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"I want you close by, where I can watch you" Uhhh the writer does know what you sound like? It's kind of ridiculous how Shigedai is literally a clone of his father. At least the others have different personalities. He's running that catchphrase into the ground.

IT WAS TALK NO JUTSU Well said, Naruto. It is kind of crazy to just let her off scot free though. Not even any ninja juvie hall??

What is this? Telepathy? Or the convo happened earlier and they're recounting it? Evenly matched? Goku didn't even go Super Saiyan.

Goku couldn't get out of that but Frieza did, really? Then he again he didn't transform at all. Beerus is not happy. Yeah bringing back Frieza was a GREAT idea.

Okay borrowing energy is one thing, but borrowing an attack? Well, I guess that is a form of energy.... Destruction Energy even stops someone from passing to Other World? Suuure... Goku turned his back on Frieza. Bad move. LOL Frieza already turning on Goku and wants to join another team. They didn't prohibit people from joining from other universes?!

My comment from last week was addressed. Frieza managed to get better fuel mileage out his golden form. Still like Cooler's Super Shredder form over this recolor. Lol at them giving that one assassin Yamcha's voice.

https://www.polygon.com/2019/1/25/18197827/dragon-ball-super-broly-vic-mignogna-harassment-response We've heard these stories before. I'd always thought the worst of it was him just being too touchy feely and hugging on people and making some of them uncomfortable, not actual groping and sexual harrassment, much less full on assault. I really hope this stuff isn't true. Vic says people are just doing it for attention or whatever. Can't imagine what someone's motivation would be to make this stuff up. How much attention and possibly payday are you going to get out of going after a anime dub voice actor? There's fangirls and some guys defending him to the death on his twitter. Of course, not every interaction is going to be the same and there's no way he could get by with this if he was groping literally everybody. I heard the stories about him being a pain to deal with at conventions by staffers but thought maybe it was just some people with an axe to grind. Apparently he has been banned from some conventions. He said he took his furstrations at promises not being kept on the wrong people. I could live with him just being an asshole. There's lots of asshole entertainers we still like, like CM Punk. Well, maybe we don't like some of them so much anymore... So, the homophobic thing. Not sure what to make there. Seems overblown. Said he was told by his bosses that the character he played wasn't gay. Could see him refusing to sign fan art in general, especially if it's graphic. People have disputed this claim and said he has signed other fan art, and the yaoi fan art wasn't graphic. Who knows. The thing about conventions letting him play preacher is really fucking weird though. Not really sure what to think of this or what to believe. Guess we'll learn more soon enough. Good luck redubbing every anime with him in it, by the way. Why was he even brought back to play Broly? I thought he hated the role because of the stress it puts on his voice. Was he even Broly in the other movies?

I assume you meant thumbs you up and not thumps you up?

You mean they weren't voiced by the same guy this whole time?! Those two must just sound really similar, or were able to do a similar voice.

Well, we don't know how long the dub was ready. Toonami had to make space for the show after all. I think SAO II got here even faster. Still fast compared to other dubs though. That's good. Speaking of dubs that should not take that long in this day and age. Not sure I'm interested in KonoSuba. Re:Zero is the one that's supposed to be worth checking out, from what I have heard, and from diverse sources.

No one is going to watch Toonami stuff by itself and many viewers would probably get annoyed if it were attached to episode videos. The best they could probably get by with is having a branded Toonami collection, but not sure what the point would be. Demarco has mentioned that a Warner Over-the-top Service is coming. Again it would be the same conundrum having Toonami there. And as I have talked about before, everyone starting their own streaming service misses the point and defeats the purpose of things like Netflix and Hulu. That being their massive selection and libraries. I'm not going to sign up for something just to watch one show. You'd also eventually be nickel and diming yourself back up to a full cable bill if you signed up for enough of them. Cable and satellite companies are not doing themselves any favors with their refusal to change their business model and pricing, though. The current situation with streaming may be the closest we get to a la carte model if cable and satellite never do it.

Well, that's one less thing for @OwlChemist81 to talk to himself about. Not sure most people really cared about this. And as long as they are still putting up in the individual episodes to watch on the website and on to watch On-Demand on your cable box, no loss.

