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I always knew you weren't.

I'd have saved "And this is bad. Very bad." for the actual post. That said, as someone who's never seen Reboot and has no immediate desire to watch it, I don't care about the revival but feel sorry for those who have to deal with its existence. Just like the new Hakyu Hoshin Engi anime.

...Crap, I didn't even notice that typo. But I agree, Black Dog Serenade is a great stand-alone too.

Nope, High Priestess is the STAND name; Rose was the user's name outside of Japan.

I blame Super Buu for being so damn unkillable.

Whether he stops or not, at least he proved he wasn't lying.

Polnareff acted like she was hideous because of all the broken teeth, and her name's just Midler. Now if you want real trivia, try the fact that her character design was more or less lifted from Part 4's Yukako Yamagishi.

And then he was UEMB's first official permaban.

NARUTO SHIPPUDEN - Because you can't have a bottom-up reconstruction effort without a live musical performance. Screw you, Sasuke, who in their right mind would hate ramen? Oh good, they got a decent replacement voice for Ibiki. Definitely a better means of mind-rape than literally poking around the brain with a pair of antennae. I'm still waiting for a "Village Hidden in the Weeds" to show up in one of these filler episodes. That must be the "mind's eye" I've heard so much about. NOBODY EXPECTS KAKASHI IN THEIR FLASHBACKS! Eric Andre: European Gigolo. Ramen spittakes are a thing now, I guess. I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING INO. Who the hell designed these background filler characters because they don't look so good. And as per usual, Sasuke wants nothing to do with this shit. "Hey, don't I get a cloud?" She's seen clouds from both sides now. Well, I guess that explains the lack of memory, then. She'd recognize that mask anywhere. NOT-SO-DYNAMIC ENTRY! Welp, that's a new facet of mask fetishism for me to like now. What exactly did Kakashi see that's making him so adamant against returning her? There's your token Hyuuga for the week. It's like it's a Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies or something. And now the animation budget is used. That's stupid, old guy, keys can open the locks they close all the time. And that explains the sudden burst of action. These sentimental fillers always get to me somehow. Man, fuck Mr. Pickles' ugly art style. OUTLAW STAR - Methinks this is yet another exaggerated criticism of Japan's "guilty until proven innocent" judicial process. That version of Earth looks too ovoid for me. I want to murder that prison-bot until there's nothing of it's CPU left. Or maybe I should murder the guy in the tank, he deserves it more than the poor robot he's using to punch these people with. THANK FUCKING GOD. "What's an abacus anyway?" Ancient Chinese calculator, much crazier than it looks at face value. Anime sure loves using names relevant to my personal life in their products. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. Welcome to King Kai levels of gravity, boys. As I thought, "goddamn" is PGL-level cursing now. Ah, so he's the coordinates guy, just as I thought. This guy also accepted the challenge, but he chose his escape method... poorly. It really shows the sorry state of today's youth when teenagers eat soap and ink while under the impression that they taste like Fruit Gushers. Beaten to death by those asshole robots is a terrible way to go. Never attempt to eat at three times the normal gravity, kids. Oh boy, it's gang rape time. And apparently "asshole" is PGL-level too, not that I agree with that or anything. Oh good, he survived his beating. Man, the animation for this fight is just laughable, but I love the guy who keeps jumping in 3G like he's on a pogo stick. FUCK YOU, ROBOT. Two. Two assholes and it's still PGL. I could rate this episode better than Turner S&P and their inconsistent asses! Oh well, at least the episode is pretty exciting regardless. FLY AWAY NOW FLY AWAY NOW FLY AWAYYYYYYYY. Fuck you, warden, you suck. Those are some weird passcodes that old guy cam up with. Ah, the acquaintances you make in prison. But at least now they're super-close to reaching their goal. SPACE DANDY - To think this mess of an alternate universe could have been avoided if Meow hadn't stuck his hand in that cage. (And assuming Scarlet still shoves all the rejected aliens out the airlock.) COWBOY BEBOP - The desaturated visual direction. The cinematic camera angles. Tongpu's greeting. Spike randomly playing billiards. The entirety of that first fight scene.Mummy Spike. "Faye-Faye". Everyone calling Spike a lunkhead. The battle at Space Land across several rides. Spike shooting the animatronic Goofy knockoff just because he can. The whole Tongpu backstory, complete with that boss-ass D&B track. Really, the whole Bruce Timm Batman feel that foreshadowed the general atmosphere of The Big O only three seasons later. ("It's showtime!") Faye randomly showing up just to job. Spike keeping the dagger. That goddamn ending. Pure. Perfection. Battle Ballad of Fallen Angels may be your guys' favorite Bebop episode, but if only because of its insanely good technical merits, Pierrot le Fou takes the top spot for me. GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX 2ND GIG - This episode is also a favorite, even before I willingly increased my attention span. That face-off between the Major and Saito, too, was perfect.

