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Toonami |Sep14| This is our Final Dandy, baby
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On the Left: Larry Page current CEO and co-founder of Google
On the Right: You should know who
Wowzers. So, who does that make Johnny and the Jaicro Empire?
The good thing is that it actually does get much better from here, so there's that to look forward to.
On the Left: Larry Page current CEO and co-founder of Google
On the Right: You should know who
Hmmm....
HOLY SHIT.
Schadenfreude
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So then what the hell is the Jaicro empire?
On the Left: Larry Page current CEO and co-founder of Google
On the Right: You should know who
I'm good as long as we can avoid Bio Broly, the second Bleach movie, any part 1 Naruto movie.
I would be over the moon if Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya was played, especially the week before Christmas when I was going to watch it anyways.
Has Toonami ever aired Bleach: Fade to Black? That'd be my first choice for a Bleach movie if one was to air. I liked it, to be honest. Hated DiamondDust Rebellion more than any Anime related thing in the world, though.
As for Disappearance, I doubt it would air (not enough action), but stranger things have happened. I certainly wouldn't complain.
On the Left: Larry Page current CEO and co-founder of Google
On the Right: You should know who
The name Perry makes a bit more sense now too.
In FINAL ACT,
everyone gets at least one powerup.
get two each and become broken as fuck
Sango might be right behind them in Naraku killing power.
Doctor Decimate
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I'm good as long as we can avoid Bio Broly, the second Bleach movie, any part 1 Naruto movie.
I would be over the moon if Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya was played, especially the week before Christmas when I was going to watch it anyways.
didn't Funimation license every Haruhi thing EXCEPT that movie for some weird reason?
BassForever
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While I'd be excited for Final Act to air on Toonami, I'd have to zerg rush the remaining 40 episodes, hopefully if that is their plan they'll announce it soon
You might be lucky if you get a 2 week notice.
Well, it wouldn't be Inuyasha if she didn't.
It still amuses me though
how outclassed Naraku is even with the Shikon Jewel, yet he survives a decent amount of time on nothing but pure cunning. The Inuyasha team did all of their sidequest prep and massively over leveled for the final boss.
I liked the second Naruto movie though. Does that make me a bad person?
I'm good as long as we can avoid Bio Broly, the second Bleach movie, any part 1 Naruto movie.
I would be over the moon if Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya was played, especially the week before Christmas when I was going to watch it anyways.
Naraku uses one of his signature techniques:
using Rin as a hostage
that and a new technique,
GENJUTSU, Also Kingdom Hearts speeches about light and darkness
He also finally gets something he never had before
A loyal incarnation!
The second Naruto movie is the best of the lot. It's still not great plus I'm sure they've aired it before.
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BassForever
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it's InuYasha, i think you've got a basic grasp of the plot
I still want the satisfaction of having see it in order all the canon material anyway. I'm worried that if I watch the rest of what hasn't aired I'll get impulsive and watch/finish Final Act and then it'll get announced a week later :X
I was all in all really impressed with FINAL ACT. The dub is great even with the changes, it's gorgeous as always with some slight coloring changes, and it moves at an incredible pace (to the point where the one main flaw of the series could be that it never slows down.) If a character discusses something they are going to do or wish would happen, they go and get it done. Honestly the closest comparison I can make is the DBZ Abridged series when it comes to pacing. It's a level beyond DBZ Kai in trimming the fat, an ascended version if you will.
Also I guess it's time to talk about Beware the Batman. Beware the Batman is an awful show that should have never been made, though it's not completely without merit at all. It does actually get better as it goes along, but it's far too little far too late. I actually find it entertainingly bad and was generally glad I stayed up this morning to watch it.
A short list of things I liked:
Alfred: Is really great. Good voice, one of the few cool looking characters in this style. His only real problem is that half of the plots of this show are about his unresolved shit from being at MI 6. Get it together.
Katana: Might be the only person on here who liked her one liners. She's a pretty fun assistant who also improves as the show goes along, plus she is a specialist in helicopter related fights.
Professor Pyg, Toad, Magpie. The first two villains and Jaken. Yes, they are obscure as fuck but you know what? There episodes were generally pretty good. Pyg came off creepy as fuck.
Anarky: Anarky is in some bad episodes and no one makes a fool of Batman over and over again quite like Anarky. Sure Rahs also beats the shit out of him but he is a bonefide Archvillian with an entire support structure around him, Anarky is just some dude, you know?
Things I didn't like:
Art: Is bad. Gets better, but it still makes season 1 of Clone Wars look like Toy Story 3 or Spirits Within or something ridiculously impressive. The city is barren especially in the early episodes, like the video games.
Sound: Not great either. None of the music really sticks out, some of the voice mixes are low, the sound effects are bog standard.
Two Face: What's the point of portraying Harv like a villain to begin with? He's supposed to be a nice guy with some slight anger issues and a righteous sense of justice before the accident, and here he just goes from cartoonish foil to a bad evil Darkman wannabe.
Almost every other villain: Besides Whale...and Deathstroke, and Croc. They suck.
The elephant in the Room, Batman. He's the worst detective. He loses to low level goons and non physical threats often in the early part of the series to the point where we all started to notice this. They do improve this in the last ten episodes or so but the damage is already done. Batman also never has the menace that he has even in the other bad Batman show, The Batman where he at least scared the shit out of all low level thugs in the city. No one is scared of the Bat here because they have no reason to be.
Overall this is just above the utter worst shows that have been on TOONAMI since the reboot. It's better than Tenchi Muyo GXP because its not as boring and won't make you feel unclean and its better than Thundercats which is the most disappointing waste of promise in western animation in quite some time, but then again this was a show that never should have been made in the first place.
