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Was also confused by that line. Not really too bothered by all the slo mo and narrating. I think it puts into perspective how intense this is supposed to be. No monologuing, no grand standing. They all know this is now or never time, and they're throwing everything they've got into it. Less talk, more action. Also not entirely sure where Knuckle fits into the plan at this point. Wasn't he supposed to be dashing to the king? Or is he just the secret weapon in the stairway fight? Maybe we could do with a recap of what folks are actually trying to accomplish in all this mess. Everyone in the stairway keeping one royal guard occupied. Ikalgo is going after Palm I think? Gon and Kill were... also trying to find the king? Were they basically all planning on splitting up and aiming for the king, or keeping the attention of a royal guard, depending on who they ran into first?

Kid eating his dad and hopefully all the psychological trauma that comes with it almost makes up for kid not staying dead at the start of the series.

I was really hoping this season would grow out of such shallow writing. Each episode's theme just feels too obvious and forced. Despite that, still mostly enjoying character interactions.

One thing I really with the localization team took a bit of liberty with was (what I assume is) Naruto's nicknames for people. "Pervy sage" might be funny as a joke once in a while, but when he uses it so much it's clearly literally what he refers to him as, eh, not so much. "Granny Tsunade" or whatever. Old frog sage, or I don't even remember what dumb thing he came up with. Maybe it works better in Japanese, but it sounds really retarded in English. Also a bit disappointing that this jump in time slot coincides with nearly-filler trash.

Your friend wants to give you cancer by suggesting cancer shows. All things considered, not sure I could blame them. I need to go punish my brain for opening this thread and reminding me of just how bad this show was. The very idea of having both Jojo and SAO airing on Toonami at the same time makes me want to give up on tv altogether.

I don't care enough about my appearance to bother with maintenance and upkeep. I'm hairy enough as is. Don't need to go full werewolf.

Oh no. Buddy's gotta come in and white (black?) knight cuz someone's talkin shit. Kinda entertaining, really. Get all uppity after one shitpost comment directed towards someone you like. I simply didn't see any other purpose for this thread existing. It's basically a fuggs thread. And you know if this were posted by her, there'd be a lot more shitposting here. But I just needed a few snarky posts in before bed.

Better blog it on the internets to get some of that thirsty boi sympathy.

I think you're confusing the fans of anime that are willing to give shows a try, or seek shows out, or are generally interested in the medium, with the general viewer audience, that is less concerned with what is or isn't anime, but simply wants entertainment. DBZ got big because it attracted the latter. Sports animes are limited in scope due to the former.

Any damn fool can put on a pair of pants. It takes a helluva man to wear a skirt.

They usually have volume buttons that allow you to mute them. Don't need to hear that thing screeching at me every item. But it's pretty awful when it demands an associate to clear something for no reason. I've learned that pressing the upper right corner during that is like hitting X on a browser window. Too bad it just proceeds to the employee ID code screen. But they're often rather surprised/confused that I made it to that screen.

Plus the whole point that tennis fans and anime fans simply don't have a lot of overlap.

There were a lot of disaster picks at the time, but Prince of Tennis will forever stand out to me as the most out of touch choice they ever made. Most of the other crap at least had the right kids shounen vibe, but damn, whose idea was it to put a sports anime, about tennis, no less, into a block targeting kids (boys), who just want to watch shows like Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh.

How? I've had the same pair of glasses for, like, 15 years or something.

Dark times, indeed.

Despite the lack of action, this still feels very FLCL. In that, we still have no idea what the fuck is going on with anything, and (hopefully), things start coming to a head and getting some explanation before the end, when it will take several rewatches to really catch all the hints of underlying plot, while still leaving a million questions unanswered. All the pins dotting the landscape are certainly ominous.

"Eh, that was kinda inevitable, with all the random shit they were picking up lately."

Man, everyone talking about how shit Firedad is for his actions, but all I could focus on was the fact that he's entirely caught up on being the "second best hero." Bitch, you're a hero. Doing it for the fame and rank is bullshit. If you have the power to save people (and you choose to use it), you do your job. Turning it into a rivalry because you're not the best is retarded.

Man, if I knew that shit was discontinued, I might've. But, like I said, since they wouldn't even let me see the car to check myself, I couldn't confirm whether it was actually taken or not. But, I've got too much other shit wearing me down lately to get hung up on one replaceable device. Like fuckin work. Regularly don't get everything finished at work most days, and have a brief chat with the manager about what to do for it. "Maybe you're spending too much time on organization." Bitch, do you understand the words you just said? Spending time on organization is what saves me time later on. I've already had to drop a shit ton of what I'd like to be tracking. The problem is the more work you expect to get done, the more you wear me down, and the less efficient I am. Expect us to haul ass 110% every day, and before long, I'm going to break. And once I'm pushed to exhaustion, it's going to take a long time for me to give a shit about anything again.

Eh. Like I said, I'm not even sure it could be declared stolen. I sold the car to them, presumably at that point, they can claim the car and anything in it is theirs. More, though, is the fact that I don't even know for certain that it's gone. For all I know, the lady could've not looked in the one spot it fell in or something. Considered calling in late to work this morning and just showing up at the lot first thing, but, eh. It sucks. It's a loss. But I'll get over it. Mostly just wishing once again that I could find any other app or device that will recognize the custom start/end times I've set for a lot of my music. After being so spoiled, it's hard to go back to listening through live album introductions and cheering and junk.

Mark fucking Hamill.

Sold my car to Pick n Pull (since it wouldn't pass inspection and I got a new one). Realized on my way home that I left my iPod in the car. But I sold at close to closing time, lot was already locked. Told nothing should happen to it, come back tomorrow. Lot's still locked (I guess not open on Sundays or whatever maybe), but they at least go out to check my car (cuz apparently I'm not allowed to see it myself on a locked lot). They manage to bring me the adapter cord it should've been plugged into, but no iPod. Extra kicker, the Nanos are discontinued, so I couldn't replace it if I wanted to. Idk what I hate, specifically. Life in general, I guess. Anyone know if pawn shops are required to sit on anything brought in before they can put them up for sale? I don't know if I can even actually report the item as stolen. Might not even be getting pawned off.

Oh. Yes. In that regard, not so great. But that's just a tangent to the larger symptom of this show not really having a core storyline anymore. Personally, while I can sorta turn my brain off and enjoy this to some extent, there's always part of me that really finds the whole chimera ant concept to be absurd. Unless it's some magical new species, I can't really suspend disbelief that these wouldn't have dominated ages ago. And since they were established as some sort of known problem, it just doesn't make sense to me that it's never escalated to this point before. If it has, it seems like something that, without just the right people and circumstances in place, they could easily get established enough that eradication may be nigh impossible. I mean, isn't the whole reason they're attacking now because if King feeds, he'll be potentially unstoppable, right?

Newcomer? They did bring up the old man a good while back. I had actually been wondering recently what he was still up to with the meditation thing. A bit disappointed the others weren't including him as part of their plan. Evidently he knew exactly when to kick things off.