Jman

One of these rainy weekends I’m just going to boot up HIDIVE and watch all the recent Lupin series, the Italian Job, Parts 5 and 6, etc. Also this is yet another Toonami show from HIDIVE. So, when’s Redo of Healer? Or Golgo 13?

Well Shenmue did well enough, but then again Shenmue seems to be exceeding everyone’s expectations (it’s a video game adaptation of a notoriously cult game series AND a Crunchyroll Original, yet it’s quite good). Nothing else was competing with the Final Four and Stone Cold.

It was a rough week competition wise, between the Final Four AND Night 1 of Wrestlemania.

So…Redo of Healer on Toonami when?

You promise X-Men, people expect X-Men.

Attack on Titan the Final Season The Last One Forever and Ever (For Real This Time) (We Fucking Mean It).

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-04-03/the-hollywood-reporter-hollywood-studios-shop-for-live-action-voltron-project/.184306 I really want to see the pitch reel this guy submitted to start a bidding war. Probably promising up and down it will have nothing to do with the Netflix disaster.

Final Final Season? Final Mix featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series?

You could have called this episode "QTE fails" and gotten the point across. The Shenmue II portion of the series has been pretty heavy on the detective work, which makes sense given he has nothing to really go on. I love how the thug fights are so passe we don't even see them. I mean, I get why, you see Ryo beat up one group of thugs to grind XP, you just want to fast forward to the boss. This episode is going to need a "Ryo gets knocked out" counter. "And if you do find Lan Di, and then you kill him, what next?" "I dunno, go to college?" Next episode - Boss fight!

15 years after the fact but still, GOOD.

Ryo's quest for Yuwanda Zhu leads him to the Yellow Turbans, the Triad that serves as the source of thugs muscle for Hong Kong's underground element. What do they want with Zhu and Ryo?

Meanwhile outside MSG during the NIT finals -

No thanks. I’d rather have the show on Netflix where the violence won’t be edited.

The Witch From Mercury isn’t out till October and odds are 50/50 it will be a Netflix show. (I know that’s not what you meant but still). As for replacements, most of the new stuff is locked down in the streaming bubble. Jujutsu Kaisen for instance, is worth way more to CR than on Toonami especially with the movie doing bank. Same with Tokyo Revengers and Shield Hero.

Today’s tactical Russian failure - Digging trenches in irradiated soil is a bad idea.

Jujutsu Kaisen 4-11 (over the last week or so). This show really loves its references. Wasn’t expecting a Cast Away reference of all things.

My pitch for Yacht Hunter continues to write itself.

What’s on the following week, no one knows.

There's a few reasons for that. Namely that the academy is mostly crusty old white dudes who just care about what their kids or grandkids watch to shut them up (which is why 9 times out of 10 Disney wins the animation category) and the people in the West defending animation as a medium...kind of suck at it. You got folks talking about The Owl House like it's not a canceled show for little kids because the lead girl likes other girls (when the audience couldn't give two shits and a holler about it) and stuff like Kaisen dismissed as "weebshit" because it takes attention away from their important, socially relevant stuff. It sends really weird signals when the guy defending animation as this big, mature medium lists his main credit as The Patrick Star Show.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/nielsen-ratings-sale-private-equity-1235121440/ Kind of wonder if this will affect how the handling of the precious ratings is done.

First female protagonist in a mainline Gundam series (0080 was mostly about young Bernie, and Twilight Axis doesn’t count).

Final Four is set. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj1s6K3luv2AhXajYkEHZ1-DAoQFnoECCwQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Fmens-college-basketball%2Fstory%2F_%2Fid%2F33609470%2Fmarch-madness-first-look-2022-ncaa-final-four-men-basketball-teams&usg=AOvVaw0zsvtWeC0HvYaOynOuK6K7 Villanova vs Kansas and UNC vs Duke.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-03-28/netflix-live-action-one-piece-series-casts-peter-gadiot-as-shanks/.184123 We have a Shanks. Also a suggested Kureha -

The COVID delays really hit this production.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/03/27/7334895/ “Sorry sir, we don’t have the fuel to go into Ukraine. But have some vodka!”