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Yup, it was awesome premiere! Blew me away for sure. People, this is how you do first episodes! I posted my comments in the episode thread just earlier. Thanks for linking the ANN article, Blatch. I wonder if they are going to redo all the colors of those scenes and make them whacked out like JoJo does. I think that could work with this show. If they just change the flames it could work too. We'll have to see. And determine if we get the same version as Japan once we get that far.

I watched the shows I missed while I was at the family get away at the middle-of-nowhere riverside Texas hill country cabin earlier in the week, just now getting around to posting my thoughts on them, which I wrote down after watching each episode. A whole show about Alfred, seriously? Bakugo failed LOL. And Todoroki too! And the hat guy! Due to their idiocy! Docked for standing around. Not allowed in this shonen LOL. Shut the FUCK UP Mineta. They can just take a make-up test in 3 months? Well I guess they need every hero they can get. Still doesn't like Todoroki LOL. HEY THEY CAN FINALLY DO HERO STUFF NOW! Eraser and Ms. Joke training together. Cami was Toga in disguise this whole time?! That's why she wanted the blood?! And now she has Deku's?! Not good! And whose blood did she steal in the forest? And what happened to the real Cami? All Might visiting All for One in prison?! THAT'S his reason? All for One is doing this for the lulz basically? I'm surprised this prison passed the Geneva Conventions. All Might won't lose to All for One in this next battle. And I hope he won't die soon either! Bakugo and Deku are going to settle this NOW?!

I watched the shows I missed while I was at the family get away at the middle-of-nowhere riverside Texas hill country cabin earlier in the week, just now getting around to posting my thoughts on them, which I wrote down after watching each episode. Oh damn. Mom is sick and they aren't giving her any info about her children. No letters either. Testing continues. I think it's kind of obvious that you wouldn't want an exposed cockpit like that in the first place? I don't think Casval, Sayla, and their stepdad would have a good idea of what Texas or Wyoming are like. I believe it's been determined that that spinning model is not viable for inducing gravity-like effects. For one thing, things would fall sideways. And they've got mountains and clouds in here! More Ghibli-isms with Seyla on the pony. THEY'RE DIFFERENT PEOPLE?! WHAT?! WHAT AND WHAT?! RIP mom... Did they even send her body back to bury? Also not so sure it's a good idea to bury people in an artificial space structure. Well, now Casval has changed. So was that guy really following them or was Casval just paranoid? The cat died too?! Why is there wind on a space colony? Now he's going to leave Sayla all by herself?! So they switched places?! And the real Char got killed in his place?! And along a whole ship full of people! I don't remember this being a thing in the old show at all?! Casval is joining up with his enemies?! Also those 2 were not fooled and knew that was Casval right away. Yes, "your friend" has a totally different personalty now AND voice.

I watched the shows I missed while I was at the family get away at the middle-of-nowhere riverside Texas hill country cabin earlier in the week, just now getting around to posting my thoughts on them, which I wrote down after watching each episode. And now we reach the point where Naruto's story took a shitty direction. Sasuke isn't brought back in this arc or even one or two after this, and this is an issue for the whooooole rest of the series. And Sasuke is unsympathetic and his friendship with Naruto poorly built up so the whole concept falls flat on its face. I actually thought that Choji was going to die here. I also thought that these four would be in the show for a long time, but they didn't last long at all. Why is it Kimimaro instead if Kimimaru? Amazing all the VAs that came back. And Kimimaro's was so great. I remember being relieved that Naruto and Sasuke didn't break these awesome statues during their fight. I'm not generally a big fan of rap, but this was a good song and video. TO GET MANGEKYO SHARINGAN YOU HAVE TO KILL YOUR BEST FRIEND! Oh my god still the stupidest fucking thing ever! If they keep saying they're best friends that means they were, despite how things were actually shown. "This is the first time I ever had a bond like this." That sounded gay. Sasuke looks so stupid in this form. That's right. I guess Sasuke doesn't kill Naruto here because he doesn't want to do it Itachi's way.

