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Gets better - “Fuck everything and start over” seems to be the call.

Oof.

We’re going to get the new FLCL, and it will be worse than the last batch, cementing it along with the Matrix and Eureka 7 as an example of a franchise where only the first entry is good. Uzumaki will be delayed one more time at which point a furious David Zaslav cuts his losses and cancels it.

1996 was a WEIRD time for Cartoon Network. They were fumbling in the dark with a few originals and still relying on their legacy products for the majority of the schedule. Saying they’re going back to 1996 isn’t exactly encouraging.

Chainsaw Man 7. Witch from Mercury 9.

That is very impressive, but there’s still a lot more to be done. I think the inevitable barometer for this stuff is…adult material. Hear me out, the VHS triumphing over Betamax, sites like Tumblr, TikTok, OnlyFans started as adult websites or at least adult material friendly, only to jettison it when advertisers and corporate cash came knocking. Because adult material always tends to lead the charge into new technologies, only for the rest of the world to follow once they’ve proven if safe and reliable. If AI art can fix the fingers problem, and give people cheap, professional quality commissions without the cost and/or deep sense of shame that comes with spending money on artists, the rest of the art world is in trouble.

It’s Christmas season. That means dusty Christmas specials and Hallmark movies, which still fall behind the traditional leader in sports programming.

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday special. It’s pretty fun for what would probably have been a weird Marvel Team Up comic in another time (Like the one with the Avengers on Letterman).

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/toejam-and-earl-movie-in-the-works-stephen-curry-exclusive-1235275179/ More or less sense than Persona?

Penalty kicks. Penalty kicks of all things!

I’ve been thinking about this for a few months, particularly as I see a lot of writers and people who can’t draw going to town on this in communities that would otherwise require spending a large amount of cash on commissions from artists willing to tackle the material. For a fraction of the cost, dozens of images are now strewn out. The worrying thing is how fast does the AI develop? It’s still not there to completely replace real people (John Oliver demonstrated this a few weeks ago during the final episode of his season). Now it’s a cute toy, a novelty. If the AI ever develops to make complex scenarios instead of a person standing there, then things are going to get much dicier.

You know, the fact that the biggest fight in the Fortnite comics has been Batman vs. Snake-Eyes when Dragonball and MHA are there feels like a waste.

I got a few Brazilian friends following the World Cup. Brazil losing to South Korea would just be weird when I’m around them.

I was so bummed I didn’t post it. Who do I root for now, Japan? I guess the Blue Lock memes are funny.

Bottle Shock - 7.5/10. A fairly standard docudrama boosted by a good cast, including Bill Pullman and the late, great Alan Rickman. It helps everyone is mostly likable and sympathetic.

The whole thing…kind of looks like shit. It would be fine if it was a bunch of shorts, but as a movie? Apparently Nintendo knows this is going to be a turkey which is why they founded Nintendo Studios a while back, to do all this in-house.

Someone isolated the opening (but you should watch the documentary, she’s the same sleuth that finally discovered the Toon Makers Sailor Moon pilot, and she’s quite good at what she does). You know why this wouldn’t have worked, because all the obvious reasons from the animation? Because Spanish language TV was already airing Saint Seiya, with blood and cursing. If you thought the kids watching uncut DBZ on Telemundo were smug, imagine the Spanish speaking kids dunking on the gringos who thought Guardians of the Cosmos was something fun to watch after Captain N reruns.

US teaser with more Sean Bean.

They actually removed Minoriteam from their website completely after 2020. Scrubbed. Gone completely. Only World Peace faced a similar fate. They’re not proud of Assy or Mongo on a technical level, nor should they be, but they didn’t scrub either.

Prince of Tennis was an utter fiasco, but it was also tennis. The window to air Blue Lock has long since closed as well.

Sure, beat Germany and Spain but lose to Costa Rica. That makes sense.

A combination of DeMarco being so late to the party that when he arrives everyone has left and the booze is gone, and the usual LOL Crunchyroll antics would keep Blue Lock off Toonami…when it would be a perfect World Cup tie-in. Maybe I’m just thinking about it because Japan has a chance, albeit a slim one, to advance to the knockout round. Edit - Japan is in the knockout stage. Blue Lock memes are sweeping the internet. Toonami missed an opportunity but it was probably Crunchyroll’s fault.

Everyone loved Korgoth, but when a season would have been literally 1/3 of the entire [adult swim] budget in 2004, it wasn’t going to get picked up. Meanwhile Mongo was called the second worst show ever made by AS, according to Williams Street (worst was apparently Assy McGee).

I hated it when it was on [adult swim] mostly because I was in full “Fuck Adult Swim Action” mode at the time. I ended up watching it on Hulu years later and quite enjoyed the original series. Unfortunately everything after the original series is a sliding scale of missing the point and lowered quality. Basically the FLCL sequels, but somehow worse (so far anyway).