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The Week of Sportsball on TV: 11/28-12/4

So this is just something I felt like doing, as I’m a bit of a TV junkie at times - what did everyone watch on TV this past week for sports?

Football:

23 million people saw the Cincinnati Bengals win their third straight against the Kansas City Chiefs on CBS.

18 million people saw the fourth quarter death and destruction of the Indianapolis Colts at the hands of the Dallas Cowboys on NBC, with *33* unanswered points in the final minutes of that game.

And of the 19 million people watching the games on Fox, some of them saw the New York Giants and Washington Commanders end their game in an overtime tie. Boo.

(the other) Football:

A combined 14.5 million people on Fox and Telemundo watched the USA barely beat Iran in the World Cup group stage to make it to the round of 16.

And a combined 15 million people, also on Fox and Telemundo, got up at 10am Eastern to watch the USA completely suck on the pitch against the Netherlands.

College Football:

A combined 21 million people watched Georgia win the SEC Championship and Michigan win the Big Ten Championship on CBS and Fox, respectively, locking the #1 and #2 ranks for the playoff.

On the flip side, 9.4 million people watched TCU lose the Big 12 Championship to Kansas State in overtime on ABC, yet they retained the #3 ranking anyway.

And thankfully, only 6 million people watched USC choke everything away and lose the Pac-12 Championship to Utah on Fox. It was embarrassing.

Source is ShowBuzzDaily:

SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 11.28-12.4.2022 | Showbuzz Daily

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NFL Divisions Roundup (as of week 12)

Six weeks remaining in the football season, it's time to assess the teams and judge their chances to make it all the way (this time) - bring out the contenders. NFC EAST - Contenders and Pretenders EAGLES (10-1) - This team has "team of destiny" written all over them. The offense is clicking on all cylinders, the defense is stout from top to bottom, but there are holes in the wall if you look close enough. This team isn't indestructible, but it's a steep uphill battle when going up against this formidable squad.

COWBOYS (8-3) - When "DEM BOYS" are good, America is sad. When they're bad, we all laugh in unity. Alas, they are good and we must all suffer because of it. There is no QB controversy to be had, though, with Dak back under center and being lifted to prominence with strong weapons all throughout. May God help us all if they get OBJ in the end.

GIANTS (7-4) - Is this team good? Or are they just lucky? It's hard to tell, but when the pieces are in place the Giants CAN be good. It's all just a matter of being in the right place at the right time, so all they have to do is not collapse in the end. And they can do that... right?

COMMANDERS (7-5) - Somehow succeeding in spite of everything this franchise is being lambasted for, if these records hold true then we will see all four NFC East teams in the playoffs. And yes, that includes Washington. We are inching closer and closer to the chaotic timeline, fueled by a QB with the name of Heineke.

NFC NORTH - Laughing in Devil Magic VIKINGS (9-2) - The devil ice is not indestructible, and there are times where Kirk Cousins reverts to his usual form, but as of late it's mattered little when the major offensive weapons are carrying the load to success. This team is good AND icey, and that's dangerous to everyone.

LIONS (4-8) - Can a team be likable AND unlikable? The personalities this squad has are some of the most likable in the league, yet the gaffs make this team sink back down to laughingstock status. They are THIS close to being good, but as of right now they're just the beneficiaries of a division that's crumbling under the devil ice of Minnesota. And speaking of crumbling...

PACKERS (4-8) - This team is COOKED with a capital C. They never planned for the future, either long-term or interim, and now they're paying the price with Aaron Rodgers swearing to play hero-ball at every possible moment, much to the detriment of the team and Tom Grossi. And nobody feels bad about it, either.

BEARS (3-9) - What's so baffling about this season is that this is Justin Fields' best career year so far. He's free of the Matt Nagy playbook and has grown into being the modern QB that Chicago has longed for for years, only with the rest of the team floundering around him. Full credit for overachieving in a rebuild year, though.

NFC SOUTH - New-Age Tank Division BUCCANEERS (5-6) - Tom Brady should've stayed retired. So many things could have changed if he just stayed home, but he just HAD to prove Adam Schefter wrong. Now it's costing him in several ways, least of all his team completely collapsing week by week. Yet they're probably going to host a playoff game with a record that's close to or below .500 - isn't that sad.

