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Wow, it was a real phone this time. Wait, nevermind lmao.

This is one evil sicko doctor.

Is this the midichlorians of JoJo? x_x But there are literal ghosts in this show. And I have a hard time believing all the Stands can be explained by scientific and biological means. Some of them are whacked out as fuck.

I haven't even heard anyone complain about TV shows being graphic in possibly decades. I don't think this is really a thing anymore. Hell, they show pretty graphic stuff on NBC, CBS, and FOX these days. ABC is maybe more family friendly. Don't know if it was always like that or it started when Disney bought them.

wtf. Is this guy a Youtuber?

CHOPPED IN HALF! Well, more like melted.

Eeehhh... so THIS is how the arrow works?! It's not just magic?! Still sounds like a bunch of mumbo jumbo though lmao. But I have a hard time believing Stands are simply biological in nature. Also this show has ghosts and stuff. Eh, why can only one person learn the secret?

Stealing ice cream! You monster!

"No longer in any condition to battle." Hmm, who is this guy?

So, JoJo is FINALLY back. Maybe there was a method to Demarco's madness after all. I hope we can just get through all the rest of the episodes now. Better to have one long break and get it over with, than a bunch of little breaks. But maybe they weren't actually able to rerun JoJo episodes. But Ballzmastrz is still here. I hope that is just a placeholder and Demarco isn't just going to play the whole damn thing.

So THAT'S what that G.I. Joe short is from? I know the old cartoon sure didn't look that good, and I didn't remember that in the movie. I remember even as a kid thinking it was a dumb show, since it was a show about a war where no one died. I liked the toys though, and their backstories. Then I heard about how awesome the comics were, and more mature than the cartoon. But, I have watched and re-watched a ton of old cartoons over the past few years. I should probably watch G.I. Joe just for completion, and especially since it is the complement to Transformers. I've of course re-watched G1, Beast Wars, and Machines, more times than I can count. And M.A.S.K. I have re-wartched tons of times. But as for a 80s cartoon and toy line specifically, I actually prefer M.A.S.K. over Transformers. Of course, M.A.S.K. didn't last past the 80s and become a multi-sequel and multi-universe juggernaut like Transformers. But what happened to the Hasbro shared universe? There was going to be a M.A.S.K. movie. 😧 Man, it would update so easily, and wouldn't be hard to make. If you can make Mad Max: Fury Road or the Need for Speed movie (I use those examples and not Fast and Furious, because they don't suck and use REAL CARS AND REAL STUNTS), you can make M.A.S.K.!

On the Pre-Flight episode where they discussed SAO, the only thing Demarco said he didn't like was when the series goes too hard into the teen soap opera stuff. Is that site still around that catalogs the episodes? It should be up there. Then on Twitter or somewhere, discussing the rapisodes, he said how you shouldn't discount an entire series that is otherwise good just because of a bad scene or two. Well he has refused to air other things that have large fandom. He wouldn't air Yugioh, probably because they're on Adult Swim now, and flat refused to air Panty and Stocking. Also funny enough, Demarco said he hates .hack and would have never aired it on Toonami, when someone was asking him about regular CN running it at 5 in the morning or whatever it was. Ah, thank ye olde programmable VCR. Demarco said he has nothing against Isekai but just wasn't able to air any others. But he also said "I'm sure will Boruto be back at some point," and claimed back then they didn't renew it for now, to be able to run other shows or something along those lines, it was about the most bullshitting thing he could say, then of course later on he says there are no current plans to bring it back. Surely Demarco wouldn't LIE or bullshit, would he? Also, how much effort did he put in to get those other isekai shows? I doubt as much as he did get stupid Gundam back, like he was a fucking a peace negotiatior or some shit.

