Top Gun

Well if nothing else the subject matter's appropriate.

It was fun, I liked seeing the class B peeps, Douche Rogue needs to get his fucking nuts kicked in.

Nacho Genesis Cheesevangelion ... ...not sorry.

I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I hope he's able to get whatever help he needs.

Motherfucking PJ Media quoting some YouTube douchebag. That's the best you can give me. Lol.

Those "rumors" have been bandied about by foaming-at-the-mouth incels for a few years, and they have as little actual weight to them as they did then. The Last Jedi was still a very profitable movie that won a ton of critical acclaim, and it pissed people off because it did something fresh and different with the franchise (and because most people have no goddamn ability to recognize how a character can change over decades). The only real crime of the sequel trilogy is that JJ Abrams can't plan shit to save his life so he inserted a bunch of shiny mystery boxes like he always does that were never going to plan out. Rian Johnson choosing to blissfully ignore most of them was the best choice he could have made at the time. I will always hold that it was one of the best things to happen to the franchise as a whole since Empire, and I'm still pissed that Abrams gave into the alt-right bullshit and walked back a lot of what Johnson did.

I enjoyed the first season well enough for what it was, so I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes from here.

Honestly I wish more manga series would have separate artist/writer roles, because they're very different skillsets. Tell me that Bleach wouldn't have been massively improved if Kubo had just handled the overall concept and artwork and let someone else handle the writing.

So it's actually really good but people have fucking horrible taste?

That particular case aside, I think one massive advantage manga has over mainline superhero comics is that the latter are almost completely impenetrable to newcomers, because there isn't one single entry point where they can jump in and get caught up to speed. The big hero series seem like they're caught in this constant tug-of-war between respecting decades-old continuity and reinventing themselves, and every decade or so they pull this big sprawling reset event sprawling across multiple titles that's incomprehensible to all but the most hardcore fans. In contrast most manga series are a single self-contained storyline, so it's far easier to jump in at the beginning and go from there.

Owning myself to own the libs?

Between this and the other thread you really need to stop reading posts by people who are dumb as bricks. Also it wouldn't shock me in the least if OP maintains its lead pretty much indefinitely. When we get close to the finale, people in Japan are going to be buying back volumes like crazy to catch up. Meanwhile just about no one buys superhero comics anymore.

Hey, if anyone over there is still reading, eat an entire barrel of dicks!

When you think about the fact that Batman has been drawn by literally hundreds of different artists over 90 years, while One Piece was one man accomplishing the same feat in less than 25. Also, the numbers for US comics indicate sales of single-issue floppies, so when you consider sales by pagecount One Piece is absolutely destroying them.

What sort of chodes ban somebody over completely-innocuous comments made on another site? Tell the assholes to get bent.

Danny Sexbang tearing it up per usual.

That was metal as fuck.

I was just in Kohl's and saw both an Avatar AND a Naruto shirt in their graphic tees section, soooooo...🤷‍♂️

The only case he would possibly have is if he were limiting the scope of his argument strictly to movies, because of course no domestic theatrical anime release is going to touch the numbers of a big Disney/Pixar opening (at least not in non-pandemic times). But as for series...again, what series? There's no question that anime absolutely trounces America's animated output there.

I think this person is pretty wrong on most of the points they're making here, given just how much anime fandom has permeated the general Western consciousness. What they're describing sounds more like the situation around 2005 or so than that in 2021. I'd also challenge the assertion that Avatar is more "mainstream" (however we even define that) than Naruto is. I've certainly seen far, far more merch of the latter being worn publicly than the former. I think the biggest issue they have is that they're trying to compare the block as it exists today to what was airing after school in 2001. Today's Toonami shares essentially nothing in common with that television block other than the name and visual trappings, especially not its purpose and intended audience. I have nothing at all against seeing American content on the block, but what content exactly? There is precious little American action animation out there, and almost all of it is produced by Netflix. Like Sketch said, your best options are older series, and as much as I'd be super-down for a Batman:TAS run, I don't think relying on reruns more than 15 or 20 years old is a good move for the block. At the end of the day anime offers a far broader selection of content than American animation ever could. That being said, the occasional DC movie night works well as a special event (Corporate Synergy and all that), and I think it would be a good idea to tap into that catalog more if they can. I'm not sure if I'll bother tuning in for the Harley Quinn marathon, maybe just a bit to see what it's like and give it a shot.

On the contrary, I'm pulling for the hilariously wooden OG dialog.

Fucking lol at Jingo attempting a gotcha.

Alita says hi.