I watched the shows I missed while I was at the family get away at the middle-of-nowhere riverside Texas hill country cabin earlier in the week, just now getting around to posting my thoughts on them, which I wrote down after watching each episode. This guy looks like if Aizen went into the Avatar Last Airbender world. That is not what I expected the dad to look or be like. Bastard killed her father! All this hitting close to home for Boruto LOL. Haha I knew Konohamaru couldn't be in serious danger against these jokers. And he missed on purpose too haha. Well that was quite a badass combo. That punch was awkward though. A spinning uppercut or straight punch would have been better. Great super-strength though. I don't think "TCHAH!" fits Sarada though, even if her mom does it. LOL Boruto afraid of Sarada now. I would've thought that Kiri would tell the villagers that the previous village head was murdered. Nice, they got a place named after them. I am surprised that Sarada is letting Boruto get away with telling that version of the story like that. *checks credits to see who played budget shinobi Aizen* Boruto is played by a woman? That can't be! I thought for certain he was played by a guy! I didn't realize Shikadai was played by Todd Haberkorn. I guess Todd will still be on the block for quite a while then. I wonder if Shikadai will be recast at some point. Not sure how much of this was dubbed by the time by the time the Todd stuff came out, either. Also I don't know the name of the rogue ninja so that didn't help me at all.

I watched the shows I missed while I was at the family get away at the middle-of-nowhere riverside Texas hill country cabin earlier in the week, just now getting around to posting my thoughts on them, which I wrote down after watching each episode. Yep, not only did I miss the finale of AOT and the premiere of Fire Force, I missed this significant episode with some epic moments! Is this show implying a thing developing between Vanessa and Finral? I think it's not ambiguous at all in this episode, though still pretty subtle. Yami stuck on the pot! Keeps calling him Mr. Ha-ha. Jesus even his own parents fucking hate him. And is he adopted? They keep saying that Langres is their own flesh and blood. Langres and Finral look alike though? Arranged noble marriage. Yuck. And how is she supposed to have any children if she's so sickly as it is? She can recognize that Finral is a good guy. Langres has major insecurity issues and is projecting them onto Finral. At least what it looks like to me. I mean he had to realize that spatial magic could be countered? Teleported Ha-ha to Yami LOL. Demonic energy from Langris, or... the magic the Midnight Sun uses? Interesting, so the only ones who liked Langris over Finral were their parents. Everyone else liked Finral and thought Langris was a little asshole. Of course Langris did not take this well. But all he has to do is stop being an asshole. Oh so it's different mothers. Okay that did not got the way I thought. I thought Finral would cancel them all out and make a come back. But he didn't stop them all! The crystal was destroyed and what's worse, Finral is severely wounded! Man, that part where they rush down to stop Langris was so epic. I re-watched the last part of the battle several times. And not just Asta, Luck, and Magna who stepped in directly to block Langris. Noelle has jumped into the fray to check on Finral, but Vanessa, Charmy, and several of the others have all brought out their strongest spells! You fucked up, asshole! HOLY SHIT that escalated quickly! And where the hell are the healing mages and officials?! Why is it taking the Black Bulls themselves to step in to stop this psycho?! Aaaaannnnd cliffhanger from hell.

