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They're the FURTHEST from what I would call a knight and maidens. Beerus is going to have an aneurysm. Good job with that counterattack plan, Gohan. Erased the amulet too. You're cold, Zeno. That cute angel left all alone.

Seriously? These guys have movie villain henchmen level designs. Well I have to admit that's a great use of energy by that guy. Well, Piccolo's opponent was a pushover.

Avengers: Endgame! I can't believe it almost here already!

Good on Toonami running that promo for Alicization episode 6 before the block starts. Please get those reject Teletubbies out of the ring. After all that, they just leave?! Are they actually treating Winnie the Pooh as a serious threat? Gohan you cheap-ass. That was like a cheap move out of a fighting game. Nice new Toonami music video.

LMAO 17. Playing it up.

THE END TO FILLER NEXT WEEK! YES! https://www.animefillerlist.com/shows/naruto-shippuden https://www.animefillerlist.com/shows/bleach What this? Shippuden only has a filler percentage rate of 43%?! And Bleach has 46%?! Well, it sure feels longer and less tolerable in Shippuden! Maybe it's because Shippuden has 500 episodes and Bleach only had 366. Then again I'm pretty disillusioned with the Naruto franchise in general at this point, so that probably doesn't help.

EPISODE 6 DISCUSSION REBOOTED Yep, since the last episode switched from Underworld to the real world, my last recap was worthless. But! This time will be different! Last time on Sword Art Online: Alicization, Asuna, along with her and Kirito's friends, tried to find his whereabouts after he was moved from his original hospital after the attack by Johnny Black, the second half of Death Gun and member of Aincrad player killer guild Laughing Coffin. She got ahold of Kayaba's girlfriend and co-developer, Rinko Kojiro, and together they made their way to the ocean platform where Underworld was being run and Kirito was being held. Yui, a fake ID, and a brilliant disguise got Asuna in the door. Kikouka has an angry Asuna to deal with! Just what is going on with Kirito? Find out tonight, on Sword Art Online: Alicization, on Toonami! Alright, let's try this again...

It's more of a hope than a theory, but yeah. T__T What the heck, is there like some kind of meta-universe for your anime idea? o_O Yeah! Man, it just has to come back some day! So many great moments in that arc that deserve to be animated and seen and experienced by more people!

I thought Jman was talking about the dub, too.

I'm a completionist myself, but, the rerun at the end of the block won't get done by the time the new season gets here? Attack on Titan definitely isn't a show you can just jump in the middle of, either. I'm sure people will find a way. Most of the Gundam series have been wastes of time. I've only liked G Gundam so far, and the first season of Iron Blooded Orphans. Then they had to go ruin it with season 2! But's all just an opinion and not a fact, of course. =3 Yeah I think you're right. I'm not even sure if the episode was half-way done at that point? Either way, the damn brain-in-box ruined everything, so it's probably best to start fresh!

Dear Kami, I hope not. That would be a waste of a slot, a waste of everyone's time, and rerunning Attack on Titan at the front helped torpedo the block the last time it was done. And given the pacing, the suspense building, constant cliffhangers, mystery building, etc., AoT doesn't have a whole lot of re-watch value. You just wanna' get to the next thing.

I remember when somebody was complaining to Demarco either on Twitter or Ask about them having not having any Dragon Ball, and Demarco said they don't need it. It's funny with how they jumped on Kai as soon as it was available, and how dependent they've become on Dragon Ball now. I'm sure they could survive without it, and I hope they've been making preparations.

My pipe dream is that Toonami is secretly co-funding the anime for the final Bleach arc. Bleach: Bankai, has a nice ring to it. Bleach always did great ratings for ASA and Toonami, was the series that kept ASA going long enough for the Toonami return experiment to even be viable, and Bleach fans stuck around for the following shows a lot more than those weird Dragon Ball Only anime fans. But yeah they're going to need something to take Super's place and I don't think rerunning it is a good idea. I hope they've been preparing.

You have failed us again, Demarco.

You're making it harder and harder to like you, Jingai.

Yeah, all the people that were laughing at SAO's airing getting botched last week now have another full hour of SAO to look forward to! Courtesy of Toonami! Enjoy!

