Top Gun

Okay, I don't know where that screencap in the tweet is from, but my Xfinity scheduled recordings are showing the correct "S1E8: The Oath of Pain" airing on the 19th.

Seriously. I don't even like the franchise all that much and that fight kicks ass.

Why would they skip the actually-good Zabuza arc to jump to the blatant Hunter Exam ripoff arc?

Hell yeah. I love my idiot fire children.

Works for me. Sailor Moon is the main reason I'm watching.

At this point the franchise is so obscenely overhyped and under-delivering that part of me is hoping we don't get the rest. I've read ahead on the ANN episode reviews and it sounds straight-up torturous.

Looks like it's an over-the-air option here but not on our cable lineup unfortunately.

I mean I went to Catholic grade/high school, so I think you're going to get a much smaller rate by default there, but even with the non-Catholic kids in my neighborhood, I can only think of one whose parents were divorced. It's why I've always been shocked by that 50% statistic, because I always think "Where were all of these people?"

I think a lot of it is a matter of perspective. Even growing up I knew very few people with divorced parents. Most of the people I worked with had been married for a long time. I have two brothers who are happily married, and another one who's about to get married next month. There are about 500 reasons why I'll never get married, but I dunno, I never saw anything wrong with it.

Not my bag per se, but to each their own.

Hell yeah. Honestly I think it's a lot more popular than many people might suspect. I've certainly seen more than my fair share of Lois...uh, content.

It's fine to say "these shows were targeted at kids," but pretty much every adult in Japan knows what One Piece is, and a ton of them read it every week. A lot of series "made for kids" wind up being big crossover hits. Personally I don't really give a damn what the target audience of a series is, so long as it's good.

It was straight-up surreal actually sitting down and watching Sailor Moon for the first time. Even after one episode I was having a ton of fun. Usagi is a complete idiot and I'm here for it.

Batman Ninja was way more fun than it had any right to be.

I know about half of those but Goatse was the all-time classic.

This sounds like fun. I may have to set my DVR for Sailor Moon (and maybe Naruto if I hate myself). I doubt any of this cost all that much. DBZ Kai is a currently-owned license, and in retrospect they obviously planned to run it here when they picked it up again. For the other two, [as] has been working with Viz for two decades, they're already running Shippuden, and they've run OG Naruto in the past. They probably approached Viz with something like, "hey, we're thinking about doing a nostalgia block, any old titles you could offer for cheap?"

I was a physics major, but the class I remember most vividly was the fluffy senior-year elective, History of Rock. The professor was this awesome old coot and the class kicked ass.

Yeah, I'm not sure that one will be covered by this.

Heh, and I just played the full $40 for the Samurai Jack game. Really good news for the devs though.

So uh, guys, I think I know what's coming down the pipe: https://twitter.com/ToonHive/status/1785716178343596163

One of their songs was in a THPS game, that's mostly what I know them for.

Hnnnnnng.

Still going on Saturday nights almost 20 years in.

We learned about Passover back in Catholic grade school and spent a few days watching The Ten Commandments. We even had a fake Seder re-enactment to show what it's like. I think the powers that be eventually put the kibosh on doing that because, oh hey, parroting the religious practices of another group is kind of a bad look. I still watch the ABC broadcast of the movie most years, though. Kicks ass.

What's funny is just how wrong Lazzo's view wound up being. Even back when he said it, long-form serialized anime like Naruto and Bleach were exploding in popularity worldwide. The block all but killed off its anime offerings at the same time the domestic anime bubble was at its peak. Fast-forward to today, and anime/manga are massive globally. On the live-action side of things, the entire "prestige era" of television hits is full of series that involved prolonged plot arcs and character development, including many comedy series. Lazzo may not have wanted his productions to get too lore-heavy, but time has borne out that he was in a small minority.