PokeNirvash

Of all the times to have a German surname...

Yet another Toonami meme person finally makes it to [adult swim], even if it's just Fishcenter. DRAGONBALL SUPER - Hey, Frieza's in the OP now! So is that glowing ring passing by up there supposed to be important? Welcome to the sequel to Five Minutes on Namek, Krillin. No Healers Allowed. Oh Gohan, why do you even try. I can totally see why Top views Goku as the villain, what with his ever-present smirk and all. Impotence. A cat ignoring a mouse, must be Opposite Day. To no one's surprise, that escalated quickly. Their excitement is soooooo palpable. Goku doesn't care about your silly teamwork, Gohan. And neither does the other half of your team, apparently. SPINNING LIKE A BEYBLADE. There ain't no waiting for fancy transformation sequences in this tournament. Butterfly girl's voice is way too shrill, I'm not too bummed she's the first outta the ring. Please, please stop screaming, I don't think my ears can take much more. 1 down, 79 to go. Shut the fuck up, Champa. Meanwhile, girlfight. I'm loving all these guys shouting their attacks. Sumo Pig's holding his own surprisingly well. Jiren's gonna get through this tournament doing nothing at all. I like the clown Destroyer God's black dude voice. I feel like there's an inappropriate reference here in Goku getting suddenly stolen like a horror movie victim. Yeah, totally sounds like he's gay-raping him. Dude, you're going to the stands when you fall off. How do you even know what Otherworld is? It's not nearly as fun if he's not holding back, it's that simple. So wait, where're Universe 4's missing two members again? It's like all these wolf guys do is laugh and smirk evilly. Oh hey, new ending. And holy shit four frames of cast. BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS - For being the smartest girl in class, that sure was a stupid question you just asked, Sarada. Denki is so sheltered. Friendly reminder that Sasuke fucked Sakura and left her to raise their kid alone. So where's Sakura going anyways? Out of the mouths of babes. You say it's a teddy bear, but why does it have bunny ears then? I'm guessing it's a girls' weekend out. Yeahhhhhh I'm pretty sure this episode would give my mom Vietnam flashbacks. See, now thinking like that won't get you anywhere. He's right, actually catching a bite is the best part of fishing. Confound you, forgetful old ladies! And now she knows the joys of riding without a roof. These troublemakers, them. Chocho heard everything. Queen's right, this commercial is Yamashita as fuck. The way you say that, it makes her secret sound lewder than it actually is. This lost and found employee sounds a little like Shinji. If I were her, I'd have double-checked the contents before claiming the item. Chocho is the most underrated girl. Welcome to Morocco Street. Oh Japan, you and your wacky potato chip flavors. Well this is definitely the opposite of exciting. Leave it to Sasuke to put in the bare minimum. I was just doing something innocuous and Sarada's shout startled me there. That makes two moments from earlier in the episode that implied greater importance later on. Did she just say "Cha!"? Sarada's the Big Boss. She's definitely as scary when pissed off as her mother was. In the end, a repeat of the Virginia Incident was avoided. MY HERO ACADEMIA - We now return you to practical exam #5, already in progress. WWDD? I'm not surprised that the class's token romantic can so easily tell who's got a crush on whom. I love Intense Mode Uraraka. I read a Deku/Froppy doujin the other day, so this interaction's giving me a strange mood. But even though she lost balance, she improvised a winning situation almost immediately, which is commendable in its own right. Next up, Team Dumbass! BEWARE: FALLING SARCASM. He's predicting the predictions, that fiend! Nezu is the funnest kind of insane. Clearly your only way out is to climb up. Or just melt the debris, that works too. So far that's 8 passes, 4 fails. HAHAHAHAHA. Froppy knows what went down, she can see it all over her face. Japanese wordplay, translated as easily as the script can allow. YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. That face. Now it's Aizawa's turn to narrate. He runs the early early show. ANTS! For those of you who are curious, that's Greg Ayres voicing Animal Boy's screams of terror. Yeah I don't envy these two. Oh shit the whole bleeding ears