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Common sense, that's what.

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Welp, seeing how UBW's run is over and it looks like it's all MHA all the time until an inevitable and unceremonious sunsetting, I might as well throw out a couple cents towards the block-watching experience. The half of it that I stuck around for, anyways. As a veteran viewer of SyFy Ani-Mondays and Chiller's failed take on a block of its own four years after its parent channel terminated the former, I was expecting worse treatment than what we actually got. The amount of commercial breaks was smaller and not nearly as excessive (plus the ability to skip ahead stopped them from feeling endless), it didn't appear that many scenes were cut for time constraints, with only a sped-up ED and presumably excised previews to stand as typical cuts... From what I hear, the Blu-Ray version of UBW had additional scenes that may have meant time cuts happened after all, but I hardly felt confused at their exclusion (callbacks to Fate/Zero aside), so I barely even noticed they were there, unlike on SyFy where scenes from Noein they used for interstitials never showed up in the actual broadcast, or on Chiller where Ayumu mentioned a breakdancing scene that never occurred as if it happened, and closed-captioning was given for scenes that never actually made it to the final cut. Hell, AXS even left in what post-credits scenes there were; the removal of such being a recurring problem on [as], SyFy, and the viewing experiences of so many paid reviewers who think it's always wise to stop watching a show once the credits start rolling! Those were great. And what's more, there didn't appear to be that many cuts for content, either; you know SyFy or Chiller would've blurred out Ilya's butt in episode 4 and muted Shinji's S-bomb in episode 20. It almost felt like there wasn't as much oversight as there could've been, and I admire the broadcast for that. Unfortunately for my hyperfixation, they didn't even bother with the content ratings, which is all right because I fashioned up a set of my own (spoiler-marked so it doesn't feel like I'm forcing them on any one of you), adhering to my personal standards but loosely inspired by the more relaxed guidelines of SyFy's anime offerings. Honestly, this may wind up being my favorite set of personalized content ratings this year, once it's over. As for the show itself, while it did have the problem of dialogue-heavy scenes being hard to readily recall in memory, particularly if there was nothing plot-relevant in them, I wound up enjoying the show, to the point where I can recognize and consider it to be good. Could've done without some of the deaths, but hey, that's the kind of thing to be expected in a Holy Grail War. At least civilian fatalties were limited overall. (Because oh boy were there casualties.) I never thought I'd get into Fate, to the point that I told some dude that wouldn't stop asking me about it on Ask.fm (remember that?) as much. After this, though? I'm actually interested in venturing further into the Fate multiverse. So, what's next? Fate/Zero, so all the callbacks in UBW make sense? Or how about DEEN/stay night, so I know how the original storyline went and where UBW diverged? As a hobbyist chef who's grown out of the death game genre of anime, you can't go wrong with Today's Menu for Emiya Family. But realistically, I think the next one I'm gonna watch, barring any more cable TV pickups, will be Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya, for this sole reason: See you all again in this thread when Anime.com Hour shutters its doors!

Yeah, I noticed that too - apparently, punctuation or lack thereof means nothing nowadays - so I manually set the episode to record once I noticed it wasn't.

I think so, though considering this week's hour block lists with "Midoriya and Shigaraki" (episode 28), while next week's lists not "Climax" (#30) but "The End of Hero Killer: Stain" (#31), I fear they may be either skipping episodes or whoever's in charge with preparing those guides doesn't know what they're doing. Shame, I'd have loved to see them continue the whole "hero of justice" theme they had going at the start by replacing UBW with SHY.

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Yes, yes, Cowboy BeBop at his computer, we've all seen it.

Yesterday took a lot outta me, so don't be surprised that this week's schedule is technically overdue. 12:00 - Dragon Ball Daima #10 - Ocean - TV-PGV 12:30 - DAN DA DAN #5 - Like, Where Are Your Balls?! - TV-MA 1:00 - Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War #13 - The Blade is Me - TV-14V 1:30 - Blue Exorcist: Shimane Illuminati Saga #1 - The World's Astir - TV-14LV 2:00 - One Piece #741 - A State of Emergency! Rebecca is Kidnapped! - TV-PGV 2:30 - Lazarus (Subbed) #6 - Heaven is a Place on Earth - TV-14V 3:00 - Naruto #30 - The Sharingan Revived: Dragon-Flame Jutsu! - TV-14V

You know, once upon a time in a thread like this one, I asked what the word "masectomy" meant, because another user dropped it in serious conversation and I had no idea what was going on. I was called a jerk for my curiosity, and while I did get an answer, I felt like shit and an idiot for asking the question in the first place. This example is incomparable, but the lesson remains the same: Use Google Search, ya fuckin' idiot.

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Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works 25 Thank you, AXS. It sure is gonna be a shame when you inevitably sunset your NFT promotion vehicle anime block by the end of the year/start of next.

Sakamoto Days 17 Blend S 6 I know it's a show about assassins, but sometimes I really do wish there wasn't this much wanton murder.

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Not if the lost media community has anything to say about it, buck-o.

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They couldn't handle the dog dicks, let alone the balls.

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I miss the days when the reasons certain licensors' shows weren't getting on [as] were simple, like ADV and FUNimation having their own linear channels, or Geneon ceasing to exist as a result of "web dub pirations".

Fighting in an elevator presents several difficulties, the first of which being, you're fighting in an elevator. 12:00 - Dragon Ball Daima #9 - Thieves - TV-PGV 12:30 - DAN DA DAN #4 - Kicking Turbo Granny's Ass - TV-MA 1:00 - Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War #12 - Everything But the Rain (June Truth) - TV-14LV 1:30 - Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga #12 - Candid and Open - TV-14L 2:00 - One Piece #740 - Fujitora Takes Action! The Complete Siege of the Straw Hats! - TV-PG 2:30 - Lazarus (Subbed) #5 - Pretty Vacant - TV-14V 3:00 - Naruto #29 - Naruto's Counterattack: Never Give In! - TV-14V

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Personally, I'm just amazed that AXS kept it going instead of canning it at the soonest opportunity like Chiller did their attempt at an anime block. For that alone, I'm hoping it keeps chugging along, at least to February 2026.

They revealed earlier this week that Bleach is continuing into part 2 of TYBW. It's just not worth mentioning in its own schedule, since it doesn't have that different a subtitle.

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