ben0119

You take that back right now.

Spamming post count?! Every one of my posts is a priceless treasure of wisdom! And when arguments need to be made and points need to be reiterated... I'll be there to make sure "a guy is wrong in the internet" justice is done. > I don't see any trolling here.

That was random. Anyway, Hiatus sucks and he's wrong. Accept it.

The thing is, there's no context for it. We don't know if the Hunter Org. is considered good or bad by the people that live in the world, namely because nobody seems to give a fuck about anything. There can't be "bad" or "good" or anything else between if we don't set a baseline.

Sounds like you're a hipster then.

Oh god, you're right. They got in on the trolling cockteasing.

OR MAYBE HE'S EVEN MOOOORE POWERFUL BECAUSE HE'S MYSTIC SUPER SAIYAN GOHAN AND GOHAN WAS JUST TOO COCKY AGAINST BUU TO DO THAT!!!!

Not really sure why there's any need for Illumi to "cover his tracks" when no one gives a shit if you kill people. There's a literal sequence where Illumi asks Netero if he could kill everyone in the room and it wouldn't be against the rules and he'd still get his license, and Netero confirms this. There was no indication that licenses could be revoked, either, so... If the "logic" here is "Oh they let people like Hisoka and Illumi become Hunters so that their misdeeds would be more out in the open as Hunters and they could be punished then!" ...Since when did Netero or this Hunter Organization care about legalities, moralities, or keeping up appearances? And don't tell me they don't know these guys have killed people. Hisoka and Illumi are part of the underground, which the Hunter Org clearly deals with, given the Zoldycks and the type of Hunter Kurapika wanted to become, etc. And just as they committed their crimes in the shadows, they could be taken out in the shadows. Soooooo yeah, not really a good excuse.

You must have oxygen deprivation from your masks if you think Top Gun is anything close to right.

Oh yeah, because there's no sort of extraneous mundane bullshit in this show and it's so trim, lean, and mean. It's paced oh so ever fucking well. BEHOLD THE GRIPPING STORY OF TWO YOUNG BOYS HUNTING FOR A VINTAGE GAME CONSOLE! Behold the edge of your seat brilliance of entire episodes dedicated to opening doors and making phone calls! It's all show no tell! That's why we literally had an entire episode of people sitting around talking, and another episode of people running and telling each other their backstories. And why does Gon have this issue? He lived on a populated, civilized island. I can't really see being a "country boy" as his reason for being a quasi-sociopath, either. If anything, people that have to live and survive and make their own lives off the land (even though Gon didn't have to!) would understand more than anyone how precious life is. Subversions... pgggfffffbbbtt AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Of what we've seen thus far? The candle thing, the fork in the road thing? All cliche as fuck. Seen it all before. Don't know what show you were watching. And for that matter, if you knew anything about Goku, you'd know he doesn't exactly follow normal social conventions or cues. He's constantly doing bizarre and inappropriate shit that people freak out over, especially early on. I mean, in the first episode, he lifted up Bulma's skirt to see if she had a tail. And let's not forget Goku acting like a jackass as an adult and people continually calling him on it. Really, if Gon wasn't such a nonsensical, illogically-written character, there wouldn't be much to talk about, because he's pretty boring and doesn't have much of a personality in general. The thing is, we are given no context for this Hunter Exam. The show goes from 1 episode of Gon catching a fish, to multiple lead-up episodes of EVERYTHING IS PART OF THE TEST, to a Game of Fucking Death. We don't know if this considered normal for this world or irregular, because there's no context. So the reactions or lack thereof to the deaths and other things in the Hunter Exam doesn't tell us much of anything. Either way, the "story" Togashi is telling isn't interesting. The only thing to talk about are the baffling writing decisions. Would having people act normally and react to death in some manner (or have some sort of explanation for why they don't) make the show make more sense and be less frustrating? Possibly. But it still wouldn't be interesting. Just face it, Togashi sucks as a writer and doesn't understand human psychology, how to tell a story, or how the world works.

Wow. Well, as long as it doesn't suck, I'm good. I probably won't be bothered by the pacing, since you said it doesn't get any worse than the original Dragonball Z. I'm sure even Toei is more skilled and gives something of a semblance of a shit than to just have bullshit like the endless tunnel of logs in early Shippuden. Good lord the pacing in that part of the show was so atrocious it beleaguered belief. You couldn't even imagine pacing that bad. Worst I've ever seen.

Glorious! I dunno' about pre-ordering, but I'll definitely try to buy it at some point if I can. I've got two or three more big purchases to save my money for before I can just go buying stuff like blu-rays left and right. >_<

I dunno man, FLCL is pretty awesome. But it doesn't need a sequel. It's like making a sequel to Cowboy Bebop. Fuck, I hope Demarco isn't reading this [or already had this thought]. >_>

This ED is still awesome. And it's awesome to get the full version after hearing it cut down for so many years. ALSO YES, HOW COULD I FORGET! PROPER ASPECT RATIO AND FULL HD AT LEAST!

Wasn't needed plot-wise or anything else-wise. FLCL was perfect as is. So can't really see the need for the sequel. Demarco claims they are going to treat it with respect because they love it... we'll see. I mean how many times did he hound the creators about making more and they didn't feel there was more story to tell until now? It's just... ehh.

Is The Major really so naive she doesn't realize they're fucking the robots?

They really didn't play FLCL to death. Bebop and other shows, yes, but not that one, really. It was played infrequently enough and was like an event, which was fitting given the quality and shortness of the series.

Damn, gotta rewatch the last 2 weeks... was too tired to watch live, and I'm preoccupied with this week! Saw all these episodes tons of times, but still!

And yes I realize I made the declaration months ago, but no, I haven't had the time to get current with One Piece, because I've got a fuckton of backlogs to attend to, not to mention a clusterfuck of personal shit happened. So, until if and when I'll have the time to do that, the Toonami airing will have to suffice for my One Piece fix.

Well, I would hope all the intermittent cock-teasing with characters like Ace and Shanks was leading somewhere. Just glad it won't take hundreds more episodes to get to that point and that things will apparently be semi-related and tie together somehow. I mean, I wouldn't put it past Oda to have every little dripfed subplot lead to completely separate arcs that take us eons to get to.

Thiller Bark is where One Piece got its groove back, the best its been since Alabasta. Shove off with your "things get rolling." Heh... shove off is a figure of speech of nautical origin.

God damn it, man!

Instead of monitoring, why don't they just kill him? It's obvious this world plays fast and loose with the law and order, and such.

Are you sure you weren't watching Hiatus? :-D