thing wasn't an exaggeration at all. Okay, now you should be able to place his voice without my help. He doesn't talk because he knows no one can stand the Greg Ayres voice for long periods of time. In the end, his downfall was bugs. Why is Demarco's taste in rap music soooooooooooo shit? IT'S LITERALLY HIGH NOON. Commando mode, go! Snipe has a point, does it really count as being a pervert if you can't see the person you're accidentally perving on. FUCK YEAH TIME FOR THE MIDNIGHT ROUND. Besides, Bakugo probably doesn't want him there. My spirit animal isn't just a pervert, he's a dirty coward. FUN FACT: I saw this image of Sero sleeping against Midnight without context once, and was under the impression that she was the hero he interned under for months. Bleeding from the eyes is way worse than bleeding from the ears, but I don't blame him for his jealousy. Yep, totally wish I was Sero there. Okay, I'm actually feeling for him here. [MY FEELINGS OF AFFECTION FOR A 2D CHARACTER INCREASE AGGRESSIVELY] Was this the scene Foley told me not to watch with anyone around, 'cause it sure as heck feels like it should be. Oh damn he actually has a plan (sort of). It's official, I'm now in a polygamous relationship with Midnight and Reigen. (Don't tell my other waifus/husbando.) Way to go, spirit animal, you earned this win. The hardest part of this test is easily gonna be dealing with Bakugo's "I'm infinitely better than you" attitude. It feels so good to flip off characters I hate on my television screen. "The wait is over." But ohhhhhhhh how we wish it would never have ended. SWORD ART ONLINE: ALICIZATION - Oh no, it's best rating, that's one thing for me to like about this premiere already! That's an odd way to keep tally, with the strikethrough all perfectly horizontal like that. I'd ask why Kirito's all tinier than usual and hanging out with this random blonde kid like the rest of you probably are, but I know it's gonna get answered eventually, so I'll wait. Trees are living beings too, it's easy to forget. This is his second childhood, now with 50% less getting hit by his grandfather. Yep, still less gay than last week's HxH. We Alice in Wonderland now, apparently. Her sandwiches probably aren't as good as Asuna's. Hey, lukewarm and even cold food's perfectly fine, just so long as it doesn't stay cold for too long. I've got an idea, create a fucking refrigerator. [in Tigtone voice] A QUEEEEEEEST! "Where would you find ice this time of year?" THE REFRIGERATOR. Nice, sketchy sakuga. Child logic, everybody. Ah, the joy of loopholes. I can just tell Kirito's itching to fight himself a dragon. A BIT OF DIALOGUE: Eugeo: "She has to learn all that stuff a lady's supposed to know, like manners and etiquette..." My dad: "[And] sex positions..." Bitch that's called the Sun. You can never have enough proper nouns in your MMO anime. "Huh, well speak of the Great Horned One." Check it out, stalactites. Nature's flashlight. Yep, Kirito's totally suppressing a fightboner for that dragon. Watch out for the icy patch. A light at the end of the tunnel, that can't be good. Well, outside of the endless supply of ice, it can't be good. It's funny how the bumps are advertising a completely different show than what we've gotten so far. Why is Bryce's little kid voice so terrible? Fuck yeah, treasure! I was gonna ask why killing a dragon would be a bad thing, but it looks like I've got my answer already. Sorry, you have to have at least as much muscle strength as Asta to wield this sword. Wow, didn't expect there to be a side-wipe transition here... or in anime in general. You kids probably should've made a trail of breadcrumbs on your way in. Whoa, what happened while they were in that cave? The Dark Territory, where the sky is blood red and nothing can survive on the ground. DRAGON JOUSTING. Impact frames, fuck yeah! [shoots a thumbs up as he dies] You have crossed the line; the punishment... is death. Go away, Dr. Manhattan, nobody wants you here after what you did to Rorschach. The important thing is, you tell no one what happened here today. No one wants to see Dr. Manhattan in their nightmares. I still don't know what an Integrity Knight is, but all I do know is fuck them. Wow, my "the punishment is death" comment was way too on-the-nose there. The ice was symbolism all along. Kirito's ready to embrace his inner Eren and whack a son of a bitch. HAKI BLAST. His eye just got infected