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You know, if you wanted a mood-lightener after reading Emergence, you should've looked up the alternate ending where

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Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle: Rhyme Anima 11

My brain says Cowboy Bebop My heart says Eureka seveN My dick says High School DxD

Yeah, I've got nothin' this week. Maybe next week when there's special events worth commentating about. 12:00 - Dragon Ball Super #95 - Most Heinous! Most Evil! Frieza's Wild Rampage!! - TV-14LV 12:30 - Sword Art Online: Alicization: War of Underworld #17 - Prince of Hell - TV-14LV 1:00 - Fire Force #29 - Corna (Sign of the Devil) / A Secret Plan - TV-MA 1:30 - Assassination Classroom #14 - Vision Time - TV-14LV 2:00 - Gemusetto: Death Beat(s) #9 - Fdim - TV-MAL 2:15 - Gemusetto: Death Beat(s) #10 - F#Min7 - TV-MALS 2:30 - Naruto Shippuden #321 - Reinforcements Arrive - TV-PGL 3:00 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba #8 - The Smell of Enchanting Blood - TV-MAV

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Dude, we still have this Saturday and the Bebop marathon on Boxing Day. Save the first goodbye for the latter date, and the second for the former.

Not that anybody else really cares, but I take it this means the remaining Death Beat(s) episodes are getting postponed? EDIT: Did some digging, found out they're airing the Sunday night after. So yes, just not as much as I was expecting them to.

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Hold up, I wouldn't go that far outside of simile, it's just that you keep reiterating the same thing whenever someone confronts you on it, that it kind of comes off as obnoxious/a cry for help.

You seem way too concerned about this for your own good. I mean yeah, I also think it sucks whenever [as] doesn't promote something as often as they used to - lord knows the frustration I felt when they didn't bother making any on-air promos for Geass and Moribito back in the ACTN Dark Ages - but I don't let myself lose any sleep over it. Hell, personally, I'm glad they got rid of the episode-specific topicals; that way, I can now watch my recordings in whatever order I want without fear of having to fast-forward through the topicals for shows I haven't watched yet. Besides, I don't think they'll be gone forever. They got rid of them after Titan premieres finished up, then brought them back in time for One Punch Man. It's a pattern, and I'm gonna let it play out, instead of whining about it like someone who doesn't know how to channel their depressive bouts over nothing into something productive but unimportant.

Probably because Ed's automail prosthetics are limited to just two limbs and in Al's case his soul is bound to said suit of armor, not to mention both were part of the canon story from the beginning, whereas Terminarcher had one half of his body - lengthwise, mind you - replaced with prosthetics, and is also exclusive to the 03 anime, just like Archer himself was.

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But was it higher or lower than the numbers for Food Wars' premiere episode?

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.

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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.