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POLICE BRUTALITY! AND CORRUPTION!

Apparently a bunch of people threw a Last Jedi-level hissy fit over this game and started harassing developers and voice actors. Ridiculous. I have the first game but haven't gotten around to playing it yet. It wasn't high on my list because I thought it was like those Telltale games, which are more on-rails visual novels than videogames. You never really get an idea of the gameplay from commercials and trailers, either. Also the fact I was pretty much sick of zombies at that time due them being oversaturated. I actually hoped Warm Bodies would take off and make everyone avoid making any zombie related content, like how Twilight did for vampires. Also the fact I didn't have a PS4 back then.

That's... a different take on Bruce Wayne's voice.

Bruce Wayne's face looks hard and old for 25.

So this movie came out in 2011? How long have they been doing these movies? And they aren't part of the DC animated universe, right? They just adapt various comics? I remember seeing one about the Justice League being formed. Not sure if it was CN or what.

That guy looks like Kingpin lol.

I didn't realize the whole block was being preempted. I thought one movie was playing this week and another one next week, at the beginning. Well, this will definitely buy time for Black Clover, and potentially other shows.

Well how the hell is a suit not restrictive lmao. Yeah no idea about what school would allow her to wear that, unless it is her non-school outfit she constantly wears for some reason. I did like the scene of Towa brawling with school punks, reminded me of Ichigo. I wonder how much time will be spent in present day. It looks like she was about to fight to protect her "little sister" (Sota's daughter) in one scene. You see her take out her sword. I don't think she would use that on human bullies. I found this. https://www.fanpop.com/clubs/inuyasha/articles/138724/title/takahashi-backstage-interview-how-old-inuyasha-characters Many of the fan letters I receive ask the question “How old are Inuyasha and the other characters?” Some fans make guesses. The character with the greatest range is Miroku, with guesses ranging from the late teens to late twenties… I basically think it's all right for the readers to view the characters as whatever age they see fit, but since so many people ask this, I'll answer with the ages I have in my head as I work. It is clearly stated that Kagome's age is 15, so for balance, Sango is about 15 or 16, and Miroku about 17, 18. I think of Kikyo as having died at about age 17… Demons such as Shippo, Sesshomaru and Koga live anywhere from tens to hundreds of years, so I'll leave it up to the readers to decide. Inuyasha is a half-demon—and was sealed away for 50 years—so I'm not sure how to figure his age out. But if he was sealed away for 50 years, then… Emotionally, I'd say he's about the human equivalent of 15 years old, the same as Kagome. So there you have it. If you see this, tell all your friends in your class! Now goodbye, everyone! Amazing that it is so hard to have such simple questions answered, and even after all this time. Of course we then have to add on the time skips to these figures. I knew Sango was never that young. I remember back when I was first watching the show, some people saying Inuyasha's relationship with Kagome was inappropriate because he was older than her, but he is around the same age, minus the time on the tree, which doesn't count. He isn't 17 or 18, or 200, like that movie said. And I can see the InuYasha wikia is bullshit since they go by that figure and say he ages slow and was 150 when he got sealed, which isn't true. Also even if Inuyasha was a couple years older than Kagome it wouldn't be a big deal. And yeah it had been known since back in the old days that Miroku is a bit older than the others. It would be lame as hell if Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, and Sango are all dead. But either way, I don't like that Moroha either hasn't seen her parents in years or doesn't even know them, or at least doesn't remember them. On the other hand, it would seem there has to be a way to remove them from the battle so the next generation can shine. I can't see them being weaker for being in their 30s and they might actually be stronger by then, after decades of experience and power development, even if it has been relatively peaceful and they haven't been racking up epic battles all that time like they did when Naraku and the Shikon Jewel were still around. Also the fact that Kohaku seems to have taken over demon slaying duties and training new slayers, and Miroku and Sango's son has Kilala and Hiraikotsu. At the very least, Miroku and Sango specifically are "retired," and Miroku wouldn't have his wind tunnel, in any case. I read a theory someone posted that Kagome died in childbirth and Inuyasha can't face his daughter because of it, which would be dumb as fuck. Either way, Inuyasha wouldn't ignore his kid or be a shitty parent, given Inuyasha lost both of his parents and he mostly had to raise himself. So was the Root Head thing a new thing made up for Yasha-Hime or did they fight that in the original series or Final Act and I forgot? Or was it in the manga and got cut from the anime? I guess I didn't make it clear but I was also reacting to the poster that was released that Poke posted, haha. https://www.viz.com/blog/posts/yashahime-princess-half-demon-arrives-in-october I know that the little brown-haired girl is of course Sota's daughter. But who is the brown-haired person in the back of this poster? It could be Shippo? Hard to tell. I need to look at it on my computer later. Then there is Kaede of all people clearly shown there. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru are shown as in the past/symbolic, from my view, and that isn't the current them we are seeing, but just to show how they looked back during the original series and Final Act, these are their fathers, the legacy etc etc. It is just how they are in the earlier poster they released. But I can't see a reason to include Kaede of all people as part of "legacy," especially since Kagome isn't shown, plus she is closer in than Inuyasha or Sesshomaru and the fact they put the new character with brown hair or possibly a grown up Shippo in between doesn't make sense. So clearly all the characters in that poster are in the present, except Inuyasha and Sesshomaru. And I see now the poses are actually different. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru are fully colored in now, but they are waaay in the back of the group, Sesshomaru is gazing off into the sky, and Inuyasha's back is turned. Yeah, something happened and they can't be involved in the current story for some reason, even if they probably [hopefully] aren't dead. But I don't like that Kagome isn't shown at all. Moroha is just as much Kagome's legacy as Inuyasha's. She has the priestess powers. So I hope nothing happened to her. I am less worried about Miroku and Sango not being in the poster since their son isn't one of the stated lead characters. Though, going by everything so far, Towa seems to be the one who will get the most focus out of the three. The show is also called Yasha-Hime: Princess Half-Demon, meaning Moroha isn't the main character, and singular "half-demon", so only one of the twins can be princess? Towa? Though I think Setsuna and Moroha will get no less focus than Miroku and Sango did. The original show was a pretty good balance between the four main characters. But this show might go a different route, who knows. Of course, I am wildly speculating off of mere scraps of information they have given us, heh.