LMAO you described Demarco a tee! IRONIC. Demarco originally co-founded Toonami to rebel against the other cartoon blocks at the time and do something foreword thinking and different. Now, Demarco has become one of those out of touch network dinosaurs himself! Given Demarco's behavior on Twitter, Ask.fm, and elsewhere, I doubt he cares about offending anyone or SJWs. And what he has aired already. I mean, could any of the stuff that happens in those shows really be more offensive than what we have seen in SAO, JoJo, Hellsing, Black Lagoon, Deadman Wonderland, Tokyo Ghoul, or Akame ga Kill? You may be underestimating Toonami fans or pinning them wrong, or not, I don't know. Trying to remember, did ASA air Baccano? Only similar example I can think of, but it was all Pulp Fiction'd, not Groundhog Day. Either way, people had to watch Re: Zero week to week originally when it came out. Isn't Konosuba just another isekai harem show? Ovelord has... disturbing implications, from what I'm aware of. You showed back up before covid happened. I think a lot of just assumed you were dead, or moved on from anime, or at least ASMB/UE community. I've got a videogame backlog too lol. Still cracking away at it, and right now I am cleaning and reorganizing my room, and other parts of the house. Now since my glasses are gone, I am forced to play handheld systems. T__T It's just as well since I have backlogs there too. I'm also watching all the Forensic Files episodes, and started watching Seinfeld again. Yeah that worked out real well for them with Dimension W. Also no way are most of their originals going to be huge gangbusters hits. They will gain cult followings if they are lucky. And I can guarantee you most people are not going to give a shit about Uzumaki. Sure in this current environment with competition from streaming services they need originals or at least get it in on shows right off the bat, but they are lousy with their picks on these originals and world premieres, and they STILL need to pick up established hits, newer the better, but later is sometimes better than nothing, possibly in the case of some of the shows you, Daos, and others commonly mention.

Aren't most of those Isekai series harems as well anyway? BLEGH!

Kekkaishi is a great manga. You should check it out. I never thought about Kekkaishi being similar to Bleach. It was more close to InuYasha to me. The Ayakashi from Kekkaishi were similar to the types of creatures the demons were in Inuyasha. There's even demon dogs. And the characters wore similar outfits (Yoshimori looked especially like Miroku) and had similar roles, to fight these Ayakashi and protect people. His brother was a captain of something yeah haha. Group of 12 apparently is what they were called lmao. Masamori had the cool older brother thing too, like Sesshomaru, or Bayakuya? And he had that awesome fish! And he was 21?! He looked like he was in his 30s at least! But, the Shadow Organization is for fighting Ayakashi, it almost makes me think of, as if the demons in modern day Japan still existed in InuYasha, there could be a now secret organization fighting them. And this is what the Shadow Organization is basically. That actually wouldn't be a bad idea to make something like that in the new InuYasha series, since one of Sesshomaru's daughters gets stuck in present day Japan, she could find out about it and become a part of it. I also find it hard to believe all the demons went extinct either. I don't remember a girl looking like Rukia. I feel like I should remember that lol. But, Demon Slayer feels more similar to InuYasha, Bleach, and Kekkaishi, than Kekkaishi does to Bleach, to me. The parallels of Demon Slayer to InuYasha are obvious and have been discussed, but that Demon Slayer Corps is a lot like the Shadow Organization, a secret organization to fight demons, except Demon Slayer is in the late 1800s or turn of the century? Not sure when it takes place. There were power lines and electricity, and a steam train. They have the whole crow thing going on like Masamori's Night Troop had, wear similar clothes, have captains and squads etc, which is both in common with Bleach, too, though. Hmm... I forgot about the mark on Yoshimori's hand. That's like Miroku too, haha. And of course, the staffs. But it was just a mark that showed they are the true successors to something or other. I think Tokine has it on her boob lol. Hmm I guess Tanjiro (which I've been misspelling as Tanjuro this whole time apparently,) doesn't look as much like Miroku and Yoshimori as I thought. No, actually, he looks like if Miroku slicked his hair back and became a Soul Reaper. And Tanjiro and Miroku both have earrings, but Yoshimori doesn't. He even has his black uniform personalized with a small touch, like most of the Soul Reapers do. I guess the only real similarity Tanjiro and Yoshimori would have in appearance is the dark uniform with baggy pants and the dark hair. I thought Yoshimori wore sandals, but he doesn't. Tokine does. He wears some kind of slip on shoes, and also a watch and backpack that aren't traditional and old school. Of course Tanjiro has a sword and not a staff. But I know someone else with a black sword though, lul. One thing I will say for Kekkaishi is the author drew the characters to look their age (except Masamori lmao.) Yoshimori and Tokine are supposed to be in their mid-teens, and they look it. I already addressed the Toonami on AS thing in my other post to Hunter. And I agree with you that Deadman Wonderland and Casshern were not the best way to start off the new Toonami hahaha. Still remember people losing their shit at how underwhelming the initial return was and the shows they picked. And then people freaking that Toonami wasn't playing a bunch of the old Toonami shows lmao. That was also when the Toonami section of the ASMB turned into a total toxic shit-fest, when it had been largely positive up to that point, during and after the April Fool's event and the grassroots effort to bring Toonami back. I stayed out of that section for a good while after that. GXP was the WORST (fitting theme it had lmao). Akame ga Kill was bad, anime the anime with all the cliches and tropes they could get in there, full of thin, one-note characters, about as deep as a puddle, full of over-the-top edgelord nonsense, and forgettable. Characters die left and right but you are never made to care about them. BUT somewhat watchable and entertaining. But Tokyo Ghoul was WAY worse. A favorite of Hot Topic's best customers with bad writing and character development, and even more edgelord nonsense, even cringier than Akame ga Kill was with it, with none of Akame's silly charm. Also, the anti-discrimination message didn't work when the evil ghouls were going around killing people and even the "good" ghouls had to eat people to live. How many suicide victims and morgues could the "good" ghouls raid for food? Besides the fact they are depriving people of burying their loved ones. This would also end up with people being "missing" indefinitely for some of the people who committed suicide. And the show put entirely too much emphasis on coffee! There's only so far you can take that! It's just fucking coffee! I've always preferred tea, anyway...

