
  3. So for Countdown, one of the TOMs blew up the Earth, or at least an Earth-like planet prone to nu... Nutella-focused meltdowns. It also has some confusing time travel rules. So if you can just replace your current self with a version from the past and take their place, I guess TOM didn't realize that his early version could set right what he thought went wrong. Go figure. But he also left behind that hologram, so it's uncertain which plan he felt had a better chance of success; in other words, huh. This is probably the weakest TIE of the new era, at least in my opinion, but it's still fun. I honestly wasn't too impressed with JoJo's this week. The idea of Enyaba being able to bring back the Stands of departed villains has a lot of potential, probably for more than two parts, but they focused too much on Polnareff in the disgusting bathroom, plus the licking, and then Star Platinum swallowed Justice just like that? It felt like an ass pull. But on the plus side, at least Hol Horse is still around, so this is no longer just a binary matter of getting to Egypt for DIO. I hope the show stays that strong.
  4. So we've got a good thing going here now, but it still needs work. For one, while I can do spoilers through a technicality, the text that shows up is almost invisible. I don't want to have it so that I need to change the text color before posting. Also, we need an option to change the number of posts on a page. I know other people don't mind it, but this is really throwing me off.
  5. Actually, Hiromi Tsuru wasn't the only major anime death to happen this week. Because the network that brought us Three Fabulous Weeks of Ani-Wednesdays will soon be no more...

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/nbcuniversal-turning-lights-chiller-network-1059027

    1. PokeNirvash

      PokeNirvash

      I had a feeling something was going to happen to them after seeing them quietly disappear from my cable package...

    2. Blatch

      Blatch

      LOL, yeah. I'm in the awkward position of simultaneously pitying them but also wondering why this didn't happen sooner.

  6. Hey, pretty much anything is possible at this point. Toonami will be airing in prime time for the first time since it the original block was cancelled back in 2008, and I think more people should realize just how big that is. It's a totally new frontier for the newest iteration. In fact, I feel that most of our fandom had 11:00 as the limit of how early the block should air regardless of how optimistic about that. I honestly think that's the perfect start time, since while I'm not the sort of person who goes out and does stuff that often, I don't want to have it interfere with the potential to do something. But at this point, a 10:30 expansion seems to indicate they have even bigger plans for the block. Could a Toonami starting at 8:00P (and lasting until midnight or 1A) happen? Honestly, I'm not sure their endgame can be anything else. And if it's the latter, they could even bring back the block rerun from 1:00 to 6 and have all of Saturday be anime. And that would be on a completely different level.
  7. "Supposedly" must be the actress' last name.
  8. Well, 10:30. And that's technically in prime time, so I guess Toei might be accepting.
  9. For this show, I have to wonder if watchability is a thing that counts as an actual issue. Pretty much everyone involved with the production wants it to be a huge thing, from Pierrot, to whoever's airing it (I thought I heard it was TV Tokyo), to the English licensors. Hell, Crunchyroll plans to show it in the fucking theaters a few weeks from now. This is a pretty big reason why I've become disillusioned with the anime industry in recent months. They pretty much force you to watch every show through coded advertisements. In fact, seemingly a day doesn't go by on CR's website without an article telling you to "get hooked" on anime that just came out, regardless if they're actually good or not. And then there was that promotion they did where you could watch episodes of eight shows, Black Clover included, to win a trip to Japan. I just don't like how they operate like a ruthlessly efficient business, is all.
  10. So it's a Family Guy sandwich with Cleveland as the skewered pickle. I don't mind this, even if the latter shouldn't be aired anymore.
  11. Holy fucking shit. This pretty much explodes how I thought the block would be run for the distant future. I genuinely don't know how to think right now, other than... I don't think we should complain about the Toonami ratings ever again.
  12. Well that's a damn shame... she seemed to be in most of the classics. I was wondering if Mochi would make this thread first. But I actually thought about taking it from them, or whoever else.
  13. Amen to that. It's part of the reason why I still want another on-air JoJo's marathon. And not to mention, Polnareff's introduction in #5 is not an evil cliffhanger, but something that could easily make you keep watching.
  14. So I guess you can enable spoilers with this software... somehow. I would assume it has something to do with collapsing quotes, and maybe changing the banner to something different. They probably have a special setting for that. Here's what I copied over from my thread:
  15. Well, that makes two of us.
  16. Maybe it's Twitter making me preconditioned to the roundness, but I have no strong opinion on that. The timed edit thing is... both good and bad. I get why it's there, but it probably shouldn't be this restrictive. It locks you out of editing OPs, which I'm sure those who make threads for the weekly Toonami broadcast aren't going to like, as well as myself, because I have my thread for content ratings and I wanted to update it to feature more recent shows. Oh, and the formatting broke, since we don't have the "glow" function anymore.
  17. Blend S #2 and #3 Teekyu #6 to #12 The iDOLM@STER #6 The Ancient Magus' Bride #1 (in anime club) [back to legitimate business]
  18. Woah, so I can do this now... not bad. And I don't mind the new look. In fact, I recently returned to backpack.tf's forums for the first time in a while and saw that they had upgraded to it. In some ways, this reminds me of that blasted NodeBB layout, but a lot more functional.

    Here's to keeping it good. Also, I love these nostalgic smilies. :D

  19. I had that same feeling up to late August when the backdoor fiasco happened... everyone thought Toonami was in serious danger, but then LOL BebopAirz and it turned out they were actually gaining a half-hour. If the block really was in danger of being cut with ratings like this, it would've already happened. DeMarco is one to tell us when things aren't going to well, like back in early 2015 with the mass block cut. So unless something sketchy is going on behind the scenes, I guess we don't have to worry about it. Also, the TV industry is not just going from points A to B and having to fight monsters along the way. There are logistics on top of logistics, always more than what we think we know, so anyone who thinks they're an armchair quarterback and can do it better than those at Williams Street is almost always wrong. Who knows what's been going on? Maybe streaming numbers are up for them and the other Turner channels, so they can afford to sink more money into their anime fetish? Or maybe Rick and Morty did so well for the network that everything else is just running up the score? You know, pad other things out to appease the fans. And going back to my previous point, I probably should've worded that a little better and included something other than the nihilist talking point. Yeah, Toonami probably should be advertised a little better than it is. There was some guerrilla marketing for Samurai Jack S5 that people liked, and I'd guess they do it again for other big projects like the new FLCL seasons, but other than that, the block has been a niche thing since [as] brought it back and I guess the crew wants it to stay that way, especially if the ratings are in fact decent.
  20. There are probably lots of people who still don't know about the new Toonami even after five, going on five and a half years... but as we know, if the shows are rating okay, the higher-ups will see no need in advertising elsewhere.
  21. The iDOLM@STER Episode 5: "Vacation with Everyone"
  22. Love and Lies #1 (explanation) The iDOLM@STER #5 The Ancient Magus' Bride: Those Awaiting a Distant Star Part 3 Blend S #1
  23. I should definitely check in here more often. Of course, it's hard to know what to say when you literally only watch JoJo's on the block anymore. :ghost: The episode with Empress was just so fucked up. Having Christine Marie Cabanos voice its first form was pretty genius, and yet I couldn't stand a minute of her highest possible angry voice.
  24. Heh... I wonder why you posted in this folder.
  25. And they even liked it. At this point, the Like button should be renamed to "I don't hate this". I want to work for mine again.
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