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Cannon Busters 1 Kengan Ashura 8-9.

Well it had a huge push...to be watched online. And they are seriously behind. On the plus side, it’s a good show.

Cannon Busters apparently hit today, and it looks like it wants to scratch the same itch as Samurai Champloo.

Polygon Pictures continues to fail at animation. Why did someone give these clowns the Pacific Rim anime?!

You should have given this advice to Adult Swim circa 2005. They’d be on it like gravy on poutine.

That’s one way for FUNi to get people to watch the shows on its own service...

It’s Jordan’s production company that’s a co-producer. I’m sure he would sit down if it meant getting a Season 2 greenlit, and DeMarco could be arsed to set it up.

I am still convinced High Guardian Spice doesn’t exist and is merely a scam mentioned to make fan service heavy or controversial shows more popular with faux outrage. That’s why Goblin Slayer will return and we will assuredly be getting more Shield Hero. gen:Lock is apparently getting tie-in comics from DC as well. The fact that no one is leveraging these resources remains baffling. Seriously, have TOM interview David Tenant! It’s better than a speech!

IIRC, the ulterior motive behind this was to hype up for a season 2 since they made the boneheaded decision to premiere it as a RT exclusive. Of course they didn’t count on DeMarco’s legendary lack of any kind of promotion. How the hell do you have all those A listers (Michael B. Jordan’s film, regardless of what you thought of it, was nominated for goddamn Best Picture!) and not mention them once? Because this is Toonami, where we’re building you baffling decisions because someone still thinks it’s 1999 and their biggest competition is Fox Kids. If season 2 does debut, it will likely be around the launch window of the HBO MAX streaming Ultrazord, which will give it a big boost.

As we all know, DeMarco’s shit taste and Toonami’s lack of promotion are both legendary. It’s why the idea that gen:Lock will get more popularity via Toonami is laughable. No one knows about it! None of the actors have said a damn thing and Toonami doesn’t promote. Meanwhile we had a freaking Dr. Stone billboard in Times Square.

That still doesn’t explain how some of these shows middle on Toonami and somehow become hits when on Netflix. The first two seasons of JoJo trended next to freaking Infinity War. Just think about how hard that is. “Yeah, I’m on Netflix for three shows. Stranger Things, Fuller House, and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Not to mention you have stuff trending without them, like how Demon Slayer apparently trended on Twitter this weekend (which means I have to watch it now). It does explain the inability of the block to shine a light on lesser known shows. People don’t trust the block to show anything outside of the shounen bubble so stuff that is outside said bubble inevitably falls through the cracks.

It seriously feels like these jerks are hired to get people mad enough to watch the show. I mean, it’s a good show.

So we’re introduced to a new bad guy and a woman whose powers let her assume the mannerisms of a cat who also gets groped. Yeah, this explains the latest rant from Crunchyroll writers about how the show is totally sexist and how High Guardian Spice is coming for all their boobies with potato shaped women and LBGTQ+ relationships. Also Shinra is clearly a Kamen Rider fan.

It wasn’t an original concept, it was a light novel adaptation.

Because those people are the main reason anyone would care about the show. Of course, this is Toonami, where DeMarco’s shit taste is building you an outdated relic of a block.

Most of the time it’s a non factor. Here it’s the biggest draw the show has.

Toonami’s promotional material is legendarily half assed, but it just hit me that they don’t mention the actors involved. Not once. Look, no one gives a shit about your average VA but that is David Tenant. Candidate for Best Doctor Ever David Tenant. Purple Man from Jessica Jones David Tenant. To say nothing of all the other actors, and none are mentioned.

Anyway, on the topic of current Toonami, Kengan Ashura > gen:Lock. This week should give us better ratings data.

I always laugh at AGK. Objectively average and fell off the rails at the end, famous for being the most ANIME of the anime they ever picked up, rumored to be part of a package deal for Parasyte, and it completely destroyed Parasyte in ratings. It’s like how Netflix goes on and on about how this cartoon is super diverse and inclusive, and they find kids watching Transformers and adults watching Baki. And then the other thing gets cancelled.

Kengan Ashura 4.

How many of those are countries that don’t have access to anime via regular means? Not everyone has the rights tied up nice and comfortably. They have to go there.

Because first run episodes are everywhere else. With the forthcoming Hulu/ESPN+/Disney+ bundle, more people will have access to Hulu’s FUNi stuff...which may give Toonami even less of a reason to keep it around.

https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2019/08/08-1/blade-of-the-immortal-anime-slices-up-amazon-prime-video-in-october Now if someone could dub the damn thing and advertise it next to Patriot or The Boys, we’ll be in business.

As if streaming didn’t take enough wind out of this block’s sails, Gundam The Origin is also joining FUNiNow.