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I thought you liked this show. T__T

I don't consider it having changed color. It's just being brightly lit and blown upwards by all that energy swirling around him. Deku's hair has always had a bluish/greenish tinge to it.

We put art under spoilers that is considered NSFW. Nothing NSFW about that pic.

Oh, it is still floated, isn't it? Oh, good to know! Did he say if he was doing a Sonny Strait impression on purpose?

Maybe he'll calm down eventually like Asta did.

Well, ASA would announce things months ahead of time, and Toonami has with some things, too. It's clear this is something they do by choice. But yes, they way you put it, it's very convenient for Demarco, isn't it? But he still is full of crap and still knew the cuts were coming, even if he can technically get out of this with "from a certain point of view." Oh yeah that's right. Well they were foolish to do that from the very beginning, and I guess I gave them too much credit, then? I mean, they didn't even care that the new FLCL shows would have no input from anyone originally involved, aside from the Pillows.

No, I was right the first time. Alternative is sloppily written and falls apart as it goes on, and then the ending. Oof.

Yup, like I said he believes his own hype. And that has been his pinned tweet for a long time now!

I don't like the idea of them butting in on the creatives, but then again, Demarco said that Big O Season 2 would have made even less sense without their input. Of course, I had a lot more trust in what Demarco said back then. Hard to say how things actually went down now, knowing Demarco's penchant for bullshitting. Are you crazy? FLCL Progressive was the much better show. You could get into the characters and the story more, and every episode had different art style to it, it was actually somewhat innovative and creative, like the original series. Not as good as the original, of course, but a decent enough spin-off that stands on its own merits. Alternative screwed up its story and characters, the whole break with the main character and the other girl was not properly built up at all, much less the solution to all of that, and the art style was generic modern anime and nothing very innovative about the series at all. Then why did Demarco say, about IGPX, that "we tried to make the characters as believable and realistic as possible," something to that effect. Which is hilarious! How do the IGPX characters feel so much like real people, exactly? IGPX happens to be one of the few shows that does not manage to hold my attention. I can sit through and attentively watch all kinds of anime, even some really shitty ones, but that one just makes me zone out. I hope they are good, proven sci-fi writers. I never saw Blade Runner 2049. People said it was better than the original. I find that... unlikely. I had no interest in it and did not think it would be anything to write home about, though maybe I should check it out sometime. But, this Blade Runner show could end up disastrous if it isn't handled with great care. I wonder if any of the original crew from the first movie are involved. Sorry if I don't give a shit about Run the Jewels, or the crappy music Demarco likes or promotes. And I think you are vastly over-estimating his and Adult Swim's importance in the music industry. Demarco believes his own hype in this regard, and it seems you do too. Well that is how they make it come across. "LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE DOING FOR YOU! WE DON'T EVEN GET PAID!" When I'm pretty sure no one was asking them to do work and not get paid for it. Stuff like that is what gave the impression that Toonami was a labor of love that lost money or barely broke even. After all, it is well-known that Adult Swim will do things that aren't particularly profitable, just because they want to, whether to do a weird thing, troll, or pursue some endeavor they are passionate about, whatever the reason. As I understand it, they are salaried employees. In most cases, they would get additional salary for the Toonami work, but in this case, choose not to. I'd say Demarco is paid a good $250-300,000 a year easily, or at least six figures. We saw his house before, and while he didn't exactly give a tour, it's not a mansion, but I wouldn't call it a shack, either. At the very least, he is living comfortably, and not being worked to the bone. Either way, it is his choice to take on the work load he has. But the thing is, Demarco said this when the block was still really long, before all these cuts happened. So... And they had not done the CGI refresh for the better part of a year, and still don't update it that often anymore. And with Demarco making that statement about it being self-sufficient and