PokeNirvash

IT'S THE CLIMAX!!!

Go back to Oklahoma City, you creeper.

Last week, Iida forgot that teamwork is good.

Tonight on Toonami, Iida decides to quit being a bitch and join in on the fight against Stain, Naruto's shadow clones go on strike, the Naruto who isn't a striking shadow clone lectures his son on sticking his nose in other people's business, Frost mistakes Hit's recruitment offer for the Tournament of Power for an assassination attempt, Dimple returns to help Ritsu cultivate his own latent psychic powers, it's only the second episode and already our protagonist is squaring off with the all-time Megaloboxing champ, Jotaro finds himself up against his most troublesome opponent since DIO, Yami does what his underlings tried (and failed) to do and takes care of Vetto himself in the Underwater Temple Arc finale, and Ikalgo does a little self-therapy for his cowardice when he runs into a still-paranoid-as-shit Welfin. 9:00 - Dragonball Z Kai #12 - Farewell, Piccolo! Goku's Furious Counterattack! - TV-PGLV 9:30 - My Hero Academia #30 - Climax - TV-14LV 10:00 - Naruto Shippuden #230 - Revenge of the Shadow Clones - TV-PGL 10:30 - Boruto: Naruto Next Generations #11 - The Shadow of the Mastermind - TV-PG 11:00 - Dragonball Super #91 - Which Universe Will Survive!? The Strongest Warriors Are All Coming Together!! - TV-14V 11:30 - Mob Psycho 100 #7 - Exaltation ~I've Obtained Loss~ - TV-14DLV 12:00 - Megalobox #2 - The Man Only Dies Once - TV-PGLV (?) 12:30 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable #16 - Let's Go Hunting! - TV-MAV 1:00 - Black Clover #50 - End of the Battle, End of Despair - TV-14V 1:30 - Hunter x Hunter #123 - Centipede and Memory - TV-14LV 2:00 - Attack on Titan #41 - Trust - TV-MA 2:30 - Pop Team Epic #5 - Donca*Sis - TV-MA 3:00 - Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans #26 - New Blood - TV-14L 3:30 - Samurai Jack #13 - XIII - TV-Y7FV Rats, We're Rats, We're the Rats.

We call him Guillotine Gorilla around these parts.

Probably Family Guy.

I also saw someone call Dimension W on 4chan's Toonami discussion. But GXP... absolutely no one could have predicted that. Hell, even those wanting more Tenchi had a higher likeliness of pulling for War on Geminar, despite its weird episode lengths.

Chuukan Kanriroku Tonegawa 23 Ah, so the nog-a-sake isn't just an Office thing after all...

"FUCK WHY ARE THE ARMS BLUE."

We lose two hours but gain one in the process. I'm fine with that. And hey, Shippuden filler's now in GXP's old spot. That's good news, I guess.

Objectively, Tenchi Muyo! GXP. The unprecedented return of IGPX might count, but considering that was Toonami to begin with, it doesn't count.

At least that one wasn't played for drama (unless that somehow makes it worse). Still, if and when Alicization makes it to Toonami, I bet you anything you all overplay your reactions to the rape while I react with as much apathy/attention towards other details as I can muster. [because that's how team poke rolls]

You really need to quit being such a pessimist.

Give it up, Elfie, you know as well as we do how pessimistic Mochi gets. [no i didn't know that]

Well he did say he'd avoid it unless it was absolutely necessary. So it's at least nice to know he's past the stage of gratuity.

Trying to paint him as being insincere with his apology is just as bad as, if not worse than, him doing the bad to begin with imo.

Chad Clover finally falls to the even Chadder Hunter.

For those two or three of you who aren't in its "Viewer Apathy Dynamo" collective, I snuck an IGPX reference into this episode. It's subtle, but it's in there, and I hope those of you who still care/haven't stopped caring get a little enjoyment out of that, if nothing else. jam #10: 二つの真の信者 Two True Believers Download link below. In 2084 or so, tenements on fire... KK 10.pdf

You sure that's how it happened? Because I remember "Knights of the Zodiac" premiering on Toonami long after Sailor Moon left Cartoon Network altogether.

Goddammit Al that's so lame and yet I laughed anyways.

JAPAN.

