Doctor Decimate
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well, with the big bad of the entire series defeated i am wondering if people will still stick around.
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well, with the big bad of the entire series defeated i am wondering if people will still stick around.
Doctor Decimate
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is it weird that i always hoped the filler episodes of Bleach would bring Aizen in for some wacky shit like it does for everyone else?
ThatObviousUser
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Which is?
BassForever
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Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
I think Toonami might want to look into replacing Big O after it does its run. Since they can only show Season Two with the rights for Season One being tied up, there is probably a bit of a obstacle for people wishing to jump in.
I wonder how the ratings for Bleach will be in the upcoming months. It's not going to be stop and start filler, we got 30+ straight weeks of it. But honestly I don't even know if filler really impacts the first run ratings that much.
Even though its two years away, God help us when Naruto hits its filler, they've made it pretty clear that they don't intend on skipping those episodes...which is going to be VERY painful. Toonami is a once a week thing now. When Naruto originally aired in the US they were showing two episodes a week, so they got through the filler pretty quickly. 80+ weeks of Naruto filler is really going to drag down the momentum of the block, if you ask me.
It's also really impressive that the rating spike back up for Inuyasha. I mean we are talking about 5am on a Sunday morning here. Haha
I also couldn't help myself, I started marathoning One Piece on Hulu. In the middle of the Water 7 arc now. Soooooooooo good.
I wonder how the ratings for Bleach will be in the upcoming months. It's not going to be stop and start filler, we got 30+ straight weeks of it. But honestly I don't even know if filler really impacts the first run ratings that much.
Even though its two years away, God help us when Naruto hits its filler, they've made it pretty clear that they don't intend on skipping those episodes...which is going to be VERY painful. Toonami is a once a week thing now. When Naruto originally aired in the US they were showing two episodes a week, so they got through the filler pretty quickly. 80+ weeks of Naruto filler is really going to drag down the momentum of the block, if you ask me.
It's also really impressive that the rating spike back up for Inuyasha. I mean we are talking about 5am on a Sunday morning here. Haha
I also couldn't help myself, I started marathoning One Piece on Hulu. In the middle of the Water 7 arc now. Soooooooooo good.
I agree for the most part however there are parts of Bleach (none coming up that I remember) that can get crazy boring.
EDIT: Nothing was as painful as watching Naruto filler back in the day when it originally aired in Japanese. You'd hope at the start of every new arc that it would be the last, the constant rumors, the ridiculous premises...though it was entertainingly bad. The first few arcs in particular are what the fuck crazy. My favorite episode is the apology for filler episode that comes near the end of the run.
People watching the US version (before it got put on hiatus) knew what was coming. 80 episodes of pain with a clear ending.
EDIT: Nothing was as painful as watching Naruto filler back in the day when it originally aired in Japanese. You'd hope at the start of every new arc that it would be the last, the constant rumors, the ridiculous premises...though it was entertainingly bad. The first few arcs in particular are what the fuck crazy. My favorite episode is the apology for filler episode that comes near the end of the run.
People watching the US version (before it got put on hiatus) knew what was coming. 80 episodes of pain with a clear ending.
Filler doesn't matter much if they're part of a storyline. I think the only way it would impact the ratings that much is if it was 30 episodes of "Ichigo learns to cook ramen" and other randomness.
They generally get the same ratings. Bleach has a really stable audience.
They generally get the same ratings. Bleach has a really stable audience.
Doctor Decimate
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well, they did recently backpedal into "we're not sure what to do with that, and it's a ways off so who cares." possibly they were referring to filler episodes within the main story when they said they wouldn't skip any Naruto episodes.
Grizzlyjin
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Yeah, those were rough times. I still remember people talking about "Well we know this arc ends in 3 weeks from the previews, so things should be back on track soon." And then another filler arc would air, and another, and another, and another.
Other than Bleach's Bount Arc, I generally refuse to watch filler episodes. Even in the early days of Bleach, if it was a Kon centric episode I knew to just turn it off and wait until next week.
BassForever
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I'm excited to see a bleach filler arc simply because it'll be brand new story for me good or bad.
ThatObviousUser
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Is that you, Adam Orth?
This arc is fucking stupid.
Giant talking bugs? Really, that's the best you can come up with? And the king is a straight rip off of cell. Everything was great until this trainwreck.
Nothing unexpected. Lol @ the people who were expecting SAO to break 1M at the 2AM slot.
I'm the biggest Bleach stan here and even I'll admit that the fullbring arc is complete shit.
I actually quite liked two aspects of it:
Never seen it animated though.
A) The return to the 'monster of the week' urban fantasy wake-up-go-to-school-fight-demons structure, at least for a few weeks, and B) The complete and total nightmare scenario of a stranger suddenly existing in your life as though everyone has known them forever except you
Never seen it animated though.
The villain's power was goddamn hilarious. I have to see if I can find the comics depicting it for when we get up to it. There were some good ones.
ThatObviousUser
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All I can think of is how much I want DRR!! on Toonami.
It had a single run on Adult Swim Action.
The first third is amazing, the rest is garbago. Good dub though!
BassForever
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Doctor Decimate
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i'm back from some research.
so, TOM. about Fairy Tail.
so, TOM. about Fairy Tail.
I wouldn't be able to take it. It would hurt me in my soul, MY SOUL.
