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When the elders sent Whatsherface on a quest north to find out why the machines are corrupted. I dunno, I played Nier Automata once I got better and had way more fun.

I’m one of those Johnny Come Latelys who started with Yakuza 0. Preordered 6. Cannot wait.

Space Battleship Yamato/Star Blazers 2199 23. I feel like I’m screaming at a brick wall when I tell people how amazing this show is. The Internet likes Voltron for God’s sake. Yamato 2199 is a better show than Voltron in virtually every way possible.

I tend to agree normally, but combat sports are a massive exception because they are fights, and that's what anime does. It's just done with a bit more care. (Seriously Japan, make a Karate Minoru anime. Netflix will greenlight it. They greenlit everything the hell else).

It it’s on Hulu, then just use that. I think I’m the only one on board for Megalobox. Granted it’s only one episode in, but Toonami has proven it’s never too late to make up for a bad choice. Prince of Tennis over Hajime no Ippo was a terrible choice.

The only sports anime this season to air is Megalobox.

The fact that Adult Swim would make Pop Team Epic would make it less likely, not more. Why import when you can buy locally?

As a big combat sports fan (Hajime no Ippo was the shit) and a big fan of the aesthetic, I was all over this like a dog on a steak. The look, the world, all of it really has me hyped for the next episode...and an English dub.

That's Go Nagai for you.

He’s gonna get Star Blazers 2199. Watch.

Hey, the numbers aren’t too bad. Allow reruns to crater all that goodwill next week.

Trying to produce original content instead of stuff people have seen on Hulu, Crunchyroll and Youtube? Snark aside, making originals is technically a smart move. Their last original, Samurai Jack season 5, did big numbers without the show airing elsewhere first.

I’ve gone on about how streaming is the future, but that’s a matter of airing it first. Netflix’s thing is they’re making shows at a far greater quantity than Toonami. For every FLCL, Netflix has 10 originals alongside their live action originals. So Toonami will acquire Black Clover seasons while Netflix out and out makes a Saint Seiya remake. It’s not comparable.

You would think he’d be all over the Legend of the Galactic Heroes remake.

Even so, it probably had a substantial impact on their coffers, making acquisitions harder.

The cost of making a show from the ground up...on Toonami’s budget, is probably a much greater percentage than Netflix and Hulu’s respective budgets.

Connor McGregor has lost his goddamn mind.

Adult Swim put Bushworld Adventures up legally.

The original Reboot was something of a watershed moment for Toonami because it was proof the audience wouldn’t crap on Western shows. It was also proof Toonami’s notorious editing standards were because they were trying to censor freaking harem anime. Reboot had more freedom with Toonami than it ever did with ABC. So it nothing else, it’s a part of Toonami’s history, while this just seems full of shame and self loathing from the writers.

Springing what could have been anything from mustaches to The Disaster Artist ensures this weekend didn’t count. But FLCL 2 and 3 are now talking points, so at least there’s that.

I can’t help it. I liked the original and it really did serve to show what Toonami could do.

BEBOPAIRZLOL as the budget is pushed to the breaking point. If FLCL 2 and 3 flop the block will feel it for years.

I wonder if Tim and Eric will throw another bitch fit like the rumored one over S2 getting more money than Awesome Show because WS still wants to do Big O 3. I was just starting to like them again too. I’m pretty sure the bulk of Toonami’s budget went towards the new FLCL so we should brace ourselves for slim, SLIM pickings and pushing the reruns to exhaustion. I mean, the strategy makes sense, they’re seen as second fiddle because their stuff is airing elsewhere first while other services have the rights to or are making exclusives, but they only have so much money to go around.

It was inevitable S1 was going to air in the lead in to S2. How that reflects on S2 and S3 remains a mystery.

DeMarco’s tastes in comedy tend to run towards the episodic and the simple. Ask Brendon Small.