The best possible reaction I could have ever hoped for. MY HERO ACADEMIA - That random Tsuyu in the intro bump. I'll give it to Toonami, they know what the people like (even if it doesn't necessarily agree with my personal tastes). "Don't be a hero, kid!" "I am a hero!" I like that he doesn't even question the possibility of Nomu having a brother. Get outta here, Endeavor. "I came because I'm a hero." Yeah, a hero to everybody but your wife and son. That one Nomu that's just a brain and a lower jaw freaks me the fuck out. That certainly seems like a normal quirk. "MY LEG!" They're both, let's leave it at that. "Are you not going to participate in the fight?" "Nah, I'd rather jack off." When I hear "a child wearing a suit", I can't help but think of a piano recital. One has to wonder if Iida rehearsed this speech beforehand. FOR STUFFING TENSEI!!! Nice, spiked shoes. Not nice, sword to the arm. Oh god Stain has no nostrils that's weird. You telling me heroes can't be handi-capable? Everybody forgets the Native American cosplayer. DYNAMIC ENTRY! ...Smash. "I'm gonna save you!" He says to the already injured guy. Okay, I get the appeal of a PG-13 Deadpool, but the question is, will it work? Fuck I love office buildings at night with on-lights in the windows. Like I said, nobody ever notices the Native American cosplayer. I blame Gran Torino for running off without warning. Deku beating up that ninja turtle like it's nobody's business. Oh well, at least you managed to punch something without breaking your limbs this time. EVEN THE TINIEST OF CUTS CAN DO IT. Congratulations, Deku, you're worthy. Thanks, Todoroki. His new outfit looks more like his Sports Festival uniform than what he wore in season 1. "You're using your left side?" "The sports festival's over, isn't it?" Well shit didn't see that throw coming. BAD TOUCH BAD TOUCH. Wow, Todoroki sounded a little different there. Deku got up first because his cut was smallest. Or maybe it has to do with blood type. In which case, let's hear it for Type O! Thank you, MC Exposition. He's like a regular Red Wedding, that man. Huh, random insert song with vocals. This show has good serious faces. You've got two legs, start using them. Yeah, fuck Endeavor as a person! And then Iida realized even he was wrong. So does this mean he's no longer frozen and only thinks he is? Get some new text credits already, episode 27 has long since passed. NARUTO SHIPPUDEN - Finally, an island that isn't deserted for once. What Guy needs is that device that lets him experience true levelness. Sounds like some One Piece bullshit, this Route of Silence. Hey, buying vegetables isn't rocket science. Controlling your pack mule, on the other hand... I don't trust that magic mushroom. Dangit Naruto couldn't you have knocked him out a little less flashily. On the bright side, if the cargo ship blows up, only one of the cargo will be people. This guy is obviously conniving. Oh hey, mushroom night-light. Floating through there will feel like forever, but will in fact be much longer... WHOA GOD HEART PALPITATIONS. And then the cargo room turned into an RGB freakshow. Turns out the Sea Route of Silence was true levelness all along. Looks like Matango threw up in there. LET THE FASTING BEGIN! All I know about this Spiderverse movie is that Loli Peni Parker is a cute. Five minutes in and Naruto's already given up fasting. Guy, meanwhile, is an expert at it. The shady businessman did say it was a last resort, so you might as well follow through on it. Delicious but poisonous, like improperly prepared fugu. Poor predictable Guy, always choosing rock. He hasn't even eaten any yet and he's already lost it. When you've gone so long without eating, anything tastes good. And then they were the Purple Man Group. Easily a more creative way of censoring the Sexy Jutsu than Cartoon Network S&P painting clothes on them. Too bad for you, Guy's a man-lover. If this is what Matango was like, I can understand my uncle's reasons for continuing to put off eating the shrooms. The more Gamatatsu shows up in these fillers, the more I'm convinced he's 100% anime original. I mean, how else can you explain his absence during all of Naruto's canon visits to the Land of Toads? I mean, even Gamakichi was there! For a second there, I thought he was gonna steal his secret snack stash, but this seems more appropriate for the situation. If only Naruto's pack mule hadn't run into him, they wouldn't have been in this mess. How the turntables. In the end, it was Ma's cooking that saved the day. Those two weeks went faster than Toonami's end-of-year marathons. Because in the end, what is filler but anime original worldbuilding? Revenge, like bug ramen after a week and a half's worth of fasting, is truly sweet. Eh, I'm still gonna eat mushrooms after this, but only the good kind. Oh, by the way, this was the last episode with Troy Baker as Yamato; Matt Mercer replaces him starting next week. BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS - Oh hey, regular school students. "Ha, made you look." Quick, to the drug store, for