ben0119

Gotta say Demarco has lost a lot of confidence and likability points for me over the past few years, but this is something I can wholeheartedly agree with him on. People act like Chicken Little regardless of what happens with Toonami. One show pick or any other singular decision is not going to kill off Toonami. It also gets annoying when people complain about a show getting picked instead of some other show they wanted. It's not necessarily a case of a show getting picked over something else. And even if it is, that doesn't mean said show is never coming to the block just because it wasn't picked now.

I thought the long wait was because they were taking all this time to make the second season as epic as the first one with all those great production values and animation. So I guess the manga is slow release and they had to wait for more material, and that animation team was busy with other projects? But yeah if we were going to wait this long anyway, I'd rather wait longer and get that same team back, unless there were some sort of company/legal/licensing reason I'm not aware of. Maybe, I don't know. They got on with Bleach pretty early compared to Japanese release, didn't they? They were behind, but not that far behind. Not sure with InuYasha, but that show probably at a time still when people didn't expect to get shows so fast after they came out in Japan. Shows could be any number of years, maybe, many years behind when a series aired in Japan, and most fans watching on TV would be none the wiser, and largely protected from spoilers, given that the internet was not nearly what it was back then that is today (and even less so in the 90s) and with the sub watching fandom being more insular and isolated. I mean, stuff like DBZ and Sailor Moon, etc was waaay behind Japan. And this was also because of the earlier years of bringing in anime, it wasn't a machine then like it is now, and networks and licensing companies were just bringing over whatever they found interesting, and it wasn't expected for everything to be new, because so many shows had not been brought over yet that were worth bringing over. Some people said it was because Fairy Tail was too kiddy, but I'm not sure about that. I mean in that case it could have gone on daytime TV. I also thought animation quality might be an issue, but I dunno if that was ever cared about as long as a show was popular enough, it had a good chance it might do well on TV. It is definitely a shame Fairy Tail got short-changed like that, but it seems to have a decent following nevertheless, at least. I loved Rave Master, and after re-watching it during the SyFy airing, I read the rest of the manga, which was great. So since Fairy Tail was by the same author I was very interested in it. I read the first volume of the manga and liked it, then got side-tracked with other things, and then just decided I would just wait to watch the anime until ASA or Toonami got it. Well, that was a mistake, one which I won't make again. I was so sure Toonami would air it. But since then I'm not going to hold off on watching something if I am really interested, since I missed out watching and discussing a lot of the show as it was newly airing. And I have to say I was extremely annoyed when Demarco said at one point that he not even watched the show. And this was after it was highly requested for a long time. Gill had, at least. I think a reason they gave is there wasn't room for the show. But then when several openings happened and they got other long-runners, it really did come across like they were actively deciding not to air it, or at least putting those other series above it in priority. They would have been way behind and it has been widely available and watched online regardless, so I dunno'. I just found this. It's an old post now, though. And not sure on the time frame, but it seems odd they aren't bringing up Super? Not sure if it was already on the block by then or out in Japan yet or not. But I have to say it would be even more odd for Toonami to air Fairy Tail now that it's almost over. Then again they are airing Shippuden that is not only over, but hundreds of episodes behind, itself. But Demarco had said that it's not their goal to air all of Shippuden. So presumably that means they are airing it to have a dependable crowd pleaser to fill time for a long time on the block, and if they are able to air all of it, that's great, but it's not the end of the world if they can't for whatever reason. And of course they have Boruto as the "current" Naruto material. Sad face at the One Piece comment, lol, but it's probably correct, and there is a show I need to get back to watching lol. Those shows and many others. Some of those you mentioned and others seem like shoo-ins. Toonami did at least air Soul Eater and a few other shows that ASA dropped the ball on, more or less acknowledging that they should have aired these shows but Toonami is at least making things right, even if it's well after the fact. I remember people were upset that Kekkaishi was picked and not Soul Eater, and that Demarco tweet reminds me of that backlash lol. Eden of the East was the other one people wanted back then. I think a lot of shows from that era are out of luck since ASA never aired them, but Toonami wouldn't have the room to air all these older shows with still trying to bring in a lot of in-demand newer shows. I wonder how many good shows we could have gotten if ASA had the kind of output Toonami has during its duration. I sure would not mind seeing more these types of "should have aired" shows every once in a while, though. Still again, those shows you listed are more examples of the lesson to not "save" shows for ASA, now Toonami, even though it's a great experience to watch and discuss with everyone. I definitely need to make time watch more shows outside of Toonami just in general. When I was thinking of troll requests, I was thinking of the period piece that had comedic homoreotic stuff in it. It was about soldiers, or something? Not sure. But looks like Golden Kamuy is something completely different, so not a troll request I don't think. I still never saw Panty and Stocking. Should probably get around to watching it one of these days. What was the reason why they wouldn't air it? Content? Is it really more extreme than Kill la Kill though? Or because they don't like it? I still think it's really stupid to not air something just because they don't personally like it, though. That's not how business works! Also do they take an internal poll or something, or does Demarco have to like it? Because I find it hard to believe that everyone working at Toonami always agrees on what shows they like or dislike. The whole thing is very silly. Whew, that was quite a tangent I got on.

