Jman

Ok, final episode of Shenmue, here we go. And I automatically wished that I heard this instead - This final episode seems to be mixing the finale of Shenmue II (the helicopter and fight on the rooftop) and III (Ryo finally coming to blows with Lan Di but proving unable to defeat him). As a game ending III's ending was shit, but as a cliffhanger to a first season, it actually kind of works. Just as long as they don't repeat it. Wong tossing. That sounds wrong if you say it a certain way. And now all the lessons come full circle because...this is a kung fu movie. And so the cycle of revenge goes on. So this whole time, Lan Di was after treasure? That's what this was all about? He killed a man for revenge, and money? It makes his pursuit of revenge seem even pettier, which...actually kind of works given this whole series' viewpoint on revenge. "Revenge, the most worthless of causes." It does explain why Ren wants to tag along, he wants the treasure! And here come the goodbyes to people we won't be seeing in the next game. "Yeah, your brother and I fought. I beat his ass. He wore some weird makeup and outfit." (At least I think that was her brother). That's one way to introduce Shenuia. A goat. This entire show was named after a tree. A tree. Sure, why not? I'll file that under the "reasons Yakuza made it big in the US but Shenmue is a cult hit." The Story Goes On. Except you know, the Crunchyroll buyout has completely killed any chance of this getting a Season 2. At least Sega's Yakuza movie hasn't been cast yet. Actually, at the rate things are going Sega is going to make a Persona movie next to their planned Streets of Rage movie. Where was I going with this? Right, the story goes on. Just probably not in animated form without a new buyer. And that was Shenmue: The Animation, which is the best Crunchyroll original by a mile, although that is such a low bar to clear you could probably just step over it by lightly raising your foot. It condenses Yu Suzuki's frankly obtuse vision of an open world game that boiled down to a detective simulator into a kung fu movie that makes the hilariously robotic characters seem more human, thanks to more competent dubbing and tighter pacing. Its weaknesses are the games weaknesses, namely the meandering that is a decent amount of Shenmue II's mid-game. And of course, the cliffhanger, which seemed like a great idea before the Crunchyroll buyout. Compared to Onyx Equinox and High Guardian Spice though, it's the freaking 36th Chamber of Shaolin.

Yeah, get Danhausen on the case. He’ll get more viewers than Primal reruns.

Twitter arguments aside, the show was successful enough that Netflix is bringing Mark back for Round 2.

Angel Dust redesign with significantly less chest fluff, so it doesn’t look like he has breasts.

It's right after a bunch of new shows. I wouldn't sound the "Toonami is DEAD!" alarm just yet, but I think everyone knew that the all the mergers and purchases, combined with Warner Media deciding to just sell their anime distributor, was going to make this a pretty tough stretch of time. Uzumaki is still coming out, and I presume DeMarco has money for something to go, especially as Netflix eschews more artsty productions in favor of whatever can secure more subscribers. Linear TV, for better or for worse, is simply not how people consume stuff like anime anymore. We don't live in the days of Blockbuster where the court of public opinion and limited selection would probably shame most people from watching stuff like My Hero Academia, let alone Bastard!! That made blocks like Toonami invaluable, but no more.

Well Warner is ceasing original show development for TBS and TNT. Content has to come from somewhere unless they just air sports, reality shows, and wrestling.

Problem is Crunchyroll has all the cards here and absolutely zero incentive to play nice unless Toonami gets a lot more promotion or a more attractive timeslot. Yeah, this is lame. I know Peacemaker is off limits, but they couldn’t even get Harley Quinn?

Somewhere Genndy is seething.

With the show about to wrap, even if doesn't get a Season 2...yes, yes it's the best CR Original, if only because the competition is so utterly wretched.

Yes, after years of stops and starts, the Hawkeye director has the green light to make the movie about pop music and transforming robots saving humanity from giant aliens.

You know, the guy in the costume was a big climactic boss fight you had to win twice. Here, Ryo remembers all the Wuda and just whoops his ass. Now if only his fists could penetrate Dou Niu's fat. Joy, it's nice you want to do this for Ryo, but his only love right now is vengeance. Lan Di! I don't remember if he jumped off the chopper to directly confront Ryo in the game, but it appears the season (and more than likely, series) will end with the two confronting each other again.

For some reason, the website is down, so I can't watch it just yet. I could watch the subtitled version if it's not up in a few hours, but I've been watching the dub because it actually kind of works, unlike the game dub.

So why waste the money when Japan is lining up to give you the goods, with less competition? The only way I see CR originals being a big priority is if HBO Max directly goes after some.

If that's the only choices they have, they'll just air the second Harley Quinn season since they still won't cross the live-action barrier.

Ryo and Ren run into an obvious trap...because Ryo is kind of an idiot. With two episodes left, can Ryo rescue Yuwanda Zhu and defeat the Yellowheads? And what about the guy in the facepaint from the last episode?

I honestly see the opposite from Crunchyroll. The originals are crap, mothball the line since they don’t need to compete heavily for the animus anymore and focus on importing.

The Aqua Teens are back in 3-4 minute shorts and are still Numba 1 in Da Hood, G. They even got back some people I wasn’t expecting like MC Chris (who’s basically a complete fuckup and a pariah thanks to how he acts at concerts). And of course, the Mooninites. Newest one today involves the Frat Aliens.

I feel like Netflix would have announced it by now. Honestly that would be a good way to fuck with the people pissed off Bone was canceled, announce it was replaced with Chainsaw Man. Without that announcement I believe it Crunchyroll bound.

IIRC it was promotional material for a mobile game.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/voltron-movie-amazon-1235132178/ Amazon seems to have won the bidding war. It’s kind of hilarious that they’re getting this and the LA She-Ra. Just undoing all the Dreamworks takes.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/voltron-movie-amazon-1235132178/ Amazon and Jeff Bezos have won the bidding war apparently. Let’s see if it comes out around the same time as their Hellsing movie.

Time to flip through the DC animated rolodex.

Knowing this block I expect it to be a last second acquisition.

Jujutsu Kaisen 21-24. That was a fun show, and another one I'm pretty sure Toonami wanted but got told "no". Now onto either Tokyo Revengers or Tiger and Bunny S2.