FALCONS (5-7) - Some habits are just too difficult to break. And for the Falcons, it's their habit of choking wins away. The fact that they're still in contention for the division proves how trash the NFC South is this year.

PANTHERS (4-8) - This is a team with literally nothing left to lose. They lost their head coach for sucking, their best running back for draft capital, and their QB1 because Baker Mayfield in 2022 stinks. But that's given them a wild inconsistency, they were supposed to lose out - yet they find wins whenever they can. Good for them? SAINTS (4-8) - The Saints giveth and the Saints taketh away. They will give their fans a shutout win against the Raiders, and then they will take that false hope away with a shutout loss against the 49ers. The rebuild is going to be long and arduous and it's going to suck for a while in NOLA. At least you went out on sorta-top?

NFC WEST - North vs. South 49ERS (7-4) - This team wasn't supposed to be good. Their QB of the future was sidelined and Jimmy G came back to save the day. They got Christian McCaffrey at the cost of several draft futures. They've been shutting teams out in the second half - FOUR straight with zero points allowed. When this team is healthy, they are a formidably dangerous squad to go against. They've gone all in - the ultimate risk for the ultimate reward.

SEAHAWKS (6-5) - Regardless of how the season ends, this has been a banner year for Geno Smith, proving his worth as a strong QB after several backup job stints. But this team can't win it all with just the likes of Lockett and Metcalf, not the way they've been playing as of late. It's a tight race for the division between the two northern teams, as it always is between SF and Seattle.

CARDINALS (4-8) - The good news is that they're not totally dead yet. The bad news is that they're stuck with their GM and head coach for at least five more years, and given what they've done recently that's a big cause for concern - or rather, what they HAVEN'T done recently: win.

RAMS (3-8) - At least they won a ring, right? Somebody forgot to tell the Rams that there's a price to pay for a ring-chase campaign, and it comes with the team completely collapsing in on itself. It's the one time where it's a good thing that a team doesn't have any fans, nobody should be subjected to watching this team play.

AFC EAST - The Salty Spittoon, Confirmed DOLPHINS (8-3) - After a rocky start to the season, this team has come out like a rocketship to stake their claim at the AFC title, and everything is clicking here. Time will tell if they can keep their momentum throughout the rest of the season, but if they do? We might be waddling our way through January.

BILLS (8-3) - It's clutch time for this squad, there is absolutely zero room for mistakes to be had going forward. And recently, Josh Allen has moved from his newfound status as "the only QB in NFL history" to his earlier year form - that isn't good. The window will only be open for so long, so it's now or never for Buffalo.

JETS (7-4) - Much like the Giants, is this team good or just lucky? It's a bit of both, really, but it seems like it'll be the Mike White show for the rest of the season. You won't make it to the playoffs with mistakes, so the Jets need to keep them to a minimum, just like Buffalo. Imagine saying that a few years ago, though - the Jets are PLAYOFF contenders.

PATRIOTS (6-5) - Somehow, someway, the evil empire is still sticking around and looking for an opening to get into the playoff picture. And what's the most concerning is that they can get away with it if everything plays out according to plan. May God have mercy on us for it.

AFC NORTH - Can Someone Win the Division? RAVENS (7-4) - This team can't be trusted to hold a lead. At all. Prove me wrong or fire Greg Roman as soon as humanly possible.

BENGALS (7-4) - The goal for the year was to prove that the Super Bowl run wasn't a fluke. It's not easy to repeat a miracle season, so can they make it to the playoffs again? So long as they keep the issues and injuries down, they might. Or if the Ravens collapse, whichever comes first.

BROWNS (4-7) - Everyone will get to see the unsavory truth about the Factory of Sadness: Deshaun Watson is not the all-in-one fix this team needs. It's a shame that they have to learn this the hard way, but it's the only way they'll learn.

STEELERS (4-7) - The "Steeler Way" is dead and this season will be proof of it. People will be getting fired after this season. Bank on it.