The Mobile Armor fight really made it seem like more would end up being released and they'd have to fight them, and it would be like what happened during that old war, with these legendary old monsters returning to wreak havoc on the world once again. Like I felt that was the beginning of something really awesome. But, instead, that other stuff happened... and yeah.

THAT animation cost a lot of money?

Demarco had said before that companies still acted very separate and it wasn't really easier to get stuff that was in the hands of a sister company. I think that came up with JoJo? But I guess that has changed now. Yeah they definitely weren't careful with their money! Apparently this Gray guy was constantly changing and redoing things that were already finished!

I've seen their videos in my recommended before and rolled my eyes. I looked at their feed. They've got lots of videos complaining about Star Wars, Disney, Marvel, there's two video thumbnails with Zoe Quinn that they photoshopped having evil glowing eyes. I'm not sure how much we can take them seriously. But just looking at this video, they seemed pretty "normal" and just laid out the information they had. If that stuff is all true, then yeah, not good, and signs that were pointing towards this coming to a head sooner or later. Don't know how widely this was known or if Toonami would have known about it though.

It has before and probably can again. And like CountFrylock said, the people who just watch Dragon Ball and don't care about other anime didn't stay after Super or Kai anyway. So maybe they can get a show that will have better retention. Or just have to deal with a smaller audience for Toonami, if Dragon Ball got more people to stay than we thought. But with long-runners largely a thing of the past, they are going to have to get really creative. I guess just put whatever they think is their current heaviest hitter at the start of the block for as many episodes of it that they have.

What are you talking about? They're airing the penultimate episode of Super, followed by a marathon of the episodes preceding it and then that episode again at the end of the block. Then the week after that they are airing the last Super episode followed by the regular block. It would make a lot more sense if the marathon was done on the night the final episode aired.

Eh? I totally missed the Sailor Moon foodgasm!

Ideally one tries to make business deals with stable partners. Would Toonami really get this just to air the first season, and not also to get in on the second one when it's fresh? It also seems odd for the firings to happen and show creator to leave when the show is on TV. If anything you'd think the show was at its peak of success and hype now! More episodes without the original creator? Eeehhhh. Well unless he left a whole slew of finished scripts with Rooster Teeth when he left. And assuming he wasn't integral to other aspects of the show besides the writing. Some shit really must have hit the fan for this guy to abandon ship and give up on the show he created and "move on to pursue other projects." People typically don't like to give up on creative projects they started. I'm sure he would want to work on other things eventually, but not before he finished Gen:Lock. Somethin' musta' happened.

Doc supposedly died. But that wasn't a traditional grenade and we weren't given a follow up shot if I recall, so who knows. Yeah I would be surprised if Miranda was dead too.

Oh yeah they sure did haha. It's still just funny because the last show wasn't like this, and it was made during "modern times" too lol. Tech could easily become more present organically, given that, if Lupin is like James Bond, with how it reflects the time period during when it was made, but the characters are seemingly immortal. But this show went crazy with the tech. I guess they wanted to make it a gimmick for this show. And I suppose Lupin has always been over-the-top. But it still feels like grandpa suddenly deciding to use the internet lol.

There's actually a really fuckin weird job that is kind of like these HUC guys. https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1234-5-things-i-learned-pretending-to-be-molested-kid-cops.html

Can't imagine why Bakugo failed LOL. LOL did he know we were minor victims. But then they give him minus points for his tone and he flips out even more hahaha.

That face LOL. Such harsh criticism lmao. And then back in character. "Is that your only line? You really suck at this!" LOL

Dude it was obvious Toonami was trying to get in on something here. They even advertised next week's episode as the season finale. But now it's all gone to crap.

Very unfortunate. I thought that was the start of things we could expect in the future!

So does this part mean Uraraka is going to wait to pursue things with Deku until waaaaay later in the story, or just meant not to let it distract her during the test? If it's the former, that's lame as hell.

Yeah lmao. Oh yeah Erza is pretty great. Yeah looking at Erza, Tenten would be capable of a lot more than she usually does. She would have access to just about ANY ninja weapon, right? And was that little arc where she got the special weapons filler? LOL.

Waving lmao. And knowing that is Toga... wut? Good relationship between the schools lol.

Shut the fuck up Mineta!

Yeah I'm sure they would. But ships always get easily destroyed by mobile suits in all the shows. It gets on my nerves. Was definitely way more lopsided here. Yeah they act as carriers later on. Something that also annoyed me was why do the guns move so slow? It's like they are World War II battleships. But with how advanced they are I don't see a reason for slow turret movement in this day and age lol. But yeah slow guns makes them even more sitting ducks to the mobile suits.

Yeah, it's still funny how this show suddenly got a tech fetish though, compared to how the past ones were.

This guy is creepy. Ami! Lupin to the rescue! Wire? Why did Doma shoot Lupin?!

Random dancing. Lupin disguised himself as a random soldier AND Zenigata?! That's cold, Lupin.