PokeNirvash

Programming acting like morons, I'm sure. Really, I'm thankful that was rectified by the time season 4 showed up.

Basquash! 1

Those tempered expectations will probably help in the long run.

These interviews always manage to restore my faith in Demarco.

Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro 3

Sometimes you just wanna watch a show where jerks get what's coming to them immediately, and that fucking asshole janitor from the first minute proves my point beautifully. Fuck him.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train

If I keep the job that long, I'll try to avoid a shift on that day if possible. ATTACK ON TITAN - Push that janitor off the roof! On second thought, push all these Marleyan assholes off their roofs. It's Jaeger family tradition to lag behind the rest in basic training. Yeah, "social dance club". 🙄 I recognize those pictures! TFW your dad is too much of a nerd to bother with outdoor activities. Damn you Magath and your tough love... As I thought, glasses dude was the former Beast Titan. "You heard nothing." Like I said, Jaeger family tradition. SHIT COUNT: 1. Sometimes the best test subject for your research is yourself. I like this guy, he makes a lot of sense, plus I'm expecting him to die this episode so there's a 50% chance I won't get pissed off when it happened like the last two times. Wow, Eren's dad's pushier than he made it sound like he was, no wonder Zeke ratted him out. "You're building alive!" Venture Bros. did it first. Okay, "they never loved you" is a step too far, I think. Uh-oh, the first sign. Hey, I recognize all those kids! Annie's such a loner. Marley deserved that plague. Push that janitor off the roof, Zeke, it is your destiny. I expected the whole sterility discussion because spoilers, but the former Beast Titan's tragic backstory is super-rough. The wife may have deserved it for being as much of a hateful bitch as that asswipe of a janitor, but not the son. Not the son. Unfortunately for all of us, the Founder's power now belongs to Eren. Speaking of whom... Watch out for them Jaeger Brothers. I bet Levi wanted to kill that janitor just as much as I do. WITNESS ME! Mmm, smells like horse bacon. FOOD WARS - It's like a '60s race riot over there, only with none of the '60s or any of the race. I was never a fan of the "backwards 3s for eyes" gimmick. Finally, an answer to what the hell Isshiki was doing during this whole thing. "Serves ya right, a-holes!" Well said. At this point, the fact that he won should outweigh the stupidity of him accepting the challenge to begin with. Yes in your room. We saw that one dude with the fiery hair from the OP in the background a grand total of once, when are he and those other two gonna be relevant? Ora Cola: it's like Hetap, only a JoJo reference. Who else mentally autocorrected "Nakkers" as "Knockers", hopefully I'm not the only one who did. He's a shonen protag, of course he's not satisfied. He was one of the four who didn't vote in favor of Food Fascism Dandy taking over the school, no way he would've sold you guys out that honestly. The Food Wars have been saved, but Totsuki itself will require a little more time. They had no idea he was a nudist, did they. Oh man, she was so sheltered. Treat the machine like you would a high-end oven, buttons and all, and you'll be fine. That Stagiaire they went through really did wonders for their acquaintanceship. Oh hey, the other two guys besides Erina and Isshiki that didn't vote yea. That's our Rindo, being based as always. Oh hey, there's the dude from the OP, I had a feeling he'd show up this episode. A rubbernecking they will go, as they say. Even the closed-captions think it should be spelled "Knockers Babe". Still not a fan of them flashing back to OVAs that weren't even dubbed. The checkerboard pattern of that cake, though, I am a fan of. Just the mere sight of Soma is enough to make that Eizan douche seethe, I love it. Oh hey it's those other two from the OP, plus one extra. These background characters are gonna lose hard. And they did. Nothing screams tryhard or inferiority complex more than a flashy character design come up with by some bored teenager. Nice of you to join us, Superior Knockers Babe and Second-Worst Sasuke. "I've got half a mind to stab you in your pathetic heart with my cooking! Hell, even a knife'll do!" Too bad for you, Ryo's the one doing the dominating here. TOP BILLING THREE: Soma, Rentaro, Takumi. At least you got her to say something, that's a start. Ryo's gonna pleasure you with that fish, whether you like it or not. PROMISED NEVERLAND - They're on a demon horse. We don't like to talk about Norman, it makes everyone too sad. I blame the gradual change in appearance on interspecies breeding, like most horny-minded individuals like myself would. Almost exactly one week, what apropos timing. "Thanks, Obama." Nice rock formations. The run-hide-fight method works every time, even if I didn't exactly implement that the moment it counted. I'm sure that amulet will be better explained in the manga. Well this conversation is certainly disconcerting. Remember, kids, don't live like nomads, not if you want a demon to eat your face. Well, at least he's just as likely to kill his own kind as he is the other. "Are we there yet?" "No..." "Are we there yet?" "No..." "Are we there yet?" "NO-oh wait yeah we are." Maybe the coordinates are for the other world, or perhaps you have to go down to find it. For the smartest kids, they're really thinking kinda stupid. That one kid has gone full Saitama. As to be expected of the brightest one, thanks Ray. Like I said, you gotta go down. Gotta love creepy underground passageways. It's