AFC SOUTH - Frauds. Frauds Everywhere. TITANS (7-4) - This team is doing the barest minimum to lead their division and that's because every other team is a flaming dumpster fire of various degrees.

COLTS (4-7-1) - We're at the "hire an ESPN analyst to be the new head coach" stage of this team. That's how things are going in Indy.

JAGUARS (4-7) - Whatever wins they're getting are just moral victories. But at least they won't get the #1 overall pick for the third year straight.

TEXANS (1-9-1) - Behold, the ultimate tank of tanks. Unable to win, unable to compete, but absolutely able to make sure they sink all the way to the bottom for that sweet draft capital. It sometimes help to suck absolute ass.

AFC WEST - Division of Contenders? No. CHIEFS (9-2) - Oh wow, the Chiefs are still a top contender in the league because they have some of the best players in the whole league. I'm so shocked.

CHARGERS (6-5) - I think it's time we have a talk about Brandon Staley: he's not a GREAT coach, he just needs to ditch his weird quirks and start being more of a normal coach. Maybe then they'd be in contention for the division.

RAIDERS (4-7) - This team is so cash-strapped that they actually can't fire Josh McDaniels. So they're stuck with him and now they have to make the best of a bad situation, and get wins wherever they can. But it absolutely can be worse.

BRONCOS (3-8) - BRONCOS COUNTRY. LET'S RIDE ALL THE WAY OFF A CLIFF BECAUSE NATHANIEL HACKETT NEEDS TO BE FIRED ASAP.

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G4 2.0: A Longwinded Eulogy

November 16, 2021 - the G4 cable channel relaunches after seven years away, a rare second chance for a mainstay from the era of niche-catered cable television.

November 18, 2022 - the G4 cable channel shuts down after spending a whole month on zombie autopilot mode.

First, a bit of backstory: the era of niche-catered cable television was a wonderful time, channels for anything and everything filling cable platforms in the late 90s and throughout the 2000s. This was the peak of television, and if you had a maxed out cable package you were set.

One such channel that exceled in this wide open market was a channel based out of San Francisco called ZDTV, a channel focused solely on the growing tech and computer market, though it would change to a more recognizable name in 2000: TechTV.

Unfortunately, though, when you’re in a hypercompetitive niche cable market, you either have to stand out or you’ll fall behind. They inevitably fell behind with layoffs and programming cutbacks, though they did have three core staples to them: The Screen Savers, X-Play, and Anime Unleashed. But it was in the latter years of its singular life where it veered away from business tech talk and shifted toward a more general male audience who happened to also be into casual tech talk. This worked… for a short while.

In May of 2004, TechTV merged operations with G4, a venture and channel helmed by Comcast in direct competition with TechTV, and relocated operations to Los Angeles as the very longwinded G4TechTV before becoming solely G4 in 2005. And those three staples remained, with one having a new name: The Screen Savers become Attack of the Show, X-Play remained X-Play, and Anime Unleashed also hung around for a short while longer.

By the mid-2000s, people who knew G4 knew what they were all about, with a strong lineup of in-house originals: Cheat!, Cinematech, Arena, G4 Icons, X-Play with Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb, Attack of the Show! now with Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn (later with Candace Bailey), live convention coverage from places like E3 and CES, this was a channel hitting their true stride. But the good times wouldn’t last long, as Comcast does what Comcast always does: cut back to save a few bucks.

Layoffs, schedule decreases, and drops in viewership were leading things into a bad spot, and by 2011 there were talks and rumors of the channel being sold to either the UFC or WWE to be their own channel. Then in 2012, Pereira and Sessler were let go by G4, with all original programming ceasing production by the end of the year. And that’s all on top with what Comcast had planned for its channel space: replace it with something else in 2013.

Short version, that replacement never happened, it instead went to another Comcast-owned channel space, and G4 was essentially left on zombie autopilot mode while more and more cable providers cut the channel from their lineups. And on December 31, 2013, its final day of broadcast on whoever still had it in their cable package, it capped off its 11-year run with their Top 100 Video Games countdown retrospective and the 2003 “re-debut” episode of X-Play, before signing off with how the G4 channel launched in 2002: Pong.

