PokeNirvash

Okay, I'm watching things out of order for reasons this week (and haven't seen SAO by the time I wrote this parenthetical), but this week's Sexual Assault Online must be especially heinous if the biggest roadblock to Fire Force's success as a brain-off show is preferable. ASS CLASS - Hoo boy, Takaoka. This guy is a piece of work. I may give main campus more shit than is healthy for someone of my age and mental stability (which is better than you'd think for an Aspergerian), but at least they're just smarmy dicks towards E Class. Takaoka's unisex corporal punishment tactics, on the other hand, are just abhorrent (though him kneeing that one kid in the gut would make for a funny out-of-context Twitter clip). I'm gonna side with literally everyone else and consider Karasuma the class dad. And because I've joked about them banging a few times, that does make Hellabitch the class mom (and based on some random /co/ poster's comparison of Takaoka to the teacher from Ghost Stories, she's also Hadley). Nagisa had a crowning moment of awesome worthy of the title, Karma skipped out on something I'm sure he'd have gotten a kick out of were he actually there, Koro-sensei was still the best even though he didn't really do anything, and Principal Douchenozzle actually played the good guy (as good as a douchenozzle like him can get) for once. All in all, another successful episode. FIRE FORCE - Today, I'd like to talk about anime nuns. The outfits are great, the girls wearing them are either cute, sexy or both, and despite it breaking all sense of logical reason, I can see why Asta's got that specific fetish. But I just can't be doin' with Nun Tamaki. Sure, her taking up the position to help cover more ground during this Infernal epidemic makes sense, and if it's natural for female fire soldiers in the 1st to eventually move on to sisterhood, I won't contest that, but it just feels wrong, having her in the firefighter role for the first several episodes, then revealing without context halfway through, "Oh hey, she plans on being a nun later on!" Granted, that sort of thing's a problem with Fire Force in general, but it's still awkward, to just spring that sudden potential career change on a viewer just when they were getting used to the position she started out in. The only thing more awkward is the Lucky Lecher Lure she still regularly falls victims too, but it was a little better than usual, even without seeing SAO's Rape of the Week beforehand. Vulcan's comment on the bikini-and-veil kink, scenes at one point being her losing just her stockings, Karim's only partially-reduntant "you never change when you change" quip, and her bikini just randomly flying off before smash-cutting away. I'm certain a clip was removed there, but even if it wasn't, that's still a change of pace from how Fire Force originally portrays such fanservice, even in-episode, that I'm content with that (though just as accepting as you others not being content with that). Also, I love that the nun squad from the 1st Company have over-the-nose masks built into their outfits. That's another fetish button successfully pressed for me by this show. SHIPPUDEN - All I can say is, thank god we're going back to canon after this. The additional worldbuilding Kishimoto neglected to cover is nice and all, but it's really meandering. Also, another great ending theme music-wise has finally arrived. SAO ALICIZATION - And once again, my expectations are exceeded in the most backhanded manner possible. Even taking his connection to Sugo and the reveal that he was Tentacle Vic all along into consideration, I highly preferred all the stuff going on with Yanai and his motivations (plus the confirmation that yes, Kikuoka had no involvement in Administrator threatening everyone into obedience with the Taboo Index) to all that went on in the Underworld. Kirito being all important despite still being in a coma is bad enough - I practically rolled my eyes when Sinon was all "Oh Kirito, you saved me again!" when his electrode cock-blocked Subtilizer - but the main characters being overpowered like nobody's business, from that one chick from ALO taking a spear to the thigh to Agil taking three to the chest (yet still having the power to pull off a shocked reaction face) and the Sleeping Knights' almost-attempt at winning over the other players being quashed just before it could take effect was too melodramatic and bullshitty for me to take seriously, in a "fuck you for making me care about this!" type of way. Here's to hoping next episode is less melodramatic and bullshitty, but I won't be surprised in the slightest if it isn't. GEMUSETTO - "Boats live forever. They don't die on you." Oh Tytti, you really need to read yourself some One Piece.

