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Redo of Healer actually has an interesting premise and very creative uses of "healing" powers. It's also terrible edge-lord tripe that has way more sexual assault than it has any business including but I was definitely entertained by watching the MC get his revenge on really terrible people. Lets just not try to think too much about how long he allowed himself to be treated as a sex toy once he got his memories back and started plotting his revenge. Sure getting pounded by soldiers was a way of increasing his power level but he sure let that go on longer than he probably needed to in order to be strong enough to enact his plans. Anyway... IFG plays the tropes, you can't argue otherwise but I do feel it is crafting its own identity at least as much as most shounen which borrow from the hits have done. You might not like the original elements but they're there and seemingly building toward something.

Zaslav still values linear for whatever reason but this could change his mind. Also wondering what part of Comcast their piece of Hulu falls under but I suppose it’s probably not the cable network part.

Advanced schedules show a DBZ Kai marathon (the next 4 episodes not repeats of recently aired ones) airing on December 6th which doesn't bode well for Sailor Moon continuing into season 2 before early 2025. On the other hand it could serve as promotion for Daima but that seems a little too optimistic to think. A lack of news for Daima's dub streaming anywhere remains a good sign that Toonami can get it before streaming but it's far from a sure thing.

No Thanksgiving marathon keeps IFG on track to end by 2025. Rumor has it eps 9 and 10 will air on December 21st so I’m not surprised but confirmation there will be no week off in November is nice. We might only have one week with no new content on Toonami for the rest of 2024, December 28th. If they need to stall one more week they might take January 4th off but that seems rather unnecessary.

I see tenderizing meat is taken as seriously as wrestling and accounting in this world. The way Mikey described how the unique tenderizing enhances food things were getting a bit Shokugeki. Mikey is built like a Joestar but I get the feeling he’s Andy’s Speedwagon. I was not thrilled to see Craig is back already and he’s clearly gonna be a reoccurring character. Andy is pretty dang strong for someone just starting out. She just needs to learn how to channel that strength. I knew the moment I say the spray bottle that Aunt P was going to use it on Andy. 🤣 I am quite enjoying this show so far.

I like the idea of an island where only accountants live and it’s serious business there. It’s stupid but charming how seriously they take accounting there and how seriously wrestling is taken world wide in this universe.

I quit at "good guy Satan" Which considering how much I enjoy Lucifer in Hazbin Hotel seems silly in retrospect but 10 years ago I thought that plot was so stupid and wasn't going to sit through more. I'll probably finish the anime original episodes this time if they run the whole thing.

I'm digging it so far. A very silly concept and they're having a lot of fun with it.

Given even the Kinikuman co-creator is disappointed at the performance of the new anime overseas, it’s safe to say it’s easy to miss Kinikuman and Tiger Mask anime and still have watched and enjoyed many anime.

It’s been up a few days. Give it a listen.

Just interviewed a director on the show (Matthew Bordenave) and I hope to have that up within then next day or so. After talking to him I am all the more excited to see more of the series.

There’s reasonably one way Zaslav could have caused this project to go to shit. After years of delays and only one episode complete he brought the hammer down and then the team had to scramble to finish the other 3 episodes without any additional budget and without Nagahama directing. You could argue they should have thrown more money at the job if that’s what it would take to maintain quality but the problems began with the initial budget and ambitious process for animating which Jason, Maki, Nagahama and anyone else managing the project should have realized much sooner and course corrected. Sure if they had thrown more money at it things could have turned out better but it’s pretty reasonable for someone at WBD (Zaslav or otherwise) to refuse amending the budget when things fell apart. If these projects cost too much than they’re no longer worth doing for WBD and they’re probably pretty satisfied with the performance on Max despite the critical reception. Ep 2 was pretty embarrassing at points and there’s rough stuff in 3 and 4 but the overall product isn’t nearly as bad as people make it out to be. It’s just a huge letdown from ep 1.

They just skipped 13 episodes of Naruto arbitrarily for Rewind. They absolutely can choose not to air the anime original stuff in BE after ep 16. But they probably won’t because unlike with Rewind the main block has no intention of leaving episodes unaired. A flimsy difference but one I expect they will argue if they ever have to answer for this decision. They paid for then so they will air them and probably milk the contract for every week they can.

Patrick Seitz, Anne Yatco and Kirk Thornton in prominent roles was nice. They all put in solid performances. Robbie Daymond was quite good at expressing Shuichi’s breakdown.

Yeah, same.

If you were wondering how much better something performs on Max vs Adult Swim. ANN has an interesting article that touches on that.

Potentially both but I think it's mainly that despite his grumblings (which are justified but not smart to post online) he's not gonna weaponize his gripes to write a book or something and throw the network under the bus.

He was applying for MeTV’s cartoon stuff before anyone even knew about MeTV Toons. It’s peculiar that he will say disparaging things about former employers and contractors but asks people not to request cameos where he trash talks those same organizations.

Unfortunately what Andy has experience in for television is a skill set very few networks even care about anymore (putting thought into schedules and having an extensive knowledge of programming libraries). MeTV was his best shot but after 5 interviews they ghosted him. He should write a book and spill all the tea about Turner Broadcasting, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. Tell everyone about their explosive contracts and working conditions over the years.

Not much has been reported about Get Jiro but I recall seeing someone talking about working on it on Twitter recently.

Viz was promoting the Japanese cast of Rooster Fighter at NYCC. I get the feeling it’s pretty far into production despite how recently it was announced. Primal season 3 and Get Jiro should be able to air in 2025. IFG might have 10 more episodes in its original order and MAWS could potentially air in Summer or Fall of 2025. If they have both Daima and MHA coming soon then they certainly could wait to bring in Lazarus till Daima ends but that’s nearly half the year and as mentioned above they could easily have 3 to 4 other originals besides Lazarus and Rooster Fighter so they should probably start the first original by March or even mid-February to end around Memorial Day weekend. Definitely don’t need to in January though.

If there ever was a year where having no holiday marathons in December made sense, it’s this year. I could see them run a regular block on December 21st at least but there’s honestly no good reason to preempt on the 28th either so many days after Christmas and before New Years Eve.

The filler part starts around episode 16 but it's all one license for 25 episodes. Kyoto Arc is next with 12 episodes, that was the one first relegated to Amazon's Anime Strike then the dub was exclusive to Hulu for years. Then there's 2 more arcs that have been animated (not by A1 Pictures), one aired earlier this year for 12 episodes and the other is airing right now. Within reason they can get at least the Kyoto arc, maybe by the time they finish that they can get Illuminati arc which aired in Spring of this year. Here's my latest builds. I still think they could swing getting Daima on in December but why bother if they're going to take at least 1 if not 2 weeks off because of Christmas and New Years? They won't finish IFG in 2025 unless they air both 9 and 10 on December 21st or actually run a premiere on December 28th and Lazarus looks to be right around the corner since it only needs to be dubbed and prepped for broadcast. I don't think they'll be dropping it in January though even though they did that with Space Dandy back in 2014. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eFK04dKeqeT2vurSRVSYO8EJsl0QLF3SRuMFuvyc-Hg/edit?usp=sharing

I’ll get bored first. I had trouble keeping my attention on it with the last 3 episodes. Overall a decent ending that didn’t look bad at all. I don’t care to revisit this soon if ever but I think it’s a B or a 7/10 which is still better than all the C tier originals they have co-produced but a huge let down after ep 1 was a 9/10.

I didn’t expect Aniplex reps to be able to say anything about additional seasons for Blue Exorcist so this doesn’t put a nail in the coffin by any means but it doesn’t improve the prospects either. There had better be a light at the end of this 6 month tunnel.