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This is going to be interesting because Ranma 1/2 was one of the best animated shows of its time. It had incredibly high production values that hold up even now and you have to wonder what the new production team will do to try and outdo that. The big thing is that the almost all of Ranma's...

FMA was a shonen but almost marketed as a seinen in America. The 2003 series was in general a lot darker in tone than the manga and Brotherhood and really tapped into something raw in the American anime scene of the time. It was also 51 episodes, so it was nearly the perfect length for an Adult...

Realistically, most long-running shonen anime from the 1990's and early 2000's were bound to have trouble airing on American TV. First, you have the issue that they were long. Most American cartoons from that era were lucky to make it to 65 episodes. The shows that have been mentioned on this...

My final review is a bit late, but wanted to get it in while the show is still marathoning. In the end, Ninja Kamui ended about how I expected it to. No real surprises with that finale and the ending felt a little too mellow for all of the intense violence and tragedy that proceeded it, but it...

I think Ninja Kamui more than deserves the title of "Good Toonami Original" but with some qualifiers. First off, it should not have taken nearly three years to produce one good anime original. Too much time and money was wasted on other turkeys to get to this point. Secondly, Ninja Kamui is a...

Interesting that Zai appears to be a test subject for Yamaji's project to recruit outsiders into the ninja organization. That flashback seems to imply he was a foreign orphan brought in to prove that non-Japanese people could be trained as ninja and operate at the highest level. Obviously the...

A solid show that took the 2000's concept of "Girls with Guns" and updated it for the 2020's with heart and style. The visuals and music were top tier too. Some of the story beats were recycled from other shows but I felt Lycoris Recoil managed to put its own unique spin on them. It felt that...

To further expand on my earlier post, I want to give credit to how the villains have been developed in this show. One of the major issues with all of the previous AS original anime like Fena, Blade Runner, and Housing Complex C is that the villains were poorly defined and did not come off as...

I have to give this show credit, it is doing a really solid job of developing its characters while keeping its unique Tarantino-esque tone as established in episodes 1-3. Still the best Adult Swim original anime by a very wide margin.

Wow... this was a well-concealed and shocking plot twist that actually makes sense within the internal logic of the show's universe. I was honestly caught off guard. Ninja Kamui is turning out to be a compelling show well beyond the promise of elaborate action scenes.

Oh, is Emma working for Auza? Seems like she called the mercs on Mike and Cardenas. And I was really starting to like her.

Episode 2 was solid but there are still some complaints. The plot is very thin, littered with weird inconsistencies like Moriss being told his partner has been intimidated into silence, only to have her joke in front of all their coworkers that she lied to her bosses about giving up on the case...

It's a cycle. There were plenty of edgy, gory, and well-animated OVAs/movies from the late 1980's and most of the 1990's that followed the same format as Ninja Kamui (Looking at you Ninja Scroll and Blood: The Last Vampire). To me it feels like a throwback with a fresh coat of paint slapped on...

I decided to look into this manga that Isayama cited as his inspiration for Eren's character, and it seems to be a very well-regarded short run series that was turned into a live action film years after the original manga was was finished. What I got out of it was that Morita, the sociopath who...

It is hard to figure out what went wrong with Attack on Titan. Part of me feels that Isayama became very stressed and jaded during the writing of the series and had some sort of burnout. The story was always grim and violent from the start but there was an underlying current of optimism that...

Yes, but he wanted to kill people. Eren is not a good man. He set up his mother to be devoured by a Titan (his father's first wife) to create a stable time loop so that the Rumbling would be the only possible outcome of the whole causality chain. And apparently start the whole Titan cycle all...

Take note that all of this dialogue from Eren boils downs to "I wanted to commit genocide simply because it was possible and possessed of a vague but powerful urge to see it happen. Oh, and I wanted Mikasa all along but my desire to commit genocide got in the way... I hope she continues to love...

This is a unprecedented situation since we have the original anime still airing at the time of a remake being announced. On the other hand a properly paced One Piece adaptation would span at least 450+ episodes as of this week. That's longer than old school Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z combined...

This is one of the craziest fillers in the whole series. Massive repercussions, and I'm actually being somewhat serious here.

I remember Michael Sinterniklaas mentioning that 4Kids treated him very well when I saw him at a convention panel back in 2004. And I met a couple of other VAs who worked for the company around 2016, and they had good memories of the company as well. My general impression was that while they...

