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Well if Netflix isn’t going to remake Rayearth someone might as well get the original.

Subbed and dubbed.

MHA Season 3 4-10. All for One needs a better threat. “I am here” vs "I AM THE ROCKS OF THE ETERNAL SHORE; CRASH AGAINST ME AND BE BROKEN!"

MHA Season 3 1-4.

Western comics have become such a convoluted embarrassing disaster that rumors spark up every now and then of Disney and WB saying “fuck it” and killing the comic producers. It cannot be overstated how popular X-Men was, and how Marvel pissed all that goodwill down the toilet because Fox had the movie rights. In another universe, this is airing on Toonami - Until a reckoning occurs in how Western comics are fundamentally consumed (aka no one is going to pay $5 for 22 pages tied to a hilariously convoluted ongoing universe) people will continue to go to manga like My Hero Academia for the stories X-Men, New Mutants, etc used to provide to kids who would spend a buck-$1.25 on them coming home from school when they got a drink from the 7-11.

Gail Simone is a...mostly well respected writer even if people view a lot of her habits as why people left comics, but she has a pretty long list of stuff here. Given my own comparisons of MHA and X-Men I thought her argument was worth reading - Her points boil down to the following - 1. X-Men stuff dwarfed sales of everything else back in the 80’s and 90’s, making it the big Shounen of those time periods. Complete with animated adaptation! 2. Many of the traits of classic X-Men runs are found in shounen manga. 3. Marvel de-emphasizing the mutants after the rights were sold to Fox for movies and the comics spiraling into irrelevance led to people picking up manga to replace the X-shaped hole in their reading. 4. Numerous MHA characters could be X-Men characters with little to no changes. She does encourage people to look at the current X-Men runs, which...

MHA Season 3 Episode 1 - Bakugou wants to be Wolverine so bad it’s hilarious.

Previously...on X-Men, erm, My Hero Academia.

The first episode is on Crunchyroll. Surprise! It’s as incomprehensible and obtuse as ever. https://www.crunchyroll.com/tenchi-muyo-ryo-ohki/episode-1-step-mother-step-sister-inheritance-and-794214 Also it apparently takes place in 1996.

The show even comic book creators admit has replaced X-Men is back in its weird Toonami timeslot. But will Deku ever be “blowing up Krakoa the Living Island” cool?

My Hero Academia Season 2. Yeah, I spent the last few days watching the second season.

It’s not the main source anymore. BTW, film has pulled down $10 million, so saying the show is unpopular is lies.

Film has cleared the $10 million mark, which is really good for a limited release, so FUNi is bragging. https://www.funimation.com/blog/2020/03/04/my-hero-academia-heroes-rising-box-office-smash-10-million-north-america/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=my-hero-academia&utm_content=heroes-rising-box-office-news&utm_term=

Do you prefer sleek or tank? Mild Bat-logos or full on Bat-branding? This is a nice car, but feels more like a souped up sports car than something decked out as “PROPERTY OF GODDAMN BATMAN.” Cool lights though.

MHA’s movie was #4 at the box office, pretty good for a limited release (it easily eclipsed Two Heroes’ gross) but the Toonami ratings are down. The disconnect is more apparently every day.

The question ends up being “Do you want Toonami to promote the shows or do you want the shows to promote Toonami?” Back in the day they worked in harmony. Nowadays it’s a lot more complex. I would argue the people that want the CR originals (Well, Tower Of God, God of High School and Shield Hero anyway) on Toonami want the latter. The people who want more exclusive stuff not beholden to streamers want the former. The Toonami audience from back in the day is getting older. I’ve said it before, but that’s part of why it’s nowhere near as toxic as the old ASMB days. We grew up, got jobs, started relationships, watched our niche hobby expand in such a way that we aren’t reliant on DeMarco as its sole tastemaker, etc. That importance can never be diminished, but as things change, its use will be...questioned. I still wonder if the endgame when HBO MAX launches is for WarnerMedia to align all its anime and non-DC, non Looney Tunes animation under the Crunchyroll umbrella. Crunchyroll presents Toonami may be the block’s future, in which Toonami remains a gateway of original shows and licensed acquisitions designed to lead people into the CR ecosystem. It will serve the same purpose as a gateway, just in a different way.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-03-01/my-hero-academia-heroes-rising-film-earns-usd5.1-million-to-rank-no.4-in-u.s-opening-weekend/.157007 Fairly nice haul for a limited release.

1. The original stuff they’re airing hasn’t connected with everyone, and I’m the first to laugh at the FLCL sequels. But it’s something you cannot get anywhere else and there is value in that. And let’s be honest, we all have something we like that isn’t super popular that we would spend money on. In my case, if I had a Netflix budget, I would green light a remake of Armored Trooper VOTOMS. It’s a good story, but I admit my own bias. Same with DeMarco trying to push FLCL. 2. That’s just it. Most viewers take Marie Kondo’s advice - Does it spark joy? No? Then move on. Wrestling is a big one. WWE wants to throw so much content that their viewers won’t watch anything else that they’re devoid of context, so they go to the competitor. 3. Giving people freedom, the ability to watch when they want, is infinitely preferable to any misguided sense of community from live viewing. It allows people to actually enjoy things they couldn’t otherwise. Are you telling me that JoJo on Netflix won’t get far more viewers than JoJo’s Toonami airings? So even if you believe “DeMarco dun goofed”, it’s his block, not an industry.

It’s going to happen this year. Whether it’s worth a damn is another question entirely.

So what I’m gathering from all this is Crunchyroll’s original content is so boring everyone has to focus on behind the scenes drama to entertain themselves. Meanwhile Netflix is preparing a Pacific Rim anime and a collaboration with CLAMP.

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure S2 1-2. Netflix has Stardust Crusaders. Regular people will know what it is now.

I admittedly just wanted to go “Oh, that thing exists. Now how about the new wave of Korean properties being adapted to anime, which”...oh jeez I can’t even remember the last one. I remember years and years ago ADV had one but I cannot remember the name for the life of me. What I do know is that Webtoon has cornered the market on webcomics for the most part for good or for ill, and while a lot of their content is crap, both Tower of God and God of High School are incredibly popular.

How is any of that supposed to help her case? She was part of the generation of self righteous idiots in comic books which is why no one reads comics anymore. She sucks.

They realized that they had a bad product, and did their damndest to cover it up, but the Internet, Twitter NEVER forgets. They know Kate Leth is a misandrist douchebag, and the people will only be satisfied when they confirm the show has been cancelled. Especially these days when people make a living off of endless videos shitting on these morons for any perceived slight.