Jman

Considering the money Netflix spent to renew the license to Friends, they just oughta have the cast of that redub Evangelion.

Technically until 2008, but 2006 is when they closed up the studio and just aired reruns (the creatively titled The Best of Soul Train). The train was decommissioned in 2008 for good and the show was cancelled. And you gotta give that to Toonami. They could very easily just play nothing but old crap from back in the day and look back fondly on when Toonami was where you went for new anime, same as Soul Train for new tracks from soul, funk, R&B and the like. But they’re pushing forward regardless.

At least we’re not seeing an intro that essentially goes “remember when we were the only game in town?” This was 2006 and their intro has James Brown and the Jackson 5, reminding you of when they mattered. They stopped making new episodes that year. Toonami hasn’t gone there...yet. Wistfully remembering the good old days.

Toonami’s starting to feel like Soul Train in its dying days, except less dancing. What used to be THE premiere source for a certain type of material (music, anime) has found itself outmoded and beaten by more contemporary sources for the item in question while its attempts to right the ship are beaten three steps ahead of the game. You’ll know things have REALLY gone south if Toonami starts reminding you about the good old days before Netflix and Hulu like Soul Train did in its dying days.

Well...they’re not wrong. Especially #1. Lost Paradise coming out this year soothed that wound at least.

In 1997, when ADV employed non-union talent for a dub that was often held up as what was wrong with dubs? Let’s just say standards have come a long way in 20 years.

https://apple.news/AE5MbB9V5QhKobCWAxYgduw Huh.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2018-12-05/original-eva-english-cast-petition-to-re-dub-series-for-netflix/.140411 The original cast of D listers is petitioning to be part of the redub. Personally I rather Netflix just hired people from their other shows, like one of the Stranger Things kids as Shinji.

Now all I need is for Hulu to suggest SSSS Gridman after Mr. Robot or something. This is just another front in the content wars. Luckily Toonami has Crunchyroll in their corner.

Seconded.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-12-04/funimation-hulu-sign-first-look-streaming-deal-for-new-anime/.140359 Ensuring Hulu gets free choice of simudubs, while larger libraries and more obscure content are all via FUNiNow.

The Bleach manga and anime was trash at the end and everyone kinda realizes it now, with Kubo more interested in subversion (some might just say trolling) than consistency. The thing is, the movie goes above and beyond with the chemistry thing because Orihime is little more than a glorified extra (although her and Chad will likely have more of a role in any sequel if Netflix green lights it), superfluous characters like Kon and Don Kanoji (sp?) are cut entirely, and the emotional core of the movie is not Ichigo as a soul reaper in and of himself, but his relationship to Rukia and the responsibility she leads him into, along with their growing friendship. If a sequel is made, expect Kubo to go “No no no no no. No. That was not my artistic intention and we are going to stick with what the manga did because I wrote it and it is therefore irrefutable”. And a new generation of viewers, many of which would never have given Bleach the time of day if it wasn’t on their Netflix dash, get to be introduced to the joys of Troll Kubo.

SSSS Gridman 9.

That's...actually a really good point. I kinda wonder if this is going to lead to Rebuild getting a redub as well. I imagine yes if they get a celebrity cast, no if it's just regular VA's.

Yeah, in that shounen BFF kinda way where there is an out for something more overt. If they make a sequel and decide to go that way, it will make less than zero sense, and probably can only be justified by "Kubo told us to do it."

Ichigo and Rukia. Pretty much every review points out their chemistry and several lines were changed to be more overtly romantic.

David Tenant for Gendo.

Time to reflect does that, thankfully. That and I do genuinely believe the current On Demand culture makes getting mad at a show dumb when there’s literally five or six other ones available.

I won’t lie, while I could care less about the anime getting a conclsuon since I know it’ll be junk, I genuinely want to see the LA film get a proper sequel. Mostly because it was clear that in simplyfying the story to such a degree (making it much smoother and less bloated) and getting rid of all the filler, they had the inadvertent effect of making the the film the beginning of a love story. A love story that doesn’t occur in the manga. Part of me wants to see if that leaner, faster Bleach creates a more satisfying conclusion than the manga, or if Kubo gonna Kubo and the end result is the same sloppy mess.

Can we all agree a 3 minute training montage is infinitely preferable to 3 filler episodes?

I think on this board Elfie and myself are the only ones watching SSSS Gridman, but that’s the most fun I’m having this season. Well that and Zombieland Saga, which won me over something fierce.

Odds on Netflix springing for celebrities?

Deku has just the one. Two depending on certain filler.

NEGATIVE INTEREST.

Even given DeMarco’s boner for the guy, you could do WAY WORSE than Watanabe.