a crazy world out there, where dogs own cats as pets, smart technology is literally dumb, and that one black couple is continuing to argue over deodorant. On the third episode, she said "let there be light". If that's food it does not look appetizing anymore. Kitchen, bathroom, storeroom, adventure park... This place has everything! Nice to see ragtime music hasn't died out. SECRET TUNNELLLLLLL. And another! And another! Nice Shawshank pose there, kid. Those, boy, are tears of joy. It's all just a little too perfect, if you ask me. I do love me some well-composed piano music. Time to spy on Mama. They're nowhere close to the minimum consumption age, so they're fine for now. Try sticking your finger in there, maybe something nice will happen. Congratulations, you found the secret pay phone! The others, meanwhile, found the secret shrine to the Beatles. "Bababooie Bababooie." Ooh, surprise music video! It's probably here to fill the extra time left by the shorter-than-average duration for noitaminA programs. FIRE FORCE - What the hell is with those weird boots the White Clad have been wearing anyways? You say all that like you're absolutely ready, but you're still two Pillars short. Now you're just sounding like a Fullmetal Alchemist rip-off. So that's what he's been doing all season! Feminization and cuckqueenery; a rare fetish combination. KICK HIS ASS SHINRA. Oh Arthur, you foolish boy. God I love me some good ol' cathartic violence. So I take it all this rambling doesn't mean he's the Seventh Pillar. Thanks for the lesson on demolition procedures, Science Dandy. Yeah, definitely sounds like Maki's our only hope at this point. Hinawa's still the best. Kick his ass, Obi. As glad as I am to see her, the suddenness of her appearance just screams season 1 levels of pacing. Kick his ass, Maki. Sucks to be Tamaki. She may be just as crazy as the rest of the White Clad, but I'd still bang Ritsu. I still think I might've missed something about Maki's brother being a pyrokinetic. Sibling power + sweet sciencey magic = the day is saved, somewhat. Cute duck-and-cover Iris. Suck it, Giovanni. Arthur follows true shounen law: the stupider you are, the more powerful you can get. Man, this is some Aburame Clan bullshit. Oh well, at least some guys from Company 2 survived. It'll be a while until he completely understands, but at least he partially understands. It was a test by circumstance, let's leave it at that. Oh good, Juggernaut's fine, relatively speaking. "Shame about Hajiki, though." Those eyebrows...! It's been a while, so Maki's gag about overreacting to being called a brute isn't as bad as it was last time. Random Hibana is random but much appreciated, especially after She-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named. Gonna go see the Demon Slayer movie after all this, so don't mind if the comments for the last two shows seem a little rushed. BLACK CLOVER - We're never gonna find out what this avant-title guy's all about are we. FUCK YEAH WIDESCREEN LETTERBOXING. Just take care not to stare at it too long. She's self-taught, just like all the pros. You can just tell those two are fucking. Thanks for the primer on strong magic regions, narrator, I can't remember if they were explained this thoroughly before now. Yami can't hear you, the rain is too loud. Damn, that has to be the loudest Asta's screamed in a while. "The Talk no Jutsu always works!" Bet you regret wearing short sleeves on this journey, huh, guy. Yep, they're totally fucking. STOP, ASTA TIME. I blame Rupert Murdoch's brats for this. Congratulations, Asta, you're now the god of a crazy religion. It sounds weird hearing him talk about things like he's an expert. But unlike you, he managed to turn things around, and had more going against him than just the "no magic" thing. **coughnunfetishcough** Long story short, she's gay and evil now. RABBLE RABBLE. Bullshit, you knew they wanted the devil's power the moment it turned out their motivations weren't what you thought. There's also the whole wanting to marry a nun thing, but that's a whole other type of pariah entirely. "If only we were all plucky shonen protagonists." If that's what you're into, go right ahead. Nice of you to finally join us again, Yami. SHIPPUDEN - MINDTAKER OOWEEOO. Sasuke don't get it. In short, this is how Bites the Dust works, only with the overlap being between the start of the loop and every time someone new gets exploded. It means it cancels out the Izanagi, obviously. I'll give him this, it's a less stupid way of explaining it than Danzo's "it's like a dream, man" nonsense. Oh boy, Uchiha flashback time. Now that guy was certifiably crazy. And so was this guy. "It resulted in the most Uchiha deaths in a certain length of time, until what I did, naturally." Oh shit I'm starting to see color in this black and white. WAIT A HOT SECOND IS THAT THIRD CRAZY GUY KIRITO!? I fucking love that log substitution stunt. And so the loop is set. Visual prowess is bullshit, but it's interesting bullshit. What a simple and obvious escape method that only the stubborn would refuse to take hold of, even with full consideration. Yeah, Kabuto has become quite crazy over the years. So in short, Izanami's like therapy without the medical bills. Of course there's another one. Pobody's Nerfect. Something something Naruto's the other side of the coin. "Damn, fell right into that one!" You made a mistake the moment you made yourself known as the "Ninja Info Cards" guy. Meanwhile, random shinobi. Oh dang that's the kid from Kabuto's backstory. He grew up surprisingly normal. "Just call this my redemption phase." And there he is. Meanwhile, Tobi's just standing there... menacingly. [ゴゴゴ]

