ben0119

How long was All Might a hero?

Not on TV I don't think.

Act like he isn't there. Don't give him food! Fuck him!

Thanks for playing that before the show did, asshole Demarco.

I thought it was during commercials. I'm afraid a lot of people might have changed the channel just then. Did they even say this was coming on this week? I think they did that before for Daylight Savings Time or something. But they just missed that.

I hope Ashido doesn't secrete acid from every part of her body. Even after all this I still won't be able remember all their names. Deku has really put on some muscle over the course of the series.

How is invisible girl going to improve her looks? SHUT THE FUCK UP, MINETA. Nice smile says Ashido? He's creepy! And we got enough weird eyes on Fire Force! Doesn't seem criminal lmao.

I think there's another reason besides villain attacks why you wouldn't be let near the school.

World and concept recap. It's Comic Book Guy. Cute reporter girl. Shuhei Hisagi. What the hell, this guy is creepy.

The worm is called Georgia?

Starting the block with The Forge? Seems ill-advised. The worm was called that. Tom acting kind of dumb to here to rush in blind like this. And Tom has been taken out.

Man, that looks like a One Piece screenshot.

Well worrying and arguing about it isn't going to do anything. They even said the fans don't need to be concerned with ratings. Also DeMarco claimed he wouldn't be able to tell us the REAL reason Toonami got canceled unless he wasn't working for Adult Swim anymore.

Kagome was 15. But yeah it is lol. The themes even sound out of InuYasha.

Is that actually a picture of your room?

Did the Deku voice actor specially record that promo for Toonami? Anyway, at long last, MHA returns, and takes its rightful place on the block!

Since Smackdown moved to Friday, the wrestling podcast I listen to moved their post-Smackdown show from Tuesday to Friday, and it went a bit long this time, so I forgot all about making any threads! I'll have to set a timer or something. Thanks for making the thread, in any case. This should be a good one.

Ep 5 - Ah hell, the Blue Rose Sword is busted? Is Reki trolling here or what? He better not be implying that Alice has feelings for Kirito. Is Kirito really the only black haired boy in this world? HAHAHAHAHAHA Ronye is in love with Kirito? How? Based on what?! Yeah, we saw Tiese had a thing for Eugeo, but I didn't get the idea that Ronye was attracted to Kirito. Hell, she barely has a personality! So Kirito's clothes really did change and it wasn't just a symbolic thing. And ah, I dunno about grown up Alice in this outfit lol. She didn't tell them that Eugeo died, but I guess they didn't have to. Fanatio has gone full girly now lol. But are we going to see what her underlings look like? Don't tell me the Taboo Index doesn't even let you kill in battle? But we clearly saw that Dark Knight being killed in season 1. Unless he means during training. But you wouldn't have killing intent during training anyway. But there hasn't been a lot of fighting during Bercouli's life, even as long as it was. Kirito was fighting nonstop for 2 years in Aincrad, so yes, in that sense, Kirito would have more actual combat experience than Bercouli. This arguing about whether Bercouli held back on them... and he's gone LOL. Oh I thought he left lmao. Indeed it is time for the meeting heh. Really with those soldiers? They're all the exact same character model! Hmm, looks like Liena was there at the meeting, and who else? Are there really places like that where the sun never shines? Alice is the most powerful Integrity Knight? So there are other Integrity Knights that we didn't see. Looks like we got a girl with slicked back hair, and a green haired Sinon. Alice better not die. Why don't you guys just shoot the enemy from the cliffs above? That lackadaisical king is pissing me off. Yeah just have the words FINAL LOAD TEST appear in the world. I'm sure the AIs won't think anything of that. So I just thought of something. The Dark Territory didn't decide to invade until Miller showed up as Vecta and decided on invasion. Sooo what would have happened when the gate fell but the Dark Territory didn't do anything. I guess their test would be a bust lol. Unless the Dark Army was attacking it, but that hasn't been clear. It was imlied that it's falling due to age?

Wow, the more you explain it, the more getting rid of episode threads seems like a TERRIBLE idea. So yeah, maybe adding general show threads would be a good idea, but don't get rid of the episode threads.