It wasn't a horrible show. Plenty of people enjoyed Kekkaishi. I liked that the fights were more about tactics and strategy than power and strength. And destroying enemies with those Kekkais was a very unique fighting system which only got more and more creative as the series progressed. Also characters that might not be as good in fights can still be useful in their own way. Again, it's not all about POWAR. And the manga is highly praised. The anime is good, and the manga continues that same story, and improves, and gets great. I very much recommend anyone read the manga if they get the chance. Plenty of time now... I actually found the character of Gen highly relatable. His struggles with his demon powers made me think of my own struggles with anger issues at the time. And I'm "abnormal" like Gen, too, what with having Asperger's, and bipolar disorder. When Yoshimori told Gen that he isn't a monster, it helped me get rid of a lot of the self-hatred and guilt I had been having for a long time up until then. Hell, I had been suicidal as early as 6th grade. It was like I has an epiphany. I actually made a thread about it at the time. And I've gotten much better at dealing with my anger since then. Obviously, Asperger's and bipolar disorder can't be cured, but you can learn to better self-treat and manage them, and try to adapt better to the world. I can tell you I certainly didn't ask to be this way. But I have been trying my best over the past several years. Soul Eater did not air. I remember it very well because people threw a big fit that Kekkaishi was the new pick-up and not Soul Eater, and so didn't give Kekkaishi a fair chance. They were already prejudiced against it because it wasn't the show THEY wanted. Toonami aired Soul Eater years later, well beyond the peak of its popularity and hype. It was rectifying a mistake of ASA's. I don't regret ASA getting Kekkaishi, though, obviously. But they still should have gotten Soul Eater at some point. It's like you didn't hear anything I said. And now you're going to get me going on a rant. Toonami and ASA had totally different people running them, different style, atmosphere, feel, and introduction and packaging, different kinds of shows. Toonami had Tom and Sara, CGI fictional cartoon character mascots, and a whole universe to itself, with those events they would do. Toonami would do game reviews, play music videos, and interview people. ASA had no real mascots or hosts, spokesmen, of sorts, to speak of, and certainly they didn't try to create their own universe, and I don't remember any interviews, reviews, or any other kinds of specials or extras. They had the black and white bumps, and would take questions and comments from fans. A lot of times they would lightheartedly tease or make fun of the fans and shows in the bumps, or just in general. They would do April Fool's stunts, wholly an Adult Swim tradition, doing things like adding sound effects or putting mustaches on characters. They even did it to the serious Sango and Kohaku backstory episode! They even put a damn mustache on the Shikon Jewel! Of course, many anime fans, taking themselves and the medium too seriously, and unable to take a joke, took things like this as ADULT SWIM HATES ANIME! Yes, a network that provides a home for anime for years hates anime. Makes so much sense. But I enjoyed those bumps! One of the viewer comments that mentioned in nerdy joke fashion how the Tessaiga goes from katana to falchion and gains extra attack points... that's how I found out Tessaiga was a falchion! And what a falchion was! The bumps were informative and funny. There was less personality to it and it was the network talking directly to the fans, no characters, but they had their appeal just as Tom and Sara did, but in a different way. After all, most other networks wouldn't talk to their fans like that, if at all. You don't get things like the black and white bumps, or Tom and Sara, all the time with TV. Just like you don't get a lot of Joe Bob Briggs. Both felt special, but totally different from each other. Then there was the shows themselves. Toonami shows were usually, generally more action packed and not often the most cerebral, and geared for a younger audience. ASA shows were generally more mature and dark, often more thought provoking. They had their action, but had a lot more quiet calm moments. ASA had Cowboy Bebop and Trigun, often aired back to back and perfect complement to each other, Ghost in the Shell, etc. Mature, deep, serious shows with lots of parts that people who like the more frenetic shows would find boring. Even within the same genre or age range, demographic, if you will, Toonami had Dragon Ball/Z/GT, Naruto, and One Piece. ASA had Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist, and InuYasha. Bleach was part of The Big Three with Naruto and One Piece, but it was always regarded as more serious and grown up, more mature, more "cool," than the others. It deals with grim reaper samurai fighting monsters who are ghosts that lost their way and even hurt their own loved ones, then they're trying to fight one of their own who is trying to get to Heaven to kill God. Ichigo lost his own mother to a Hollow. People are dying and horrible things happen to them from the first episode, people have horrible, tragic, violent backstories, etc. The characters are older, and even though they are stated to be teenagers, Kubo drew them like they are college students, a common thing in anime actually. Naruto was regarded as "cool" too, and it had some dark, tragic, and serious stuff going down. Characters died. It came off as more mature than One Piece, but it still had Naruto having a diarrhea attack from eating spoiled milk like a dumbass, literally winning a fight by farting, and the show was literally about children. One Piece of course came off as very childish and lighthearted, and as much as people want to claim, this wasn't exaggerated THAT much by the 4Kids version. Hell, I swear some of the characters that somehow didn't die, like that bird guy, came off