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Metatronda wrote:
EUREKA SEVEN AO is...actually pretty decent so far.
And the episodes are still named for good song titles! Huzzah!
I hope it stays decent. Or gets better! It might even be good! 
I can hope!!
(though for the sheer lack of Anemone, it probably won't touch on how good the first series was)
It's my favorite of the four Burgess Meredith episodes, Cid.
I got a late start on the Action last Saturday, because The Ten Commandments was just that good, even if my local station messed up the sound after they initially cut in local news instead of the part where the Israelites start out into the desert on the way out of the Egyptian cities. At least it was fixed after the next commercial break. Given that I had an early day on Sunday, I had to record the four usual shows and didn't get all of them watched until today.
I still haven't watched my recordings of Blue Sub #6, Trigun, Astro Boy and Gigantor. I should do that this upcoming week.
Bleach - I think that what we have is a failure of imagination in the Soul Reapers being unable to escape the flames. Surely there is some kind of spell which the three Captains could cast on Ichigo to shield him as the escapes through the fire. Barring that, even if the hole through which Yoruichi escaped had been closed off (which is highly doubtful given the size of the expanded hole, the vastness of the cavern underneath and the angle at which Tobiume's attack would have hit it), they have more than enough power to make a new hole into the cavern. They have spirit body equivalents of brains. They should use them.
Despite what Haineko and Tobiume said, Yoruichi's outfit made her look rather striking, just like last time. At least Tobiume showed some sense in that she recognized it was time to stop the petty insults.
It might just be me, but I get the impression that even Muramasa is ready to call malarkey on Byakuya's supposed reason for helping the Swords.
Oh, hey. Kenpachi realized he's faced Tenken previously. That's good.
Wait, weren't Shunsui and Ukitake among the first graduating class from the Soul Reaper Academy? I'm almost certain that was in canon. If so, shouldn't they have at least heard about Koga, Muramasa and their rebellion? Even if it happened long before the Academy was founded, I would think that such an important event should be part of the history the Soul Reapers are taught. If this is news to Shunsui and Ukitake, then the curriculum at the Academy is lacking.
Wow, it was astoundingly foolish for Orihime to try to heal Muramasa. She was nearly certain that this complete stranger with energy very much like that of an Arrancar, who attacked her for simply asking what he was doing there, was an enemy of her close and dear friend Ichigo, and yet she still did something which would make Muramasa more able to harm Ichigo when he doubtlessly would show up to stop Muramasa. I try not to jump on the Orihime-bashing bandwagon, but that was plain dumb. Oh, she has a kind heart. SO WHAT! The combat mentality is so puzzling to her that she can only conceive of having the options of helping this stranger who is almost certainly an enemy or leaving him alone. Guess what? There's a third option: destroying him while he's defenseless. Compared to that, leaving him alone is kind, and it's not quite so head-bashingly stupid as helping a deadly, deadly enemy.
Ishida, on the other hand, had the right and proper response to Muramasa: eliminate the deadly danger when an easy opportunity to do so has presented itself.
But hey, at least Orihime isn't alone in making a dumb move. When Hitsugaya came to Ichigo's rescue, the two of them could have essentially flown out of there, but they both (or all of them, if you count Hyorinmaru) dropped back down into the flames which Ichigo sought to escape. That's not exactly the brightest idea.
Furthermore, didn't the Mythbusters prove last week that in contests of fire vs. ice, fire will pretty much win hands down? Oh, but maybe the flames here aren't hot enough. The Mythbusters used a highly combustible fluid to fuel their flames. It's not like the flames here are hot enough to burn dirt and rocks or anythi... oh, wait. Yeah.
Why did Yamamoto wait until Ichigo had left to try to subdue Ryuujin Jakka? Wouldn't accomplishing that have made the coordination of efforts for escape attempts unnecessary? The crap, Yamamoto?