Forget season 2 of Danmachi, what I wanna see is the Tonegawa spin-off.

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Toei in the digital era was a mistake.

Ignoring this show's bizarre tendencies allowing it to throw logic to the wind, I'd guess that the coffee in the gum is decaf. DRAGONBALL SUPER - Again, why the hell does Trunks' future have to be so damn depressing? It's like it tries to give the deaths in this show some degree of weight, but really it just makes you feel like shit. I felt that I way when I watched History of Trunks when I was in elementary school, and I feel that way when watching the Goku Black Saga now. DRAGONBALL Z KAI - Somehow animals are always the first to know. Welcome to the wonderful world of DBZ, Mr. Satan. I and Toei may have said he absorbed Gotenks, but we never said anything about absorbing Piccolo. Speak fancy all you want, you're still no Mister Perfect Cell. It's been forever since we got a music video speech, and once again, Toonami nailed it. Only here would you see the OS narrator and Sister Lily pull double-duty on the speechgiving. If you're looking for someone strong to fight, there's always Goku. Well, at least Gohan vs. Buu is still pretty hype. Mr. Satan is too good for this dying world. I recognize those stances! Technically it's called the Makankosappo, if that's what you want to call it. Now that's freaky. And then he made like History of Trunks Gohan and lost his arm. BLACK CLOVER - I'm hoping Noelle starts using that superior defensive spell more often, but I'm weighing my options. HOT DAMN ASTA. "Now it's my turn to take a stab at you!" He worded it that way on purpose, didn't they? Time is clearly of the essence for this guy. Never underestimate the resolve of a complete idiot. That's the most badass fanny pack I've ever seen. Because if there's one thing about the Wizard King that isn't trying to fuck nuns, it's doing things for the greater good. I'm gonna confess, I squealed in joy at that tandem attack. Truly Noelle is the epitome of the tsundere archetype. DISLOCATED SHOULDER NO JUTSU. Mmm... Toasted cheese balls. The first big villain is always an underling, it seems. The guy's been spanked and anally violated with gauntlets more times than he can count, no shit he's good at flame bondage. I don't believe it, Asta screamed so loud he finally passed out from exhaustion. I wonder what that bird's deal is. Oh god he's one of those guys. Asta disapproves of suicide more than anything, that's one more reason I like him more than you do. I'll admit, it is a nice view. To think that doll was bought with only a portion of Magna's biannual wages. The Black Bulls may be reckless, but they make good motivational speakers. This bird would rather make Asta his nest, TYVM. Meanwhile, CBS Sunday Morning is up to no good. REPLY TO ANGEL: "I don't care enough to remember if we're supposed to recognize this voice but I'm sure it's not a powerful good guy who's really an absolute dickwad in disguise." The voice is Jerry Jewell, and he hasn't voiced anybody who's shown up previously, so for now I'm gonna assume he's a standard bad guy who happens to be a mole within the Golden Dawn. Why is Mr. Pickles still a thing? JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE: STARDUST CRUSADERS - That full-length TV size OP is great, but I'm disappointed at the lack of credits. Oh, Kakyoin. "Ze fool? More like, ZE EEDIOT!" Hmm, wasn't expecting Jotaro to actually ask them that. This episode is playing out more like the abridged version than I was anticipating. Polnareff truly is Captain Obvious. Coffee-flavored gum? Only the '80s. That picture will be important in... oh, part 5 or so. And so they finally mention ZA WARUDO. Am I the only one who thinks that logo on the Speedwagon Foundation guys' hat looks like a pizza? NOW I MAY BE BLIND... For a second, I thought he braked hard because calling Iggy annoying was a bad thing. I don't know what's more disturbing, the fact that his fingernails are all opened up or that he apparently drowned on land. That's a cute fish. I don't believe it, Jotaro is actually disturbed by something. You fool, DIO has no concern for civilian life! Oh yeah, I forgot all about the guy's head being sucked into the canteen. Welp, there goes Kakyoin's eyesight. This color scheme looks awfully familiar, and memetic at that. Dude, don't refer to yourself in the third person, that only works when you're a cute anime girl. Well at least his eye wounds have started scarring. Somehow animals always the first to know. SHIT COUNT: 2. What's the point in hanging on for your lives if you're just gonna jump off anyways? It ain't Holy Diver, but a Last Train Home is fine too. MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM: IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS - It's no surprise that Gundam has its fair share of deaths, but many of these deaths are pointless and stupid. I'd point to one from Gundam 00 being the most pointless and stupid, but for the sake of spoilers, I'll instead point towards Loni Garvey, whose actual mode of death wasn't the problem but the context behind it. Killing a bunch of civilians because the force ghost of your dead father possessed you to is more than a little questionable, and the characters treating it as a literal "blood curse" drove it into pants-on-head retarded territory. Because of that, Loni's death is my least favorite in all the Gundam series I've seen, topping even Lafter getting unceremoniously whacked at Build-a-Bear. We live in a timeline where Kelly Clarkson is thicc, Justin Guarini is advertising Dr. Pepper, and American Idol is getting revived on ABC instead of FOX. To think what things would be like if none of that were true. In lighter prospects, I'm perfectly okay with Hush having been demoted to the third wheel in the Mikazuki/Atra ship. HUNTER x HUNTER - Damn, that Hagya guy sure had a lot of subordinates. I wanna slap that little girl. It's a shame she's got a cute voice. I wasn't expecting Pokkle to still be alive. Smart move, lion fursona man. "Yeah, you better walk away!" Why the clip from the Six-Tails filler, then? Say hello to the obligatory catgirl. She's apparently important. It's what we call "destiny" around these parts. Wait, how does he know what the king's gonna look like? WHAT'S THIS AURA I'M SEEIN'? Welp, looks like he's fucked. MEOW I GET IT~. Wwwwwhy did she just take his antennae? Oh, so they're brain probes. Okayyyyyy this is getting kind of disturbing. That makes sense, he got punched by an Enhancer. In fact, unsealing your aura nodes feels a lot like anal sex, only all throughout your body. I'm curious, what happens to the water if you're an Emitter?

