Top Gun

Aww, I'll go shake hands with some cop and go back in time to stop myself from posting.

You really spend a lot of energy telling people why they should think exactly one way about a show.

Oh right, something else for whatever it's worth: from the credits and what I can gather online, this series doesn't seem to be a direct Williams Street co-production like previous block originals. Viz Media are producing the series themselves, with Joseph Chou and Sola Entertainment listed as assistant producers. DeMarco's name doesn't show up in the credits at all. (Confusingly his ANN page lists him as an executive producer, but the page for Rooster Fighter doesn't have him, so who knows.)

Real talk though, this is pretty much exactly what I hoped for from this show. A batshit insane premise that's played (almost) completely straight, random chicken noises, and Seitz being a gruff badass. 10/10, no notes.

...why? The episode was fine, and it was funny picking out the edits.

"Dogs and cats, living together! Mass hysteria!"

Oda: "Yo dawg I heard you liked giant shock reveals"

Again, this series' writer has no idea how the hell sports work.

Every time I rewatch season 1 I manage to forget how the hell the Laughing Man incident all connects together and have to figure it out all over again.

I went back and rewatched last week's episode earlier, and okay yeah how the hell did I miss all of the random giant lens flares and weird shot transitions.

Our boy's starting to look...fleshy.

Poor bastard got clucked.

Oh this is fucking peak. (Also peak fucking!)

Super hyped to start things off with the Cock and Balls Hour.

Zou is one of my favorite arcs in the entire series because of how much Oda plays around with his own narrative conventions that he's established for so long. Half the crew only arrives on Zou after the main arc villain has shown up, destroyed the place, and left of his own free will (and possibly even died?), and the other half doesn't even get there until the conflict has been resolved and all that's left is the after-party. We only learn about what happened at the same time as Luffy's group does. And in any other arc what happened with Sanji would be far and away the most shocking thing, but then we get hit with this bombshell which completely flips what we knew about its events upside-down. It's probably not a shock to first-time viewers to hear that the surprises are far from over.