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Their "Demarco hates Toonami" edit for this week was fire.

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Welcome to Togashi-style writing.

Freeform just figured out how bad for their image Family Gore really is.

Pierrot: fucking over some of their own animators in favor of the rest since 1981. But damn if the dub doesn't make him enjoyable as hell. It's like Inspector Mado from Tokyo Ghoul all over again.

Ah, the good ol' Phillips CD-i.

Well it was called Fox Family once upon a time, after all.

DRAGONBALL SUPER - Kakunsa/Bikal is best DB yuri ship. You aren't wrong about him being cold-blooded, I mean he did help eradicate half of humanity in an alternate timeline. In contrast, our 17 is the best. Meanwhile, Goku's having a harder time than he should, and Beerus (naturally) does not approve. HELLZONE GRENADE! I think Piccolo's gonna sue somebody. Pikal has actual eyes, my worldview is shattered. Theeeeere's the effort. Oh hey, a Yardrat. He'd have said "three", but Krillin's already outta there. Meanwhile, Gohan's playing the most dangerous game of Pooh's Home Run Derby. At least they're actually animating the punches rippling across his skin this time. In true DBZ fashion, more punches always works. CHRISTOPHER ROBIN WINS. Oh hey, he's the 6th's first ring-out. "Bye-bye, silly old bear." He truly is the Krillin of their team. This guy's voice sounds familiar. Toonami's music videos >>>> Demarco's music videos. The Toonami and [as] logos showing up in Netero's heart-shaped hand gesture was a nice touch. Wow, this universe is dropping like flies. PSYCHEDELIC KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU. My solution: aim for the gap between energies. Now there's a genuine Hellzone Grenade. Tapping screens is also very messy, if you don't know how/don't bother to clean them. Alternate solution: aim for the dark green one. Is it wrong that I'm only noticing that pyramid in the corner for the first time? EL GRANDE PADRE... Aw dang, a family picture. If only I had a link to the edit where Gohan smirks after the locket blips out of existence. Two down, five to go. I miss Ron Perlman as Hellboy, and I haven't even seen any of his movies. BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS - I still can't get over that picture of him in the Akatsuki jacket. Sick burn, Sakura. I'm honestly torn on whether I should make a reference to Empire Strikes Back, or Attack of the Clones. Your priorities are strange ones, Naruto. KENICHI FUJISAWA SAKUGA SPOTTED. Say what you will about Pierrot's overall animation quality, but when they do sakuga, they do it justice. Eugh, those eyes. No worry, it's just a fleshwound. Even when he's chill, Sasuke's still the edgiest. "If you want children killed, I guess you have to do it yourself." How the turntables. Scratch that, Shin's the edgiest one here. The Rinnegan can do position swaps, neat. Well that makes things easier for them. Now these are the turntables. Heh, they've even got a fat one. Scratch that, fat ones. He sounds so bored saying that. Like parents, like daughter. And then he experienced true fear. Oh wow I am really sapped for comments this week, hopefully this is fixed by the next show. Oh yeah, Kabuto also got away with a whole bunch. Ino just looks wrong in that vest. Welp, there's your answer. Nevermind, Sakura is the mother. "All I ever really wanted was for Sasuke to find true happiness." And you thought he'd find it through you. Sounds Tshe gifted her the pair she has now. "I get suspicious and jump to conclusions too." And that turned you evil how many times? Soon... Nice, he did the Itachi thing. "Believe it!" may have been displaced by "Y'know?", but "Cha!" remains eternal. Cool, new ending animation. I still find it a little ridiculous that they got Karin and Kabuto's old VAs back, but not Travis. OH DANG POST-CREDITS SEQUENCE. And after the VIZ logo, at that! Friendly reminder that Boruto's still the main character here. Double dang, they're actually advertising the kettle chips I sometimes eat on national television. MY HERO ACADEMIA - I'm not as mad about this being a Kota-centric episode as I should, does that mean he's growing on me? "No one like that really exists." Sure, you say that now... Meanwhile, with the summer school kids... Even without considering how much he's grown since he first entered UA, I'm glad Deku isn't lumped in with them like his last-place status during the first day fitness training suggested. Forget Shiggy and Mineta, Monoma is the true worst character. OH SHIT AIZAWA. And now my dad's joking about how the one villain looks like a ninja turtle. I'm gonna follow his example and call him Versace. Transgender