Did that Root Head demon appear before or did they make up that battle retroactively for this? We got an undies shot! Proof Towa is a girl! And you could tell she had breasts when she did that lunging overhead sword swing at the end! And I don't know why she is wearing that suit! It does look like Colonel Sanders lmao. Setsuna is just like Sesshomaru LOL. And Moroha acts like Inuyasha. But I don't know if he ever acted that cocky? And she called herself Beniyasha hahaha. So one of the Demon Slayers is Sota, and people are saying the other one is Miroku and Sango's son? If he he's grown up by now, how old would Sango and Miroku be by now? No we don't need another Shippo! Looks like a Tanooki this time. Who is the person in the back with brown hair? That isn't Shippo grown up, is it?! And how is Kaede still alive and looks exactly the same?!

Oh Demarco is going to revel in that airing of Bebop, then. The world didn't need sequels to Fooly Cooly, eifher! HIYOOOOOOOOO! Oh wow didn't know a Dailymotion video would embed LOL. What happened to all the hiyo clips on YouTube?! Wow I didn't realize it was that close. I must have been thinking of Space Coast to Coast as more when Adult Swim started, a spiritual predecessor, if you will. But, wow, I didn't realize that SGC2C started all the way back in 1994!

No, it's just obnoxious and annoying.

You really think it's so guaranteed Toonami will air Bleach and Yasha-Hime? (Is Yasha-Hime what it is actually called?) I don't have such high confidence in Demarco anymore. He has disappointed me more and more over the years, and his handling of the pandemic has been abysmal. It shows Demarco can't react to crisis or adapt or think on his feet at all. Hell, they don't even know when the rights to their own shows expire! Why would they get Shaman King? Isn't that like a super kiddy Pokémon tier anime? Thinking of Bleach, how has Viz been doing with dubbing during the pandemic? Not sure what shows they have going lately. And yeah, they better keep the Ocean cast for Yasha-Hime!

