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Toonami will continue to get fucked by Netflix (but even harder.)

Luffy is Brazilian. Though that's not very specific given how diverse that country is.

Pretty obviously a fake photoshop joke, especially with Eminem as Eneru, given that we know he was based on him. Like seriously, Al?

Nevermind the tags. Have you seen the show? All the girls are into the Tatsumi, and even the gay guy. Even EsDeath, a villain, is into him. Was also a pretty bad show, but a fucking masterpiece compared to Tokyo Ghoul. Well I do admit that watching something trashy or schlocky could have it's own entertainment value. That kind of show can be fun. Nothing you'd take too seriously, of course. Sort of like Hellsing. Really if they aired Kill la Kill they should be able to get away with quite a lot. Of course High School of the Dead itself is pretty old by now. Haven't seen DxD, but it could work. Yeah they don't have much to lose haha.

People don't give a shit about Gundam.

Most of those shows are crap though and I have little interest in them. Personally I don't even see the point of ecchi when full-on hentai exists. I mean if that's what we have to resort to to keep the block alive I'm not sure it's worth it. But yes Toonami is an action block. Besides just the theming, I believe Demarco has said this is what gets the best ratings. But yeah the past few years they've been dropping the ball big time by not getting any of the big shows. On Twitter Demarco asked what genres of shows people would like besides action, with the qualifying statement that Toonami wasn't doing it, but just out of curiosity. So maybe the guy in that video saw that and ran with it. Maybe they are getting desperate and thinking of experimenting, who knows.

THANK YOU. I've been saying forever that SAO isn't a harem. Though, personally, I'm not really a fan of the genre. And to be fair, Toonami did air Tenchi Muyo GXP and Akame Ga Kill. I think they'd air a harem show if it had enough action and someone else didn't swipe it from under Demarco's nose. There are hot girls but I'm not sure how much fan service there is, not these days anyway. In a Q&A Demarco said there wasn't room on the block or the right deals to be able to get Fairy Tail. So I don't think fan service had anything to do with it. Besides, it seems pretty tame to me so far.

He's admitted to just making the series up as he went along and not really keeping up with things. But now, with straight up changing Goku's personality and claiming it was always this way, he's either senile or full of shit. Since the end of Dragon Ball was implying Tien x Launch I like to headcanon her as being at his house, lol.

There's still no explanation for why Goku went from straight up killing fools as a child, to a merciful adult. As for Goku in Super I'm going to chalk it up the continued degradation of Goku's brain due to the head injury he suffered as a child.

Came across this - Bulma's hair color has actually changed through the years, even in just the anime. Never noticed before. It's always been turquoise but it's more on the green end, though occasionally on the blue end. Didn't notice that it went more blue again for Super. Still, none of this is as big of a change for Trunks from purple to straight up blue! Trunks hair was ICONIC!

Also plays into the fat jokes and how Yajirobe is constantly eating. But yeah, haha.

Oh. Well, we'll see how it turns out I guess!

Yeah I was thinking Lion-O was the sheltered prince, but the others seemed to be trained fighters, even the two kids. Better than He-Man's voice acting... >_> Oh, I didn't realize that. Thought it was at the beginning. And yeah, for sure! I didn't realize it only went on for two years. Must have been rerun for sure, because it seemed like it was on for a long time, and there was a shit-load of toys. Thought She-Ra was a spin-off. Just got finished watching it. Oh man, oof. Where do I begin? That article wasn't kidding about it being cheap. These production values are terrible! The near constant "HE-MAN!" transitions. Enough, lol! Can't think of any other show that spammed the transition thing to this degree, haha. Did not remember He-Man always having that echo to his voice... That article mentioned the show creating characters nearly every week to make a new toy. This Kor guy is a prime example of that LOL. Also he's clearly voiced by Skeletor's voice actor, haha. Yeah for what should have been an action-packed series, there definitely isn't much of it, and it's poorly animated and awkward. Just like the article described, lol. Yup definitely not great and way worse than ThunderCats.

Oh, you've seen it before?

He's biting his butt, not "eating out his ass." Remember, Yajirobe has straight up eaten people before, LOL.

My cousin's boyfriend got a Rick & Morty t-shirt for Christmas. He remarked how he doesn't even know what TV channel it comes on and just watches it on Hulu and Youtube. Demarco, get mad!

I thought this EVIL GOKU arc was supposed to be good. I mean, the show hasn't been bad since we got out of the movie adaptation arcs, and I love the slice-of-life filler eps, lol.

The Daphne Arc actually wasn't bad, but it was short. Though it was silly that something as big as GRAY'S BETRAYAL happened in filler, even if it wasn't a real betrayal. Also, Gray's plan kind of didn't make sense, lol. Yeah, it's never fun when things drag, canon or filler.

