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At this point most of us would gladly take High Guardian Spice over any more of EX-ARM.

Impossible as it is, I'd be up for that.

Netflix, Toonami, whatever decreases the number of hoops I have to jump through to watch it when the dub of season 2 eventually drops.

Eh, call me when Demarco freezes over Hell to justify picking it up for a Toonami run.

Kanon 2006 6

The overall ratings go down, but the retention between shows increases. And that's what really matters in this age of streaming being the true king of content consumption. [on the tv]

Indeed. The Macross franchise rundown from last week was very good, something I'm sure ANN has been wanting to do if not for Harmony Gold being stingy about the rights. Though I feel like this week's review, plus that one deviation for episode 3's, were designed that way to let the less sarcastically-inclined know that Nick does dislike EX-ARM and his reviews shouldn't be taken seriously. You'd be surprised how many people don't understand satire.

Alice in Borderland (J-Drama) 3

Outside of Zora saying "shit" like my nonconventionally educated guess predicted, nope. We're stuck in filler/"anime canon" (translation: training arc nonsense) until episode 158, so feel free to check out 'til then. COSMO SAMURAI - Even the objectively inferior IGPX microseries was a better animated TIE, but hey, at least it's better than Sand Whale. ATTACK ON TITAN - It's official, too many people are dying this season for my taste. I don't even know who to root for anymore... 😩 ASS CLASS - Part of me's disappointed that Takaoka didn't die, but Nagisa's non-lethal countermeasure was a perfectly acceptable substitute, with the reveal that even his hired guns thought he was too crazy to be trusted was a pleasant one. Really, I think I'll be able to tolerate those main campus douchebuckets more, now that Takaoka proved you could do wayyyyyy worse. (But still, fuck Kunudon and the sheeple in his live studio audience.) I eagerly wait for next season, whenever Demarco finds a place in the schedule for it. FIRE FORCE - Finally, we get backstory for how Joker and Burns got those perpetual flaming eyes of theirs. Fun stuff, if not super dark. Considering they brought back that random "pilot light" kid Rekka lit up (one of the few things I remember from that fight that wasn't "My stars!" and the Lucky Lecher Lure ruining the mood), I feel Fire Force is a show that highly benefits from marathon-style rewatching. And while I do like Lisa's haircut and her rolling with Company 8 for legit now, I'm still pissed off that she still unironically identifies as a villain, so I only sorta hate her now instead of really fucking hating her like I did last season. BLACK CLOVER - When you have a filler episode with a "strong coarse language" rating after countless PG-level eps, you know someone's gonna drop the S-bomb. How appropriate that Zora was the one that had the honor of doing so. GRIDMAN - So the town is an isolated patch of urban landscape surrounded by fog and relative nothingness, the kaiju looming over the landscape are basically repairmen, and Akane is the closest thing to Haruhi Suzumiya we're ever gonna get on [as] (outside of that swimsuit Shirley wore in Geass R2 ep 5 I tried to justify as a reference, and a text bumper recommending it to someone looking for SoL anime to watch). But my question is, where'd she get all the people to populate her Cities: Skylines project? SHIPPUDEN - Honestly the most excited I've been for a Shippuden episode plot-wise since I started watching. So nice to see Naruto and Kurama finally working together after fifteen years of unsteady coexistence.

I thought the last Blockbuster was in Oregon...

On tonight's episode of Black Clover, Dimestore Bondage Gear Hisoka JYB says the word "shit". 12:00 - Dragon Ball Super #103 - Gohan, Get Ruthless! Showdown with the 10th Universe!! - TV-14 12:30 - Attack on Titan: The Final Season #7 - Assault - TV-MA 1:00 - Assassination Classroom #22 - Nagisa Time - TV-14LV - SEASON FINALE 1:30 - Fire Force #37 - A Pair of One-Eyes - TV-MA 2:00 - Black Clover #138 - In Zara's Footsteps - TV-14L 2:30 - SSSS.GRIDMAN #6 - Contact - TV-14 3:00 - Naruto Shippuden #329 - Two-Man Team - TV-PG 3:30 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba #16 - Letting Someone Else Go First - TV-MAV At least, I hope he does.

Corpse Princess: Kuro 5 Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan 1 (actually 3)

No foolish decision made by Williams Street, be it minor like airing Kekkaishi instead of Soul Eater or major like pushing MHA premieres all the way to the back, made me as pissed off as their decision to demote Geass and Moribito to the graveyard slot while filling most of the Saturday block with comedy. It's also the objective worst thing they've done with anime, since it was the only time the licensors got pissed enough to force them to put the premieres at a more reasonable time.

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Why must you exaggerate things beyond reason? We are not a clickbait site.

On another note, this is JoJo's first union dub, since noted union-only names Jessica DiCicco and Crispin Freeman are among the listed cast members.

Makes sense, he's a decent Vic soundalike and hasn't voiced anyone in the franchise already.

Redo of Healer 6

JMan, you're like an Obama poster missing its lower half. No hope.

