Top Gun

So, uh...who predicted that?

Hoping against hope they find a way to air Gunbuster so I can bawl like a baby at the ending again!

The fast turnaround on new Dr. Stone is great news. The Titan rerun is whatevs; it doesn't surprise me at all that they'd repeat it if they could, but twice in a row is kind of silly. It's interesting that they've retained the IGPX broadcast rights all this time, and even more so that they're able to use Discotek's upcoming remaster. I remember not thinking much of it when it aired years back (if anything I thought the pilot microseries was a much more interesting premise), but if I'm bored enough I'll sit through it again.

The hell is a "Freevee"? For that matter I haven't heard of any of the other services that it's on. They all seem like device-specific things. Now if it was on Pluto that might be worth something.

I think I would have liked Black Lotus more if it was about a third shorter than it really was. There was a lot of dead air and repetition.

It's an Xfinity cloud DVR thing. Recordings go poof one calendar year from when they're recorded.

Picture me making the Excalibur face from Soul Eater. Hey, I legit liked it for what it was. I've actually been rewatching it before it auto-deletes from my DVR. The ending was batshit insane in the best way.

Heh, I actually thought of Dadan too. Whoopi could pull off that big "gruffly yelling at small children" energy.

Who and what now?

gr8 b8 m8 i r8 8/8

Nani the fuck

Even though I started ordering from them well after they had a website, I used to love getting their physical catalogs in the mail. Complete with the sealed-shut 18+ section.

Japan: *uses animation to tell a diverse array of stories in a wide range of genres targeted at different audiences* The US: "lol let's call it Krapopolis comedy gold"

If "Higher" isn't the credits theme we all fucking riot.

It would have been nice to know this going in. Grunge's second episode was honestly pretty good, and it had me cautiously optimistic about where it was going to go, but with only one more episode it feels like it's going to wind up half-baked at best. Pretty much the exact opposite problem of Progressive, which could have stood with having a whole bunch of...whatever the fuck it was trying to do sliced out.

The argument made against movie acquisitions in the past was mostly that it was a bad value-for-money proposition, i.e. they didn't draw enough ratings in to justify the increased expense for a one-off. However, that was almost always in the context of either completely stand-alone movies (like Shinkai and Hosoda's works) or your standard Jump spinoff movies like MHA's. The Demon Slayer movie was the first instance I can think of where a block anime had a direct sequel in movie format (albeit one that got an episode version afterwards), and all indications were that they would have gladly aired it, but the franchise's explosive success in its wake put the entire franchise out of their price range going forward. With Made in Abyss, obviously they were able to air the regular season's worth of content after the movie, and they absolutely would have aired the movie too if they could have.

Movies based on anime series very frequently have different production committee members than the series proper, and that means a whole different set of negotiations for linear television broadcast rights. It wouldn't surprise me at all if some Japanese producers don't even offer broadcast rights for movies, or else make them much more expensive comparatively than the base series, because they're Movies and Movies Are Special or some nonsense like that. It was unfortunate that Made in Abyss's movie was a core part of the storyline of the series, instead of your usual shonen side story. Toonami definitely would have aired it if they could, thoughts about past one-off movie events aside, but it didn't work out. I'm not sure what sort of status this two-part Titan finale actually has as far as the series is concerned, whether it's treated as two regular episodes that happen to be longer or as an OVA or something else entirely. I've seen a few people speculate that part of the reason for the delay may have been Crunchyroll pushing back at Toonami's exclusivity deal for dub premieres extending to them, but I don't think we have anything concrete to back that up.

The news about the format of the finale came out in January. Toonami has had dub premiere rights for the series for most if not all of its run, so there's no way they'd forgo that right at the end for just about the only thing they have left that people actually care about.

The final-final-for-sure-final-we-mean-it part of the series was announced as being two hour-long special episodes from the get-go. The reason this first half took so long to air was probably due to some fuckery on Crunchyroll's part. Either that or they just wanted to get it closer to when the second half comes out and hope for a quick turn-around on that.

They've been calling the definitive ends of series "season finales" for years so i wouldn't expect them to have a clue by this point. ...or maybe they just want to fund needless sequels for everything...

Ahahaha imagine pulling the "Vic did nothing wrong!" card in 2023. That's a bold strategy Cotton.

I like how you keep bleating out "dodges tests" when the very link you provided for evidence couldn't even confirm that she wasn't tested that day.

We all wa shock.

I like how this thread starts as a fun thing about a young tennis phenom watching MHA, and it lasts all of two posts until Daos shows up and takes a massive unrelated shit all over it. You want to know why people are being defensive? Maybe because watching an incredibly successful black female athlete getting random accusations thrown at her after a career's worth of other gross comments is enough to make me raise a few eyebrows.

"This female athlete has more muscle definition than some other female athletes, clearly she must be roiding!" It's fucking gross. Did Serena ever test positive at any point in her playing career? No? Then why are you so hung up on this shit? Linking to some random-ass story from 2011 and using it to draw these grand conclusions, seriously?