Pop Team Epic 7

Tonight's episode of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders is brought to you by the year 1993! Relive this magical year with such memorable moments as Bill Clinton becoming president, the Bombay Riots, the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, and the Asian Airlines Flight 733! And let's not forget the 1993 hit single starring Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang"! But of course, this week marks the beginning not of the 1993 OVAs chronicling the second half of the Stardust Crusaders saga - thanks, whoever thought it was a good idea to show DIO explicitly reading from the Quran - but the 2015 "Egypt Arc" adaptation of the TV series. Jotaro, Joseph, Avdol, Kakyoin and Polnareff have finally made it to Egypt after a long 30 days of travel. You'd think the trip would be easier, now that all of DIO's minions have been defeated, but never doubt the connections and charisma of a 100+ year-old vampire, because he's got nine more assassins lined up for our heroes to get through. Lucky for us, the titular Crusaders have a mysterious sixth member waiting in the wings. But who could it be? Elsewhere on Toonami, Bulma gets to work on fixing the back-up time machine for Trunks' mission, Super Buu absorbs Gotenks (because Toei doesn't care if we get spoiled), Asta and Magna start wearing themselves out against Not-Zabuza's persistent ice attacks, if you think things are gonna get better after Naze and Amida's deaths think again, the first member of the Chimera Ant Queen's Royal Guard awakens, Team 7 finds themselves under the impression that Kakashi's dating a spy from the Hidden Lock Village, Gene is forced to break an inmate with knowledge of the Galactic Leyline's coordinates out of space prison, friendly reminder that there is no cure for zombieism, Spike faces off against his most fucked-up opponent yet, and Saito regales Section 9's new recruits with the story of how he first met the Major. 10:30 - Dragonball Super #51 - Feelings That Transcend Time: Trunks and Mai - TV-PGLV 11:00 - Dragonball Z Kai #150 - Buu's Sinister Scheme: Gotenks is Absorbed - TV-PGLV 11:30 - Black Clover #10 - Guardians - TV-PGV 12:00 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders #25 - Iggy the Fool and Geb's N'doul, Part 1 - TV-MAV 12:30 - Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans #41 - Natural For a Human - TV-14LV 1:00 - Hunter x Hunter #84 - A Fated Awakening - TV-14V 1:30 - Naruto Shippuden #191 - Kakashi Love Song - TV-PG 2:00 - Outlaw Star #22 - Gravity Jailbreak - TV-PGL 2:30 - Space Dandy #4 - Sometimes You Can't Live With Dying, Baby - TV-14DSV 3:00 - Cowboy Bebop #20 - Pierrot le Fou - TV-MAV 3:30 - Ghost in the Shell: STAND ALONE COMPLEX 2nd Gig #14 - POKER FACE - TV-MA [despair and raw meat]

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If William Zabka's not the karate kid this time, then I ain't watching.

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Fair enough. This was just a one-time deal, and I only did it because Elfie has such a predilection for announcing when he's blocking somebody.

What relationship? After that petty and unoriginal jab over a mediocre anime adaptation that he could very well ignore like a sane person, I blocked his ass!

FREEZING Episode 02: Pandora Mode

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Aaaaaaaaand muted.