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That's what I was thinking lmao. Hell, even hearing it in context!

So the kids are acting so bratty because they have super strong quirks and think they are more powerful than the adult pro heroes?

Are we sure these aren't dwarves in disguise as kids? These kids are way too big of brats! Who the fuck is this? Pint-sized Johan?

So that is Endeavor's reason for not acting friendly to people? Then again, from the sounds of it, he would just be putting on an act if he was friendly to people. So I guess he's just an asshole.

I know you're probably joking, but national age of consent is 14, but most prefectures have it higher than that. And I gotta say the people who always run to that 14 is age of consent thing... make me question why they are saying that. But, I'm not in the habit of putting age of consent laws on my search history either.

I don't think that's the solution, Bakugo!

So is this taking place after or during the last arc? I thought this make-up exam stuff was supposed to be going on this whole time.

"THERE'S AN EPIDEMIC SPREADING CALLED VAPING!" Maybe it's time to retire that ad?

We really don't need Present Mic to add to the annoyance of this episode.

It's something you'll never understand, Endeavor.

The crime only went up 3%?

A little early for those kids to show attraction to the opposite sex? "I didn't know haters came this young." lmao Well at least she didn't get kancho'd!

God damn these are some annoying kids. Is this filler?

Awkward to have the guy they failed against there. Well technically the wind guy started it! He got in Todoroki's way!

Oh fuck off Endeavor.

This guy is annoying. And Bakugo agrees lol. Also kind of hard to get behind his story when he and it were retconned into existence. Foggy memories? Is she and no one else aware she was replaced by Toga? Oh ok the others know. She's just too ditzy to realize it. Wow.

Wtf is with this cutesy intro?

Toonami is animated, not a live production. Why would it be going into reruns? How is Trump at fault for that? Trump has always wanted to restrict travel and immigration. So if anything, the people opposed to his policies would be the problem. I know that cruise ship company screwed up, and the CDC released someone who wasn't showing symptoms, but later tested positive for the virus.

I bet the Preppers are yucking it up right now. https://time.com/5797950/coronavirus-preppers/ https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/E7270D70-599C-11EA-B28B-A29761A06443 And let's see... Wow I'm shocked. Usually anything that exists will be drawn as anime art and in large amounts, but it is all I was able to really find. And no, tactical outfits are not the same thing, Google! This has already been drawn though - And I bet a lot of people aren't laughing at me for being slightly germaphobic anymore. I am amazed at how many people are just now discovering good hygiene though. I think some are overreacting and panicking too much. But man, things sure have escalated in a week, eh?

Yes that is true, which is what I have kept pointing out. I enjoyed the character and mood and atmosphere stuff of .hack, but yeah it was not ACTION-PACKED lol. Have you read that biography before? Some funny and interesting things. Reki was going to be a mangaka, but decided it was too much bullshit to deal with. SAO was the first thing he ever wrote. Possibly explains a lot! He's a fan of Clone Wars. Maybe he could take inspiration from its writing quality? His daily schedule consists of waking up at 10, at 1 PM he rides a bike for 22 miles from Tokyo to Saitama and gets back later in the afternoon, showers, then plays games until he goes to sleep. What a life! But at least he is getting exercise! Suguha was originally going to be flat-chested, but his editor suggested she have big boobs. Quite a catastrophe was avoided there indeed! I would hate to live in the alternate reality with flat Suguha!

Shield Hero is a Crunchyroll original? Well that is probably why it hasn't showed up on Toonami then. Why has no one ever brought that up? Do you mean as a TV block? Because I can't really see the purpose of Toonami branding on a streaming service. But if you mean for it as a TV block designed to get people to watch Crunchyroll, Toonami would basically just end up being the instrument of its own demise. Though I guess people would still have to pay extra money for Crunchyroll, but still.

