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This is weird deconstruction/reconstruction of harem anime where the lead actually is forced to accept everyone and by some bizarre happenstance, the girls he gets are all cool with it. A lot of female VA's are about to get work.

…Damn typos. Chocolate milk should also be easy to make in the lab.

Yeah, I recognize those things. Growing up the damn tree worms fell over everyone’s car come Springtime.

https://apple.news/AodKkIftyQIWrSzqzh5GTFg The continued effort towards lab grown foods is a pushback against current agricultural methods and their carbon free footprint. But given the technology, we’re likely to buy lab grown milk and cheese before lab grown steaks.

Cocaine Bear - 7/10 Fun monster movie that is ultimately a fairly standard take on the genre separated by its liberal use of black comedy and a few too many subplots for its own good. It still works mostly because the Cocaine Bear is a surprisingly sympathetic monster and the dialog is good. Also Ray Lilota seems to be having fun in his final movie.

For those of you unwilling to pay for the film (fairly wise) and that don't have HBO Max, Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm has been delayed one week to March 19.

The absolute worst way to look at a trend is from week to week, or God forbid, day to day. It will drive you utterly insane because change in entertainment and the timeframe for deals is in months, while production times range from months to years, especially with animation lead time (that is, the time it takes to make animation vs. actually airing it). Let Invincible and Allen the Alien explain the concept at roughly about 56 seconds. Point is, they're using MHA episodes now, presumably because stuff is either in the pipeline or deals are being made, but it might be a while before we see the results.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-failure-has-investors-calling-for-government-aid.html This is gonna suck…

Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor. Killing Orcs like Gondor Solid Snake.

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.