Top Gun

Oh man, I forgot all about these dweebs still trying to push NFTs in 2025 until Toonamiguy mentioned it. All the more reason for me to blissfully ignore their block.

No matter what winds up happening with the linear cable block, I think there's still a lot of nostalgia value in the Toonami brand itself, and lord knows corporate types are all about milking the shit out of nostalgia brands.

Fortnite has all the energy of a 6-year-old smashing their entire toy box of action figures together.

Macross Plus, Samurai Champloo, Kids on the Slope, and Carole & Tuesday say hi? Even Terror in Resonance got more positive response than negative from what I saw.

Christ I'm old.

At least there are multiple shows airing every week, albeit most of them reruns at the moment. Mashle kicked ass, and that's a show I probably never would have found on my own. (No idea why the hell we couldn't go right into season 2 though.) As moribund as things are now, Toonami still feels like something resembling a cohesive block of television, or at least much more so than airing a pair of anime series for an hour every other week. And I don't see how any offering on a niche cable channel has the luxury of "finding its groove" in the year 2025, given how few eyeballs are left on cable overall. You'd think the opposite would be true, that a new programming block would want to start things off with as big of a bang as possible to get viewers to tune in. That's what [as] did when it brought back the Toonami brand over a decade ago, kicking it off with multiple new premieres in short order. Or look at what SyFy did with Ani-Mondays back in the day: they blew everyone's faces off with the premiere of Solid State Society, then bangers like Noein and Macross Plus (and Tokko was there too for some reason). Maybe I'm wrong and this thing has some actual staying power, but right now it feels like someone's vanity project, and it wouldn't shock me if it swiftly goes the way of Chiller's weird little anime experiment.

I get the frustration over Toonami, but how is having all of two shows that are a decade old at this point and running them every other week for God knows what reason in any way better?

There's William Henry Harrison: "I died in 30 days!"

Real talk, where the hell did they even find a 20-year-old SD episode tape?

I'm not sure I'll bother watching this thing: I was never super-interested in the Fateverse to begin with, and from the myriad of nerd arguments I've seen about it, no one seems to agree on what to watch first. There was an ANN feature on the whole franchise a couple of months ago, and that at least recommended starting with the DEEN adaptation of the original Fate route, then watching Unlimited Blade Works. Either way apparently the first episode of UBW is a prologue that's common to all three routes, so maybe I'll at least give that a look. That being said, the more I think about the setup for this block, the dumber it seems. So you're going to air one show one night, then repeat it a few nights later, okay...but then you're going to switch to a completely different show the following week, so that anyone following one of them will have to wait two weeks in-between episodes? That's incredibly fucking stupid. Just show an episode of each one per week like a normal-ass channel.

I mean why would they bother selling exclusive rights to a network that even by zombie cable standards presumably has far fewer eyeballs on it than [as] does? That makes no sense from a business standpoint. But honestly CR blocking out [as] from show acquisitions makes little sense to me in general. The block isn't directly competing with CR's service in any real way now.

My first thought is that I didn't even think I got this channel, but apparently it's way the hell up amongst the 3 or 4 duplicates of each channel that Xfinity has on the lineup for whatever reason. My second thought is that I don't see this lasting for any particular length of time, and I also highly doubt that them broadcasting MHA episodes that Toonami aired all the way back in 2018 will have any effect on whether or not they air the next season.

This...could be better. Only saving grace is that I don't have to tune out for a half-hour in the middle of what I want to watch like I do now.

Or wait...there might be something else that exists besides this shorts project? No one seems totally sure. Either way there's no more right now.

There is no season 2 of Lycoris. There was something like a one-off shorts project announced, but it's not a full season.

SwimCon!

I know nothing about it other than the few promo clips I've seen and didn't even remember that Judge was involved with it, but it definitely has a unique look if nothing else.

I've probably said this a half-dozen times before, but it's incredible to me how most of the main characters in this series are introduced as completely fucking awful people. I legit can't think of another shounen where the people I'm supposed to be cheering for are this unlikeable from the start. Those Shippuden filler episodes when they jump back to pre-genin times and show the characters paling around crack me up because, no, they clearly hated each other's guts back then. Hell, even this first OP is a lie, there's no point in the entire series when Squad 7 all act that nice towards each other.

Damn. Thank you for making that weird little OVA I watched on Saturday nights one of the greatest things I've ever seen.

That fucking song has been stuck in my head since I watched this yesterday. Halp.

I love that so much.

I guess that Robot Chicken sketch with Ted Turner was a true story then.

Procrastinators of the world, unite! ...tomorrow.

Doing things is so overrated.

Not sure if I'll bother with this run since I just watched all of it on Rewind, but I had so much damn fun with it. I'm several episodes into R, which is rare for me because I suck at watching stuff on my own.