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McGruder left the show and was replaced by Angela Nissel, who failed to understand in the slightest that the Boondocks is a series about satire and observations about the black community in relation to current events. For season 4, we got a season-long plotline about the Freemans going into such heavy debt they literally had to sell themselves into slavery under Ed Wuncler's son in order to pay it off, interspersed with a bunch of wacky Granddad episodes. While several thought the series went to shit from season 4's get-go, it was more of a steady decline from my perspective. "Pretty Boy Flizzy" was better than A.V. Club gave it credit for, especially since it was the closest to actual social commentary. "Good Times", which started the "slavery" arc, was a pain to sit through at times. "Breaking Granddad" improved things a little, but "Early Bird Special" brought it back down. "Freedom Ride or Die" was especially disappointing because A) I kept expecting the strong pacifist protester to die during the ride (since he wasn't in the present-day interview bits) but he never did, and B) the show forgot about the interview bits entirely and instead ended on an "in jail" scene with no resolution. "Granddad Dates a Kardashian", I actually found a little underrated despite it being a prime example of Season 4's terribleness. (It also tricked me into thinking there was actually a Brick Kardashian.) "Freedomland" was supposed to be the big episode of the season, but it fell flat in almost every respect. "I Dream of Siri" was just painful, even moreso than "Good Times". My recording for "Stinkmeaner 4: Begun the Clone War Has" crapped out - nothing but black screen - but after hearing how disappointing it was first-hand from my uncle who also watched Boondocks, I decided not to pursue it on my own time. I didn't even bother with "The New Black", though the F rating from A.V. Club and an earlier entry for the episode on TV Tropes' Dethroning Moment of Suck page told me all I needed to know.

According to the schedule they posted for SAO's return week, Food Wars is actually continuing. I'm just annoyed they aren't saying it's continuing outright.

Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! #4: Regret of... the Scriptures of Darkness (Mabinogion) Gungrave #10: Conflict Case No. 221: Kabukicho Sherlock #13: First Moonlit Night

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Kabukicho Sherlock 13

One time in my AP Government class near the end of the semester, we had the option of either continuing an earlier showing of Catch Me If You Can or watching the first Avengers movie from the beginning. I was the only one who voted for Catch Me If You Can.

Hey, if it were up to me, I'd have named it "Cleaning Up the Disciple's Mess" like it did on Wikipedia last I checked.

I had a feeling it'd be okay, I just don't think "snorting Cheeto dust and smashing your hand through the table" is a proper mourning mood, at least for humans.

Fixed for accuracy.

Think a smaller bladed weapon and a different natural hole, and you're halfway there.

Next week, our true national nightmare finally resumes. But for now, let's make do with what we can. 11:00 - My Hero Academia #71 - Suneater of the Big Three - TV-14LV 11:30 - Dr. Stone #18 - Stone Wars - TV-14LV 12:00 - One Punch Man #24 - The Wiping of the Disciple's Butt - TV-14LV - SEASON FINALE 12:30 - Fire Force #21 - Those Connected - TV-14V 1:00 - Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma #24 - The Warriors' Banquet - TV-MAS 1:30 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba #11 - Tsuzumi Mansion - TV-14V 2:00 - Black Clover #100 - We Won't Lose to You - TV-14 2:30 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind #9 - The First Mission from the Boss - TV-MALV 3:00 - Naruto Shippuden #279 - White Zetsu's Trap - TV-PG 3:30 - The Promised Neverland #2 - 131045 - TV-14V 4:00 - Attack on Titan #9 - Whereabouts of His Left Arm: The Struggle for Trost, Part 5 - TV-14LV

You say that like Venture Bros. isn't actually intelligent. 🙃 I'll give you Boondocks though, if only because of the travesty that was Season 4.

Is now a good time to post this, or would it be too soon? [F]

I personally think it's a tsundere thing. A real tsundere thing, not like whatever the hell you think Fuko's deal was. Gungrave 10

We already got that one. What we want is... CRYIN' MY LIFE CRYIN' MY PSYCHE CRYIN' MY HEART IN SUCH COMMON PLACES

I don't care about SAO, tell us if whether or not we're getting Food Wars 2 already!

"Mike Lazzo being decapitated" is good, but it's got nothing on "22 uninterrupted minutes of Mike Lazzo screaming".

All you need to know is that Gemusetto Machu Picchu is the Perfect Hair Forever of the 2010s, and love it or hate it, it is an absolute experience.

