Jman

I think we can declare Unicorn (ratings wise) -

https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/some-unfortunate-news.html Showbuzz Daily is shuttering its doors after this week. That’s going to make ratings diving much more difficult.

When the reviews actively compare the show to the dumpster fire that was the She-Ra reboot, and the rest of the world just waits to see who will be the new Superman in the big reboot, this thing is a sign of a desperate block. Invincible this is not.

New episodes, same crew because of all the hubbub over Bender.

Once in college. Not fun.

Tenderloin with gremolata and tomatoes. And fries. Still working on plating.

Sounds like a dud.

And here I thought that baseball OVA could get them something with MLB.

Witch from Mercury 23 Hell’s Paradise 10

Air fried chicken and some leftover salad and bread. They can’t all be five star courses.

You know, with games getting remasters and re-releases, it would make a lot of sense if the block is starving for new material. What I’m saying is they should air Persona 4: The Animation. J/k Sorry, just had it on the brain because of the recent re-release of the game, not to mention the game is for all intents and purposes, Japanese Scooby Doo.

We have summaries for the first five episodes: https://www.tvpassport.com/series/my-adventures-with-superman/5630148

This explains why Genndy seems so pissed off at modern animation.

Leg of lamb with wheat garlic bread and salad. Cuts of meat with a carb and salad tend to be my go to’s, Since it’s Saturday I had it with red wine.

Persona 4 Golden. Funny, because I played 5 Royal first. So far it’s basically “Scooby Doo but Japanese.”

Squid ink pasta with a white wine garlic butter sauce, salmon, and garnished with parsley and baby tomatoes. Is it cheating if I only post the fancy stuff I make, and not say, the meal shake or a store bought quesadilla?

I think we keep having this conversation not out of redundancy on either of our ends, but because it feels like every week Zaslav makes a new stupid decision that comes to light, like trying to sell the music rights to half of Warner’s films, or the AI designed to reject pitches. Can someone tell him to space out his stupid actions, for all our sakes?

Right now Toonami is in a classic case of "Make due with what you have." And that's not changing any time soon. Was DeMarco biased for making yet more FLCL despite the clearly diminishing returns? Yes, but Crunchyroll, Netflix, and now Hulu/Disney are cutting him off at every turn. Jujutsu Kaisen? They should have aired it back when Warner owned Max but the success of the first season and movie have it out of price range. Witch from Mercury? Rocketing Bandai to record profits and controlled by Crunchyroll? Bleach? Viz seems happy giving their stuff to the Mouse. Even potential future seasons of Black Clover are probably Netflix bound after Sword of the Wizard King did utterly massive weekend numbers for them. It was easier in the past when Toonami did have a wider variety of shows, to dismiss not having others as those shows not being up to snuff. Sometimes it worked, consistent with DeMarco's quoted vision of a "bespoke action block" like when they aired Made in Abyss, and sometimes it's "Sure we don't have Chainsaw Man or Hell's Paradise, but we have a Genndy cartoon!" This is what happens when your parent company is so broke-ass that they're selling half of their music and no one wants to work with you anymore. I'm wondering how much of this is just good old fashioned budget given Warner's increasingly public financial issues and Zaslav's Priority #1 being debt reduction.

Yakitori: Soldiers of Misfortune 1-4. Apparently it's based on a sci-fi novel? The action is pretty good, but it feels like a small part of a much larger world, even with the flashbacks. Maybe that's the idea.

“More Rick and Morty clones! More! The algorithm demands it! And make sure our action cartoons look like the ani-Mays the kids like!”

What’s getting sold next week?

Rick with a British accent, yay or nay?

Don’t worry, Zaslav didn’t forget Adult Swim!

Started reading the comic for research. You will never want to eat sushi again for fear the sushi chef will kill you, because you broke Rule #208 of proper sushi etiquette. You probably won’t want to keep reading the comic either. Edit - That was actually a pretty short comic. I can’t see the series being more than 10 episodes ala Unicorn and that’s probably liberally using flashbacks to Blood and Sushi. Bourdain was clearly reveling in a power fantasy where he gets to kill rude customers in a setting where asking for a California roll is a justifiable homicide. Not sure how it will fly in a post-Menu world. But like I said, you will NEVER want sushi again because that chef will gut you like a fish (pun not intended) for breaking a sushi etiquette rule.