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  1. Top Gun
    Ahahahaha, oh wow. This revival series has already been full of some spectacular ass-pulls, some of which I'd known about beforehand, but this has to be the biggest one in the entire series. Sure, let's toss out everything we knew about Ichigo's powers in favor of something that makes literally no sense. Sounds like a plan! And just to be clear, I have no idea whether Kubo had this reveal planned out long beforehand. He may have known he was going to make Zangetsu a fake from the moment he first introduced him. But it feels for all the world that he rolled out of bed the day before this chapter was due and pulled this idea out of his deepest nether regions. There are plenty of authors who come up with new ideas way into a series run, but are very skilled at connecting them back to dangling plot threads they left much earlier, so the end result feels like it was always intended to be that way. Either Kubo isn't nearly so good at doing that (which I suspect), or he somehow managed to make a planned twist seem like it came out of nowhere with zero context.
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    I'm not the biggest fan of this franchise but I'm glad we get to go right into this relatively new season of it.
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    What's always frustrated me the most about the whole situation is that there's no logical reason whatsoever for CR to view Toonami as competition. It's a programming block on linear television, a dying medium. Nearly everyone still watching the block presumably has a CR subscription too, outside of a few weird boomers like me who don't pay for streaming services. CR throwing Toonami a few series after their streaming premiere runs were done wouldn't have affected their bottom line at all. Hell, they could have included the stipulation of running a few ads for their service on the block, win-win.
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    Oh, is it really at 1AM now? I've been recording it the whole time, but after the first several weeks of schedule nonsense I didn't pay attention since my DVR seemed to figure it out. Wound up being useful too, since I started watching with some friends while having it piled up on there.
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    Because CR are complete assholes?
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    What.
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    Why does it matter? It's at the end of the block and they have nothing else to throw on there.
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    So I guess my paying the extra $10 per month wasn't a sound investment.
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    Just got the email from Xfinity here. Guess I'm getting bones out of $10 a month. Fuck you too Zaslav.
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    That IGPX run was so weird because they just...stopped. We've had plenty of back-end slots since where they could have run season 2, but nothing.
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    Yeah, that's right. There was a break in the dub production for a year or two, and I think they put out Episode of Sabo soon after they resumed as a way to drum up hype for the big arcs they'd be dubbing in the future. Fortunately McGropey was already out of the picture before they hit Dressrosa proper and we got the big upgrade to JYB. Fun fact: his original Japanese actor, Toru Furuya, was also involved in an awful sex scandal and stepped down from the role. If I had a nickel for every time etc. Morgan Garrett is credited as young Sabo's voice. Yeah, I was surprised to see that, I didn't remember that we saw his power way before he was actually introduced.
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    I mean this immediately falls apart because Ichigo got his zanpakuto from the moment Rukia first made him a substitute Soul Reaper, and we just saw tonight that Kenpachi already had one as a little kid. Haven't they been implying all along that zanpakuto are the physical manifestations of a Soul Reaper's powers?
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    I wonder if this could be a positive in that these shows may find a home on streaming services that have a much bigger audience than Max.
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    He really is the most pathetic cumstain currently walking the face of the earth.
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    Yeah, I was gonna say, has there ever been any anime produced that could actually take advantage of that format?
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    Scott McNeil looks as badass as I hoped he would.
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    I've been continuously watching this show since 2007-ish. Alabasta is definitely early on as far as I'm concerned. Like I said, it's a big world and the Revolutionary Army isn't a massive group. They can affect individual nations with their actions, but they can't fight all over the world at once. We didn't see them in action early in the series because the Straw Hats never visited any islands where they were active. That's how Oda handles things for most bigger ongoing story elements: he sneaks in a few peeks at them earlier on, then elaborates on them more in depth much later. The first glimpse we got of the revolutionaries was Dragon in Loguetown (though the audience had no idea what to make of him), then at some point the army got introduced as a broader concept, then here in Dressrosa we got to spend extended time with their members, and then...other stuff happens later. Speaking of, Oda stuck in a fun clue about Sabo being alive before he showed up in Dressrosa. I don't remember if it made the anime, but one of the manga cover pages showed Whitebeard and Ace's graves with three sake cups placed in front of the latter, and there's only one person who could have done that.
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    Yeah I was sitting there last night thinking "Damn, we are popping right now." Complete 180 from the first few months of the year.
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    Remember that the One Piece world mostly consists of isolated islands separated by very large and very dangerous swaths of ocean, so it's a long and difficult trip between them. The Revolutionary Army would be more properly classed as a guerrilla group. They gather intel on and attempt to sabotage shady World Government activities, and they provide assistance to nations that try to rebel against the powers that be. They're a thorn in the World Government's side, but at least at this point hey don't have the manpower to pose a legitimate threat to its overall control. They get introduced fairly early on in the series (I have zero memory as to exactly when), but I think this was the first extended glimpse we got of how they operate.
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    Not to defend Packard here (*throws up in mouth a bit*), but that series is an absurdist dark comedy that doesn't take that premise remotely seriously. It's just a vague background excuse for the protagonist to be repeatedly violently murdered and resurrected.
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    Bring in Ted Turner!
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    I'm so glad they started airing reruns of Common Side Effects during Toonami because I probably wouldn't have watched it otherwise and my God was it amazing.
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    Duuuude. Block is lit.
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    That color palette though.
  25. Top Gun
    Hateno Village from Breath of the Wild. Settle down in Link's house.
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