1. I don't think they have managed to stir much of anything. IGPX was a failure and FLCL and Samurai Jack were proven properties, so nothing too "original" there. So if they got people talking, or watching, it wasn't based on a new idea. Right, but is it really a good idea to be spending money on this stuff with no return, when they should be doing everything they can to ensure the survival and continued existence of the block? It's pure madness. 2. The person you just mentioned, I had to look up, is an organization expert. Ok. I'm sorry but I did not follow your last sentence. You mean that WWE is trying to oversaturate the market to the extent that no one has time for anything else, and it's intentional? I never thought about it like that, but the market is already oversaturated, even without WWE adding to it. And more wrestling feds keep being formed and getting TV deals and streaming deals etc, with no demand for it. Wrestling has only gotten less and less popular over the years, and there certainly is no "wrestling boom" now. And as I said I've also watched other feds and wasn't too impressed. But I'm not going to stop watching something I've been religiously watching since the 90s. There are still some wrestlers I am a fan of, too. Wrestling also has a good community, like Toonami, that I enjoy participating in. Of course some of the fans are awful, but fans of certain sci-fi franchises make the worst wrestling fans seem like saints. Anyway, watching other anime outside of the block, which I definitely plan to do when I make the time for it, doesn't replace the Toonami experience. 3. I don't think it's a misguided sense of community. I enjoy the community. But I'm not saying people shouldn't be able to have their on-demand experience. Just that it doesn't offer the same experience, and never will. Besides the community aspect, you are never going to organically stumble upon something on streaming as you would on regular TV. You're just going to seek out what you like and watch more of it. How many times does anyone really watch something on a streaming service they didn't expect to watch or weren't planning to watch, or was outside what they would normally watch? And for my part, the original series on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc have not interested me AT ALL. I just go there for their libraries. Now, I watch Mandalorian and Clone Wars, but those are Star Wars, something that I already like... Hell, you could also stumble upon things at the video store shelf and go "hey that looks interesting," which doesn't compare at all to the smaller screen, rather, viewing area, and sample size, you'll see on a streaming service. It just isn't the same. I don't really know. Netflix has more viewers, but how many of those viewers are watching the anime on Netflix? I know people have also complained about Netflix because they get shows and then sit on them. Did they ever dub the rest of Seven Deadly Sins? Right it is his block, but his misplaced sense of priorities could end up being its peril. Unless he thinks these originals will be Toonami going out with a blaze or glory. But dude, the originals better be better than what they have put out so far, if that is what he has in mind.

Weren't there some anime that were the top shows on Hulu a few years ago?

