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This week on JoJo, Kubo's favorite character goes apeshit over idioms as a concept. Meanwhile, Bakugo fights a bunch of elementary schoolers. I honestly don't know who to root for. 11:30 - My Hero Academia #79 - Win Those Kids' Hearts - TV-14L 12:00 - Sword Art Online: Alicization: War of Underworld #9 - Sword and Fist - TV-14LV 12:30 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba #20 - Pretend Family - TV-MAV 1:00 - Food Wars! The Second Plate #9 - The Sword That Announces Fall - TV-MAS 1:30 - Black Clover #109 - Spatial Mage Brothers - TV-PGLV 2:00 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind #18 - Verso Venezia (Head to Venice!) - TV-MALV 2:30 - Naruto Shippuden #288 - Danger: Jinpachi and Kushimaru! - TV-PGV

Joe Pera Talks with You 1 If the U.S. ever gets a 51st state, it should be Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Then it can finally be free of the negative stigma us Ohioans have for Michigan in general.

Damn, what's with all the Blood Blockade Battlefront ED reaction GIFs? And why for this show, specifically?

MY HERO ACADEMIA - Watching the new OP made me realize I love all of the Class 1-A kids except Mineta. He peaked in the practical exam and it's been a sharp decline ever since. They captured Kurogiri - speaking of whom, I'm surprised FUNi's still letting Chuck Huber work for them after all the stuff he said about the mythical casting couch - but at what environmental cost? To honor the return of Endeavor to the series - and also because the big spoiler inside has finally passed - I present to you all this series of Endeavor roasting fics that I read up on a while back. Of all the Millennial/Zoomer slang I've grown to despise after months of browsing Buzzfeed during my work breaks, "snacc" is easily in the top three. Camie's VA doing another character who recently used the word "misogynistic" wrong doesn't really help matters. SAO: ALICIZATION - Normally I'd complain about Eldrie hanging on after reaching negative levels of durability - something only Kirito should get away with, and even then - but the cute pig orc girlfriend wins my "hot bullshit" award of the night. DEMON SLAYER - Hot damn, the anime community wasn't kidding when they said this episode was the literal best, because HOT FUCKING DAMN WAS IT SO GODDAMN GOOD. Bonus points for making me actually give a shit about Nezuko after her spending most of her screentime after episode 1, her peak prior to the badass moment she pulled off this week, doing nothing but being either a plot device, a meme, or both. VENTO AUREO - I'm deeply ashamed to admit on several levels that I see a bit of myself in Melone. The constant keyboard usage, the strange-looking mask, the incidental masochism... I could do without the rape-puter, though, but it's just so ridiculous that I couldn't help but laugh when it happened. BLACK CLOVER - On the other hand, I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a little proud of Noelle for her continuing improvement as a Magic Knight. Now if only she'd learn to tone down the tsundere act whenever Asta's within a 20-foot radius of her... NARUTO SHIPPUDEN - That two-parter ended more disappointingly than I imagined. FOOD WARS - I'm such a sucker for randomized yet sensible partnerships between characters who don't get enough screentime together. (More screentime for best girl Meat-Meat is just a bonus. ) Apparently strange accents run in the Nakiri family. Let's hope Ian Sinclair managed to rectify that in season 3.

Eh, he does in the face, but not in the hair.

Eh, he doesn't look that much like Shigaraki.

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! 10

Normally I'm not into isekai unless its televised on a channel I have access to (hence why I watched Inuyasha and SAO), but I'm actually gonna check this one out. The fact that it wrapped production before the premiere - which is a downright rarity for televised anime - is only a bonus.

"Looks like I can't blame the white man for this one... What am I saying? Of course I do. I blame the white man for everything." - Huey Freeman

Kengan Ashura 16 Kabukicho Sherlock 21

Rare-rating Food Wars episodes are the best Food Wars episodes, because they're the least awkward to watch around family members passing through. 11:30 - My Hero Academia #78 - Smoldering Flames - TV-14V 12:00 - Sword Art Online: Alicization: War of Underworld #8 - Blood and Life - TV-14LV 12:30 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba #19 - Hinokami - TV-MAV 1:00 - Food Wars! The Second Plate #8 - The Battle That Follows the Seasons - TV-MA 1:30 - Black Clover #108 - Battlefield Dancer - TV-PGLV 2:00 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind #17 - Babyface Babyhead - TV-MALV 2:30 - Naruto Shippuden #287 - One Worth Betting On - TV-PGV 3:00 - DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME!! The funny thing is, Babyhead is also a legitimate musical group name. But Araki doesn't know that.