with the Red Ring of Death, that means this is an XBox game. "That was easily the second-worst nightmare I've ever had in my life." Friendly reminder that we could have gotten the Gun Gale Online anime instead of this. Though I will admit, A-1 certainly made it look prettier. INCOMING JEEP! Silica looks like she's enjoying that gatling gun a little too much. Asuna looks pretty good with her hair done up. Unpopular opinion, I missed Trap Kirito. BULLET BEATS GRENADE. God I'm a sucker for people smacking away bullets with lightsabers. Still, I think it's real nice that Asuna's using a photon sword like her BF is. REPLY TO ANGEL 1: "I thought the avatars were randomly generated for that one, why does everyone look exactly the same?" I think the random avatar generation only applies if GGO's your first game on the VR tech you use to access it, like with Kirito; everyone else could've just transferred their previous game data over. Hey, you all survived against them, even if they did retreat. An esoteric victory's still a victory. TWIST OF THE WEEK: Kirito's now a narcoleptic. [reads Bullet of Bullets roster] Aw man, LLENN's not on the list! (Then again, Squad Jam is more her style...) Narcoleptic Kirito is the best Kirito. Satellizer, you say... No surprise, the dude's an obvious cheater, no one can be that good other than Kirito. Hopefully they got Rapist JYB on some of the good meds. Japanese nicknames are weird, yo. An anti-cheating system is easily what Kirito needs, what with all the different ladies in his pseudo-harem. I can easily see why these two top all the big lists for best anime couple. To me, Wrath is both the best and the worst of the seven Homunculi. Huh, so that world he was in during the first act was the full-dive game he's mentioning now. Forget a fluctlight, what's an OGMA? I actually used Doordash the other day to get some pizza. Apart from me having to go out in the rain to receive my order, it worked well. I can understand the brain housing the soul. I appreciate the exposition, but seriously, tell me what an OGMA is. REPLY TO ANGEL 2: "You don't call it a soul, but you're calling this a soul translator." It's all pseudo-science and stuff. STL will always be St. Louis to me. IS IT SAFE? Never completely trust Business Jotaro. With FLA, you too can experience Five Minutes on Namek. We Alice in Wonderland now, definitely. It's those mnemonic devices, they're a bitch to remember. Black Seitz is grumbling about his lack of screentime, I'm sure. "See you later, Shinonon." "Seriously, what is that nickname?" I am such a sucker for CG cars too. America holds all of the answers, answers they don't want you to know. Truly they are babby's first anime couple. FIRST BASE, ACHIEVED. It all comes back to Kayaba with these VR technologies. Here comes trouble. LITERALLY! It's official, Kirito's played too many VRMMO games. To be perfectly fair, he used a grown man's knife against him IRL, so he's not completely powerless without his sword. DEATH GUN 3: THE RECKONING. Ouch, right in the armpit. Well, what're you waiting for? Call 119! Welcome back, Aniplex. JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE: DIAMOND IS UNBREAKABLE - Oh wow, random skull face on Killer Deadly Queen. Oh Kira, your Queen references are so endearing in spite of your way less savory qualities. Okay, he died faster than I expected him to. So much for him spending the episode running afoul. Oh hey, a Cinderella reference. NEVER MIND, THE RUNNING AFOUL CONTINUES! The only changes I see are the gash and twisted nose. He's gonna jack off with that bloody hand. Close enough, random mouth insertions count just as much. Threatening his parents, what a dick move. He knows because Josuke knows because Koichi knows. Heh, Harvest stole all the leaves off that bush. I didn't know the junior high and high school were in the same building. Anime girls are so unappreciative of the nasty little men of the world. SUDDENLY KIRA. LITTLE SHIGE NO! At least he managed to leave a hint for our protags. IT CAN'T BE HELPED. Soul death: worse than regular death. That feel when you die so brutally the whole town feels it. I'm liking the dark version of Jotaro's theme music. Shigechi was what we call, "ugly cute". He also produces all kinds of complicated feelings, even after death. My dad just saw Ayatsuji when he was passing through and said "whoa, check out the boobs on her!" It ruined the mood in