Top Gun

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.

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?

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.

He really is the most pathetic cumstain currently walking the face of the earth.

Yeah, I was gonna say, has there ever been any anime produced that could actually take advantage of that format?

Scott McNeil looks as badass as I hoped he would.

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.

Yeah I was sitting there last night thinking "Damn, we are popping right now." Complete 180 from the first few months of the year.

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.

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.

Bring in Ted Turner!

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.

Duuuude. Block is lit.

That color palette though.

Hateno Village from Breath of the Wild. Settle down in Link's house.

Depending on how you count them I probably have...9 or 10 separate copies or versions of Myst. The OG CD-ROM that came with our Gateway circa 1996, the 10th anniversary DVD edition of the first three games, the OG game on both Steam and GOG the OG version of realMyst on GOG that isn't even sold anymore, realMyst: Masterpiece Edition on Steam, GOG, and physically for Switch, the physical copy that came with the awesome Myst linking book Kickstarter prop, the 2021 remake version on Steam...is that all of them? Maybe there's one more in there I don't remember? And that's not even counting at least 3 or 4 copies of most of the other games in the series. (no I don't have a problem why are you looking at me like that)

My dude, if you're going to sit there and call Kids on the Slope of all things "steaming garbage" with a straight face, then frankly you shouldn't be speaking critically about, well, anything. It was a masterful piece of work, widely considered one of the best shows of its year, and it even wound up on some best-of-the-decade lists. And while Carole & Tuesday maybe didn't quite hit those same heights, at the bare minimum it was a solid, competent show with great music. This series aside, anyone claiming that Watanabe "lost his touch" had no idea what the hell they were talking about.

Oh no! ...anyway.

From what I've seen there's not a whole lot of recent stuff in Sentai's catalog that would really fit the block. There are definitely some things that are a bit older, thought. Princess Principal would kick serious ass. Or go retro and correct an old wrong by getting Rahxephon.

Housing Complex C got a lot of hate (or at least a lot of meh), but I genuinely liked it a lot for what it was. That final episode went batshit crazy in the best possible way.

Was hoping it might be a precursor to concrete season 3 news, but nope, of course it's a tie-in to whatever new movie they've crapped out.

Sure, why the hell not I guess. Weird thing though, I still had the subbed version sitting on my DVR, so I recently forced myself through the rewatch for some reason and...didn't think it was that bad as a whole? Honestly its biggest crime was blowing its load early with the awesome fight scenes in the first few episodes, then inexplicably shifting to those dumbass mech suits for the rest of it. I can forgive a lot of dumb plot if there's cool action but that severely slipped.

These names are already giving me an aneurysm and we're just getting started.

Ugh.

I plan on stopping counting after 39.