profitable, gave the impression they are getting paid now. No mention was made about it being too long, or too expensive and unwieldy, either. I didn't say anyone could do it, but surely someone already working for Adult Swim, or someone they could hire that has done similar work, like you said, from somewhere like Funimation or Crunchyroll. Granted, such people may not be given up by companies so easily, or they wouldn't want to move to another company so easily. What it is, is I think a set of fresh eyes are needed. Demarco may claim to be a hipster soothsayer when it comes to music, but his anime taste is as basic bitch as it gets. And in some cases he likes (remember they claim to only air what they like) outright crap shows. Getting Tokyo Ghoul, getting Akame Ga Kill, getting Food Wars (and renewing it!) Demarco saying Naruto is one of the best shonens ever made, that quote is going to live in infamy forever. And you are right that they can't do anything about other companies with bigger wallets outbidding them with brute force. But still, I don't think the Toonami crew are what they're cracked up to be anymore. At least the shows recently have been better picks for the most part, but we are losing a bunch of time slots now, so... I never really paid attention to Crunchyroll, since they were a subs only thing. But Funimation has been the biggest player by far when it comes to licensing and localizing anime for a long time, so yeah. Was it John Oliver or Jon Stewart who did a segment on interns and how they should be paid for their work? I tend to agree with that sentiment. But yes, they need someone younger, or at least some fresh blood of some sort, because Demarco and the others seem out of touch in a lot of ways now, going back to the well repeatedly, or sometimes just making some outright baffling acquisition choices. The shows should be chosen even more carefully now that we only have 3 hours to work with. In all of my years discussing FLCL online, I have not seen one person say they want a sequel to it. And it was re-aired quite a few times and discussed again each time, and talked about even when it wasn't on the air. It never even entered the conversation. I'm sure maybe someone said it somewhere, but it was not a prolific thing at all. Progressive was a solid enough follow up and there are characters and concepts in that show that I like and I'm glad exist, but Alternative was a sloppy mess. But neither were on par with the original. I mean, Samurai Jack was an unfinished story. And ratings and the buzz and talk it created proves that people wanted more of it. I want them to co-fund the Bleach finale, but I know it's a pipe dream. It would take a lot more money to make so many episodes, and there would be a lot, even without the need for filler and padding, since the manga is done. I guess that makes me a hypocrite? Naw, Bleach is another unfinished story, just like Samurai Jack. In fact, many people want, if the anime finale were to be made, to have Kubo personally involved and be able to include some things that were left out of the manga. It doesn't seem like Kubo was able to do the ending he wanted, and Kubo said the decision to end the series was his own, not the editors. So given how he was doing poorly health wise and discovered he had a fracture in his drawing arm after the manga ended, and made the post about continuing the series despite his health because of a letter he got from a dying boy... it seems he tried to go as far as he could with it, but had to stop due to his health. So if it never gets animated, even without what I believe are some crucial things left out in the manga, it will be a real shame. Around the time I first saw Trigun I had no idea what manga was or that many animes were adapted from it, would sometimes stray from those original stories, or add filler, etc. The Trigun series seemed like such a masterpiece, and a perfect and worthy companion to air beside Cowboy Bebop as ASA often did, that the idea it was adapted from a manga it was unfaithful to seemed unthinkable. Of course, I have no idea about the story quality of the manga version. I remember reading a couple things about character fates that don't seem as good as the anime to me, but not sure how accurate those were, and it has been some time since then. But I suppose that could be interesting to see. Wasn't the Trigun movie made due to American fan interest?

From a certain point of view, eh? Well that sure would be convenient...

Oh man, I can't wait for the show that is going to replace Dr. Stone. It is a well regarded show that fans have been looking forward to Toonami airing for a little while now, and-

Are you a choir boy all of a sudden, Elfie? That didn't need to be spoilered! But here I might as well post something as well.

