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I'm not going to play armchair psychatrist for DeMarco, but it does feel like there is a lot more lashing out after he felt his power base and ability to gatekeep action animation from most Americans fade away. The guy essentially controlled what everyone but pirates and the really hardcore weebs watched back in the day (the day of $20-$30 DVD's of a series with 4 episodes a pop) and he didn't mind lording that fact over people (as pointed out by the tone of the Adult Swim bumpers and a lot of his earlier tweets and interviews where he was much more smug and arrogant). Now it's more him just being pissed off at everyone, while occasionally ranting how much better it was back in the day when Toonami (and by extension him) controlled what you watched and when you watched it, because you now have too much choice.

Shin Kamen Rider - 7.5/10. A very trippy as hell feeling movie that is not as good as Shin Godzilla or Shin Ultraman, mostly because it feels like a big budget TV pilot rather than a set film experience. The action was great but Anno’s reverence to the original is almost to a fault here, with the effects and sounds clearly done to homage rather than retell. It feels like if Wes Anderson made a superhero movie (it was a Hideaki Anno joint so make of that what you will).

You know the show still is influential (and its fans remembered) when they all came out to reminisce when Bastard!! came out.

“Gentlemen…BEHOLD!” still gets modern play these days. And yes you heard that in Dr. Weird’s voice.

It’s apparently rolling out in the great state of Missouri this week, so if we have any beer drinkers in that state, please keep a look out. The brewery itself apparently sold out locally so it’s a big hit on a small scale. Hoping for a national release.

Last night was salmon and mushroom risotto with white wine. Tonight is a meal replacement protein shake because of what I had last night.

If there wasn’t a next day Max airing and a marathon, I’d actually start to say Unicorn is looking like a bit of a wash. As it stands there’s way too many factors and separate airings to draw such a conclusion.

‘Beer remains the one tie-in Crunchyroll hasn’t gotten into yet, unless I’m missing something.

They flat out said financially, the show was a massive success. It's just the aesthetic stuff they're contemplating redoing, especially given the tone. JJK is a high standard. Again, JJK 0 outgrossed the Bob's Burgers movie.

Season 2 trailer because someone at Netflix likes anime from the early 90s when it was advertised as too hot for TV.

Demon Slayer Swordsmith Village 1 Ultraman S3 2-7

Also they light it up at night apparently. So this is here officially.

Do with this information what you will.

He said Toonami was forced to by advertisers and it rustled his jimmies. I’m not going to rag on a guy for his personal tastes, but if this isn’t just regular old shitposting, then he really does seem bitter that he can no longe curate the action animation Americans watch.

Jason DeMarco, the original Tumblr show runner.

Bleach continues to be back on the service you get as a bonus with Disney + and ESPN +, and is nowhere near Toonami.

Hell’s Paradise 7 Witch from Mercury 19

Logic dictates most of the fans watch it on Max. And airing it earlier in the week means it airs on Max earlier in the week.

Sorry, reflex. That always plays when I hear "BEHOLD!". Nice icon though.

Um, anyway, Genndy isn't going to go out and say "Toonami sucks dick, I'm better!" during an Adult Swim sponsored AMA. I still think my comparison of him to Ralph Bakshi that I did the other day is rather apt though. Please bear with me for a JMan ramble - Genndy thinks, maybe not without cause, that he is doing things right and everyone else is screwing up royally. "I do it right, everyone else is just pumping out uninspired, melodramatic pap or jingling keys for five year olds, and this is why it feels like it's impossible to make action cartoons unless you're Japanese, or in the case of Powerhouse, pretend to be Japanese. And those suck too save a few exceptions." It's the same thing Bakshi was claiming when he did Mighty Mouse in the 80s "Cartoons these days are either humorless imported stuff that doesn't know it's supposed to be funny, glorified toy commercials, or rehashed trash that stopped being original in 1972. Sometimes a combination like Robotech." Genndy's the same way, although we haven't reached the "Don't Touch That Dial" phase of his development where he just makes an episode of Unicorn going all in on the jingling key cartoons, the melodramatic pap that refuses to have direct conflicts, and the armada of imported animation that Genndy thinks is doing it wrong.

Being a prick, basically. It’s why I’m so ashamed with how I acted as a dumb high schooler. Flaming, trolling, malicious spoilers of a show I didn’t watch because this was the dark ages before streaming…

20 years? Where the hell does the time go? I hated myself back then. I was a jackass.

Final trailer for the double feature people will presumably have with Oppenheimer. It’s kind of amazing.

Behold this utter abomination unto mankind. Looks like we might see the first trailer May 31, 2023.