And then it went away, left to remain in the vast mental vacuums of our collective nostalgia.

Then the word came out in July 2020 that this was going to come back. Cue up the nostalgia excitement.

So how do you restart a 2000s-era cable channel in the 2020s, and in the middle of a global pandemic and health crisis? Very slowly.

It took nearly a year and a half for the relaunch, now helmed by Comcast Spectacor (the division of Comcast who owns several Philadelphia sports teams), to kick off, and while the initial fanfare was jovial the final product handled for the network was… lacking.

Keep in mind that when G4 was in its stride in the mid-2000s the internet was a much differnet place. There weren’t 24/7 HD quality live streams and 4K quality video on demand that can be pulled up on a moment’s notice, and instant communication was limited to specific messenger clients and text forums. YouTube and Facebook were only just mere ideas and Twitch was still many years away. So what do you do in a world that has all of that, and more?

You cross the streams. But that didn’t work, either.

Newer audiences may only know of G4 for its past and weren’t there during its heyday, so they wouldn’t be interested in what a linear television channel about gaming would have to offer. And older audiences who remember those old shows would be very much interested in those shows being revived, so long as the focus is on the linear channel - it wasn’t, as their primary audience was being catered to its YouTube and Twitch livestreams, a different audience altogether.

Therein lies the major issue: trying to cater to two completely differnet audiences who don’t cross over. And in contrast to how G4 originally adapted to new media in the 2000s with the growth of podcasts and the introduction of Twitter, this stream-crossing felt like a lack of singular focus when there could have been both.

And here’s where that works: X-Play and Attack of the Show would be returning, but in very differnet forms, first as livestreams and then being aired as glorified “highlight shows” in the days following on its linear television channel, alongside other previously-streamed programs that served to fit the gaming niche audience who, by 2021, mostly migrated away from television toward other internet platforms and personalities. Simply put, nobody is going to go to a television channel first to hear about e-sports drama or a “causal Friday” Twitch stream.

Also, I’m fairly certain nobody watching television wanted to be told by Kevin Pereira that “NFT art is great, you’re all too stupid to get it” but at least he got properly roasted for it almost immediately and THAT snafu was never mentioned ever again.

Then there was the novelty and oddity of Scott the Woz being shown on G4 in the form of ten hour-long compilation episodes of some of his videos, albeit not on the best foot forward as its 6:30pm debut broadcast was upended due to an Amazon Web Service glitch and instead aired at 10:30pm that night… with a few censor bleeps missing. Again, a novelty and oddity if there ever was.

In terms of other programming on the channel, it was mostly filled with constant reruns of their first-run programs, while they did have a later G4 staple in Ninja Warrior back alongside Takeshi’s Castle and the 1980s Starcade to fulfill the needs for people watching the linear channel. One could surmise that those would be insufficient offerings, but at least there’s plenty of games coverage to be had, right?

Yeah, about that. The video game industry in 2022 is much, MUCH different than the video game industry was 15 years ago. The entire industry has been caught in a tech-crunch arms race and games riddled with constant delays, updates, and microtransactions, and coupled with the current state of E3 and Geoff Keighley’s presentations being less-than-stellar one could argue that the video game industry is in a low point at this current moment. There isn’t much excitement to be had across the board.

And then we come to the big problem with how G4 was relaunched: its main audience of 20-something males from the 2000s have moved on toward other channels and services, and a lot of those attitudes and its zeitgeist was left behind long ago. You couple all of those issues together, and you end up with a channel without any real identity.

If you’ve followed this thread this far and you know what happened with G4 in 2022, you’re wondering when I’ll mention THAT incident. So here it is.

No, Frosk did not singlehandedly kill G4 with her on-air rant. Anyone who honestly believes that one individual can tank a cable network like that is either a goddamn idiot or a sexist clown. Or maybe both, it’s certainly believable, given the reports of harassment and doxxing that happened which is NEVER okay.

