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Well, another dubbed episode dropped, and we have more cast updates. It looks like most have returned to their roles, but unfortunately Ryuken Ishida of all characters was recast. He was originally played by Michael McConnohie, now played Christopher Swindle. Michael McConnohie was still doing voice acting as recently as last year, if Behind The Voice Actors is accurate, but it looks like he was only reprising a single character for the past three years, so maybe he is semi-retired. I didn't realize he also played Tracks (one of my favorites) and Cosmos on the original Transformers cartoon. Or rather, didn't put it together that he was the same Michael McConnohie who did anime roles years later. He attended a Transformers convention in August, so he is still active to some extent. Christopher Swindle also played some Transformers in more recent years, coincidentally enough, and Swindle is the name of a pretty infamous Decepticon, but he never played any version of Swindle. I hope he did a good job as Ryuken. I am considering watching further dubbed episodes, if it looks like there is no sign of Toonami getting Thousand Year Blood War any time soon. But I might confuse myself, watching and re-watching episodes of the same arc so close together, haha.

Yes, it is a bit character Wendee Lee played, but she's in the door now, so... It was actually pretty out of character for me to watch the sub of Bleach back when I did it. I had introduced someone to the series, and we were binging it together. We got to the point where Adult Swim had left off, and she wanted to keep going, so I gave in watched ahead with her. It eventually got to the point where we were reading the manga haha. And the place of the hiatus was pretty miserable too. Not only was AS out of new episodes, but when it came back, it would be filler. x_x We skipped the filler in our binge, I think. Episode 167... I rue this number. It's the episode number where the original InuYasha series cut off without conclusion, and where AS had a hiatus with Bleach, which ended with a return of filler. 🤣 And 167 is the octal form of 119, my birthday. Octal is some kind of weird numerical system apparently. Creepy! And who knew individual numbers had wiki pages! But yeah, so that's how that happened. And ever since then, I usually won't watch a series subbed unless to re-watch it that way if I really like it, or it's a continuing series I really like, and I don't want to wait to see what happens next. In that case, I'd re-watch it dubbed regardless. Although, I recently found a couple series I was interested in that have no dubs to speak of, so not much of an option there. Arpeggio of Blue Steel and Rail Wars. I already watched Arpeggio. It's strange because I figured any shows of at least the past 15-20 years would all have dubs. Yeah, that is probably the case. I also figure some of these actors didn't feel like returning to these roles, or couldn't be found, or retired, etc.

Well I have heard that Re:Zero was pretty tough to get through on a weekly basis even when it first premiered in Japanese, and fans of the source material had to keep encouraging people to watch it. This was also a reason some gave why it wouldn't be a good fit for Toonami. But I can't say, since I haven't seen it. I looked it up and apparently Scissor Seven is a Chinese animated series. I didn't know they made any. So it's actually good?

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=14948 Wow, this guy has a pretty impressive resume!

Ep 6 - There's not much I can say to add to this episode. The animation was friggin insane. A really epic battle between Yamamoto and Bach. By the way, it is definitely Juha Bach as spoken, regardless of what is written. Seeing all of Yamamoto's Bankai abilities in animation was just stunning. And I loved the flashes back and forth from the battle going on now to the one from a thousand years ago. Unfortunately, Yamamoto wasn't really fighting Bach, but a phony, but at least the fight was still cool. I'm not sure what the point of Bach visiting Aizen in prison was, since their conversation really went nowhere. I guess it is just to show that Aizen is still around and "in play." Interesting that Bach said Aizen could be killed, but it would take too long. The added scenes of Uyru reading the book about the Quincy history were pretty good. Bach creating that giant arrow above him which fired a giant arrow, which became his sword, was so badass. It was great to see it in animation.

Oh, so it wasn't the guy from before. I stopped reading the reviews after he made an ass of himself. What was the episode he had a conniption over?

Yeah a whole bunch of stuff happened in their past. Setsuna stayed in the feudal era and lived with the Demon Slayers, and Towa lived in present day with Sota's family. Well 18 is still a teenager, and I suppose a lot of people can look young for their age, and this can be especially true of Asian people, but Rin still looks too young to me for how old she supposedly is. That happened after in this series, well, the back story for this series anyway. So in the chronology it would be between, but it was shown in Yashahime. It took a long time for the full story of what happened to Rin and her daughters to be revealed. I guess this show is more elaborate than I thought, haha. Yeah, I think you will enjoy the first season, if you like InuYasha!

Wasn't chosen? I noticed a few shows they didn't do any reviews for at all! Ah well, the guy that was reviewing Yashahime was full of crap anyway (if it was the same guy doing season 1.)

Was that the same guy from the beginning of the show? I forgot his name.

48 hours?? You still have to sleep! Haha, but I already visualize everything in inches, feet, and miles. It's too late for me convert over lol.

Up against the seven ninja swordsmen, damn. Using the 8th one means death. Guy doing the same thing his father did to save him.

Wow Kakashi praising Guy's dad. He learned the forbidden jutsu of 8 inner gates?! It took 20 years, damn.

Still finding cats... so his dad never really progressed. Kind of sad. Now getting dropped. Damn.

Thank you for your support!

Ok 5000 laps now that's a stretch. 🤣 Now a battle of rock paper scissors. 🤣

Now that I think about it, a marathon is probably longer than 500 laps. Meters... I don't speak that language.

Amazing this is the first thing that comes up when I search for Todd Fucking Haberkorn on YouTube. 🤣

Karin powered by the power of thirst. 🤣

Todd FUCKING Haberkorn playing kid Guy. I'd recognize his voice anywhere!

I wonder what it would actually be like to run 500 laps. I'm pretty sure you would die from that. 🤣

Kakashi can make that many clones? I thought that was Naruto's ability.

Well, either way, it's canon. Well, mixed canon/filler apparently. I wonder how much and what of it is filler. https://www.animefillerlist.com/shows/naruto-shippuden/papas-springtime-youth

ANN didn't review the rest of the series?

Luffy launched over and grabbed onto him. And the episode ends. 🤣

Caesar Clown came out there to watch! Can't kill the slime monster with blades, bullets, or fire. His only weakness is... water? Well, thanks for telling us that, moron. Caesar Clown wants to recreate that explosion?!