Top Gun

Yeah I highly doubt Nielsen's hardware or surveys have been all that relevant ever since everyone with linear TV service got specialized hardware that presumably phones home regularly.

Boku no Pico.

I feel kind of bad about it, but the way the franchise has exploded in popularity has almost turned me off of it somewhat. I mean, the series was good solid shonen, I had fun with it for the most part, but it is Just. Not. That. Special. It sticks to most of the same tropes as everything else in its genre, and really the only thing that sets it apart are the quality character designs and ufotable going ham with effects animation. Oh, and Zenitsu is one of the worst fucking characters I've ever had the displeasure of sitting through.

Araki is an ageless vampire who put on the Stone Mask.

I wonder if it's that the hourly rate for anime voice work is too low, or more that it is an hourly rate and therefore makes an actor's income wholly dependent on how many roles they have and how significant they are. Unless you luck out and get a major role in a long ongoing series, or the lead in a shorter but dialog-heavy series, your time spent in the recording booth will be very sporadic. Just think about a member of MHA's large ensemble cast, who may only get significant screentime every several episodes, or an arc character in One Piece that may only get a few lines every hundred episodes. There's no way to make that your sole source of income unless you fight and scrabble for as many roles as you can possibly get in order to ensure as much booth time as possible. It's for good reason that FUNi has tried to get many of their long-time collaborators into directing or script adaptation, because it's a far steadier and more guaranteed source of income. On the flipside, video game work is a much better gig if you can get it. Right off the bat, game budgets are many times bigger than an anime localization effort, and presumably at least a bit of that extra money finds its way to the actors. But even putting that aside, depending on the game, you can wind up recording a LOT more dialog. Hell, picture how much booth time the half-dozen or so saps who voiced most of Skyrim's NPCs had to do. And that's even before you get to the whole union-vs.-non-union thing.

Serious question: why do you give a single shit about its merchandise? Why does anyone give a shit about a show's merchandise other than some boomer exec who's stuck in 1985 and thinks the only purpose of a cartoon is to sell action figures?

Yeah man how dare he like something good!

Also they have all of two likes. Literally no one on the planet gives a shit about what people like that have to say, and yet you guys post their shit as if it's proclamations from the President of Anime.

Why do you continuously read the worst fucking takes on the planet?

Netflix can choke on a fucking barrel of dicks.

I will never understand why people give a single shit about this show either way. If it's good, then fine, if it sucks, then oh well. It looks much worse when it's a bunch of 30-year-old weebs pitching a fit over a show made for 12-year-old girls.

Pose it baby.

...literally two or three people posted this sort of bullshit. Why are you even dignifying them with an acknowledgement?

Well if nothing else the subject matter's appropriate.

It was fun, I liked seeing the class B peeps, Douche Rogue needs to get his fucking nuts kicked in.

Nacho Genesis Cheesevangelion ... ...not sorry.

I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I hope he's able to get whatever help he needs.

Motherfucking PJ Media quoting some YouTube douchebag. That's the best you can give me. Lol.

Those "rumors" have been bandied about by foaming-at-the-mouth incels for a few years, and they have as little actual weight to them as they did then. The Last Jedi was still a very profitable movie that won a ton of critical acclaim, and it pissed people off because it did something fresh and different with the franchise (and because most people have no goddamn ability to recognize how a character can change over decades). The only real crime of the sequel trilogy is that JJ Abrams can't plan shit to save his life so he inserted a bunch of shiny mystery boxes like he always does that were never going to plan out. Rian Johnson choosing to blissfully ignore most of them was the best choice he could have made at the time. I will always hold that it was one of the best things to happen to the franchise as a whole since Empire, and I'm still pissed that Abrams gave into the alt-right bullshit and walked back a lot of what Johnson did.

I enjoyed the first season well enough for what it was, so I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes from here.

Honestly I wish more manga series would have separate artist/writer roles, because they're very different skillsets. Tell me that Bleach wouldn't have been massively improved if Kubo had just handled the overall concept and artwork and let someone else handle the writing.

So it's actually really good but people have fucking horrible taste?

That particular case aside, I think one massive advantage manga has over mainline superhero comics is that the latter are almost completely impenetrable to newcomers, because there isn't one single entry point where they can jump in and get caught up to speed. The big hero series seem like they're caught in this constant tug-of-war between respecting decades-old continuity and reinventing themselves, and every decade or so they pull this big sprawling reset event sprawling across multiple titles that's incomprehensible to all but the most hardcore fans. In contrast most manga series are a single self-contained storyline, so it's far easier to jump in at the beginning and go from there.

Between this and the other thread you really need to stop reading posts by people who are dumb as bricks. Also it wouldn't shock me in the least if OP maintains its lead pretty much indefinitely. When we get close to the finale, people in Japan are going to be buying back volumes like crazy to catch up. Meanwhile just about no one buys superhero comics anymore.

Hey, if anyone over there is still reading, eat an entire barrel of dicks!