the best way possible. Koichi and his psycho semi-significant others. BITCHES AND HOES ARE LIKE NEW CLOTHES. SHIT COUNT: 4. Meanwhile, that manga reader over there is plotting a more complicated misogynistic revenge plot of his own that will ultimately go nowhere. SHIGEKIYO YANGU: DECEASED. YOSHIKAGE KIRA: ERECT. Shazam! I'm not sure if the show no longer hiding that he spends his morning with a severed lady hand at the table while the Morioh-cho radio theme plays is more or less disturbing than it was when they tried to hide it. It's quiet. Perhaps too quiet. Jotaro lookin' a little like his old self there. All this English typesetting in place of subtitles just irks me, now that I've watched plenty of subbed anime. "Plus the elecronics store sells flowers." What did he mean by this? ANIMAL CRACKERS IN MY SOUP. I expected something bad and yet I still got surprised. At least it was just the guy's hand. Whup, spoke too soon. It's Kira, and he's in the closet! OH MY GOD KH A BOMB! BLACK CLOVER - Patiently waiting for them to make a shortened version of the updated OP 5. Wherever Fanzell goes, he must also be naked. This guy really needs to choose his words better. Charmy's fun when she isn't stuffing her face. "Miss Understanding works at the tavern, I think." Truly Yami gives zero fucks. And here's our protagonist to clear up the misunderstanding for him. BETTER BREAD THAN DEAD. "I can take you there," she says before chugging a bottle of wine. REPLY TO ANGEL 3: "Are we sure this isn't filler?" It's a light novel side story adaptation, so it's about half-way. It's time for Yami's 4:00 meeting. Whup, spoke too soon. No one interrupts Yami's shitting hours and gets away with it. Huh, so that whole "OK symbol magnification" thing wasn't something I just made up. I can't believe I dread Luck's scenes more than I do Gauche's now. But they didn't even touch your food. CHOKEHOLD. Why is Grey so much better as an existing character than as one of her two defaults? Meanwhile, domestic violence. Such is the way of the tsundere. BRUUUUUUUUUCE. I can't wait until apocalypse shows die out. I can't even tell which side this girl's on anymore. I'm gonna err on the side of caution and guess her request is part of some deeper plan. Obnoxious and overbearing gets the point across. GET IN THE FUCKBOX. "Better to be stupid than useless!" KAN OGAWA SAKUGA SPOTTED. That one minute where Gauche didn't even mention his sister was oddly nice. But I'll admit, I chuckled some at his whisper-speak at the end. AND THEN THEY WON. Finral thought right. I feel like a blush should've gone there. Come to think of it, she kinda does look like Noelle with a wig and eyebrow dye. Not the most attractive faces... I assume that cat is his, or at least Domina's. (Man, it's weird hearing that name used as a name outside of one of my original anime concepts.) And now you know the rest of the story. So her witch outfit wasn't just for show, then. CAW CAW MOTHERFUCKER. You think that's air you're breathing? Nope; Skrulls. HUNTER x HUNTER - All we can do now is pray to our respective deities of worship. Absorb their cells to obtain their powers; Orochimaru-style science 101. "This doesn't make any sense." Nen in general makes very little practical sense. He forced the enemy to deactivate it himself. Damn, it was in the hundreds of thousands. It's something we call "warrior's pride". I'm honestly a little surprised he forgave him for his sparing shirtless Knuckle. Whatever, Pouf does what he wants! Hey be glad that Angel's glad you get to live another week our time. How oddly nice of you, Meruem. Pouf, you conniving bastard. Palm really does look her best as a Chimera Ant hybrid. Turns out actually finding Komugi was the last thing he expected to do. And then Killua was a bug zapper. I don't think any of us remotely like Pouf as a person, but goddamn Kirbopher's putting his all into the role. Komugi is starting to have an idea of what's going on. "Bastard" and "baloney" feel like they shouldn't be in the same sentence, yet here we are. You missed your mark, and yet she's out cold anyways. ZAPPY DAN THE MAGNET MAN TIME. Killua, you madman. OVER ONE THOUSAND DROOLING SPECTATORS. Well that plan certainly backfired. Oh crap, he forgot about the game board. In other news, Gon is still fukken pissed. NARUTO SHIPPUDEN - Shino is the most forgettable of the Konoha 12, and he'll never stop giving you grief over it.

