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MY HERO ACADEMIA - Finally, those weeks without premieres are finally gonna pay off. FALL IS FINALLY HERE. Clearly the solution is to sand her horn off. Seeing Amajiki and Mirio interact makes me miss Senku and Taiju. Oh right, he had a work study too. Guess that explains why we didn't see any of it (outside of the stuff regarding Overhaul being more plot-important). FUCK YEAH IT'S THE PUSSYCATS. And Kota too, I guess. Kid's still as tsundere as ever. Yeah, I wouldn't dare take that risk either. A chart where the triple digit rankings are considered decent in their own right, that's weird but also fun. Todoroki isn't looking forward to the results, if you couldn't tell. Considering your fight managed to save a number of lives, I say you deserve that spot in the top 10. Oh hi Mt. Lady. Yeahhhhh you two are totally fucking. 😜 NEW HERO WAIFU SPOTTED. Her voice ain't too bad, I don't know what those people who say she doesn't sound black enough are talking about, clearly she just tans really well. Best Jeanist is still alive, he's just very badly injured. Worst Dad is the best at something, it's a Father's Day miracle. (Also, I forget which fanfic I got this from, but I liked that it had Endeavor interpret All Might's "Now it's your turn" as being directed towards him inheriting his #1 hero spot.) You heard her, pour one out for Sir Nighteye. T_T Okay, I could sense some subtle ebonics in that line; like really subtle. Most of Endeavor's approval comes from him doing his job well. Mentioning Stain and Overhaul in his mic time, this dude is a madman. BACKGROUND CHARACTER OF THE MOMENT: Moai Guy. Bender: "YOU SUCK!" If we're treating the definition of "beard" loosely - and I mean really loosely - then I say stubble sorta counts. And then he was more fire than man. Am I the only one who thinks the frame rate on Endeavor's flame effects are more than a little off? This guy seriously gets his power from being a flasher. Now let's make a sworn pact to never speak of him again. In a way, Endeavor is a lot like the late Zac Bertschy; just because you respect the guy and what he does, that doesn't mean actually talking to him comes easy. (At least, it isn't for a so-called contentious individual like myself.) Now this guy is a hardcore ZacEndeavorhead. Ain't nothing like literal top-floor yakitori. Ol' AFO. I dunno why, but it's kinda strange looking at Endeavor's hair. "Fear is good for business," that's the radical left's motto. Just how fast was that thing coming at 'em anyways? Still no word on who Miruko's seiyuu is, goddammit! I wonder what that burned picture's supposed to be of. PARANOIA AGENT - Sometimes I feel Turner S&P's trying too hard to make the show's ratings match that of the home video release. And that's how the last episode ties into this one. The only college entrance exam I had to take for OSU was matching weirdly-shaped polygons at different angles under a time limit, us Americans have it easy compared to the Japanese and their rigorous methods. Oh, it's nothing, you just dropped the area of a circle. And now you're leaking even more equations, is that supposed to be symbolic of exam-day forgetfulness? I unironically love the obvious dated 3D effects of all those lines of information neatly dropping to the ground. WORDS, WORDS EVERYWHERE. I should be lucky I didn't freak out that badly about the six exams I had early this year. No matter the culture, bitchy in-laws are a universal constant. This story never really gelled with me back when I first watched PA, it's more one that gets better as you get older. Still, no matter how you perceive it, that shot of Lil' Slugger in the doorway is real kino. PREGNANCY SCIENCE. This is why you hire nurses for more than just their looks. Oh dear, he found his way into the womb. Random rabbit costume. Technically, the screw-up was on the nurses' part, but I will give you the whole "baseball bat in the uterus" thing. My father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate once told me... It's a good thing I never played or cared about the first Last of Us, so there's no way I can be as mad as everyone else about the sequel game. Looks pretty American up in this story. This really looks and feels like a shoujo manga, it's almost hilariously out of place. And here comes Lil' Slugger to turn it into an NTR doujin. Yeah, it seemed a little too fantastic to be real, and the guy's emotional turmoil much too subtle. REPLY TO ANGEL 1: "OH, IT'S A BASEBALL." Oh, that's a baseball. MICHIO MIHARA SAKUGA SPOTTED. In which Lil' Slugger puts his bat to its intended use. Damn, Reigen really let himself go after he accidentally #MeToo'd himself out of his successful exorcism business. What a waste of perfectly good foods. "Eat up." I've always wondered if tiny islands with a lone coconut tree exist in real life like they do in cartoons; I'd believe not. AND THEN HE CAME OUT OF THE WATER LIKE JAWS. Okay, the politician wanting to get hit only to end up dooming his sycophant to that fate is actually pretty clever. When all else fails, just rip off a famous tragedy; in this case, the Challenger disaster. I can't read smoke trails! FUN FACT: The reason that background audio is in Japanese is because it was an effects track that couldn't be dubbed over. That balloon is Disney, and those birds are the Twitter hate mob. I'm not sure what freaked me out more on the first watch: Miss Kamahara's face upon realizing she now has a good story to tell the other housewives, or the fact that their apartment complex spelled out the episode title from above. Hmm, credits look a little jittery this week. Next week, think Shirobako but with more murder and ugly people. MOB PSYCHO 100 - It took me longer than I'd have like to realize the first half of "White T Poison" was referring to Mob's shirt. All these middle schools are named after condiments. "It appears that low-level spirits can't go anywhere near this place simply because Shigeo lives here!" Or maybe you're so weak you can't phase through solid matter like you used to. It's funny when Dimple gets hurt. Okay, so your powers work, you just suck at precision. "That's odd, Ritsu never skips shrimp pasta night." All your possession did was make his cheeks look like a cheap clown's. Oh hey, it's Tenga's underling. Yeah, being unable to make it to the bathroom to do #2 would be stressful. No one ever thinks to care about the victims. It's either wine and roses or peyote and saguaros, as far as they're concerned. That's a low blow, going after a man's car like that... TOP OF TERU'S HEAD: 150%. 