In their latest attempt to draw on the festering anger of anime fans pissed off at the <1% of FUNimation's dub output using "woke" slang and and feminist lingo, Sankaku Complex has drawn to attention to a scene in Sentai's recent (read: out in a month) dub of To Love-Ru where a character uses the phrase "misogynistic" unironically. https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2020/03/07/sentai-filmworks-allegedly-takes-after-funimation-changes-dialogue-in-to-love-ru/ Even if I was part of the group who thinks these occasional dub dialogue changes are the worst thing to happen to anime since Hand Shakers, I think it's some extreme reaching that they're going after Sentai, a company notorious for making random dub changes of their own, especially back when they were known as ADV Films, in an attempt to stir up their far-right commenter base. But for what it's worth, I managed to vent my frustrations over this hot bullshit into writing my own original vs. FUNi-style dialogue exchange for a future written work, accessible under the spoiler tag below.

Kengan Ashura 15 (dubbed)

And they said trimming the fat would improve the ratings. 🙄

Kengan Ashura 15 (subbed) Really, I only watched it this way just to see Nobuyuki Hiyama fight Atsushi Ono while Fumihiko Tachiki chimed in with occasional commentary. I was not disappointed in the slightest.

It happened under his watch, that doesn't count as "directly" causing it, at least by the definition I'd use. Seriously. Leave all this political shit in Dumpster Fires.

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! 9 Fuck, this show is way too good.

MY HERO ACADEMIA - Granted, I saw Nighteye's death coming from a mile away thanks to my addiction to spoilers, and I'm almost tempted to call him coming around to Deku in the very end "predictable", but I still got misty-eyed during his final moments. (The lack of audio for the flatline really drove it home.) Still, I think I'm gonna wait a while before I start linking to the Endeavor roasting fic I read a while back that mentions his demise (hence why I haven't posted it before now). SAO ALICIZATION - Green Zenitsu may be objectively worse than Regular Zenitsu - him accidentally killing his bestie (ironically voiced by Regular Zenitsu) doesn't help - but at least he doesn't scream at the top of his lungs as much. Dee Eye Ell's too tryhard sexy for me to see her as attractive. (That and her evilness being way more blatant and one-dimensional than my other murder-waifus'.) And I get Alice's laser attack was supposed to be amazing, but it really lacked the proper oomph. DEMON SLAYER - Nice of you to rejoin us, Demon Slayer JYB. Not a whole lot for me to say otherwise, but I am enjoying this show more, now that Zenitsu's stopped screaming for five minutes. Still wish Nezuko was more than just a mostly-offscreen plot device/meme. FOOD WARS - I like how Erina was initially stand-offish towards Soma when he joined her in the VIP section, but gradually got used to it. Under-the-radar character development, maybe? I just noticed that Meat-Meat's wearing an American flag bikini today, which is fitting considering the theme is Western cuisine. Hayama "defeating" Ryo in their metaphorical children's card game was missing a life force counter going down, so I imagined one instead. TRUMP CARD COUNT: 1. I'd say something involving a custom name for the three-person championship round, but I can't think of one right now. Those girls Hayama passed by at the end are scar-oused. BLACK CLOVER - I get these people getting killed on the castle grounds don't know that elves are possessing them explicitly, but can't they see the ears or the markings or the glowing auras? Can't say I or anyone is bummed to see that one noble get killed for trying to Hero Shield his way out of harm's way. Same for Noelle's sister getting stabbed in the abdomen. VENTO AUREO - Bruno is the goddamn best. Arrivaderci, indeed. NARUTO SHIPPUDEN - I can't watch Tsunade angst about her brother and lover dying without being reminded that both those deaths were responsible for Orochimaru going down the path of immortality-seeking science guy. And this one's looking to be a two-parter, that's different.

It's a 4chan term, let's leave it at that.

I'm still surprised that Green Zenitsu is a guy.

Kabukicho Sherlock 20 Man, fuck Moriarty. I hope he dies like a little bitch.

...and another hour bites the dust. 11:30 - My Hero Academia #77 - Bright Future - TV-14V 12:00 - Sword Art Online: Alicization: War of Underworld #7 - Stigma of the Disqualified - TV-14V 12:30 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba #18 - A Forged Bond - TV-MAV 1:00 - Food Wars! The Second Plate #7 - Beasts That Devour Each Other - TV-MAS 1:30 - Black Clover #107 - The Battle for Clover Castle - TV-PGLV 2:00 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind #16 - The Grateful Dead Thankful Death, Part 2 - TV-MAV 2:30 - Naruto Shippuden #286 - Things You Can't Get Back - TV-PG

Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! 7 Gungrave 13 Good episodes, both of these. I also like how the latter's leaning more into the 3D photography Tsuru-sensei loves experimenting with so much. Next episode's gonna be great.

From what I remember, it had to be either Michel or BaSTof Syndrome.

Maybe. A TV-14DLSV sounds about right for that one. Maybe DSV, if the two uses of "dick" don't rack up a profanity warning.