Tumblr's been dying a slow death since they outlawed all 18+ content, I don't fault Toonami for dropping off the platform.

So you're telling me it's impossible for me to be indifferent to the Vic incident and not be a jerk at the same time. I expected better of you, Blatch.

Yeaaaaaaaaah I highly doubt I'll be calling you anything again for the next couple of months days.

You made your JYB post when Johnny Black appeared, not when Kyoji was mentioned in passing one act earlier.

That's Alejandro Saab, you basic bitch. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=20665

Breasts are life, ass is hometown.

Shingo Yamashita made that whole commercial worth my while, as cringey as it may have been before my knowledge of his involvement.

Simply put, all his years of being a dick to con staff and getting touchy-feely with underage fangirls has finally caught up to him.

As a Midnight fanboy, this episode pleases me.

If you're going to go as far back as Adult Swim Action, why don't we throw in Pilot Candidate and Trinity Blood?

Senran Kagura: Shinovi Master 4 W'Z 6

DT Eightron 1-2 (rewatch)

Our national nightmare finally resumes.

Over the past three years, Toonami's had its share of what some would call, "crap shows". Tokyo Ghoul. Black Clover. Boruto. Sand Whale and Me. FLCL Progressive. Hell, even Dimension W qualifies for many of you. But none of them have anything on the Better Cartoon Show's biggest critical cold turkey in the Adult Swim era. (The one that isn't Tenchi GXP.) A show so crap, so ripe for riffing, that dropping it isn't an option, if only because you want to see what happens next. Take a good long look at this face. 'Cause you're gonna be seeing it in your nightmares for the next year. AGAIN. Sword Art Online: Alicization. Premiering tonight (Sunday morning) at 12:30. In brighter news, the 80-man Tournament of Power kicks off at long last with no further delays, Sarada's first episode of sole focus is dedicated to a silly "forgotten gift" situation, the remaining students besides Deku and Bakugo take their practical exams (one of which has sexy results~), Joe gets a week off to process his surprise loss by technicality, Shigechi runs afoul of Kira's STAND Killer Deadly Queen, we learn why Noelle is so familiar with who Fanzell is, Pouf races against the clock to track down Komugi before Meruem arrives at the palace, and Shino shares the story of how he went from a loner to a team player. 11:00 - Dragonball Super #97 - Survive! The Tournament of Power Begins at Last! - TV-PGLV 11:30 - Boruto: Naruto Next Generations #17 - Run, Sarada! - TV-PG 12:00 - My Hero Academia #36 - Stripping the Varnish - TV-14DLSV 12:30 - Sword Art Online: Alicization #1 - Underworld - TV-14V 1:30 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable #22 - Yoshikage Kira Just Wants to Live Quietly, Part 2 - TV-MAV 2:00 - Black Clover #56 - The Man Named Fanzell, Continued - TV-PG 2:30 - Hunter x Hunter #129 - Formidable Enemy and Clear Objective - TV-14LV 3:00 - Naruto Shippuden #236 - Friends You Can Count On - TV-PG 3:30 - Attack on Titan #47 - Friends - TV-MA 4:00 - Pop Team Epic #12 - THE AGE OF POP TEAM EPIC - TV-MA 4:30 - Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans #33 - Sovereign of Mars - TV-14

And now for my official, serious thoughts on the matter.

To be fair, Megalobox does feel outside of their comfort zone, considering how badly sports anime has done on the block (i.e. IGPX regrettably, Prince of Tennis though I blame executive meddling for that one).

Then down came the Good Fairy, and she said... "I'LL FUCK YOU WITH A RAKE!"

Examples?

My statement said all it needed to say with just that.

Covering all audience bases, maybe?

It was a time before #MeToo.

FLCL Classic - awesome FLCL Alternative - pretty good FLCL Progressive - ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Dammit, Al beat me to the Descendants of Darkness namedrop! Also, I'm sure he'd steer clear of it after five minutes of Muraki. [maybe ten]