Top Gun

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...

Seriously. Puking react.

I love how their big reveal is the most bog-standard stereotypical Grey-looking thing ever.

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

Where's that puking react?

There's not enough alcohol in the world for me to watch that.

All the money in the world and he can't figure out how to buy a $5 pack of Trojans.

I'd assume their missiles are legit because they pour the entire country's budget into them instead of, y'know, food.

Just don't say her name three times.

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.

It's a start at least.

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?

I do understand that you're being a complete piece of shit about this, yes. Like, maybe take the open misogyny somewhere else?

So does Crunchyroll play nice this time now that they know [as] still has the dub premiere rights, or do they dick everyone over for 6 months again?

I watched all of that original season on [as], but I could not tell you a single thing that happened during it. It was like Anime: The Anime.

Literally every single one of the pictures you're posting has one arm in profile while the other's viewed from the top so you wouldn't see the other bicep regardless. They're also all in the middle of backhand shots when the leading arm is always going to be bent and flexing more. Look at any normal full-body shot of Serena and both of her arms look the same. It'd be utterly absurd to just do strength training on one side of the body anyway. Try again.

I just think it's dumb when both men and women do it because it's totally unnecessarily. I played tennis myself for a few years (granted at a very low level) and never once did I feel the urge to grunt when hitting a groundstroke. You never heard Federer make a peep during a point. It feels like a cheap tactic to try and distract your opponent or mask the sound of the ball impact. But I'm completely with you about the Serena criticism. Either show solid proof or cut that shit out.

Yep, and I can totally still fit into my skinny pants from middle school.