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[wrings hands nervously]

INISHAL D- Never mind, then.

I honestly can't decide which of these two statements is stupider.

my god you're dense

Nobody cares that you specified TV shows, Elfie. People read "Hollywood anime" in your post, so no shit they're posting movies instead of what you intended for them to lob at you.

You got that right. The movie was a fun time too, even if I can't remember most of it.

First the bushfire, then Iran, then the coronavirus, now this. 2020 ain't playin' around.

I stand by the opinion that the Wachowskis' Speed Racer movie was a fun piece of entertainment that critics just don't (and refuse to) understand.

MY HERO ACADEMIA - Can't say I was expecting that one Hassaikai guy Kirishima and Fatgum fought to have depth of character and subsequent development like he did. Oh hey, Deku finally gets to do something! TOGAAAAAAA 😍 Since Midnight isn't getting any screentime this arc, she'll have to do for now. Even though the show's shipping her with Twice and she's shipping herself with Deku (and I approve of both, most ashamedly of all). DR. STONE - I'm a little amazed something as simple as a cotton candy machine has this many levels of importance, just because it was Senku who posited the idea. (And yes, I consider Suika awakening her inner Charmy to be one of those levels of importance.) Dammit, between Homura and Tomo (my avatar for these next few months), why do Aki Toyosaki's characters have to look so dang sexual? "Damn, that's savage!" So savage, he couldn't even bring himself to call it "bad" like he normally does. Gentlemen, we have electricity. 💡 SAO ALICIZATION - All it took was a little show of authority for everyone to see things Alice's way. Even if she is all "muh Kirito" this season like I heard, Asuna's in the right for threatening Kikuoka like she did. Be glad you didn't check the event log, you'd have been shocked at what happened during the tail end of his academy days if you did. BULLSHIT PSEUDOSCIENCE: SAO'S TRUE SPECIALTY. FIRE FORCE - I'm getting really fucking sick of this disjointed "history of the world as it is now" cold open. I mean, what the actual fuck is an "unsullied flame", really? That new White-Clad chick who showed up is very fun - especially as far as her voice-acting's concerned - but that stupid-looking crazy grin with the sticking-out tongue is keeping me from putting her in my personal "non-garbage character" pile. Whenever Tamaki has a decent amount of screentime and she doesn't get naked/molested, it's a strange kind of pleasant surprise. Guess the show realized it needed restraint on that after ruining the Shinra vs. Rekka fight with that tired running gag. I guess Shinra's gonna have to fight Captain Eyepatch before we get any deeper information (if any) about the fire that ruined his life. FOOD WARS 2: FUTARAKU RAMEN BOOGALOO - Alice is right, Erina is trash and a skank. The show's Sasuke allegory making Naruto's signature favorite food is very ironic. Okay, maybe Angel has a point about him being one of the worst Sasukes, he's a real jerk. (Love the creativity of his moderate-level profanity though.) You can't not love random JoJo references, be they subtle like "Grandpapa" Nakiri's metaphorical delinquent outfit or blatant like Megumi and Ryo's STAND battle. Honestly, the victor of this match is anyone's call, but whoever wins, Angel loses. DEMON SLAYER - Kyogai's editor was an asshole, I'm glad he killed him first. Wait, Boar Bryce was there at the final selection? Where the hell was he hiding, then!? 😕 Dang, those clouds in that one scene were obviously live-action. Aaaaand Tanjiro's gone mad, that ain't good. BLACK CLOVER - Letterboxing makes everything better! 😆 Face it, Asta's never gonna give up his nun fetish. "Yes, this is a commercial about Asta." That's what I heard in that Pop-Tarts commercial, no additional P can convince me otherwise. All joking aside, it turns out this was actually mostly a recap episode. Some plot important stuff happened - the village priest died and Asta got a third anti-magic sword - but I'm sure it'll be recapped next week for those of you who fucked off this week and are too stubborn to drop the show now. VENTO AUREO - I told my dad about the messenger cat from Demon Slayer moments before starting this episode, so when I responded to Narancia's STAND shooting at that cat with a "hey, don't shoot the cat!", he responded with, "Don't you mean, "Don't shoot the messenger?"" He has the best sense of humor, even if he does feel the need to pepper it with the occasional dad joke. Holy shit, this has to be the most they've said the word "shit" in a single episode of JoJo. God I love Narancia and his psycho tendencies. Abbacchio being a dick to Giorno is one thing, but Fugo doing the same? That's more of a gray area... Onward to Pompeii, where the volcanoes explode hard enough to turn your brain to glass! NARUTO SHIPPUDEN - Oh wow, Ino's mom looks a lot more fancy and 18th century than I imagined. Between the literal giants, the Rasengan-using soccer player, and the ninja in all black, all of these kids' suspicious individual reports sound like bullshit by this universe's standards, even moreso than the postal ninjas. I guess Naruto was right back in the OG series about Ebisu being a "closet pervert", if he's reading Make-Out Paradise out of his own volition. Of all the possible dangers to the Leaf Village during the War season, an invasion by a team of rogue sumo wrestlers was the last thing I or anyone would have expected. And of course, you can't have a silly Naruto filler episode without the token Rasengan finisher.