fight, denied. Spinner's a lame name, I'm sticking with Versace. MY MASKING FETISH! Why is the rest of 1-B way better than Monoma? That mask looks like a lame knock-off of Gunhead's. Welp, PTSD time now. It's nice to see that we're back to using FUNimation's usual subtitles. Big damn hero, emphasis on the last part. MADMAN TIME. We're already in season 3, so it's kinda weird seeing a clip from way back in season 2 in this MV. I'm surprised Todoroki's breathing alright in this toxic mist. OH SHIT ANOTHER GLI-nevermind, that was just an issue on my recording. Sweet, King Explosion Murder and Icy-Hot get to fight Gimp Man. Transgender fight, approved. All that blood doesn't look good. Did he just say "Show me your flesh!"? Speaking of Bakugo, this dude looks like him if he were in a bara yaoi manga. He's also got Bakugo's superiority complex. It's official, this kid's starting to grow on me. Fuck you, Muscleman. LIKE I SAID, MADMAN TIME. Nice, caught him with his teeth. Even in the present day, shounen characters can't help but hold back at the start. "Besides, both your arms are busted up!" Are you sure, 'cause it looks like just the one is busted up, and badly enough for both arms at that. YOU SHALL NOT PASS. It's painful seeing his arm break apart like that. And then his quirk awakened. TRANSLATOR'S NOTE: The "one million" is just a motivator. [claps Orson Welles-style] Deku, you absolute madman. You truly are My Hero Academia. SWORD ART ONLINE: ALICIZATION - "The STL. Short for St. Louis." The explanation comes now, the paperwork comes later. This show does a surprisingly good job at making obvious B.S. sound legit. I'll be frank, just a little disappointed [as] didn't freeze the episode where it froze before for a few seconds just to troll the more easily angerable anime fans. The only thing more twisted than that "full collapse" would be if it just froze in the middle of communication so hard it'd feel like DIO activated The World. BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY. She's not that sharp, she's just played a lot of VRMMOs. Am I the only one tempted to say, "Simpsons did it!"? Wait, Kikuoka's goal to create AIs that can kill makes no sense, considering that one Integrity Knight who sounds like Jamieson Price but isn't said that Alice would be executed for violating the Taboo Index. Does that mean the whole execution thing was just a bluff? At least that's true in a way, police have been using GGO for training. Oh shit, Kikuoka backstory. At least blondie's reason for joining this project is halfway decent. I doubt any of us would've expected Kirito's misguided attempt to vouch for NPC rights in season 1 would come back in such a big way. "Sword Art is going offline. But not like last week, we're not even sure what happened there." Say what you will about Kikuoka, at least he's a better villain than the Rape Brigade. Did we ever learn what race of elf Lizbeth's ALO avatar is? So it's more the free will he's looking for than the desire to murder (though the latter is also crucial). ACRONYMS ARE FUN~. Aaaaaaand we have a title. Okay, so I was half-right. The execution was a bluff, but only following the traditional definition; instead of regular death as her punishment, it's personality death instead. Still fucked up, Integrity Douche. At least they were nice enough to let her stay. HAPPY-HANDS NURSE IS BACK. REPLY TO ANGEL 1: "Is that the gross nurse who wanted to fuck him?" I think "gross" is more than a bit of an overstatement, but what does my Asperger's-afflicted ass know about true grossness? And she's military too, wasn't expecting that. So where's the part of the episode that says she cleaned up the two years' worth of semen? I hear more of a lisp in her voice than I ever did in Shirley's. Double shit, Kayaba backstory! Of everyone who thought that Kayaba kid needed to get laid, Rinko thought so the most. Hence why she was the one to take his virginity while he just laid there like a dead fish. I actually get Asuna here; sure, I can recognize just as well as anyone when someone's beyond redemption, but I'm not one to despise them like I was personally affected by their actions. (Hell, I'm more likely to loathe someone who disagrees with my opinion than I am an enemy of the state.) Come to think of it, I'm saner than Asuna there, since she was personally affected by Kayaba's actions. Living trapped in Aincrad with Kirito was much preferable to anticipating arranged marriage to a future rapist. Congratulations, you've just been visited by the Kayaba of Christmas Past. Expect two more ghosts to visit you as the series continues. MEGALOBOX - We now return you to Dancing with Nanbu, already in progress. Is that Aragaki's ticket? TEAM NOWHERE WUZ HERE. Present