Jman

Fair warning.

Holy hell, it IS Toriko! And I was spelling it wrong! Ok, clearly the objective here is to mooch off of Dragon Ball’s watch-selling, Idris Elba’s career-killing popularity. Which considering everything I just said is not the worst strategy.

Crossover special? There were those crossovers with other SJ properties like Dragonball and Naruto…and I think one that included Tokiro back when someone thought that could be big. Geez, does anyone remember Tokrio? Am I even spelling it correctly?

Well, good news is the VB film is proceeding according to plan. Happy 20th anniversary to what’s considered the best comedy show Adult Swim has ever aired.

Catwoman: Hunted. Basically “what if Catwoman was Fujiko Mine?” Kind of surprised Toonami didn’t get this given their love of DC and Lupin III.

Made in Abyss is a great, great show, but this is a classic case of bringing a horse to water. You can’t make him drink. Admittedly it not doing great is why I’m “Eh” on Lum showing up. I feel like it would be a similar situation where casual audiences dismiss it.

Eh, one could argue that the future shows for the block influence ratings, but I digress. On a similar topic, I won’t bore all of you with the Redo of Healer/Velma comparisons (simply put, both are astonishingly mean-spirited with weird sexual hang ups and expect us to root for a character that is a horrible human being because they are author avatars). But it speaks to the limited options (Velma is arguably comparable to Harley Quinn as an action/comedy, and the latter did air on Toonami, even if it was just to promote The Suicide Squad). Not to mention DeMarco has apparently been actively pursuing the rights to the Lum remake, if they ever dub the thing. Made in Abyss is probably the best example of DeMarco’s vision of a bespoke, off the beaten path action block, even if it wasn’t completely an unknown quantity (Columbia is currently sitting, key word, sitting on the rights to a LA adaptation they got before Toonami picked the show). I know it’s way easier said than done, but the whole idea that DeMarco and Gill seemed to push was that Toonami was going to show you things you wouldn’t seek out on your own, even if you could. Not every anime gets a watch deal, but plenty can attract an audience unaware. https://www.swatch.com/en-us/swatch-x-dragonballz.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiAxbefBhDfARIsAL4XLRpvCr4qtNJBUNM-ACRZnHcXJ1PT8X39Dhq_PPG0lpTXr-8DVCzB5TAaApFFEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds (Yes that is real). Speaking of bespoke and Netflix since the topic was bought up, Pluto would have been perfect for that vision. Hell, Mike Lazzo would have probably forced Jason and Gill to get it if he was still around given his own affection for Astro Boy (Lazzo admitted he unilaterally put 60s Astro on at 5am as a birthday present to himself on the AS boards once upon a time). It’s not like this is just a Toonami problem. Comedy ratings have been steadily declining ever since Family Guy left, with the one saving grace for the block now a major question mark thanks to all the controversy. I’m hopeful the Venture Bros and Metalocalypse movies will be made and not written off since we got Aqua Teen Plantasm, but that’s a stopgap. It feels like we’re waiting on that next big hit, the anime that takes over the internet, the comedy that’s so popular the late night talk shows are begging to interview its creator, etc.

If this keeps up, Tesla will be the Geo of the late 2020s. To be fair, Geos caused way less deaths and accidents.

Toonami WISHES it could get Witch from Mercury given the amount of chatter that show has made. Too late now. I believe DeMarco once said that getting older anime was pointless because companies charged just as much or didn't even bother putting those older licenses up for sale. Then we have companies like Discotek that dub and release on video, but don't bother acquiring the streaming/terrestrial distribution rights. Now add in Sony not wanting to share and you have a narrow stretch of time to get material from, with most of it off limits, and suddenly you're stuck making more King Star King and thinking about airing Velma, which is what happens when HBO Max says "Hey, what if we made our own version of Redo of Healer, but worse so Mindy Kailing can vicariously live through high school as the snarky teen that outsmarted her bullies that she never got to be?" I'd say best case scenario, they can only actively acquire stuff from the past three to five years.

I'm of the belief that the block, as of right now, is at the point where beggars can't be choosers. If we got Ushio and Tora, fine. Older shows aren’t bad if they’re good and affordable. If we have to air DC movies once a month as a "DC movie night", cool. But Velma is the point where they literally have nothing else and are running on fumes. Every other acquisition has failed, and it's time to panic because we have a show with 7% on Rotten Tomatoes on the block.

A lot of what they're getting are cast-offs, or at the very least, second hand, but in the case of DC movies and Primal it fits with the block. I...guess Velma fits that role technically, it's a comedy/horror... Oh who the fuck am I kidding? If Velma is on the block, it's because they have no other options, Zaslav forced DeMarco to air it, and the block is not long for the world. I don't think it will air, it and its 1.4 on IMDB, one of the lowest rated things of all time (lower rated than Annoying Orange, Problem Solverz, and Toddlers and Tiaras) but this is the same block that is going to give us more King Star King.

Keep watching the skies… You know, before whatever you’re looking at eats a Sidewinder.

Trailer.

“Hey everyone! We got a show on loan from HBO Max!”

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-02-14/shogakukan-lists-pluto-animated-series-with-netflix-streaming/.194892 We might get the Akira remake at this rate.

It’s not even a good example of going full anime when we have a proper RWBY anime that doesn’t look like it was made by a college student on their laptop - Between this and Velma, maybe Zaslav’s plan is to convince us that he should kill the animation department lest it keep pumping out crap.

Trigun Stampede 2. Still miss Milly. MHA 129.

I’m genuinely unsure if these sightings make more or less sense after the past few days.

Crunchyroll’ s dub. It’s worth noting Netflix makes a separate dub with union actors and its Thorfinn, Alexis Le, has no such accusations.

No one wanted to at the very least, wait six months for the one day sale at Best Buy.

So no one watched the film besides me? I guess everyone else is waiting for the airing on [adult swim] proper next month, but I give it an 8/10 if you're a fan of Aqua Teen, a 3/10 if you're not.

I was under the assumption Super Show references were off limits, but here we are.

This is getting fucked up. Are we just hypersensitive now? Or is this just a show of force after we downed the balloon last week? We know the F-22 works dammit.

First trailer.