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LOL it's the same sea cow from before, and it's leaving! Why does all his crew look the same? Some kind of cloning Devil Fruit? Whaaat Caribou is a big pussy?! I thought this guy was scary! Wow, tied up just like that. Crazy currents. Wow like an underwater waterfall. Some giant monster?!

So Kuma was a revolutionary of course LOL. Wow will lose his memory and himself. Just a machine now, damn. Great, Caribou is coming!

Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, you MORONS! Don't pop the bubble! LOL Sanji will need transfusions. Oh you have NO IDEA the HELL Sanji went through! And he has been deprived of ladies! Phew, there's always a bigger fish. What's this, Franky?

That straw hat originally belonged to Roger? I could have sworn it specifically belonged Shanks. Also how the hell has that thing not deteriorated after all this time if it's THAT old?

Dark dream. Would you stop dropping things, Riko! I hope that didn't have the copy of her mom's notes in there or they are really screwed. Reg hopes it stays lost lmao. Haha Riko says they can just make a new one! Creepy monkey like creatures. Some crazy White Whistle?

You guys should know better than to rush after a voice like that. Nothing is normal about this place. Of course it was a trap! Looks like these things are some pretty intelligent pack hunters. Damn, blew them all away, along with the nest. Lucky you didn't hit Riko! Reg is out, like the last time he used the power.

Red skull, is that you?! Yeah I don't think that bullet would really work. Fake out with tomato sauce lmao. So... is he dead? What does Irina expect the kids to do to her! This isn't THAT kind of anime! ...Is it?! They're ok with betrayal in this line of work lmao. He just shoves it in my face like a barbarian. Uhh... Haha she liked the rose, and didn't tell him off.

The government delegated that decision lol. Karasuma doesn't feel sacrificing the kids is worth it. How was Karasuma not injured or killed by that explosion? This guy loves C4. Now you dun got played too Irina!

Were all those troops getting slaughtered the Jaegerists?

Man, Armin, I hope you're right. Otherwise Eren has gone truly cuckoo. Well if you don't help Eren, things are probably not going to end well for you. Right now Marley has the upper hand in this battle.

And as I say that, the feed on the mobile Chrome crapped out and I missed part of the beginning of the episode. I'll have to re-watch it. Hopefully watching on the Adult Swim app will work better. Hard to keep track of this fight with all these Titan powers. The Eren fangirl is annoying.

Spending the second and last night at my cousin's wedding reception at an AirBnB and really tired, plus I'm having to watch and post on my phone, so we'll see how my Toonami watching experience goes tonight. I took a nap before this.

Cool that the Sega games still appeared.

BLEGH!

Some forklift action in the OP yes lmao! The name doesn't look Japanese? Could it be Chinese? No shit! Where I can find some Chinese people? Where can I find some sailors?

