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Toonami |Oct14| A Place for Manly Souls
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Imperial Bishop
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Fixed for accuracy.
Tonight on Toonami, the gang tries to capture the Female Titan while Eren has problems getting it up, it's back to the main event as Ichigo and Ginjo continue their battle in the penultimate episode of Bleach, Four-Tails Naruto throws down with Orochimaru, Nico Olvia returns to Ohara but it's not long before Spandine and CP9 arrive in pursuit, Adiane is back for more and Nia tosses some truth bombs on Simon, Hellsing Manor comes under assault as the battle rages in London, Dandy is a sucker for the ladies, baby, Faye runs off to the frozen melancholy of Callisto, the Elrics get acquainted with Major General Olivier Mira Armstrong, Kazundo Goda of the Cabinet Intelligence Service calls in Section 9 to save the day when a group of AI controlled assault helicopters go rogue, Roger discovers the newly repaired Big Duo and a new third Big as a megadeus foretold by Schwarzwald arrives in Paradigm City, and finally Samurai Jack delves into the origins of the shape-shifting master of darkness, Aku.
11:30 - Attack on Titan - 24 - Mercy: Assault on Stohess, Part 2
12:00 - Bleach - 365 - Ichigo vs. Ginjo! Secret of the Substitute Badge
1:00 - Naruto Shippuden - 42 - Orochimaru vs. Jinchuriki
1:00 - One Piece - 276 - Fated Mother and Daughter! The Mother's Name is Olvia!
1:30 - Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - 10 - Who Is This Bro?
2:00 - Hellsing Ultimate - 6 - Hellsing VI
3:00 - Space Dandy - 3 - Occasionally Even the Deceiver Is Deceived, Baby
3:30 - Cowboy Bebop - 12 - Jupiter Jazz (Part 1)
4:00 - Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - 34 - Ice Queen
4:30 - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - 4 - NATURAL ENEMY
5:00 - Big O - 17 - Leviathan
5:30 - Samurai Jack - 37 - The Birth of Evil: Part 1
11:30 - Attack on Titan - 24 - Mercy: Assault on Stohess, Part 2
12:00 - Bleach - 365 - Ichigo vs. Ginjo! Secret of the Substitute Badge
1:00 - Naruto Shippuden - 42 - Orochimaru vs. Jinchuriki
1:00 - One Piece - 276 - Fated Mother and Daughter! The Mother's Name is Olvia!
1:30 - Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - 10 - Who Is This Bro?
2:00 - Hellsing Ultimate - 6 - Hellsing VI
3:00 - Space Dandy - 3 - Occasionally Even the Deceiver Is Deceived, Baby
3:30 - Cowboy Bebop - 12 - Jupiter Jazz (Part 1)
4:00 - Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - 34 - Ice Queen
4:30 - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - 4 - NATURAL ENEMY
5:00 - Big O - 17 - Leviathan
5:30 - Samurai Jack - 37 - The Birth of Evil: Part 1
Doctor Decimate
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previously:
part one
part two
part three
The final segment of Clone Wars: The Movie begins with Dooku scrambling to adapt his nonsensical “The Jedi really took your son!” plan to the current situation. He informs Jabba that Anakin has killed his son and is on the way to Tatooine to begin the extermination of all Hutts for…some reason. On the ship, Jabba Jr. is sound asleep and Anakin is angsting over the fact that he has to go back to Tatooine where he killed all those slavers to avenge his mother. He diverts power from the rear shields to the forward shields, which Ahsoka whines about because it’s risky. Then some droid ships appear and begin firing at them from behind. Ahsoka actually takes this opportunity to gloat, and when Anakin tells her to shut the fuck up she gets mad. Later, as he does evasive maneuvers to save their lives, Jabba Jr. wakes up and she whines about that. Then when Anakin admits that he made a mistake by diverting power from the shields when the ship is hit, she says, “I told you so.” Anakin manages to destroy the droids, but the ship crash lands on Tatooine. Dooku informs Jabba of this and unsuspiciously offers to kill Anakin personally.
Then, in the words of Steve Palpatine, we begin the “grand adventure of politics.” He tells Padme the problem with Jabba, and she resolves to go visit Jabba’s uncle on Coruscant to smooth over relations. Who’s Jabba’s uncle, you ask? Why, it’s one of the worst characters in the entire damn show, Ziro the Hutt! Padme tries to negotiate a treaty with him or at least get in touch with Jabba, who refuses to accept Republic communications, but is turned away in a manner that isn’t suspicious at all. But when she gets into the elevator, escorted by one of Ziro’s droids, her Politic Senses begin to tingle and she suddenly dashes out as the droid goes down in the elevator. She overhears a convenient conversation between Ziro and Count Dooku, but she is captured and thrown in the dungeons as Ziro throws his head back in evil laughter. That’s right, they introduced the mastermind behind the kidnapping of Jabba Jr. with 30 minutes left. Meanwhile, Anakin, Ahsoka, R2, and Jabba Jr. are traveling through the desert away from their crashed ship. Ahsoka asks Anakin why he’s being such a bummer, and he replies with, “The desert is merciless. It takes everything from you.” Then he goes back to writing dark poetry. With eyeliner. In a notebook that has Hawthorne Heights stickers all over it.