Pacific Rim: The Black 5 Corpse Princess: Kuro 13

The only Lupin "seasons" ranked lower than the highest SAO are just OVA episodes that don't constitute an entire series. It's not nearly as insulting as you think it is.

When I was young, I had always dreamed of being an architect or an urban planner. And when I got out of grad school last year, I hoped I'd start my post-college career as an entry-level civil engineer or an urban planner, without having to go into retail. As of this week, I am now working part-time at an office supply store. And you know what? I'm perfectly content with that. 12:00 - Dragon Ball Super #112 - A Saiyan Oath! Vegeta's Resolve!! - TV-14L 12:30 - Attack on Titan: The Final Season #15 - Sole Salvation - TV-14LV 1:00 - Food Wars! The Third Plate #9 - Hunting the Stragglers - TV-MAS 1:30 - The Promised Neverland #15 - Episode 3 - TV-14V 2:00 - Fire Force #46 - Plot for Extinction - TV-MA 2:30 - Black Clover #147 - Prepared to Die - TV-PG 3:00 - Naruto Shippuden #338 - Izanagi and Izanami - TV-PGV 3:30 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba #25 - Tsuguko, Kanao Tsuyuri - TV-14LV Employment statuses may change, but anime is forever.

I'm planning on seeing it (dubbed) with my uncle on Sunday. We both watched the first season on Toonami and between the block's indefinite embargo on movies and the high likelihood it won't get re-adapted for the small screen in season 2, it makes more sense to see it on our own time.

Hulkamania the Animation.

