PokeNirvash

On the bright side, at least that chocolate will melt eventually.

If you know me (and I doubt some of you really do), then you know that Toshiyuki Tsuru is one of my favorite anime directors. He may not have the name recognition of Hayao Miyazaki or Hideaki Anno, the impact of Satoshi Kon or Masaaki Yuasa, the cult followings of Shinichiro Watanabe or Kunihiko Ikuhara, or even the extensive repertoires of Seiji Kishi or Akiyuki Shinbo, but his works are among my favorites, even if it's mostly just Gungrave and the fictional work of mine I imagined him directing that's in there. Those that are aware of Tsuru's greatness know him from his involvement in two of the biggest manga-to-anime adaptations of our day, Naruto and Naruto Shippuden. His contributions to the franchise included two of the final episodes of the Land of Waves Arc, part 1 of Gaara vs. Rock Lee, Shikamaru coming to terms with Asuma's death (which was what got me to start keeping a close eye on his industry presence), and the story of how Hinata got her crush on Naruto while defending him against Pain in the present day, not to mention countless opening and ending theme animations, a movie, and an official "greatest hits" AMV. I bring him up now because tonight marks the beginning of a six-part filler arc directed by the man himself, under his current pseudonym of Yasuaki Kurotsu (a double-portmanteau of Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa). It was originally going to be a movie, but circumstances led to it being restructured as an anime-original storyline to pad for time in favor of your garden variety Naruto filler. You might not be as excited for it as I am, be it because of your unfamiliarity with Tsuru or your dislike of Naruto and/or its filler material, but you should know that I am PUMPED for this, and if you see me gushing about it over the next month and a half - maybe two or more if the rumor of FLCL nights after the DBZ Kai marathon turn out to be true - just know that my above rundown is the reason why. THE POWER ARC PART 1 Premiering tonight at 2:30 A.M. Only Toonami.

That was partially my intention. 😈 If you know me (and I doubt some of you really do), then you know that Toshiyuki Tsuru is one of my favorite anime directors. He may not have the name recognition of Hayao Miyazaki or Hideaki Anno, the impact of Satoshi Kon or Masaaki Yuasa, the cult followings of Shinichiro Watanabe or Kunihiko Ikuhara, or even the extensive repertoires of Seiji Kishi or Akiyuki Shinbo, but his works are among my favorites, even if it's mostly just Gungrave and the fictional work of mine I imagined him directing that's in there. Those that are aware of Tsuru's greatness know him from his involvement in two of the biggest manga-to-anime adaptations of our day, Naruto and Naruto Shippuden. His contributions to the franchise included two of the final episodes of the Land of Waves Arc, part 1 of Gaara vs. Rock Lee, Shikamaru coming to terms with Asuma's death (which was what got me to start keeping a close eye on his industry presence), and the story of how Hinata got her crush on Naruto while defending him against Pain in the present day, not to mention countless opening and ending theme animations, a movie, and an official "greatest hits" AMV. I bring him up now because tonight marks the beginning of a six-part filler arc directed by the man himself, under his current pseudonym of Yasuaki Kurotsu (a double-portmanteau of Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa). It was originally going to be a movie, but circumstances led to it being restructured as an anime-original storyline to pad for time in favor of your garden variety Naruto filler. You might not be as excited for it as I am, be it because of your unfamiliarity with Tsuru or your dislike of Naruto and/or its filler material, but you should know that I am PUMPED for this, and if you see me gushing about it over the next month and a half - maybe two or more if the rumor of FLCL nights after the DBZ Kai marathon turn out to be true - just know that my above rundown is the reason why. 11:30 - My Hero Academia #81 - School Festival - TV-14V 12:00 - Sword Art Online: Alicization: War of Underworld #11 - Heartless Choice - TV-14LV 12:30 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba #22 - Master of the Mansion - TV-MAV 1:00 - Food Wars! The Second Plate #11 - The Stagiaire - TV-14L 😲😲😲 1:30 - Black Clover #111 - The Eyes in the Mirror - TV-PG 2:00 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind #20 - The Final Mission from the Boss - TV-MAV 2:30 - Naruto Shippuden #290 - Power: Episode 1 - TV-PGV

[in Avdol's voice] YES.

Inbred enough to give him a hereditary compulsion to up his post count by saying whatever he thinks in response to what he sees. Seriously, I couldn't tell you how many of his posts I'd seen that added absolutely nothing to the conversation.

Gungrave 14 (rewatch) Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! 9

The closest I've ever gotten to "bingeing" on Netflix was watching two episodes of Kengan Ashura in a row. And I only did that because the first one I watched ended on such a down note, the only way I could recover from it was watch the next one and hope for a more uplifting ending on that one.

For flying fuck's sake, she's talking about episodes of Shippuden that haven't aired on Toonami yet, not episodes of the franchise that have already been broadcast! And you wonder why we make fun of you...

I doubt they'll bring back One Piece, consuming they dropped it due to FUNi wanting to charge more for it, but if that only applies to Sabaody on, I wouldn't mind a late-hours replay from the very beginning.

[tries hardest to resist punching Elfie] I'm confident the Food Wars S2 finale is just being postponed until after the DBZ Kai marathon. You can't trust speculation, no matter how much the general atmosphere influences you into believing whatever batshit theories you or others come up with.

Mobile Suit Gundam 2

Nobody: Elfie: Gee, isn't thing of various level of inconvenience just HORRIBLE? 😭 Me:

Ironically, it's attitudes like this that make me try to avoid watching things hyped out the wazoo on my own. Not to say I dislike MHA, but I'd definitely be less hype about it were it not airing on Toonami.

It's official, you're beyond legally blind.