eyedrops! Mitsuki's incapable of getting embarrassed. Damn, scary Hinata's actually kinda hot. Dammit Mitsuki, who gets the plague anymore? I'll study for my sole exam this semester later, show, don't rush me. You heard it here first, Temari beats her kid. Heroic deeds such as eating bugs to save his crewmates from the ill effects of magic mushrooms. Huh, for a second there I forgot they were teammates. Oh look, more personal guilt. (I'll get an internship one of these days, you'll see...) For me it'd be a toss-up between a planning firm and an S&M club. Good to see Shino's on their side, if in the subtlest means possible. THEY SAID I COULD BE ANYTHING, SO I BECAME A POSTAL NINJA. This dude's as short as those kids, that must be embarrassing for him. If postal ninjas are really that lame I can see why my dad dropped the show after their very own filler episode. Of course delivering the mail's exhausting, especially when it's in a place where walking is your only option. Goddangit Boruto try and be a little less conspicuous. Seeing Shippuden filler before Boruto canon really makes me appreciate how far Naruto's come. Even Boruto thinks postal ninja are lame. Postal Ninjas don't get no respect. Great job with the first throw, the rest need a little work. STRETCHY ARMS. Meanwhile, with everybody else... I didn't know I needed Shinji saying "epic fail" in my life. MID-DAY FIREWORKS. Doing two jobs in one day, I had a feeling Chouchou would go for that. Water purification is what separates our water from Mexico's, and Canada's from ours. Nice, they named a park after the founding family. "Now those are true postal ninjas." Nice of you to finally join us, Sai. Too many kids having fun and reminding him of how much of a failure he was, I guess. Hey, remember Danzo? So this means Yamato having his chakra sapped was foreshadowing for this development? "Naruto, you stay here and do paperwork." I just realized these two haven't had screentime alone together as a couple. Such is a childhood where rent money from the Third and tough love from Iruka are the closest things you have to fatherhood. WE GOTTA GO FASTER THAN WE DID YESTERDAY. When a sassy black chick of any age comes in asking for her mail, you better deliver. So much for living the exciting life of a postal ninja, then. Ticker subtitles, I never thought I'd see the day. Welp, Sumire's dead. What kinda shitty computers are they using, if they're able to catch malware that easy? DRAGONBALL SUPER - It's spelled Yurin, not Urine. You think Goku's ever run a restaurant out of business before? I wouldn't be surprised if he had. Gohan sounds freakishly confident, I'm kinda disturbed. Not only that, but he's the villain of his very own tournament arc. You clearly underestimate how seriously Goku takes his training, Tien. Huh, for some reason I mistook Gohan for Vegeta in that scene. Guess Gunners was right about all these Saiyans looking alike. PARADOX BEAM... denied. The battle's so bright, I'm gonna need five pairs of shades. SUCKER PUNCH. They must really be conserving the budget, they aren't even bothering to draw in Roshi's mouth while he's talking. We one on one now. Meanwhile, Gowasu's still reeling. That is one uncomfortably buff dude. Oh well, at least their Angel's pretty cute. He calls everyone "Brother", just like Mr. Satan. PROTEIN SHAKE TIME. "An ultimate form that no Saiyan has achieved before." Maximum Over-Saiyan? You know, without the context, I would've laughed at Goku calling Gohan his best opponent. Nothing to say about these combat sequences, they don't even give me the opportunity. Vegeta wants in on some of that action. Welp, the planet's boned. So close, yet still so far away. "Does this make up for me giving Cell a Senzu Bean yet?" Because Goku being Captain is too predictable. MOB PSYCHO 100 - "That was the most pleasant nightmare I've had in weeks!" You're trying a little hard to be like water, boy. And now he's faking being possessed by loved ones. Low blow, Reigen. "How did you learn to speak English so well?", says the guy speaking English. If he doesn't know English and yet he's from Jersey... that just raises further questions! MCDONALDS MAAAAAAAAN~. And then the family drama reached soap opera levels. CHEESEBURGER HURRICANE! Huh, so I guess male nudity is intense sexual content after all. He may be a fraud, but damn if Reigen doesn't have some of the best life advice in the biz. Not five episodes in, and Mob's popularity's already on the rise. I kinda wanna ship Mob with the reporter girl. Alien Fanatic Cherami Leigh is fine too. Date her, Mob, just think of her as a stepping stone to getting with Tsubomi and it'll be no prob. Seitz's characters are either bros or dicks, there is no in-between. I don't think I ever got to say how fun I think this Tenga guy is. Max Mittelman disliking delinquents, that sounds kinda familiar... Take the offer, Ritsu, whatever helps you get on your brother's level faster. Don't mock the underground metal fandom, Mob. "If you ask me, you won't find a totally simple and normal middle schooler anywhere on this