Was another thread really necessary for this? After we had the episode thread, the Sword Art Offline thread, then CountFrylock made yet another thread with Demarco addressing the issue, and now this thread. I swear Al just makes some threads just for the sake of being the OP of "big" threads like when some news like this breaks, even though it's not necessary. I won't really complain about him grabbing so many episode threads because no one really cares about the "competition" anymore, where that competition was always who has the best atomic clock and not the quality of the OP itself, and many of us are too lazy to make the episode threads, no one gives a shit about certain shows, or we just plain forget. I guess we're all getting old. But, redundant threads are redundant. If we weren't going to discuss the glitch issue in the episode thread, one additional thread, Poke's perfectly titled Sword Art Offline thread, was all that was needed. On the topic of how many threads, should we make another episode thread for episode 6, or reuse last week's thread? Does the episode thread were the glitch happened need to be preserved for posterity and historical significance? Some people seem to think that this incident is interesting because of how rarely this happens. For me, it's just annoying and a hassle, this time, and any other time this has happened, like with Big O and Eureka 7. Though it was more thoughtlessness than a glitch with Eureka 7, since they cut legit content "for time" intentionally. For when episodes 7 and 8 air, I think one thread should be necessary even though it's not one episode like with the premiere? Then people don't have to worry about clicking into a new thread to continue the discussion. Anyway, I am glad they are re-airing the episode they botched. I don't know why they are so insistent on SAO not being behind an episode, but they are and so we have another hour of SAO coming up. I am quite frankly shocked that we don't know what the Megalo replacement is, and especially that Demarco can't even name it. So it's not because it's a "surprise," which by the way, surprises don't help with a new show starting out that people need to know what it is and that it's airing to be there to watch and/or set their DVRs. Promoting something kind of actually matters. I gotta wonder how this would have panned out if the glitch didn't happen. You'd think they'd be more on top of things than to be negotiating down the last minute.

Was this thread mislabeled? I can't find an episode 22 Boruto thread anywhere.

LMAO WUT?! SERIOUSLY DEMARCO?! It's almost like this display of incompetence is an advertisement for people to not use cable and watch Demarco's block and instead find the shows streaming online.

I see. Well, if it's a case of author death, I don't know that I'd want to start watching it, anyway. Unless everything was laid out and plotted out beforehand, it's not going to be the author's original vision anymore. Even before knowing this, it still seems kinda eehhh... seems like there is some pandering and cringy stuff going on with it, if you get what I mean. And that is unfortunate. I also learned that I had been mispronouncing BlazBlue all these years, when Jim Sterling did his mispronunciation joke thing with BlazBlue when he talked about the RWBY characters being in the game. It's "BlazeBlue and not "BlazzBlue." x_x

Oh, so then you don't have full bitching rights, either! You need to go back and re-watch everything before you can talk! Anyway, Naraku could vouch for this. I may have been going off what he said, too. In either case, all I can judge is what's been presented in front of me. But yeah, Hunter Exam was definitely a slog. Remember when there was a whole episode of the characters running? I'm not sure what you're referring to specifically. I mean, if someone doesn't find characters likable or relatable, no amount of facts or elaboration is going to change that person's mind. If it's a matter of a show being too talky, and I like a show like that? Like Moribito? But I like those characters and that world, and found the discussions interesting. A whole episode is spent on Chagum dismantling this gambling scam artist, and it was enjoyable to me. Stuff like this happens all the time in HxH. Sorry if I don't find candle games enthralling. Or whatever that game was with Killua's butler. It was just stupid. That sort of stuff was done better in pre-card game Yugioh than any similar examples in HxH. HxH thinks this stuff is so clever and interesting, but it isn't. I called HxH directionless? Well, people are calling JoJo: Diamond is Unbreakable directionless, too, you might say. But the thing is, the stories we follow in JoJo are actually interesting and entertaining, as opposed to wherever HxH might decide to meander. It's just executed better. And again, likable characters help. What I did notice was that the direction of the plot for this part of the arc wasn't obvious at first, as it was happening and building up, but there is a direction to this arc that we can see now, in spite of what people have said. At the same time, I can't really say watching a whole episode of Gon trying to get through a door was compelling or worth reaching the ultimate destination. It's just not interesting. And I hear they spend a whole episode antiquing later on? Eh. Like I said, plodding, and nothing happens, nothing interesting, anyway. When I look at episode count for the HxH episodes I watched and compare it to just about anything else, it's no contest. One's time would be better spent watching almost anything else. I could have watched some great 13, 26, or 52 episode series, or some good arcs from some long-runners with the time I wasted on this show. And the first episode hook is nonexistent compared to any other shonen. Just about any shonen I can rattle off, Dragon Ball, Bleach, Naruto, One Piece, Fairy Tail, Black Clover, all give you a good feel for the world and gets you to want to join the characters on their adventure. With HxH, you don't get that all, and then people tell you to keep watching, it's going to get good. No, a show needs to be good from the beginning. Start off good and get better, maybe, but not start out as crap with a supposed promise to one day get good. People talked this show up for years about how it was God's Gift to Shonen, the greatest shonen ever made, it's so subversive and DARK, dude! Because those last two things are supposed to make it good in and of themselves, for some reason. And I'm like... what are you talking about, when I finally saw the show. This is a whole a lot of nothing. Maybe I overlook similar flaws in series I enjoy because they have other things going for them that massively outweigh these flaws and redeem them in my eyes, or I don't find the flaws to be flaws. It's hard to say without you giving examples.

Hey now, Alicization has majorly dialed back on the fan service.

Oh god, I hope not. I haven't read the manga either. But, right now in the anime - Vic will definitely be replaced, since Funi already kicked him to the curb a while ago, but what you're getting at is we're still going to remember from when Mard Geer was played by Vic anyway. Ugh, yeah.