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[foxuzamaki]

FMA:B is what I consider one of the best animes of all time, I hold few anime of this calibur another anime I consider to be one of the best forms of art ever made, is gungrave: beyond the grave dubbed.

is inuyasha movie 3 on crunchyroll? I think we should do a group watch of it.

 

[lazybones18]

Needs more flowers >.<

 

[BassForever]

I had some Stein-in-I'LL DISECT YOU ALL mode stuff along with Medusa, but it was devoured by the internet

Took the off night as an excuse to draw a bit more crappy quickie-pics here and there... to pretend I actually drew a decent amount under the 4 shows I watched, haha.

Great stuff as always, sad to hear about lost pictures

 

[Doctor Decimate]

i'm not sure if that speaks to the quality of the rest of the shows on the block or not when InuYasha is far and away two of the best episodes of the night.

 

[Man God]

I'd only take the best episodes of One Piece over Inuyasha in the present day, especially these two episodes.

 

[MetatronM]

i'm not sure if that speaks to the quality of the rest of the shows on the block or not when InuYasha is far and away two of the best episodes of the night.

Present day Inuyasha is almost always pretty entertaining.

 

[BassForever]

i'm not sure if that speaks to the quality of the rest of the shows on the block or not when InuYasha is far and away two of the best episodes of the night.

Soul Eater says "hi"

 

[B-Dubs]

I'd only take the best episodes of One Piece over Inuyasha in the present day, especially these two episodes.

The modern day episodes of Inuyasha are always awesome

 

[Amikami]

Awesome. Sucks about the other pictures.

 

[grandjedi6]

set sail for wan peas

This reminds me that we're only 3 weeks away from Toei's most infamous art error! A great ending to these weeks of filler.

 

[foxuzamaki]

episode 19 of majestic prince: death flags, death flags everywhere.

 

[kayos90]

episode 19 of majestic prince: death flags, death flags everywhere.

LOLOLOOL.

 

[BassForever]

episode 19 of majestic prince: death flags, death flags everywhere.

Episode 20 is the deep space mission correct?

 

[foxuzamaki]

Episode 20 is the deep space mission correct?

episode 20 is the maury show

 

[BassForever]

episode 20 is the maury show

So have you caught up then? What do you think of the final battle?

 

[foxuzamaki]

So have you caught up then? What do you think of the final battle?

im on episode 21 now, but have it paused at the moment, gonna finish up tonight tho

 

[kayos90]

So, we have a pre-show watch block at 9:00 PM EDT that will be coming up next Saturday. If you're interested in being part of it and recommend what shows you'd like to see, you should totally join ToonamiGAF's irc and check the topic heading. Quote to see the channel name.

 

[789shadow]

Rizon is still asking me for a nickname password. WTF

 

[BassForever]

Rizon is still asking me for a nickname password. WTF

What IRC client are you using? I've had no problems connecting on mIRC

 

[Jintor]

It's really quite entertaining how Black Star is essentially an even more flanderised version of Naruto's idiotic "BELIEVE IT" traits yet somehow he works out to be about five hundred times more likable

 

[B-Dubs]

It's really quite entertaining how Black Star is essentially an even more flanderised version of Naruto's idiotic "BELIEVE IT" traits yet somehow he works out to be about five hundred times more likable

That's all on the execution.

 

[ThatObviousUser]

Black Star has the skills and dedication to back it up.

 

[BassForever]

Black Star is also in a far better realized world then Naruto

 

[Jintor]

One Piece 99

In this episode, the Straw Hat Crew + Ace take time out of their busy schedule to screw with a bunch of idiots.

 

[BassForever]

One Piece 99

In this episode, the Straw Hat Crew + Ace take time out of their busy schedule to screw with a bunch of idiots.

All of these adventures with Ace are filler, the final scene of the final filler Ace episode is canon, it just happened on the boat in the manga.

 

[Jintor]

That's alright by me. Ace is likable enough that I don't mind hanging with him.

"Remember that you're pretending to be soldiers. And if that's not enough, why not try acting like men?"

/edit jeeze, this episode is laying it on thick

 

[MetatronM]

Episodes 99 and 101 are so fucking bad.

 

[Man God]

Alabasta filler is the worst filler until the arc right after Enies Lobby. Well the stuff after they leave Water Seven at any rate. Awful arc.

 

[ThatObviousUser]

Episodes 99 and 101 are so fucking bad.

So they're like the rest of the show then?

 

[foxuzamaki]

So they're like the rest of the show then?

you missed some good inuyasha last nght

 

[Doctor Decimate]

Alabasta filler is the worst filler until the arc right after Enies Lobby. Well the stuff after they leave Water Seven at any rate. Awful arc.

Goat. Fucking. Island.

 

[Man God]

Goat island is kinda funny. Also short. This one is neither.

 

[Jintor]

One Piece 100

Vivi's dad is pretty hilarious.

DEATH CHOP

 

[ThatObviousUser]

you missed some good inuyasha last nght

I know.

 

[foxuzamaki]

I know.

shameful

I think Ennis Lobby is overrated, a good arc but going thorugh it one thing I did notice was

Spoiler

strawhats kinda pulling moves out of their asses, for instance, when did luffy learn to do the gears? He just said he kinda picked up somehow and also the CP9 kinda stomps them and then they were on equal footing the next time they fought. They didnt have a training arc or anything, they just got on the train and followed them.

 

[MikeMyers]

is inuyasha movie 3 on crunchyroll? I think we should do a group watch of it.

They're all on youtube, and I'll be down to watch those.

