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Normally I’d forgive weak linear if Max made up for it, but it hasn’t. So this is going to be an uphill battle. We’ll need to see if they retain viewership as well as get those Max numbers up.

It’s been a busy week, but did we get any ratings data?

More of Megaton Musashi W. How many plot lines can one game have?!

People were earmarking it as a possible Toonami show, but after a poor outing over the summer on Netflix (complete with getting battered by Hajime no Ippo on the service), it's done.

Homemade clam chowder with cheddar biscuits.

Now that the show has failed to hit the top 10 on Max, which is actually something all of the Adult Swim original action shows that weren't FLCL sequels have done since they started measuring a top 10 (so roughly going back to Ninja Kamui) I think an issue here is that...men don't want to see men beat up women in a sport context. This is another ramble, but hear me out. It's one thing for Wonder Woman or the Powerpuff Girls to beat up bad guys. They have superpowers, and they clearly have an ability that puts them beyond normal thugs. But in the context of a sport, well, we don't have men fight women in combat sports for a reason. It feels wrong to have a dude wail on a girl. I mean the whole setup is kind of stupid for a serialized show we're supposed to take semi-seriously, (it worked in Kinnikuman because the warring factions of superhumans decided pro wrestling matches were a more sporting way to settle their battles than all-out war, as well as a means to limit collateral damage), but that sort of thing just makes you feel icky more than anything. Tiger Mask had female villains, but when they got in the ring, they fought other women, which is probably why W had a subplot of the main character's female manager taking on the mantle of Spring Tiger to wrestle herself, so she could wrestle other women when having Tiger Mask himself beat them up would just feel wrong. I'm also not the biggest fan of Andy's design, since it hits all the Current Year stereotypes, and doesn't really lend itself well to action in an equal setting without superpowers.

Unlike MAWS, Rick and Morty the anime and Uzumaki, the Invisible Flop Girl has failed to crack the top 10 on Max. Meanwhile the Hashira Training Arc of Demon Slayer is bouncing around the Netflix Top 10, peaking at 7. Take that Outer Wilds!

See, this is what I meant about the show being a cargo cult production. It's disparate elements thrown together to make an incoherent whole.

Golf is a fucking expensive hobby. Maybe this is why I liked grappling so much. Lack of necessary equipment. Still the lesson today really fixed a big flaw in my game. Now I just need to be consistent so I can play with family, friends, and clients.

I might be expecting too much that actual professionals engage with their material outside of the most surface-level takes, but Ultimate Muscle was fairly successful in the US, to the point that it got a whole extra season because of its popularity here. Why are you trying to imitate anime in the first place? That's my first question. The guy has experience on numerous comic book adaptations that didn't need to imitate anime. We have our own distinctive art styles. Use those. This already looks girlbossed to hell with the usual Current Year requirements, and the fact that it is a cargo cult of a production is not helping.

Western animators trying to imitate anime are the equivalent of cargo cults. How the hell do you mention a wrestling show based on anime and not mention Kinnikuman or Tiger Mask once? Especially Tiger Mask if you’re a fan of pro wrestling given there have been six wrestlers that have carried the mantle and with the exception of Minowa (who’s a cult figure in MMA) they’re all legends?! It’s not like the franchises have been idle either. But your influence is Naruto?! I know I shouldn’t be annoyed, but I can’t help it.

‘If it happens, great, just as long as it’s not the 08th MS Team fanfic they were allegedly making.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/comcast-spin-off-cable-channels-streaming-partner-peacock-1236049904/

The lack of any new info on Get Jiro! has me thinking that hits late 2025/early 2026 provided we're all still alive.

My mom just got out of surgery. No complications or anything but still, I’m hoping she recovers alright.

Cheeseburger, the smashed kind at a little hole in the wall. I wasn’t going to go initially but the guys were all “Come on, let’s go as a group,” and naturally I caved into peer pressure.

Six weeks out from shooting, and brand new characters. I’m guessing this is a remake but they’re changing all the names and personalities.

I think the key difference here is that despite our numerous, NUMEROUS issues with the quality of such, ratings-wise, MOST of the Adult Swim anime (minus the FLCL sequels, but we all know those are DeMarco vanity projects) have done pretty well ratings-wise if we're using the Max charts as a guideline. There are signs of a downturn in them though, Rick and Morty the Anime's viewership collapsed midway through its run and so did Uzumaki relatively after Episode 2 when prior it was actually doing better than The Franchise, one of HBO's big prestige dramas for the fall (the other is The Penguin which has been topping ratings charts overall). Regardless of how you compare these shows to other libraries, we're seeing a pattern of the worm starting to turn in regard to viewership, especially as the "Adult Swim Anime Original" labeling becomes increasingly associated with bad shows and bad endings. It doesn’t help that the one show that was mostly liked by the audience and critics got screwed out of a Season 2 by the Crunchyroll/Warner divorce, and arguably the biggest name franchise wise in Blade Runner got screwed into being in copyright hell by Amazon buying the franchise rights and deciding to make a sequel to Blade Runner 2049.

I think the full story won’t come out for years, for better or for worse, so for now DeMarco and Zaslav take half the blame each. And I think I just like having comparison points.

I'll allow blaming DeMarco and Zaslav in equal measure. DeMarco's LOTR fanfic is going to be fun to catch the fallout of if that bombs.

My apartment dumbbells have saved me from the feeling of laziness quite a bit. I guess it’s one thing to do during football.

Teriyaki salmon, salad and leftover fries.

At least now we can get back to a dead horse we all love to beat. Blaming Zaslav.

So this has been making the rounds - Another David Zaslav special. Poke was upset with the comparison when it was (briefly) made two weeks ago, but yeah, DanDaDan is superior.