So it was inevitable after all. Ya know, Demarco, the GGO anime was completely inoffensive, just saying. And yeah episode 10 is pretty over-the-top and beyond the pale. Wonder what Toonami will do about that. You think there will be protests? Can anyone remember if Rape Ape was post #metoo? Of course, that JoJo scene could barely be taken seriously, along with the rest of th ridiculous things that happen in JoJo. The SAO scene, even if cartoonish and over-the-top, is intended to be taken seriously. It's a shame too, because the show has been great besides that episode, as has been said. But yeah arc is good and different from the rest of SAO. Maybe the best SAO so far. Of course, that won't mean much to some people. Looks like they either can't or didn't want to split up the first episode, which was an hour long. Should be fun. Looks like MegaloBox is taking a break that week. Will all these breaks cost it momentum and cause viewer confusion, though? And Mob Psycho is already endin?! D: Now this is a fast dub turnaround. Aniplex has done well once again. I will be very interested to see who plays Eugeo and how they do.

So, it takes 70-something episodes to get to an arc that takes 60 episodes to critique Gon's morals. Ok lol. I don't know what shows you're talking about where protagonists get to act like assholes and get away with it. It's also a false choice to say it has to be one of those two options. Hisoka isn't really bad? WUT lol. How about the Phantom Troupe? Come the fuck on. I didn't watch the arc with them in it, but they slaughtered an entire ethnicity of people for money. There's not much wiggle room there. Some of the Zoldyck family are also pretty clearly horrible people, but the show treats them like they're just "wacky," like the anime version of the Addams Family or Munsters or something. It's not funny. It's just dumb and nonsensical. The first link says the data isn't in yet. The second one says 90% of prisoners show signs of psychopathy, the third link says it's the same percent as CEOS, 21%. And it says that someone can be cured of psychopathy?! That's news to me! I do remember reading/hearing something about investment bankers tend to be aggressive assholes, and that women shouldn't be feel bad there's a shortage of women investment bankers because of this. I can't find it now.

I don't remember that. And why would there only be two kids in an entire town? Doesn't make much sense. Do homeschooled children have socialization issues? From what I quickly and lazily searched up, seems like probably do but it's hard to get good data, since a lot of the studies are done by homeschooling advocates. She lied about his dad being dead? Well, Goku let Vegeta live because he said he wanted to fight him again. Though, it's worth noting that Vegeta was supposed to die here, after his original appearance, but was kept alive by the editors because Vegeta was popular. I mean, a lot of the Z Fighters are past enemies, but Vegeta was introduced as someone who slaughtered billions if not trillions, and enjoyed it. Later Toriyama tries to retcon it as Frieza made him do it and was just following orders, etc. Goku lets Frieza power up completely because he says he wants to fight Frieza at his best. It seems obvious before this that even if Frieza was at full power, he wouldn't stand a chance against Super Saiyan Goku. Of course, Frieza is still extremely dangerous and should've just been put down as quickly as possible once Goku had the upper hand. At the end, Goku even gives Frieza some of his own energy, granting him mercy, thinking he might change or at least crawl off somewhere, but he attacks Goku so Goku has to take him out. Really what it is, is Goku is merciful, sometimes because he wants a chance to fight them again, or a naive notion they might change their ways, or both, and in a lot of cases to people who do not deserve it. But what makes even less sense is Goku straight up killed fools when he was a kid, and as far as I'm aware there's never any explanation given for this character change. But to be fair, all the other characters chew out Goku for this behavior. I watched through that Heaven's Arena stuff. Don't know which episode I stopped on. Was around the time the show finally got around to explaining how its fighting system works long after I stopped caring, in an extremely boring and uninteresting way, and Gon and Killua chopping people in the back. I don't really recall anyone calling Gon's actions into question. Mostly people just talked about how special and awesome he is.

I watched up through Heaven's Tower or whatever it's called. And you shouldn't need that many episodes to explain things. On the first episode of most shows you instantly understand their world, with of course more than can be elaborated and expanded upon later. That worldview is why I sometimes question if human psychology works different in that world or maybe Togashi doesn't just understand how people work.

