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That one related video...
Havent seen any naruto in so long that nothings a spoiler :>
They'd be cut down anyways. One can just youtube the real ones anyday and I like TOONAMI openings. They've done a good job so far with Shippuden and Bleach.
Imperial Bishop
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I caught that on the first episode, and it made me take a double take.
Doctor Decimate
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Last time on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, our heroes had to break into prison. Now, in episode 63, they have to do their best Steve McQueen impressions and break out. Anakin gives R2 and his droid posse the go-ahead to land the ship at the extraction point as his team (consisting of clones, Ahsoka, and Tarkin) makes its way along the cave system. Meanwhile, Obi-Wans team (clones and Jedi Master Piell) climbs through the air ducts until a clone is spotted by a surveillance drone. Piell manages to destroy the drone, but the security system is trigged and steel doors begin to close, which slice the unfortunate clone above in half (offscreen, of course, because children, but its very obvious and you get noises.) Then Piell and Obi-Wan do what Jedi do best: cut large, circular holes through things with lightsabers.
Brief cut to a nervous Warden Christopher Walken meeting with holographic Count Dooku. Back in the caves, Anakin cuts through a security drone before it notices the escapees. Tarkin, I shit you not, tells Ahsoka he admires the design of the Citadel, and that their current situation only demonstrates its effectiveness. The Citadel, the place whose interior is designed exactly like the Death Star. This is Gotham-tier stuff. Oh, then Anakin says he has a point. Then, after Anakin leaves to go look for Obi-Wan, Tarkin complains that Ahsoka is in charge. She then leads them to a dead end. Cut to R2 and the droids, who land the ship outside the Citadel only to be confronted by one of those speak-and-spell command droids. It orders the droids under R2s command to take him in for interrogation due to the lateness of their landing and the coincidence of their arrival with the Jedi infiltration. In a rare legitimately funny moment for them, R2s droids start kicking, hitting, and insulting him as they take him to the elevator so that they appear convincing.
As Ahoska, Tarkin, and the others wait like morons at the dead end, theyre attacked by some of the Citadels droids. Anakin returns to destroy them and demand to know why Ahsoka didnt blow up the wall. Because she snuck onto the mission and wasnt actually assigned to it, of course! Though to be fair, Anakin is a complete idiot for believing her in the first place. Once through the wall, they come to a giant gas pipe, which is their route to the ship. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan and his team reach a vent that gives them a view of R2s ship, but since they suspect its a trap they loop around to get another viewing angle. On the way, Christopher Walken comes over the radio and says they were easy to predict as the team is completely surrounded. Theyre taken in for interrogation, and when Piell refuses to give up the information, Christopher Walken starts executing the clones. He abruptly gives up when a droid gives him word that Anakins team has been located and orders for the rest to be tortured. On the way to the cells, R2s droids intercept Obi-Wan and the others and begin to escort them to the ship.
Anakins team continues moving through the pipe. Tarkin complains about the situation, and informs Anakin that although he has faith in him now, he has none in Ahsoka. Tarkin then says he has little faith in the Jedi because their code prevents them from doing what is necessary in a war, to which Anakin says that he has a point. On paper he makes sense, but in the context of this series, where we see time and time again that the Jedi are basically the only ones capable of holding the war effort together, it feels like nonsense. Ahsoka emerges from the pipe and is immediately ambushed by droids. Tarkin, to even further establish that hes an asshole, pointlessly argues with the decision to exit the pipe; Anakin observes that being surrounded by droids is preferable to being surrounded by droids in a massive flammable pipe. Everyone leaves and hides behind a massive boulder. You know how some people take a running start to throw a ball? Anakin does a goofy Zelda-style roll to throw a grenade at the pipe, which explodes and takes all the droids with it.
Christopher Walken is told that Obi-Wans group has disappeared and that theres an incoming transmission from Count Dooku. He tells the droids to inform Dooku that hes out to lunch and orders that all troops be sent to the airfield but not that the obvious escape ship be destroyed. Obi-Wan and the others are foiled in their attempt to sneak aboard and quickly come under attack from turrets (which dont destroy the obvious escape ship) and more droids. Anakins group arrives to even the odds, and Obi-Wan says that they need to focus on taking out the turrets before they destroy the obvious escape ship (which none have tried to do for some reason.) A battle ensues, where lightsabers are sliced, blasters are fired, grenades are flown, and flying segways are hijacked. One of the clones, Echo (who you may remember from Domino Squads two-episode story arc at the start of the season) is killed in an explosion that finally destroys the obvious escape ship. The Jedi on Coruscant inform the survivors that a fleet of ships is on the way to the Citadel to rescue them.
Tarkin continues to be the main problem of this Citadel arc, which is a little odd since he's probably the reason it exists in the first place. He's a whiny asshole just because, and the show is comically unsubtle about the fact that the Death Star's interior was based on the Citadel because of this ordeal. I don't think some of the stuff that happens in this episode is quite as interesting as the last episode, but it makes up for it with scale and choreography. The ending fight in particular, even if it exists for no reason other than to pad the episode, is very good.
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Imperial Bishop
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They had to be sacrificed so that we could get the superior Space Dandy opening.
A fair trade imo.
