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SAO started out as a story Reki did for a contest. He went past the page limit so he posted it online for the hell of it. This gained traction so he did more stories, web novels, he also posted online. Eventually a publisher liked what they saw so he adapted the web novels into light novels. Then an anime producer liked those light novels so they got adapted as anime. As the franchise took off, you got videogames, etc. So, it wasn't really planned to be this big huge multimedia thing, but it just sort of exploded. .hack was planned that way from the beginning. I think it's probably actually unusual in that aspect. But it's actually kind of annoying because of how chronologically wonky it is, and if you want get more of the story, you have to play a game or something, etc. So far I've just seen the first show. Again, it started out as a manga, which then got popular enough to made into an anime. Don't know if it has any videogames or whatnot, but if it gets big enough, you can bet they'll be coming. Pretty perfect for it though since the show is basically an RPG in anime form, heh. But yeah, like Elfie said, I think just about everyone wants their franchise to be successful? It's called capitalism. So not sure what your point was with all this.

The sacred jewel even got a mustache! Please no. No Tokyo Ghoul:retard on the block. But no, I'm not getting my hopes up, either.

If the DVR schedule is anything to go by, it's just the regular block, and double Bebop is here to stay. So no new shows. No anything. Pathetic.

SuddenLink here. Some intermittent glitching out resulting in the image breaking up and loss of audio, lasted about a second or few each time. Resulted in messing up some dialogue.

Well, if he would have said something like that once I probably wouldn't think too much of it, but he kept harping on it. Both Lotus and Luck are creeps though.

Like .hack?

Goku said that it must have been because it's a different type of fusion.

I'm thinking not. And it occurred to me that if Vegeta died here he'd be fucked, since he isn't from this timeline. Then again wasn't Trunks wished back when Cell attacked him? Or was he not actually killed then? Either way, there's no Dragon Balls in this timeline. Well, maybe the Namek set? Not sure.

Let's see... It's the old brackets thing like used on other forums. [ spoiler ] write spoiler here [ /spoiler ] Just leave out those spaces.

I'm thinking it's just all that are left in the city, right?

Vegeta is definitely tsundere haha, but that doesn't mean he's gay. (you're also contradicting your claimed tsundere definition from weeks ago) Hmm I doubt that.

Wow, I guess they decided to keep the cheesiness intact, haha. Thought that was the old dub you linked the first time, heh.

To me it seemed like it was hinting that Julieta would get the implant or some other modification. She said something about getting stronger and then that lady talked about what Gaelio did to improve himself. Yeah there is so much in Mika's favor that it isn't even funny. I suppose it's just another example of the bad writing this season.

I haven't followed him that closely since the guy is batshit. I do know he's all about conspiracy theories, especially those involving the government. But given he thinks 9/11 is an inside job, he probably doesn't think Republicans are clean as a whistle.

Cool. I'll probably check it out after the show is over.

Mainly was just getting at the fact that Goda is doing all kinds of shady manipulative stuff behind the scenes in the government, which is Alex Jones' bread and butter.

Are those the same rookies they recruited earlier in the show? I never really paid that close attention them throughout the eps.

Lots of people seemingly get off on ranting and raving on things that offend, outrage, or scare them. A guy like Goda in the government is right up Alex Jones' alley.

Very, very odd. I had no idea. I guess it's just one of those archaic laws that's been on the books forever that nobody ever did anything about, like the sodomy laws or being able to rent a hotel room for your horse. We need to get rid of this one though!

The refugees have been there 20 years? And they're still not citizens? Major shaken up. You don't see that often. And she says she knows Kuze? I'm as confused as that guy as why Kuze would help the refugees. That harbor is quite the impressive megastructure. It's huge! That's a loooooot of concrete. Why the hell did they think it was a good idea to engage Section 9? Kuze even warned them off doing it. Major screwed up bad. Very out of the ordinary for her. And they lost one of their rookies! Whaaaat he's not there? Completely different boat! But, he was talking to those guys?

I knew it had something to do with farming but figured it didn't matter much nowadays given new technology. So it's even more useless than I thought. I think I also heard something about kids getting on the bus in the dark or something. But yeah we need to stop with it.

Major and Ishkawa going in. Yeah that won't raise any red flags Major rofl. The guy just chalks it up to "cyborgs, am I right?" Kuze knows.

Love that bgm.

Goda is Alex Jones' wet nightmare.

So Kuze went from anti-refugee to pro-refugee? o_O