I'm sure, but you do seem bizarrely obsessed with content ratings, unlike anything I've ever seen. You must be getting something out of it warrant that level of unwarranted interest.

I dunno, the ropes and mask are awfully tight, and the one eye being closed etc suggests struggling and difficulty breathing. She certainly doesn't seem to be enjoying herself.

Sounds like you're projecting. Or maybe volunteering some of your own fantasies. Keep them to yourself.

Your stuff is downright vanilla. These other people are just sickos!

So will Moose be self-immolating himself soon?

What world building? I mean, you can say show and don't tell all you want, but if what is shown is contradictory and nonsensical...

I was going to say that but was too lazy to look it up and didn't want to be wrong, lol. But yeah, self-insert for Roddenberry. I wonder if he was aware the term came about from a woman who wrote a fanfic parodying Star Trek fanfiction way back when? Like, literally Mary Sues came from Star Trek fans and he puts one his show, lol. Yeah I remember that. Was Wesley jettisoned off the show before or after Roddenberry died? It gets used a lot, but overused in some cases. As I said, not every character that gets accused of being a Mary-Sue actually is one. Reki said he was inspired to write SAO because he was a big MMO fan but wasn't very good at them, and was impressed with the elite players in them, so he created SAO with those kind of characters. I don't know if it's literal self-insert for Reki himself, but if the wish fulfillment for viewers is "good at videogames," there's a lot worse things you can do. Number 1 in every state? What? Also I thought the show was reviled. All this talk makes me want to check it out. Chances of it getting on Toonami? I talked about that before. The whole series is basically the director shouting "look how awesome my wife is!" The first movie is watchable at least, then the movies get progressively worse, but yeah, it's lame not having the game characters as main characters. Kind of reminds me of Nozomi coming in and stealing the thunder from the established canon characters, or the original Mary Sue story, lol.

So, I got side-tracked and fell behind at episode 5. Just got caught up the past few weeks but didn't have a chance to post on the episodes. And yeah, what happened in episode 10, and the lead up in episode 9, was really, really bad. It's somehow even worse than the incident with Oberon. What the hell was Reki thinking putting this scene in?! It was not needed! This arc was going so well, too! Here's my post on the episode itself - For all the light novel readers that were extolling the virtues of this arc, saying this is the best arc of SAO, or the people that even went so far as to say that this is the ONLY good arc of SAO, I wonder they have to say about this. I really want to know if the ABEC versions of Oberon, Raios, and Humbert look this creepy, or if it's something made worse by the anime's character designer. Why do they have to look so fucking creepy? The way their eyes and their faces are, it's just... GAH. What really sucks about this is we can't really just write this off like we did with Fairy Dance and pretend the whole arc never happened, like with Bleach's Bount Arc. Alicization has mostly been good so we can't really divorce it from the rest of the show like that. Indeed, we don't just want to write it off, so there's no getting around this! This arc is now tainted! DAMN IT, Reki! https://comicbook.com/anime/2019/01/20/sword-art-online-sexual-assault-plot-device-comments-reki-kawahara/ https://mobile.twitter.com/frog_kun/status/1086434402089881601 https://comicbook.com/anime/2018/12/15/sword-art-online-alicization-sexual-assault-creator-response/ https://comicbook.com/anime/2018/12/09/sword-art-online-season-3-censorship-rape-assault-anime-stream/ https://comicbook.com/anime/2018/12/13/sword-art-online-anime-sexual-assault-rape-explanation-story/ So, Reki said he included rape in his stories because light novels he read had rape in them. Anyone know anything about these series and how it was used in them? Regardless, that's not the best way to take influence or inspiration from another story. You don't just put something into your story because you read it in other stories. After going to fan events in the U.S., he's realized and decided that he's not going to include rape in future stories. That's Japan for you... I guess no Japanese fans had any issue with the scenes? Lovely. He said the anime made the rape scene way more intense and graphic than in the book, and apologized to the voice actors. Anyone read that light novel and can tell us what it was like there? But I mean, why would the anime creators make it even worse?! It was censored on Hulu? How much worse could it be than it already was?! *watches video that was linked* Okay that's worse but not as bad as it could have been. But the scene was pretty bad to begin with.

Shows how off the mark I was about those "constant orgies," lol.