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Trust me when I say, at least the comic is not light on the action. There’s plenty of food porn and waxing poetic about good food and etiquette, but a guy dies in the first ten pages, violently may I add. From there there’s a lot of violence, gang warfare, and fight scenes.

The original novel is a culinary tale mixed with a crime drama while the prequel is a far more traditional yakuza story that just happens to have food as a central motif.

Yeah but to be fair the Black Clover movie was also the second most popular movie in the world on Netflix the week it came out. That is quite the feat.

I get having Boring Kinnikuman since Kinnikuman wasn’t really an option, but why do we need Boring Mashle when we have Mashle?

Hehe…oops. They’re definitely using Blood and Sushi to pad the run time.

I wouldn't go that far, because their DC/anime collaborations have all been fairly successful, and even Ninja Kamui did pretty good ratings, but I think if DEMARCO is never allowed to co-produce an anime again, and gets his hand slapped every time he suggests it, the world will be better off.

In Kim's (MINOR) defense, Netflix, Crunchyroll, and Hulu don't have to deal with Standards and Practices. And that's ultimately what it boils down to. This isn't exactly a fair fight. I know I live in New York and New York is weird, but I can't explain a deli by me showing random things from Hulu during the lunch rush, including of all things, My Hero Academia. Linear television does not have that option. If they're going to air niche products, they need to air them at the ass crack of midnight lest they get an angry email because a parent complained about dem Japanese cartoons being watched by an impressionable child. It's one thing if they didn't have those restrictions, but they do, and they're pretty notable in what they allow and prohibit. And we rag on this block A TON, but it is held together by duct tape and dreams at this point. Putting together something coherent with the refried leftovers from Cartoon Network and old licensing contracts before streaming took over is commendable. Reality hits a lot of the desires for the block hard, and while there's no need to fanboy over the block, it is relatively impressive.

It does feel like an ego thing, on both ends. We're all well aware of DeMarco's vision of a "bespoke" action block, free of fanservice and overly stereotypical elements (this only really became a thing after Adult Swim Action I find), but beggars can't be choosers, and with Cartoon Network, last I heard, in about half the homes it was pre-pandemic, on top of pretty much every single Toonami original anime either a critical failure or caught in an endless web of legal problems, it's just becoming stubborn. DeMarco is not the type of person to want to air Ya Boi Komining, Is It Wrong to PIck Up Girls in a Dungeon? and especially not Chained Soldier. But it's his block and he makes the rules. Meanwhile, it's kind of understandable why Crunchyroll might be loathe to work with Toonami, they were sold off unceremoniously by Zaslav and gave Sony a near de-facto monopoly on anime in the US, with their only real competitors at this point Hulu and Netflix. It's difficult to want to cross that divide that they put up. And it's not like Warner is helping either. They could theoretically hand over some new programming to Toonami, but they've chosen to put all their chips on Max, since unlike cable, Max seemingly has potential for expansion, rather than the contraction that has faced their linear channels. Remember, late last year, Zaslav began restructuring the company to possibly divest from their cable channels, and this year started with all of their sports programming now officially available on Max, even All Elite Wrestling. 2025 is going to be a rough year, but I think the bigger question isn't if "Toonami dies", but rather "Does Adult Swim's primary focus remain a linear cable block, or does it become more of a brand for Max originals?"

All that was wrong. It just apparently wasn’t another case of the notoriously defective Cybertruck exploding on its own…again.

It was intentional, namely a suicide. https://www.wbaltv.com/article/tesla-cybertruck-explosion-army-soldier-trump-hotel/63322581 The guy shot himself.

Not exactly safe.

They need to work with what they have. And if that means kicking off 2025 with 2024's Worst Anime, then so be it.

Get Jiro is one comic of 163 pages. The only way it’d be longer than 3 episodes is if they use the prequel Blood and Sushi as additional content.

We do know they're working on it and we've seen storyboards. Contrast that with Get Jiro where we haven't seen hide or hair of anything, no designs, no voice actors being confirmed, no nothing.

Asshole who gots rich on apartheid fails to see why apartheid was wrong.

Another potential issue with the show airing on Toonami (I know it won’t but I’d like to discuss something) - James Gunn’s musical choices. They’re uncensored on Max.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2024-12-30/the-worst-anime-of-2024/.219023 It was the consensus worst here, although there were some other nominees. The Top 3 best meanwhile, were Bang Brave Bang Bravern (where is the dub?!), DanDaDan, and Delicious in Dungeon. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2024-12-30/the-top-10-anime-of-2024/.219016

Don't see anyone arguing that. I do still find it a bit amusing that the second VB finished, Warner started to get Johnny Quest moving again. "It's over, green light! Sim Sim Salabin, motherfuckers!" I still maintain I would like the block to last long enough to adapt if nothing else, the Dynamite Space Ghost comics. It'd be a very funny full-circle moment going from Tad Ghostal to a genuine Space Ghost story.

A very long time ago Adult Swim did try to have VB as their lead off show instead of Family Guy, basically hoping to do what Rick and Morty did as an in-house cultural smash. It was an absolute disaster. Ratings tanked and Peter Griffin was moved back to lead off a month later.

Even Nielsen traditionally takes this week off. It’s declared a mulligan.

HIDIVE is full of stuff that is to be frank, not up his alley. Could anyone see DeMarco air Chained Soldier?

All the techbros are like that. They want that indentured servant class because Americans will demand twice as much and even medical and dental.