day, you say... Those removal marks look way too fresh. A fight so amazing, the remaining percent of the animation budget can't possibly cover it all. Oh dang, everybody's in the arena tonight. Huh, so that's what the water and bucket are for. I think I get where you're getting at. "Not knowing when to give up is kinda my thing, believe it!" REPLY TO ANGEL 2: "I know nothing about boxing, are dick punches allowed?" As the great Hank Hill once said, you never hit below the belt. Even Fujimaki is impressed! Meanwhile, Yukiko's just ignoring the big dance. Show of hands: integrated gear or bottom-up AIs, what's a better way to lower war mortality rates? Still smarter at business than Miss Satomi. And the rounds keep comin' and they don't stop comin'. It's hard to go further than ever when most of your animation budget's spent on upscaling a deliberate downscale. Okay, I was not expecting the arena to have no roof. DON'T LOSE YOUR WAY~. I don't care if your tear ducts can't work when both your eyes don't work (and one of them's missing), this is still moving. Welcome to The Zone, population: two at a time. Carpe diem, indeed. TRANSLATOR'S NOTE: I love you. Those are some wise words. I love these architectural conceptual drawing-style backgrounds. Nice, they can afford an actual gym now. It's practice, he can use whatever he wants as a mic, blind or not. I'm more used to seeing Yuri in a wheelchair than I am seeing Sachio without his hat. That's some colorful gear in those boxes. Teamwork, fuck yeah. Nice dancing, Joe. Oh, so they're kids' gear. Through rivalry, friendship. And that's how you reveal a secret victory. What all can be said beyond, "good show"? 9.25/10. JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE: DIAMOND IS UNBREAKABLE - I've heard of the hills having eyes, but dice? Josuke's not ready to have telepathic conversations with Mikitaka like he does with Okuyasu yet. Here's a scene that was cut from the adaptation that's most darkly humorous. NOW LET'S GET SERIOUS. Not a bad edit for Great Days, I like the TV Tropes-level nightmare fuel in starting out with a sudden Kira. Oh boy, Vic Manga-ka's taking the kid gloves off. THE GREAT ROOHAN. Of course an eccentric like Rohan would just have $20K in his pocket. As if creeping on fangirls and voice actresses wasn't enough, now he's going after people's fingers! Hey, Tamami's lookin' pretty fine after taking that cinderblock to the head. Oh yeah, Josuke hasn't been affected by the Lock yet. Cue Class 1-A celebrating the normalcy of the situation. Vomiting dice, only in JoJo! Sirens, his one weakness! Josuke's lucky that all the pus and barf is out of Rohan's line of sight. MISTER ROHAN YOUR MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE IS ON FIRE! Oh Rohan, you and your skewed priorities. You're a JoJo, of course there are people who love to hate you. Just ask your father, nephew, and great-grandfather's spirit. Morioh-Cho Radio and the Kawajiri residence, not the most pleasant of combinations. Ah, so that explains that weird bug on the ceiling, the kid's spying on his own parents! And now he thinks Jotaro and Josuke are behind his parents' marriage becoming the reverse of loveless. Josuke doesn't know what to believe anymore. Mikitaka's just too bizarre, even for Kira's dad. TO BE CONTINUED... RIGHT NOW! And so the sitcom rivalry continues. "Not that anyone cares..." It was assailant unknown in the room hidden in the tunnel with the candlestick! Oh shit, Kira's on the kill again. NO ONE WILL EVER BELIEVE YOU ROHAN. You can run if you want to, but you'll leave your friends behind. If your friends don't run, and if they don't run, then they're no friends of mine. Rohan where the hell did you get that motorcycle? Secret door, activated. THE ROOM IS A STAND, ONLY IN JOJO! In which Rohan gets attacked by foot fetishism personified. Freaky, he's turning transparent. YOU GONNA GET RAPED VIC. Original name: Highway Star. Not high-stakes enough to be a true sadistic choice, but just as fun for those who don't have to make it. I REFUSE. I'm not sure whether to call Josuke a badass or a dumbass, but being Joseph's son, he's easily both. SHIT COUNT: 5. With enemies like these, who needs friends? NOBODY GONNA TAKE MY CAR I'M GONNA RACE IT TO THE GROU-OUND. Man, they're really filling out this ED with characters the further we go along. BLACK CLOVER - Sometimes a peaceful resolution is the best resolution, even if you don't personally like it. [looks Angel's way] Let's just say that Mars is one of Asta's many secondary rivals. Ugh, all these random beatings for comic relief are giving me an ulcer. Thank god the Diamond guys are chill about this whole thing. So were those all they could save? Hi, random Chuck Huber. And