🤣 Oh shit, I just noticed the Twitter logo on that one building back there. BLINK OR YOU'LL MISS IT PANTYSHOT DETECTED. Can't let your new do blow away and expose your temporary bald spot. Man, Dimple, you missed a lot after you got temporarily exorcised. Shit, I really need to get around to those Shivering Truth recordings. Maybe I'll luck my way into another job offer partway through the fifth episode, like with season 1. Never trust the supposed value of a gaudy vase. Now those are just elementary schooler drawings. Fuck yeah, Reigen comes in to save the day once again. HUUUUUUGE. Also never try to out-con the master con man. Or his highly skilled esper disciple. I'd say Reigen teeters on the line of what defines a "con man"; he scams people, but he leaves many of them fulfilled regardless. "You get off on this, don't you?" He sure sounds like it, at the very least. If anything, the Body Improvement Club's leader is "Looks Too Old for School Guy". Man, Tenga deserved none of this, violent as he was. "You do realize I could bench-press you without breaking a sweat, right?" See, the Japanese do know what self-defense is! Sucks to be you, Kamuro. This guy just can't stop getting ambushed by delinquents. There's just something fun about seeing Ritsu go so deep into the dark side. He is Kageyama, just not the one you're thinking of. They were saving the action budget for this scene, weren't they. THREE FREEZE! Loss, you say? BLACK CLOVER - Oh hi Grandma Nun and token Greg Ayres character. Head Priest, your real name is just as stupid as your blind worship of the ground Yuno walks on. Asta's lookin' kinda attractive in that picture, no homo. And Sister Lily has an actual last name, color me surprised! "I'M NOT ANGRY, I JUST TALK THIS WAY!" The role of abusive prison warden fits Captain Jack surprisingly well. [mentions dinner hams, camera cuts to Purple Orca guy] Heh. 😏 Does it count as profanity if "Damn" is part of your name? These nobles are as stupid as they are rich, there's no winning with their kind unless you do absolutely everything they say. Even Sekke feels a little uneasy about all this vitriol. Better a fugitive than having to listen to what your nasty ass says. What, so the people outside of this building don't matter in the slightest? FUCK YEAH BLACK BULLS. And to the surprise of no one, Gauche mentions Marie in his portion of their group spiel. I can only imagine how many nobles they wound up crushing to death, making their big entrance. For being the long arm of the law, Damnatio is pretty goddamn ignorant. The outerwear was always part of Superman; the same cannot be said for the Bat-nipples. Now's not the time to try and kill Asta, Gauche. A royal jackass, indeed. That voodoo doll looks kinda cute at a distance. REPLY TO ANGEL 2: "Oh good, just in case I forgot that they're all goddamn terrible and I hate them." Like I said several times in the past, Charmy's at her worst when she's part of this consistently tiresome cavalcade of character quirks. Zora: "I'm surrounded by idiots..." Welcome to the team (officially), Secre, we hope you enjoy your stay. NOBODY FUCKING CARES WHAT YOU THINK, DUMBNUTSIO. Is this the magic equivalent of cursing someone with a tiny penis? Thank god for antimagic amirite. Nozel may still be a dick, but even he looks like a cool guy compared to the one-dimensional nobles packing the multi-level peanut gallery of failure over there. Thanks for sticking in his corner, guys. Yeah, yeah, whatever helps your ego sleep at night. Gauche doesn't know how to deal with his sister going all tsundere on him. Noelle, meanwhile, is used enough to her brother's tsun to let it roll off her back. A REIDEEN reference in my Black Clover? BASED. "Bet you could use a drink." Dammit, Vanessa, he's not old enough for alcohol yet! At least in America he's not. Yami: "I too am surrounded by idiots." Yeah, this guy's gonna die before he ever gets redeemed. As far as simply characterized secondary characters in this show go, Marx is one of the more underrated ones. Aw fuck, I just walked into the middle of a random music video. Whatever, these things already lack enough context when I start them from the beginning. NARUTO SHIPPUDEN - Meanwhile, the Raikage's trying and failing to successfully lecture his own group of opponents on what they should be doing. Rule #34 of Anime Physics... ain't it a bitch? "Splendid move... but not splendid enough!" That's a surprisingly long time for a decoy to survive in battle. Oh hey Naruto. It grazed his hair, that's a good start! Damn Raikage and their crazy speed acrobatics! If the irises are white, then things just ain't right. THROAT SAND. I can't believe I've gone over a decade of my life thinking the Lightning Blade and Chidori were the same thing... are they? But the question is, which of the Tailed Beasts did he go up against? Well that answers that question. Easily it was the greatest fight that nobody knows about. "I like pesto." Too bad, because Jimmy Pesto sucks. [sigh] Naruto fangirls... In all fairness, he'd have succeeded if not for that sudden gust of wind. You're a pretty cool guy, Eyepatch Cloud dude. LIKE A GODDAMN SUPERBALL. Dangit, Bee, now's not the time for a pee break. Like I said, the greatest fight nobody knows about. A two-man Tailed Beast Bomb, perhaps? Or maybe it's just another Rasengan, as per usual. OH SHIIIIIT SELF-IMPALEMENT. Sometimes the key to victory lies in having your opponent play themselves. Oh yeah, Onoki got shot last episode. And we're still gonna be waiting for some resolution on that.