I watched the shows I missed while I was at the family get away at the middle-of-nowhere riverside Texas hill country cabin earlier in the week, just now getting around to posting my thoughts on them, which I wrote down after watching each episode. This OP is too good for this show. That's a lot of precious real estate on an island nation without much usable land being used up for this fucking food school. I'm sure that piece of paper he lost wasn't important at all. Oh hey it's the whole shitty base of operations filled with motley crue trope. We just had this with Black Clover and Fire Force. Yes go ahead and introduce MORE annoying characters. Okay he just made a salmon patty but with mackeral. Not the most earth shattering thing. Old lady orgasms... I can't wait. I swear that flashback was straight out of a hentai. And are they trying to cause our dicks to short circuit by going to the old lady, young, then old again?! And hard to believe that's her anyway! I did like that umami was referenced though. Of course the blue hair girl is here too and of course he walked in on her in the bath. Exhausted by all the food orgasms he gave her... sigh. A Webtoons commercial? I've been getting a lot of ads on YouTube and online too. Why is it being pushed so hard? Also I just hate "webtoon" as a term, sounds cringey as hell. Anyway, most of it seems to be soap opera-y stuff. We skipped past the end of the bath scene?! Mooooore characters. And more girls of course. Why does Megami's mother have a southern accent?! That looks like semen. So it was homemade unfiltered sake? Sarcastic caption? Lol? The teachers have to do with what a student council says? LOLWUT? Yuki is PETA's public enemy no. 1 LOL. Two dudebros bro-ing it up. Harry Potter with anger issues. He should be happy that girls, or people in general, want to hang out in his room. Now Soma is having a foodgasm lol. Okay this Ishiki is just coming off as a creeper. Even more after the Council of 10 reveal. I thought they were going to reveal something about this dorm falling out of favor for some reason, but one of the 10 stays here. So I dunno.

I watched the shows I missed while I was at the family get away at the middle-of-nowhere riverside Texas hill country cabin earlier in the week, just now getting around to posting my thoughts on them, which I wrote down after watching each episode. Why is Lupin's head drawn so skinny in this episode? Why is it that the in the old Lupin series Adult Swim showed before it was the whole team, but Part 4 and 5 it's mostly just Lupin and Jigen? So Lupin is at least 40, then? Is this Gaston character from previous series? Love hearing this VA as Gaston. So is that the French CIA? Wooooo Fujiko! Heh, don't blame her for wanting to get away from that schlub. NOOOO IT WAS LUPIN IN DISGUISE! So it's a record of all the police fuck-ups and cover-ups. The painting was a fake after all and worthless. Are these two guys a couple? And watch guy seems awfully unconcerned by the proceedings. Gaston is dead?! Well there is a precedent for ghosts in this series. Albert? The plot thickens!

I watched the shows I missed while I was at the family get away at the middle-of-nowhere riverside Texas hill country cabin earlier in the week, just now getting around to posting my thoughts on them, which I wrote down after watching each episode. Yeah so not only did I miss the AOT season finale, I missed the Fire Force series premiere! But I was stuck with how the timing of our trip ended up. Solar Year 198... that tells us nothing. I'm going to say this is a made up world. It may be the same Earth with same countries and cities etc but some different history and obviously fantasy elements. At first I thought it would be old timey until I saw the fire vehicle in the OP and the modern compact car drive by the station. WOW this show looks beautiful. Gorgeous art and animation! Looks like the art style has been toned down from Soul Eater though. Characters and other things definitely look more normal in this show. Well, except those shark teeth lol. LOL those suits look silly. So bulky, way more than real fire fighter suits. I can't imagine they will wear these the whole series. Some new more sleek version will be invented or something I bet. So there's no curing these Infernals. They just have to be put down. It's not like with Hollows unfortunately. What language were those prayers? Were all those theatrics really needed to save her from a falling light? Yeah she could have been electrocuted, but still. It's like a combination of a church and fire station. Is he making up the thing about the smile to cover his ass or being serious? Whoa whoa whoa kid you are treading on Saitama and Deku's turf! Keep this nun away from Asta. It's a real shame about that vow of celibacy, though... FAN SERVICE OUTTA NOWHERE! I was wondering how there could be fan service in this show when they are in those bulky fire fighter suits. Well I guess they have to take them off sometime! And you better not have added more steam, Toonami! Both girls are super hot! A beast in the field but she turns into this off-duty LOL. Uuuhhhh when she was altering his outfit it looked like she was blowing him. Is that a set of train wheels that someone uses for dumbells?! Yep definitely a fantastical world. Eh... he killed his mother? So the smiling thing is true. I don't usually go for the athletic type... but Maki, DAMN. Still didn't quite get to see them suit up and how they get so puffed out lol. It's called the Matchbox. Nice. Interesting that the captain doesn't have any powers. I assume pyrokinetics will be explained soon. And the nun doesn't have any special divine abilities? She's literally just a regular old nun? So how do we know when Shinra is just smiling and it's not his weird thing where he can't stop himself smiling when he tenses up? Okay so there are regular fire fighters too. Good. Great God Sola. Yep it's a made up world unless everyone decided to start worshipping the sun, including largely secular Japan. And that guy is taking this well. Why does Maki wear a witch hat? So Maki manipulated the fire and just pushed it out of the way? Wait so he didn't kill her. She turned into an Infernal. Or maybe not? I see. So he's never truly smiled since then. Damn. The blue stripes... This Infernal is fast and agile. Is he just using a machine gun? Why does only the nun need a gas mask? That's a lot of power. Down with one kick? Put her out of her misery quickly at least. I think I got more of the prayer this time. But some of it is still in another language. Could that be a real smile this time? If nothing else, using just kicks will make for some different than usual fights with Shinra.

