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Yeah, Top_Gun is good at making people feel bad. He likes to sneer and scoff from his ivory tower. He's a card carrying member of the Otaku Ultra Elite, a gatekeeper that stops plebeians from entering his fandom and makes sure they know they are liking and disliking the wrong anime, and that they should feel bad for it. The guy described in this video is a good example of one of Top_Gun's ilk - Never been on the right foot with him. Don't like his attitude, how he carries himself, how he interacts with others, his disposition, don't care for him in general. I try to get along with him, but then he has to go and be a smug snob. Anyway, IGPX isn't bad, per se... it's just got problems, obviously, since it was made by people who never wrote or made anything before... not full-on stories, anyway. It's a slice of life sports mecha anime. Yeah, not what people were expecting, and certainly doesn't live up to being THE FIRST TOONAMI ORIGINAL. I actually have issues paying attention to it, and that almost never happens with me. But, I can't say I hate it. It's an okay show, and I can see why people like it. The soundtrack, character designs, animation, art, action sequences... done pretty well. Where it's weak is the characters and writing. But, it's not too bad there. It's alright.

Lively, and it's obvious they're going to add a slot or two for more finite series. They aren't going to pass up on shows, especially big ones, just because there "isn't any room." The long-runners they have now have loyal audiences, so no sense in removing them, and the block is growing, justifying its expansion by legitimately needing more room for more shows, and the shows they already have are doing well. Like Demarco said, "Toonami can expand as needed." So, I wouldn't get too worried, even with all the long-runners we have right now.

I can, but you apparently can't conceive of the possibility of someone thinking something is good by critical standards, even if it might have some flaws - yes, even something that you, O Arbiter of Anime, Top_Gun, think is bad. Objectivity does not exist. Quality is a matter of opinion. There is no "authoritative correct view" on anything, when it comes to quality of entertainment and art. And I already gave the difference between my enjoyment and critical analysis of Bleach.

But yeah, if "Chappy" wants to have a debate, he should do that, instead of pulling infantile stunts like this.

Good if you think Tim & Eric is funny.

At how bad and petty the thread was? Yeah, so did I.

Makes about as much sense as anything else.

Well we do have some "real" pizza places but they're few and far between and not usually easy to get to, and usually expensive. And one of them has gone out of business in the past few years. But yeah, Pizza Hut can continue to burn in hell for all I care. Especially since Little Caesar's has a Deep Deep Dish Pepperoni-Wrapped Stuffed Crust Pizza now! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU PIZZA HUT!

Butthurt over my thread criticizing your religion so you go with this sophomoric attempt to get a rise out of me by making a bad parody thread attacking one of my favorite series?

I mostly didn't even look at the TV. But I mean, I already knew about the character designs, thanks to SOME PEOPLE.

Kinda have to blame Gundam itself for that. The franchise is full of political machinations, which inevitably leads to arguments about real world politics in the threads. But, I wish people would get over the election results and move on, or at least keep the political stuff to the "Babbling" folder. I enjoyed it too. Of course, I liked the slice of life stuff IN SPAAAAACE. Got to have good down periods and story and reasons to fight to have good action! The action was good, and the eating and talking episodes were relaxing and calming... which is something I could use more of these days. You are right that even without action there was drama and suspense involved. Not sure what I would give it. Don't like to rank things. 7 or 8 out of 10, I suppose?

I think it's pretty funny that I usually hate Gundam and I actually liked this one and most everyone else hated it besides me and Jman. ;D I love the way Mikazuki brutally, mercilessly slaughters his enemies. He's no whiny crybaby bitch like Amuro! ;D ROFL... I googled it and my brain meant to write the actual title but my hands wrote Mobile Shit Gundam of their own volition! LOOOOOOOL! I also love Mikazuki's violent, no-fucks-given brawling style. And he broke anime rules by saying fuck this duel and just attacked! That was great! ;D But yeah, add this along with G Gundam as the only two Gundam series I like. Hmm, do I have issues for enjoying the way Mikazuki kills his opponents?

People really should be more respectful and grateful to Bleach. Bunch of ignorant, entitled, whiny INGRATES! It's anime armageddon without Bleach! You hear me?! ARMAGEDDON!

They won't fill the slots of a possible mondo expansion with the old ASA dead horses again lest they want to immediately lose it. Space Dandy, maybe, but that's about it. Stuff like Bleach, Kenshin, and Yu Yu Hakusho would be great slot fillers.

Even if we don't agree on the level of Bleach's problems, you have to admit Naruto got way shittier than Bleach ever did. And the direction its story took... ugh. And yes, people kept lapping it up all the way to the end. But again, Bleach was still selling enough to keep getting published. It was Kubo's health that was at issue. So, if Kubo was in good health, he wouldn't have had to end things prematurely.