On second thought, it makes more sense to put it here than in the Toonami board. Oh well. https://imgur.com/a/FFIVSxe#yUATrkH

Guess which custom responses are mine. 😋 https://imgur.com/a/FFIVSxe#yUATrkH

Hey, better suffering through this than a certain other J.C Staff-produced jiggle-service anime. Then again, Eiken's only two episodes, so maybe it's better to suffer through it than the long runner that's the Food Wars animated franchise? MY HERO ACADEMIA - Am I the only one who finds it amusing that the localization for the Precure knockoff is relying on referencing the American "Glitter Squad" moniker instead? DR. STONE - It was nice seeing the rest of the story about Senkuu's dad (adoptive), at least until it decided to go full "series finale of Six Feet Under" on us. Part of me wonders how different the series would be if Tsukasa was just left in stone, ignoring the lions he was revived to kill. ONE PUNCH MAN - God, I'm enjoying Garo way more than I should. The Human Monster really does have a bit of humanity left in him after all. Still, sucks what he did to Megane, and what he'd have done to Genos had Bang and his brother not stepped in. FIRE FORCE - It's funny how Hinawa and Arthur's fight scenes were excitement incarnate - seriously, they were some damn kickass fight scenes - and then Lisa (fuck you, I am not calling her Feeler from now on) comes onscreen and all of my goodwill is chucked out the window like an irate gamer's TV. Fire Force: the show we all have a love-hate relationship with. Unless you're either Gunners or Queen, in which case it's just hate-hate. FOOD WARS! - I might not like the dudebros as much as some of the others, but I did enjoy their running commentary. At least we now know that Zenji's gimmick is using his intelligence in the kitchen as opposed to any specific specialty, and I'm surprised he managed to place so high. Then again, we still have Soma and Hiyama to get through, so he's gonna be knocked to a lower tier eventually. DEMON SLAYER - Shame about what happened to Susamaru. Damn shame. Yahaba can rot in demon hell, though, so it balances out. Oh no, blonde slayer boy turned out to be Miroku as portrayed by Asta, I don't expect this to pan out all that well. BLACK CLOVER - In lieu of comments about Mereoleona's good effort and Asta and Zora's clever if not reckless mode of attack, allow me to regale you with my experience watching the first episode of Mugyutto! Black Clover, the first episode of an eight-part short series on a super-exclusive Japanese streaming service that somehow managed to get subs early this year (read: last week). I decided to kill some time watching it, so I thought I'd check it out. In short... it isn't all that good. The "story" - Asta trying to improve his chances of becoming the Wizard King while the Black Bulls watch from the sidelines, also Sally is there too for some reason - is a little fun, yeah, but the animation quality is poorer than the regular Clover Clips (no surprise), some of the Japanese voices are too weird (namely Asta's screechiness, Gauche sounding super-deep, Luck sounding way more feminine, and Magna being voiced by someone besides Ian Sinclair), and the inevitable employment of the dreaded rapid-fire one-note character quirk marathon that is the Black Bulls, which is at least expected compared to Yami being reduced to a punchline regarding his chronic constipation, duck-shaped training toilet and all. You're better off marathoning the dubbed Clover Clips segments like we did that one time Charmy ate some bad shrooms. VENTO AUREO - You can't not love the creativity Araki employs with the characters' various STANDs. Sale using his "freeze in place" ability to scale heights on a bunch of suspended gravel was admittedly one of the most exciting parts of the episode, barring the final blow of course. NARUTO SHIPPUDEN - Not sure if filler, canon, or both. I should've been able to call that Neji was the killer all along, but sometimes I'm just a sucker for these obvious cliches. Also there was no reason for that video game review to have been as long as it was, even if there was some high quality TOM and SARA banter in there.

The Simpsons Game for the PS2. Started that shit on Christmas, and finished it within the week. It was fun, though I don't know what they were thinking making the hardest level of the game - not even the final level, no less! - the focus of the XBox demo my cousin-in-law tried out. As for games I don't own, I started playing my uncle's unused XB1S download of Forza Horizon 3 last Christmas, which got me interested in the franchise enough to ask for an XB1S of my own and Forza Horizon 4 for my most recent birthday.

Endless Waltz and SIGN were on Toonami/SVES, so I can't say I'm too taken aback, but F91 is a surprise. I guess Char's Counterattack did well enough for them on ASA that they decided to put another Gundam movie on VOD for those with access that were interested?

Forget OPM's replacement. What I wanna know is...

That title card was cool af. Rewrite was the other one. I can't recall if it was full or shortened (probably the latter), but I remember the OP being preserved in some way. By the way, does anyone know what other anime were [as] VOD-exclusive besides pre-2005 s-CRY-ed? Arjuna and Argento Soma are the only ones I can recall those who brought the topic up mentioning.