For a fair while, back when I actually used to watch 4Piece, I constantly misheard the lyric "Chopper's doctoring" as "Chopper's got the ring". The crazy part is, I didn't even question it.

The Legend of Black Heaven 4

No surprise in the slightest, and unlike how that usually goes down, I am 10,000,000,000% excited for this outcome.

Either that or it's just a really off week.

Wild 7 Another 10

Nah, ridiculously long limbs are xxxHOLiC's thing.

Magic Knight Rayearth 2

What the hell are you on about?

Black Dynamite Pilot For those of you who've seen some of my recent posts in the anime equivalent of this thread, I've been watching various things as part of a "direction analysis" for season 2 of my current hypothetical anime writing project Kinky Kunoichi. And since season 2's equally hypothetical staff includes the very much American animation studio Titmouse, I thought I'd include some Western-created things to analyze the direction of as well. The U.S. side of my direction analysis is starting with Juno Lee, a creative director at Titmouse who's worked on numerous shows I've watched and have been thinking about watching, but because I'm waiting until HBO Max pulls through in bringing the Venture Bros. back from its unceremonious cancellation for one last hurrah to pay it a revisit, I decided to go for the pilot of Black Dynamite instead as the inaugural "rewatch" analysis. Lots of fun action with shaky-cam mechanics, and some neat color and lighting decisions to appropriately match the mood. Truly a more than fine start.

I wouldn't call it "lost", considering someone eventually did make one.