There is discussion amongst users for sure. You're playing that down. Again I wish there were more and it went on longer but nothing I can do about it. Like I said, it's probably a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy that no one replies later because they think no one else will, and everyone being older and having less, time, energy, and patience. And I forgot the rerun aspect Al mentioned. InuYasha, and other shows, had continuous discussion because they were constantly run in a loop or had frequent playthroughs even if they weren't back to back. The appeal and popularity of such shows helped, but so did the reruns. Buuut there were shows that were less popular or had fewer runs, and discussion for those shows would die off. Stuff like InuYasha, Bebop, Big O, FMA, etc were always mainstays though. And what about the "what are you watching" thread in Anime/Manga? Instead of being a place to discuss exactly what the title would suggest, it's basically a group blog and no one discusses anything. I thought that was so stupid when I finally decided to possibly use the thread and discovered that. That thread is totally useless. So unless a show is current and/or popular enough, how are you going to discuss it? I watched Chio's School Road and wanted to talk about it, but. And after all this time, I am not going to make an account on ANN or wherever else, to talk about shows. And I hate Reddit's layout. I basically only manage to keep up with a few communities at once, anyway, especially for a long time. And right now, it's my wrestling podcast and the community which I have been listening and chatting with since 2007, and here, since 2003. I don't like that idea at all. If we gotta do something else, have ongoing show discussion threads. A block thread will be a jumbled up mess and be even less usable and revisitable than the episode threads.

We did have a lot of in-depth discussion on InuYasha. I remember that Kikyo thread. And Redemption of Sesshomaru thread. The InuYasha FAQ threads. I actually asked about spoilers in the FAQ threads then lol. I really was a different person then lmao. I was also having a good time discussing the manga in-depth as I finally got around to reading it. But the discussion got so in-depth it took me forever to progress through the manga haha. Then the board went through several changes and life stuff happened and I lost track with the manga and that discussion. But I had good times. Less in-depth and thought provoking were the "WHO'S HOTTER? KIKYO OR KAGOME?" threads. I don't know who all remembers the user Vladimir? He had a Kohaku icon. He would make special "Vlad and Chibi Vlad" threads, who were himself and chibi version of himself, characters, and wrote these MST3K-style skits to go along with the shows, and people would have a good time with that, making jokes and also having serious discussions, and those were ongoing show discussion threads and they were great! We had them for many of the shows. I'm pretty sure there's at least a few people here who were in those threads back then. I don't expect anyone to put in that kind of effort to lead a discussion like that now, but it is proof that the ongoing threads can work. The Monster thread was also really great. Though I don't think any non-AS shows got episode threads anyway at the time. So I as I mull it over I do think ongoing show threads could work but only if the vast majority wants it and it doesn't disrupt the community too much. If it is going to create more discussion and encourage more people to jump in, then good. If the opposite, then no. About eyes... WUT LOL. The meme I made got posted on Reddit! It's a joke, people! Kubo is great at showing emotion with art though! And I can't find the original meme. 😧 It's a close up picture of Ichigo's eyes during some major moment/transformation, and I think said basically the same thing I put there. Then there's another one where someone adds onto it and puts a picture of Luffy picking his nose. It may be that we are just old fogies now lol. But I talked more about this in my first post.

The ratings thread is a dumpster fire, or at least it used to be when I regularly followed it. I don't know what possessed people to start getting so obsessed with ratings but I wish it hadn't happened. I think it wasn't around before Toonami or at least wasn't as much of an thing. Personally I am concerned with the content and not the ratings for the the show, so long as they stay good enough for a show I like to stay on the air. And so far only had that issue with One Piece. And worrying about the ratings isn't going to make them go higher anyway. So yeah, stay clear of the ratings thread and you should be fine. Show threads are fine. Not sure what shows you might be referring to. But there is certainly not universal hate for Fire Force. A lot of us have our issues with the show, but most of us our mostly enjoying it I think. It's not like it is getting endlessly ripped. People aren't the biggest fans of Food Wars but no one passionately hates it or anything. If anything we have warmed up the show and some of its characters. The show is like comfort food now lol. Whoever didn't like Black Clover has dropped it from what I can tell and the current group seems mostly high on the show from what I can tell. I mean the show genuinely did get a unfair bad rap and seems to be a semi-parody riffing on the shonen tropes while also executing things better than some other shows. But I have not seen that much immaturity or fighting in the actual show threads themselves. The discussion of the actual shows on TV, not the ancillary crap like ratings nonsense.