Also I guess it's time to talk about Beware the Batman. Beware the Batman is an awful show that should have never been made, though it's not completely without merit at all. It does actually get better as it goes along, but it's far too little far too late. I actually find it entertainingly bad and was generally glad I stayed up this morning to watch it.
A short list of things I liked:
Alfred: Is really great. Good voice, one of the few cool looking characters in this style. His only real problem is that half of the plots of this show are about his unresolved shit from being at MI 6. Get it together.
Katana: Might be the only person on here who liked her one liners. She's a pretty fun assistant who also improves as the show goes along, plus she is a specialist in helicopter related fights.
Professor Pyg, Toad, Magpie. The first two villains and Jaken. Yes, they are obscure as fuck but you know what? There episodes were generally pretty good. Pyg came off creepy as fuck.
Anarky: Anarky is in some bad episodes and no one makes a fool of Batman over and over again quite like Anarky. Sure Rahs also beats the shit out of him but he is a bonefide Archvillian with an entire support structure around him, Anarky is just some dude, you know?
Things I didn't like:
Art: Is bad. Gets better, but it still makes season 1 of Clone Wars look like Toy Story 3 or Spirits Within or something ridiculously impressive. The city is barren especially in the early episodes, like the video games.
Sound: Not great either. None of the music really sticks out, some of the voice mixes are low, the sound effects are bog standard.
Two Face: What's the point of portraying Harv like a villain to begin with? He's supposed to be a nice guy with some slight anger issues and a righteous sense of justice before the accident, and here he just goes from cartoonish foil to a bad evil Darkman wannabe.
Almost every other villain: Besides Whale...and Deathstroke, and Croc. They suck.
The elephant in the Room, Batman. He's the worst detective. He loses to low level goons and non physical threats often in the early part of the series to the point where we all started to notice this. They do improve this in the last ten episodes or so but the damage is already done. Batman also never has the menace that he has even in the other bad Batman show, The Batman where he at least scared the shit out of all low level thugs in the city. No one is scared of the Bat here because they have no reason to be.
Overall this is just above the utter worst shows that have been on TOONAMI since the reboot. It's better than Tenchi Muyo GXP because its not as boring and won't make you feel unclean and its better than Thundercats which is the most disappointing waste of promise in western animation in quite some time, but then again this was a show that never should have been made in the first place.
BassForever
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What you ask for is impossible as Ino and Sakura are never decent characters
Doctor Decimate
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i'm actually kind of wondering how many movies Toonami even has to choose from at this point
BassForever
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that most likely is it
Doctor Decimate
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i was kinda eh on the CGI for early Clone Wars at first, but when you actually compare it to pretty much every other CGI show it looks pretty decent. which is kind of sad.
i don't agree that it's better than Thundercats; Thundercats certainly makes me angrier, but there are legitimately good episodes in there every once in a while and pre-betrayalathon it's alright.
This is pretty much the most glaring problem. I can't remember a single time anyone in Gotham was afraid of Batman in the entire show's run. The low level thugs boasted to his face about being able to beat him... and sometimes they did!
BassForever
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Beware The Bat was so boring I'm not even going to bother to finish the episodes I fell asleep during. Maybe just watch the one with Slade Deathstroke
Doctor Decimate
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just watch Arrow
I dislike being disappointed more than just about anything else when it comes to entertainment so I judge it most harshly. I knew BtB was crap so when it was crap in an entertaining way I was fine with it.
Thundercats though. It could have been the next Avatar. All the promise in the world from that excellent pilot movie completely wasted only an episode or two later. Great production values, voice acting, decent source material to draw on and expand while making it its own thing. Also when Thundercats gets bad it becomes unwatchable. Beware the Batman neve gave me serious thoughts of abandoning it but the worst of Thundercats had me turning it off.
Clone Wars animation got progressively better. The movie and season 1 are dire but still miles beyond Beware the Batman or the real winner in awful animation, Green Lantern. By where the show ended it got pretty good and hell, just look at the preview clip Netflix released when they got the rights to season six months ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpd501LM6T8
Just look at that! Downright impressive!
Thundercats though. It could have been the next Avatar. All the promise in the world from that excellent pilot movie completely wasted only an episode or two later. Great production values, voice acting, decent source material to draw on and expand while making it its own thing. Also when Thundercats gets bad it becomes unwatchable. Beware the Batman neve gave me serious thoughts of abandoning it but the worst of Thundercats had me turning it off.
Clone Wars animation got progressively better. The movie and season 1 are dire but still miles beyond Beware the Batman or the real winner in awful animation, Green Lantern. By where the show ended it got pretty good and hell, just look at the preview clip Netflix released when they got the rights to season six months ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpd501LM6T8
Just look at that! Downright impressive!
Lazybones has specific tastes when it comes to lewdness. Bleach and Naruto do nothing for him and I don't remember where he stands on Fairy Tail, coming to TOONAMI in the next three months.
He does love himself some SAO though.
Doctor Decimate
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speaking of which, i might review the rest of Clone Wars since i think i'm the only one who gives a shit
BassForever
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Either ironically for how terrible it is or seriously where they have bad taste
I like SAOs environment
I like Kirito in fights and Asuna Season 1
The overall plot is shit, people have no characterization. But with those flaws in mind, its not good.
I would say anything non-canon, but it seems like they are terrible in all situations across all universes.
This fact doesn't really bother me, as they are both insufferable.
You forgot about the people who think it has just the right level of lewdness to suit your tastes and not feel ashamed about watching it.
Doctor Decimate
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the thing about SAO's art is that i never felt like it had a real sense of place. i never got a picture of where i was supposed to be or what kind of world it was, it just felt like some environments strung together
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