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Ugghh. They're moving MiA around? Oh, wait.. now that I think about it, I did have trouble re-watching that one. Movies were up on Hulu at the time, I think, but I remember having to use the [as] app for season 2. Will definitely need to keep that in mind if/when new content comes out (next year at the earliest probably.....).

Eh, worth a shot. I know Demon Slayer was obviously available long ago on Hulu, and did see a few other Toonami picks on there at the time.. I don't really care about One Piece so missing out on that won't be a bother, and Naruto is ending. Crunchyroll seems to have a lot of crossover, what with generally picking from their library, I think?

Yayy another potential cord cutter.. Anyone here familiar with what's available (or what isn't)? Most of [as]-proper seems to end up on Max right away, right? Might not all stay there forever (sad to see Xavier isn't listed anymore..) but honestly, who has time for rewatches. (such a shame the [as] app doesn't take Max as valid login credentials...) So I could maybe keep up with the few good things left on that front. But, Toonami? Does what gets picked up also get streaming rights there? Or am I left cherry-picking other/anime streaming services to keep up? I knowwww, I could just pick one or two services and have all the content I'd ever want to watch.. but I still like the idea of retaining some connection to the block. But, kinda first thing to look at when finances need tightening.

S'ok. Nothing truly concerning, more a curiosity. There's just the faintest of gradients around the thread preview box. I can't even really show it off any better, it's so faint. But if you look close careful at the right side of that image, especially around the corners, you can see some rounded off not-as-blackness just outside the preview box (almost touches the corners, and just a bit outside that is another rounded region of slightly-not-as-dark. Maybe probably a desktop-only thing? I have no idea how/if thread previews work on mobile.

I just woke up from a dream of me watching some weird Toonami mashup special.. kinda like that DBZ x One Piece x [that other show] thing.. but zanier, broadly Toonami focused, lots of characters, some incomprehensible plot.. I distinctly remember the music having a bunch of old callbacks to some absolute classic [as] bump tracks. So.... if they ever pull something like that off, I'm going to start calling myself a psychic.

*Parents have Neji fight a 3 year old girl* "Man, that Neji kid sure is strong! Look how good he is at beating up someone smaller and weaker than him!"

This is all very sensible... except, there's already precedent with Arizona and Hawaii, so, if Florida is so hung up on this (considering they're constantly the ones proposing an end to it), why don't they just get rid of it in Florida and be satisfied? Or make it permanent, hard to tell which way they want it. In any case, clearly it doesn't have to be country-wide.

They've been "trying to stop it" (or make it permanent) since forever. It never goes anywhere. And then there was the time..

Coworker hasn't been able to smell or taste properly for more than a year now, I think.

A lot of those look pretty damn old. Does steam charge to continue keeping a game available on their servers? Seems fair to drop these if nobody even remembers they exist anymore. I should go play Super House of Dead Ninjas again sometime.. Hopefully at least some of these get preserved somewhere on the high seas.

Judging from the titles alone, it's fairly clear everything after this is just fluff, filler or not. I still say they just intentionally padded everything out to hit that big 500 number. One feeling that came through with this episode was.. wondering if there was any sort of sense of relief once these chapters had been written and put out. All the ups and down and years and years, build up and retcons and breadcrumbs, on and on leading up to the finale. I can't help but get the impression that there was a huge burden lifted knowing everything came together and it was all over.

An episode where literally nothing important happened. Completely forgot the first half, was expecting a mid-roll when the credits hit.

One thing I'm not enjoying so far is how they seem to be making the black characters sound... excessively exaggerated. Gotta make it super clear that they're totes ethnic and not just a diversity skin tone. And then I realized, yeah, that tracks for being produced by [as]/DeMarco. Seems like everything they've made has had that faint whiff of mid-tier fanfic by a shoddy writer. Can't wait to see how they fuck this one up in the end.