I was wanting something else to watch and was going through Funimation's library, and this show appeared on one of the lists. I remembered Daos saying this show along with Haganai were two of the legendary harem series or whatever. Again, I'm not a big fan of the genre, but neither series really fits the mold. This show doesn't take itself seriously. High School DxD is a comedy and possibly even to parody levels, with a lot of the meta lines and scenes that happen. Like Issei saying a girl wouldn't randomly want to have sex with him for no reason, unless it was a porn or one of those harem animes. And the fact that Issei acts like how a young guy actually WOULD act if he got put into one of these shows, and even gets powered by his pervertedness later on, it's HILARIOUS! By the way, is Issei left-handed? I'm a lefty myself so it would be cool to see a rare lefty hero. I remember Rias saying to imagine the most powerful part of his body and that would be where his sacred gear would come from. Is that because that's his fapping hand? And that time Ddraig said he wasn't looking forward to what Issei would be doing with that hand later on. I'm surprised that was the only time that joke got made! Another refreshing thing is how Rias acts. I get tired of the whole innocent, embarrassed girl thing when it comes to sexual situations. Rias is not like that at all! Plus, she is just awesome and lovable all around! Why aren't the Devils in High School DxD evil? These characters aren't really Devils. They're just a faction of anime characters. The fallen angels are worse than the actual devils. Also I thought fallen angels WERE the devils/demons. So this show has its religious lore stuff screwed up. Then again the show barely has anything to do with high school, either, but I am just fine with that. I don't need a ton of school focused scenes, and I'm especially glad they aren't going to a special "Devil School." I was not a fan of them saying God died in the show. I guess maybe it was done because God would be too "OP" if he got involved directly in the story. Then later on it was revealed that the Greek and Norse gods and Youkai and everything else were totally real too. Then I realized this show isn't just being Christian-based with this stuff and isn't trying to be realistic or accurate at all with the religious stuff. As I mentioned about the Devils, it's just to have different themed factions of anime characters with special powers. One thing I will give credit for is for Asia, I thought it was a mistake to say Asia could heal Devils. Usually a healing power like that for humans should damage undead or demons etc. But Asia was a special case because she could heal Devils, and was branded a witch for it. Asia is great and adorable, by the way. Why did Koneko start liking Issei? I did not get the impression that she was a tsundere character. She seemed to genuinely dislike Issei. To go from that to how she acts after he helped her with her situation with her sister is kind of hard to buy. Also that age difference, eh... Jad Saxton is hilarious as Koneko though. I could have sworn that Issei and Rias already said how they felt about each other before? And I don't mean that mini filler arc in season 3 (and for some reason you can just sense something is filler before even confirming it.) They for sure already kissed several times. It also seemed like they were already a couple. Thought it was pretty odd how the author refused to kill off Freed for the longest time, then introduced a new character who looks almost exactly the same, but isn't as depraved. And oh yeah, this show had some sicko scumbag characters in it, some rapey, sort of like some of the SAO scumbag often rapey characters. So I guess that is not just an SAO thing. But it wasn't as prevalent here and these characters seemed to have a little more effort put into them. They were still pretty cartoonish, but still. I was surprised when season 3 came around and voice actors were changed. I honestly did not even notice with Akeno. I thought maybe she sounded different when she had to take charge and shout orders to the others in that one battle, but Akeno had never really had to do that before, so I could see why she would sound different, even if it was the original VA. But Issei was very obvious. I could not understand why Funimation would get rid of Scott Freeman when he had done such a good job as Issei. I googled it and I was like, ok, I can see why he was fired, haha. They really had no choice here. I did not remember that that was who Scott Freeman was. He really wasn't in any major roles in anything I had seen back when he got in trouble. But man, he was perfect as Issei! It's a shame he had to do what he did. Issei sounded like he had a cold after the VA change. I don't know why Josh Grelle was doing that sort of voice, either. I know he can do a higher pitched voice. If he did more like his Armin voice, but sillier and not so wussy sounding, it would have been pretty good for Issei. After a while I got used to it. Not sure if it was because Josh Grelle got better at the voice or changed his performance, or I just got acclimated to it. Asia was also changed for season 4, but sounds exactly the same. I could've sworn she was played by Stephanie Sheh, because Asia's voice is very similar to Stephanie Sheh's Hinata voice, but nope. But if at least two other girls can do this voice, I guess it is not that hard or uncommon of a voice to do. Also could have sworn that Kiryu was played by Michelle Ruff, but she's played by someone named Alexia Sabanbeard. Huh. Looks like she is the voice for Videl and Goten. Oh she also went by Kara Edwards, which is her actual name. That explains things a bit. Still, I definitely didn't think of Videl when I heard her here. Wait, she used the Sabanbeard name JUST for High School DxD lmao. I get it now! Not wanting people to know she worked on this perverted show! And Tia Ballard did the same thing! Also Freed's VA, Ben Phillips, sounded just like John Lithgow. That would have been amazing if it was actually him. By the way, why did Funimation refuse to keep dubbing Interspecies Reviewers on account of it being "too perverted," but they dubbed this?! What the hell HAPPENS in that show?! Then after VA changes for season 3, the art style totally changed for season 4! What the hell happened there?! It doesn't even look like you're watching the same show. I suppose the animation and production values are probably better, but I liked the previous art style and character designs more. Also, it could be my imagination, or maybe because I didn't see them as much, but it seemed like newer characters and side characters looked more like themselves than more major characters, which made it even more annoying. Like Irina. Although Sairaorg looked totally different. And Kiba looks like Eugeo now. I really did not like how the eyes were drawn. Apparently, the studio changed? But that doesn't mean they had to completely change the look of the show! Anyway, I don't know if there will be more seasons or not. I think the light novels ended, but I'm not sure. If so, a future season could just cover all the remainder of the material in one go. There was a post credits teaser at the end. But, it stopped at a pretty satisfactory point, with the big win over Sairaorg, and Issei and Rias confessing to each other (although I could've sworn that already happened,) so I would be ok if there were no more seasons.

