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So is this that anime parody show that Netflix was coming out with?

Then we have Rebellion. Hoooo Rebellion. What to make of this? We start off in seemingly an alternate reality or timeline (heh), but it turns out we're in some fake world. Set up by someone or some thing for unknown reasons. Happily, everyone is alive again, and there's fun and lightheartedness, enjoyable battles. But, something is off... The movie looks great. It's got great art and animation, and the Witch Maze stuff is in full force. The battle between Mami and Homura was breathtaking. God damn fucking Kyubey. The Incubators got ahold of Homura, and induced her into an almost-witch coma! BASTARDS! Enough of you fuckers already! And how the hell did they isolate Homura from the Law of Cycles anyway? It's a law of nature, law of the universe. You can't just create a barrier and then "keep it out." You can argue Madoka only shows up once a Magical Girl is about to turn into a witch, but she's supposed to be omnipresent, essentially, so I kind of call bullshit on this. So, everyone is fighting to save Homura from herself, and Madoka is coming to save her. She could've been with Madoka again in Heaven, and then suddenly... HEEL TURN OUT OF NOWHERE. Seriously? What the fucking fuck? Why would Homura do this? It's out of character as hell. After all she did to protect Madoka, and she cared about the others as well, though decided to focus on Madoka more in successive time loops after the others proved to be even more of a lost cause, but the point is, Homura never came across like this kind of person to me at all before this. This is not something she would do. People also point to foreshadowing in the movie. Thing is, there was stuff in the movie that directly contradicts this plot twist. The flower scene is brought up, but there, Homura was talking to a Madoka with her memories erased, not the same person who made the wish later on. So she would just be deluding herself there, and given she's supposed to be intelligent, should know better than that. Hell, earlier on, she says the person who created the fake world, WHICH TURNS OUT TO BE HER, is making a farce of Madoka's wish and disrespecting it or something to that effect. And that's exactly what Homura ends up doing when she grabs Madoka and rewrites the world! *SIGH* At least everyone is alive again and Kyubey is suffering horribly, so there's that. Doesn't make up for Homura's character being destroyed, though. I know some people like to say she became a necessary evil, maybe even pretending to be bad, and if she hadn't done what she did, Kyubey would have gotten around Law of Cycles and bring back the Witch system or something worse, and blahblahblah. You know what? This wouldn't have been a problem if you hadn't made this damn movie and had just left everything alone in the first place! I've also learned that the original ending idea had Homura being saved like expected. I'd still be pissed, since it would mean yet another character died (she presumably could not be "saved" from becoming a witch without dying, even though this wasn't a typical witch transformation), due to the Incubators' meddling, but it would have been better than this. Also would have liked to know how the Incubators subdued and captured Homura in the first place. Not sure if I buy Homura "pretending" to be evil, either. What is the point? Can't she just explain why she was doing what she was doing? It's pretty stupid. So really, there's no way to explain this away to make it any better. I've watched tons of reviews, read written reviews, comments, posts, etc. from myriad positions on this movie. I can see where everyone is coming from, and maybe my opinion will change after I let it sit for a while, but just, I dunno', man, my feelings coming away from Rebellion are I don't like what was done there at all. What's worse is the ending isn't even really an ending. The new Homura world seems tenuous at best, implying that Madoka and Homura will be enemies in the future, which is even worse. And I don't care if it's a God and Lucifer analogy, that doesn't make it good or make sense. And even if we have a sequel than can somehow conclude this, I don't see how you can repair all this damage. What possible revelation could we have that could "fix" this? And let's say Homura is "redeemed." Her heel turn was still retarded in the first place, so that wouldn't help matters. Doesn't help that it's been years the sequel season or movie still hasn't been made. So... yeah. I think, at this point, I'll just treat Rebellion as not canon or "alternate timeline/reality," which wouldn't be out of bounds for Madoka Magica anyway. Just... BLAH!

