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Corpse Princess: Aka 12 (sub)

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A little "one of everything" to officially kick 2020 to the curb. Air #12: Air Air #13: Memories Akudama Drive #12: Akudama Drive AWOL: Absent WithOut Leave #10: The Supremacy of Instrumentalists The Millionaire Detective: Balance Unlimited #7: Money is the root of all evil Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle: Rhyme Anima #13: Tomorrow is another day. Ikebukuro West Gate Park (Anime) #12: Sunshine Street Civil War, Part 2 Ikebukuro West Gate Park (J-Drama) SP: Soup Episode Mayo Chiki! #8: It's My First Time The Qwaser of Stigmata #9: Atomis of Twin Masks, Part 2 Wild 7 Another #4: Red Grass/Meadow Disease Wicked City Next time I post, I'll have content rating clips active for two series: for the "dubbed line" Air served as the experiment for, we have KyoAni's understated 2006 classic Kanon, and serving as IWGP's follow-up in the "seasonal line", I'm getting controversial by diving head-first into revenge fantasy adaptation Redo of Healer. Quite the striking contrast, wouldn't you say? [makoto says "mendokusei"]

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The world will only be "post-Toonami" once Toonami gets canceled again. And last I checked, it's still on the air. So fuck you, Miles.

It really doesn't get any worse than when two characters we've never heard of show up like we're expected to know all about who they are (and maybe also care). Not all of us watching are SAO superfans, A-1! SAO ALICIZATION - Well, it was easier to watch than last episode, but still a chore for someone less stubborn. I expressly blame Vassago being way too overpowered for this. At least Yuuki's spirit showing up to help out Asuna was a more appreciable character cameo than the two movie-original literally whos, and that seeing Kirito wreck Oberon in his inner mind theater was neat, if you ignored his Wangst about it. And let it be known that SAO's original sin, personally, was advertising Sachi as a regular character only to kill her off the episode she was introduced. At least Silica and Lizbeth managed to survive their debuts in the limelight... FIRE FORCE - Oh wow, between Sho's crying and hat guy from the 1st losing his arm, I really don't remember season 1 as well as I think I do. Good thing this season's here to give me the opportunity to correct those mistakes. Inca joining up with the White Clad was unfortunate but predictable, and I look forward to seeing what the world beyond Japan has to offer, especially since there are actually people living in the charred ruins of the rest of the world. ASS CLASS - Man, fuck main campus up the ass (except Shindo, he's pretty cool), and fuck Kunudon so hard he splits in two. I will admit that the principal's son knowing there's more to E Class than his old man's letting on is a neat throughline, and I hope the show keeps up with that. Considering next episode follows up from this one, I expect that plot to keep itself up. GEMUSETTO - Nyan Nyan Fucking Kitty Maid. All the proof needed that Gemusetto is an anime parody (or at least trying to be) right there. Bendy Rivers was one of my consistent favorites in the first season, and I'm glad to see he returned. SHIPPUDEN - You can't go wrong with the atypical Pierrot sakuga episode. I was expecting Madara kicking the Allied Shinobi Force's collective asses, yeah, but the whole "double meteor" thing coming this early was a pleasant surprise. Sometimes I feel the filler is there to make the dramatic jumps in the story hit all the harder.

At this point, it's a case of "I don't know how to quit you". There are some interesting threads and some fun moments here and there, and the only reason I've quit their Toonami discussion is that the costs have started outweighing the benefits to the point that the benefits are hardly worth it anymore. For what it's worth, be glad that I only browse /a/, /co/, /d/, and /aco/. I've made it a point to avoid /b/ and /pol/ like the plague. Yeah, it's mostly made up of people from the video chat on the [as] website.

322, actually.

Eh, I think he's expressed more than that. They just show up so seldom, it's easy to forget they ever even happened.

This episode wasn't rated with an S subrating, so I highly doubt that. Because some of them are from the movie that Toonami never aired and no one here but Ben watched. I mean, I agree, but god I wanna punch you in the face so fucking hard. That wasn't Kirito, Vassago's half-brother (read: his American dad fucked a Japanese woman) merely looks like Kirito. Which would explain why he hates Kirito so damn much. Brother issues. TV-14LV. Sister-cousin, same difference. This episode aired at midnight you dolt. Do your goddamn research next time. Oh wait! YOU NEVER FUCKING DO. Now this guy... he gets it. Crying over Bercouli's corpse, probably.