Blade's the only one I've seen in full, and while it's definitely flawed, I enjoyed it plenty and wouldn't mind giving it another watch. I have both DVDs, so it's not hard. As for the others, I only watched the first episode of X-Men from a G4 recording my uncle lent me, and the first five or so minutes of Iron Man as a seasonal test-watch. As for Wolverine, the closest I've gotten was considering buying both DVDs twice from two different Half-Price Books, but nothing ever came of either instance.

Ah yes, the year of Marvel anime produced by Madhouse from 2010 to 2011. Interesting that they'd go for the Wolverine one first.

Yeah, the Gemusetto hate in those threads is the biggest forced reaction I've seen since their equal hate of gen:LOCK.

Akudama Drive 8

Funny thing, Terminarcher was the first thing I thought of when Gunners said "mechanical details", even though it had nothing to do what he was talking about.

My experience watching FMA 03 was... not ideal. I started tuning into [as]'s Saturday schedule long-term in 2006, just when premieres finished up and they started playing reruns of the show. I watched all 23 episodes they aired, but in a move that was very like 11 year-old me, I rewatched some episodes multiple times while others I only watched once or twice. (For example, I can't count how many times I played and replayed "The Alchemy Exam" for myself, but "Night of the Chimera's Cry", I only bothered with twice, I think.) And that's without bringing up episode 2 being the April Fools' version where soundboard fart noises muted out the dialogue half the time, which, while hilarious, was awfully inconvenient. Once they pulled FMA reruns from the Saturday schedule, exactly around the time Bleach and Trinity Blood premiered, I pursued the final 28 episodes of FMA through the reruns it had on [as]'s weekday lineup. Episodes 27 and 28 were slight exceptions, my first exposure to them being a special features disk included with an FMA video game I never played, but through efforts in waking up early and working knowledge of how to use a VCR, I was able to watch and record (because that was my thing) all 51 episodes of FMA as broadcast on [as]. Unfortunately, I was never the most consistent early-riser in middle school, so I wound up skipping some episodes and going back to watch them out of order, which really jumbled my at-the-moment understanding of the show. Then there was Shamballa, the home video release for which somehow found its way onto my sister's list of anime DVDs she wanted, so my first time watching that was not the most ideal, and it wasn't until the Toonami broadcast of the movie in 2013 (and Angel's beautifully written evisceration of it) that I really came to appreciate what I was watching, as faulty as it was. Compare that with Brotherhood, which I was able to view from start to finish during its 2010-2011 broadcast on [as]. (I was gonna start it subbed as a seasonal watch, but FUNimation's free-to-view player had extremely slow buffering issues, so I opted to wait until the inevitable happened.) With only a few hiccups in the recording-and-watching process - episode 14 failed to record so I watched it through viewing individual episode clips on the [as] website in what I assume was the correct order, and post-credits scenes cut from later episodes I filled myself in on by looking up and watching the original Japanese versions on YouTube - Brotherhood turned out a much smoother ride than 03. While I'd be willing to give 03 another shot in a more start-to-finish format, and can appreciate it for its own merits and even its flaws, I'll always prefer Brotherhood because between the two, it's the one I had the comparatively ideal watching experience with. And then there's Sacred Star of Milos, whose different animation style wasn't that bad, but suffered worse problems with the story, and I'll always associate with the chain of events that led to the Toonami block's early 2015 downsizing.

Hopefully the latter, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was the former, as a cost-cutting measure following AT&T's colossally boneheaded decision to ax [as]'s digital department.

The Millionaire Detective: Balance Unlimited 6

Y'know, for kids!

Can't wait to see /co/nami rage over Demarco spending another year's worth of Toonami budget on this, even though it doesn't work that way.

Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle: Rhyme Anima 10 Doppo is my spirit animal, and I'm not even employed yet.

Just as it ain't SAO without awkward sexual assault, it ain't Fire Force without the Lucky Lecher Lure. 12:00 - Dragon Ball Super #94 - The Evil Emperor Returns! A Reception from Mysterious Assassins!? - TV-14LV 12:30 - Sword Art Online: Alicization: War of Underworld #16 - Code 871 - TV-14DLSV 1:00 - Fire Force #28 - Groping Through the Fire - TV-MAS 😬 1:30 - Assassination Classroom #13 - Talent Time - TV-14LV 2:00 - Gemusetto: Death Beat(s) #7 - EbMaj7 - TV-MAL 2:15 - Gemusetto: Death Beat(s) #8 - E9 - TV-MALS 2:30 - Naruto Shippuden #320 - Run, Omoi! - TV-PGL - END OF FILLER (FOR NOW) 3:00 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba #7 - Muzan Kibutsuji - TV-MAV Better to be safe than sorry, with those ratings.