BassForever
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Fairy Tail would do really well on Toonami, is safe and repetitive and action packed would probably do One Piece or better numbers.
Repetitive is putting it nicely. It's the same damn twist every time.
ThatObviousUser
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I literally feel the exact opposite. First half is meandering and a little boring, second half is high stakes real-life chess.
BassForever
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To be fair Fairy Tail does have the deepest plot and some of the most exciting back stories in Shonen history
DAAAAAAMN SON!!!!!
To be fair Fairy Tail does have the deepest plot and some of the most exciting back stories in Shonen history
When is Mashima just going to do straight up porn?
Unspeakable Evil
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When they finally get the explanation of who the Dollars are shit gets better.
Random Note: Why does DDDR seems to have every well known English DUB actor voicing a character?
We got enough of those for now. Gotta make room for shows that are actually good.
Well bleach is ending in around a year so it could replace that.
I don't like Fairy tale myself but I'm just showing that they could.
BassForever
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Which shows in the block do you think are like that? Fairy Tail is really super generic literally every arc you could feed into a machine random names and elements and it writes itself. I can only think of one twist that actually surprised me in the series
The reveal of who Stahngun was
ThatObviousUser
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Because they all knew it was awesome. It isn't even a Funi show.
And yes, Toonami could always use another Blum show. (Kyohei! Or should I say, Dota-chin!)
ThatObviousUser
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Maybe you'd understand if you didn't watch Bleach just to hate on it
BassForever
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Being critical =/= hating
Now SAO I am hate watching, I love the series but it's awful in a fun way
Edit: And even if I foamed at the mouth for Bleach I still would place any arc of HxH well above any arc of Bleach, especially the Chimera Ant and Yorkshin arcs
ThatObviousUser
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No way Celty's quest to find herself was more interesting than the Saika arc or the Dollars vs. Yellow Scarves arc. The series built to a magnificently well-planned crescendo.
Doctor Decimate
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I'm pretty sure you've said before that Bleach is a hate watch. If you bitch about it every single week but still tune in, that's pretty much the definition.
Chimera Ant arc is trash.
1. Talking humanoid bugs/animals are your villains? C'mon son.
2. Kite gets killed like it's nothing even though he's a pretty powerful hunter. What a load of shit.
3. These ant things just magically develop nen powers? Isn't that reserved for special humans and take years of training to master? What a lazy cop out.
4. Ant prince/king dude is a straight clone of Cell and Frieza
5. Adult gon is dumb
6. Neetero is one of the top nen users in the world and can't even scratch the prince/king but a generic fucking bomb hurts him? This fight was so unsatisfying and really just pure bullshit, talk about overpowered villains.
2. Kite gets killed like it's nothing even though he's a pretty powerful hunter. What a load of shit.
3. These ant things just magically develop nen powers? Isn't that reserved for special humans and take years of training to master? What a lazy cop out.
4. Ant prince/king dude is a straight clone of Cell and Frieza
5. Adult gon is dumb
6. Neetero is one of the top nen users in the world and can't even scratch the prince/king but a generic fucking bomb hurts him? This fight was so unsatisfying and really just pure bullshit, talk about overpowered villains.
Every other arc was ace, this one sucked. Period.
Dude just look at bleach if you don't like this stuff then you should hate bleach. Aizen the main villain turns into a butterfly for a reason no one can think of. The way that chad and boob girl got powers is BS and they have not done anything with there BS powers to be of importance. It took ONE episode after training for Ichigo to beat Aizen with ease to and Aizen is overpower to hell and back.
I actually like Bleach to but common son.
Gucci Messiah
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You're new here, but I've explained many times over at length why I like Bleach. I'm not going to post a novel again. As for your comments:
1. Aizen evolved into that form by using the hogyoku. Even though Gin "stole" it, the hogyoku remains a part of Aizen's body because it is under his control. Pay attention.
2. Chad and Orihime both have high spiritual power/awareness and being around Ichigo awakened their powers. Orihime uses her healing powers all the time, her ability is not suited for combat. Chad is a capable fighter but still just a human who has recently discovered his powers, he's not going to be taking down tough opponents that vice captain/captain level shinigami struggle with.
3. Ichigo trained in the dangai for months to learn the final getsuga tensho. Time moves slower in there, that's why he was gone for a few hours but came back older with a mullet.
C'mon son.
ThatObviousUser
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Defending Bleach.
To be fair Fairy Tail does have the deepest plot and some of the most exciting back stories in Shonen history
Only after we get rid of Bleach or Naruto. I feel Toonami should always keep quite a few spaces to run 12-25 episode shows on a regular rotation. It keeps the lineup fresh and makes it so there's always a new show to look forward to if you dislike the current stuff. I fear Toonami will get too clogged by long running, very same-y shonen stuff.
Gucci Messiah
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Defending Bleach.
You know I'll defend Bleach to the death no matter what. I am the hero Kubo needs but doesn't deserve.
I like bleach for what it's worth myself. It's just you're complaints confused me as bleach has holes and kind of stupid things plot wise itself. I would have liked to seen a longer final fight as the whole show was pretty much showing aizen toying with people then ichigo goes and trains and destroys him with ease even if he trained in months time. Aizen's evolution was kind of meh also could have been better looking with better powers. I like chad to I wanted him to be more important hopefully in the final arc he wrecks shit up.
.....that's my line
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