then she was saved by Jerry Jewell, sort of. So when you think about it, Angel liked whatever possessed Fana, and not Fana herself. Meanwhile, shippers. First Mars, now Finral, who else in this show has pink eyes that I don't know about? Control your tsun, Noelle, even Tokine was more restrained and she was modern tsundere as shit. More magic stones. Unfortunately, most of those other witches are dead, but it's no huge loss. LASER FLOYD LIVES! I wanna beat the shit out of those murderously jealous teammates of the "no sweat" guy. "Am I out of magic power?" Well you did almost self-destruct, that uses up quite a bit of energy. Oh hey, Asta's famous. Ladros is more fun than he should be. Never underestimate the density of a man whose biggest life goal is to marry a nun. "There's no such thing as friends, only acquaintances." Didn't expect him to throw that sword, now did you? Our boy's grown so much since the start of the show, even if his magic level's still technically zero. What a waste of perfectly planned sakuga. LESSON #5: If Ladros is panicking out loud, expect it to be some degree of lying. Asta: dumb enough to want to fuck a nun, but too smart to be duped with pathos. "If you want a sword removed, I guess you have to do it yourself." Dude, she had amnesia, you can't expect her to remember all the details about her power. AHHHHHHH THIS IS MORE PAINFUL THAN I EXPECTED. Whoever this no-name VA who's voicing Ladros is, I bet you anything this is the role he's had the most fun with in his career. GAH, RIGHT IN THE TIT! A few weeks' absent, and with just one use of "imperfect", it's like the Witch Queen never left. OH SHIT POWER UP. HUNTER x HUNTER - No opening theme, title card only, final destination. I like that he's taking the gentle approach this time around. What an asymmetrical title. It's an anticlimactic victory, as far as your battles have been concerned, but it's a victory nonetheless. Sounds like you're the one pulling off a ploy, Palm. I bet that compliment about her aura is what hurts Palm the most, since it's coming from someone other than Gon. THE MOST INTIMIDATING OF KNEELS. And so begins my greatest test of endurance: how long until the tears start flowing? About half of these people standing out there have to be dead by now. Pouf is dead, all is right with the world. Even in her dreams, she's playing gungi. It's so strange seeing him smile without malice. Another full hour of SAO. What did we do to deserve this? So many Hunter Association blimps... You gotta love the international news. It's nice to see that Morel's doing better, but what about Knuckle? This is probably the most important this little green guy's been since handing out the badges for the Hunter Exam. Most ballsy video will ever. And now for a Japanese lyrics video. YOU FOOL! YOU KILLED HIS STUNT DOUBLE! The King is dead, long live Meruem. She looks much better with her hair down than with it done up in those stupid pigtails, though I'd still personally do without the snot (the true grossness). So what language does "Meruem" come from anyways? REPLY TO ANGEL 3: "I don't know enough about Korean checkers to have any idea what's going on." Neither does Togashi. I recognize that play! It's a metaphorical game-exclusive kind of death. I'm not feeling any real tears, but I wish I did. T_T All hail waifuism, the one true religion. No ending theme, credits only, final destination. Only two things could truly defeat Meruem: radiation poisoning, and Komugi's gungi skills. It's criminal that they stuck this show so late at night. Way to make yourself look like a bunch of biased morons, Jimmy John's. NARUTO SHIPPUDEN - If ninjas can walk on water, then why do they use boats? "A lot of things happened, and yet it feels like nothing happened at all." You don't separate a boy from his ramen. Looking kinda conniving there, girl. Aaaand here's the point where my comments drop off. The death flags for this flashback kunoichi are popping up surprisingly hard. Nope, no surprises there. Naruto's busy thinking up a peacable solution to this conflict. Double ugh, these CGI phone avatars are too disturbing to even sit through without paying attention. He's no underling, he's the main character! Is that main dude voiced by Jotaro? Technically Pain killed himself, but Naruto led him to that decision, so who's to say who the real killer is? Betrayal: it's a ninja thing. The Talk no Jutsu works its magic yet again. Kind of ironic, that the situation was resolved five minutes earlier than it would have been without Naruto's presence. You'll figure out who he is before too long. Overall a decent, if rotary, conclusion to the most recent in multiple plagues of filler. And now, we're free! [for thirty more episodes]

