PokeNirvash

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.

I honestly lost all potential interest in this when it started taking forever for it to get released past its announcement date.

Oh, I can just smell the bullshit on this post, even as a fraction of the whole.

All right, I've pretty much failed to do anything this month anyways, so maybe that will be a good starting point for the buildup to next year's NaNoWriMo.

I mean, yeah, I guess it's an obvious HBO Max plug, but it's still a pipe dream finally being realized, so who cares at this point? 12:00 - Primal #1 - Spear and Fang - TV-14V 12:30 - Primal #2 - River of Snakes - TV-14V 1:00 - Primal #3 - A Cold Death - TV-14V 1:30 - Primal #4 - Terror Under the Blood Moon - TV-14V 2:00 - Primal #5 - Rage of the Ape-Men - TV-MAV 2:30 - Primal #6 - Scent of Prey - TV-14V 3:00 - Primal #7 - Plague of Madness - TV-MAV 3:30 - Primal #8 - Coven of the Damned - TV-14SV 4:00 - Primal #9 - The Night Feeder - TV-MAV 4:30 - Primal #10 - Slave of the Scorpion - TV-14V [probably genndy]