OwlChemist81 Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 November has come...the fight is on! Midnight tomorrow night, and reairing at the bonus 2 AM hour as we say goodbye to DST! ONLY TOONAMI!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 So the whole world is obsessed with wrestling. There's animal and monster characters, and the wrestlers have super powers?? Accountant Isle. Who came up with this? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMouse Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 ROFL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Cloud_Overhead Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 If all there was to life was wrestling and accounting... I'd probably just kill myself. Actually, no. On second thought, I'd definitely kill myself. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMouse Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 (edited) 6 minutes ago, ben0119 said: So the whole world is obsessed with wrestling. There's animal and monster characters, and the wrestlers have super powers?? Accountant Isle. Who came up with this? I mean, we had Megalobox on the block too and that was the world obsessed with boxing 😉 Edited November 3 by DangerMouse 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 1 minute ago, DangerMouse said: I mean, we had Megalobox on the block too and that was the world obsessed with boxing 😉 Oh, to live in a world where wrestling fans aren't a despised minority. 🤣 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 Perm gang? They seem a bit washed up. Ouch on their response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 So are those costumes or different species? Accountants are sub class lmao. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Cloud_Overhead Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 I was just gonna write this one off, but now I dunnno. I mean it's so bonkers... it might actually be kind of fun to watch I'm thinking now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 A ring deployed from space lmao. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 Hey, an ankle lock can take out anybody lol. I'm a wrestling fan, but this is a little out there even for me. But maybe it improves from now on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwlChemist81 Posted November 3 Author Share Posted November 3 Believe it or not, I'm watching SNL right now, because I can watch this later!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 1 minute ago, OwlChemist81 said: Believe it or not, I'm watching SNL right now, because I can watch this later!! Can't believe you still watch that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMouse Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 Some of the action music is pretty nice, curious who the composer is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMouse Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 Accountant Girl 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 Kid? How old is she? Well that robot isn't very good security. Not much better than actual wrestling refs and security. 😄 That old lady. The Bleach spiritual pressure effect LOL. Give it up already, Perm Gang. Ring detonation as anti-theft?! Seems like a major waste of resources. 😄 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 No one LOVES accounting like that, come on. Counting her height is centimeters is the most disturbing part of all of this. I wonder if the showrunners had to make sure GWC wasn't an actual wrestling promotion lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Cloud_Overhead Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 6 minutes ago, ben0119 said: Can't believe you still watch that. I'm recording SNL, but just cause it's election season and I want to see the cold open mostly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 Unusually cooperative parents for how this trope usually goes. Wrestlers don't cry? Oh, it depends on the wrestler. 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Cloud_Overhead Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 7 minutes ago, ben0119 said: Ring detonation as anti-theft?! Seems like a major waste of resources. 😄 Who'd want to steal a stinky wrestling ring anyway? How would anyone steal it even? LMAO This show is just plain insane is all. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 Yeah those aren't costumes. They're actual monster and animal characters. So, the name Rustburn was literal. Oh good, this guy thinks he's found a sucker. Smashed the phone... what a jackass. Damn, things not going well for Andy in Rustburn. Samus? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 2 minutes ago, Dark_Cloud_Overhead said: Who'd want to steal a stinky wrestling ring anyway? How would anyone steal it even? LMAO This show is just plain insane is all. Yeah, it's not exactly something you can just carry away haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 Whoa, it's not just a suit. Goldie has serious injuries. A cactus man? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 A few hours outside of town? That could be half-way across the state. Not "outside of town." Andy lost her suitcase and left boot though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 Casa Poblana? Of course that's her haha. Door slammed in her face, ouch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Cloud_Overhead Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 That's why they say never meet your heroes kid. Especially if there name basically means they're a cheese head. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMouse Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 Missed the very beginning so didn't realize Keith David was narrating, that's pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketch Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 I'm digging it so far. A very silly concept and they're having a lot of fun with it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMouse Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 They pose like the Ginyu Force. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMouse Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 3 hours ago, ben0119 said: A ring deployed from space lmao. LMAO, just realized it's totally channeling the robot judge from Zoids Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMouse Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 "Will you train me?!" 