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Ugghhhh. They've adapted another one like this? I mean... I guess I'm glad, cuz it's been a wild ride. But also sorta feels like it just spells doom for the adaptation in the long run. Always ends up catching up before you know it, and by the time you've got material to keep going, the audience retention is just shot. Unless S3 happens to reach a conclusion, not sure I'd be confident that the anime will get a satisfying end..

What strikes me as sponges' biggest tripping point, as GSH pointed out, was largely being tone deaf. Arguing as if this is all in some sort of vacuum, with no consideration to the real people it impacts. Which isn't new for him. Wouldn't call it malicious, but it is a failure to see the broader consequences. Myself, I got no room to make a case for or against the tool or the usage.. so I defer to the artist community, which seems to be pushing back against this. A lot. Out of respect for the opinions of those whom I may respect on the matter, I'd just as soon avoid AI art usage.

Probably also a case of more twitter links on one page = takes longer for each to load. You post a new one, and it's always last in line to be loaded after all the old ones, which don't seem to really cache or anything. I'm on firefox, and kinda lazy with updates.. Still, the way sponges describes it, none of them ever load ever for him, which isn't the experience on my end. They're just not very snappy is all.

Yeah, is how they show up for me here while the page continues trying to load things in or something. Occasionally one seems to get stuck and never fully loads into tweet format. Oddly, maybe just confirmation bias in my head, but I wanna say most of the ones that seem to get "stuck" are ones you post..

Let's meet in the middle and say we need more Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. Full credit, Craig of the Creek did seem like a decent attempt, but it did feel like it lacked a certain something to draw any attention. Almost like a weaker version of Codename: Kids Next Door. Basically, needs a return to the old Cartoon Cartoon days. Which... looks like Genndy could be on board already? Might be a good sign.. coulda sworn he was burned by them before.... I ain't asking for, y'know, the next Steven Universe or anything. Just, hoping they raise the bar just a little bit over the Homer Simpson demographic.

Commercial flop? Yeah, probably. Still a quality show? Better than anything CN's put out in recent memory. And that's really the only point I'm making. If CN wants to draw in an older crowd, they're only going to do it with quality shows. Shows and creators that have an actual passion for what they create. That's how you create a fanbase that keeps the flame burning long after the show has ended. The good shows stick with you, and as you get older, you're more inclined to want more of that feeling, more that lives up to those memories. Owl House may have flopped, but at least it's still keeping the Gravity Falls-ish spirit alive. (just kinda rolling with the idea in my head that Gravity Falls may have probably laid the groundwork for a lot of series that followed..) CN's had some good hits, but they've completely failed in even trying to maintain that attention. Maybe even actively discouraged it with some of the things they dropped/canceled. They've definitely got some work to do to build that trust back up.

So, last canon episode of the year, I expect? Not bad. Shame there's still one more batch of filler hell yet to come.

Wonder if this is in any way influenced by seeing how Disney has been killing it with some quality shows lately. I mean, sure, they still do their share of literally killing said shows... but they've had several hits with broad appeal over the years that, despite perhaps not meeting expectations, still catch a lot of good buzz. Good buzz is something CN kinda super needs these days. Some way of stepping out of being the "oh, you mean the Teen Titans GO network?"

Only other thought was maybe just that the script was feeling kinda dense, almost like the voice suffered a bit for having to be slightly rushed in places.

Did Riko get a new VA? Doesn't quite sound the same..

DC made the whole comic free to read direct, too.

McGinnis. You're up.

Got you covered.

How does it feel, knowing you made a thread so terrible, it killed someone?

Waiting to see the posts about all the ways the porn industry gets in on it. Alternatively, I find it hard to imagine there aren't already bots/scammers on tinder et al. using it for fake profile pics. In the end, it's just a tool, and there will always be shitty people using tools for shitty purposes. Seems like it might kinda suck to be an art streamer now, if anyone can screenshot your work in progress, feed it through a program, and upload it first just to declare it the "original."

I'd say y'all are mighty optimistic about OP's longevity on the block... but I may be biased.

I agree there's room to hope for MHA. Just saying, seems like there's also a good chance it goes the way of Demon Slayer. Just too many parties interested in a piece of that. The only other thing I can think of coming down the pipeline sometime maybe mid/late next year (question mark?) would be Fire Force S3. Beyond that, kinda yeah, they need to be looking for something that isn't just a legacy pickup. Oh OH ohhh, wild speculation time. What if the One Piece change is related to the movie that just released. Like. "Ok, we rode this hype train as long as we could, won't get any better than this." Or. "Maybe the movie will get more people into this and we can milk this acquisition a little bit longer." Or or. "Nobody's going to want to come back and watch these old-ass arcs after that movie." Idk. Something. Is a bit of a coincidental timing. I just.. can't really ever see OP as an actual serious legitimate "We're definitely going to stick with it this time" acquisition. Come to think of it... wasn't the last time they picked up One Piece also right around the time Gold released..?

Made in Abyss is confusing enough to start with. You'll get the whole spread of viewers that drop out not knowing what's going on, viewers that roll through not knowing what was going on in the first place, and viewers that actually seek out the missing content. Pure copium on anyone's part to think Toonami ever would've aired the movie. Didn't they already declare movies off the table a long while ago? Last time I vaguely recall it happening, performance was abyssmal... ok, maybe wrong word choice in this context.. Personally, wouldn't really count on picking up more MHA. Too mainstream, too much attention by any other service to grab it up. Slim chance, and there may yet be hope, but I'd be more inclined to expect to see it lost to Toonami. Bleach may be big, but it's also old. Sure, new stuff is new, but I wouldn't say it's still got the same momentum it had. Better chance to see it here... but... do we really need to? Bleh. Haven't missed that show. As long as we're pitching cheap filler/marathon fodder.... Doesn't [as] basically forever have the rights to Big O S2? >__> As great as it would be for Toonami to be the place to find the big guns, I kinda just don't think they're in the position to do that anymore, all things considered. Personal opinion, I'd just as soon see them transition into a sort of diamond-in-the-rough block. Forget the big name mainstream stuff. Pick up more quality obscure titles. I mean... I have no frame of reference or context, but, in my total ignorance, it seemed like Made in Abyss came out of nowhere, and it's got some quality to it. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it made waves, idk. But I'd totally take more like this, titles that nobody's really paying attention to but deserve a place to shine.

I... what? I know I've been down the mashup rabbit hole, but...? I guess it's some sort of meme to mash this Slipknot song into anything? Bold. I guess I could go for more "anime songs mixed with things that are very not anime." Although... a lot of anime songs just get sorted into "generic music" in my brain, unless they really stand out..

Is it really a "canon double feature" if the second episode is filler?

This exposition dump feels like some lazy writing...

Similarly not a fan of most of them. Oat milk still tastes like oats. Soy milk... well, that's more of a thing that has its own flavor that isn't really milk... But, macadamia milk isn't too bad.