I hadn't even thought of there being an Adult Swim folder. I fell off with a lot the AS shows and the new ones really haven't interested me, so I really wouldn't have used such a folder in ages. It doesn't help with some of their shows like Venture Bros. would have lengthy hiatus. I still haven't gotten around to watching Primal, which I need to do. Merge or not merge, I dunno. Maybe people would be more likely to discuss the AS shows if they didn't have to go to another folder and could just discuss it here. But I'd rather stuff stay focused to Toonami, too. I dunno if it will be a huge difference, but I am leaning towards leaving it as is. For discussions... hmm. If we can't keep the weekly episode threads, threads for entire shows would be the way to go over weekly block threads. It seems dumb to mash and mangle all the shows together like that. Keep discussions relevant to each show. Also there's shows people like more than others, and some dislike a lot or even skip. Seems like that would cause navigation issues and possibly frustration. My only thing is, some shows are going to be here for a long time. Can the boards handle such long threads? I prefer the weekly as is, but if we had to change it, I say go for show discussions. Maybe that will bring people back to discuss the shows more than just for live reactions and discussion. As for the show discussions not being what they used to be... has it really been like this since 2010? Well, you can't force people to do anything. I liked the more in-depth discussions we used to have back in the old days too, but if people don't want to do that, I can't do anything about it. I usually go and re-read the threads because it's impossible to catch everything on screen and read the threads at the same time, and I'll typically just post during commercials so I don't miss what is going on in the shows. Adding reactions is good enough for me on many posts I read live and on re-read, and I'd probably reply back to posts when I re-read or add something else to the discussion if I thought someone would say something back. Most of the time they won't. Maybe that is how it is with everyone else, they don't post again because no one else will, so no one posts. Or maybe we are all just getting older and tireder and having less time and such. I don't know. Maybe ongoing show threads would be better for continuous in-depth discussion, I dunno. I do know one thing. Don't mess with things too much. Forums often lose a lot of members or even fall apart after server and site moves or major rehauls and changing in policies. It seemed like we lost more people every time the brain trust at Adult Swim messed with things. Changes to forum layout, getting rid of Action Discussion which seemed to partition the community and lead to less traffic overall (though we did have some great discussion in the Inuyasha folder and others.) Then Toonami coming back, which at first gave a huge influx of new users and mostly positivity during the grass roots campaign. When Toonami actually got here there was mass negativity and toxicity because of its somewhat humble return and misconception it would be showing a bunch of the old shows. At this point discourse in that original Toonami folder was untenable, so I stuck to show folders. Eventually I wandered in there and participated a bit and seemed things had calmed down. And there was actually a weekly block discussion thread there at the time, and episode threads in the show folders. Later on, the show folders got merged in with Toonami due to low traffic? And AD got merged with it? Not sure what happened when in what order, but it was a consolidation and some didn't like it as they liked things as they were. Even though merging things together would be more like they were originally when it was just the AD folder. But those users didn't all go back that far or had grown to like the show folders. And some people in AD who didn't like the Toonami board or some of its regulars were aghast at having to merge. I think we probably lost some users from that too. Then we switched from Lithium to that other horrid system and that sure did wonders for our userbase. And then of course the shut down of the ASMB itself and move to here. We lost a lot of people then of course. And not everyone knew about this place ahead of time so I can't imagine what it was like for those poor folks. Their community was just suddenly gone forever. There were actually a couple active people I was able to find off-site, I believe on DeviantArt? But I guess those accounts were abandoned because I never heard back. I was able to find alternate contact just basically by googling and whatnot but I remember that user said they were a private person, so I'm not sure how she would react, so I did not reach out. I had actually been meaning to make a thread about this topic of trying to "rescue" ASMB castaways but kept forgetting. I guess it's way too late now. Anyway yeah I don't have an issue with maybe changing things up, experimenting perhaps, but don't do anything too drastic that will upset people. We're lucky to still have as many people here as we do.

But he has no redeeming features unlike other pervy comic relief characters.

Oh damn, you're right! Mineta is seriously such a worthless character! Why does he even exist?