How exactly does it look "barf" like Knights of Sidonia? It doesn't look like Polygon Pictures is animating it. Unless it's that "business class" shit ain't your style... 😏

Gungrave 14

I don't know why I get mad at Demarco not putting the shows I want Toonami to air on Toonami, when I'm perfectly content just watching whatever I feel on my own time. What I feel, naturally, being stuff normal people wouldn't watch on their own time; i.e. Qwaser, AWOL.

Mobile Suit Gundam 1 Yes, the original.

The Qwaser of Stigmata 3 You didn't even need to look at the credits to tell this was outsourced to Hoods' parent studio GONZO. Some of the cut-specific character designs looked like they'd fit right in with the Tower of Druaga anime.

AWOL: Absent WithOut Leave 3

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! 12 Absolutely amazing. Yuasa is truly the best niche animator out there in the industry. 10/10.

As to be expected from our other resident pessimist.

I got as far as combining the integrand into ((e^x - e_hat^x)/2)^14 before deciding "fuck it, I need a paper and pencil and scientific calculator for this". Even for a soon-to-be-licensed-EIT like myself, mental integrals are torture when you get the chain rule involved. I checked the episode list and apparently no, but I wouldn't be surprised if they threw in a recap there during the original broadcast. Not that we'd have seen it, anyways... It's still depressing even if you don't care for Hayama personally. One of my dad's Indian co-workers told him once that the whites enslaving the blacks in America's early years was nothing compared to the persecution against the second-class citizens and untouchables of India's super-outdated caste system. That makes Hayama's tragic backstory of being mistreated by everyone until he was taken in by the Japanese surprisingly grounded in reality, a detail which produces some of the tear-jerkiest moments out there. Because the one thing better than just killing Gauche outright is letting him know how much you want to. MY HERO ACADEMIA - Neat, they didn't have to beat up any of those kids to win them over. Just another great thing about AURORA BOREALIS. Character development for everybody, even the characters nobody likes! HELLOOOOOOOO MIDNIGHT~. 😍 I must be the only one who remembers Deku's first interaction with Aoyama during the UA entrance exam, I'm glad to see them finally getting along after that. SAO ALICIZATION - Amazing how I'm starting to like the show again after Asuna finally came back into relevance. Probably because she reminds me of the days when I actually liked SAO in spite of its flaws, as opposed to Alicization dragging for so long and making so many questionable decisions - I still won't forgive them for murdering Dark Knight Blum before he got to do anything of consequence. Lawlharems are at their best when the haremettes are getting along like they are here (surprisingly). On that note, my hot opinion of the moment: Tenchi Muyo! GXP has an objectively better lawlharem than Infinite Stratos. Trust me on this one. DEMON SLAYER - Oh fuck, I actually felt something during Rui's backstory there. Shed a single tear during him reuniting with his parents in the afterlife. I don't really like Shinobu's disciple, though I do appreciate her coming back after the early bird cameo that also introduced us to Zenitsu (now currently mummified). I bet one of the Hashira will be voiced by Crispin Freeman, my money's on the guy with the fire-colored hair. FOOD WARS - He had me with the soy milk, but lost me when he said he added parmesan to it. Being dairy-free is even more of a pain than being gluten-free, and not just because the emotional side effects that come with ingestion last longer. I knew Hayama would win thanks to spoilers, but I'm glad that Soma took his loss in stride, at least compared to Worst Sasuke (Barring the Original). At least nobody cried over it. I also really liked the post-credits sequence, between the girls-only cooking session at the Kyokusei dorm (Meat-Meat and Yuki are best girls and I'm happy to finally see them interacting outside of crowd reaction scenes), Soma hanging out with his rivals, and the tease for this show's internship arc. Having worked the line before, I'm confident Soma's got this. BLACK CLOVER - So many people and my own personal instincts are telling me I shouldn't like this show, but I really can't help but enjoy it at times, especially here where so many of the characters are finally gathering in one place. I do like that none of the Black Bulls actually like Gauche as a person, further supporting the popular claim of him being the objective worst. VENTO AUREO - Great teamwork and creative thinking between Giorno and Mista there, even if a lot of blood had to be spilled in order for them to win out. I'm curious how long Mista spent in the slammer before Bucciarati bailed him out. And that "blowjob" scene... damn, playing Freek'n You after that had to be the most fitting thing ever. NARUTO SHIPPUDEN - Surprisingly a decent one, between JYB having a semi-prominent role and the titular Ameyuri being a better sharktoothed female swordsman minor villain than the next one to take up her swords. Next week: POWERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

This is what a month of final exams does, it keeps prompting me to put off keeping this thread alive. If only Blatch bothered to stop in here to help spruce things up and inspire me to keep on schedule... Anywho, here's what you missed this past month! Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! #8: The Grand Shibahama Festival! Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! #9: Aim for Comet A! Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! #10: Against Our Independent World! Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! #11: Each Other's Existence! Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! #7: Reminiscences... of Paradise Lost Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! #8: Exiled... Just the Two of Them Gungrave #13: Betrayal Kengan Ashura #15: The Fisherman Kengan Ashura #16: The Rakshasa Kengan Ashura #17: The Devil's Lance AWOL: Absent WithOut Leave #2: The Variation of Adversity Flowers of Evil #8: Episode 8 Run with the Wind #19: The Moment of Release Case File No. 221: Kabukicho Sherlock #20: Moriarty Savors Case File No. 221: Kabukicho Sherlock #21: Not Breathing Case File No. 221: Kabukicho Sherlock #22: The Thread Where We Talk About Yeast Case File No. 221: Kabukicho Sherlock #23: Everybody Be There at Eight

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