Jman

Some can be anime, but you need to have something deeper than a surface level understanding of the material. It’s why Castlevania’s fight scenes work (even if the writer of the first series is a sex pest shitheel). This is why I like that despite having flourishes from anime, Invincible takes most of its cues from the 90s X-Men cartoon.

The opening sequence.

https://variety.com/2023/film/global/adam-devine-idris-elba-genndy-tartakovsky-1235642934/ Well, no one can accuse him of being one dimensional.

Genuinely would want to go to that “Latin America and anime” panel. Ah well.

At this point I just want it to come out even if it’s two episodes and is little more than a motion comic. Considering that Toonami ain’t got no damn money, I don’t see them making some insane project for the hell of it. Where’s Toonami’s weird take on Captain N?

Slow cooker ribs, leftover fries, and a salad.

Wasn’t sure where to put this one. It’s advertised as anime but the studio is European and using European characters and IP. Also, frog assassin.

They’re also doing a big celebration of making all the money in Times Square.

70 minute finale. This show once again seems to be making bank.

A lot of the aesthetic choices in Beastars make more sense when you find out the author is the daughter of Baki’s author.

It lives! Well, that’s a good sign. And with a public release, it probably won’t be a write off…at first.

That is not the worst show Adult Swim made by virtue of this -

Went to visit my family, so steak, roasted potatoes, that mozzarella and tomato with the vinaigrette, and some wine.

Actually it was the other way around.

None of you mentioned Minoriteam? Tom was divisive at best, the live action shows weren’t good, but Minoriteam is one of the only shows (along with the much more controversial Million Dollar Extreme) that Adult Swim flat out erased from their history. The only home release was a 2012 DVD collection in Region 4 (Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Central America, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean) as part of the “Adult Swim Grab Bag” and it has otherwise been wiped from the face of the internet. Tom, Assy, NTSF, none of these shows were so embarrassing they were erased in an attempt to protect the guilty party that created them.

Here’s the trailer - Available digitally July 21st and on Blu-Ray July 25th.

On streaming - I've described myself as a zealot for the CONCEPT of streaming because I believe it leads to the democratization of media. Things that would never be localized became big hits, shows that would never see the light of day got budgets behind them...but, and this is a big BUT, we've seen the end of the salad days of streaming. The "Make product and gain subscriber at any cost" mentality is gone because the products are now lined up in such a way that you need to be profitable since the venture capital for the shiny new thing has run out. Even Zaslav has mentioned that he sees streaming services being bundled together as the future, and Verizon is already doing so to entice people to buy its stuff. Expect the bigger telecom companies and ISPs to bundle streaming services together in the future, while some of the also-ran services (namely anything that isn't established like Netflix or a loss-leader like Prime and Apple are for their products) go all in on ad-support/premium options. Unfortunately, as much as I want some of the services to fold (coughParamountPluscough), studios operate on the "if you're not making all the money, you're losing too much money principle", so don't expect that unless they get desperate. Still, Netflix continues to beat subscriber expectations, even with some really obnoxious decisions (password restrictions, really?!), so it's clear there's a desire for this. As for Cartoon Network as it is, the brand has value. The linear channel clearance is paid up for a few years, you might as well use it. If the clearances were about to expire, this might be a different story.

Toonami has no source of product. You can have all the hours in the world, but if you can't logically fill them with anything, what do you really have? You have Unicorn, and they're going to run that sucker into the ground because they do have it and they're not paying anyone else for it, regardless of how mid its ratings are. Most of what they have at this point are contracts they directly negotiated with Japan or contracts that were before the Sony buyout of Crunchyroll. Meanwhile we know DeMarco doesn't care for Sentai's lineup since he wants his perfect show (job seekers call this the "magic unicorn search" where people look for the perfect candidate or the perfect job not realizing the futility of looking for such) and Discotek, bless em, doesn't acquire broadcast rights, or else someone would have logically asked for Gunbuster by now. So they're stuck.

That name sounds like this is being done under duress. ‘Oughta be fun to see if the kids watch.

And people wonder why I’m such a zealot for streaming.

The Owl House was not a very popular show outside of its small, loud Twitter audience, but I don't think people will hold that against this show as much as they will the kid feel. I hesitate to use Unicorn's Nielsens given how much of the show is tied up in Max viewership, but people avoided the block then came in for the anime, Dr. Stone in particular. Superman definitely gets more attention than a Genndy show not attached to a license, especially given Unicorn's mis-marketed appearance (thankfully it's a limited series), but there's a lot here. Of course watch as I say that and this show ends up being a minor cult classic and Creature Commandos is despised.