Bleach never fell, PERIOD. This is all a bunch of bullshit from nitpicky haters. If they don't like the manga they should drop it. That's how I see it. Yet people kept reading even as they complained. Why? Also, not everyone who read it to the end were constantly complaining like that. Plenty of people still have an overall positive view of Bleach, even if they did have some gripes. So this whole notion of Bleach being something hated by everyone all across the board, and it being bad AS A FACT, is nonsense. Good or bad is in the eye of the beholder. Figures I log onto the boards after yet another break because of people pissing me the hell off and I see THIS shit. Fuckin' Moose, man. Who else?

Again with your lies? Bleach wasn't canceled. Kubo ended it because he was sick. Not going to bother watching the video as I have heard this same tired shit a thousand times already. Not going to have the same arguments over and over again. Get something else to do with your time besides making threads to start shit, Moose.

Yeeeeeesss. I'll definitely try to make it to the theater to see this if it's anywhere in my vicinity.

You and I both know that Demarco slogs through the rest of day and rushes to Toonami, like a kid getting home from school to watch cartoons. Probably the only other thing he genuinely enjoys is the music stuff. The rest of Adult Swim has been crap for years. They fucked over Metalocalypse. They didn't renew Titan Maximum even though it did well. Boondocks... not even sure what happened there. I lost track with ATHF and Robot Chicken. Maybe they were/are still good. Dunno, just lost track. They play live action garbage and continue to give comedy cancer like Tim & Eric and Eric Andre jobs. Even if that stuff was funny, I refuse to watch it on principle, because this channel is supposed to be a home for animation! And everyone says how these original comedies are "so cheap to produce", but the names on these shows get bigger and bigger. How much does it cost to pay Cabin Boy, Captain Janeway, or the bald guy from The Daily Show? Venture Brothers, one of the few good shows they have left that I keep up with, gets a new season about as often as a new volume of Hiatus is released! Their staple, Family Guy, jumped the shark and became an unfunny parody of itself eons ago! And I don't think we need to recount what happened with ASA again. So, enemy or not, Adult Swim overall, has fallen quite a ways. Toonami is one of the few shining beacons left, that exists in spite of Adult Swim's shittiness and poor direction. I don't understand why Nick would do that if it did well enough for them. Maybe they wanted a cut of merch and toy sales or something? Probably can't get that with anime like you can with original, or at least, domestic productions. About all I can think of. But then one wonders why did they get it in the first place? And of course I vividly recall that not long after the last Saturday morning cartoon block died, and Kai's airing along with it, Toonami snatched it up. It is odd though that nobody, not even Disney, would want it! And it's not like you can't say it's not a sure bet. Was it simply not safe enough? I mean, some pretty hardcore shit goes down on Rebels. People die with regularity, and in general, other fucked-uppery. Not sure why Super would be so much more traumatic to young viewers' eyes. Maybe DBZ isn't as big as Pokemon, but it's still pretty damn big! Guess maybe Disney only wants the most toyetic stuff? Dunno. I mean, DBZ still had tons of toys and merch, even if it wasn't a show made to shill crap like Pokemon, or I guess what that Yokai Watch show is. That is true. This is why I have to do my weekly re-watches. Even though I'll try to make sure to post during commercials, I'll sometimes slip up and post during a show, maybe if I don't get back to my recliner in time, or I'm pumped about something happening, or it's one of the show's I care less about. There's also the general buzz and excitement of the night, and jumping between chairs and screens (that are a mere two feet or so apart, but still), that I just don't feel I get a fully focused viewing of the shows on Saturday, hence my re-watches. Of course, as I announced earlier some weeks ago, I've abandoned this policy for Naruto and Hiatus and am only going to watch those shows once, because fuck those shows. Even my patience isn't infinite. So, what you say is... an option I could conceivably do. Maybe I could look at it like the old encore setup ASA and Toonami both had at different points. Though those encores were never really nothing more than background noise for me, if I even left them on. I could consider one my "viewing with discussion" airing and one my "focused viewing" airing. Unsure which one I would make which. Typically viewing and discussing comes first, but since the second airing is on Toonami, I don't know. Not sure how many people would show up for the 8:30pm airing. You see how some people only barely make it home in time for Toonami, just back from work, spending time out doing something, or whatever it might be. It would also break with years of precedence and tradition! I really can't stress enough how much this upsets everything! Yeah, it might be a good thing, if it does well, it could lead to more action in primetime. But... my routine. And again, what if it doesn't do well? What it does about as well as the Kai encore? Was that due to it being a rerun of last week's ep? Was there that much of an overlap in viewers? Or did people just not know about it? Or was it simply that there is no interest of action animation outside of Toonami and the odd toyetic anime? I don't recall Adult Swim advertising that airing, either. I could be wrong. Adult Swim could just as stupidly throw it out there with no promotion, like the Kai encore. And, let's say it does do well. What if then no one shows up for the Toonami airing? That could lead to bad ratings for Toonami's Super airing and then possibly the entire block. Could this lead to them moving Toonami to primetime, or at least expanding it that far, or do they see that all they need is Super and keep just that for Primetime and cancel Toonami or severely downsize it? Things are doing well enough now (as far as I know, I dropped the ratings thread because fuck that thread), but this is a tricky formula to get right, and for all we know what we have right now is a careful balancing act. We've already seen what damage has been caused just by moving the block up thirty minutes or airing a show people don't generally don't care for (IBO). Why fix what isn't broken? There's no telling what could happen from this level of meddling. And since the 8pm thing has nothing to do with Toonami, I'm wary to call it a boon for Toonami, or even action animation. It's getting this treatment due it being new to American TV Dragonball. I again point to any number of the possible scenarios I highlighted above, many of them not good. As I said, this is a careful balancing act that we don't want to mess with too much. And I do want Toonami to grow and improve. But how? When they moved the block forward, ratings went down. So, the only way you can expand is by adding time, adding days. But not moving shows. People are already set in their habit of watching the shows when they already come on. So they're kind of stuck since all the big shows come on, well, late at night on Saturday night. Perhaps they can add further airings, which would be quite welcome for Naruto and One Piece. Perhaps you might say the other long-runners are premieres or higher value, so they shouldn't air more than once a week. So maybe you encore them? Obviously if you do this, it couldn't be every night of the week, or rather, the weeknights plus Saturday, we know Sunday will always be Comedy's night. So, everywhere I look here, I'm really running into roadblocks. Demarco said the block could "expand as needed", but it seems limited in that. You move things up, you disrupt the viewers' routine. You add a show, it stays just as long as it gets VERY good ratings. They fucked up these previous chances by airing AoT reruns and the aforementioned move, and there's no telling if Super will do well with it being an encore airing. This, also, of course, takes away a Family Guy airing. Though, take note this didn't matter when they were airing premieres of AoT and Space Dandy - the error was airing reruns or moving something there. But, I'm tired and babbling and going on tangents now. I should probably leave this for tomorrow. I'm just... concerned. This new development could potentially upset the careful balance Toonami has achieved, and we're looking at a block that is nothing but long-runners (of which they've just added another) and a permanent Gundam slot, which came to fruition just like I warned it would. Where do they put new shows? If you were to ask me, I'd say drop Hiatus and Shittuden, but of course, any one of us would have our least favorite long-runners we'd want to drop. The problem is, a good amount of people loyally watch all of them, and Demarco doesn't want to screw over loyal viewers. So, then, can Toonami realistically expand enough to add more shows, somehow breaking beyond its "cage?" That is, assuming of course, this Super encore doesn't throw everything into complete disarray.