planet. Totally simple and normal high schoolers, on the other hand..." Well, at least he's on the road to improvement, hence the club's name. It's a secret lab, that's why it doesn't say it's there out in the open. SO MANY ESPERS. What flavor ice cream is that? The blonde and redhead look okay, but the rest... ehhhhhhhh. Even lamer powers than the Ochimusha boy. But hey, at least there's a glimmer of hope there. And this is what it would be like if Iida and Shinso were brothers. Wow, that's a really trashy room. I don't think we're ever gonna find out who voices Mob's mother. Either a girl's recorder or a dildo. OH SHIT IT'S A FRAMING IN PROGRESS. Okay, just detaching the one recorder was one thing, but this is going overboard, or even further. I like Onigawara's purple shirt. Body Improvement Seitz is the ideal we all aspire to yet can't quite reach, yet cheers us on regardless of how far we get. That's how I'd react too, if I were in an anime. Ray Chase confronting Max Mittelman, as if this show couldn't get any more of my attention. Poor, poor Onigawara, your feeling is a feeling that I feel deeply. Gratuitous pantyshots and butterfaces were never meant to mix. Oh hi Reigen, up to something more honest than your day job, hmmmm? Nope, guess it's more of the same then. Oh shit he actually bent it. DIMPLE'S BACK, BITCHES. MEGALOBOX - Kinda strange to start things out on a length of rope. Not one minute in and I'm already dancing in my seat to this soundtrack. HISASHI MORI SAKUGA SPOTTED. Exactly one minute in and already we've got a Thelma and Louise situation on our hands. I like this show's style, from the music to the 480p upscale. A future sport with a mechanical twist? A female shareholder in the sport carrying out her grandfather's legacy? Kirk Thornton voicing a mechanic guy? Yep, this is totally IGPX but with boxing. Are those wasabi peas he's got there? ..."Your" what? I like how they integrated the note for the road into the setting as surface graffiti. Better than [UNSOLICITED OPINIONS ON ISRAEL?]. Betting on dog races is never a good idea. Looks nice for a so-called restricted area. I don't know what establishment this "Drunk Monk" is, but I like the name. You know, I think I'm just gonna keep the comments to a minimum, let the show wash over me, and sum up my thoughts one step at a time. That's a lotta blood, I can see why they used it in the first promo. Oh, so the Drunk Monk is the name of a fight club. HYEAUH. Damn, that round went fast. Oh, so that's why, the rounds are only three minutes apiece. Dang, surprise video game review, time for me to zone out on all the replays. I feel like the first act should've ended here and not less than 15 seconds earlier. Yeah, I can imagine he'd be pretty mad about all this. Hot damn this soundtrack is so good, I wouldn't be surprised if Demarco picked this up just for it alone. That was a close one. Thankfully no one else was hurt. Okay, kind of a dick move. SHIT COUNT: 2. Apparently he's so good time slows just for him. Would it be out of line to go a step further and say he's pussy-whipped? Something tells me that garage is where he lives now. I think it'd mean eyepatch guy's gonna stay in debt. The best possible opponent swap one could wish for (as a spectator). BOO THIS MAN. Or even better, he got knocked the fuck out! However this ends up, I'm sure it'll be fun. What a nice way of saying "to be continued". I swear, I'll put down better comments next week! JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE: DIAMOND IS UNBREAKABLE - Funny thing, my On Demand/DVR now has the image for season 5 up for the show in general. "Why do my shoes and bag feel heavier than usual today?" Because 10 of your henways are missing, obviously. It's terrifying because that's the kind of guy Vic Manga-ka is. Rohan likes to stay ahead of the game. I'd watch videos of this guy drawing manga online. REPLY TO ANGEL 2: "Rohan why can't you just draw like a normal person." BECAUSE HE'S A JOJO CHARACTER. I relate to Rohan way more than I rightfully should. FUCK YEAH NEW OPENING. Seems pretty Un-JoJo, but it's still good. Cockblocked by the doorbell. They're just naturally suspicious, what with all the stray STAND users around town. Well that change wasn't completely sudden or anything. Oh yeah, I remember the Perman references from a while back. And so the situation solved itself surprisingly peaceably. How it feels to have bipolar disorder. You know he can hear you loudly monologuing, right, Koichi? INTRUDER DETECTED. Okuyasu, couldn't you have been a little more discreet? H-HAYAI! And then Okuyasu was the world's longest Chick Tract. That return bump is hilarious because he's unwinding like the spaghetti he was eating back then right now. If you want him to come out, just insult his hair, he'll beat you senseless no matter what you say. I wouldn't put running away past Josuke, I mean he is Joseph's son. Oh dang that's fucked up. Even more fucked up is he's doing it against his will! And now he's literally running in blind. HEY JOSUKE THINK FAST. I like the actual time counter