like something 4Kids put in. Then of course the characters looked very cartoonish and un-anime-like, just made many fans regard it as kiddy, juvenile, and definitely not "cool" like Bleach, or to a lesser extent, Naruto. I don't think these fans would feel much different if it wasn't 4kids-ized, either. And of course no one dies in the whole show for hundreds of episodes past wherever both Toonamis would dream of getting. I still loved One Piece though, even with the 4Kids stuff in there. Fullmetal Alchemist, I mean it's obvious. The show starts with the brothers' mother dying and them trying to bring her back with disastrous results, Ed losing his arm and leg and Al his whole body. The show is dark as fuck, especially 03. Both shows get very philosophical too. No way that would be on Toonami. InuYasha again has a horrible, violent, tragic backstory to start things out. There's lots of violence and horrible shit happening and body horror on a weekly basis. Then there is romance aspect, the sexuality and the nudity. No way that ever airs on Toonami. InuYasha may be Shonen, but it's a lot more mature and darker than others. And of course deals with death and past relationships, dealing with that, Inuyasha has to mature and grow up over the course of the series. And the fact it has Kagome and Inuyasha as co-leads, fish out of water story, action, drama, and romance, it appeals to everyone, but it's not a Toonami show. The shows that most felt like ASA shows on Toonami, would be Big O, and Blue Submarine No. 6. Maybe Kenshin. Big O had action, but had plenty of quiet and calm, thinking moments, and got VERY philosophical. It straight up fucked with your head. But the fact it felt a lot like Batman TAS in ways, but with robots, helped it fit in. Most of the violence was with robots too, and little to no nudity that I can recall. Blue Sub 6 was about the most awful and dystopian depressing thing they could have aired. Kenshin was good because it was a Shonen where the main character wasn't a dumbass. It was about a samurai that swore to never kill again. I mean maybe that gimmick had it in its favor for Toonami, but this was still a guy who killed tons of people in his past, and people were bound to die in the show eventually, which of course they did. Hell, you had the one girl who was suicidal, and there was opium trade. And all I talked about was in the same arc! It somehow managed to make it onto Toonami. A great show, honestly, it's too bad about... eh. Dragon Ball I shouldn't have to explain. It's not all sunshine and rainbows, and has a lot of tragic and sad moments, sympathetic and compelling characters, and great interactions between them, it matures more as it goes along, and of course Toonami showed the more mature Z portion first. But it of course fit in perfectly on Toonami with a few edits, has plenty of action. Hell, how many times do we hear people don't watch it for the writing? You're seriously going to use that? The April Fool's experiment was just that. When Toonami returned it was under a shoestring budget. They recycled old Tom segments and only got 2 new shows, and maybe not the best ones to reintroduce Toonami with, at that, especially Casshern Sins. Also Casshern and Deadman Wonderland went together with each other about as well as oil and water. But do you really think they would just stop a bunch of shows mid-run? Or stop airing Bleach, with how successful it was for the block, and popular it was with fans? Hell, I bet Demarco wishes he had Bleach now. It should also be noted that this Toonami wasn't meant to be just like the old Toonami. This was Toonami on Adult Swim. The block grew up and matured with its fanbase (well some of the fans anyway, lul.) This is actually why they got something like Deadman Wonderland in the first place. Look at how DARK AND VIOLENT AND EDGY Toonami can get now! It's not like the Toonami you remember! Of course in Casshern's case this was misguided. An overly depressing show that has tons of build up, then wastes time on the pink haired girls personal issues, then has to have a rushed and unsatisfying ending. But, this also would explain why it was justified and made sense to keep ASA shows, besides the fact ASA had been absorbed and replaced by Toonami and these shows and their future sequels and spin-offs would have nowhere to go, they fit just fine, because Toonami was more mature now. But this wasn't ASA anymore. So you wouldn't see all the kinds of picks you'd see ASA get in the past, and more importantly, Toonami would get shows ASA was too incompetent or had too poor taste to get. They also got Soul Eater and Gurren Lagann, which should have aired on ASA. So we would get a lot of good shows we wouldn't have dreamed of ASA getting, and certainly way more new shows than ASA would ever get. But as far as the most pure, ASA-like shows, would be things like Michiko & Hatchin, Megalobox, maybe Black Lagoon. Hellsing I think never would have been on ASA and sure as hell not original Toonami. Only Adult Swim Toonami could have and would have aired Hellsing. But there certainly are less of the obscure unexpected picks on Adult Swim Toonami. At the same time, you won't see things only original Toonami would have aired, either. Don't expect to see something like Zatch Bell on the block. So, no, they aren't the same at all, but this Toonami isn't like the old Toonami, either, it's a whole new animal. They are both out of touch and have horrible taste. They have gotten the obvious hit shows it doesn't take a genius to figure out that they should put on, which ASA would often be too stupid to get, but that's really not much of a feat or something deserving of such high praise. Then at the same time, they pass over other seeming surefire hits. They also won't air stuff just because they don't like it, which is the stupidest fucking thing. That is exactly what happens, actually. They watch like 3 episodes of shows and if they like what they see, they get the show. This is what happened with Tenchi Muyo GXP, which backfired spectacularly.