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🚨 WARNING 🚨 WARNING 🚨 AIRING TONIGHT IS ANOTHER GODDAMN (as you might put it) BLACK CLOVER RECAP EPISODE THIS IS NOT A DRILL. REPEAT: THIS IS NOT A DRILL. 11:00 - My Hero Academia #73 - Temp Squad - TV-14LSV 11:30 - Dr. Stone #20 - The Age of Energy - TV-PGL 12:00 - Sword Art Online: Alicization: War of Underworld #2 - Raids - TV-14LV 12:30 - Fire Force #23 - Smile - TV-14V 1:00 - Food Wars! The Second Plate #2 - Interplay of Light & Shadow - TV-MAS 1:30 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba #13 - Something More Important Than Life - TV-MAV 2:00 - Black Clover #102 - Two Miracles - TV-14V 2:30 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind #11 - Narancia's Aerosmith Lil' Bomber - TV-MALV 3:00 - Naruto Shippuden #281 - The Allied Mom Force!! - TV-PGV 3:30 - The Promised Neverland #4 - 291045 - TV-14 4:00 - Attack on Titan #11 - Idol: The Struggle for Trost, Part 7 - TV-14LV This has been a Poke Service Announcement. Have a nice and productive rest of your day.

Cinderella Boy 5 Amusing anti-climaxes are the best anti-climaxes.

I'm still under the belief that they wanted an excuse to have an even five hours, or at least an end time at the top of the hour instead of the midway point.

Soon, TG. Soon.

A five-and-a-half hour block was too irregular to work, so this is good. [insert elfie crying here]

Fire Force beat out SAO in total viewers by 1K? And Food Wars beat them both in the key demo? As far as ratings go these days, this is rather pleasing.

Just another reason for me to skip the Superbowl commercials this year.

Excuse me, Option 3. I forgot 4 doesn't exist here.

Option 4, with the "Kinky Shit" subcategory from Option 5 for us perverts.

Really, the fact that it's airing on Toonami combined with my like of most things anime is what's keeping me on board. Oh, and Midnight. Can't forget Midnight.

I'd take a TL;DR Top Gun post detailing the decline and fall of Bleach over a random two-hour Youtube video's interpretation of the same.

No, it's just that Japan had a longer wait between season 1 and season 2 than we did. MOLECULAR GASTRONOMY, MASON. Worse. She's an albino. You know, but I didn't. Use your brain for once instead of saying the first things that come out of your mouth in order to up your post count, Elfie. There was a break between seasons in the dubbing process too, IIRC. Another fun fact about MSG mythology: my mother decided that MSG had gluten in it - meaning I, who is on a gluten-free diet for non-celiac but definitely-sensitivity reasons, couldn't have it - because "glutamate" sounded like it could have gluten in it. Apparently she has no idea what "glutamic acid" is, and that MSG can be found in plenty of gluten-free foods.

And finally your occasional exclamations of that phrase make sense, now that Asta's actually there in front of her. MY HERO ACADEMIA - I love it whenever we see events the main character experienced play out for one of the side characters. Really helps add to the universe. But that's only one of the reasons Kirishima's backstory came off as so fun and informative. And yes, the random breakdancing is reason for that too. DR. STONE - I don't like that pink-haired girl on Tsukasa's side and her apparent pyromania. SAO ALICIZATION - I have many problems with this season so far. First off, it's SAO. Second, I was never a fan of the whole "strictly takes place within the virtual isekai" thing; that's the main reason I actually prefer the "incest and rape" half of season 1 to the part that had none of that. And then there're the ineffectual minor characters. I don't care if he's Kirito, he's still an invalid, that doesn't give you carte blanche to act like total dicks to him. But the worst of all is Alice's father, that disowning son of a prick. Fuck him and his mustache. I hope he gets beaten to death by the goblins and orcs while Alice flees with just her sister in tow. FIRE FORCE - Shinra vs. Sho continued was neat and all, but I'm more interested in what this Yona guy is if he isn't human. FOOD WARS 2: BENTO BOX BOOGALOO - This episode was one of the two big winners of the night, and I think the faster pace helped a lot with that. (Plus five guy judges = less awkwardness watching it with family in the house!) The sushi with vegetable wraps sounds like something worth trying, but what I really wanna make for myself sometime is that bacon & onion miso soup. 😋 BACKGROUND CHARACTER OF THE WEEK: that twintailed tsundere child from the cooking class Soma co-taught. I can only hope she doesn't turn out as snooty as Erina. DEMON SLAYER - Tanjiro's still the best of the three slayers in this episode, but I will admit that Boar Bryce is pretty dang fun, and Zenitsu's actually tolerable when he's in sleepwalk-fighting mode. I'm also glad those two kids' brother turned out safe. BLACK CLOVER - Even if Mr. Zuberg avoids the wrath of the goblins and orcs next week, at least the Hage priest got poisoned to near-death to sate my "that's what you get for not showing the main character respect!" desires. VENTO AUREO - And here's winner #2. I don't know what I enjoyed more: Narancia vs. Formaggio in the present, or La Squadra's backstory. They were both very fun, pure JoJo. 😙👌 NARUTO SHIPPUDEN - Better than last week's filler, at least. I gotta give it to Kurotsuchi for getting Sasuke's personality down pat, even if it isn't really that hard to get at this point.