for his thoughts. As I thought, he'd use Josuke's hair against him. OH SHIT HE TOUCHED THE HAIR BAD MOVE ROHAN. And down goes him, and the bookcase with it. See, when Josuke calls someone a "punk bitch", it's actually threatening, almost. SHIT COUNT: 3. And now for some impromptu backstory. For once, I can blame DIO for something and be right at the same time. I forget what time of year Stardust Crusaders took place, but I can buy it being sometime in the winter. Rumor has it that stranger was supposed to be a time-traveling Josuke, but Araki never did anything with it after this, so let's just pretend it's Onigawara seeking penance for being framed by the student council by doing random good deeds. REPLY TO ANGEL 3: "And then they were saved by Space Dandy." That works too. And that's what happens when you're inspired to improve your body. Don't diss the pompadour, baby. EVEN ROHAN IS MOVED. Vic's girlish screams. PINK DARK HIATUS. BLACK CLOVER - Whoa, what the shit happened to the series title card? Not a minute in and already the animation's looking better. You got stabbed in the gut and you fucked up his arms, so let's call it a draw. Please stop saying despair, I swear your obsession with it makes even the Black Bulls' repetitive gimmicks look two-dimensional at the least. Leave it to Asta, the one-man Body Improvement Club, to get back on his feet after something like that. The important thing is, you tried. Wipe those tears, you can cry when the battle's over. Compared to Yuno, you ain't shit. TILFINNING SAKUGA SPOTTED. "I did not plan for thiiiiis!" REPLY TO ANGEL 4: "Yeah you dumbass, the magic-draining sword is still draining your magic while it's in your gut." As to be expected from a man with despair on his mind 24/7. FUCK YEAH FIRST OPENING THEME. Okay, that whole finishing scene was pretty damn hype, with or without Yami. Am I the only one in the world who doesn't mind this puppet foghorn anti-smoking commercial? Man, no wonder I can stand Black Clover. He beat him so hard his grimoire stopped glowing. Jesus Christ Asta what the hell is that face. Now to take care of the dude that's keeping Yami in place upstairs. Eeeeeeeeverybody hates Finral. Would it make her feel better or weird her out even more if she knew Asta only has lewd thoughts for the 26 year-old nun back home? Any time's a good time to start drinking, especially after a possibly life-threatening battle. Yeahhhhhhhhhhh I think he won't be saying anything anytime soon. MORE ELVES. And then he went full Allah Ackbar on them. Yami's so pissed he broke the table. "If I die, tell Marie I love her." As I predicted, there's the sister reference I was expecting. NOT-SO-DYNAMIC ENTRY. Oh Yami, you so tsundere. Charmy likes the headpats the most. "The best part", indeed. Who's the beanpole guy again? Yami is the true audience surrogate. And we end tonight's episode with what else but a Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei reference. HUNTER x HUNTER - Such is the terrifying truth of the Chimera Ant arc. Knov could really use a wig. I bet you forgot all about these two over the past three months. A DBZ-style wasteland; a perfect choice for the interspecies battle to end all interspecies battles. "If you judge a book by its cover, don't be surprised if you get burned." I think you're getting your metaphors mixed up. Congratulations, Netero. You are also worthy. What happened is that Gon is out for blood and won't take no for an answer. Sometimes showing is better than telling, but hey, it remains worth the effort. There's still something weirdly cute about Chibi Pouf, no homo. "It's absolute madness, no different from Sparta." Dictators only in times of absolute necessity are the best dictators, supposedly. No time for philosophical discussion, only philosophical destruction. SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN NO JUTSU. And also the wackiest god in all of India. BUDDHA CHOP. Welp, that bump's a spoiler. Youpi's arm face is still the weirdest thing about him. Change is a scary thing, especially for the Royal Guard. (Unless you're Youpi, apparently.) I think their departure would have been cooler if Pouf left riding on Youpi's back. So this is gonna be a back-and-forth match, then. Shiiiiiit, the King doesn't know when to give up. How many times will he make that pose before he makes him understand? Thank god, now I can start calling him something besides the King. Boooooo it's gonna take forever now. And now we're into chess motifs I don't understand. [zetsuboushita]

He said 3 hours instead of 6, so I'm just gonna assume he meant Progressive and leave it at that.

The only thing that gets me through SAO's rape scenes (outside of content rating stuff) is amazement at Bang Zoom's stunt casting for said rapists. Todd Haberkorn as Sugo/Oberon, JYB as Shinkawa, and even an uncredited Vic Mignogna as the slug dude (with Tony Oliver as his comparatively more vanilla buddy). Whoever they get to play the assaulter in Alicization, whoever he is, I'm confident he'll have name recognition within the anime dub fandom.