Jman

One Piece is very crap. Pathetic slow pacing problems. Bring back 4Kids Piece.

No, it's only going to get worse as the show gets slower.

The ratings are down. Everyone is panicking. Sorry, got Netflix.

Which is fine. Except that doesn't make Marco trans. If anything, it serves as a balance to the heavy harem elements the show seems to be toying with.

Can we talk about the trend of action cartoons thriving in On Demand platforms but not attracting an audience on cable? Can we talk about Netflix stocking up a massive anime war chest while Toonami struggles for ratings? Or maybe Hulu getting most if not all the Gundam, including Wing? If not let's make fun of One Piece some more.

No, no, no. Victory Gundam - Turn A Gundam - The whole of Unicorn is on YouTube legally...subtitled.

Hulu is really stocking up on Gundam. All they need are V, Turn A and Unicorn.

The current generation of kids uses Netflix. US action cartoons are dead - Flash and Arrow killed them, and to a lesser extent Agents of SHIELD.

Cannon God Exaxxion will get an anime right when Karate Minoru does. In other words: Never.

Ok, that isn't a bad thing. It doesn't mean Marco is trans though. Why the fuck does he have to be trans? He seems quite happy being a male.

5 days a week vs 1 day a week. Do the math.

There was that trans Dimension episode which had a male Star, among others. Trans Marco isn't canon. Princess Marco is because it's a joke.

Figure skating is lame. I've said it before, sports anime, unless they're combat sports, don't really interest me too much because it's either a sport I dislike (figure skating) or the focus is lame. Ping Pong only really works because the art is so unique. I still want a Karate Minoru series.

People are starting to realize Super has more in common with The Simpsons than Man of Steel. They aren't happy. Goku is totally Homer Simpson except ludicrously strong.

Actually logic dictates Yuri would be over faster.

*looks off at Mob Psycho 100* Really?

GOD NO!

I'm an old man. I prefer the older aesthetic to the modern, softer ones.

That might be a Toei demand vs something they can fix.

CAN-CEL ONE PIECE! *clap clap clap clap clap*

Even if you argue that there was a base appeal in the US past its initial nostalgia (Tenchi was so radically different from anything on TV back then, not so much now), the plot has become such a convoluted mess and the writing suffered so much that most of its initial appeal is gone.

That's horrid by any standards.

There's a documentary on Netflix about the unearthing of them.

I don't want it, which makes the sexual humor all the odder.

Except in pushing the sexuality in everything but our asexual cast, they keep reminding us of it. It gets even better when it's too sexual and Oda has to retcon it into being asexual again. Why did you go there in the first place? Your post-Alabasta excuse of "he was just imitating Ussop so Luffy getting off on topless women doesn't count". You could have not made the joke. Or had Strong World's climax with Nami's message specifically refer to the crew because pirates and adventures rather than end it with it sounding like a confession to her man to save her. It's confused as hell.