I'm not going to completely trash Manning here. Here taste was/is very uneven but we got a legitimate classic like Paranoia Agent on the block due to her input, and that is worthy of respect. Pop Team Epic was also a good call. Durarara!! had a lot of good will among more hardcore anime fans...

I have been very pleased with Shoegaze so far and looking forward to how it ends next week. This is the direction a FLCL sequel should have been taking from the very start. Exploring the lack of life direction Kana has experienced since meeting Haruko ten years earlier fits into the theme of the...

There was always something going on there. Why did Adult Swim Action/Toonami never acquire any of the Fate franchise? Also licensed by Aniplex*, one of the hottest anime franchises of the past twenty years, very much in line with what the block aired otherwise. At a certain point the personal...

It was a solid C. Not unspeakably horrible, but not long enough to develop these characters and it looked back to the original in order to fine references to pad out the thin story. Haruko was reduced to a mere plot device who echos her more memorable appearence in the original. Amarao was...

I think there is also a question of what Adult Swim wants to air. Over the past twenty-five years we have seen many titles come to the block, and when you break it down there was a fairly diverse lineup that included some veritable classics. But we also have to remember that some of those shows...

Episode 2 was much stronger than last week. Shonari was a more engaging character to follow and his conflict over staying with his brother and supporting him or leaving the planet for better opportunities was solid storytelling. What baffles me is that each episode is supposed to follow one of...

I never saw more than a few clips of Legends of the True Savior, so I cannot give a detailed opinion of it. The summary online suggests you would have to be a preexisting fan to understand the story beats, with each 60-90 minute episode focusing on a different character. A lot of time was...

At this point, I think it is original material or bust. Third-party acquisitions are going to be legacy franchises like One Piece (which is now even more valuable due to the success of the Live Action show) or the very rare AAA title that Adult Swim can wrestle away from its competitors if the...

Sadly, the 13-episode series (with potential for additional seasons) all flopped. It is not shocking that money is going to tighten up in that situation, but given the overall climate at Warner Bros. Discovery it is a miracle the ongoing projects were not cancelled and we have new ones in...

This could either be amazing or a massive disappointment like the later seasons of Fist of the Blue Sky. I'm going to be cautiously optimistic on this since reboots of classic anime franchises in the past 10 years have turned out well more often than not. Regardless of the execution, it could...

You know, Eren is terrible. But the complete self-involvement of the rest of the cast is impressive in a sort of morbid way. Levi comes closest to being a straight hero, if a very grumpy one. Onyankopan also comes off a decent guy but he is very much a side character. Edit: Hange was okay to in...

Yup, this is where Eren went off the deep end and we have not even gotten to the worst part yet. Powerful imagery though. The guilty and the innocent, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the young and the old. All leveled before Eren's unshakable conviction to punish the world.

This is not good... like a sloppy reboot of the original with CGI straight out of year 2000. None of these characters are interesting and the callbacks are a painful attempt to make this seem it acutally cares about the message of the original FLCL. It could turn it around next episode but this...

Well to put it in perspective, Live Action One Piece had 140.1 million hours viewed the first four days of streaming on Netflix. Live Action Cowboy Bebop had 21.6 million viewed hours in its first four days. Also keep in mind that Bebop had 10 episodes versus 8 for One Piece, so it had around...

Finished the season last night and was thoroughly impressed. 8.5/10 overall but 11/10 as an adaptation of the original material into live action. This feels like it will be to these kinds of shows what Iron Man was to modern superhero movies. One thing that struck me was how the cast was...

This was better than some of the other Toonami originals, but really too short to be effective. We barely got to know any of these characters before the finale, and the plot twist about Kimi was not too shocking considering how it was heavily foreshadowed from the first episode. When you have to...

From what is being revealed, this is sort The Shadow over Innsmouth: The Anime? And it is really set in the present? Kind of a trip, but I wish it the plot twist could have been revealed without so much exposition.

The good news is that Miura told his close friend Kouji Mori what the ending of the story would be along with all of the major story beats. Mori is an experienced mangaka in his own right and will be working alongside Miura's longtime team of art assistants, the people who know how to emulate...

It's funny you brought this up because Ozen and Izumi have the same English voice actress.

Having the show back on American TV gives Funi an incentive to keep the English Dub going even if it is years behind the Japanese broadcast. There was a practical business reason to get One Piece back on TV even at a reduced airing cost.