Maybe things changed now and older shows are cheaper, or Toonami will have no choice but to air older shows, regardless of price, because most of the new desirable titles will be out of their grasp. That is what is bad about getting canceled. People think something is gone and don't expect it to come back, and don't check back up on it. It definitely damages a brand.

I just did a search. There's no Fena figures. I found a Displate and a CD, and a bunch of T-shirts, most of which look like bootlegs because of the odd designs. So, they didn't even properly merchandise this show, on top of the show itself being mediocre. They're doubly incompetent!

Why do they care? I guess this is the opposite of gatekeeping, they want to spread the word of their favorite shows to the masses like it's a religion. Me, I am just happy to have a show I enjoy to watch. As long as something is successful enough to not get canceled in the middle of the story, I'm good. Sure, I might wish some stuff I liked was more popular, to have more people to share and discuss it with, but it's just the way it is. Wrestling is less popular than ever, though WWE is making more money than ever, so go figure!

That's all well and good, but it isn't sustainable. Unless Adult Swim is fine with treating Toonami like a true passion project and won't cancel it no matter how bad the ratings get. Toonami has to earn its keep, and people aren't going to tune in in droves for obscure shows, regardless of their quality. I can see 1, or 2 obscure titles at the most, at a time, but much more than that is getting risky. Of course, if they go for older stuff, something that's old isn't necessarily obscure. Of course, the more popular the older show is, the more people who have seen it and might be less inclined to watch it again on Toonami. Then again, some people love watching shows again on Toonami and sharing show with first time viewers and seeing how people react to the show and discuss it with them, and there's bound to be some people who never saw a popular show even years after the fact. We'll just have to see how things turn out. Those asses!

I agree I like having Toonami. Each Saturday feels like an "event." It's just not the same with streaming, with shows scattered across a bunch services not everyone will have, and disparate communities. And if you want a spoiler free discussion, forget it. You gotta just watch the whole show and then hope you find anybody who wants to talk about it with you months or years after the fact. Streaming definitely has its benefits, and obviously Toonami can't air every show and there's some shows they can never air (like content reasons or "too old" sadly,) but I definitely still want Toonami to be around and have that event feel and community vibe you mentioned. I was hoping One Piece could stay at 2 eps a week. If Demarco hadn't brought back friggin Bebop. Thanks a lot, Netflix!

Well Demarco blamed Sony (again, foolish for him to publicly badmouth a company you're trying to work with,) which makes me wonder if Sony went over Aniplex's head on this because of how popular Demon Slayer got, or if they always negotiated with Sony directly. SAO exploded in popularity too and that was never difficult to get. But maybe it didn't blow up to the degree Demon Slayer did. Yeah Funimation has been a good partner even after the Sony buy out, I hope that continues. I agree I hope this is a special case for Demon Slayer and not Aniplex overall, or worse, Sony overall. Yeah I would be fine if Demon Slayer was able to air later on and would still watch it. I had a lot of fun watching it here with everyone, so it would suck if that had to end now.

4Kids taken over.

Is this the first time we've ever had two co-productions air on the same night?