I'm pretty sure they had VAs of color among their ranks for longer than you claim, they just weren't nearly as numerous or prominent as they are now. I can buy the latter statement though.

Of course you'd bring that up... I mean, there's nothing wrong with Miruko having a black VA. But on the other hand, FUNi does realize they don't have to give every dark-skinned character a dark-skinned VA, especially if they're more brown than black like Miruko is, right?

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SHE'S HEEEEEEEEEEEERE

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Mt. Lady, the Pussycats, and a new hero waifu all in one episode? Color me interested. 12:00 - My Hero Academia #87 - Japanese Hero Billboard Chart - TV-14 12:30 - Paranoia Agent #9 - Etc. - TV-MA 1:00 - Mob Psycho 100 #7 - Exaltation ~I've Obtained Loss~ - TV-14DLV 1:30 - Black Clover #122 - As Pitch Black as it Gets - TV-PG 2:00 - Ballmastrz: 9009 #5 - Breathe Deep to Win! Teamwork Cuts Through the Foul Odor of Obsession! - TV-14L 2:15 - Ballmastrz: 9009 #6 - Honor! Money! Swords! Dongs! Ultimate Gaz Boom Boom Rookie Card Battle Begin! Fight! - TV-14DL 2:30 - Naruto Shippuden #301 - Paradox - TV-14 There's a Shin Chan reference in there somewhere.

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Now crossdressing? Well, that's just fine.

