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I'll probably go back and do up some of them, but not all at once. But as long as Nakasugi's name is spelled correctly, I'm fine with whatever changes you made, datedness removed or not. Akashic Records of Bastard Magical Instructor #11 Face-off! The Magic Corps Battle

Tonight on Toonami, it turns out destroying the Androids and Cell wasn't enough to keep Trunks' future from being completely fucked over, Buu throws a tantrum after Piccolo traps them and Gotenks inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber for all eternity, Asta gets acquainted with the eccentric bunch that make up the Black Bulls Magic Knights Squadron, Polnareff leaves the group again but for not as impulsive a reason as last time, Tekkadan keeps struggling in their efforts to stop the Mobile Armor from obliterating Chryse while McGillis has a fateful encounter with Vidar, the Chimera Ants manage to find the NGL government's secret hideout as they continue to wreak havoc all over the place, Lupin delves deep into Rebecca's subconscious to free her from Da Vinci's control in the season finale of Lupin the 3rd, this time we've got a story from Naruto's two-and-a-half years of training with Jiraiya, Fred hires Gene to participate in a fighting tournament - in drag, no less - to stop him from being married to the strongest woman there, Jet finds himself facing old demons from his past when his former partner from the ISSP tasks him with retaking control of a prison ship from a group of inmates, and Togusa's Lawful Good alignment proves to be his potential downfall when an off-duty altercation results in his being taken to court. 10:30 - Dragonball Super #47 - SOS from the Future! A Dark New Enemy Appears!! - TV-PGLV 11:00 - Dragonball Z Kai #146 - Gotenks' Ace in the Hole! Transformation! Super Gotenks 3! - TV-PGLV 11:30 - Black Clover #6 - The Black Bulls - TV-PGDL 12:00 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders #21 - Judgement, Part 1 - TV-MAV 12:30 - Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans #37 - Battle for Chryse - TV-14 1:00 - Hunter x Hunter #80 - Evil and Terrible - TV-14V 1:30 - Lupin the 3rd: The Italian Adventure #26 - World Dissection, Part 2 - TV-14L - END 2:00 - Naruto Shippuden #187 - Gutsy Master and Student: The Training - TV-PG 2:30 - Outlaw Star #18 - The Strongest Woman in the Universe - TV-PGL 3:00 - Cowboy Bebop #16 - Black Dog Serenade - TV-MAV 3:30 - Ghost in the Shell: STAND ALONE COMPLEX 2nd Gig #10 - TRIAL - TV-14LV

Agreed, if someone could just watch all 3 minutes hours and put down all the important bits, that'd be great.

Yeah, I'm not normally one for implanting themes and lessons in what I write. It's more, "I wanna write about thing", so I write about thing. But if there's room for a theme in something I have in development for... well, longer than the time it took for me to write this specific story for the contest, I'm more than willing to include it, just in a subtle kind of way. Take for example the anime-style story idea I'm currently writing. I haven't posted any of the four completed episodes (read: chapters) here, but from my perspective, in those first four, one might recognize a whole "rebelling against the expectations of your peers/superiors" theme in the actions of the two main characters, and later I'm planning on featuring a "you don't necessarily have to give up if the odds are stacked against you" theme at around the seventh episode twist where things reach a low point for them. There's nothing too concrete or broad or general or whatever one would normally expect out of a story in regards to themes, but hopefully when I post the first batch of twelve here you'll all find it more serviceable than my freestyle, entirely for fun, "I'm not expecting to wow the pants off of anybody, I just want to submit something to this little contest and see how it turns out" story that managed to get second place in spite of its fully recognized flaws. As for the length issues, I'm more comfortable writing stories with larger word counts, probably because I like writing things in such a way that allows the reader to visualize what's going on, like they're watching a TV show or reading a manga or whatnot. Something like 5,000 or 10,000 words would be more my jam than a 2,500 word story that I'd feel most comfortable writing without tell-showing like I'm wont to do.

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Initial D: Battle Stage

I was told it was a freestyle competition, and I did freestyle. If I wrote an actual, legitimate short story, it would've definitely been over 2500 words. Still, the criticisms are sensible, and I'm glad that I got second place regardless of them. So thanks, hopefully I'll turn out something better for the second competition (assuming there is one), especially if there's a larger word limit.

It apparently eclipsed it so hard that it isn't even on MyAnimeList.

Chinese anime is infamous for being worse than its Japanese counterpart, though they're getting a little better at it.

March Comes in Like a Lion 35

Not to be a jerk or nothin' like I was earlier about the Harry Potter/spoiler-marking thing, but can someone please remind Spindack that posting links to the full episode of what you just watch is kind of obnoxious? Your Lie in April 22

This has gone from being an amusing anecdote to annoyingly samey to just being mean-spirited towards JoJo.

Kuroko's Basketball 13

I know, and it's something I'm constantly having to remind myself.

