ben0119

Yeah but looking literally like neanderthals? They're extinct, and this takes place in the future, not the distant past, despite the setting.

Why not just destroy the bridge right from the start?

The hell, those guys look like Neanderthals.

I was having higher hopes for them this arc given who all was part of the mission... but the girls all just got stuck outside fighting that big guy.

He can combine the things he eats? Nice. I mean I think these guys are kind of easy to understand. They are grateful to the Yakuza guy for taking them in after society rejected them and people screwed them over. I don't know if I would consider them brain-washed either. Ate the crystals... good move.

Well that blabbing by that goon just gave away and confirmed Ari's quirk, and it must be the source of those bullets.

What is with his Assassin's Creed outfit?

What the fuck. Oh it's not an illusion, he's actually taking control of the building. Sun-eater?

It looks like an Alchemist sealed that hallway haha.

We're totally innocent Yakuza what the hell!

That student looked liked one of those creatures from that off-brand Smurfs show. Can't remember what they were called. Oh yeah, Snorks.

It took a while for Miroku and Sango to be introduced too.

Yeah, definitely qualifies for being a long-runner. But it has a definite story that it seems to be deliberately progressing through. So I dont know if it will be quite as long as some others. Of course, after the Elves are dealt with, there's still the Diamond Kingdom. In the same episode I re-watched where Yami and Vangeance have their meeting, we see a group of them along with a boss whose face we don't see plotting away. How it is their time to shine after those generals got defeated. So I'm sure that is going to come back into play at some point.

Alright, just re-watched this episode. Didn't remember the villain's dad being in ICU last time. Not sure what's up with that. Here's hoping the heroes dont botch Ari's rescue this time.

I guess you don't remember that I had been watching the show past that on my own for a time. Looks like I left off at 512. So I would not have had much more at all if I had kept watching. I'm trying to remember if Toei is one of those companies that does baffling things and is difficult to negotiate with. I want to say yes, since it took forever to get Kai and Super, didn't it? I seem to recall some odd things going on with them. Hasn't the old joke of Funimation just having 12 voice actors died a long time ago? They don't have to use all those people in all the new shows. Super has not been going on for that long. Oh, so you're saying Fairy Tail was prioritized over One Piece, huh? =3 Was any of that dubbed? Yeah the whole thing of characters not appearing for hundreds of episodes. It's annoying in general, but for the purposes of dubbing, yeah, they should have the actors just record everything for all their disparate appearances, and not just go episode by episode with everyone. Colleen Clinkenbeard did complain about that before, but she is sticking with the role I guess. I still can't believe her range. I forgot that she played Erza, and also Luffy. But besides the "tough girl" voices and boy voices she can also do the girly voices! Funimation didn't seem to start doing that until recently, or at least, I didn't notice them before. I think they were posting new dub clips I guess, because I don't remember such an influx of One Piece clips before. Whether your assertion that "pretty much everyone" does that is correct or not, doesn't mean I'm going to do that. I don't do what everyone else does. I do what I want. For whatever reason, not any particular reason that I can recall, I fell off watching the episodes where I was. Maybe it was because I mostly finished that arc and wanted to focus on other things, or I just got generally side-tracked with other stuff. I have a lot of shows (not anime) I follow and hobbies and other stuff to do. Either way, what you just said is another strike against trying to get new people into the show. Hundreds of episodes (which should be a selling point!) and a galaxy-size minefield of spoilers await the new viewer. And they better not dare fall behind! Even still, the only spoilers I ever had before were years ago from specifically watching videos about One Piece (Read Right to Left episode, don't even know if that guy is still around,) at a time when I thought I wouldn't get back into the show, or stupidly clicking on a spoiler tag (though they still shouldn't have posted it as the first reply in a character fan club!) I don't google One Piece hardly ever and don't look it up on social media. Same as I wouldn't do with any show I'm not current on and wouldn't want spoilers on. So I shouldn't be getting spoilers if I'm not seeking out videos or posts on the show. And I don't think Youtube counts as social media. Either way, the least they could do is not use spoiler thumbnails, so I don't get spoiled from notifications for a video I didn't even click on. It is unfortunate, because I will probably miss out on other stuff I would've liked to know about, since I had to unsubscribe from their Youtube. I guess maybe I should start trying to watch it again, if they are dubbing the series again, which I didn't even know they stopped.

