Top Gun

The worst thing I had to read in high school was fucking The Awakening. Either that or A Separate Peace. Ugh.

Somehow I missed out on it in high school. I think other academic tracks had to read it, but not the one I was in. Most of what I know of it is from GITS: Stand-Alone Complex.

I had to laugh when I saw the opening described as "the Bebop we have at home." It doesn't affect my cautious optimism for the series much either way, but I do think it would have been a good idea to go for something that wasn't quite so...on the nose.

The distant sound you hear when the first episode of this drops will be Angel squeeing.

Yeah, I didn't know what to expect from it going in, but it's been fantastic so far.

It's crazy how much of that I still remember from the final version of the episode. I watched the shit out of reruns of those original (good) seasons back in college.

My God the nostalgia wave.

The original series was a masterpiece, and literally everything else associated with the franchise has been varying levels of hot garbage. It's kind of incredible.

I like how this pair of episodes started with the worst part of the whole arc, Bellamy's horseshit that literally no one cares about, and ended with one of the best parts, pure Unmedicated Grandpa insanity and Sai managing to absolutely win at life.

Holy shit this show is good

I haven't bothered looking at these things yet, but I've at least recorded them (when I remember to), and I have no idea what I'm actually getting because the cable guide titles and descriptions are for a different show entirely. We always joked about the [as] schedule monkeys, but this network seems like it's being run by a single hamster.

Okay...but this is hardly going to be "Demarco's soundtrack." Even when he's not directing anime, Watanabe is a great music producer for other series (his choices for Shingo Natsume's "Sonny Boy" were fantastic). There's no universe in which he isn't making the calls on his own series.

Prime still does anime? Huh.

As a friend of mine put it, "'That's a short wait.' -- Frieren, probably."

Without Space Ghost, there's no [as], and none of us are here. Rest in peace to a legend.

I didn't know exactly what to expect going into this, but I really enjoyed the first episode. Whip-smart writing coupled with some genuinely impressive animation and background work. I know Mike Judge is an executive producer but it was still funny to hear him doing a much more subdued Hank voice as that asshole CEO. Definitely wasn't expecting to see two DEA agents vibing out to Harry Belafonte.

No, Drake was the son of Diez Barrels, captain of the Barrels Pirates (and himself a former Marine captain). He ran away when Corazon attacked because his father was an asshole who treated him like shit. He had no involvement with the Marines until after his father's death; we saw the Marine ship pick him up at the end of this episode.

That's not what she said.

COME ON AND SLAM AND WELCOME TO JAPAN

There was one funny rant in particular I remember when she was ripping on anime dubs.

Double OP makes a lot more sense than temporary double Blue Exorcist at least. And thank God, someone finally took Old Yeller Kai out behind the barn. The Grunge/Shoegaze thing is still incredibly random.

Yeah, if there's any Toonami that has real promise, it's this one. I'm assuming they just threw some money at Watanabe and said "do what you do best."

Trailer is pretty hype.

Heh, well that was fast.

If we get any third-party acquisitions this year, I hope this is one of them. I love that gang of total idiots.