Did they really already spend so much of their money on shows they thought would be ready to go as usual? Even Fire Force and SAO shouldn't have drained their bank accounts so much since shows of that caliber didn't ever air by themselves in the past. Usually there would be umpteen more premieres on top of them. I thought Funimation cut them deals too. Not sure about Aniplex. Yes now is the perfect time to air all those shows! Yeah but they wouldn't they have to pay to get Paranoia Agent? And Demarco claims that old shows and reruns are no cheaper than new shows. He could have got us something we never saw before on the network instead. It makes me wonder what they would have replaced MHA with the pandemic didn't happen.

LOL this guy put the whole show up and even left their logo up and Funi don't even care?

Naw Demarco can be pretty low effort too, except when he decides to be fucking Nobel prize winning peace envoy to get fucking Gundam back. But for anything the fans might actually want to watch it is a crap shoot of how much effort he will give, and he definitely won't try as hard, if at all, if he personally doesn't like the show as much.

I agree with most of what you said, but there were some perks to the old ways of finding and watching movies and TV shows. It was a whole experience going to the video store to pick something out. You would also be more likely to find out about something new you ordinarily wouldn't watch, than today. Nowadays people pick out what they want to watch and watch it, or stay pretty well in the lane of stuff they already like. In the video store, you had shelves upon shelves of movies right in front of your face, walls even. A much larger field of view than any screen and you saw more at once than you would on a streaming menu. Would I have found out about the Jack Frost horror movie if I didn't see it on a video store shelf and pick it up, enticed by the holographic cover of a killer snowman? On TV a similar sort of thing can happen. You may stumble onto something you wouldn't ordinarily find out about or watch, just by surfing through channels, looking at the TV Guide channel when that came out and later the DVR channel guides, or something that would come on before or after something you were already watching. You would really open your horizons in these ways. On the other hand there are other things that were not so great. Having to pay each time to watch something, whether it was renting or buying, the lesser video and audio quality of VHS and the TVs back then, movies being cropped for home viewing, and you rarely had a big enough TV to make you want to watch the letterbox version (a cool scene of the T-Rex in Jurassic Park briefly standing up on its haunches in the old scientifically inaccurate upright stance in the distance after it gives up the chase of the jeep, a nice touch, is cut off the side of the screen, and I swear the scene of Ellie picking up a prehistoric leaf and talking about it is gone from the home VHS release,) VHS tapes degrading over time, the joys of tracking to clean up the picture on a degrading one, of course after a while they became unwatchable, tapes getting randomly eaten by VCRs, having to clean VCR heads, movies being edited on TV for content (Pacino in Scarface calling someone a "COCK-A-ROACH!" ) and time (whenever Creepshow aired on TV they cut the final cockroach story entirely, and I swear I didn't pick these two examples on purpose.) Of course the movies were almost always cropped when shown on TV. I tell you, I don't miss the days of having to pay 20 dollars or whatever it was for 4 episodes a tape of DBZ, from Suncoast. Streaming is a much better deal. And if I could afford to buy shows again they would be cheaper too! Unless I buy from Aniplex. Anything else anime related you had to go to the mall, shirts etc. Of course, everything at the mall was more expensive, even if it could be a fun experience, and then anime and merch for it was more expensive on top of the "mall upcharge," due to being a specialty item. I don't remember there being a huge section at the video store either. I do believe I rented the Vampire Hunter D movies, the Armitage movies, Ghost in the Shell, and Broly, off the top of my head. I think I made copies of some of them. Later I found out you could rent some anime for free from the library! I watched Metropolis that way. No idea if they still do that. Late fees were annoying. Funny enough, Blockbuster got rid of them to entice people back, but it only hastened their demise, without all the money they made from late fees! It does make me wonder what the anime industry and fandom in the U.S. would look like now, if say, TV and format quality increased, but streaming didn't take off like it did and Blockbuster and Hollywood (I preferred them, and Game Crazy, didn't deserve to down with them,) were still king, and anime was as popular as it now. Would it be on TV a lot more? Though maybe anime wouldn't even have grown in popularity like it did without streaming. I don't know why but for some reason anime being on TV less makes it feel less mainstream. But then I see anime among the top shows watched on Hulu and then I see Seven Deadly Sins is one of the top ten watched shows on Netflix this week (Demarco shakes fist.) I guess it is all perception.