You should have left the Food Wars thread and see how long it would take for anyone to make one.

I watched the shows I missed while I was at the family get away at the middle-of-nowhere riverside Texas hill country cabin earlier in the week, just now getting around to posting my thoughts on them, which I wrote down after watching each episode. Yep, I missed the finale of season 3 Attack on Titan too! Which I had no idea it was the season finale until someone mentioned it offhand the previous week! Sucked majorly but not much I could do with how the timing worked out. The way Historia looks there as she says they should announce what they've learned. Their enemy is the world! Attack on Titan is a prequel to One Piece! The ancient civilization that was destroyed by the other countries of the world was this walled city on the island! Marley created the 100 year lost history to cover this up! The Giants are surviving regular Titans that discovered a way to keep their intelligence in their Titan form! Someone with hair like that didn't deserve to survive. Shut the hell up, Locke. LOL self-aware fodder. Fucking tell them that Erwin turned down the shot, Levi! Oh hell, Eren is seeing royal memories when he touches Historia's hand. The King could have prevented the Titan attacks... Did Eren see anything else though? So, ALL the Titans are dead? Not going to kill it. Is there any way to "cure" people that have been turned into Titans? A whole year has passed?! Eren looks much older than that. And looks like he has seen some shit. Eren is broken. ...again. Eh? The place where they release the Titans is on the island? I thought it was on the mainland. So Marley had set up a base on the Eldian island this whole time? And the king still didn't do anything? LOL. What was that look Mikasa and Armin? Yeah, they dreamed of seeing the sea, but it's not the happy dream come true that they hoped. On the other side is their enemies. What now?! Everyone who thought getting to the sea would be the ending were wrong! And how will they win?! Looks like there is some new footage in those credits? Marley waging war on somebody? No post credits... it ends like that. Hell. It's going to be a bitch of a wait for season 4.

I watched the shows I missed while I was at the family get away at the middle-of-nowhere riverside Texas hill country cabin earlier in the week, just now getting around to posting my thoughts on them, which I wrote down after watching each episode. Okay so I was wrong about the self-destruction. How the hell do you end up with what looks like a fusion of Frieza and Super Buu from what they started with? Still, it looks cool. One of the few good Super designs. Whoa he's even bigger than I thought! Frieza is just gonna watch lmao. Uhh that was not a Big Bang Attack. Vegeta at Super Saiyan 1, Goku at Super Saiyan God, wut? 17's zoological expertise coming in handy. Portal punching?! Thanks for the save Frieza lmao. Frieza - "My, he is tall!" Pretty sure eating them would be a disqualification? 18 sacrificing herself to save 17? Because of her ankle injury that seemingly was forgotten about?? Otherwise I don't see why he'd be better to stay than her. Grew wings. He's going to win by destroying the arena while he's flying in the air LOL. Jiren and co. apparently not too concerned about this. HOLY ANIMATION UPGRADE! And now an instrumental version of the song they ruined with a shitty dubover before. Clever use of 17's powers there. Well that team is taking their destruction well. Why was that Destroyer in a robot suit?! Now for the final face off with Jiren and his team! That look on Jiren's face. Hmm.