And here's a thing I wrote up about another hypothetical anime I did, this one lost to time (but maybe not the Wayback Machine):

Lost media is one of my most recent interests, and while I don’t obsess over it as much as others do, I will admit that I can see where these obsessers are coming from. Entertainment that was once readily available for consumption, lost to time for various reasons… There’s something romantic about chasing after something that might not even be tangible, either for the sake of proving its existence, taking possession of it so you know it exists, or putting it out there for the entire world to see. And when that lost media is made available, it’s all the better, even if what’s found objectively sucks. I mean, that hasn’t stopped me from watching AWOL after the English-subbed 12-episode version found its way online against the better judgement of its owner, nor has it kept me from possessing Discotek’s subtitled DVD release of Wild 7 Another, a rare non-fansubbed anime from the 2000s whose new English translation can’t even be found on KissAnime or its contemporaries. While I’ve never chased down lost media to the lengths others have, I hold a connection to that medium regardless. I own a few pieces of potential lost media, mostly in the form of VHS recordings of ads from Cartoon Network and [adult swim] that haven’t seen upload to YouTube or archive.org just yet. The special one-minute ad for The Animatrix’s October 30th, 2004 rerun on [as] is my favorite of the bunch. But even stranger than that, I’m actually the creator of a piece of lost media that most people don’t even know about. Only those who browsed the [adult swim] Message Boards in the early 2010s may know what I’m talking about, assuming the few who do haven’t already forgotten. The lost media I created is called Kiguma, and I am going to tell you all that I can about it, about five years after it escaped my grasp. To avoid cluttering the page too much, and also to keep certain facts hidden for some people who'd rather not remember such things, the different sections of this message board essay of mine will be hidden under spoiler tabs, so if you're curious to learn all the ugly details, just look under them to learn said details in the fullest description in which I could give them. THE ORIGINS THE HYPOTHETICALS THE STORY THE CHARACTERS THE PLOT PROGRESSION THE PLANNED SECOND HALF THE LOSS THE NEXT STEPS I hope you all enjoyed this recollection of ASMB's Action Discussion fanfic culture, my attempted contribution to it, and the ensuing aftermath, no matter how hard it may have been to get from point A to point B. [this has been a Poke service announcement]

Corpse Princess: Aka 9 (subbed)

Better late than never, I suppose. Air #9: Moon Air #10: Light Akudama Drive #4: SPEED Akudama Drive #5: DEAD MAN WALKING Akudama Drive #6: BROTHER Akudama Drive #7: (The City of) Lost Children Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle: Rhyme Anima #6: He who laughs last, laughs best. Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle: Rhyme Anima #7: The darkest hour is just before the down dawn. Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle: Rhyme Anima #8: Dead men tell no tales. Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle: Rhyme Anima #9: Life is what you make it. Ikebukuro West Gate Park (Anime) #6: G-Boys Winter War, Part 1 Ikebukuro West Gate Park (Anime) #7: G-Boys Winter War, Part 2 Ikebukuro West Gate Park (Anime) #8: Senkawa Fall Out Mother Ikebukuro West Gate Park (Anime) #9: Hatred on Parade Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 #7: PIE IN THE SKY Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 #8: ASSEMBLE Mayo Chiki! #7: Let's Elope! Corpse Princess: Aka #8: Serenity Wild 7 Another #2: Japo Wild 7 Another #3: Team Wild [team of the wild wild wild]

And these two mine.

Like I said, just buy the fucking DVD/Blu-Ray/whatever if you're too cheap to legally stream yet too pussy to pirate.

Mayo Chiki! 7

You... do realize that physical media is still a thing, right?

It's a predictable answer, and the student council being a bunch of antagonistic twats for no reason keeps it from being flawless, but I will confess, Eizouken might just be my top pick for anime of the year.

Akudama Drive 7

Elfie, you're like a helicopter parent; you're really killing my buzz.