Top Gun

Yeah I'll be perfectly honest, I'm only doing this so I don't get mixed up when moving old threads in the future. Still cannot express how much I fucking hate the stupid-ass eyes in this show.

Eh, why not. Time to reset the "X minutes since Takemichi got his ass handed to him" sign. Also how much of this mess could have been avoided if one of these dumbasses had thought to call the cops?

Can't let a whole week go by without our dose of cock, right? Demon bro is a total bro and Piyoko remains my precious daughter but may also be a Hulk.

Figured we could still have one after the fact, discuss amongst yourselves.

Have no fear, we've got stories for years!

Takemichi is really bad at this.

Okay, they gave that extra warning at the start, but still...holy fuck. I needed a drink.

This episode is a fantastic example of Luffy's personality. He's not stupid (okay sometimes he is), but he is blunt and single-minded. He's a leader, and he needed Momo to be a leader too before he'd engage with the plan.

The last few minutes of Dan Da Dan were a better soccer show than this is.

I have absolutely steering wheel drummed to Ride On Shooting Star before. This just sucks.

Oda: "lol, you thought I was done with massive earth-shattering revelations"

Not the hot springs episode we wanted, but the one we needed.

Hasn't started yet here, but I know it's coming. Need to get my ass on Allegra in a hurry.

Good night, sweet prince.

Five minutes into the episode I determined that I'd absolutely die for that chick.

Watching this episode for the first time felt like such a big moment. It may seem silly now, but it was the first time I truly internalized, "Oh right, One Piece is a finite series that will have a definite end someday." I wouldn't call this moment the "beginning of the end," because there's still a LOT of series to come after this, but it's the first time that we get the concrete steps that need to happen before the Straw Hats will be able to reach their end goal. (As of right now I think I'd say that the most recent anime arc is the beginning of the end, but I guess we'll see how well that holds up in the future.) And the best part of all is that while Robin's over there reading the single-most important thing in the entire series, the rest of these fucking weebs are losing their shit over ninjas.

This series has some pretty absurd tonal whiplash at times, but when it shifts into that complete dumbass mode like at the end it cracks me the hell up so I'll give it a pass.

God I wish we were watching that instead.

Aww, I'll go shake hands with some cop and go back in time to stop myself from posting.

You really spend a lot of energy telling people why they should think exactly one way about a show.

Oh right, something else for whatever it's worth: from the credits and what I can gather online, this series doesn't seem to be a direct Williams Street co-production like previous block originals. Viz Media are producing the series themselves, with Joseph Chou and Sola Entertainment listed as assistant producers. DeMarco's name doesn't show up in the credits at all. (Confusingly his ANN page lists him as an executive producer, but the page for Rooster Fighter doesn't have him, so who knows.)

Real talk though, this is pretty much exactly what I hoped for from this show. A batshit insane premise that's played (almost) completely straight, random chicken noises, and Seitz being a gruff badass. 10/10, no notes.

...why? The episode was fine, and it was funny picking out the edits.

"Dogs and cats, living together! Mass hysteria!"

Oda: "Yo dawg I heard you liked giant shock reveals"