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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.

I think either option is viable. One maintains the "weekly thread' tradition, the other follows the format most anything else uses. And I bring this all up because I do actually (occasionally) participate in the threads. I'm just not into the "live play by play reaction" format. There's no real discussion to foster since the threads are abandoned so quickly. But, hard to say if that's a result of the individual episode thread format, or simply users that don't come around much outside of Saturday night. Or just, y'know, there only being like five people that talk about anything to begin with..

In this case, I'd agree, keeping it off would be required. There'd be more getting moved to replace all the self-deletion every week, no change in volume. Also helps that there's the big "Episode Discussion Archive" at the top, should be fairly intuitive for anyone that might wonder where all the old/missing threads disappeared to even if no redirects are provided. It's a satisfactory alternative, but I'll still hold the position that persistent show discussion threads would provide a better quality environment for the hypothetical "new users" that we're hoping to attract. Admittedly, I suppose one flaw in that is the notion of spoilers... At least the individual episode threads tend to keep broad/future discussions to a minimum. Usually.

Additional point, now that I see someone has gone through and done some archiving: This doesn't really resolve the issue of individual episode threads crowding out anything else in the folder. The "moved thread" placeholder is still taking up exactly the same space as the thread left alone. Maybe you can make an argument about it being clearer which threads aren't Toonami/episode discussion related, where you can see views/replies and such, amid a sea of blank space. Hell, you could probably even get away with a compromise of sorts, for the long runners at least, and have individual arc threads if folks really wanted to break up discussion so much. Like, do we really need separate threads for every Naruto filler episode? Can we not just get away with a "filler arc" thread?

The same argument could be used against the entire restructure. I'm just proposing an improvement. One that would ultimately have a greater positive impact than negative.

Eh, ain't a club member, I'm just here throwing out a general board user perspective. But, admittedly, I'm also biased against the idea of individual threads to begin with. Even still, I do genuinely believe consolidated threads would generally be a better quality environment. Bizarrely, the idea of individual threads works better for the comedy shows, with self-contained episodes, rather than the ongoing story of most anime. And yet, even the ASC folks new single episode threads was a silly idea. Like I said, didn't figure the idea would be palatable to the users that only ever come for Toonami discussion, and that's fair. Absolutely they ought to probably have a little more weight in that consideration. Still, throwing it out there since the restructure is as good a time as any to lay that tradition to rest. It's just not worth hanging on to anymore.

Tradition is never a good reason to not consider alternatives. It's tradition because at the start we actually discussed things, and it wasn't just a glorified reaction play-by-play thread. It's tradition because folks used to put in effort to spruce up the top post, with actual competition, not just for "first" but also for "best." Shit, there's been weeks where some threads just don't even get made until after an episode starts cuz nobody cares enough to make them. There's only a handful of users that still actively participate, so they're the same ones making the threads every week anyway. The whole "post the thread at midnight Friday" thing is entirely outmoded, since there's no longer any real pre-discussion. In conclusion, times change, the forum has shrunk, the tradition should be retired.

Ok, just gonna throw this out there, probably wouldn't be entirely palatable for those affected, but... In the interest of restructuring and consolidation, and with all of [as] + Toonami crammed into one folder now, I'd propose having all of the Toonami episode discussion threads merged into one weekly Toonami thread. Either that, or one general discussion thread per show. The "Episode discussion archive" folder thing was maybe a nice idea, but entirely too much work and upkeep to continually move old threads over, which seems like it hasn't even been touched since the merger. The threads are all always immediately abandoned as soon as the episode is over, which is itself a limitation on the concept of the threads, preventing any meaningful ongoing discussion. And, as expected, all the episode discussion threads just generally drown out anything else going on in the folder. No other [as] show discussion has ever had or needed individual episode discussion threads, Toonami threads should adapt to a similar format.

I've lived through one live-action CN era... I can probably do it again... Those were dark days.

Wait, there was four whole seasons of that? Dang, I super missed out. Enjoyed the first... I guess probably the first two on CN? Seemed a shame how it just disappeared from everywhere and was only available on this service... was one of the reasons I was considering swapping Hulu out for it... That said, everything else on the list of removed stuff sounds pretty forgettable... but that might just be because I'd never heard of any of it to begin with. Edit: Oh, wait, no, Summer Camp Island... I think I remember that one being kinda nice, too. Everything else... I mean, I'm certainly not gonna be mourning the loss of Uncle Grandpa... Anyway, relevant:

Still say this is one of Toonami's best picks. Sure, things like Demon Slayer and MHA were good. But, stripped down, they're still kinda generic shounen. This is the first one in a long time that I genuinely want to fully enjoy, and not just feel "Ok, but when's the next cool fight scene?"

So, how quickly were you able to jump off the toilet after getting splashed with a gallon of gold water?