Brotherhood - I think the color of the blood was off. Given that such a large volume would have been outside the bodies from which it came for a very long time, the cells would have long since died, and dead blood is essentially black. Anyone who has ever had a blood blister which they didn't rupture (such as myself) can attest to that. However, I do recognize that such a color scheme would make Ed much harder to distinguish against the background, so I can respect that aesthetic concern.
Aw, poor sad May and her tear geysers.
Envy's glee in instigating the Ishval war is disgusting. I think it's more so than his Abomination form.
I don't entirely agree with Ed's assignment of blame. While Envy shoulders much of it, Father owns a healthy share as well, in that he sent Envy to start the war.
From a purely environmental standpoint, I'm not sure who got the rougher transfer assignment between Fuery and Falman. Sure, bitter cold combined with wind at Fort Briggs can cause tissue damage in a very short time, but the blistering heat of the Southern Command can be just as deadly and even more oppressive.
DRRR - I watched episodes 12 and 12.5 as well. First, I dug Shizuo smacking some sense into a very irrational Seiji. Second, I enjoyed Celty and Shinra's reconciliation. Third, heh, Shizuo throwing that whole fluorescent-painted gang out the window,
. Fourth, I can't imagine a single situation in which Izaya would willingly involve himself that a Valkyrie or Dullahan would deem his role as being worthy of entering a warrior's paradise.
As for the last episode, maybe if Celty had busted Horada's head with the staff of her scythe, he would have suffered sufficient brain damage that he wouldn't have been able to execute his plan.
I want to know what law Celty broke under the witness of those motorcycle cops to warrant them chasing her.
Shins, Anri. The shins of those painted whores were right there for the kicking.
Kekkaishi - I had forgotten about Tokine mistaking Yoshimori's description of crows for one of cockroaches. It was slightly amusing.
Yoshimori could probably have been as good a Caster at the start of the series as he is now if he would have been willing to put up with Shigemori's boasting and ask him for help in practicing techniques.
Honorable Mention from elsewhere:
JQuest15: Tom indeed lived a very JET Life and kept Beaming just like a LASER. That night really proved to me that "A Boy Has The Right To Dream".....As Gene's Ship was counting down i could relate that to some of my experiences, nervous as hell wondering if i had what it takes, but then......"Believe In Yourself And Create Your Own Destiny, Don't Fear Failure" Yeah cheesy and lame but Toonami did have some meaning for me.
36 contenders this week.
For 1 April - 7 April, 2012, the Trunks Thread Top Ten Quotes of the week:
10. lithium_green: So I finished my game last night in time to watch DBZ and decided to stay up watching as much of the Toonami block as I could. Man, that was quite an experience. It's been ages since I've seen most of those old school anime (and I was thoroughly surprised they decided to show the final Tenchi Muyo OVA, which was made many years AFTER the first one aired on Toonami). I'm now convinced that a weekly late-night Toonami block would actually be something worth watching; a night dedicated to either all the old anime CN used to show or a block of entirely new stuff would be something CN/[as] should consider trying out. And hearing Steve Blum as Tom do his take on ME3 (and admit the ending sucked) was one of the best moments of the evening.
9. Winter_Rain: I heard about it from my lil sis, she sent me this random text on Saturday night all like "WTF Toonami is on"... she's a young'un so I think it's good that she got to see older shows that she probably never would have otherwise. You know, expanding her horizons and whatnot. Plus no nostalgia goggles. Some of her impressions were:
-She could tell all the shows were old and animation's come a long way
-She called DBZ "cliche for a shounen". That gave me some lulz.
-Apparently Big O didn't have closed captioning so that really irritated her because that meant all she had to go off of was the visuals
8. Metatronda: Yo, the video section just got crazy huge, what the hell.
7. Jingai: Gundam Wing - The original, and certainly one of the best... It is intersting to see the origin of so many of the storylines that the other series all use.