The search function remains nonfunctional, and I'm not going over every page to see if there's already a thread for this show. Friend was over and we were trying to come up with something to watch and I picked out Expelled from Paradise, which I had added to my list based on the Netflix write-up and repeating video thingy. Okay mostly because I saw Angela. That was excellent, by the way. Might make a thread about it. Anyway, since that movie was so good and I wanted more from those creators, I looked up the people behind it and discovered the writer is a man by the name of Gen Urobuchi. The same guy behind Psycho-Pass, Fate/Zero, Madoka Magica, and others, it seems. Well, I wasn't keen to watch Psycho-Pass right away since I had read someone's review and it's full of a lot my worst pet peeves, though I'll probably give it another chance after talking to my friend about it and watching Expelled from Paradise and Magica. The Fate franchise is huge and I wouldn't know where to begin, and not sure what to make of Gen Urubochi only being the writer of one part of it. Mainly Madoka was the one I was most interested in. People had recommended this show for years, talking about how it's really good and isn't like you expect. It apparently takes a turn and gets really dark. Yeah, well, saying something is DARK is not the best selling point, to me. Lots of stuff is dark for the sake of it and pretty crappy *cough* Tokyo Ghoul *cough*. There's also the whole "hurr so you want me watch as how about little girls huh?" But no, they were right. It's actually good, really good. And those recommendations coupled with the fact I had just watched this movie and been thoroughly impressed made me want to jump right in. I really loved the setting, the art, the animation, styling, etc. The futuristic world looked beautiful, and the witch mazes were awesome with the stop-motion and use of seemingly real world objects, trippy as hell and juxtaposed nicely against the characters themselves and other stuff going on there, and the real world. Thought I recognized the music as Yuki Kaijira and sure enough, it was her. She's great here, as well. So, we meet Mami, the Magical Girl. I think it's hilarious they are literally called Magical Girls, by the way. She seems sweet and awesome. I like her abilities, with all those awesome ornate antique style guns she pulls out from nowhere and unleashes on the enemy. Definitely some cool powers and fighting styles in this show. The weird goth/emo girl was trying to kill the cute critter! But why? D: Madoka is a kind girl that cares about her friends and family, and will do what she can to make them happy and take care of them. Likable for sure. Sayaka is enjoyable, the more funny and outgoing, spunky one of the group. Hitomi I thought would much more important, maybe even get powers. Turns out she was there to be the "normal one not in the know" as it were, and she's barely even in the show. So, we've got some fun battles. The witches are interesting. Not what I expected. I thought Homura would be a witch - an evil Magical Girl basically. But, it turns out, it's these creatures! And they're responsible for all sorts of bad things in the real world, like suicides and depression, etc. Reminded me of the Hollows and things like how apparently when a husband or wife dies and the other quickly follows it was probably because the first one turned into a Hollow and ate the other. I always like when supernatural/fantasy stories do stuff like that. So yeah, that seems pretty heavy right? Is that the "dark" stuff? Not quite. And hey, this lady committing suicide, is that Madoka's mom? Ooooh shit's about to get real. Nope, just some random lady. Hmm. AH HELL MAMI JUST GOT DECAPITATED. But, that's as bad it's going to get, right? I mean, we obviously got a dose of "now things are serious!" here, but it can't get much worse, right? Oh-ho-ho... Liked how the ED changed from Diabeetus Overload to that other one at episode 3. Very fitting. So yeah, Kyubey. I didn't trust that thing pretty much right after we met him. Those eyes... just... those eyes. And you can get any wish you want in exchange for becoming a Magical Girl and fighting evil? If something sounds too good to be true it probably is. It's like making a deal with the damn devil, or a wish from some asshole genie that grants ironic wishes that fuck you over. No thanks! Why didn't Sayaka make the wish to heal Kyosuke's entire body instead of just his hand? And she could've gotten with him if she pursued him. She let Hitomi get him. Of course, with the whole other revelation... YOU PUT THEIR SOULS INTO THOSE GEMS?! YOU LITTLE BASTARD! So yeah Sayaka thought she was a monster because of that. After she got over the shy apprehensive stage of going after Kyosuke, she was convinced she couldn't be with him like this, in this state. Not sure I can agree, but given she's a tween girl, I can see why she'd react like that. Well, this sure did not go like how I expected. Not only did I expect Sayaka and Madoka to become Magical Girls earlier on, I didn't expect Sayaka to do it first way earlier on her own, and I didn't expect her to spiral like that! Why wouldn't you just take the grief seed, Sayaka! T__T So, uh, yeah, it turns out witches are former Magical Girls, making them very much like Hollows in a sense. Fuck you a million times Kyubey! You bastards! But surely not every Magical Girl turns into a Witch? Some have had to manage to avoid that fate, and if so, do they remain Magical Girls into adulthood? Or is it just such a self-defeating inevitability? Because I have a hard time believing it's a 100% thing. Wait a minute, before it was mentioned that Familiars could turn into Witches if they attacked enough people. So how can it be that Witches originate from Magical Girls then? Did not like Kyoko at all when we first met her. But she turned around after a while, which was nice. Her backstory is fucked up as hell, though. HOW DOES ANYONE TILT THEIR HEAD LIKE THAT? I was hoping, really hoping that Sayaka could be saved. Yes, Kyubey said he never saw witch process be reversed, but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen. Either way, their attempt wasn't successful! Power of Love/Friendship did not work! As a result, both Sayaka and Kyoko are dead! Mami and Kyoko, I can see, but Sayaka?! The best friend?! STOP RIPPING MY HEART OUT SHOW! So yeah now we learn why Homura is such a hard-ass and so protective of Madoka. She doesn't have precog abilities. She has time manipulation, and she's done this Groundhog Day thing again and again and it's always a tragic end. Poor girl. So, after Madoka didn't become a Magical Girl soon early on with Sayaka, and not soon after Sayaka, and not half-way through the show, it seemed apparent this wouldn't happen til later. Though I didn't think it would be right at the end, I figured she'd come up with some type of wish to end up turning the tables on that son of a bitch Kyubey. I would have liked more background on Walpurisnacht. Like who was the Magical Girl it formed from? Then again, just having it as a great unstoppable apocalyptic cataclysm wasn't a bad idea, either. Kyubey doesn't care if the Earth gets destroyed. FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU. Well, she did, but as a result, she gets erased from existence and can only be known as a Valkyrie of sorts for Magical Girls?! Homura remembers her at least, and her little brother has her as an imaginary friend, and what her mom said, was all sweet. Still, so sad, though. Madoka "won," but with such a heavy price. Bittersweet, but more bitter than sweet, in my opinion. At least Kyubey got fucked over, though, and Magical Girls won't have to suffer ever again. But, we get to the new world and Sayaka dies again, right off the bat? That was just uncalled for, show. Gotta say when I started watching this show I did not expect things to turn out where they did, or what happened in between. It was depressing, emotional torture, basically. May take me a while to recover. Not even Now and Then, Here and There hit me this hard. It was traumatizing. But yeah, overall, Madoka was a great show! Definitely a memorable one-of-a-kind!