Easily the biggest tragedy since "Oops, I lost the old ASMB archive!"

Inuyashiki Last Hero 2

It's hard to say. Self-deprecation or no, I don't really do well with others voicing firmly negative opinions of stuff I like, even if I completely understand those opinions.

Ah, mumble grumble, I still liked it...

Rewatched Inuyashiki Last Hero 1

To punish the people who think Dimension W was one of Toonami's worst shows.

Evil or Live

And then Blatch was Elfie.

HUNTER x HUNTER - It's not On Demand yet, so I guess I'll put up with the interrupted version for now. The time for each part is a 3-27 split, so it shouldn't be too awkward, like whenever Tokyo Ghoul cut out at the end of its recording during the Five Fabulous Weeks of Sand Whale and Me. Huh, so that's where Yorknew is. [THE RECORDING CUT OUT HERE SO I FILLED THE OBVIOUS GAP WITH A CLIP FROM THE USUAL PLACE.] I still want to know why those two guys were designed so ugly. She's in love with him, isn't she? Sector MA18 sounds relevant to my interests. This penguin has to be voiced by Michael McConnohie, no question. I know I'm trying to keep myself faithful to Shizuku as far as HxH gals go, but goddamn if Zazan isn't tempting me. That Colt guy needs to get laid. I like the chameleon guy. Don't you go tempting me either, Butterfly Girl, with your surgical mask and your ojou-sama laugh... You're lucky you don't know what's going on in there, truck driver. Wow, they weren't kidding when they said they were strict on technology. Good, Stick Dinner's part of the group going in, I hope he dies first. At least Spin and Banana are safe. The TSA's got nothing on the NGL. Ha ha! Rectum. I bet that desert area past the border patrol is their demilitarized zone. Killua's standing on that horse. One of the spies is a cute girl, that's somewhat reconcerting. Oh hey it's the koala from that lineup promo last year. I'm not sure if I should be disturbed or confused that water's coming out of every orifice instead of blood. Human meatballs? Now that's disturbing. ANT GENOS: LOLI PROTECTOR. This guy looks like he was clawed to death by some kind of bear. Even animals want the DxD. NEN ARROW. Funny thing is, this koala's infinitely less punchable than that one from One Piece; oh boy did I want him to eat his own shit. Use your bees! I said not to tempt me, masked butterfly girl. Is that Kim Jong-Un in that chair? That's not a sniff, that's a huff. LUPIN THE 3RD: THE ITALIAN ADVENTURE - Like I said, his name is Leonardo da Vinci and he can do whatever the fuck he wants, the bullies on his home planet be damned to all eternity in the NGL's political prisons. "What was he thinking? Revealing himself to everybody like that." I know, it's almost like it's a season finale or something! I don't think MI6 is gonna try to capture him, not after he killed their leader by jamming his gun. As for every other main character still alive, they're sure to get involved too. "Does he play for ZZ Top?" I'd tell this girl to brush up on her history, but apparently she knows who ZZ Top is in the current year, so I don't know what to tell her anymore. SAY HELLO TO THE BROWN NOISE. Oh shit Nyx has that echolocation deal, he must be going through hell right now. Did they have to give the Japanese reporter such an obvious Engrish accent? It's Lupin, of course they had to. "Nobody's moving..." All these relevant methods of battle... Lemme guess, Lupin's is seeing if he can steal Da Vinci? It feels like forever since I've seen angry Nyx. I'm still not used to Lupin being this much of a genius, fitting as it may be for the greatest master thief since Mouse. "You get a line! You get a line! Everyone in this store gets a line!" Careful, Jigen, if you die in the dream you die in real life! "Congratulations, Lupin, you are the first to arrive." Okay, so Nyx has the hide-and-seek challenge. Well then things are finally turning out good for everyone else. Zenigata just slammed him to the ground. "I could arrest you in my sleep." That you did, Zeni. That you did. What even was that line of dialogue, Fujiko. So he's looking for the meaning of life, then. Rebecca just lost the game... and so did you. "...there's nothing you can do to steal back her personality." Challenge accepted. And we're all the way back to the first episode. Never mind, instead they're in a black hole. REPLY TO ANGEL THIS WEEK: "I never realized Leonardo Da Vinci was such a bag of dicks." If you think he's bad, you should see his home planet! [sigh] Worst episode of Futurama ever. NARUTO SHIPPUDEN - Reminder that Tsunade's still in a fucking coma. Sakura/Lee is a better pairing than SasuSaku, or even NaruSaku. So this was before the 58% decision, right? Okay maybe it was after, since Sasuke's still in the hospital. I'm surprised Naruto isn't joining in on the yelling, there may be hope for this episode yet! I like Lee's blush marks. NAISU KYACCHI. And then he drank it, like a curious idiot. Ah yes, the rare Ragyo flower. And it's relevant too! This plot is reminding me a lot of this Yona of the Dawn episode I watched a while back. And then conflicted feelings. You sure lucked out there, Naruto. The visual direction this episode is actually pretty good. Huh, wasn't expecting that