LOL oh my god.

So Broly isn't evil in the new movie? And gets a girlfriend? LOL I thought Toriyama said he forgot he made Broly and said he hated him and Kale was supposed to be an improved version? Less cool because he is canon? Still I don't care what Toriyama says. Whether it is through forgetfulness, simply wanting to retcon, even up to characters' personalities for some ungodly reason, or pure senility, he actively worsens his story and characters with the new "canon" movies, Super, and the BS he announces or says in interviews. None of that shit is canon. Dragon Ball ended when Toriyama put down the pencil on the original manga. Sometimes I wonder if he even goes back and reads or watches the original Dragon Ball and DBZ, since everything since then conflicts so much with that, and people are out of character. Hey, remember when Goku wasn't a moronic sociopath?

LOL you talking about the guy who totally got off for killing Hayate? It wasn't even addressed after the Sand became allies!

Damn I meant to write fight not find lol. She wasn't one of the ones who was guarding 3rd Hokage, right? Oh that's right they all got beat by the Sound Four, didn't they? lol. Ah I don't remember that. I just remember laughing at the show trying to make it a big deal that Hayate died lol. Now it is even funnier how this episode is trying to make it an even bigger deal that HE has been revived. Ah ok.

Oda makes many of the villains over the top evil like that. At least he doesn't make them rapists like Reki lol. But he will also hit with a sledgehammer like that to drive the message home. And as cartoonishly evil as the World Nobles are, their behavior had real world historical precedent. Columbus would make the natives carry his men around on their backs or he would have their hands cut off. That shit for some reason was not taught to us in school at all. I have even see a documentary that made Columbus out to be this sympathetic guy who Spain mistreated and it was all sad about how he has a shitty pauper's grave and was considered a failure by Spain. Spain actually removed him as governor from his colony for tyranny. Even Spain thought he was too much of a tyrant! I don't think Luffy ever thought there was a pirate way. He just beats up people for being assholes. In fact him saying he is a pirate causes him all kinds of problems, since the other pirates in the series are like real historical pirates and not good people at all, and that is how everyone assumes Luffy and his crew are like. But the Straw Hats are like the fictional romanticized idea of pirates as charming mischievous adventurers just out to have fun exploring the world and finding treasure. So it is a weird thing going on in the series. Yeah, some early marine characters were corrupt but you didn't get the idea they were a wholly bad organization, and even though it was called the World Government I took it as more a benevolent one and not evil despite being the government of the entire world, which is usually considered a bad thing in fiction and real life. It came off as benevolent and there was just the World Government and "the Navy" because Oda didn't want to complicate it by making all these governments and navies and just have your general government and navy, and pirates scenario. It fit with the simple cartoony world. There is also that rebellion that has apparently been going on this entire time but there is no sense of it at all for most of the series up until then and barely affects most of what is going on in the main story. The World Government is fighting this huge war with rebels (somewhere ELSE we never saw apparently LOL,) but will waste resources chasing Luffy around. Or the fact they can even spare the resources. Even the biggest empires can be stretched thin or run low on resources! I dunno to hear some fans it is a meticulously planned and plotted and masterful storytelling. Though to me it seems the story got longer as Oda came up with more ideas and added and expanded to the story and world. But people I think give Oda way too much credit. I don't consider some guy showing up again after a hundred episodes to be epic writing ability. If anything, some characters are fine to leave a story permanently once their main original arc and role is done. Or have the dozens of people that "died" actually DIE! It's also annoying to me at times when something is left hanging for that long. I wonder if it was ever said why that Navy girl looks just like Zoro's childhood friend lol. I was curious about her but then her and Smoke stopped chasing Luffy and were written out of the story mostly. And having something set up or referenced, or foreshadowed, then followed up later, is basic writing and storytelling stuff. I don't know if people are more impressed because sometimes it takes hundreds of episodes for things to come to fruition from initial setups, references, or foreshadowing, or they are too used to other series that can't even manage to follow up on the stuff they set up. But it just shows that One Piece is fairly competently made, but they act like it is shonen Shakespeare!

