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Toonami grabs JoJo ASAP to keep it off Netflix as long as they can, despite it doing mediocre ratings. Mostly because JoJo does do good business for Netflix.

It's no wonder Netflix made deals with all these other animation studios. Just so they wouldn't have to work with these hacks and their Xbox 360 level visuals.

AT&T has cut 8700 jobs with promises of more to come as outrage channels are cheering. https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2020/10/24/att-third-quarter-cuts.html

It helps that Hancock's antics were played for comedy from the get-go for the most part, while Hibana was presented as a serious adversary for her first several appearances. There is something to be said about making the yandere a darker skinned woman, but it's nowhere near enough to overcome her considerable writing faults.

First trailer with less philosophical yammering and more Jet Jaguar.

It's the Bleach of this era, fun premise and characters unfortunately hampered by occasional issues. Maki is best girl.

FUNi has announced the dub cast. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-10-26/funimation-announces-inuyasha-spinoff-anime-yashahime-dub-cast/.165607

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-demon-slayer/demon-slayer-revenue-tops-100-million-in-10-days-breaking-japan-box-office-record-idUSKBN27B0P4 For all the good it does Toonami, Demon Slayer is a hit worldwide.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-10-25/clamp-tokyo-babylon-manga-gets-tv-anime-in-2021-by-gohands/.165573 Yes, the show best known as the prequel to X/1999 is getting a bigger adaptation than the old OVA.

Where is Peter Chung these days? And Netflix should stick with their Japanese studios or find licenses for Powerhouse to work with. Because their originals -

Video game licenses. And Castlevania has a ton of problems thanks to said sex pest. It’s their originals that no one cares about, if that makes sense.

Not even because of lack of quality, just...no one cares. Their latest, Blood of Zeus, is a take on Greek myth getting positive reviews across the board. But hype is non-existent. I feel like there's a distrust of action animation done by Americans. By Americans distrusting other Americans. Their last attempt at a non-video game license not written by a sex pest named Warren Ellis was Seis Manos and it's been all but cancelled despite positive reviews and a high profile cast.

Who cares?! Pierrot was not one of the studios involved in the deal. THEY DO NOT MATTER.

Getter Robo Devolution Vol 5

Fuck Pierrot, they aren't part of this anyway. And get one of the non-Mir studios a proper IP to animate. Oh if only...

Well, it’s not like they’re working with Pierrot.

It’s a shame the story it’s attached to is Black Clover. Of course that brings up the question of if these will be original properties or existing IP’s.

There are a decent amount of fan redesigns that do the machine justice and the initial design isn’t terrible, but the action scenes and the like are shite. If you’re gonna do a robot show, hire people who care about them. Give Obari a check. The design will kick ass even if the writing is bleh. Magic Knight Rayearth? The mechanical designs were his, one of the rare instances of CLAMP getting male help on a core part of production.

Their mechanical designs and animation for such were shite, not helped by the EP’s not giving a shit and just wanting to make another Avatar. Fuck Voltron.

They made Voltron.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-10-22/netflix-announces-new-partnerships-with-naz-science-saru-mappa-studio-mir/.165506 Studio Mir sucks but everything else looks fun. It’s becoming more and more clear Netflix sees anime as a huge part of their value proposition as the streaming wars record their first major casualty in Quibi.

Everyone has picked a side already, and early voting is shattering records. On top of it not being anime, they were preaching to the choir. So presumably most folks flipped over to the boxing match.

It might be easier given the new executives, but when Brendon Small tried to do that with Metalocalypse, Mike Lazzo’s response was to give him the finger and refuse any financial offer for the rights as a “fuck you” to Small.

Baseball playoffs and a cable TV unification boxing match against something Toonami’s viewers do not want to see. Was anyone surprised by this? Everyone is voting. Everyone gets it now. No one needs to be reminded, since odds are they already went to the polls or are waiting for said polls to open up.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924214998/the-venture-bros-creators-on-the-show-s-legacy-its-fans-and-its-cancellation The show’s been around for decades as television has changed fundamentally. Here’s them looking back on its legacy.