Think he was talking about the movie. And what anime has an OST similar to Bleach? By the way, you might want to change the thread title to "Bleach General Discussion Thead" or something.

My personal headcanon is Ichigo, Orihime, Rukia, and Renji are all in a polyamorous relationship. While Yuzu watches from the Rukia Closet!

A quick google search shows there hasn't been any news on that front since December. Unfortunate. Hope it didn't fall into development hell.

Hallmark channel, oof. The white woman entertainment channel, basically. And those movies are so corny, vacuous, and repetitive! Guh. And if it's the reality shows I'm thinking they are, I don't envy your position. Not KLK either? Odd for sure. Whenever I see a show up that I know has a dub, I assume the dub is there too. Guess that isn't the case here! Of SAO or KLK? Yeah that's a shame. There are other ways, though, of course. But like you said, immediately and easily, haha.

I see! Still, I'll watch first and then decide, heh. If it is that bad it will be pretty annoying, since those resources could have been diverted to us getting season 3 sooner instead.

That's what I'm going to use the thread for DBZ4ever[/member] Wasn't sure where else to put this. From what I can tell, there is little to no interest in One Piece in the Anime folder. The discussion there would mainly be focused on current Japanese release episodes and chapters, anyway. Not the stuff from where Toonami left off. And though One Piece is no longer on Toonami, once a Toonami show, always a Toonami show, as far as I'm concerned. I've mentioned a few times that I managed to binge 385-417 in a single crab fishermen shift-level sitting. May as well post my thoughts on it while it's still somewhat fresh in my mind! Hmm, yeah, looks like that was a month ago, on August 17th-18th! Should've written it down in a document at the time. Ah well, here we go - Alright, that's all I can remember and think of as far as I wanted to comment on. If I had made the post sooner or remembered more, it'd probably be even longer!

I assumed that was done to prevent the constant crashing. Is it not needed anymore? What was the posts per page on the old Lithium boards? Want to say it 50?

Actually... In August 2005, Lucas himself said of the Expanded Universe material: I don't read that stuff. I haven't read any of the novels. I don't know anything about that world. That's a different world than my world. But I do try to keep it consistent. The way I do it now is they have a Star Wars Encyclopedia. So if I come up with a name or something else, I look it up and see if it has already been used. When I said [other people] could make their own Star Wars stories, we decided that, like Star Trek, we would have two universes: My universe and then this other one. They try to make their universe as consistent with mine as possible, but obviously they get enthusiastic and want to go off in other directions. Not only that, but if anything George Lucas did contradicted the Expanded Universe, it would of course take precedence, and Lucas' sequel films weren't going to follow those books either. Also worth noting that Disney lets Lucasfilm do pretty much whatever they want and the people working there now are the same people who there before working with Lucas. And he personally selected Kathleen Kennedy as his successor. And I don't remember GT ever being canon...

I imagine it probably has something to do with ki? I wanted to say they would just catch or dodge bullets, but when I looked up Bora a scene is mentioned where he just tanks them.

You really should watch Battle of Gods, and Resurrection F too. They're much better than the sagas in the anime. The Frieza movie is also far kinder to Gohan as well. Well, it probably hurt Videl because she wasn't prepared. I imagine you have to be powered up to dodge/deflect bullets, and not in a relaxed state.