ATTACK ON TITAN - "Just like someone else I know. And speak of the devil, there he is now!" I don't recognize those numbers. This is easily the most emotional Mikasa has sounded ever. It's one thing to read a spoiler, but it's another to see it play out and make fuller sense than on digital paper. Hey, I don't remember Mikasa ever getting any headaches! Now he's the one on the other side of the pen. Eh, it kinda loses something when you take out the "always"... "Curse my bodyguard instincts!" ARMIN PUNCH. And that's why he failed to crack the top 10 at graduation. Shiganshina? But we were just there! That certainly sounds like a plan alright. Hard to believe a whole month has passed in-show; out-of-show, I can understand, but... Nice hammock there, guy. Normally running and screaming would be the opposite of an effective attack strategy, but this is Zeke we're talking about. It's raining Titans, hallelujah! Surprisingly, I have no objections to the coma plan, and I base that entirely on the "only the CEO can tell me to open the door but I'm not gonna do it even though you are the CEO" clip. When you nut so hard the whole squad feel it. I know Zeke's to blame for all these Titans, but I'd be lying if I said that squad didn't bring it on themselves. Losing his entire squad four times over has really fucked Levi up emotionally. These Titan running cycles. CAN'T SLIP BY THE LEVI. You can't have a Hiroyuki Sawano soundtrack without random rap inserts. Oof, now that is what I call savagery. FUCK YEAH LEVI. 😆 By gawd, he's got no nose! SHIT COUNT: 2 for act 1, 2 for act 2, 4 total. Ugh, random twitching jaw. Nice to see that even though so many characters have changed, Shardis is still the same hardass as always. Goddammit Floch. Ha, you suck at shooting more than you thought you would. Again, goddammit Floch. "Damn, wasn't expecting them to go full Office Space on me..." Bitch you look like a cut of wagyu steak. "I'm not cleaning that up, no matter how much I want to." Correction, that is savagery. Ah, so the glasses were a sentimental thing, like with Kabuto. Oh shit, unabridged Zeke backstory next week. FOOD WARS - If only anyone in this show had the guts to punch this main campus-lookin' douche in the face. For a bunch of hired thugs, they really suck at the whole "breaking and entering" thing. Soma keeping his head up works just as well, if only because it pisses this dude off he can't even speak. It's gonna be the most goddamn aromatic gyoza you'll ever eat, so much so you can't even bring yourself to vote the other way! Rindo is the best. "You say something, fucker?" This guy's so repugnant even Kunugigaoka main campus would think he's going too far. Oh if only they had thought to bring raincoats! Oh, I almost forgot Erina and Hisako were even there. Ah shit, the glasses are comin' off. Yeah, yeah, suck the guy's dick more, why don'tcha? SLOW AND LOW. Buuuuuurn. "Intellectual ganster" does describe his look pretty well. Even as a little kid he was a total dick. "No other man is more suited for such a title!" Except for this guy. Huh, that's kind of a creative way of going about it. Of course she's gonna eat some, it's not like this episode has an explicit sexual content subrating for no reason. All I see is this guy bending himself backwards trying to justify his bought vote. Not gonna lie, I do like the rice dome. Cowmangai? I understand we're well into where the manga's food advisor dropped off, but at least it's still sounding like it makes sense. In other words, he's chickening out. 😝 I don't know if I'll venture into a theater to see this movie, but if Toonami gets Demon Slayer S2, I'm definitely watching it first. Eh, cheese on wings just doesn't sound right, even if it probably exists out there somewhere. Huh, so they actually do plan on trying it, aromatic or not, if only out of spite for Soma. This dude's face game is nothing short of ridiculous, but for it to turn red on top of that... that must mean something. THIS IS ABSURD. Aromatics, motherfucker, I toldja. COCK A MOTHER FUCKIN DOODLE DOO. Ketchup's an overhated condiment, and I refuse to take that statement back. And as ridiculous as it being the game-changer is, the multitude of complements it triggered does feel more down-to-earth. Strange, yes, but never a dull moment. Oh Erina, you so tsun-tsun. If there's any food that's acidic, it's tomato. It took all of that dude's willpower to so much as pick up that gyoza. Choke on it, Eizan. 😁 One down, nine to go. PROMISED NEVERLAND - Soundin' kinda creepy and repetitive there, SARA. These OP credits look like they're missing some names. These guys seem pretty chill for demons. Itadakimasu, latom, thanks for the grub, and what have you. "It's good... and that concerns me." I'm not sure I'd equate the brain to flesh, but hey, you have your terminologies and I have mine. I forgot why the whole "30 years ago" thing is so important; maybe because it's around our present time in relation to when the show takes place? His necklace looks like some kind of nonbinary gender symbol. Racism: like a bisexual, it goes both ways. This must mean Grace Field House is the titular "Promised Neverland". "My god, a million years..." CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. Tonight's theme is freedom, apparently. Wild demons somehow sound more dangerous than domesticated demons, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was the other way around. The three Cs: cutting, cooking, and collecting. I never thought Gilda of all people could be so intimidating. And everyone's giving Ray shit too. Next week, Zeke fuckin' dies and yet we feel sorrier for the horse