And now for the informational basics. EPISODE 1: KIGUMA Premiere Date: July 17, 2010 Script: Kareta Gohsawa (that's me) Storyboard & Episode Director: Kunihiro Mori (The Mars Daybreak, Shounen Onmyouji director) Animation Director: Toshihiro Kawamoto (Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain character designer) Content Rating: TV-14L EPISODE 2: WHO'S THAT GIRL? Premiere Date: July 24, 2010 Script: Kareta Gohsawa Storyboard & Episode Director: Masayuki Miyaji (Xam'd: Lost Memories, Fuse: Memoirs of a Huntress director) Animation Director: Eiji Nakada (Code Geass mechanical designer, Sacred Seven character designer) Content Rating: TV-14DLV EPISODE 3: RYUDIS Premiere Date: August 14, 2010 Script: Kareta Gohsawa Storyboard: Akira Hashimoto (literally who) Episode Director: Yasuhiro Geshi (Lil' Red Riding Hood Cha-Cha, Aqua Age episode director) Animation Director: Masashi Koizuka (Attack on Titan seasons 2-3 director) Content Rating: TV-14DLV EPISODE 4: LETHALIZER Premiere Date: December 21, 2010 Script: Kareta Gohsawa Storyboard & Episode Director: Takayuki Tanaka (Aquarion, Noein: to your other self storyboarder & episode director) Animation Director: Ryo-timo (Birdy the Mighty: Decode character design, Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta director) Production Cooperation: A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online, Blue Exorcist) Content Rating: TV-MA EPISODE 5: JOINTED DESIRE Premiere Date: March 30, 2011 Script: Kareta Gohsawa Storyboard & Episode Director: Yusaku Saotome (Delinquent in Drag, Going Wild director) Animation Director: Yuji Ushijima (Princess Tutu, Fairy Tail animation director) Production Cooperation: Yuhodo Content Rating: TV-14DL EPISODE 6: UNITED AS NONE Premiere Date: May 14, 2011 Script: Kareta Gohsawa Storyboard & Episode Director: Masaki Tachibana (Barakamon, Princess Principal director) Animation Director: Yukie Akiya (Code:Breaker, Princess Principal character designer) Content Rating: TV-14DL EPISODE 7: PRIMA BALLERINA SEARCHING FOR A STATUS QUO Premiere Date: July 13, 2011 Script: Kareta Gohsawa Storyboard, Episode Director, & Animation Director: Toshihiro Kikuchi (Yozakura Quartet 2008, VitaminX Addiction character designer) Production Cooperation: Nomad (Rozen Maiden, Kämpfer) Content Rating: TV-14DLS EPISODE 8: ANNIHILATION OF THE BLUE SNIPER Premiere Date: August 16, 2011 Script: Kareta Gohsawa Storyboard & Episode Director: Masayuki Miyaji Animation Directors: Yutaka Nakamura (Cowboy Bebop, RahXephon animator), Toshihiro Kawamoto Content Rating: TV-14LV EPISODE 9: BRAIN TRIP Premiere Date: November 26, 2011 Script: Kareta Gohsawa Storyboard & Episode Director: Yoshihide Yuuzumi (Yurumates 3Dei, Oneechan ga Kita director) Animation Director: Yuya Takahashi (Senki Zesshou Symphogear G, Lupin the 3rd: Part IV animation director) Production Cooperation: C2C (Harukana Receive, Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina) Content Rating: TV-14L EPISODE 10: VICTORY THROUGH INSANITY Premiere Date: March 28, 2012 Script: Kareta Gohsawa Storyboard: Tomoki Kyoda (Eureka seveN, RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio director) Episode Director: Kazuya Murata (Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos director) Animation Directors: Eiji Nakada, Yoshiyuki Ito (Fullmetal Alchemist, Space Dandy character designer) Content Rating: TV-14LSV EPISODE 11: UNWILLING MISTRESS Premiere Date: May 31, 2012 Script: Kareta Gohsawa Storyboard: Kareta Gohsawa, Masayuki Sakoi (Strawberry Panic!, NEEDLESS director) Episode Director: Masayuki Sakoi Animation Directors: Toshihiro Kikuchi, Masashi Koizuka Content Rating: TV-14DLS EPISODE 12: COMING STORM Premiere Date: August 9, 2012 Script: Kareta Gohsawa Storyboard: Kareta Gohsawa, Katsumi Terahigashi (Eureka seveN, Durarara!! storyboarder), Namimi Sanjo (a.k.a. Hitoshi Nanba; Heroman, Golden Kamuy director), Masayuki Miyaji Episode Director: Masayuji Miyaji Animation Directors: Koichi Horikawa (Wolf's Rain, My Hero Academia animation director), Satoshi Mori (another literally who) Content Rating: TV-MA EPISODE 13: THE BEAT IS LOOSE [DATA FOR THIS EPISODE AND BEYOND NOT FOUND]

UPDATE: For reasons relating to my side hobby adding staff to Anime News Network, I snuck into the old Wayback Machine archives of the ASMB to check out the thread I made for Kiguma. After finding out it was there, I decided to make a wave of edits to the above post to more or less reflect its current status. The links for viewing are listed below. Page 1 (eps 1-2) Page 2 (ep 3) Page 3 (ep 4) Page 4 (eps 5-6) Page 5 (eps 7-8) Page 6 (eps 9-10) Page 7 (eps 11-12) Another post coming later regarding the informational basics.

At least it wasn't another goddang pachinko machine.

The CW is a network station. Cartoon Network is cable. Your comparison is bullshit and you know it, even if it is technically correct.

Kanon 2006 5 Key tsunderes are the best tsunderes.

That'd be why I spoiler-marked it.