Instead, Comcast does what Comcast does best: layoffs to save a buck or two. And, much like before, when coupled with record-low viewership (hovering within 1,000 average viewers per night), the writing, as they say, was on the wall. A lot of details come from an excellent writeup by Nathan Grayson of the Washington Post, digging far deeper than any of us would have ever guessed.

Appearances and stream raids paid for with five figures, virtually invisible talent relations, constant production flux, and then the final straw last month: a memo leaked to Deadline outlining the channel’s sunsetting. Except said memo wasn’t sent to talent and crew, first. So they all found out at the same time we did. In an instant, all of the work and plans the talent and crew still had for the network was gone and ignited into ash. No more X-Play. No more Attack. No new Icons. And no new Starcade.

And for a month after that, the channel has been operating on zombie autopilot mode, somehow in far worse shape than its year-long zombified state in 2013. Until now, on November 18th of the year 2022, where after 367 days G4 has, once again, shut down. The fact of the matter is, in the year 2022 going on 2023, we don’t really need G4 on television. There is a plethora of off-air recordings all over the internet of its peak era for us to go back to watch and laugh with and even cringe at, but those come from a bygone era of television that, sadly, doesn’t exist anymore and won’t be coming back.

G4 2.0 tried - goddamn it, they somehow tried - but they just couldn’t find an audience or be given enough time and resources to correct its trajectory before the plug was pulled. It could have been something greater, but in the end, all G4 and Comcast can get for this is an honor truly worthy of its disastrous run:

The Golden Mullet.

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Tap tap, is this thing on?

Pardon the six-year-old dust, it's been a while. And all it took for me to come back was the impending death of the bird app.

What a world.

[auraofazure]

Tap tap, is this thing on?

I’ve been gone for almost six years.

And all that it took for me to come back on here was the impending death and destruction of the bird app.

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Animator Appreciation: Shouko Ikeda

[inu-fanon]

Heh, as I was scrolling through these images, I was thinking, “Huh, this is all Ikeda art.  I wonder if that was intentional."  And then I get to the caption at the end.

Glad there are other people who can recognize and appreciate the original series’ best* art director.

*(subjective, of course, but come on, look at that)

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[inu-fanon]

Ummmmm…

The large text across this magazine image reads “Oidipusu no Kiba” (オイディプスの牙), or “Fang of Oedipus”.

Japan, I do not think that means what you think it means.

It puts the sibling rivalry in a whole new light, though.

Inuyasha: “Dammit, Sesshoumaru, we all know my mom was hotter!” Sesshoumaru: “Hmph, your mother was of inferior stock.  My mother reigns supreme among MILFs.”

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(TOONAMI UNITED ARCHIVE) Review: Star Wars: Clone Wars

(TOONAMI UNITED ARCHIVE) Review: Star Wars: Clone Wars

We all remember when we were first introduced to the Star Wars franchise. For some, it was with the original 1977 classic. For a few unfortunate others, it was with the disappointment of The Phantom Menace. And starting tonight, the newest installment of the film series, The Force Awakens, will serve as an introduction to a new audience, discovering the vastness and majesty of the swooping space…

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INCOMING INFLUX

There will be many incoming reposts from Toonami United that will, hereon, be archived here.

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Toonami Series in a Nutshell

Dragon Ball Z Kai - The same show with less episodes

Akame ga Kill - The show where everyone dies and nobody cares because it’s so on the edge it’s liable to fall off it

Parasyte - Philosophical debates, teenage wangst and a whole lot of body horror

Samurai Champloo - Two Guys and girl and a hip hop soundtrack

Naruto Shippuden - Half filler, a quarter flashbacks and and 10 percent magical ninja trying to save his boyfriend who doesn’t want to be saved

One Piece - The pirates who don’t do anything piratey but have long winded friendship speeches because of tragic childhoods

Michiko & Hatchin - A 22 episode road trip where all we really learn is most men are douche bags

Sword Art Online II - Kirito proves he can be OP in any game and Reki Kawahara demnds you feel bad about PTSD and Aids and plays the rapey guy card again

KILL la KILL - The show with kill in the title where pretty much nobody dies but pretty much everybody gets naked

