Top Gun

Man this sucks. A really great guy by all accounts, and probably the most dominant pitcher I've ever cheered for. Pitching a perfect game may have more allure, but his playoff no-hitter was goddamn unreal to watch. Nobody even came close to figuring him out.

I have no idea what the hell Filas are and am too lazy to Google. Indulge me.

I have Wawa. I don't need to ever set foot in a Subway.

Can someone translate this to non-fuggz?

Perseus.

The face you make when you're forced to eat Subway because there's no actual food available.

Seriously. Jojo is obscenely popular across anime fandom as a whole (you could flat-out drown in the memes), and HxH is a perennially-popular manga whose anime series is regularly held up as one of the best shounen adaptations ever. Attack on Titan is obviously a juggernaut, and I have to imagine Super does gangbusters for FUNi in streaming viewership. Gundam as a whole is admittedly more niche in the US, and Unicorn in particular relied on some foreknowledge of the Universal Century timeline, but within the fandom it's easily the most praised out of all the recent Gundam offerings (hell it's getting a giant statue in Japan), and Iron-Blooded Orphans had some decent buzz itself. Even as abysmal as Tokyo Ghoul is, a ton of people out there like it, and I even saw its limited-edition release in the top sellers list on RightStuf. Most of the shows Toonami picks up are relatively popular, but what seems to be a real crap-shoot is whether or not people actually want to watch/re-watch them on the block. Personally I love seeing things I've already watched show up on TV and have fun talking with other people who are watching them for the first time, but I get the impression that I'm in a distinct minority. A lot of anime viewers either don't rewatch shows in general, or don't care to rewatch them in English, or will just shrug their shoulders and rewatch via streams or home media at their convenience. I'm not really sure how you get them to tune in. (It's not like this is a new phenomenon for the block. Evangelion is easily one of the most popular anime series ever created, yet it barely made a blip when it aired on the block a decade ago. Or hell, look at Death Note, which is still plastered all over Hot Topic and was mainstream enough to get scare pieces on local news. It didn't exactly haul in a ton of eyeballs on Saturday nights either.) And when it comes down to it there's the underlying fact that Nielsen data is still fairly useless when it comes to measuring the impact of on-demand and delayed DVR viewings, which account for a pretty massive chunk of views these days. The actual numbers we're seeing for linear viewers don't matter nearly as much as they once did, which is why I tend to be intensely skeptical of claims that a particular show's numbers represent a flat-out "bomb." There are other occasional concerns as well: Super's Toonami numbers are obviously getting cut down by its before-the-block premieres, which I'm sure we have Toei to thank for. Problem is that there's not much you can do about that.

There was at least one: that investigator, Mado. I kept laughing my ass off every time the show tried to portray him in a sympathetic light, or treated his death as a sad event, or had his partner moping over his gravestone. Yeah, I'm going to shed a tear over a guy who straight-up fucking murdered a woman in front of her own child and would have done the same to the kid too. It was some hilarious tonal dissonance. But yeah, everything you said about the ghouls is absolutely right. If there'd been a sizable population of ghouls that were relatively normal, there could have been a half-interesting story buried in there involving seeking out a legitimate means of obtaining human flesh, like from morgues. But that would have required a writer who had the first goddamn idea what they were doing.

A true omega bottom to the end.

I miss Satoshi Kon so goddamn much.

Yeah I like how even the "good part" of the series had absolutely heinous writing. The second season should be considered a war crime.

"I never could get the hang of Thursdays."

FTFY

Thanksss for the sssour persssimmonsss, cousssin.

Why not just ask him?

I feel like I barely even noticed girls in high school. Our school didn't offer many fluffy electives, so I pretty much loaded up based on the academic side of things.

...you do realize that most series generating any sort of buzz get snapped up by providers with far deeper pockets than DeMarco could ever dream of having, right? I mean Netflix is going to flat-out co-produce up to 30 anime series in the next year or so. A Saturday night block on a niche cable network doesn't have anywhere near that kind of pull. I don't think for a second that DeMarco isn't aware of what's out there: the guy's a general fan of anime, and he frequently references a large breadth of shows. I don't agree with every choice he's made for the block, but I have to believe he's doing the best he can with what's actually feasible to acquire. (Also Fairy Tail is hot garbage, so good riddance.)

It's not for posting, just for lurking. I started using tabs like a fiend when I first downloaded Firefox 3 a solid decade ago, and I don't plan on going back. Lets you get your browsing done a hell of a lot faster.

...man how can you browse a forum without using tabs? Even if I'm looking at the Replies page I open up every thread in its own tab, and the same goes for individual folders. I'll usually wind up with at least a dozen tabs open at the start of my usual visit. It's a far more efficient way to browse than having to back your way out of a single thread at a time.

Yeah, I feel like people who don't care don't use tabs effectively. Half the time all I ever get out of here is WHARRGARBL.

Eh, it gives me one less week to inexorably fall behind on, so I'm all for it.

I like how they're proudly advertising the fact that they use shitty rice filler.

But here's the thing: the vast majority of the time, the fights really aren't all that cool. I know it's a tired gag by this point, but before Kai happened, there were literally entire episodes mostly dedicated to Goku or someone else standing around and grunting heavily as they tried to power up. (How Sean Schlemmel has a shred of a voice left by this point I will never know.) The choreography is certainly nothing to write home about, and there's next to no creativity: the vast majority of your typical DBZ fight involves a character throwing rapid-barrage punches and kicks at someone who's blocking them, or alternately doing the same with energy blasts, punctuated by the occasional flight through a cliff in some remote wasteland. There's next to no thinking outside the box, none of the crazy strategies that other shounen use so effectively. At least FOTNS has the fundamental amusement of perfectly-delayed head gibs. DBZ has...aneurysms? (Now I mean that's not to say that moments like Goku's first Super Saiyan transformation aren't extremely iconic. But they're so few and far between that they can't hold up the combat on their own.)

Well yeah, there's no denying what people are there for, but the problem is that the series itself tries to play up these big dramatic moments but only succeeds in falling flat on his face. Like, even taking the parody out of the picture, Abridged is a far better-written show than the original work it's spoofing.