6. cidthekittyisfun: i think [as] created a time machine cuz we jus went back into time ah yeaaaaah *puts on the marty mcfly outfit* i like blum on my tv....even if they get rid of everything else..they shud keep blum announcing stuff on my tv.
5. Metatronda: Also, it seems like they're not going to fix the Saturday night schedule to make up for the lost reruns from the Toonami night, so I'm going to have to redo this week's Saturday schedule.
4. Poke_Nirvash: "Only Toonami on [adult swim]." Best April Fool's Day prank ever... My unrealistic pipe dream of Toonami Swim has finally come true!
3. mgangel1124: It really was amazing; I just had this huge, derpy grin on my face the entire night.
2. Top_Gun: What [as] pulled last night was easily the greatest thing they've ever done. I only watched Toonami's weekday incarnation very sparingly, but I was still hit with a massive flood of nostalgia as soon as TOM started introducing those shows. It's amazing to think about how much effort this must have taken to set up...not only did they have to approach FUNi, Bandai, and RightStuf to get one-off rights for these episodes, but then they had to make sure they could get Steve Blum on board. This wasn't exactly something they threw together overnight, and it really showed... Either way, that was amazing, and even more amazing was how the whole Internet seemed to explode as it was going on. The Toonami brand still has a huge amount of draw, and if it managed a sizable ratings bump, who knows...maybe this won't be the last time that we see TOM on the block.
And now, the Number One Quote of the Week is...
1. Metatronda: UPDATED SCHEDULE SATURDAY March 31, 2012:
12:00 - Bleach - 247 - Deceived Soul Reapers! The World Collapse Crisis
12:30 - Dragonball Z - 191 - Save the World
1:00 - Mobile Suit Gundam Wing - 10 - Heero, Distracted by Defeat
1:30 - Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki - 19 - Z - END
2:15 - Outlaw Star - 25 - Maze of Despair
2:45 - Big O - 1 - Roger the Negotiator
3:15 - Yu Yu Hakusho - 110 - A Reason to Fight
3:45 - Blue Submarine No. 6 - 1 - Blues
4:20 - Trigun - 23 - Paradise
4:55 - Astro Boy - 1 - The Birth of Astro Boy
5:25 - Gigantor - 3 - Sting of the Spider
I got a late start on the Action last Saturday, because The Ten Commandments was just that good, even if my local station messed up the sound after they initially cut in local news instead of the part where the Israelites start out into the desert on the way out of the Egyptian cities. At least it was fixed after the next commercial break. Given that I had an early day on Sunday, I had to record the four usual shows and didn't get all of them watched until today.
I still haven't watched my recordings of Blue Sub #6, Trigun, Astro Boy and Gigantor. I should do that this upcoming week.
Bleach - I think that what we have is a failure of imagination in the Soul Reapers being unable to escape the flames. Surely there is some kind of spell which the three Captains could cast on Ichigo to shield him as the escapes through the fire. Barring that, even if the hole through which Yoruichi escaped had been closed off (which is highly doubtful given the size of the expanded hole, the vastness of the cavern underneath and the angle at which Tobiume's attack would have hit it), they have more than enough power to make a new hole into the cavern. They have spirit body equivalents of brains. They should use them.
Despite what Haineko and Tobiume said, Yoruichi's outfit made her look rather striking, just like last time. At least Tobiume showed some sense in that she recognized it was time to stop the petty insults.
It might just be me, but I get the impression that even Muramasa is ready to call malarkey on Byakuya's supposed reason for helping the Swords.
Oh, hey. Kenpachi realized he's faced Tenken previously. That's good.
Wait, weren't Shunsui and Ukitake among the first graduating class from the Soul Reaper Academy? I'm almost certain that was in canon. If so, shouldn't they have at least heard about Koga, Muramasa and their rebellion? Even if it happened long before the Academy was founded, I would think that such an important event should be part of the history the Soul Reapers are taught. If this is news to Shunsui and Ukitake, then the curriculum at the Academy is lacking.