that was collateral damage. Food Wars has nothin' on Ray. YOU GOTTA HAVE A MONTAAAAAGE. Those opposable extra fingers they have are disturbing, but not as disturbing as their hand-feet. Keep an eye out for raining Titans, you two. Hello, ferret. Aim between the eyes, gets 'em every time. Or go for their eyes, that works too. Shit, that's the same flower they put in Conny and Krone. The first kill's always the hardest. Not sure if humane. Poor girl aged five years in five minutes. FIRE FORCE - Upon further reflection, I think I'd have appreciated Orochi more had I not cared so damn much about Hajiki surviving. Still, I blame Okubo, because who else am I gonna blame besides myself? His arm's off, but besides that he's decent. You're a good man, Juggernaut. Sucks you're probably as dead as your fellow squadmen are, Ritsu's puppetry notwithstanding. Hinawa, your way with words isn't helping your case any. Great, they not only brought a dominatrix with them, but a gimp too. And a bulletproof gimp at that. They freaked out because they knew they were dead meat, especially around the protagonist such as yourself. GIOVANNI'S BACK, BITCHES. Lemme guess, he's filled with lots and lots of bugs now? Meanwhile, Maki's bored. Now that Hajiki's dead, I don't really care if any more 2nd Company redshirts bite the dust. Wait what he can read minds now? I've never heard that theory before now but I can believe it. I'm getting real sick of all these audio cut-outs, Spectrum. GO ARTHUR GO. And then he was the Exterminator. Can you believe that the KissAnime of American cartoons doesn't have the Black Dynamite pilot up for streaming anywhere on their servers? Just thought I'd point that out while it was still fresh in my mind. CROTCH. It's official, Takagi doesn't know shit about what his own sister is capable of. OH YEAHHHHHH. I kinda love this crazy son of a bitch. SIDE CHESTO. Is Takigi pyrokinetic too because he looks rather confident about blocking those blasts with his bare hands. Shut up, Takigi, nobody cares what you think. GO FOR THE JOINTS. You put up a good fight, Iron. Just sock this ignorant fucker in the face for me, Hinawa, whatever gets him to shut up. Meanwhile, Tamaki's losing even more clothes. And she's still getting ryona'd something fierce too. DYNAMIC HEADBUTT. Nice of you to finally join us without proper setup, Vulcan and Iris. FUCK YEAH OBI. Dosukoi~. Tamaki is so useless, even she can't deny it. Look on the bright side, Licht, at least you run better than most Titans. Goddammit why am I laughing at this. I liked Ritsu better when she had Inca around to balance out her own personal brand of crazy. BLACK CLOVER - LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN. Surprise, the medicine was actually poison. The only thing dumber than their new group name is the upside-down mask, which hardly makes even any aesthetic sense. Ohhhhh, they're supposed to be fangs... Okay, so that's how the magic-impaired factor into all this. MIST MACHINE. A similar situation to Asta, but with more weight training and less nun fetishism. You'd think getting stabbed would count as moderate violence, but what do I know, I'm not actually S&P. And back to the plot at hand. I keep forgetting that village's name. That was an concerningly long cut to black. Chairman Chin-mole. It's good to have connections. Check out Finral's lazy eye in the back. Thanks for all the help, old lady. "I recognize that bride!" That's a strange analogy, but not an inaccurate one. A package deal, like Samurai Champloo and Paranoia Agent, or Akame ga Kill and Parasyte. I'm so used to Gauche being a stubborn ass I'm not all that pissed at him anymore about it. (Still the second-worst Bull in my book, and the objective worst overall.) That running hideout animation is still so bad. Sometimes I forget that Zora's still helping them out, sort of. "Yeah, you better keep walkin'..." Kids who physically accost their mothers are just the worst. There were so many other places before that point that would've made for a better end to Act 1. Ah, TOM and sidescrollers. He loves them, yet he hates them, yet he loves them still. Like I said, so many better places. Now we'll never know what Asta said there... "Dang inclement weather!" It's like The Mystery of the Druids, only Devil Believers... SHIPPUDEN - At first he had nothing, and now he has everything. I feel like we've gone through these flashbacks before... They're stuck playing ketchup, and there's nothing worth eating to squirt it on. So much for their impregnable barrier. Bone flute: my new favorite silly synonym for a penis. That giant snake monster form still freaks me the fuck out. Lotta flashbacks this episode... TSUTOMU OHSHIRO SAKUGA SPOTTED. Oh no, he stabbed himself in the face. Finally, we get to see what this Izanami's all about. Right after the commercial break, that is. I think I've finally grown past Rick & Morty, but then again, I was never a superfan of it to begin with. Dirty pool, Kabuto. Man, Toonami really sucks at cutting things to commercial this week. HAHAHA WIPEOUT. Aw shit hee's been assimil-or maybe not. "This feels like deja vu all over again." Goddammit Kabuto stop being visually creepy. Congratulations, you can see again. Let's do the time warp again and again. Stuck in an endless battle he has no hope of winning, if that's what Izanami does then that's really damn metal. Even if it does feel like a Bites the Dust rip-off... Sucks to be you, Kabuto, you and your already diseased state of mind. "Oops, the episode ended early, so here's the Tailed Beast counting song again."

Yes, we should be glad the days of "anime premieres at 5AM" are over.