PokeNirvash

Why yes, this is a monthly thing now. AWOL: Absent WithOut Leave #12: The Silent Achievement The Millionaire Detective: Balance Unlimited #9: A golden key can open any door Alice in Borderland (J-Drama) #3: Episode 3 The Legend of Black Heaven #1: Stairway to Heaven Redo of Healer #5: The Healer Finds a New Toy! Redo of Healer #6: The Healer Sheds Blood and Tears! Redo of Healer #7: The Healer Enforces Justice! Redo of Healer #8: The Healer Meets the Demon King! Kanon 2006 #5: Demon's Serenade Kanon 2006 #6: A Mysterious Divertimento Kanon 2006 #7: The Runaway and the Kitten's Fugue Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan #1: At a Confessional Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan #2: Mutsu-kabe Hill Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan #3: Millionaire Village Mayo Chiki! #11: Nyu!/Hic! The Qwaser of Stigmata #10: First Time (?) House-Sitting Corpse Princess: Kuro #4: Itsuki's Form Corpse Princess: Kuro #5: Nature and Regrets Corpse Princess: Kuro #6: Monster Named Happiness Corpse Princess: Kuro #7: Mundane Wish Wild 7 Another #7: Shuden/Last Train I'm also in the process of rewatching B: The Beginning, but I won't go through the ins and outs for those. Its sequel series Succession, on the other hand, is fair game, and will show up once it drops and I pick it back up.

TITAN RERUNS - I bet you anything, with the exceptions of Mikasa and Levi, y'all wouldn't be so mad at Gabi had she shot someone else. Personally, I'd have cheered if she shot Floch. Dude hardly deserved to survive the suicide rush from last season. FOOD WARS - This episode makes me want to try my hand at making mapo tofu of my own, but considering I lack most of the ingredients, I'm gonna stick to stir-fry for now, with the occasional venture into onigiri. FIRE FORCE - I'll confess, not really a fan of the whole "White Clad interrupts the arc because reasons" pattern this show's getting up to. I do like Inca's maid, though, even if there really isn't much to her character yet. (That outfit and bangs tho.) Speaking of, when's that dominatrix White Clad from the OP gonna show up? I can't domfu her if I don't know what she's like. BLACK CLOVER - The "Sally torments the Black Bulls" plot was better than the "Fuego and Nozel investigate literally a random village" plot, if only because the former wasn't obviously phoning it in out of every pore. GRIDMAN - This is easily the best show on the block and if you don't like it I don't think we can be friends. As for the episode itself, the reveal that Rikka is apparently a fictitious construct made by Akane is unsettling, Gridman's full-power form was hella awesome, and Yuta and Utsumi in the schoolgirl and maid outfits are the closest we're ever gonna get to that "Crossdresser's Ball" Lelouch randomly namedropped in that one episode of Geass. (Also, Mayo Chiki did the idea of a crossplay cafe first.) SHIPPUDEN - I hate that I don't despise Sasuke as much as I should. So naturally, this was pretty watchable for a Sharingan Red/Glossy Black level episode.

No you won't.

Sasuke's special eyes just got even more special, if you can believe it. 12:00 - Dragon Ball Super #105 - A Valiant Fight! Master Roshi's Blaze of Glory!! - TV-14L 12:30 - Attack on Titan: The Final Season #8 - Assassin's Bullet - TV-14LV 1:00 - Food Wars! The Third Plate #2 - Ma & La - TV-MAS 1:30 - Fire Force #39 - A Three-Way Melee - TV-MA 2:00 - Black Clover #140 - A Favor for Julius - TV-PG 2:30 - SSSS.GRIDMAN #8 - Confrontation - TV-14L 3:00 - Naruto Shippuden #331 - Eyes That See in the Dark - TV-PGL 3:30 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba #18 - A Forged Bond - TV-MAV He's gonna need a whole new brand.

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Redo of Healer 8

Well I am, but not for Rikka's thighs or Akane's feet.

Eh, I was never really into Shaman King to begin with anyways. My interest in the franchise peaked when I cracked open my first English-language Shonen Jump volume and saw Manta/Morty say "dammit".

B: The Beginning 1-3 Rewatching as prep for season 2. Been a while since I've done something in this vein.