To Top_Gun this post must have burned like Holy Water. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I was catching up with Shippuden earlier and noticed that myself. Of course, I only got a few seconds into it when I realized it wasn't HD, so I switched to the HD version, which promptly gave me an error message. I went to Adult Swim's video section, which endlessly buffered and never loaded up the video for whatever reason. Hulu, of course, did not have the episodes dubbed. Wasted a good twenty minutes fucking with that until I finally threw my hands up and watched "elsewhere." Thankfully, my DVR recorded the next four episodes. Shippuden and One Piece both got fucktisized by Daylight Savings Time that week. I thought it was recording things properly, but it seems I was too over-confident, as things weren't labeled as what they actually were, with "Naruto: Shippuden" and "One Piece" being chunks of the movie. That OP is blatant and spoilery as hell, by the way. Which you can tell even if you don't know what's going to happen. Not that Kishimoto's writing is any more subtle, though. And One Piece's OP is still edited on the On-Demand, for whatever reason. Not sure on the other shows. Also, I don't think you get the full OP of Naruto with the most recent week, or the ability to fast-forward. It's screwy like that.

Maybe they're trying to make up for the bad influence of Sanji. ;D Can't say I've seen the walk-in bathtub ones, though.

Why do you or anyone else respond to Zeni seriously? You know he is just doing this for the lulz, right? I mean, this post would be admirable, if it were addressed to practically anyone else. You'd be better off just ignoring Zeni or acting goofy along with him.

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