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The Tetris movie was a surprisingly decent Cold War movie.

As for this show, DeMarco would have been better off just trying to adapt Teppu. At least Teppu has an interesting hook, in that its main character is a complete asshole and her rival is the happy-go-lucky shounen heroine.

No, but the CC one was shown. Half the questions were “Why is the intro like Toonami?”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/international-series-binge-watch-holidays-2024-1236071565/ That’s the sort of recommendation anime doesn’t usually get. Drops of God, a manga turned Franco-Japanese live action drama, also made the list.

Thanksgiving leftovers with the family. Turkey, potato salad, and mashed cauliflower and carrots.

If it helps any, the Naruto/TMNT comic was second in sales only to Ultimate Spider Man, which is Marvel’s hottest title.

Executive Producer Jason DeMarco.

https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-start-wearing-dead-salmon-hats-again-after-ditching-the-trend-for-37-years Fascinating study of these whales and what passes for fashion.

That would be preferable to a rerun of the Flop Girl. Gonna need to edit it down though. Hopefully the preview confirms the song for the opening. Rumor was it was going to be “Mother” by Danzig.

No way they can “accidentally” play this next month instead of Flop Girl?

That’s just it. All the wackiness, all the copy/paste from Bleach and MHA probably wasn’t in the first draft if it was just their take on Garouden. Not that I expect these writers to know what Garouden is, mind you, but the goofiness seems grafted on.

Here’s the cast.

I haven’t admittedly cared about AXS since they switched from a variety network that aired a surprisingly robust amount of international MMA (before our modern UFC-opoly had most of the minor leagues go through their Fight Pass service) to a mostly music based one. Fate is definitely a new path for them, even if I’d prefer they aired RIZIN or something.

I think I’m going to need to watch Fate on CR then. Let’s see how long I last.

Steak, salad, and fondant potatoes. The potatoes were more trouble than they were worth though, got burnt a bit and smoked out the apartment, for an…ok taste.

Ranma 1/2 8 Dan Da Dan 8.

Anyway, the more of this show I watch and dislike, the more I feel like this originally began life as an MMA story more akin to Kengan Ashura, Garouden, or even Teppu before it was made perfectly clear there was no way IN HELL Cartoon Network would sign off on an MMA show, since MMA is associated with real violence, as opposed to pro wrestling which is associated with fake violence, because it is, to quote Kevin Nash - "Fucking fake." So cue adding in the pro wrestling motif and a lot of really wacky elements that don't really work, not to mention the Current Year character designs which are very ugly and derivative. I mean look at this episode. In addition to being boring as hell, why would a pro wrestler be teaching strikes and not well, WRESTLING?! OK, you need to master the Bruce Lee one-inch punch, and fail at it. Kinnikuman had a similar training arc, and it was about teaching wrestling holds. The new series even flashes back to it, pointing out the importance of grappling fundamentals (not hurt by the fact that Kinnikuman is supposed to purposefully wrestle like Antonio Inoki). Maybe I'm being pedantic here, but it feels like the IFG skin is covering what was probably closer to Garouden than this.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/macys-says-employee-hid-154-million-2021-rcna181602 Think about all those expenses he hid for a second. Was he pocketing that money? Macy's is pretty much the last bastion of mall department stores so this oughta be interesting.

Another week, another Top 10 on Max without the Flop Girl, losing to…1000 LB Sisters which rounds out their top 10.

This is why I’m praying this stuff is scalable. If it is, well, 200 grams sucks out the same CO2 as a large tree. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-new-yellow-powder-quickly-pulls-carbon-dioxide-from-the-air-and-researchers-say-theres-nothing-like-it-180985512/ Have enough facilities with it, and you will get rid of the excess giga tons of CO2 in the atmosphere and return the levels to pre Industrial Revolution ones. The Saudis are funding this research presumably to hold onto to oil a while longer but this and a successor chemical can fix the immediate problem.

Surprised this got posted after two weeks of ignoring the show’s existence. I would have laughed if it was just ignored every Saturday. So yeah, the show is back to doing nothing original and having its creatives start shit on social media for daring to say it’s unoriginal.

If this somehow ends up on FX or TBS, we all start hitting the “Toonami is dying” button.

Rewind has been a fun experiment, but when pretty much every single show on it is available on a streaming service, including YouTube in certain cases, it's not surprising people aren't heading home to watch the lineup on a Friday afternoon, even as the weather gets chilly. The best thing they can air there is stuff that isn't serialized because serialized materials at this point seem to be the domain of streaming, judging by how Crystal's movies seem to have done for Netflix. Channel surfing is a dead concept it seems. I'm also curious what the combined forces of Crunchyroll and Netflix will have to say about the dub of Daima being a Toonami first run. Given the massive amounts of cash both have, at best I could see it being simultaneous.