KamehaCon: Risembool Rangers only, plz.

WHERE'S THE ANNOUNCEMENT, DEMARCO!?

W'Z 11

Possibly. Maybe Marc just wasn't available for recording and they needed the next best thing.

Actually, David W. Collins voiced him for these past two episodes.

I'd pull up the show's MAL stats as a counterpoint, but that's beneath me. All you really need to know is JYB voiced the purple-haired dude.

Or unless they diddle the underage/think about diddling the underage like Illich Guardiola and Scott Freeman. Or if you're Japanese, doing illegal drugs like Pierre Taki from Denki Groove.

Whatever your thoughts on IBO's ending, let it not be denied that Orga's death was a source of memes, including this extremely specific one of my own creation that requires one to have watched the dubs of both IBO S2 and Please Twins! in order to get it.

Unfortunate but understandable. PREDICTIONS (assuming a Bang Zoom! dub) Shinji Ikari: Zach Aguilar Rei Ayanami: Xanthe Huynh Asuka Langley Soryu: Cherami Leigh Misato Katsuragi: Erica Lindbeck Gendo Ikari: John Demita (uncredited) Ritsuko Akagi: Katelyn Gault Ryoji Kaji: Xander Mobus Kozo Fuyutsuki: Steve Kramer Toji Suzuhara: Kyle Hebert Kensuke Aida: Brian Beacock Hikari Horaki: Jennifer Losi Kaworu Nagisa: Robbie Daymond Watch me get only one or two of these right, like with Baccano! and Kill la Kill.

Tonight on Toonami, we get a look at how Gohan's faring compared to the rest of his teammates in the Tournament of Power, Sakura gets a head start fighting against Shin while the others rush to rescue her, Deku tries to get to Kota before the League of Villains do as their attack on the UA Summer Training Camp begins, Asuna learns all the dirty details about Kirito's new job and without random glitching this time, Joe and Yuri finally have their fated rematch in the Megalobox finale, Rohan's attempts to out Josuke as a cheat go to some ridiculously deranged lengths, Fana's attempt to catch up with Mars is interrupted by a butt-frustrated Ladros, Meruem uses his final moments to try and reunite with Komugi, Naruto runs into the Tsuchikage's bodyguards in the long-awaited boat filler finale, and despite the rough start Eren and friends finally make it to graduation. 11:00 - Dragonball Super #103 - Gohan, Get Ruthless! Showdown with the 10th Universe!! - TV-14 11:30 - Boruto: Naruto Next Generations #23 - Bonds Come in All Shapes - TV-14V 12:00 - My Hero Academia #42 - My Hero - TV-14LV 12:30 - Sword Art Online: Alicization #6 - Project Alicization - TV-PGV 1:00 - Megalobox #13 - Born to Die - TV-PGLV 1:30 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable #28 - Highway Star Go Go, Part 1 - TV-MAL 2:00 - Black Clover #62 - Bettering One Another - TV-PGLV 2:30 - Hunter x Hunter #135 - This Person and This Moment - TV-14 3:00 - Naruto Shippuden #242 - Naruto's Vow - TV-PGLV 3:30 - Attack on Titan #4 - The Night of the Closing Ceremony: Humanity's Comeback, Part 2 - TV-14LV FUN FACT: One of the chapters adapted in this week's JoJo was released on the week of my birth, all the way back in a time when disco was king and Chinese food was all the rage. [1994 bizarre autumn]

Sort of. It's best not to ask too many questions about it, even though it's not nearly as complex as that previous statement implied.

It's a ridiculous theory, but I support it.

I had a dream last night where they announced they were airing Psycho-Pass. So yeah, I'm kinda hoping it's that.

I haven't seen GUNxSWORD yet, but I'm still excited about the implied Faye/Carmen99 interaction.

Forget Stu "CN Real" Snyder, I just hope it's not another Christina "TTGO all day erry day" Miller.

If you see a promo teasing one, that's your sign that there's not. Besides, this year's gag is scheduled for Sunday night/Monday morning/maybe Monday evening. So naturally Toonami won't have one this year.