Top Gun

The only series that air in the mornings/prime-time are mainstream family-friendly series like Doraemon, Sazae-San, and Detective Conan. One Piece has locked down a coveted Sunday-morning timeslot for well over a decade now. Pretty much every otaku-targeted series airs in a late-night slot. In fact they essentially act as their own infomercials, since the production committees pay networks to air them in the hopes of earning money via merchandise and home video sales. Streaming has started to change this a little bit, but the Japanese corporate world is notoriously averse to big paradigm shifts, so that remains the main model.

Seriously though, where's my actual fucking curling animu.

I read a pretty cogent argument a while back that Bleach essentially supports fascism. Apparently in the final chapter, there's a shot of the Soul Society, and the giant execution device that Ichigo destroyed, the one that nearly killed Rukia for no reason has been rebuilt. She has to look at that thing every day. Nothing has changed in the Soul Society. The leadership is still incompetent. Most souls are still treated like shit (which, by the way, Rukia flat-out lied about early in the series). It's all garbage. Kubo had so much opportunity in his setting, but just like every other potentially-interesting element he totally squandered it in lieu of shitty fight scenes that went nowhere. Like, can you even imagine how Luffy would have reacted if he'd been the protagonist instead of Ichigo? I don't even have to imagine, because he's done it so many times in his own series: he'd punch his way through the entire Soul Society until he got to the asshole in charge, and then he'd punch him hardest of all. Yet what he sees barely even fazes Ichigo in the long run. He's one of the most limpdick shounen protagonists I've ever seen.

Seriously. I doubt Hulu gives two shits about whatever winds up on linear TV.

SAO lost me right from the get-go by its premise alone: A) The idea that a single person could both do all the core design and coding for a massive, sophisticated MMO AND singlehandedly engineer a sophisticated piece of custom hardware. Hardware that throughout all of manufacturing and retail apparently escaped any sort of inspection or teardowns that would expose the unnecessary massively-powerful microwave emitter plopped up against the user's skull. Because this is how game and hardware development works. B) The idea that, over two goddamn years, no one managed to reverse-engineer the headset to figure out some way to safely deactivate it. They couldn't fire off an EMP to fry it? Find a critical circuit connection and do something to disable it via brute force? Slip some protective shielding underneath the headset to mitigate the microwaves? Nope, let's have our comatose patients continue to be held hostage because we're total dumbshits! And that's just the tip of the iceberg. The climax of the SAO arc is one of the most spectacularly awful narrative cop-outs in anime history.

To be fair they had that chemistry in the anime too, before Kubo shat all over everything.

They would if they were a fuckawful writer. Every single element in this show has been done far better in at least a dozen other shounen. There is no reason whatsoever for it to exist. Also I love how you attempt to talk shit about shows without having the slightest grasp of why they do what they do. Lie down before you hurt yourself.

I genuinely want the rest to be animated because I want to see what a colossal clusterfuck it becomes with my own two eyes.

ITT ben thinks that shit-tier writing is "parody" because yes he really is that oblivious.

I think it was even more than half. Bleach remains the only shounen adaptation I've seen with filler arcs that were not only non-canon to the manga, but non-canon to the rest of the anime itself. Thank you, Kubo's godawful pacing.

Oh holy fuck yes. Every. Goddamn. Female. He. Meets. And it's not just him, there's shit like Charlotte's secret tsundere act over Yami. It's fucking insufferable. I will grant DCO that Yami is the sole tolerable character, but that's mostly because he seems to be taking the piss out of just about everyone else in the cast. Also because Sabat is having waaaay too much fun with him.

Ben you have the worst fucking takes on the goddamn planet. Like, you don't have a single ounce of critical credibility left at this point. Seriously, name me a single character in Black Clover who has even the barest shred of complexity. Calling them one-dimensional is an insult to lines. Fuck, they aren't even characters. They're Single Running Gags, beaten to death over and over until the only escape is death's sweet release. Asta is the most insufferable sack of shit I've ever seen in a protagonist, and he's just the tip of the iceberg.

Don't give a shit about Netflix, I just want some goddamn domestic Blu-rays.

"Lesson, lesson! If you see a stranger, follow him."

Yeah, that's the sort of thing I don't have a beef with, even if it's not me. Hell, the mounting thing is a bit too Gaston for me, but if it's something you got for food, go for it.

Only if I was in a situation where I needed it to survive, otherwise I don't get the point of it. That's why human beings developed agriculture (and supermarkets), so we wouldn't be stuck as hunter-gatherers forever. Now if it's to control overpopulation, like for deer around here, I'm fine with that too. There are always idiots around here protesting cull hunts that have no concept of basic ecology. Oh, and people who hunt "for sport" should be shot themselves. Like those fuckers who go to Africa and bag big game? Fucking drop dead you psycho pieces of shit.

Once a bitch, always a bitch.

Zero. They smell like absolute fucking shit and I have no idea why anyone would want that in their lungs.

Apparently this is as close as I'll get.

Waiwaiwait...the music videos Toonami airs are meant to have a political message other than smoke errryday?

Yeah that's complete bullshit.

For the love of all that is holy, please no Gardevoir.

Seriously, if it's a money issue, there are definitely people here ready and willing to help chip in.

And then they fucked.

Just look for the parts where Ikuhara took the helm. Thar be lesbians!