🤣 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 See, this is what I meant about the show being a cargo cult production. It's disparate elements thrown together to make an incoherent whole. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Gun Posted November 4 Share Posted November 4 I don't want to crap all over this, because I didn't think it was actively bad or anything. It's clear from both the content itself and Sketch's interview that the creative team is enthusiastic about it and put effort into it. And obviously they didn't make the call on where it's airing, because even amongst the "crossover" series that have aired on the block in the past, this one above all others feels like it's much better suited for CN proper. But all of that being said, this isn't doing a whole lot for me so far. I won't go quite as far as Jman, but this feels for all the world like it was made by someone who saw a few super-popular shounen series when they were younger and wanted to make one themselves really badly. It's a checklist of tropes I've seen used a hundred times before, and at least so far there isn't much setting it apart. And while I don't claim to have much of a grasp on what The Youth are into these days, I have to wonder how much its target audience even cares about professional wrestling. And I'm sorry, but you chose to have your main character escape her ordained future on...Accounting Island? Really? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted November 4 Share Posted November 4 (edited) Now that the show has failed to hit the top 10 on Max, which is actually something all of the Adult Swim original action shows that weren't FLCL sequels have done since they started measuring a top 10 (so roughly going back to Ninja Kamui) I think an issue here is that...men don't want to see men beat up women in a sport context. This is another ramble, but hear me out. It's one thing for Wonder Woman or the Powerpuff Girls to beat up bad guys. They have superpowers, and they clearly have an ability that puts them beyond normal thugs. But in the context of a sport, well, we don't have men fight women in combat sports for a reason. It feels wrong to have a dude wail on a girl. I mean the whole setup is kind of stupid for a serialized show we're supposed to take semi-seriously, (it worked in Kinnikuman because the warring factions of superhumans decided pro wrestling matches were a more sporting way to settle their battles than all-out war, as well as a means to limit collateral damage), but that sort of thing just makes you feel icky more than anything. Tiger Mask had female villains, but when they got in the ring, they fought other women, which is probably why W had a subplot of the main character's female manager taking on the mantle of Spring Tiger to wrestle herself, so she could wrestle other women when having Tiger Mask himself beat them up would just feel wrong. I'm also not the biggest fan of Andy's design, since it hits all the Current Year stereotypes, and doesn't really lend itself well to action in an equal setting without superpowers. Edited November 4 by Jman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokeNirvash Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 On 11/4/2024 at 3:03 AM, Top Gun said: And I'm sorry, but you chose to have your main character escape her ordained future on...Accounting Island? Really? Hey, someone's gotta do the wrestlers' taxes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketch Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 I like the idea of an island where only accountants live and it’s serious business there. It’s stupid but charming how seriously they take accounting there and how seriously wrestling is taken world wide in this universe. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonamiguy321 Posted November 5 Share Posted November 5 On 11/4/2024 at 2:03 AM, Top Gun said: I don't want to crap all over this, because I didn't think it was actively bad or anything. It's clear from both the content itself and Sketch's interview that the creative team is enthusiastic about it and put effort into it. And obviously they didn't make the call on where it's airing, because even amongst the "crossover" series that have aired on the block in the past, this one above all others feels like it's much better suited for CN proper. But all of that being said, this isn't doing a whole lot for me so far. I won't go quite as far as Jman, but this feels for all the world like it was made by someone who saw a few super-popular shounen series when they were younger and wanted to make one themselves really badly. It's a checklist of tropes I've seen used a hundred times before, and at least so far there isn't much setting it apart. And while I don't claim to have much of a grasp on what The Youth are into these days, I have to wonder how much its target audience even cares about professional wrestling. And I'm sorry, but you chose to have your main character escape her ordained future on...Accounting Island? Really? This about sums it up for me. It’s maybe 5% original ideas, the rest are just overused anime tropes and Member Berries shit. Once I saw the Bebop crew and heard a legally distinct You Say Run I knew for sure this wasn’t going to offer anything at all worth watching. This is where western animation tends to fumble. Too much reliance on a millennial audience pointing and clapping at references to millennialcore anime. MAWS is guilty of it too, but to a lesser extent since it had its extensive Superman repertoire of content to pull from. I don’t know if this will be the gimmick, but it’s not even wrestling. It’s DBZ fights where the MC eventually pulls out an actual wrestling move for the W. Can’t imagine many wrestling fans are gonna get roped in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted November 8 Share Posted November 8 Didn’t help much, AEW’s ratings are in the toilet. But now I want WWE wrestlers reacting to Kinnikuman. Come to think of it, before the buyout, Crunchyroll was in the very early stages of making a WWE cartoon, but it was probably shelved. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Gun Posted November 10 Share Posted November 10 Heh, figured no one would bother with a new thread. Well at least this one had Clancy Brown and...uh...Clancy Brown? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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