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Well Sentai has a decent amount of isekai and fantasy, like Danmachi. Kind of wondering if DeMarco is assuming the same.

When they had the option, it was because they were airing SAO and DeMarco presumably found it redundant. Fair enough. Now they simply don’t have the option.

This could EASILY go south, but if he's a coach like he was in Creed III, and the show is about the boxers he's coaching, well, it's the closest that we'll get to more Hajime no Ippo for a while.

Kemp’s attorney claimed Kemp’s car was robbed and he fired back after the thieves shot at him, so the police are not pressing charges. Still, pretty eventful week for the former Sonics legend.

I figured once it was put on the market someone would get it.

“Oh hai Saul.”

Doubt this affects Plantasm airing, but it feels like an ill omen.

Sessler’s an alleged coke head who admitted he hates gamers as a whole and seems pissed G4 flopped…again. G4 was fucked up. Behold, Kingdom Hearts being re-enacted…with blackface. They also apparently did some racist Naruto skits at well bagging on that franchise…which outlasted the original G4 and the reboot. Now that’s some schadenfreude.

Yeah, when the show first came out, this was the GIF that made the rounds, less so that it was a homage to 70s super robots and the female supporting casts (as well as a lesson on the abject issues with marrying your boss's daughter), but this was also the era where boob-tastic shows (and anything OVERLY Japanese) was shunned by the media. (Good Lord X-Play was racist). My point is that stuff like that was just not going to air in an era where everyone with power was openly hostile towards those kinds of shows, and now they're too old. Even now DeMarco still has something of a "that's overly childish" mentality when rejecting overly fanservicy shows (although he didn't have much of a choice beforehand), which I kind of get given the goal of being more mature and bespoke than the Netflix approach of "blood, boobs, and punching" for their shows. So when looking at the Sentai catalog, keep that in mind. It probably means Damachi is a no go. Same with Akhiaba Maid Wars. Or maybe DeMarco is just an ass man and that's why Space Dandy spoke to him.

Going through the Sentai catalog of dubs...they have a lot of shows that Adult Swim would have rejected on principle back in the day for excessive fanservice or being too Japanese. I mean, they have Godannar. As much as I would want Godannar to air, it's probably a complete no-no.

Ok, then that’s definitely one for the maybe pile. There’s a lot of stuff in that pile I would personally love to air, and stuff that I would have wanted to air on ASA if that block wasn’t in full on hoighty-toighty mode near the end of its lifespan. Ah well.

Yeah, but doesn’t Crunchyroll still own a portion of it and stream it there?

It's more surprising that Warner is able to do business with AMC, but other than that first-run deal with MBS they signed last week, AMC has been incredibly hands off in Sentai's day-to-day operations. https://www.sentaifilmworks.com/a/catalog That's their catalog. Problem is a good amount is sub-only and then there's also stuff they act as a home video distributor for Netflix which naturally DeMarco can't air. Most of it isn't even action. The rest meanwhile has long since outlived its shelf life, like the Fate shows. Unless DeMarco seriously wants to go archive binging (which he has said previously doesn't happen for numerous reasons on the distributor side), this is likely a pre-requisite to trying to air the Uruesi Yatsura remake, which would be a really bad idea if Pop Team Epic's ratings were any indication.

No, what they're saying is that their primary goal is to reduce the big debt number that's been hanging over Warner. The more cash on hand and the less debt, the more pay they get. It's an incentive to deal with their big problem and make the company profitable. The problem is that Zaslav's preferred way to do that seems to be to cut content.

2014-2017. That was the height of companies still trusting Toonami as the perceived only game in town, before streaming overtook linear television as a whole. The streaming format overtaking linear television was arguably the end of the Toonami golden age as the arbiter of anime, moreso than the shows. At the height of its modern influence (Different from Toonami classic for organization's sake) One Punch Man was pulling down a million 18-34 viewers a week, and companies were begging Toonami to air their shows. Then streaming overtook linear television as the primary outlet due to convivence and a complete lack of the old BS&P. That's where it arguably began to go downhill, especially as those streamers started to throw cash at animation studios, then hoarded licenses for themselves. In the dark ages, when Toonami got popular initially, you either had to sail the seven seas or pay out the ass for single volume DVD's. No longer.

It's been Toonami's guiding principle for a while now. He's learned from Vince McMahon.

https://twitter.com/slutpilled/status/1632789128373755905?s=46&t=qkEIjJHbOepJnnU58px_yQ Twitter is busted because in an attempt to charge for the API, it destroyed access to links.

Executive bonuses are now directly tied to debt reduction and cash flow, so expect more cuts.

Demon Slayer Swordsmith village movie - Two words - Cash. Grab. They didn’t even take out the goddamn credits when the old episode ended and the new one was about to start! It’s still beautifully animated but you are missing nothing unless you want to see the new episode of the new season early.

Creed III won the box office with $58 million, so given Michael B. Jordan’s admitted (and obvious in the cinematography) anime influence, it was a good week for anime at the box office.

I like the block, I like the shows on it when they’re around, but it does feel like a lot of times Toonami is less a block to watch and more of a guide on what shows to watch elsewhere. Does that make sense? The only exceptions were their originals, and yes I’m still pissed tax BS is why we’re not getting a Season 2 of Shenmue.

It reminded me of Superman/Batman Public Enemies, but it didn’t NEARLY commit to the bit the way that movie did. Granted, the difference there was that Lex Luthor was the president and MHA didn’t have a Luthor equivalent, but heroes hunting Deku would have been a sight to see.

Huh, I posted about this in the anime folder. No less than Ralph Bakshi emerged to dunk on it, and he was the guy who used rotoscoping to attempt to adapt The Lord of the Rings (obviously his version was inferior to Peter Jackson’s, but points for effort).

Creed III - 8.5/10 Michael B. Jordan was not lying. He took the archetypal sports movie in Rocky and combined it with a shounen rivalry. The end result is probably the equivalent to the higher tier Rocky films (3, Balboa, and Creed II) with some of the most creative fight choreography and filming I’ve ever seen in a boxing movie, more reminiscent of a fight in Hajime no Ippo than the previous Rocky films. That said, it’s got some beats that are a bit underdeveloped, so it’s not Rocky I or Creed I. (To be fair, those were both Oscar nominated with Rocky I Best Picture winner).

If nothing else, a write off of Grunge would be a waste of perfectly good Pillows songs. That being said, I could easily see a summer release.