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Scott Pilgrim, Pluto, and MOTU trailers will also be shown.

It is a remake and the rumor is it’s a…CG anime. And a Netflix original because of course Netflix wants more shows where people punch each other in the face. Specifically, it’s the same folks doing SAND LAND for Toriyama.

I posted this thread because I thought it was interesting to see the continued push of shows like this into mainstream culture, and it somehow got turned into an anti Serena Williams thread despite Serena retiring last year and her sister clearly done after her first round loss this year.

While the series hasn’t done Wednesday or Squid Game numbers, it’s doing well above numerous big budget releases like Sandman and The Witcher in less time. Hopefully they announce a season 2 soon. For reference, One Piece had over 10 times the viewing hours Bebop did in its first week.

I’m watching a YouTube video on North Korea’s abduction of the director Shin Sang-Ok, and apparently when he gained asylum in the US, he spent his last years making the 3 Ninjas films. Interesting life.

No word on whether this is a movie side story adaptation, a comedy thing like the DD series from a few years back, or a straight up remake. If it is a straight up remake, dollars to donuts it ends up on Netflix.

Even the opposing team losing their star QB in the first drive was no match for the Madden Curse.

Attack on Titan Plantasm debuts November 4.

Gamera Rebirth 2-3. Apparently this is what the director wanted to do with the Godzilla trilogy before he was told by Toho they didn’t want something they directly competed with the Legendary films, but the monster brawls fit quite well with Gamera as a more heroic kaiju given his own filmography even in the famous Heisei trilogy.

Clearly it’s working.

I presume his plan remains the same. Make a film. If it sucks, say Goro directed it.

What’s described is a joyless, doomerism filled fanfic that fails to recapture the lightning in the bottle that is FLCL, because DeMarco refuses to let this series die.

Gamera Rebirth 1.

I watched the Welcome to Eltingville pilot. Knowing that Evan Dorkin, the creator of the comic eventually stopped writing it out of sheer disgust with the fandom he was mocking and satirizing makes me wonder how different the world would be if it was picked up. It cannot be understated that the pilot only scratches the surface of the sheer utter contempt Dorkin has for geek culture as it existed in the 90s before Netflix, before tabletop role play became the purview of live-streaming voice actors and Hollywood writers, and before Marvel made all the money.

Is it too much to hope Yu Yu Hakusho gets a similar reception? I’m standing my prediction that once the strike is over Lionsgate will fast track Naruto for release, and Amazon will probably do the same with Voltron and Hellsing. I’m also still relieved that the SNL One Piece skit can’t be a thing, because you bet if the late night shows were running right now, everyone from Kimmel to Oliver would be making cracks about that dumbass stretchy kid that wants to be a pirate.

Finished the first season. And now I need the strike to end so I can have more.

I think the entire internet has agreed to this. Get her an audience with Oda.

For better or for worse, when this strike is over, every single anime IP major studios own is probably on the fast track for production. Also I want a season 2. I want a live action Nico Robin dammit.

My concern about One Piece is twofold. First, the cost is definitely going to go up now that the Hollywood chatter is Netflix may have their next friggin Stranger Things. You had a show that while somewhat popular in the United States, but was definitely the least popular of the big anime domestically now being seen as the next IT show. The price for the adjacent material, namely the anime, WILL go up, and Toonami got rid of One Piece before when the price was not to their liking. The second fear is executive meddling. Will higher ups want to keep around a show that advertises their competition? It’s one thing with the anime, that’s a niche, but now it’s a case of “As seen on Netflix! You like Netflix, right kids? You could be here and watch MAWS or you could go to Netflix for Lincoln Lawyer, Suits, and My Happy Marriage!” Not sure if Zaslav will be down with that.