Man, I had to look up on the wikia because I could not remember the names of all these characters and things. And apparently Masarao was her father and not her brother. That isn't made clear what their relationship is for the longest time in the show. But she lived in the same house as Masarao and that old guy from that Bureau of Interstellar Immigration, and that plant she ends up taking ends up not just being a plant. We knew unusual things were going on in that house, so it's not surprising that Aiko herself would be unusual. The show portrayed as if she is the only "normal" one there and unaware of what was going on, but obviously only the latter part ended up being true. I don't know that I'd really consider that an asspull. Maybe so but again I still feel like they laid off a bit. I feel like a lot of fans would've wanted even more connections. If anything I can see that more being the complaint, than the show mostly being its own thing. It is like a sequel/spin-off, so I think the amount of connections and references is about right. And I liked how we kept seeing different dream sequences from Hidomi every episode, usually in some crazy art style. I say again, but the way the show was done, was almost like each episode was it's own artistic short film, whereas Alternative was just generic as fuck with the art. Maybe being an artist myself, I appreciate that more, but I feel like the art itself is a major consideration for anime. And the mood and atmosphere is really affected by it, which was done to great effect in Progressive. Alternative felt like you could have been watching any run-of-the-mill modern anime. I expect better than that from FLCL. I liked that Progressive showed Haruko in her true cunt form lol. We could see in the original series she was kind of a selfish asshole, but this is put on full unfiltered display in Progressive. In Alternative she acts like a friendly mentor to the girls. I suppose Haruko could have mellowed out over the years, but eh. Though I don't know when the two new series take place in relationship to each other, and they might just be canon to the original series, but not each other, I don't know. Did you mean it wasn't focused on their relationship? Because I don't remember an episode that was. The point is, you don't really get a good idea of their friendship in the first place, so how can you be upset when it falls apart? It's the same problem as Naruto and Sasuke. Their relationship comes off as two co-workers that were friendly with each other and then Naruto loses his shit when Sasuke transfers to another location and Naruto comes off as insane, or having a romantic attraction, for him to be acting that way. Then the show has 3 whole "FRIENDSHIP" moments it keeps pointing back to as "proof," and also the characters saying they are each other's best friends. So even with the whole thing of Pets being upset with Kana's behavior towards their group of friends, their own friendship is never built up the in the first place. That's the problem. I never really thought about if Hidomi and Kana were supposed to be alike or different from Naota. They are just new characters. The similarity would be coming of age story and that's about it. I don't remember Naota ever acting anti-social, emo, and suicidal like Hidomi. Alternative really just feels like an average-ish slice of series with some sci-fi elements that happen to come from FLCL. Run the Jewels were on Austin City Limits, and I remember seeing them on there. Not that I watch the show, but I watch/record some shows on PBS like Nature and NOVA, and so I would see promotions for the show, or the TV gets left on that channel and Austin City Limits comes on etc. I'm sure they have made other appearances too. They are a fairly well-known group and I don't even like rap much in general. But I never would have heard of Demarco if not for being a Toonami fan. Demarco would be in theory one of those people you would hear about if the group's story was told, or if VH1 Behind the Music was still around. Well, I guess only someone who was a fan of the group would seek these things out, but still. I'm pretty sure these kinds of people have been talked about generally in regard to other musicians, but you never hear Demarco come up, not matter how much he clings to that mention in the article on his Twitter. Isn't their whole thing that they put a spotlight on the these starving artist musicians? I doubt they charge these musicians, much, if at all, to work with them. What do you suppose they charge someone put their music video on Toonami? So how the hell are they making money on it exactly? Then that thing Demarco talked about with Toonami being an efficient money maker for the network must be fairly recent development, or at least how you described. Dimension W was not good, though. Good god, what if they are co-funding a "faithful to the manga" re-telling of it? I mean I can't imagine that story being much better even if it was less rushed than it apparently was in the anime. Also I think Deadmand Wonderland had a decent following. They were begged endlessly to re-air it and eventually did. Though maybe it wasn't as popular before Toonami aired it, I don't know. I know it didn't do well in Japan, which is why more seasons didn't get made, right? To a lesser extent? I think you mean no extent. All of those shows were well-known and hyped before Toonami aired them. Pop Team Epic, a gem? Really, dude? I mean it could be kind of funny at times, but come on. And that also to start off their NON-ACTION selection so they got the most out there thing they could find. And now the successor, Food Wars. Truly we would all be culturally incomplete as anime fans without having seen Food Wars ever in our lives. See that is the thing. The fact Demarco's only obscure shows he knows are old are from his youth proves he is out of touch, and only keeps up with the basic bitch modern anime. That doesn't help his case at all. I mean those three series are all widely talked about and well-known, I wouldn't call them that obscure, either. Then again the American anime fandom would have been smaller years ago, but still. They were still known among many if not most anime fans. I wouldn't say obscure. I thought it was Toei, not Jump. And yes the distributors want them to air, even still, there are some big shows who are conspicuous by their absence that Toonami has not aired. Well it was always said that the reason Toonami was able to get more new shows was because they didn't concentrate on keeping a library of shows to rerun like ASA did. As it is, keeping shows to rerun probably makes even less sense in the modern ecosystem. The thing is those shows also have to be something the viewers want. Are most people really going to care about most of these original shows? I guess if they don't care about having another money sink, it's fine, but it seems like a major lack of priorities to me. It certainly is not going to "save" Toonami, that's for sure. Well I hope so. As it is, I hope some good stuff is coming down the pipe to make up for what we lost. I know that won't be the intention behind it, but still. Well that is depressing to hear. I mean they also lost a time slot in the front just now. Well Adult Swim is a night time block for night owls. I am a night owl and in central time zone so maybe that is why the late premieres don't bother me as much. So I really don't get people complaining about shows coming on too late on Toonami and Adult Swim. It also seemed like anime fans would be more willing to stay up for stuff, due to how religious they can be with watching and following things, and how getting to see anime was such a rarity for a time, you appreciated how much Toonami could give you. Obviously the latter is not really a thing anymore. But, if the ratings aren't there for the later premieres, maybe it doesn't make sense to keep them, but that is not the excuse Demarco gave for getting rid of them. =P

I could've sworn Asuna's ass was on the left side of the screen! MANDELA EFFECT!