Top Gun

Fucking hell.

I don't really watch new stuff but Deca-Dence looks pretty cool.

Toriyama draws the most fundamentally unappealing faces.

You mean Mikasa?

Monster was the very first series that our group of AD misfits watched together as a discussion on AIM back in 2006, and we've kept things going ever since, so it holds a very special place in my heart.

This show was one of the most enjoyable anime experiences I've ever had. Super stoked for season 2.

...do you not understand that people are capable of working remotely?

Sales issues for most of these games you mentioned have almost nothing to do with "getting woke" or whatever the fuck and everything to do with them having legitimate issues. Like just as one single example, Yooka-Laylee received a decidedly lukewarm critical response due to its basic level design. Angry mouth-breathing YouTubers like to pretend their opinions represent the popular consensus, but shock of shocks, they usually don't. How many of the people that jump on the "OMG Sony is censoring boobies!!1!1" bandwagon had even heard of some of the games in question before they became a news story?

That, Negima, whatever other crap he made recently that had a bunch of Negima people show up, who knows what else... What's weird is that he's actually voiced some very good opinions over the years. He was vocal against that bullshit Youth Ordinance bill, he's very supportive of doujin artists, and he has a reasonable stance toward the issue of piracy. Yet he couples all of that with producing absolute pablum. Can't win 'em all I guess. And I mean I see his point here, but at the same time, if you're going to intentionally seek out huge international markets, you're occasionally going to need to tailor your products to the local standards in said markets to be successful there. The alternative is you keep doing what you were always doing, but don't be surprised if people give your work the side-eye. I'm definitely against censorship, but at the same time there are commercial realities at play.

Yeah man The Last of Us 2 selling more than 4 million copies in its opening weekend and becoming the fastest-selling PS4 exclusive is totally bombing. Totally. Anyways Ken Akamatsu might have a point if he'd ever managed to create something that wasn't steaming garbage, but, well...

Pecking order!

If we can't get a new premiere at the moment, then I'm mostly indifferent as to what they choose to rerun, since I'd be jumping in afterwards regardless unless it was something I really wanted to rewatch. I might have tuned in if they were doing a full MHA season 4 repeat run.

On the plus side we have Ballmastrz!

Well at least I can safely ignore the first half-hour now.

Not 100% sure why I got tagged in this but goddamn that is a sweet haul. I knew Laserdiscs had some gorgeous box art, but that's amazing.

I would assume that they are getting episode scripts from the studio, unless something goes horribly wrong, but they'd be getting said scripts well in advance of each episode's actual broadcast. The Japanese voicework for an anime episode is done fairly early in the process, not after the episode's a completed product as in the case of an English dub. There's no way that was the hold-up here.

...this was the one part of your post that literally no one gave a shit about.

...dude are you seriously pulling the "well I talked to person X and they said this!" card again? Just take the L.

Zatch Bell was a Viz property, not 4Kids.

Elfie can you even read words.

The next season probably isn't even in pre-production yet, much less in a place where they're ready for voice actors to start recording.

...are you people high?

Oh right, and are we going with the assumption that earth-shaking changes like "tip somebody off about 9/11" are off the table? Because if they're fair game, then, uh, that.