Top Gun

Well this is shitty. I mean I held no illusions that the run would continue indefinitely, but I figured we'd at least get through Marineford. Not getting to see Sabaody and Impel Down is a bitter pill. (No Keimi? Or The Punch? Or goddamn Hancock? ) I know its ratings weren't exactly setting the world on fire, but you wouldn't think they'd really need to for something airing at the tail end of the block. I guess it got too cost-prohibitive for DeMarco to keep grabbing new seasons. Four years is better than nothing, and yeah I have probably like 100 episodes ahead on DVD, but it's far more satisfying to get the dub in HD with all of the usual block trappings. The worst part, if you'll excuse the prejudgement, is that what we're getting instead just screams Hot Topic edgelord bullshit. Didn't we already suffer through enough of that with how fuckawful Akame was?

Those cheek zig-zags look profoundly stupid.

Man, you leave the fence door open and there's no telling who will wander in...

It's been at " peak" popularity pretty consistently for several years now. The anime itself is consistently in the top 5 most-viewed weekly anime series, behind only such perennial family juggernauts as Sazae-san and Chibi Maruko-chan. Obviously the manga volumes sell gangbusters, and the merchandise prints money. It's been at least 15 years since The Simpsons was that relevant financially. I'm so glad reading comprehension is your strong suit Zeni.

Yeah, at this point it's a given that nothing's going to change. Either you've grown frustrated enough that you've given up on the week-to-week anime and just watch select scenes, or you've learned to accept it for what it is and glean your personal level of enjoyment from it. And hell, sometimes the Toei padding actually manages to be enjoyable. (See: everything Carrot.)

I dunno, maybe the fact that you've been shitting up threads for more than half a decade with your bizarre obsessive hateboner schtick? Or that you play up this ridiculous dudebro persona while simultaneously obsessing over shows to the point where you're a bigger weeb than just about anyone here? I could go on if you like. No, sane people judge a work on its own merits and can easily ignore a lone nutter babbling incoherently. Non-sane people get sucked into the insanity. Seriously, do you know what normal people do when we don't like something? We just don't watch it. Or even if we do watch it for the lulz, we don't take massive shits in places where people who do like it are talking, because that'd just be acting like an asshole. You talk about particular shows like they touched you in your no-no place when you were 8 years old. Get some goddamn help already.

Seriously, go get a room and fuck already.

Dude, get fucking laid or something. How pathetic do you have to be to bitch about Japanese cartoons airing at 2:30 in the goddamn morning?

Togashi, as in the creator of Hunter x Hunter. I only saw its 1999 anime adaptation after sitting through Naruto's opening arc, and all I could do was be amazed at just how much Kishimoto had ripped off the Hunter Exam (down to very minor details!) for the Chunin Exam, only he managed to lose most of what made the former enjoyable in the process.

Admittedly I still haven't made it around to San Andreas, and it probably has more content, but I never felt bored playing Vice City. I've never seen another game utterly nail a given atmosphere from top to bottom in every aspect of its being. It just oozes cheesy 80s nostalgia from every pore, and the soundtrack is far and away the best licensed-music collection any game has ever seen.

They are tiny, but at least there's still tactile feedback and a clear differentiation between keys. Every time I have to type on a normal smartphone my sausage thumbs turn it into a living hell.

Because you knew you'd be pepper-sprayed and/or arrested?

TIL that we only get TCM in standard-def because Verizon is dicks.

Vice City 4 lyfe.

Hasn't Alabama inbred itself out of existence yet?

Just 10 FilmAF pages' worth of disks, that's all.

Eh, I definitely enjoyed Battle Tendency more than Stardust Crusaders, though Diamond is Unbreakable may have managed to leapfrog it.

I figure it's tomato to-mah-to at this point.

I can and will, because Togashi did it far better first.

I will take Toei's horrible OP pacing a thousand times over Naruto screwing off canon material for two goddamn years straight. And yeah I know that was the original series, but still, just think about that. Two. Years. And then like 30 episodes into Shippuuden, they somehow need to launch straight back into more filler. It's pathetic. As glacial as OP can be these days, at least you're always getting a steady trickle of new content, albeit sometimes one agonizing droplet at a time. The only real thing Naruto's adaptation has in its favor is that Toei usually looks like they're making OP on a shoestring budget, and even its best moments are just 15-second flashes of good animation. Both the original Naruto and Shippuuden have a few select episodes with almost movie-budget animation that are a fantastic watch.

Honestly I like that it's much closer tonally to the start of the original Dragon Ball than DBZ ever was. Toriyama was far better at writing lighthearted comedy than super-srs-bzns apocalyptic stakes. Toonami has been my first time going through both DBZ and Super, and I just could not get over how staggeringly dumb the former was.

It's gonna be hilarious when you wind up on an episode of Dateline NBC and we can all say, "Wow, we knew him when!"

Have you lost control of your life?

booooooooooooo

Watching Perseus deal with dumbfucks was one of the few pleasures of the old boards.