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Kind of hoping the Blue Lock promo is what convinces Netflix to fund more Hajime no Ippo.

I might be projecting a bit, but it's not like he's been hiding his disdain for Western animation and we're putting it together via crypitc remarks. He's saying all this out loud in interviews, particularly after the Black Knight pitch leaked and he made his immense frustration with Sony not moving the project forward public, to Entertainment Weekly, no less. He specifically cites the success of KPop Demon Hunters and Demon Slayer under Sony, while they left him out to dry after the dog nuts debacle. https://ew.com/genndy-tartakovsky-the-black-knight-origins-leaked-footage-exclusive-11827802 And he wouldn't be the first person to put his frustrations with his career on the screen or page: The very last thing Jack Kirby drew for Marvel before bailing (the first time. He would bounce between the Big Two over the years, until he finally got a job doing the Super Powers cartoon and toyline, which let him finally collect royalties on his creations). The anger is palpable at Stan and the rest of Marvel.

Finished S2 of Gachiakuta.

Blue Lock?! Huh, I suggested it during the last World Cup to tie in. Sadly the World Cup this year is going to be an overpriced, under-attended shitshow.

As has been noted in this forum, repeatedly, Genndy is pissed the hell off a lot these days. Like Jim Cornette levels of pissed off. His projects don’t get greenlit and the ones that do bomb. Western action animation is dying on the vine unless it’s based on a comic book and even there it’s mostly for adults as Da Kids have migrated to short form content and anime. This season of Primal is Genndy being pissed off. Pissed off at Fixed flopping, Unicorn flopping, his original ideas going nowhere as the audience considers him washed. And abandoning the anthology premise to have a zombie Spear shambling around with no direction or goal is basically him looking at those kids and going “Is this what you little shits want? The same reheated nachos from now till the end of time?!”

I maintain I would have just found it woefully out of place instead of dissecting it and hating on it had not come out the same time as the new Kinnikuman, which was such an easy blueprint to follow.

Yeah, He-Man.

Finished May I Ask For One Final Thing?

Yoroi Shin Den Samurai Troopers 2-3.

Zombie Spear feels almost symbolic of the show. Shambling, with no clear direction, motivated only by a hazy memory.

Strip steak with veggie pasta in marinara sauce with mushrooms and Parmesan cheese.

This one’s done.

We all kind of predicted that would be its fate.