heartfelt pep talk. At least Naruto knows to keep the nitty-gritty details of his bowel movements to himself, unlike Asta... An optimistic Lee is a best Lee. Yep, totally think Sakura/Lee is a better pairing. This is a more dramatic filler than I was expecting. Possible counterbalance for last episode's "so 'so bad it's horrible' it's good" adventure, maybe? "Alright, time for lucid dreaming!" Steep cliffs with narrow paths running along the side? This is more like Yona than I thought it was. Why hello there, creepy old tea lady. I like the swinging lamp POV. "There's no such thing as ghosts," says the boy who'd chat with the spirit of his father only two and a half years later. Friday the 18th? This is one comfy-creepy looking forest. [Blumenkranz intensifies] That doesn't look promising. FILLER ENEMY OF THE WEEK: Gaara of the Desert's evil twin, Daara of the Gesert. The animation's also better than I expected. I love that sound effect. "You're dealing with an entirely different me today!" I'll say, you rarely if ever use paper bombs. I'm enjoying this more than I should, but that's probably the sakugafag in me talking. And an obligatory filler Rasengan for the finish! Oh boy, another random older lady. I'll also give this filler points for not having the filler enemy be a clone of Sasuke. In the end, Ino was the one to receive the glares of doom. "I will not stay hurt an attosecond more than I must!" ONE TRILLION PUSHUPS. This filler was better than it had any right to be. OUTLAW STAR - Henry McDoogal? That's not how you spell his name! I love these little cold opening world-building sessions. Holy crap, it's the Space Pope. That quote doesn't really sound helpful. BULLSEYE. It's only natural that the two biggest scoundrels in this show would be voiced by Goda and McGillis. Oh hey I remember those two. Spicy omelets sound like a good time to me. I don't trust this "mystery" caller. Finally, some info on the Leyline. As shady as the meeting may be, I sure do like the look of that restaurant. 2000 won says that Aisha's working part-time there. I'm also not used to Gene being this smart. This is a big reveal in the show, and yet they spoiled it in the original promos for it. Speaking of old Toonami, remember when Gene said "bastard" and they forgot to censor it? Aw shit, everybody in the restaurant is packing! I was right about Aisha being there, at least. What was that about the king of the Kei Pirates? Meanwhile, Harry's off securing his waifu. Sometimes going to McDonalds is all you need to do to avoid going postal. And like a sane person she locked the door on him. No words, only action now. Dammit Jim now's not the time for bitching about expenses. It's official, this dude's no mere fanboy. Ron MacDougall has a weapon for every sort of pinch. You gotta love their hovercars. Wait a second, I thought Harry was just a standard run-of-the-mill cyborg! "Nothing good can ever come from staying with normal people." That line always chokes me up. Screw you, Harry. At least Gilliam's still fun. This virtual world is awfully Escher-like. STRANGER DANGER STRANGER DANGER. Welp, he's officially lost his mind. I dunno what the ANN Edit List guy is talking about, that "brown liquid" looks an awful lot like blood to me. Oh shit it's the old guy from episode 12. I don't think he's on the bad guys' side, but I have my doubts... Is that the egg from Angel's Egg? COWBOY BEBOP - I don't know why Faye called Witney "the guy with the thin eyebrows", when they actually look pretty thick. Based on the math, that means the Gate accident happened in 2014. Welp, that's 1998 anime for ya. As great as Spike's "your story needs editing" line was, I'd say the story itself was properly paced. These GEICO ads are getting worse all the time. Why is it only now that I figured out that the "fat implant" was used to keep Whitney off the insurance agency's radar? I guess Foley was right about IGPX ripping this episode off, but I still think Meta's kinda dumb for not even considering that "Andrei Rublev" might not be his real name. "I've heard that voice before somewhere... is that the XGP?" I still think Whitney's crying for his uncle who doesn't exist, though Bacchus being his actual uncle would explain some things... GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX 2ND GIG - Hmm, so this was the first episode to include those custom English language producer credits. TUCKY STRIKE. This show is way too relevant in the present year, and that's part of why I'm falling in love with it all over again. When all else fails, blame the refugees. Aramaki's new office looks awfully bright. I think I saw a yellow one of those security monitor bots in Ghost Hound. It's amazing how everything in this season is more or less connected to one another. Part of the reason I comment less on this show than I do all the others is because I'm actually trying to understand all that's being said, and so far it's working to much success. Batou firing on the suicide bomber at the end comes off as much less of an overreaction now.

All I'm expecting out of it is some answers as to what was going to replace Lupin before Dandy stepped up to the plate. Even a hint that doesn't explain anything would suffice.