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They're clearly going for a bit of a traditional Japanese art look to the linework, almost akin to sumi-e, and it looks fantastic.

Could we maybe not post the stupid clickbait videos and just use, y'know, words?

...what do you mean "sketchy"? The character designs in Wano have looked utterly fantastic.

If you need some generic J-pop to get "hyped" for a series, then you're probably not enjoying the series in the first place. Again, as angel pointed out, YouTube. If you can't manage to find a show's full opening there, you shouldn't be allowed to use the Internet in the first place. It's either they cut the songs down, or they cut down the actual show like SyFy did. I know which one I prefer.

I mean your average Catholic Mass is around 45 minutes to an hour, so if you do the formal wedding Mass, it's not really stupid-long in comparison. You can do a non-Mass wedding, which from what I remember from being an altar server is pretty much the readings followed by the actual ceremony, but those don't tend to be nearly as common, at least not in my experience. Pretty much all the weddings I've been to were Catholic, so I'm used to the big reception. It's just...what people do I guess. *shrug*

Profoundly serious. People complaining about OPs/EDs getting edited for time...in 2019. Just...why.

The last episode Toonami aired was 384, and FUNi's last boxset of Fishman Island left off at 574, so you still could have watched nearly 200 episodes' worth of dubbed content between then and now. As for why they took this hiatus, long-running series like OP get contracts negotiated in big chunks of episodes, and Fishman Island was as far as FUNi's previous contract with Toei extended. We don't know if there was some sort of delay in negotiating a new deal (which can frequently happen when dealing with Japanese production companies), but even if there wasn't, FUNi simply may not have been able to handle working on such a massive property at that time. Simuldubbing multiple series every season takes a lot out of your cast and production staff, and most of the main people working on OP are the most veteran FUNi regulars, so they're in high demand across a lot of series. FUNi was dubbing Super for Toonami at that time, as well as finishing up Fairy Tail, so add that to all of the new seasonal shows and they may have needed the break. FUNi still gave two OP movies actual theatrical runs during that time, as well as releasing a number of specials/OVAs, so it's not like they abandoned the property in the least. Now that Super and Fairy Tail are done and FUNi has more room to work with, they're able tackle OP at an expedited pace, with "multiple teams" working on it. OP often has significant characters not appear for extended lengths of time, so what I'm assuming they'll do is have those actors working on future arcs down the line to get a jump-start on them. Poor Colleen's stuck yelling forever though. And of course FUNi posts clips from current Japanese episodes on social media. Even if they watch the dub, pretty much everyone who's a OP fan is either current with the Japanese broadcast or is trying to get current. It's too damn big of a series to afford to fall behind for a few years. It's also so huge that spoilers are just about inevitable. Just accept it and roll with it.

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And they're absolutely going to push it worldwide. It being US-produced doesn't change that for a second. In fact I'd wager that Oda agreed to a US production because he knows that Japanese live-action adaptations would never have the requisite budget. And yes, Toei's adaptation has been notoriously poorly-paced and low-budget for well over a decade. At this point you either accept it and enjoy it for the merits it does have (acting and music primarily), or you stick with the manga. That being said, the show has received a serious breath of fresh air with the advent of the Wano arc and a new chief director. The past two episodes featured a massive fight with almost movie-level animation and direction.

I tried but YouTube's search sucks!

I did not know that. That's hilarious. Even better was Jango threatening Kaya during the Kuro Pirates arc. "The chakram is too powerful! It will turn on you!"

In its uncut form, One Piece doesn't waste much time getting to the violent content. Within the first 5 episodes you have Zoro's near-execution, Coby being held at gunpoint by Helmeppo, and Luffy's flashback featuring someone getting capped in the head and Shanks having his arm ripped off. And if Toei hadn't toned the anime down from the original manga for the sake of impressionable children, you'd have a young Luffy stabbing himself in the face to prove he was pirate material. Of course the kids watching the 4Kids cut didn't see any of that. That spring-loaded...thing they edited Helmeppo's gun into still cracks me the hell up.

Yeah, I'm sorry, but I'm not buying what this guy is selling at all. Essentially no one outside of 5 nerds knew how edited FUNi's version of DBZ was in the mid- to late-90s. The sort of collective Internet consciousness that passed around information like that didn't exist yet. (I like how he's taking credit for "leading a charge against FUNi" that I sincerely doubt ever amounted to anything.) The 10-year-olds who made DBZ into a massive success didn't give a damn about edits; they were all about people yelling loudly and punching the shit out of each other and powering up to crazy levels. It was the only thing remotely like it on TV at the time, and it absolutely exploded as a result. Fast-forward to when OP debuted on US TV, and you're looking at a completely-different media landscape. It was a much more crowded market as far as the genre goes, particularly considering how huge Naruto already was, and it was much easier for word about the edits to spread around. The 4Kids treatment undeniably hurt OP's chances for huge success in the US, and combined with its unconventional style, it was put in a disadvantageous position from the get-go. I mean at the end of the day, will One Piece ever be as remotely "mainstream" in the US as DBZ is? Probably not. But it is undeniably successful as far as anime titles go. FUNi has cited it as one of their best-selling properties (seriously, my Voyage sets take up almost a whole huge shelf, and that's just through Fishman Island), and it's always in the most-streamed listings on Crunchyroll. It's received multiple stints totaling hundreds of episodes on broadcast TV. It's seen over 500 episodes dubbed in uncut form over more than a decade, and FUNi is starting the dub back up again at an expedited pace. It's had a few movies receive limited theatrical releases, with the most recent one pulling in some good numbers. None of these things happen to "failed" licenses. One Piece is so popular because everyone and their literal grandmother reads the manga. Everyone watching the anime already knows the story and is just enjoying seeing it in another medium. Yes, we know people like Generic Anime Look #57 instead of anything that looks even remotely different. Like, I won't deny that the look of the series can take people aback at first, but if they're even remotely open to something outside the norm, it's not all that difficult to get past. Lord knows I got used to it pretty quickly. And you might have had more of a point if you had chosen a shot from the first year or two of the anime, but that picture looks just fine.

Was it something you saw on TV? This is a list of all the series that aired on Anime Unleashed, but nothing there seems to match your description.

Hayate the Combat Butler, maybe? I know next to nothing about it but that sounds like the general synopsis. It's only like 11 or 12 years old though.

COME ON AND SLAM AND WELCOME TO THE JAM

Food Wars is goddamn hilarious and one of the highlights of the night.

...who the fuck buys porn?

I don't fly places or go to a ton of parties, but there are still frequent family/friend things during the holidays, especially on the weekends. Plus it honestly feels nice to take a bit of a break from the weekly grind of watching 5 hours of TV.

I mean yeah, I laughed a bunch, but I full-body cringed even more, and even engaged in a few bouts of incredibly depressing self-reflection. It's a rough watch, albeit a really good one.

People listing NHK as a romantic comedy...did we watch the same goddamn show?

I have no interest in paying to rent series that could disappear from a service at any time. I use linear TV to watch in-the-moment broadcasts and random reruns, and if there's something I like, I buy it on physical media so I can keep it forever.

I'll wait because I don't have the attention span of a sperm.

Ah, nothing like videos presenting content that could be delivered far more efficiently as text.

Do you have something that isn't a clickbait video?