Top Gun

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.

Hellsing Ultimate wasn't really grim in tone, though. It was a brutal over-the-top spectacle of violence to the point of self-parody, and it was well aware of that fact, because it did everything with a wink and a nod.

You people can make up a reason to bitch about anything, can't you?

The block has had awkward tonal transitions between series since 2001. This would be no different.

There's no such thing as a "Toonami show" beyond action-oriented animation. And Primal absolutely fits that, just as the final season of Samurai Jack did.

Then don't fucking watch it?

But is there a Tim Curry cameo?!

Jman once again waving his hateboner for Western properties that literally no one else on the planet gives a shit about either way besides him.