This episode I missed because I just wasn't ready in time for the block that week. Anyway - Their survival strategy of camping the entire tournament? Once again another universe fought Universe 7 fighters without knowing they are hard-countered by them. Was nice to see 17 and 18 team up again but I wish it was against a better opponent. LOL that's got to he the shittiest combiner robot I've ever seen! Okay Goku, Vegeta, and Gohan having trouble against these fools is a joke. Is Gohan actually struggling here? And he's fighting this guy on his own because he knows he's no help against Jiren and his team? What did he do to deserve this? The doctor totally did get knocked out, but okay. And now what, set off a bomb so he dies and kills everyone else, gets disqualified and ALL the universes are destroyed??

I'm pretty sure you knew I wasn't being literal. But, I have to wonder if they are doing this because they believe it fits with the series (don't know if any sort of weird voices or accents were done in Japanese,) if it's a semi-gag dub, or there is some Vince McMahon of dubbing working for Sentai that thinks this is all SUCH GOOD SHIT. This is barely related, but I remember subbies who would bitch about dubs back in the day, they would point out how Yuri Lowenthal was the only person who said any of the names right in Naruto. Their words, not mine. I'm glad most of that stupid sub vs. dub shit is gone now and people just watch their shit. At least from what I have seen, anyway. I had no idea Yuri Lowenthal was multi-lingual though. This show definitely is cheesy, maybe campy, but it's hard to tell how much of it is intentional. I mean, there's tons of over-the-top, ridiculous stuff, but most of it falls flat and comes off dumb and not funny. Yep we've seen that lol. So far all these guys have done is try to sabotage the competition like old cartoon villains. Which guys are you talking about? I must have missed this detail. JoJo is better with the accents and dubbing in general for sure. And a better show in general, heh.

Black Clover Page 81 Discussion Last time on Black Clover, we learned more about the past of Finral and Langris. Langris was the prodigal son and much preferred by the parents, for what a high achiever he was, where Finral was largely rejected and insulted by his parents. But, other people saw Finral for being a good person, and how awful Langris was. Langris arguably took things tougher than Finral, which we didn't know before. Perhaps there is some insecurity being projected behind that smugness. When it came time to battle, the Black Bulls were psyched up with the hope that Finral had a good change to win, and he even broke out some new moves, but Langris had some new moves of his own, which were too much for Finral to counter. Unfortunately, Langris took things too far, and seriously wounded Finral. But before he could take it any further, the Black Bulls rushed to Finral's defense, stopping Langris in his tracks. How do we pick up from this cliffhanger from hell?! Find out tonight, on Black Clover, on Toonami!

