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Uuuhhh Cherami Leigh is telling Shinra to do horrible things?!

I'm just glad the academy/school portion of the characters' careers happened before the show started.

They want me to take it easy until I get the stitches out Monday (will be two weeks,) then for a few more weeks after that. I hope it won't take too much longer. I'll ask more about it then.

That evil face of Miller at the end is hilarious there. I can't find the screenshot but got the one from the battle. But damn, he put Aizen to shame with that face lmao.

Poor Alice T__T

Damn. RIP to a great man.

LOL this memory of a Administrator is a lot less of a bitch than the real one.

Well done Bercouli YOU GOT HIM.

LMAO why is Miller the only anime villain with the sense to interrupt the hero's special attack?

Also think it's pretty funny that Kirito is apparently an anemic albino in the OP now lmao. To add to his other issues.

They need to get the main control room!

Thanks. Yeah, and funny thing, I was more interested in going because of dry/sensitive skin, and they found this. You always think of cancer risk for older people or smoking or being around toxic stuff, doing unhealthy things or being around hazards etc, but it's not necessarily true.

There are "back ups" of Kirito inside the people who care about him. Yep, the solution really is that corny. But aww it's kinda sweet.

Incompetent and realizing how much of assholes they were to deny Alice and the other underworlders are real people.

The rapes were done for cheap heel heat and he said he's not going to do that anymore. The American players were mislead into doing what they're doing.

ASUNA WILL FIGHT ON THE FRONT LINE!

The all star team is here!

Forgot to mention this last week, but my dermatologist removed a 2 inch excision from my back around a severely dysplastic mole she said had a high chance of turning cancerous. I'm glad that was nipped in the bud but now I have to be careful with how I bend, twist, pull, etc. and I can't lift anything over 10 pounds. You'd be surprised how much things weigh over 10 pounds. A gallon weighs 8 & 1/3 pounds. My cats are 12 and 14 pounds and I don't know how how I'm going to add water to my fish tank. It has been tricky, having to work around things. But I'm sure any anime character would just shrug this off!

I didn't even know this was a mecha show since all ever heard anyone talk or show pictures of was the waifus lol. Seems like people of pretty diverse tastes all seem to like it, so that is a good sign. Well done by Demarco.

One more time for good measure in case there was any doubt of SAO's return lol. And I'm not late with it this time.

I re-watched it on Funimation Now and the shot was definitely there. I swear it wasn't when I watched it on TV. But I didn't record it so I have no way to confirm. Maybe I must have glanced away at just the right time. But yeah doesn't make sense why Demarco said that. Makes me wonder if he even checks the episodes before they are ready to air. If it wasn't edited then he just assumed the fans saying it was edited were correct. Seems sloppy on his part.

Aww, that sucks.

I watched Accel World for the first time, after I finally watched the SAO movie for the first time, seeing what else Reki has to offer. It is... odd. It's a creative idea, I'll give it that. I started watching it on Saturday and finished it some time in the middle of the week. Well, all in all, I thought this Accel World was a pretty decent show. It does have a lot of heart warming and charming moments. It is different from SAO. It's a lot more corny and more like a shonen. SAO started to feel more like a shonen to me once the tower arc started in Alicization, and I think it was better for it. Haruyuki, the main character is a lot like a shonen protagonist, and there is talk of friendship and bonds and whatnot, getting stronger. It really does have some likeable characters and their relationships are done decently enough, although like I mentioned before the whole reconciliation thing I think needed more time. Niku is a fun character. She puts on a front of a cutsey girl but then turns into a foul mouthed brat! Actually, there is a lot of cursing in this show! It was crazy! I can see why people say this is written better than SAO, or better than SAO. I can also see by what is in this show, there really isn't a lot that would piss people off or offend them. But I can also see why this series didn't take off like SAO did. The anime finished a major arc and got to a good end point, but there was still more to the story. I assume there are more books the anime never covered. Actually looks like books are still being released. So it is doing well enough to keep getting published, but not animated, I suppose, and if I had to guess, doesn't have an ounce of the merch and games, etc SAO has. And in the past few years only one new book has come out per year, when 3 used to come out per year. I don't think the art style or character design is as good as SAO. I can see a lot of people seeing Haruyuki and being turned off. He's not only a fat kid, but he looks like he is drawn in a totally different art style than the others. Then the other characters look exceedingly thin and slim. Maybe this was by design, I don't know. Mainly most of the characters looks' are not as good or appealing as SAO's, at least to me. And those robots definitely don't look as cool as the avatars of the SAO characters, GGO, or the Underworld characters. Taku's Cyan Pile looked pretty cool, and Scarlet Rain's mecha weapons platform thing was cool, but most were eh or lame looking. Especially with Haruyuki's Silver Crow, looks so plain and minimalist. And kept making me think of Pepsi Man. Kirito's outfits in the games are pretty simple, but at least he looks cool! I think the fantasy setting of the SAO VR worlds also probably has more appeal than the futuristic sci-fi setting to Brain Burst. The anime definitely did not get the nice art and animation, production values SAO gets either. Wasn't terrible or anything, but was nothing to write home about, either. Also the Neuralinker device and Brain Burst program seem to do almost anything the author needs them to lol. Something I did appreciate is how the show criticizes gaming addiction. The characters get obsessed with this game to the point it starts to detract from their daily life, which is never a good thing to happen with any hobby, of course. So after everything is said and done the characters seemed to have learned there needs to be a healthy balance between gaming and real life. But yeah, a pretty decent show. I wouldn't mind seeing the story continue. The way it was set up it could definitely go on for a while. But I see there are quite a few light novels beyond what the anime covered. I just hope it didn't get dragged out too much. I wonder if any more will get animated. I did see that a movie was made. So maybe I'll watch that next. I just found this website. https://animenextseason.com/anime-continue/accel-world-season-2 These could be some reasons why Accel World didn't get more seasons. The guy actually created the website initially because he couldn't figure out why Accel World hadn't gotten a second season, haha. Oh and that Eric Kimerer, he could have played Deku, with how his performance was here. Actually, Haruyuki and Deku are kind of similar characters. I was surprised to learn this guy played Sonic in One Punch Man since the characters don't sound remotely similar to me at all.

