Top Gun

Yeah, VAs get paid an hourly rate, so if they don't have a lot of roles at the moment, they're not going to have much income. It's why a lot of VAs (at least those who are LA-based) tend to do a lot of video game or generic VO work, since those tend to pay higher rates. A lot of long-term FUNi actors also take on production and directing roles.

I'd love to find out who actually worked on this thing.

Some ol' monkey paw bullshit.

If it lasts more than 4 hours, call your doctor.

I'm kind of curious where this will go. The original series ended pretty definitively.

Exactly. The Toonami broadcast was severely hamstrung from the outset, much like the rest of the show's history on US television. The initial run of FUNi episodes on OG Toonami picked right up from That-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named at the start of Jaya/Skypeia, but it got cut off halfway through. Fast-forward several years, and the new Toonami run skips a few dozen episodes and starts with the next arc. I know they probably didn't want to start such a gargantuan property all the way back at the beginning, and I'm sure FUNi had a vested interest in promoting sales of the more recent parts of their release, but a neophyte viewer was going to have no context whatsoever for the characters or their relationships. It didn't help that they started off with the most filler-esque canon arc of the entire series, one that even a lot of long-time fans don't particularly like. Ironically, the preceding G8 Arc was filler that felt like canon and receives almost universal praise, and it honestly would have been a much stronger starting point to hook new viewers. I'm not sure what the solution was in terms of how to handle the series. Honestly it's the sort of thing that just about requires a daily timeslot, so that people can watch or DVR whole chunks of episodes at once and get caught up in something resembling a reasonable amount of time. But with how things went, I think most of the people who were watching were like myself, Toonami viewers who were already established fans of the series. The fact that it's done very well on streaming venues that have every episode from the beginning posted is proof that there are plenty of people out there willing to binge it.

Don't lie, we all know you're both there for /h/.

Red delicious apples should not exist.

Almost every Japanese popularity poll I've ever seen has at least one random motherfucker on it.

Well that was fast. Sweet. Damn, if they pick up everything they should this year, we're gonna have a good time. Final season of Titan, Gridman, hopefully seasons 2 of Dr. Stone and Promised Neverland...

Wild Horses never gets enough love. Actual orbital mechanics, a wonderful moment for a departed spacecraft, great stuff.

Does anyone think that Funkos look good? Like, anyone at all?

Can we at least move it down below DF? It's fucking with my click order.

"Soon (TM)" -- Eiichiro Oda

Get that Whopper nice and flame-broiled.

Honestly I'd pay for that last one.

Katanagatari was great...right up until the last episode jumped off the goddamn rails harder than almost anything else I've ever seen. (Also Boku no Pico.)

Most people find out what's going to happen next in a show by, y'know, continuing to watch the show. Like seriously, this is the absolute dumbest shit to whine about.

Gee if only there was a way for people to find out exactly which episodes are airing on which dates. Even better, what if there was a magical box that automatically recorded every airing of a series? I can't wait for the future!

The thing with the finale of the manga/Brotherhood is that they set up these huge apocalyptic stakes, and then everything gets resolved in a manner that feels way too...easy. Like there's that moment when Father starts Third Impact and everyone keels over, but it's reversed so quickly that you don't even have time to feel the enormity of it. And then Ed's final sacrifice to bring back Al isn't that at all. He gets an idea, it works, and the only thing he has to "sacrifice" is something he's already spent the entire series without anyway. Compare that to the heart-wrenching dueling sacrifices Ed and Al made for each other at the end of the '03 version, and there's no contest.

Much like 95% of other live-action options. Also I like how people are already saying "But Horikoshi said there'd only be two movies!" Yes, because everyone involved hates making shitloads of money.

Brotherhood absolutely flies through its adaptation of the shared material and makes for a far lesser experience if you didn't already watch the '03 adaptation. What happened to Nina wouldn't hit nearly as hard if you hadn't already spent more than an episode getting to know her in the earlier version, and little touches like making the birth of Elicia the one that Ed and Al assist in, as opposed to some random stranger, does much more to endear the audience to Hughes and his family. The events of Laboratory 5 hit far harder in the '03 version too, even if some of the mechanical details aren't strictly compatible with the manga story. Honestly, having seen both adaptations in their entirety, I still prefer the '03 version overall, even in its original moments. It seemed to take a more nuanced look at the themes involved, especially in terms of its ending, and it didn't have nearly as many painfully out-of-place SD comedy moments. Just...let's pretend Shamballa doesn't exist.

Real talk though, I goddamn love those batshit crazy school episodes. The equestrian club riding horses around chasing after a cat, a GIANT ROBOT MAKING A GIANT PIZZA, Milly Ashford hanging a lampshade on everything with the line, "Sometimes life just has these little filler moments"...give me an entire series of this and I could die happy.

I'm sorry sir, you clearly mean the best part.

Or that moment when an imminent bloodbath between Alucard and Anderson was interrupted by...Seras leading a bunch of old tourists around the mansion to look at art.