https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/20190725-OYT1T50298/ Here is the original notice of the upcoming edits. Going off the Google translation, which is very rough, the edits will start with episode 4 going onward. The color of the fire will change. I wonder if that's for the whole rest of the series. And will there be an uncut version Funimation and Toonami would have to, and possibly for home release? And when they get to episodes not yet made, will they be edited from the start with no uncut version existing at all? https://sciencing.com/colors-fire-hot-8631323.html Maybe someone who speaks Japanese can get a better idea of what is said in that announcement, but as far as I can tell it does not say what color the flames will be. Not sure why ANN or someone else hasn't translated and reported on it. As for the guess of purple, it looks like that color never happens in nature. If I recall, the fire was green in Sleeping Beauty was green because it was magic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_fire https://www.mathsone.com/blog-details/blog/109-Flame-Colors-and-Temperatures https://www.sciencecompany.com/Creating-Flame-Colors.aspx https://melscience.com/US-en/articles/colored-flame-experiment/ However, there is a form of pyrotechnics called colored fire where many colors, inducing violet or purple can be created. I've never heard of this before, but given different chemicals used to make various colors of fireworks, it makes sense that something like this would exist. The fire in Fire Force is also of a supernatural nature so presumably all kinds of colors might be possible. And, upon doing one of my searches, it turns out - But altering any of the fire colors in any way could lead to confusion and issues with lore when characters or groups may be introduced that have specific colors of fire for specific reasons. Not really sure what could be done about this though. And this gives me flashbacks of 4kids. I'm also not sure if just changing the color of fire would make it more palatable to those directly affected by the studio fire or fans that would that would have a tougher time watching the series than others. I would presume they would just avoid the series entirely. This seems like a lose lose situation no matter how you slice it. I guess we'll just have to wait and see how everything turns out. Anyway, I'm not going to look into this further for now because I'm leaving at noon tomorrow. We're having a family get together at a riverside house this weekend. I'll likely miss the live premiere of Fire Force and the finale of Attack on Titan. It sucks but not much I can do about it as that's just how the timing worked out. If I can't watch anything Saturday night the block will definitely be the first thing I watch when I get back.

There's only one episode left after this?! We're already almost done?! Jeez, these seasons go by too fast.

I had read the High School of the Dead manga went on hiatus after the 2011 earthquake, because the author didn't feel it was an appropriate time for an apocalyptic story while Japan was still going through that. Looks like he also had a heart condition as well, and eventually died of it in 2017. So the hiatus wasn't just because of the earthquake. I didn't know about that. https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7292/is-highschool-of-the-dead-on-hiatus-again https://comicbook.com/anime/2018/12/15/highschool-of-the-dead-artist-author-death/ I hope the Fire Force anime doesn't get cancelled outright. But what do you think will happen with the manga? Has there been anything said about that?

I thought that they announced it before the fire happened. Doubling up Titan means one would have to be a rerun. Yeah not sure what they can do here. We'll just have to wait and see.

That's what it's about?! I thought they were just regular firefighters. Yeesh... I dunno.

How the hell did you get that from what I wrote? Do they seem remotely similar to you? Soul Eater and Fire Force have the same author as has been said many times already.

Yup lmao. In the movie at least. Frank Welker plays him in the seasons after the movie, but uses a different voice than his Megatron voice for him.

It did look like something else than what she's using now, didn't it?

I agree with you, but I still really enjoy this show for what it is. What you describe is how magic using characters would traditionally work. But yeah, a lot of anime seem to go for the one affinity thing. In Fairy Tail people have to actually learn the magic, so I suppose they focus on whatever they're best at and take to and train up those skills. It would take a lot more time and training to master multiple disciplines. In the rare case when someone can use more than one type, it's a big deal. With Black Clover it seems people are just born with a certain power that fits them. We've seen it's genetic in some cases too. Finral and his brother use spatial magic, but in different ways, the Silvas use water or liquid of some kind (Nozel's is mercury, oddly,) Mimosa and Kirsch both use plant-based magic, that other family uses fire, etc. In Naruto there were definitely some bullshit asspull retcons. Sasuke uses fire but then is also able to use lightning. Sarutobi uses like 3 or 4 different elements. Rasengan was originally described as just manipulating chakra and had nothing to do with wind element. Kakashi can copy and use tons of jutsus regardless of element, with his Sharingan. If chakra natures were always intended to be a thing then they would have been brought up early on. So of course it's just said that some people can have multiple natures and Sasuke happens to have fire and lightning, because of course he does. Hokage can have multiple because he's hax Hokage I guess. Kakashi can use all those jutsus because of Sharingan loophole I guess. It was never explained. By the way, when the last time someone even used Sharingan to copy anything? I feel like that aspect was forgotten about. There's also many characters whose powers don't clearly line up to any element. Bugs, shadows, changing body mass?? Yep, chakra natures were definitely a retcon, and should never have been put into the story in the first place.

Oh and what the fuck is up with Orca's freaky eyes?