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It’s your mom’s favorite WEEKLY anime podcast…for now.
What Did We Talk About?
- Digitizing anime magazines is hard
- Toonami is back…kind of
- Yu-Gi-Oh is crazy
- Canaan is kind of awesome
- Balder Force EXE is fucking crazy
- Anime Pulse thing I mentioned
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My voicemail came out worse than I expected considering I used a condenser mic; I said “awesome” not “awful”.
School Days has over 30 different endings. Although there are some violent bad ends, there are also many happy ends. For whatever reason, they picked the most violent bad end possible for the anime.
With the whole toonami thing, listen to this podcast http://chaostheater.blogspot.com/2012/05/sp-002-save-or-troll.html (@ the 2 minute mark is when they talk about) and they give the most logic opinion about it and why it fail. I also have two other points about it:
-Fans of this keep pointing out this outlandish statement about it will bring new anime fans. I dont think they understand what is going on. All that is happening is that the adult swim is getting renamed to Toonami and will feature some of the old shows from back in the day. If kid has not watched this block of anime during the adult swim run, why would they start watching it now if it is basically most of the same shows that are being currently shown. Even if they start showing some old shows, newer anime fans already dont appreciate anything that doesnt look like it came out before 2005, why would they watch a show even if its good if they hate the art style from the 90′s?
-Fans also keep naming shows that want to see like Madoka or Ao no Exoricist or Tiger and Bunny. There are 2 problems with this. The first is that a lot of shows fans are naming are shows that came out within the last 2 to 3 years. There is a good portion of them that are not dubbed and only subtitled. The 2nd problem is that Cartoon Network has to pay to get the rights for these shows. In the past few years, they have only average like 3 to 4 new anime a year so if this is the case, why would the go out the way to buy up all of these fans want to see? Even if they want to buy some of these shows, buying rights to anime series cost quite a bit depending on the product and its not like how it was in the last decade.
I feel that Cartoon network only brought this back because it was like a hail mary pass. Besides the DC nation block, Thundercats and Ben 10 that is shown on Saturday mornings, the network itself is fucking garbage. Having Toonami back only seems for them to try anything to make the channel relevant again.
If you are really only to playing an H-game, play a game called “Monster Quest”. Its a jrpg H-game that you can try out. Its ok but dont expect much from it but its worth a shot since you are into jrpgs. You can find an english translated version of the game (for cough* cough* free cough* cough*) somewhere in the fakku forums.