Oh fine :/ Was surprised it took this long now that i think about it. If only because its GAF and a post=a bump.
On topic as much as I can be, with a working laptop again I can continue OP. 105 episodes down. Im not sure if i like the show a lot or if its just weird. Its a good show, I just feel like it has the ability to get off topic worse than I do. As in at any given point I can say what characters are doing and why, but I cant really give you a reason as to why someone would even have started some of these situations. It might just be my view since I dont think ive seen 105 episodes worth of content in this so far, but that may just be the pacing of the show.
So...I think its good, but good for half as many episodes, not how many we have? If that makes any sense?
Edit: And its killing my ability to play games, since i refuse to continue higurashi till I watch some OP in a night, and I keep forgetting to do that, so... *sigh*
Ill be caught up to you guys within a few months with any luck!
BassForever
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You've also skipped like 15 episodes
One Piece is about the journey and not the destination, part of the fun is every arc is a new island that is visually distinct and you never know what you'll find. Plus the part you're at in the alabasta arc does drag a bit imo it does pick up pretty soon though
You've also skipped like 15 episodes
One Piece is about the journey and not the destination, part of the fun is every arc is a new island that is visually distinct and you never know what you'll find. Plus the part you're at in the alabasta arc does drag a bit imo it does pick up pretty soon though
Can we not remind me of the fact this will go on forever >.>
I WANT TO WATCH OTHER ANIME TOO! (I digress)
So, is the show or manga generally considered better?
The manga hands down but for some chapters that are jam packed the anime helps give some breathing room to find out what is going on.
BassForever
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Up to enies lobby arc the anime no question, after that 1:1 pacing really hurts the anime at times. Manga can sometimes feel a bit too cluttered especially when 6-8 story lines are going on at once and each gets 2-3 pages packed with text each week.
Yeah it's great. Really fun movie and I love how silly it was. Reminded me more of Dragon Ball than DBZ. I just saw it again recently with the dub and it's so much better.
related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meZcSb39j68
No, those old bumps were fantastic. They actually did a great job not only with the show bumps but also with a lot of their other videos that showcased their anime offerings at the time. The bumps now are pretty good, but are nothing like the ones they used to make. It could have also been the actual publishers were a lot more lenient in what was shown in those opening sequences.
TheAbsolution
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Also back then, they probably had more time to do them and more of a budget.
After seeing Miku on Letterman... I now want to see her take SARA's place for a night with TOM. I would have expected to see THAT before a Letterman appearance, y'know?
Really... I'd kinda love to see a Miku X Toonami Collab night, similar to the old Daft Punk x Toonami special...
I cant comprehend how this even happened. Im going to be so embarrassed because I was hyped for that on the principle that miku managed to get to america.
Can we get a miku anime for toonami? Slice of life or something, idk.
Would need to have ocassional action! Miku X Sega Game series Anime, GO!
I'd settle with Meiko AMVs of Nostalogic to introduce the Retro-Block each week....
I wonder if anyone in the audience of Letterman was thinking about Sharon Apple appearances when they saw that... next year, Veritechs/Valkyries!
While I'd love a slice of life anime to make it over to Toonami, I don't think it would fair well at all on the block. Speaking of slice of life:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=133536503&posted=1#post133536503
Edit: I just watched the video. It was good, I just wonder how many people turned off Letterman when she popped up on the screen. Not to knock on Miku, but damn if that isn't some next level culture shock shit. Glad it's getting exposure here, I'm just not sure how mainstream audiences handle that. On the other hand, I'm guessing a ton of people into anything anime actually tuned in to watch.
We already are living in this world on the East Coast, it has donuts, I am content.
You got donuts? Now I'm jealous. All I got was this half-drunk mountain dew.
BassForever
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Guess I'll check out Miku on Letterman later today mostly for the confused crowd reactions
Parasyte was pretty awesome starting out. Looking forward to the rest of the show. Just hope no one caught a glimpse of what I was watching, cause it definitely was a bit weird.
Not really any reaction from what I saw until the end when the audience clapped. It was interesting seeing David's reaction though.
Not really any reaction from what I saw until the end when the audience clapped. It was interesting seeing David's reaction though.
Wait hold on what?! Is this a mistranslation or miscommunication? What?!
Then again, it's the same author that purposely avoided confirming if Hange was a boy or girl.
Then again, it's the same author that purposely avoided confirming if Hange was a boy or girl.
Doctor Decimate
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I love this author more and more >.>
BassForever
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Yeah that's for sure a joke
UltraGunner
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Dude sounds like a grade A troll.
Being intentional doesn't make it any better, though.
Doctor Decimate
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I feel like the distinction doesn't really affect anything, unfortunately.
Sure, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious as to what was intended for the roles of various characters (and why) even if I find the final package to be bunk regardless.
UltraGunner
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So it wan't just us who thought Eren was useless, it was intentional.
ASSauLTxMasTER
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We did, people chose the 30-second Toonami intros.
Besides, if they can't touch the Kanji on the OP, it'd come out looking pretty weird in 30 seconds. Like, fast forwarded or something.
They can't handle me & my dude's edit
It was really weird. I don't see the appeal and Letterman looked pretty confused afterwards which was funny.
chicagocubsfan
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BassForever got retweeted by Funimation lol.
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