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Literally an hour later they canceled more Western cartoons. I seriously expect to see a Bad Guys TV show and a full on Rayearth remake at this rate as they cancel yet another Western animation project that’s been in development for two years.

The money they saved by canceling a ton of clout projects and laying off employees, apparently. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/netflix-scraps-2-kids-animated-series-1235138508/amp/ https://www.gamesradar.com/bone-cancelled-netflix/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/cannes-japanese-anime-worlds-most-bankable-genre-1235146810/ This while their Western animation department and releases were utterly gutted.

I was talking about the sexual stuff.

Yeah but not only would it be sliced to ribbons, the dub wouldn’t be available for months on streaming services.

Rev up the chainsaws and prepare for an adaptation of the hit manga.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-05-16/fire-force-gets-3rd-anime-season-original-video-game/.185670 $5 says the game is another arena brawler since that’s what Shounens get (grumbles no one has looked at MHA and given it an Ultimate Alliance style RPG).

Primal is back on Toonami despite Genndy not wanting it there. I still remember the debut of the show during New York Comic Con. They had the show in the Manhattan Center, specifically the Grand Ballroom (still a legendary venue for concerts and indie pro wrestling) and it was a big deal, since it was something he described as animation in a pure form. Hardly any dialog, no real limits on what he could show, it was an attempt at visual storytelling at its most fundamental and proud. And it still works, really well. It's proof of several things that the naysayers would doubt. It's proof that you can have an effective story without needing to have people talk every five seconds. It's proof that you can make a very effective action cartoon without having to pretend you're Japanese. And it's proof there is an audience for this sort of animation.

As Netflix stock tumbles and on the heels of Cowboy Bebop being absolutely mutilated by self-inflicted censorship and alterations, it looks like Netflix is reaffirming its dedication to no censorship and shows that can make them money. That probably means less live-action anime butchering and more Dave Chappelle.

Cults, career paths, and probably something else DeMarco can't air.

Its box office will be the butt of Family Guy jokes for years.

Well they did sell their provider.

…That’ll do it.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-05-08/my-hero-academia-gets-original-2-episode-anime-this-summer/.185411 Superheroes playing baseball is straight out of the Silver Age so that gets a pass -

Was waiting for them all to be up in a playlist. Still, at least they’re all set.

That and the FLCL fetish. And the Bebop worship, but he couldn’t even convert that into mockery of the LA Bebop because Blum refused to shit on the show. What’s the point of being loud if you can’t be loud when it counts?

It’s more proof people arguing on the internet don’t matter.

They made the wrong sequel. They should have made a second LA Bleach movie, not a second LA FMA movie. And they dragged poor Mackenyu Arata out for it as well, because apparently he wants to be in EVERY LA adaptation of a manga to show they don't have to suck (he was in the last Kenshin film which is considered a genuinely good samurai movie, as well as the upcoming One Piece show and the Saint Seiya movie). As for the anime, I could see them being interested, especially since the whole financial implosion has them getting MORE anime while canceling domestic productions.

Toonami ain’t got no damn money, and a narrowing pool of people who want to work with them. If they get it, it won’t be first.

Bingo. They both bring ratings, and so would Bleach.

Netflix is cutting a lot of content, but mostly their clout content. Less animation about gay couples and foreign cultures, more Boss Baby and Baki. Bleach falls in the latter.

Maybe so, but it’s not “Toonami or suck a lemon” anymore. I think that’s the irony of the situation. As anime becomes easier to access for just about everyone, casting off the yokes of old stigmas and obscenely priced DVDs, Toonami’s pickings have become slimmer and slimmer.

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.