 

[Doctor Decimate]

Goat island is kinda funny. Also short. This one is neither.

Goat Island isn't funny at all, but yeah it is short.

 

[Man God]

shameful

I think Ennis Lobby is overrated, a good arc but going thorugh it one thing I did notice was

Spoiler

strawhats kinda pulling moves out of their asses, for instance, when did luffy learn to do the gears? He just said he kinda picked up somehow and also the CP9 kinda stomps them and then they were on equal footing the next time they fought. They didnt have a training arc or anything, they just got on the train and followed them.

Spoiler

He learned it Goku style by paying attention to his foe and how they control their blood flow.

 

[MetatronM]

Goat island is kinda funny. Also short. This one is neither.

Goat Island is the same length as the first batch of Arabasta filler and longer than the second.

Also, episodes 97 and 102 are both pretty alright.


The hierarchy of filler, from shittiest to best, is roughly:

Little East Blue
Rainbow Mist
Spa Island
Goat Island
The bad parts of the Arabasta filler
Water 7 Reprise Filler
Foxy's Return
Ice Hunter Arc
Apis
Davy Back Fight Filler
Post-Arabasta Filler
Film Z tie-in
The good parts of the Arabasta filler
Ocean's Dream
Anything Boss Luffy related
G-8

I think Ennis Lobby is overrated, a good arc but going thorugh it one thing I did notice was

Spoiler

strawhats kinda pulling moves out of their asses, for instance, when did luffy learn to do the gears? He just said he kinda picked up somehow and also the CP9 kinda stomps them and then they were on equal footing the next time they fought. They didnt have a training arc or anything, they just got on the train and followed them.

1) Luffy is a fighting savant. He may be kind of dumb and oblivious about most things, but he's generally a creative, unconventional, and occasionally brilliant fighter. Throughout the entire series he steals enemy techniques and takes them for his own (for example, inventing Gomu Gomu no Baku Baku against Crocodile shortly after encountering Wapol's Baku Baku fruit). He actually does learn from his encounters with opponents and build upon what he learns. From Crocodile he learns that he needs to adapt his powers in ways beyond just the obvious in order to survive the Grand Line. Against Enel he learns that even a natural advantage isn't necessarily enough to win all by itself. From

Spoiler

his first encounter with CP9, he learns just how versatile and amazing the body can be even without the use of a Devil's Fruit. From all these various sources he develops a new way to use his rubber powers. There's nothing about his Gears that really needs a special skill to be trained, and there's nobody who would be able to teach him about using his gears. They're something that came from his own imagination from applying the lessons he had learned thus far. They're just examples of using his rubber powers in less obvious ways (i.e. taking advantage of the fact that his cardiovascular system and bones are also made of rubber).

Making shit up in his brain and then just doing it is just kinda what Luffy does. Luffy STARTED the series monstrously powerful. He rips up a full fledged pirate ship with his bare fucking hands in the first 15 episodes of the series. He doesn't need to train to progress because his physical strength is already off the charts literally from the start of the series, it's just all about using his mind to apply it.

Spoiler

At least until he finally hits a ceiling some 500 episodes in and finally has to learn a new skill set entirely.

2)

Spoiler

This is explained in the show. There are basically two fundamental reasons. One is that they simply weren't going all out. They didn't know who their enemies were, why exactly they were fighting them, and what exactly was going on with Robin. They were fighting from a position of doubt and uncertainty, and thus not using their full potential. And two, they were seeing some pretty crazy new and seemingly unbeatable techniques for the first time and didn't have a chance to figure out how to counter them.

 

[Man God]

Ice Hunter is my go to extremely shitty filler. It is the king of bad filler.

 

[grandjedi6]

Ice Hunter is my go to extremely shitty filler. It is the king of bad filler.

Ice Hunter isn't that bad. It had a concise plot from beginning to end, character battles for everyone and nothing absurd or non-canon happened. Plus there were some pretty boss costume design in that arc. In terms of Toei effort in a filler arc, its pretty high up there.

Their movie tie-in filler arcs are way way way worse. No effort involved at all.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Which one is Ice Hunter again?

 

[Doctor Decimate]

Which one is Ice Hunter again?

it's beyond where we are now.

 

[MetatronM]

Ice Hunter is my go to extremely shitty filler. It is the king of bad filler.

It's not that bad in and of itself. It's just long and boring. There are other arcs that are more flagrantly offensive, even if they're all shorter.

 

[Schadenfreude]

it's beyond where we are now.

Oh okay.

 

[Thatonemoor]

Not going to lie sitting through this filler has been getting to me. Mainly because I know whats up ahead and ready to move past this. I believe we have watch more filler than actual canon by this point if I am right.

 

[MetatronM]

Not going to lie sitting through this filler has been getting to me. Mainly because I know whats up ahead and ready to move past this. I believe we have watch more filler than actual canon by this point if I am right.

I think we've had 8 canon episodes and 8 filler episodes. I'd have to double check, though.

Even still, many of those "canon" episodes had filler segments in them too due to how they changed Davy Back from the manga, so I guess it would be technically correct that we've seen more filler than canon thus far. And we still have 3 more filler episodes to go.

The good news is that it's another 60 episodes after that before we run into a filler episode again.

 

[foxuzamaki]

So caught up completely with majestic prince, and I kinda need the last episode, like now.

 

[ThatObviousUser]

shameful[/SPOILER]

On the other hand I missed SAO, so I feel it's a net win.

 

[foxuzamaki]

On the other hand I missed SAO, so I feel it's a net win.

All is right in the world.