GRIDMAN! [baby dan dan]

The thing to remember is, Japan puts out a lot of merchandise for shows that go under the radar here due to being Japan-exclusive. Take for example this one show I was watching last season. I followed the show's official Twitter account, and to this day, I get updates on my feed concerning various merch for the show. Keychains, plushies, shirts, hats, cologne, pop-up cafes... Granted, this was the adaptation of a 20 year-old novel series that in the 2000's got a popular-for-the-time live-action series and multiple manga adaptations (one of which even got licensed stateside), but still, if an obscure modern anime like Ikebukuro West Gate Park can get this level of merch, then it's downright stupid to think that Fire Force has none of its own, even in its home country.

Nobody needs more Mr. Makes Bakugo Look Likeable. I mean, look at his face. Infinitely. Punchable.

So people who haven't heard of it yet know, at least that's my guess.

The Legend of Black Heaven 1 To think that audio mismatch on the in-three-parts version of the debut episode I saw on YouTube over a decade ago put me off from starting this in earnest.

It's a good thing I watch everything on DVR, that way I'm free of the complaints about timeslots you guys like to embroil yourselves in.

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If Toonami posted it themselves, I can't see why he would.

The former's more likely to happen than the latter. I'm not even sure if Soma's really the crying type. COSMO SAMURAI - On the one hand, this one seemed a little "generic anime" for an animated TIE. But on the other, my boy Toshiyuki Tsuru (under his favorite pseudonym Yasuaki Kurozu) was in charge of the whole thing, so I'm honestly torn on what to feel. (Especially since it's far removed from his usual directorial style and color palette...) Really, my like of it ultimately comes more from the benefits it provides my headcanon than any actual intrinsic merit. So thanks, Demarco. Your making connections with Tsuru through this project has only motivated me further to continue pushing forward with my next hypothetical anime project, now that it makes a little more sense in the hypothetical alternate universe I've created where it exists. ATTACK ON TITAN - And now Sasha's dead. Wonderful. 😭 Well, at least she managed to get killed off this far in, compared to the undignified end back in the start of season 2 that Isayama planned on giving her. Even Eren's pissed that she's gone, that's how serious this whole thing is. FOOD WARS - When was the last time we had an OP that played the English-translated lyrics in-episode during the broadcast? I'm thinking it might've been Tokyo Ghoul Root A, but Death Note's the only one I'm absolutely sure of. All in all, I've kind of missed this stupid show as well. FIRE FORCE - Not gonna lie, I'm a little miffed that we didn't get at least one full playthrough of the new OP, even if it was a trade-off to avoid any further DVR delays caused by the Cosmo Samurai credits and the full Food Wars OP. As for the show itself? While I still hate Rekka's catchphrase as much as a 26 year-old man can hate a fictional character's beaten-into-the-ground gimmick, I did get a laugh out of him being that one kid's beyond-the-grave motivational speaker, despite being the whole reason he's even in this mess getting his ass kicked by this "Uncle Reaper" psycho. BLACK CLOVER - Typical filler stuff, where the lesson of the day is "even the lamest skills can be useful if applied the right way". As they say, there are no weak STANDs, only weak STAND users. GRIDMAN - God I fricking love this show even though I haven't seen a second of the original Gridman and only the opening theme for Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad. Trigger's really knocking it out of the park with this one, even if they are once again leaning into their "aliens did it" free space of plot development. SHIPPUDEN - Huh, wasn't expecting that little song at the start. Or for it to be subbed too. [demarcooooooo]

"Written and Directed by Yasuaki Kurozu" This is the best reveal this TIE could have ever offered someone like me.

AWOL: Absent WithOut Leave 12 Redo of Healer 7 Impressive, went a full twenty minutes without a single sex scene. A new record that I don't expect them to top at the rate they're going.

Whoops, posted too early. That's better. 12:00 - Dragon Ball Super #104 - A Transcendent Light-Speed Battle Erupts! Goku and Hit's United Front!! - TV-14L 12:30 - Attack on Titan: The Final Season #8 - Assassin's Bullet - TV-14LV 1:00 - Food Wars! The Third Plate #1 - Challenging the Ten - TV-MAS 1:30 - Fire Force #38 - The Ashen Reaper - TV-MA 2:00 - Black Clover #139 - A Witch's Homecoming - TV-PG 2:30 - SSSS.GRIDMAN #7 - Scheme - TV-14V 3:00 - Naruto Shippuden #330 - Promise of Victory - TV-PG 3:30 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba #17 - You Must Master a Single Thing - TV-MAV I'd have come up with something more original, but oh well, there's always next time for that.

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