1. I dunno the episodes I have watched didn't look that bad or seem so slow-paced. Maybe I haven't gotten to those episodes yet. But there's a difference between liking the manga and not liking the anime and just not liking the franchise in general, which is what you inexplicably started making fun of, and continued to do even after that pest was removed. 2. Who is Shuri? And yeah, anime is popular in France, right? That's how stuff like Totally Spies came about? That could be money sink, a money pit for Netflix. But Oda had control over who got picked to play the characters in Funimation's dub supposedly, I wonder how much control he will have over this. It would also take them eons to cover the material if they go anywhere near to faithfully adapting the story. Even seriously trimming it down would still go on forever. Not sure if they know what they're getting into here. On the other hand, the showrunners wouldn't have to worry about getting totally exposed after they run out of material like what happened with Game of Thrones. Haven't played any of the Witcher games yet. Should probably get on that. I loved season 1 of Mandalorian. The Borgia and Medici style political drama that happens to take place in a fantasy world that is Game of Thrones never interested me. Though apparently one of the other questionable things Benioff and Weiss did was minimize the fantasy elements...

Oh wow, the voice actress for Ruri can do drawrings too! She's a Renaissance Woman! Why wasn't this posted before?!

It's bold of Toonami to assume its viewers get laid. Well, unless it's Taco Bell or Whataburger or something, places open all night or really late, doesn't make sense to show those restaurant ads, yeah, heh. Hey, I don't do drugs, and I thought Aqua Teen was funny. Though that sort of thing runs its course after a while. At least Boondocks and Venture Bros. seemed intelligent. I fucking hate Rick and Morty though. It's just annoying. Rick especially is annoying as fuck. It's way too tryhard trying to be overly clever and thinking it's funny and smart and it's not.

Yeah, and gives you plenty of time if you need to do something during that long single break, too. What's also great is they put ads in between the shows. Networks that don't do that and just have one show flow into the next causes fuckery for DVRs and then I have to add the extra minute on both ends.

Dude some of those OPs are major hype. Sure they aren't necessarily required, but they help, if you like the songs, at least. And they aren't all that generic, or even J-pop. CountFrylock mentioned the Fire Force OP... that's some sissy boy wannabe "metal" song. So that isn't getting me particularly hyped. But yeah, it's not J-pop. If I recall, going by the guides Gina gave us for Monster, they tried to cut nonessential stuff, like establishing shots, etc. Though I agree I hate to have any episode content cut. Would definitely prefer cutting of themes over that. But they could at least do better jobs on the edits!

@Sketch I know that ASA kept longer or full themes for some shows, but definitely not all of them. I can't remember them all fully myself. I did record a lot of stuff off Toonami and ASA onto VHS back then, but I don't feel like cracking out the tapes right now. But I specifically remember that they never played the OPs for InuYasha for the longest time, at least not by the time I was watching it. They would have the intro or title card and then it would go straight to the show. One of the bumps was with a viewer talking about Tetsusaiga going from katana to falchion and attack points or something, which is how I found out what kind of sword transformed Tetsusagia was. I know this for sure, because they didn't show the OPs until years after the fact, I think after nearly most or all of the show had already aired, and they were different tapes, because they had edited Mistress Centipede's boobs! Either way, Demarco's point about saying they have to cut the OPs and EDs to fit in Toonami packaging is BS, since ASA was doing the same thing, even if not necessarily to the same degree.

Oh man, I totally forgot about this! Well, got about what it deserves, I guess. One thing I remember was trying to find Youtube videos shitting on it and mostly all I could find were idiots ranting about SJW nonsense. Not sure how they managed to pull that out of this, but okay. But yeah, canceled the awesome 2011 series (holy shit it's that old now I feel old,) but then make this crap?!

Uh, no, but if you just made that up off the top of your head (or had it rolling around up there for a while) and didn't get it from somewhere, I'd say you have some issues. Still...

I had a crazy thought. What if Giovanni is a woman? He's covered head to toe and that mask could have a voice modulator. That could explain how he taught Lisa to manipulate men.

So if a show hits a hundred episodes does that officially make it a long-runner? What are the criteria?