Yes, let's celebrate America with the most Japanese show ever aired on the network.

Kengan Ashura 24 I need a season 3 in me, like, yesterday. 9.5/10.

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Really, I think he just doesn't like Asta. The kid did call him out on being pointless forty episodes ago.

I dunno, sending Japanese-language scripts over for subtitle translation would make for a more accurate process than the "legal fansubbing" route of doing everything by ear.

Oh, but what if it was...

PARANOIA AGENT - Oh dang special suicide warning. Googly-eyed backpacks are so 2004. "I thought she'd be more like, how should I say..." Legal? Susumu Hirasawa's music is both fitting and unfitting at the same time, especially where this episode is concerned. I do like the method of storytelling via chatlog, even if you have to pause to read everything (god forbid what you have to do if you don't have any subtitles...) Aren't you supposed to just swallow those things whole? That's the fakest crying I've ever seen, even in anime. Random salaryman beat them to it. And somehow he lived. Do you smoke cigarettes, or do you eat 'em? Nothing says "comedy" like upbeat Peanuts music and a side-wipe transition. "I wonder if he's hurt..." [thud] He is now. I was honestly never a fan of this screechy nonsense version of "London Bridge is Falling Down". Can't believe they waited this long to do the classic suicide maneuver; thought it was too cliche, maybe? If the choking didn't kill them, that fall definitely did. Y'know, for Pride Month. ゆ was always the hiragana character I had the toughest time writing. And finally we have our connection to the overarching plot. Not only was Kozuka a chuuni, he was suicidal too. In a sense, I can understand his fear at getting offed like he did, better to die on your own terms than by random chance. Oh hi Maniwa. 🤣 Lil' Slugger didn't sign up for any of this Looney Tunes bullshit. Yes, the classic tell-tale sign of being a ghost (or a victim of Gecko Moria's Devil Fruit): no shadow. I'll admit, the show did a great job hiding the lack of shadows up until this point, especially with the three standing and walking in areas where shadows couldn't easily be distinguished. Oh god not that song again. Yes, getting photobombed is indeed a terrifying experience. The lesson here is, condoms over abstinence. FUN FACT: Our three idiots this episode were voiced by the core cast of Koi Kaze (the superior incestuous couple and their dad). Oh double dang special suicide hotline message. Next week, thank god I won't have to take another important exam for the next three to four years. MOB PSYCHO 100 - Now those are just random-looking dance moves. They don't have good English in Jersey, is what yer sayin'. I think he was referring to that "leg in the air" pitching pose you see so much in anime nowadays. GET A JOB YOU BUM. That's our Reigen, flipping the bird to Japan's "no such thing as self-defense" stigma with both hands. In all fairness, you did repair the school, so it's not like that really plays a factor into what you're trying to say. Use the knives like cutlery, not weapons of murder. Tome and Ichi are best girls, Tsubomi and her generic "beauty of the school" face can take a hike. They're Reigen's rules - hey, nice alliteration there, me - and you will respect them. Whether as a suicidal homosexual or the much-younger-than-he-looks leader of his school's fitness club, Patrick Seitz remains awesome. Tenga's great, the fact that Ray Chase is voicing him is really just a bonus. That dude's one layer of black and white makeup away from being a KISS-head. I'm not sure if that was a burn towards Ritsu or towards Mob. Nice music video, did they make this before the sudden replacement of JoJo with Ballmastrz? I CAN'T READ CIRCLE. I'm not sure what flavor of ice cream Tome's got but I want some. These kids' powers are just as unimpressive as their character designs. Even the student council president has family troubles. My room may be trouble to navigate to some, but at least it doesn't have a bunch of trash bags piled up on one side of the room, just a bunch of VHS tapes dating back to 2004 packed away in old computer paper boxes in my closet. "Ah, Kageyama, you're just in time to help me frame someone." But what if you're smart like they say and into fetishy stuff in a way that has nothing to do with :autism: like you are? I always liked Tenga's purple shirt. Tenga getting thrown under the bus is somehow both a rough watch and hilarious at the same time; just another reason Mob's the best at what it does (and also way better than OPM). I'm not surprised Mittelman feels shitty about betraying his BFF Chase. I completely forgot about Ritsu running into Reigen, or maybe it was the other way around. DIMPLE LIVES! BLACK CLOVER - Yami truly is Angel's spirit animal as far as this show is concerned. In many ways, it's tough having "Vangeance" as your last name. Again, Asta knows what's going on better than his technically smarter compatriots do. Two questions for the price of one. "Baby-faced Grandpa", better known to us as Winston Churchill. His whole "magic fanboy" thing is a lot more accurate, now that he's a boy. He works out more than anybody else in the land, at this point excruciating pain ain't nothin' to a guy like him. WEG. Secre/Nero is best girl/bird. They've also got parrots and sloths! Looks like the land from Frozen to me. If only things were that easy, Asta. "And what even is the Magic Parliament!?" They're like the Magic Congress, only more British. Elsewhere, Sekke finally wins one, much to his surprise. I can't believe the promos for this show are getting more tolerable with each episode. Ha-homicide. Oh no, surprise assassins! ZA WARUDO. I don't know who this guy is but he certainly comes off like a complete dick. I just had lunch but that food bowl's making me hungry again. This hooded guy's gonna arrest him isn't he. Eh, close enough. Unfortunately for you, this is a "guilty until proven innocent" court, and likely a Japanese critique of their own GUPI courts too. Oh, to have a hand grenade right now... I'd make a quip about Monica Rial's character condemning hatefulness, but unlike the other people who wish to avoid picking sides in KickVic vs. ISWV, I don't think she was being hateful at all. (The guy she tweeted this at was a dickbag anyway.) An episode with Gauche's sister but no Gauche, it's a Flag Day miracle. (Still, if only the sister fucker was here...) Fuck off, Damnatio. It's funny how Darrel Guilbeau's only a good voice actor when he's ripping off Michael Sinterniklaas wholesale. NARUTO SHIPPUDEN - It's not everyday that you see your enemies actually want to be stopped. The giant clam really does sound like a filler thing at first glance, so it's a relief to see that it's not, so much. Gaara doesn't have time for this crap. Don't mind the sudden change in heart, he's just very sensitive about his mustache. Who will win: one invisible man, or seven visible men? I do like the Mizukage complaining about how useless everyone is. This episode is just one big mindfuck for these poor extras. MY BACK! Oh hi Naruto. Hopefully that seal manages to stick. He found out about the war by accident and got permission to join in after a daring escape, there's your explanation. Funny thing is, they all just passed out due to exhausting themselves trying to find the real enemy. He had training, he knows what he's doing. "Just because you're Kazekage already doesn't mean you can treat me like a kid." Yes, but you are technically still a genin. You say "water balloon", but those just look like regular ol' soap bubbles to me. Oh god, his sand literally looks like shit now. "It's like I'm on crazy pills!" Leave it to the Kages pick up the slack with smarter fighting. MY BACK! AGAIN! Water guns hurt like hell.