I wasn't talking about your Beetles example which has nothing to do with anything. Just because the Beetles were making "just songs" doesn't mean everyone was. Many artists are definitely trying to send a message or teach a lesson of some sort. How do you know Yuki Tabata isn't, especially with what is shown in the series? The other way you could interpret Yami being the only Japanese guy in the kingdom is it is meant like showing the audience falling into this world. Except Yami isn't the main character and isn't the typical fish out of water character at all, not a character most authors would create for the audience to identify with. He is a grungy musclehead with some pretty gross habits and he spends most of the time making fun of the other characters and the world, almost fourth wall level, part of the shows parody aspect. Like that time be spent a whole episode making fun of the other captains and flat out asked Vangeance if he uses Light Magic. You'd never see that in other shonen. But despite all this, Yami isn't just a dumb, gross brute, he is a pretty good guy and agrees with the Wizard King's ideals. Haha we actually agree on this. Over the top G Gundam is the only good one. Others have annoying characters and the anti-war message is way too preachy and pretentious. The show is literally saying that racism and discrimination is bad, as is classism. Yami is the only Japanese guy in the kingdom and treated shitty for being a foreigner - reversing the positions to put the audience in the foreigners' position. Japan is well known for being racist, ignorant, xenophobic, and hostile to foreigners. I'm sure this is just a coincidence and the show was really just meant to be mindless magical entertainment the whole time! While unknown if it's meant to be a message, the women are pretty strong and competent in this series, which is commendable given how other shonens and anime in general treat women, and how Japan treats women in general. One Piece has a corrupt evil government, and yes, lets those nobles do whatever they want, including owning slaves. The show uses Fishmen as an example to say racism is bad. The show never says evil pirates are good so not sure why you mention that. The government also has their own sanctioned pirates they let do whatever they want, which has historical precedent. Bleach also has a corrupt, evil government as do many other animes. There is even inequality in the afterlife. Yeah I am pretty sure we were all taught in school what slavery was and that it was bad? Same age group One Piece is geared for. Straw Hats are like your classic happy go lucky friendly pirates that love adventure, kind of like the Blue Rogues from Skies of Arcadia, actually. I think the Blue Rogues also had a Robin Hood thing going on too. And they fight against an evil Monarchy. At least Blue Rogues steal shit (from bad people.) Straw Hats don't even do that and really should just call themselves adventurers or explorers or something. But they want to play pretend pirste too much I guess. But I'm sure these are all just coincidences. There's no reason an author would ever have an issue with government or feel the need to criticize it in their story. There's no reason to show racism or say it's bad. It's all just mindless entertainment! Nothing to deeper to see here!

It was meant to show how badass the enemy was that they could take down Anbu, but was too much and ruined the Anbu's credibility. Especially since so many of the battles were off-screen or quick and made the anbu look like low-level security guards or something.

Yeah it is digital editing that is true. Not sure why it wasn't redone. Maybe Toei wouldn't budge on the release time or contracts or something. I think it was probably too late by then either way. Really? I thought I heard this movie was supposed to do better with Broly's character LOL. Broly is the Legendary Super Saiyan and an evil Super Saiyan which is a novelty in an of itself. Plus he looks badass. I thought Broly was pretty cool but I have heard some people say he is like a parody of a Dragon Ball character because he is always angry and just screams all the time and punches things. Which is even funnier because the Vic cultists acted like him being replaced as Broly was a big deal, as if Broly is such an important part of the Dragon Ball universe! He's a filler movie villain! It would be like if Funi replaced the voice of Cooler. Broly is not some central figure to the franchise. I mostly watch dubs but watch subs too. Usually I would see a dub first. I saw DB, Kenshin, and InuYasha in Japanese becuase of the movies. In the last 2 cases they didn't have dubs yet, and some of my first DVDs were DBZ movies and I would watch the Japanese too just out of curiosity and the novelty of it. Yeah it's bad, especially as the VAs get older and older. Goku and Gohan should have changed voices when they grew up. At least Krillin has the excuse of being short, but still another guy voiced by an old lady trying and failing to sound like a young guy.

Me too I had it muted when that show started and almost missed Shippuden!