Wow, it was astoundingly foolish for Orihime to try to heal Muramasa. She was nearly certain that this complete stranger with energy very much like that of an Arrancar, who attacked her for simply asking what he was doing there, was an enemy of her close and dear friend Ichigo, and yet she still did something which would make Muramasa more able to harm Ichigo when he doubtlessly would show up to stop Muramasa. I try not to jump on the Orihime-bashing bandwagon, but that was plain dumb. Oh, she has a kind heart. SO WHAT! The combat mentality is so puzzling to her that she can only conceive of having the options of helping this stranger who is almost certainly an enemy or leaving him alone. Guess what? There's a third option: destroying him while he's defenseless. Compared to that, leaving him alone is kind, and it's not quite so head-bashingly stupid as helping a deadly, deadly enemy.
Ishida, on the other hand, had the right and proper response to Muramasa: eliminate the deadly danger when an easy opportunity to do so has presented itself.
But hey, at least Orihime isn't alone in making a dumb move. When Hitsugaya came to Ichigo's rescue, the two of them could have essentially flown out of there, but they both (or all of them, if you count Hyorinmaru) dropped back down into the flames which Ichigo sought to escape. That's not exactly the brightest idea.
Furthermore, didn't the Mythbusters prove last week that in contests of fire vs. ice, fire will pretty much win hands down? Oh, but maybe the flames here aren't hot enough. The Mythbusters used a highly combustible fluid to fuel their flames. It's not like the flames here are hot enough to burn dirt and rocks or anythi... oh, wait. Yeah.
Why did Yamamoto wait until Ichigo had left to try to subdue Ryuujin Jakka? Wouldn't accomplishing that have made the coordination of efforts for escape attempts unnecessary? The crap, Yamamoto?
Brotherhood - I think the color of the blood was off. Given that such a large volume would have been outside the bodies from which it came for a very long time, the cells would have long since died, and dead blood is essentially black. Anyone who has ever had a blood blister which they didn't rupture (such as myself) can attest to that. However, I do recognize that such a color scheme would make Ed much harder to distinguish against the background, so I can respect that aesthetic concern.
Aw, poor sad May and her tear geysers.
Envy's glee in instigating the Ishval war is disgusting. I think it's more so than his Abomination form.
I don't entirely agree with Ed's assignment of blame. While Envy shoulders much of it, Father owns a healthy share as well, in that he sent Envy to start the war.
From a purely environmental standpoint, I'm not sure who got the rougher transfer assignment between Fuery and Falman. Sure, bitter cold combined with wind at Fort Briggs can cause tissue damage in a very short time, but the blistering heat of the Southern Command can be just as deadly and even more oppressive.
DRRR - I watched episodes 12 and 12.5 as well. First, I dug Shizuo smacking some sense into a very irrational Seiji. Second, I enjoyed Celty and Shinra's reconciliation. Third, heh, Shizuo throwing that whole fluorescent-painted gang out the window,
. Fourth, I can't imagine a single situation in which Izaya would willingly involve himself that a Valkyrie or Dullahan would deem his role as being worthy of entering a warrior's paradise.As for the last episode, maybe if Celty had busted Horada's head with the staff of her scythe, he would have suffered sufficient brain damage that he wouldn't have been able to execute his plan.
I want to know what law Celty broke under the witness of those motorcycle cops to warrant them chasing her.
Shins, Anri. The shins of those painted whores were right there for the kicking.
Kekkaishi - I had forgotten about Tokine mistaking Yoshimori's description of crows for one of cockroaches. It was slightly amusing.
Yoshimori could probably have been as good a Caster at the start of the series as he is now if he would have been willing to put up with Shigemori's boasting and ask him for help in practicing techniques.
Honorable Mention from elsewhere:
JQuest15: Tom indeed lived a very JET Life and kept Beaming just like a LASER. That night really proved to me that "A Boy Has The Right To Dream".....As Gene's Ship was counting down i could relate that to some of my experiences, nervous as hell wondering if i had what it takes, but then......"Believe In Yourself And Create Your Own Destiny, Don't Fear Failure" Yeah cheesy and lame but Toonami did have some meaning for me.