It was still weird. I mean I guess he could have just been a kid, but probably would've been too weak to fight the bad guys. Wilykat and Wilykit seemed more experienced, but I think there was probably a reason for that. Weren't the ThunderCats all the royal guard or something? I think the new series struck a good balance with Lion-O just being a teenager/young man who was still coming up in the world. G.I. Joe? I thought that was dumb even when I was a kid, because it was a war where no one died. Loved the toys, though! I've gone back and watched some of the old 80s shows. Some hold up better than others. I still like M.A.S.K. as an adult, but maybe others wouldn't. It was my favorite cartoon from back then, after all. Scott and T-Bob are still annoying as fuck though. Transformers didn't live up to my foggy childhood memories, but it's not too bad. It's about a bunch of robots bashing each other. What do you want? Plus there's some really good standout episodes. The Real Ghostbusters still holds up pretty well I think. Surprisingly creative and not repetitive for how many episodes there are and what the concept is. What about TMNT? I've gone back and watched a few eps and still enjoyed it. And outside of Transformers it's one of the few cartoons from back then that's been brought back for various iterations and lasted. Umm, weren't all of those cartoons made to sell toys? He-man, oh god. I used to love He-man, but I'm pretty sure if I watch it now it will be terrible. I'm sure the new series that CN had is better. I always wanted the toys but never had any. I was told later that my mother wouldn't get them for me because they were too satanic and too homoerotic. We're not even that religious so I'm pretty sure that's just an excuse because she didn't want to buy me the toys. Apparently I wanted the Snake Mountain playset. LOL, that article. I knew a lot of that, but not all of it. Can't believe that the executive producer voiced all those characters. He had to have some experience to do many different voices, though? Yeah, that's part of that 5-parter that opens the series I talked about, where the other Cats test Lion-O. It was pretty good. You know, ThunderCats was called a poor man's He-man, but I'm pretty sure He-man is worse. I should go watch some episodes, haha.

Well, I considered skipping the filler, but I'm a bit of a completionist. If nothing else, I'll only have to watch them once, haha. I did hear the filler arcs were terrible, but I figure mileage can vary. And nothing can be worse than Bleach's Bount Arc, right? I actually blocked most of that from memory! What the fuck?

Is that what the upcoming filler arc is called?

So Mashima's hands might not be clean, then. D: I'll have to look up that OVA on the wikia after I watch it to see, what, if any manga chapters it's based on.

I think I see what you mean. It's kind of "off-brand" for lack of a better term, haha. But not in a bad way, yeah. And it's nice to have alternatives. I'm sure there's others but it might take some digging. Also implied gay or headcanon gay doesn't always mean confirmed gay. For example, Ikkaku and Yumichika could easily be a couple, but it's never stated that their relationship goes beyond close friends/brotherly thing. I don't think it was ever even confirmed that Yoruichi is bi and Soifon lesbian, but it seems very likely to me. At the same time, it could have always just been meant to be a close mentor/motherly/sisterly relationship, and Soifon was jealous of Urahara like a kid is jealous when their mom dates a guy. It could go either way. That's one of the Edolas characters isn't it?

Yeah there's a lot to love about this show. I mean it's nice to have around as a counterbalance to all the edgelord shit that's out there. The OST is great but there needs to be more songs, heh. Still, the ones it has are so catchy! There was a lot of that in the Tennrou Island Arc I just watched. Ultear's story and the girl she raised. And Cana, man... T__T