So basically...

That vest covering up Hinata's boobs... DIS-GUSTING!

At least we get to hear Orochimaru again. LOL Kabuto there is no need to be vague about who you are bringing back, especially in your internal monologue lmao. THAT JUTSU HIM etc... this takes the cake.

It's annoying how easy it is to seamlessly slip filler into this arc. Did Kishimoto write it that way on purpose? Hell, this whole dumb war arc is filler in and of itself, as we've learned, forced upon Kishimoto by his editors. That explains why most of the Akatsuki were dead or defeated by this point, and why the good guys have no one to fight but a bunch of clones and dead guys. Wow they actually said BALLS.

We'll find out soon enough. The SAO dub is coming in August, with or without Demarco.

That's great, but what about next week? Demarco and co. supposedly aren't sitting around while everything is going to shit. New shows are coming, supposedly. He didn't say when. And since they haven't announced anything, I'm not expecting anything new next week. Old shows are returning. No surprise there. I don't see why they don't get any "new to Toonami" shows from the past few months or years that that they never picked up. Shows that have long since been dubbed. And it's not like everybody watches every anime as it comes out. Unless they are saving their money for NEW new shows.

Are the people who gave this show Emmys on meth just like the people who made it?

I saw that, and also another one that says he isn't the only foreign animator. Has this been going on for a while, or is Japan desperate for manpower due to covid? His Twitter page says his location is Indiana. If that's actually true, and he didn't put that to hide his true location or just put it as his home state, that implies he did the work from home, and sent it to Japan, which implies the covid factor.

I don't understand. Does he mean he worked on Black Clover itself, or one of the convention things airing during it? I never heard of a non-Japanese person working on anime. Unless the Twitter handle isn't his real name. But he says he grew up on Toonami, though. Did he move to Japan and joined the anime industry? I mean it really sounds like he worked on the actual anime... To quote Beavis - Well, I'll be damned...