36 contenders this week.
For 1 April - 7 April, 2012, the Trunks Thread Top Ten Quotes of the week:
10. lithium_green: So I finished my game last night in time to watch DBZ and decided to stay up watching as much of the Toonami block as I could. Man, that was quite an experience. It's been ages since I've seen most of those old school anime (and I was thoroughly surprised they decided to show the final Tenchi Muyo OVA, which was made many years AFTER the first one aired on Toonami). I'm now convinced that a weekly late-night Toonami block would actually be something worth watching; a night dedicated to either all the old anime CN used to show or a block of entirely new stuff would be something CN/[as] should consider trying out. And hearing Steve Blum as Tom do his take on ME3 (and admit the ending sucked) was one of the best moments of the evening.
9. Winter_Rain: I heard about it from my lil sis, she sent me this random text on Saturday night all like "WTF Toonami is on"... she's a young'un so I think it's good that she got to see older shows that she probably never would have otherwise. You know, expanding her horizons and whatnot. Plus no nostalgia goggles. Some of her impressions were:
-She could tell all the shows were old and animation's come a long way
-She called DBZ "cliche for a shounen". That gave me some lulz.
-Apparently Big O didn't have closed captioning so that really irritated her because that meant all she had to go off of was the visuals
8. Metatronda: Yo, the video section just got crazy huge, what the hell.
7. Jingai: Gundam Wing - The original, and certainly one of the best... It is intersting to see the origin of so many of the storylines that the other series all use.
6. cidthekittyisfun: i think [as] created a time machine cuz we jus went back into time ah yeaaaaah *puts on the marty mcfly outfit* i like blum on my tv....even if they get rid of everything else..they shud keep blum announcing stuff on my tv.
5. Metatronda: Also, it seems like they're not going to fix the Saturday night schedule to make up for the lost reruns from the Toonami night, so I'm going to have to redo this week's Saturday schedule.
4. Poke_Nirvash: "Only Toonami on [adult swim]." Best April Fool's Day prank ever... My unrealistic pipe dream of Toonami Swim has finally come true!
3. mgangel1124: It really was amazing; I just had this huge, derpy grin on my face the entire night.
2. Top_Gun: What [as] pulled last night was easily the greatest thing they've ever done. I only watched Toonami's weekday incarnation very sparingly, but I was still hit with a massive flood of nostalgia as soon as TOM started introducing those shows. It's amazing to think about how much effort this must have taken to set up...not only did they have to approach FUNi, Bandai, and RightStuf to get one-off rights for these episodes, but then they had to make sure they could get Steve Blum on board. This wasn't exactly something they threw together overnight, and it really showed... Either way, that was amazing, and even more amazing was how the whole Internet seemed to explode as it was going on. The Toonami brand still has a huge amount of draw, and if it managed a sizable ratings bump, who knows...maybe this won't be the last time that we see TOM on the block.
And now, the Number One Quote of the Week is...
1. Metatronda: UPDATED SCHEDULE SATURDAY March 31, 2012:
12:00 - Bleach - 247 - Deceived Soul Reapers! The World Collapse Crisis
12:30 - Dragonball Z - 191 - Save the World
1:00 - Mobile Suit Gundam Wing - 10 - Heero, Distracted by Defeat
1:30 - Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki - 19 - Z - END
2:15 - Outlaw Star - 25 - Maze of Despair
2:45 - Big O - 1 - Roger the Negotiator
3:15 - Yu Yu Hakusho - 110 - A Reason to Fight
3:45 - Blue Submarine No. 6 - 1 - Blues
4:20 - Trigun - 23 - Paradise
4:55 - Astro Boy - 1 - The Birth of Astro Boy
5:25 - Gigantor - 3 - Sting of the Spider
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