Top Gun

Oh good now my click order gets fucked up for weeks.

Just how many brown shirts does Jingo have in his closet?

Jingo downvoting the use of force against his fascist buddies.

They can feel free to censor Zenitsu out entirely.

Discotek's release of the Lupin film The Mystery of Mamo has four English dubs on it.

To be frank, the only person I've seen bring it up when the topic arises on ANN is, well, you.

I genuinely believe that you're the only person on the planet who gives more than a moment's thought to that movie's very existence. Like, how many newer anime fans even know it was a thing?

Get woke, go to jail?

Ah yes, the traditional Invisinipples.

I really wish it would drop off. The lovely people at Xfinity have the Saturday episodes marked as repeats, so I have to set the DVR to record everything, which means having to manually cancel every single weeknight recording every week.

The original Japanese cast apparently re-recorded the series several years ago for a BD release, presumably because they didn't have separate audio tracks in the original, so I'd assume Discotek is using that material.

Just wanna highlight "Fuck Sherpa" for posterity.

I mean it was pretty clear it was a movie tie-in even if you don't know much about the movie itself. A mysterious never-before-mentioned foreign country that has some sort of suspicious incident, a likewise never-before-mentioned dangerous illegal drug, and then that post-credits stinger is word-for-word exactly how every single Jump filler tie-in to an upcoming movie concludes. "This minor detail was thwarted, but no matter! No one can stop our plans now!"

11/10 Froppy is best girl

The whole "supply hasn't kept up with demand" statement makes zero sense to me. Anime isn't a tangible consumable good that can have supply shortages in the first place. Any single production can be watched by an infinite number of people without consequence. And yeah, the anime industry needs to increase output like it needs a hole in the head. Pretty much every studio is stretched to the breaking point, and we've seen more and more productions completely fall apart as a result. What's really needed is a contraction, coupled with legitimate revenue-sharing so that animators aren't literally starving themselves to do what they love.

People frequently talk about dumb things. The solution is simple: don't listen to people who talk about dumb things. Like Angel said, why put any investment whatsoever in those numbers? Just watch the block and enjoy it while it's here. That's all we're supposed to do as viewers.

Speedwagon is best girl.

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.

He literally has nothing else in his worthless life.

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?