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Baseball is more universal and international. Well, between Japan and USA, at least.

Ball of bases.

Hope you guys are ready for the second week of greatness! Bluh.

God damn it, Jingai.

Ep 12 - 3rd place? I don't see how either one of you think you are going to be in any shape to fight T-S. SAO, a legendarily terrible game. I'm sure haters will say she was talking about the show, too. Good job of disarming Pito of her photon sword. So P-chan jammed herself, or just happened to have been jammed? Is she actually alive?! So M was secretly helping defeat Pito? Not sure how killing all the amazons helped though. Had Fuka chop her hands off so she could bite Pito's throat. That was pretty hardcore! And then T-S who stayed back the whole time just mow down LLENN and Fuka! Cheap-asses! Shouldn't you be meeting Pito first before you give more candy to these brats? Nice necklace though. 19 is considered a minor? Rofl that fatass was M. No that face is not handsome! And of course he got a complex over it. But stalking a cute girl is not the answer! Turn this car around LOL. Fuka probably more sense than any woman in the SAO franchise! Pito knew and then asked him to her apartment, beat him, tied him up and made her her manservant through blackmail? Nothing about this relationship or how it started is healthy in any way, from either side! The music stopped, and their reactions LOL. M stands for masochist! Pito is the club owner. Uh-huh. So Elsa Kanzaki is like Japanese Sarah McLaughlin. Why is there no subtitles for this song?! Or the OP or ED for that matter?! The animation for Elsa's mouth when singing seems kind of lazy. Did they do that for the benefit of the dub? The jig is up! Good to know Karen figured this out, just as easily as the audience did. Yup, there's no mistaking that laugh! Boobie hug. Elsa is being smothered! LLENN is cute in real life too. She is! She just kissed her?! What the hell?! How old is Elsa? Because she looks very young. Because that would make her relationship with M even more inappropriate. So that's it?! That's the ending?! Shouldn't there be more to it than that? Elsa sure seemed to get over her obsession with death easily. Maybe LLENN/Karen caused her to have an epiphany. I'll have to watch the episode again. Good to hear Pito now understands games are for FUN.

But Luffy got a nosebleed. There are also other things, like Luffy saying he doesn't drink alcohol, and ordered a glass of milk (not a 4kids thing, shockingly enough) which was forgotten about later.

It still kind of came off like Luffy is oblivious to me. Those shojo scenarios that Boa would imagine were hilarious, though. That's because Goku was a little kid and the only other person he knew was his grandpa, who obviously never gave him the birds and bees speech. He was also confused that Bulma didn't have a tail. Though now that I think about it why didn't he think it was odd his grandpa didn't have a tail? Well Luffy is very accepting and doesn't judge people like that. I wouldn't call it an "aversion" to women. He's very protective of Nami, which ended up being shipper fuel. Of course these people conveniently neglect that he's protective of any of his crew or friends. Not sure what the last picture proves? I mean like I said Luffy isn't a judgmental person. He has no shame either, lol.

I must have forgotten. It's been a while since I've seen those episodes.

That's pretty dumb if she can't turn off her power.

Yeah but even then how are they going to air the movie finale? I'll go with that, thanks.

Haruko's eyes are red now, so she still doesn't match her original appearance. Did this happen when she ate Jinyu?

I wasn't sure what to do since if I recall correctly they improved the visuals when they made Gundam Unicorn into a series. I see. Well that's odd. If those extra episodes aren't dubbed, that doesn't really help me much. Don't really want to switch back and forth, so I guess I'll just stick with the OVAs and movie, then. Maybe this mess is why Toonami hasn't aired Arise.

Funny thing is, her hair almost looks like an orange sherbet color in that picture. At least on my monitor.

It's really called The New Movie? So should I watch the OVA or series version? If it's available to stream I should check it out since I am subscribed to Funimation Now.

Oh ok. I don't think that's been revealed in what I've seen so far. Don't remember anything about her mom being a marine. Either way, not all marines are evil. Again, it's a RETCON. And an annoying one at that. And just makes Luffy come off as more retarded than anything else.

I thought it was a movie series originally because they were numbered 2, 3, etc and there were just a few of them. So it was OVAs? I have no idea what to watch then.

In Dragon Ball, Goku and Blue went through a portal to get there, implying it was a whole other world or dimension, on top of that. So who knows, heh.

Wow. Why would this be canon? You think Rebecca will be important somehow? No one was asking you to post the reviews...

Oh I see. When I first heard about it, I thought it was a complete reboot. Should I watch the movie or series version?

Just 12 episodes and it was probably on in a dead hour. I guess it explains how Shippuden never got canceled even with all the filler bullshit Pierott pulled. Indeed. But Toonami won't tolerate this show if it shits the bed either. I can't see it doing well. Surely it will get pushed back if it bombs bad enough?

Oh ok. I guess I should watch it sometime if Toonami is never going to show it. It being another continuity is probably why I didn't rush out to watch it. Ghost in the Shell is a strange duck. As I understand it, the movies, Standalone Complex, and Arise are all different continuities, and none are straight adaptations of the manga. Also the manga is supposedly more light-hearted and cartoony, which I wouldn't have expected.

Not what I'd expect for Motoko. Unless maybe she is younger in that series, or the VA can vary her voice a lot.

Thanks for the info, Blatch. That explains things somewhat I guess. Though I don't know how the repeating thing flew in Japan and how it didn't get canceled because of it.

Don't wanna wake Dandy.