Good, but not good enough for the whiners.

Redundant post is redundant. SAO ALICIZATION - Okay, I knew ahead of time that this season was gonna have context-free cameos from Ordinal Scale (a.k.a. the SAO movie that nobody here watched except for maybe Ben) but I did not expect them to come this early, and to have that many equally context-free spoilers attached to them. Speaking nothing of the show temporarily turning into Macross for a few minutes... And yet that's just part of the reason this episode was the most frustrating thing I've experienced this year since earlier today when I had to drive to OfficeMax to replace one of the gel pens I planned on using to handwrittenly log all the anime I'm watching in 2021. The continued horrendously edgy "protags on the losing side" presentation, Vassago's casual racism over being forced to donate a kidney, Klein literally getting stabbed in the back... I'm amazed that I was able to handle the Aincrad Arc, Super AIDS, and the two minutes of sexual assault (truncated), and yet this is the closest I've ever come to genuinely hating SAO as a concept. Geez, no wonder Angel wiped her memory of that episode the moment it ended... If tonight's venture into Kirito's inner mind theatre is somehow worse than this, I think I'm gonna start drinking for every subsequent episode I watch. Also, Higa and Rinko should just bang already. FIRE FORCE - This episode, on the other hand, was quite fun. The plan to extinguish all the flames and Infernals in one go was great, and I got a kick out of Obi's suckage at shooter arcade games being the big obstacle to the Fire Force's success. It also raised the question of, if rock is a dead genre in the Fire Force universe, does music even exist at all outside of Karim's ice tuba? The only flaw here was having to see Inca, Charon and Shinra smiling like madmen back-to-back-to-back. That damn abundance of slasher smiles is probably my main gripe with Fire Force, when it really comes down to it. ASS CLASS - Don't have a whole lot to say here, since I watched this episode three weeks ago, but I am starting to warm up to Terasaka for more than just his "fuck main campus" attitude. GEMUSETTO - Y'know, I could watch the last four episodes in one go since they've already aired (and I accidentally spoiled the ending for myself on Twitter), but I think I'm gonna watch them with their rebroadcasts instead. I started Death Beat(s) on Toonami, and I'm gonna finish it on Toonami, even if the recordings are technically from [as] proper. SHIPPUDEN - And we're back to canon. Can't wait to see Madara Uchiha (the real Madara Uchiha, that other Madara Uchiha is just imitating) bust some heads.

Why? Because Max probably deserves it after all his friends got fired. 12:00 - Dragon Ball Super #96 - The Time Has Come! To the Null Realm with the Universes on the Line!! - TV-14LV 12:30 - Sword Art Online: Alicization: War of Underworld #18 - Memories - TV-14LV 1:00 - Fire Force #30 - The Time to Choose - TV-MA 1:30 - Assassination Classroom #15 - End-of-Term Time - TV-14 2:00 - Gemusetto: Death Beat(s) #11 - G13 - TV-MALV 2:15 - Gemusetto: Death Beat(s) #12 - Ab7#11 - TV-MALS 2:30 - Naruto Shippuden #322 - Madara Uchiha - TV-PG 3:00 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba #9 - Temari Demon and Arrow Demon - TV-MAV And also because /co/ is jerks.

Wicked City Violence is beautiful, indeed.

Sealab 2021 1 Leave it to Brak

And now that all my anime-watching for 2020 is complete, I thought I'd share a list of all I went through this year. Color-coding is as follows: red for shows watched through Toonami, blue for subbed anime, green for dubbed anime, and orange for J-dramas.

Ikebukuro West Gate Park (J-Drama) Special That wound up being at least half an hour longer than I was anticipating, but it was still so good.

Air 13

The Qwaser of Stigmata 9

Wild 7 Another 4

I hope she does.

Mayo Chiki! 8

Saw it comin'.