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I found a pretty good video on the subject, not about what’s woke or any nonsense like that, but getting to the core of the matter - Licensing sight unseen can be a complete crapshoot, especially when the manga was far tamer.

You know I think I’m the only one who gave a straight answer. Clearly I misread the assignment.

That’s my usual baseless conspiracy theory. Although Warner putting Crunchyroll as a major part of HBO MAX is...eye opening.

It works...sometimes. The problem is overuse. Look, the team will need to get real jobs after this given they’re persona non grata thanks to Toei, so I expect this Patreon to go badly.

Unlike LK, who turned his abridging into a VA career, Team Four Star was blacklisted by Toei themselves so they don’t have much of a future in the industry. So...have fun guys.

If only. He’s clearly not equipped for it. Then again he’s not equipped to take on streaming services either.

Original programs cost money. Seriously, if there was ever a time to use that Crunchyroll partnership and get shows from CR to fill slots, now is the time.

Backlash continues as Chinese company Tencent (a Chinese mega Corp with a disturbing amount of influence in digital platforms) delisted MHA and ceased production on a smartphone game they were making. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2020-02-05/my-hero-academia-manga-anime-removed-from-chinese-digital-platforms/.156125

That ship sailed a decade ago. Great when Toonami/ASA was the only game in town, less so when every streaming service got it and spread it online for 24/7 viewing.

Even so, it’s still airing at the ass end of Saturday night. No one realized this was going to be the “X-Men for millennials”. (At this point they might as well get the guy who went “Previously on X-Men” to go “Previously on My Hero Academia”.)

MHA is super popular, the problem is Toonami will never be a primary source for anything but Toonami exclusives.

And Ryuk is trending under politics.

The lyrics are “In the Navy” The chorus is “YMCA.” Either way it’s not to be taken seriously.

Japan has a rather...contentious relationship with China and Korea over WWII crimes and their continued refusal to acknowledge them. To so casually have someone named after a war criminal, even if accidentally, stirs up a lot of negative feelings about Japan’s continued denial of those war crimes.

Short version - A pun for a Doctor accidentally reflected the name of an infamous Japanese WWII doctor who participated in human experimentation. Shounen Jump realized this was done out of error, and to appease their international audience, asked the author to change the name. Outrage mobs want an apology. Haters of woke crowds consider this a betrayal and bending the knee. And the author’s rep has taken a major hit.

I’ll say this much - When your opening is a riff on “In the Navy”, no one is taking the show all that seriously.

The true appeal? For Americans, it hits the same sweet spot as one of the most popular cartoons of the 90’s - Likable characters Longform, compelling storytelling Colorful art and animation And it creates something that not only sticks, but makes people want to see what happens next.

Dr. Stone 1 Orphen 2.

Depends if FUNi wants to sit on the license or if they’re needled by the Japanese company into negotiating a peaceful transfer of the rights to save face with the licensor. Sentai would probably be all over it now.

I expect a lot of pundits to bitch about FUNi bending the knee.

Just don’t cast Anna Diop or anyone like that as Nami. That’s Step 1.

Oda has confirmed a 10 episode season for Netflix. No word on a cast yet. Be very afraid.

The guy who plays Rock Lock in the MHA dub got Powerhouse Animation (Castlevania, Seis Manos) to do his proof of concept for a super robot series called Star Child.

Here’s the full commercial.