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I’m kind of wondering now if people would have been more accepting of a simpler comedy than something that has an uncertain audience.

It is.

First, check this out because it has Black Dynamite himself, Michael Jai White, playing Bronze Tiger - Second, with Crunchyroll presumably being sold in the next few months, do you see Toonami leaning more into DC animated films to plug schedule holes? And would you want them to?

I’m surprised it made the list at all. Don’t suppose DC will let Toonami throw more movies on while we wait for Gridman. Of course the new one won’t be out till next year.

The audience will appreciate it. I know Genndy feels like Toonami limits the audience, but still.

The problem is simple -

Some actual good news for the block - And yes, it’s not a mecha show per se, it’s more a take on the Ultraman/Giant hero genre. And most 90’s kids at least remember its (surprisingly faithful, since Tsuburaya had a direct hand in it) adaptation of the original with Tim Curry.

Freindship Squad, hell, a LOT of Western animated shows have this problems. Both the preachiness and the general conceit about asking us to feel empathy for characters that have none of it themselves. Sorry, but if your characters are obnoxious jackasses that laugh at a guy getting mugged, I don’t give a flying fuck about their image problems.

Western animators and fans of animation (not necessarily weebs, just people who recognize animation as a medium) need to have a very long talk about what is expected of them. The Liberator ended up looking a lot better and that’s rotoscoping.

Took a while to get people on board with plant based meats, and this actually tastes like meat...because it is. I’m optimistic things will turn around, even if I probably won’t see a Star Trek style replicator in my lifetime.

If they can keep bringing the price down and cutting down on the carbon footprint, well...let me just say investing in this over plant based substitute companies is my advice.

https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2020/11/09-1/japan-box-office-demon-slayers-overwhelming-domination-has-continued-for-4-consecutive-weeks Essentially it’s winning the box office by default.

You mean the unfunny American animated show did poorly on a block filled with adult anime? I’m stunned. Look, sometimes writers need to find the right outlet for their work. I’ve said it before but Tim & Eric found their sweet spot in advertising and writing for stuff like Steve Brule (that and Moonbase 8 is what Space Force should have been), but Tom Goes to the Mayor assuredly did not play to those strengths on an animation block. Maybe that’s the case here, that this guy shouldn’t be doing anime parodies on an anime block conditioned to view American anime parodies, with very few exceptions (Megas XLR, we miss you) as complete dreck.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2020-11-09/why-does-the-crunchyroll-original-series-ex-arm-look-so-awful/.166117 An article on why the show looks like crap, namely, no one involved has any experience with animation.

Just...look at it. Look at it. I feel sorry for bashing Polygon Pictures every five seconds now.

Free Episode 1.

I’m sensing a theme so far - Mando vs Monsters. When do we get Mando fighting a Zillo Beast?

Ouch. As someone who thought Pop Team could be really funny in small doses and significantly softened on Tim and Eric (Moonbase 8 looks hilarious), this...this ain’t it. The closest comparison I can think of is Magical Girl Friendship Squad, a horrifically unfunny parody of magical girls written by people who hate anime and have very little knowledge of it.

They must have seen SyFy’s awful Magical Girl Friendship Squad and went “how can we out-fail that?” Look, I get it. Budgets are tight, dubs pacing has slowed, and this avoids both of those problems in a way SSSS.GRIDMAN wouldn’t. But still. Guess we’ll see how the ratings did.

Toonami will probably try to get it.

Demon Slayer 1. Finally starting this.

This is particularly notable since the original manga was never completed on account of the author’s untimely death in 2006. Also keep in mind the sheer scale and insanity of the original manga (think Go Nagai meets Jack Kirby) was Gurren Lagann’s direct inspiration, being a homage to Getter.

I sometimes wonder if Sealab and Adult Swim hanging the “we’re the only game in town!” card over anime fans for a decade has come to royally bite them in the ass over the past few years.

I have a significant distrust of Western animated writers for a while now. It’s always the most surface level parody made by people who despise anime and want it either destroyed or bent to their morals and standards. And it always looks like crap. Whiny, butthurt Twitter trolls trying to weave their way into streaming services and usurp the stuff they despise with their own crap, then shout “Racist!” And “homophobe!” when it inevitably flops on its face. Case in point - It is the wrong show, for the wrong block, at the wrong time.