What Sketch said. What matters most is where a show had its greatest prominence and importance. Not that this bracket thing matters most in the grand scheme of things.

Ep 7 - Ah YES we have finally caught up to the flash forward and gone past it, so we are fully in the "present" of the story, now. So wait, Kirinmaru was just chilling on a boat this whole time? I thought he would be a sealed away or hiding on another plane of existence or something lmao. But Kyuki thinks she can overpower and overthrow her boss if she gets those pearls? Bad move! Not sure what to make of Riku. He obviously isn't Shippo grown up. I wonder if he has any connection to Kirinmaru. Kirinmaru wears a mask and this guy's face was covered at first when he was sitting in the tree. AND he was eating grapes just like Kirinmaru. This surely wouldn't be Kirinmaru in disguise, or his son or something? He said his master abandoned him. Hahahaha stole the REAL Kikujumonji sword and then left it with Towa. But I wonder if his reason was really just getting the heat off himself and making Towa get caught for stealing the sword? Hmm lol. Again with the changing history stuff. Worried about the seeds from the apple core starting a forest of invasive apple trees in feudal Japan. Stop with that nonsense damn it! It was never an issue before haha. What was with all the fruit eating in this episode anyway? Also kind of surprised that demons would even eat fruit? What do they eat anyways? Jyubei is receiving orders to take out high level demons from someone he can't say no to. I wonder who that is. Hmm Could it be Sesshomaru? Could this be his way of training the girls? Good to hear Setsuna and Moroha praising Towa, even if she didn't hear them, and even if she causes them the most trouble haha. Either way, they had good team work in this episode. I loved how the racoon girl got frozen and they just left her there. Ahh next episode preview looks very tantalizing. We see InuYasha, Kagome, and looks like Sesshomaru in the distance, possibly standing beside Kirinmaru, even if an illusion from some spell. It could allude to something. And Rin inside the tree again. ~ The second dubbed episode is out too. Are they going to be released weekly? We got to hear more of Morgan Berry as Moroha and I think she is doing a decent job. I think maybe it would have been difficult for Moroha to be as over the top in English, I don't know. Robbie Daymond's name does not ring a bell right off the bat, but Toonami viewers would know him as Gaelio from Gundam IBO, Mumen Rider, Haganezuka (the swordsmith) from Demon Slayer, Mitsuki from Boruto, Ide in FLCL Progressive, Smokey Brown in JoJo, among others. And of course lots of other anime. He is quite prolific actually. https://www.twitter.com/brennaobrien/status/1325920081675628544 It is actually the same voice actress for Rin, Brenna O'brien. I did not realize that. So she was a child actress when she played Rin originally, and continued to play her. Well, it would be easier for a woman to play a child than a man, of course. (She is pretty, by the way.) Kohaku's VAs kept being cycled out as they got too old to play him. So it makes enough sense to get yet another actor to play him as an adult, and I'd say Alan Lee did a good job here. Still no info on who is playing Kaede. No info on Kagome's mother or grandfather. But here it sounds like they got Aramaki's VA for Grandpa. According to what I was able to find, French Tickner, the original VA is 90, and was last in something in 2016, so he may be retired. William Frederick Knight is Amaraki and likely Grandpa, he is 87 and still working, so good for him.