I saw footage of that Wendy's at 10 last night, and it didn't look like it was on fire to me then. They said it was on fire, but the only things I saw aflame were the bushes and trees on the restaurant's property. And if it was on fire inside, it looked like the lights were just on. They were right about the windows being busted out though. Considering it was done by a prominent sakuga artist whose opening animation for Eureka seveN's third cour incurred so much backlash on the Japanese side he had to do sakuga for a later episode uncredited, yeah I can understand how it could be viewed that way. Depends on how high you jump.

Trust me, there's Rule 34 of Ballmastrz out there. Problem is, most of it is of Gaz, and the rest is Ace /ss/.

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Evil Koko was best girl. Also, fuck Milordo-Z.

The problems in question are: still no new MHA, still no new JoJo, and still no new show announcements this year outside of SAO. 12:00 - My Hero Academia #49 - One For All - TV-14LV 12:30 - Paranoia Agent #8 - Happy Family Planning - TV-MAV 1:00 - Mob Psycho 100 #6 - Discord ~To Become One~ - TV-14DLSV 1:30 - Black Clover #121 - Three Problems - TV-PG 2:00 - Ballmastrz: 9009 #3 - Very Special Balls - TV-14DL 2:15 - Ballmastrz: 9009 #4 - To Catch a Princess - TV-14D 2:30 - Naruto Shippuden #300 - The Mizukage, the Giant Clam, and the Mirage - TV-PGL At least one of them's getting fixed next week.

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