Tennrou Island Arc - So, this is kind of an odd setup for this Class S Trial. They have partners to help them? But those partners don't gain anything in this? Just thought that part was strange. Guess it is to encourage camaraderie and team work. Cana was prominent and actually developed in this arc. Can't say I expected that. I always thought she was just going to be that drunk girl at the guild. I have the same reaction to her moment with Gildarts as Happy and Natsu did. T__T I like the stuff about fear and knowing when you're beat, etc. Gildarts seems like a good mentor. Erza vs that tree dude was fricken epic! The way Natsu beat the dark fire guy was pretty impressive and creative. Use up all of his own magic so he could eat that 'toxic' fire. As the former master of Fairy Tail, it's unfortunate to see Hades go down the DARK PATH. The fight against the sumo guy was fun, and creative. I liked Lucy being used as a weapon LOL. So, that tree protects people? Stops them from dying? Is that why nobody in the show has died yet? Or does it just work on the island? We finally got the reveal of what the heck has been going on with Ultear. Definitely seemed pretty evil, but it turns out she was just extremely misguided. She had to know her power couldn't reverse time on that level. Very sad. I like the story with her “daughter” too. Lulz, Juvia has gone even more batshit in this arc. For a while there I thought Mirajane had actually died to save Lisanna. This would be a bit poetic and also show that Lisanna coming back wasn't without cost. Turns out Mirajane wasn't actually dead of course, heh. Grimoire Heart... have you learned nothing from the lessons of past villains ambition? Trying to revive the ULTIMATE EVIL POWER almost always backfires. What the hell made them think they could control Zeref or that he would just go along with their plans, anyway? Thought at first the government dude was yet another of those new Fairy Tail members introduced that was just always around but we never saw (like Gildarts, among others), but the characters themselves couldn't remember him either. He actually messed with people's memories! You know, given this guys' powers, the memory manipulation and the teleporting, he could be a force to be reckoned with. But, he's just a government spy, and doesn't seem to have much fighting power. Where is this Levy x Gajeel stuff coming from? Did I miss or forget something? I know I had a decent break between where I left off before at Daphne and picking up with Edolas. I mean, these two first met with Gajeel stringing her up in the center for town for god's sake. Gotta say I didn't expect Gajeel to fall to those scout guys either. Guess Gajeel had to “put over” Grimoire Heart, heh. The new Grand Magic Council seems even worse than the old one. Is there any anime where the government isn't shitty? So there are three great Fairy Tail spells. Here we get to see all of them in use. I wonder if Fairy Glitter or whatever that move was Cana used will be used again, to its full potential hopefully. But, she lost the spell? It's not permanent? She also acted like it was a good thing that she didn't have it anymore, which was odd. Hmm, I really like the voice actor for Zeref. Not sure I've heard his work before but he did great with this character. With how Zeref kept talking about how he knew Natsu, but Natsu didn't remember him, from the OP, I guessed that that kid was Zeref who spent time in Fairy Tail but this was somehow wiped from everyone's minds. Boy was I wrong. I'm sure Zeref's whole deal will be more elaborated upon later though. I'm curious, to say the least! Also, this guy wasn't some pure evil wizard like everyone thought, and those keys didn't actually do anything. So, that was surprising. Interesting developments! Okay yeah I figured that those two Thunder Legion guys had to have thrown that fight. Final fight against Hades was awesome. Did not expect to see Laxus back. So that was cool. Not sure how a fire lightning dragon works, but it was awesome! The show had been building up the dragons for a while so we knew when we finally saw one that it would be a big deal. This encounter did not disappoint. That thing was scary! Love the design too. Wonder why he decided to attack though? Also I was surprised that Hades wasn't aware of him. Guess he doesn't know about all of the evil stuffs in the world, heh. Kinda surprised how easily Makarov let off Hades. Killing him when he's defenseless probably wouldn't be cool, but he could at least had those government people arrest him. Then again, Zeref shows up to punish him anyway, heh. So, that ghosty girl was Mavis Vermillion? Why make her look so creepy? What's with her eyes? She's supposed to be like this guardian angel... fairy... but so creepy. D: So, I thought the island might have actually been destroyed, but figured that those Fairy Tail members obviously survived somehow. Apparently that spell froze them in time for seven years. I think the island being destroyed would be a big enough blow dealt to Fairy Tail without having anyone killed (Makarov fakeout for the umpteenth time though of course). Then again, we never even knew about the island until now, and when the guild hall was destroyed by Phantom Lord they just rebuilt it. Got to say I did not expect the seven year time jump. We would probably care more if any of the more major members were actually left in the squalor of the past seven years, but I think the repercussions we see happen to the members who were on the island may be pretty serious, which we already saw a bit of. One thing about it though I think is silly. Why do they owe rent? Weren't they all presumed dead? Their apartments would have been rented out to someone else. You don't pay rent for when you weren't even there... Also the girls' owe rent for living in Fairy Tails' own dorm... you'd think that would just be forgiven? And again, THEY WERE PRESUMED DEAD. Also that whole girls dorm thing was just randomly introduced out of nowhere this arc when we never heard about it before. I thought everyone just had their own place, like Lucy. Not a big deal, but still, haha. And with how Lucy kept going on about her dad, I knew for sure something was going to happen with him. Didn't expect him to die. Though maybe I'm forgetting something but didn't Lucy have a terrible relationship with him and their last encounter wasn't even pleasant? Not sure why she's that sad he died. I would look up stuff on wiki to see what I might have forgotten but I don't want to get spoiled. Lucy's mom looks exactly like her. We got just a tidbit about her this arc. Hope we learn more about her later. Damn it, I want to know about that 10 Wizard Saints meeting and the other stuff we heard about. I bet a lot has changed in the past seven years. After everything that happened on Tennrou Island I thought Makarov might make everyone who went there a Class S Wizard for the bravery they showed in the battle against Grimoire Heart! But nope. All I can think of at the moment. If I remember more I'll post some more later. But, good arc! Looks like the next one is filler. And it's 25 episodes, so it's a full-on arc and not a mini-arc like Daphne. Well, with marathonning I should be able to get through it quickly!