Top Gun

I know everyone has joked about this forever, but every single line between the two of them in this episode was literal romantic dialogue. I honestly think that the entire series would have been much better if that was canon. Naruto's been pining after Sasuke like a jilted lover this whole time, so why not formalize it? Anyway, as a friend said, that might have been a legitimately good episode if it was in any way earned. But it wasn't, so we're left with Naruto pouring his heart out to someone who's been an insufferable git since day one.

A friend mentioned this and I did a massive double-take until I remembered that [as] has taken over half the network at this point. Threw it on the DVR since I somehow missed out on it despite loving the novel.

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Even pre-Covid I was usually only good for one or two per year, but I've only seen one post-Covid that I can remember, which was Me: Maverick (and that kicked ass).

They've definitely mentioned her too.

I think they were trying to go for solemn pathos or something while Naruto and Sasuke were staggering around and slapping at each other, but I was sitting there laughing at it instead. It went on for so long that it was unintentionally hilarious.

Interesting that pretty much the entire cast carried over to the actual series.

Because Sketch is a reasonable person and not going into histrionics over it.

My dude, it's a basic cable block showing anime in the year 2024. There are bigger things to get upset over. Anyways, it's kind of nice to have a half-hour I don't need to care about every week. Suffering through DBZ once was enough for me. If I want to watch an actually good version of it, I'll throw on Abridged.

Yeah I ain't fucking reading that.

Anything Tolkien

Thanks for the write-up. That's about what I was expecting from it. But hey, I'm down for some well-animated mindless violence every once in a while.

Someone said to me that this episode contained one of the dumbest lines in manga history, and my God they were not wrong.

Netflix isn't the exclusive streamer for the new episodes or anything. They're streaming on Crunchyroll as they always have, so Netflix presumably wouldn't have any say over whether Toei chooses to sell them elsewhere too.

This thing first premiered on the block in 2014? ...my God we're old.

Why? He's a good writer who usually makes solid points.

ANN's reviewer was...not a fan.

That is an intensely stupid article. No animated movie, no matter how good, is going to pull in numbers like that. And they don't need to, given how much cheaper they are to make.

Totally read that one episode title as "Fucker of Doom."

Expected, but good to have confirmation. At least it's not a several-month wait this time.

That sounds more like a compliment to me.

Outer Wilds is an absolute masterpiece and you should actually play it now. I'm terrible at playing games I buy too but I'm so glad I started it on a whim.

Yeah, the series is usually pretty good at getting the basic science right, even when it's dressed up in its fun anthropomorphic style. The cancer cell encounters were meant to make the point that cancer originates from the body's own cells instead of being a foreign invader. Granted they probably went a bit too far with the "I'm a cell like you" angle, since no one who's had a personal encounter with cancer would ever have a single iota of sympathy for it, but the underlying point was valid. Something I'd never thought about until the show pointed it out was that all of our bodies occasionally produce new cells with mutated DNA, but our immune systems generally manage to remove them before they cause a problem. It's only when the process breaks down and these cells manage to gain a foothold somewhere that they become cancerous. As a fun aside, in addition to Code Black which got its own anime adaptation, there are at least a half-dozen other spinoff manga of the main series. The one set in a baby is a thinly-veiled excuse to draw chibi versions of all the characters, but the recent one set in a woman's body seemed like it had some fun potential.