The Jedi sense that Dooku is coming for them. Anakin suggests to Ahsoka that they split up because he has a special mission for her that isn’t obvious at all. After a brief scene where C-3PO conveniently calls Padme and sees that she’s in trouble, Dooku arrives on one of those floating bikes to confront Anakin. It’s a dull fight that turns rather silly when they start using the Force to throw large amounts of sand at each other, but Christopher Lee wakes up a bit and starts to ham it up a little. Despite the fact that he should be able to sense lifeforms with the Force, Dooku is fooled into thinking Anakin is actually carrying Jabba Jr. when in reality Ahsoka is carrying him to the palace. Dooku says that three droids are waiting for her there and they will not only kill Jabba Jr. but take Ahsoka inside to Jabba Sr. to answer for the death. Anakin steals the bike to rescue her. After a quick cut to the clones’ boring rescue of Padme, we see Ahsoka fighting the droids and tumbling off a cliff, where the fight continues. She sees Anakin speed along the top of the cliff to Jabba’s palace, but he doesn’t notice her. He rushes inside and realizes that Ahsoka isn’t there, so his first instinct is then to threaten Jabba with a lightsaber; Jabba says that this confirms Dooku’s statement that the Jedi were plotting against him and orders his bounty hunters to kill Anakin. Just in time, Ahsoka bursts in with Jabba Jr. to save the day. Padme calls in to inform everyone that Ziro the Hutt was behind the whole thing, and they all live happily ever after.
This movie has no buildup. It's very clearly four episodes jammed together, each with their own climax. That's exhausting, and even on their own the episodes wouldn't hold up. They're each filled with some baffling writing decisions and general stupidity, and only one has the action to back it up; the rest is just...boring. This movie is worse than even Bombad Jedi for the simple reason that Bombad Jedi is only 23 minutes long. This movie is an hour and 40, and it fails to justify that length in any way whatsoever. You can easily cut this down to like an hour at best. This is supposed to serve as an introduction to the series and incentive to watch it, but the writers have delivered something that's bloated and headache-inducing by focusing on Ahsoka, whose personality has two settings: whiny and smug, and a baby Hutt who is referred to as "Stinky" throughout the entire thing. If you ever needed an example for something that's less than the sum of its parts, here it is. Because while all of this sucks on its own, it becomes that much worse when you put it all together and force people to watch it in one sitting. This is the worst thing to come out of this animated series so far, and I encourage all of you to never watch it.
Grade: F
Dominican Power
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What's replacing AoT?
Attack on Titan
chicagocubsfan
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This Shippuden episode man. Best episode since the greatly animated Sasori vs Sakura and Chiyo fight.
Probably one of the best in the series as well.
Probably one of the best in the series as well.
Imperial Bishop
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Oh snap. My second favorite Bebop episode airs tonight!
Haven't seen a Yamaha in a looooong time.
I think I've heard of that show. It was kinda popular last year, right?
The precise nightmare never ends!
Real answer: It's repeating.
lazybones18
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Doctor Decimate
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i hate it when Jedi spam sand attack
IDKAboutThat
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Now that I re-examine the schedule holy shit this new toonami is sick awesome
chicagocubsfan
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lol yeah. I will say the snakes are bad.
Elfforkusu
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Bird Jesus taught me never to doubt Sand Attack.
IDKAboutThat
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I learned from the metagame how awesome status moves can be. Swords dance means pokemon get one-shotted.
I shall pass on the watching.
It's really that first 90 minutes that is kind of a bummer. Once One Piece shows up, it's pretty damn awesome for the rest of the night. Unfortunately, that's also exactly when the ratings disappear too.
IDKAboutThat
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Attack on Titan's pretty good.
lazybones18
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yeah. "good"
Attack on Titan ranges from pretty damn good to dreadful. In comparison to Naruto and Bleach though, its so much better
Once Dbz happens, we'll see a god tier toonami
DBZ is top tier
especially when you're stoned off your ass
UltraGunner
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I really don't know what made AoT so popular. Is it the current fascination with apocalyptic stories?
I think it is just one of those "happy" accidents.
Gucci Messiah
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Because it was different and exciting
It hit just as the zombie thing was becoming stale, presenting the same sort of story but with a new twist.
It's not really all that different. It's just a zombie story with a twist.
Yes, but this is also mega-popular in Japan and East Asia, which from what I have seen kind of evaded the Zombie Saturation Apocalypse.
Attack on Titan is like the Call of Duty of anime.
True, but it's not like they are in a vacuum. For whatever reason they didn't latch on to the normal zombie thing, it looks like AoT had enough of a twist on the idea to get them on-board.
lazybones18
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overrated shit without any of the movie star VAs?
Doctor Decimate
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probably. it attempts to be gritty and serious, which is different from a lot of other stuff on TV in Japan and in the case of America makes it feel more "acceptable" to watch.
i think it has a legitimately good story at points even if the execution can be problematic, but those points are well past when the series already drew people in.
Doctor Decimate
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I couldn't take the atmosphere seriously with all the melodrama in the beginning; for me, the show didn't really hit a balance until later on (and even then it's still not perfect with that). I don't think the series got legitimately good until the female titan showed up, with a few bright spots before they got into the awful pacing of the middle section.
IDKAboutThat
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Call of Duty is also pretty good. It's just become rereleases and I don't condone buying it anymore until they change it significantly enough to become interesting, but the game's multiplayer and basic gameplay is pretty great. Also the story is fucking atrocious.
I don't really like Attack on Titan at all, but I agree that the first few episodes at least held my interest in some capacity.
IDKAboutThat
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FTFY
zedreamcast
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The problem is the sort of over the top maudlin melodrama of the first couple episodes works...for an extremely brief period of time. Then it gets old and you want the show to give you something else to continue to maintain itself. Too bad it doesn't have anything else to give.
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