I will admit, back when I first watched this and the previous arc, I was also sorta disappointed in how little ground they truly cover. Both arcs kinda just amount to killing one demon, in a fairly static setting, with very little exposition or anything that truly forwards the overall plot. Sure, the fights might be visually pleasing, decently animated/choreographed, etc. But... end of the day it's a whole lot of eye candy to distract you from the fact that nothing else is really happening.

I only just noticed that the thread preview (when you hover over a thread title) has a weird very faint mis-aligned bubble around it. Has that always been a thing? Oh wait, it's actually two bubbles. There's the thread preview box, then right around the edges is a rounded border that's just a few shades darker than background, and around that is another larger rounded border that's closer to the background grey bit still just slightly off.

Ehhh... it comes off a little better if you just accept he was putting up a front from the start. Whole family is dead, and he knows his favorite brother did it, he knows the whole village gives him the side-eye as a potential traitor/usurper just because of his family, etc. It's not so incredibly unreasonable that he decides to push everyone away before they have a chance to turn their back on him. Sure, in fairness, he does get carried away with letting himself believe he's actually better than everyone and they're all beneath him. But that's kinda where Naruto comes in to prove him wrong. In his own way, he sees through the front, sees the whole "I'm better than everyone" act as a means of keeping everyone away, and he's determined to break through it. He sees it because he knows his own actions were a way of controlling how everyone shunned him. That's the whole dichotomy here, that they were both doing it, exerting whatever control they could to twist the glances and whispers into a narrative of their own choosing, rather than something out of their control. While I'm not explicitly opposed to the "romantic" memery, it's really only ever seemed to me like this is blatantly just a "two sides of the same coin" scenario. They both needed to work on accepting themselves. Y'know, a little self-love. Maybe with each other.

Totally called it being a flashback-heavy ep (I mean.. I guess you could flip a coin on that and it'll usually be right for this show......) But, it did kinda work with the structure of being a bunch of disjointed memories. Despite the flashbacks, the episode very clearly had to be laid out the way it did; there's no other way you could've gotten those final shots without setting up the whole episode for the reveal. With all the ways this has been going so well, it's really hard to imagine the final stretch of episodes being able to hold onto this level of quality.

This thread is also the first I'd noticed they're actually airing the sub version as well.. Was there, like.. a reason for that? Admittedly didn't really dig the Morris VA.. Should probably record an ep just to see the bumpers for it, if they're any different.

Finally all caught up with backlog. "Huh, this opening kinda reminds me of.. Oh hey! It is! Coldrain, who did the opening for Fire Force."

Weird that everyone is criticizing the extent of their "friendship," like.... that's half the damn point here. You can't judge their friendship on what you expect friends to actually be, because Sasuke is a bitch ass punk. A rival is the closest thing he understands to friends. Naruto's whole point, his entire character, is killing enemies and rivals with kindness. And a good beatdown is the only way Sasuke is going to understand the extent of their friendship. Just like with literally everyone else in the entire show, it's down to Naruto wearing him down. Honestly, it's just impressive that they kept this giant mecha chakra battle to just these two episodes. Respect for not dragging that out longer than it needed. ..I see after this there's a couple "mixed canon/filler episodes before one last batch of filler.. got a bad feeling "mixed canon" means "we'll replay the last bits of this fight before seguing into another pointless flashback."

Catching up, and.. I'll just say it, last week's episode was better than any episode of Naruto had any right to be. I mean.. maybe not Sasuke's whole monologuing bit.. other than that part, it felt pretty solid. The flashbacks, such as they were, actually contributed to the setting in a meaningful way. If you only showed someone one singular episode of this show, and it was that episode..... you'd be setting an awful high bar that none of the rest live up to.

Space Ghost the vtuber.

Could've.. uh.. maybe mentioned the article had spoilers for the finale.....

I really dislike these episodes where fuckall happens while we dedicate time to backstory of a character you'll forget about once the arc is over. There's gotta be a more elegant way to incorporate some of this while still progressing what's actually happening. Whole episode could've been designated as filler and skipped with nothing significant lost.