It should be the real script, since Colin Trevorrow had confirmed the concept art leaks or whatever that stuff was from earlier. I will give it a read later. At the time he was fired, it seemed like the right decision, given the *ahem* quality of his other work. From videos summing up the plot I have seen, on paper, some of the stuff sounds great, some not so much. In execution it could end up badly, or maybe even better than it sounds. Rise of Skywalker is a lot better in execution, than hearing the plot breakdown on paper, in my opinion, anyway. It's always tempting to imagine what could have been, but the grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. But at the end of the day, we'll never know. It is what it is. Death Star Destoyers weren't needed, I agree. Just that fleet should have been enough of a threat. Palpatine definitely did not fall into the core of the Death Star. I never thought that from watching the movie. You can tell just from watching the movie he doesn't fall nearly that far. I figure he falls a good ways down and then either hits a metal beam and explodes, hits an energy field and explodes, or gets blown up by his own Force Lightning after a while. He definitely did not seem to survive though lol. But here EC Henry actually did a fun little video calculating how far Palpatine would have fallen.

Where is it confirmed from? And isn't the movie already nearly that long, anyway? I had also heard that the things that were cut were more exposition and frenetic action, as in, not anything that would helped the issues the movie already had, or give it breathing room, just more of what was already there. This is the reason they gave for cutting out more of the explanation for Palpatine.

I saw the Sonic movie yesterday. They had a cool SEGA logo at the beginning with all these screens of SEGA games footage, and rings used on the Paramount logo. It was not the most earth-shattering thing I've ever seen, but it was a fun movie. Sonic looked great. And there were some legit laugh out loud moments. When Sonic and the cop dude go to the biker/hot rodder/cowboy bar it is hilarious. Sonic eats chili dogs! I suppose there could have been more spectacle, but maybe they wanted to not go so crazy for the first movie, since they were introducing everything. (It seems obvious there will be a sequel.) Jim Carrey was full Jim Carrey! When Tom asks Sonic what he is, he says he's a hedgehog, isn't it obvious? There were some nice references to the games.

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You mean teleconferencing? Well I hope they aren't writing anything themselves. We saw how well IGPX turned out. Actually, FLCL Alternative wasn't written well either, and that was done on the Japan side. Yes the oh so lovely singles program and music videos they feel the need to foist upon us. It's a waste of money, time, and resources. It's an excuse for DeMarco to get his hipster wank on and he manages to get paid for it. He still has this pinned to his Twitter. I think he'll be okay. So the sob story of them not getting paid to do Toonami is still canon? But only recently I read a comment from DeMarco saying, something to the effect, of how Toonami is a lean, well-oiled machine that actually makes money. Before then the impression was it was a passion project money sink. But now all of a sudden that's not true and it's too expensive and unwieldy, to the point of having to cut back severely, and also because they don't want to do the work. And putting something like Food Wars means less work because it just refreshes itself. I'm sure DeMarco can't stand that anime has transitioned from the long-running to seasonal model. Not necessarily saying it's easy. But I mean, someone else could probably do a better job at this point. Have some people that are just dedicated to working on Toonami. Demarco and co. aren't exactly cutting edge anymore, either. Trying to recapture lightning in a bottle with more FLCL series is the exact opposite of that. You know, what creatively bankrupt Hollywood execs will resort to? Tired and unwanted sequels and remakes or reboots of proven classics. Now they have become the dinosaurs they used to be a refreshing alternative to. An "original" series would be an actual original idea. But, we all saw how great their original idea, IGPX, was... Uzumaki I will admit sounds unique and different, at least.

The fix is in, Krone.

Krone >_< That kid always scares people lol.

Demarco said programming wanted a time slot and that is why a time slot was lost and a show wasn't replaced. Now he is saying they made the decision together, completely going against what he said before.

Krone in full creepy mode! That laugh! And she's got the kids figured out! Polaroid camera heh. Took a picture of Isabella! That is the most modern piece of tech that has appeared in this world?

Emma is not to be fucked with.

Wait that was one of the Mist Swordsmen that appeared earlier? I thought he was just a random dude hahaha. The episode is named after him. Yeah it seems like Kishimoto ran out ideas. Makes me think of how the other Jinchuriki got glossed over.