Didn't know Dragon Ball AF was an actual fan manga by an honest to god mangaka! Always thought it was just some fan art/fan fic thing fans came up with. But, Toriyama is full of shit to say he "always intended to Goku to be someone who just likes to fight strong guys." When we're first introduced to him he helps people constantly, and is pretty good at judging when someone is a bad guy and helping someone out that they victimize. The first time the Dragon Balls were used to revive someone was Bora, Upa's father who he had just met and befriended. He fought Red Ribbon Army largely to stop them from causing the world pain. He fought King Piccolo to avenge Krillin's death. When Raditz comes to earth, he tries to talk him into leaving, and ultimately fights him to save his son (and the earth). When Goku is fighting Frieza and losing, he has a vision of Freiza going to Earth and killing everyone he loves, which motivates him to get back in the fight. GOKU TURNS SUPER SAIYAN AFTER FREIZA KILLS HIS BEST FRIEND. He sacrifices himself to stop Cell from killing everyone! You can't chalk this all up to "anime changes," either. So yeah, Toriyama is full of shit here. Anyway, we'll see how it goes. Goku doesn't seem so bad in Super so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3BifLnzBdY

I don't think it considers GT canon on any level, but it might take inspiration from it. There were some genuinely creative and neat ideas in GT. I always figured they were that old because, well, it had been a long time since we saw them last and GT was many years since then. Yeah that would be funny, though, heh.

*googles* Oh what the fuck! Well, I didn't look into it closely. Maybe that Trunks is from a different timeline/dimension and that explains the hair color difference? Speaking of that, something that really bothered me about GT, is they not only couldn't get Trunks' hair color right either, but his personality was completely different, and not for the better. I always used to joke that he was an android doppelganger. I've also had someone try to tell me that Trunks hair isn't really purple/lavender, but was intended to be white/silver, and it just looked that way due to the color chosen, like how some characters with black hair looks "bluish."

I must have totally missed that in the movie and in the show. I understand that, but he's including Tights as the sister to one of the characters that's been around since the very beginning and we've never heard hair nor hide of her before now. The Dr. Slump crossover Goku basically went into another dimension, so it didn't affect anything, and it was fun. Tights is pointless and conflicts with the established story. By the way, this reminds me of something. There was an old story going around, guess it would be an urban myth, going by what we know now, that Toriyama wanted to finish Dr. Slump first, then he was going to go back and make more Dragon Ball. I assume there was never anything to this?

Hopefully it's damaging Rick & Morty's ratings. >=]

There's plenty of other stuff they could've played. Like, the second season of Ghost in the Shell. Big O Season 1 if they have it. Point is, nothing has been played as much as Bebop so literally anything else would be better in that slot. Not sure if you noticed but ad breaks don't tend to line up. And many channels will even synchronize them with others to prevent people from doing this very thing. Not everyone has to watch TV the same way as you, anyway, Top_Gun. Besides, I use the ads to make my posts. At least the time during Hiatus I can better spend reading the lulzness in the Tokyo Ghoul thread, but after that show ends...

Don't base anything on what Mochi says. He's been consistently shown to not know what he's talking about.

Just finished watching the episode. Looks like this guy has the powers of The Blob! Watch out Goku! Jaco - "He's dispersing the blows and sending the energy to another dimension!" Bulma - "Do you really know that?" Dragon Ball making fun of its own bullshit technique commentary now. So he's so fat and heavy that he can't do anything if someone knocks him over or picks him up? Goku should have done this a long time ago! Not like the swing and throw has never been used in Dragon Ball before. So polite and friendly! And honorable! Goku says tells Frost to use full power while he's still fighting in his base form... That spinning hurricanrana was impressive, Frost! Final form my ass! :D :D Well, Goku never saw Xenomorph Frieza. Still, he should know better than this. So he does! Frost used his power to put an end to senseless wars and saves orphans! :D Super Saiyan 1 is still not your full power, Goku... That Universe 6 Saiyan looks like he is lying about not knowing about Super Saiyan. Alright this fight is getting good. Did Vegeta really just say "Goku" instead of "Kakarot?" If you have trouble controlling your final form, maybe you should train with it more? What the hell happened to Goku? Did Frost use some crazy paralysis technique? Did Goku catch some alien disease from Universe 6? Did his heart virus come back? Great episode! Can't wait to see the rest of the tournament! Should be especially interesting given Goku has been eliminated.

Which happened due to those shows being rerun to death for years, with Bebop being the worst offender. Hmm. Doesn't matter how long into the night the block is running. If a slot is doing bad enough they'll modify it.

You know what I mean. The run will be cut short, just like last time, due to horrid ratings.