Attack on Titan - One guy aspires to kill all the giant naked people and get back to his father’s basement but accomplishes neither

Gurren Lagann - The over the top giant robot bromance that is last good thing Gainax will ever do but still has an ending that will make you rage

Deadman Wonderland - Grimdark anime Superjail that is somehow still less violent than actual Super Jail that tells you to go read the manga if you want to see how it concludes

InuYasha: The Final Act - The rushed conclusion to the fantasy adventures that liked to take their sweet time meandering about

InuYasha - The adventures of a kinda annoying school girl, her dog boyfriend, and their colorful companions who all conveniently want to kill the same guy that goes wherever the plot demands because Naraku

Bleach - The long-winded bloated shounen epic that didn’t know when to quit so it got cancelled instead

Space Dandy - One man’s quest for boobs and bootie in which Watanabe tells his friends to do whatever the hell they want with mixed results

Cowboy Bebop - The show largely regarded a masterpiece which just about everyone on the ASMB is sick of

Ghost in the Shell: SAC - Philosophical cyber-punk cop show that’s can be about as dull as any other cop show

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - The reboot based on the manga that is sure you already saw the other anime or at least read the manga

Hellsing Ultimate - Nazi vampires try to start world War 3 and are stopped by a vampire who is so OP even a macguffin designed to end him isn’t enough to do the job

Beware the Batman - WB tries to reinvigorate Batman when nobody asked them to using fugly CGI and few of the iconic characters so naturally it had to finish at 2:30 in the morning far away from the intended demographic

Black Lagoon - The show about actual pirates that nobody watched

Blue Exorcist - The most kid friendly show about people who want to kill Satan

Sword Art Online - .hack//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet with more incest, a ridiculous OP protagonist and just as much Bryce Papenbrook

ThunderCats 2011 - Dramatic re-imagining of the popular 80s franchise that started decently but quickly turned to Everybody Hates Lion-O

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Star Wars at it’s boring-est but it at least proves a CGI cartoon can look darn good with a decent budget

Samurai Jack - Witness robots bleed oil dramatically as a samurai wanders around for as long as the creator wills it

Sym-Bionic Titan - The show about giant robots and teenage romance that proved Genndy Tartakovsky is without a shadow of a doubt, an ass man

FLCL - An allegory for puberty done with a giant robot, a giant iron and giant eyebrows

IGPX - Mech battles with half the excitment of a Formula 1 Race

Eureka seveN - The coming of age story about an insufferable character who gets punched a lot and falls in love with a plant or something

Tenchi GXP - Not the Tenchi you were looking for and the reason we wont see another Tenchi series on Toonami ever again

Soul Eater - Mr. Death’s school for gifted monster hunters that ends badly but apparently not as badly as the manga does

Naruto - A boy graduates from magical ninja school and develops a mancrush on his rival while a pedophile plots from shadows

Samurai 7 - The upteenth retelling of the Seven Samurai but this time with giant robots and much less compelling characters

Casshern Sins - Gritty reboot of a vintage anime that bored the audience to sleep

Ben 10: Alien Force - When Ben Tennyson gets older and more serious he’s just as much of a brat without having the excuse that he’s still a child

Bakugan: Battle Brawlers - The Cartoon Network distributed Yu-Gi-Oh/Beyblade hybrid that was as bad as Wulin Warriors and holds the record for shortest run on Toonami with one episode period

Blue Dragon - That time Microsoft wanted a a multi-platform cross-over hit but ended up with another generic shounen adventure series that didn’t catch on

The Prince of Tennis - Tennis Ball Z

MAR - A total loser goes to another world where he gains super powers so he can save a kingdom because why the hell not?

Yu-Gi-Oh GX - Mr. Kaiba’s school for gifted card players

Pokemon Chronicles - The side stories you probably didn’t ask to see but at least they didn’t have Ash

Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo - Fist of the North Star meets Johnny Bravo

Zatch Bell - Where Pokemon battles are fought with children instead of monsters kept in balls

Rave Master - Mashima’s prior attempt at a shounen epic that is at least somewhat more original than Fairy Tail but still suffers from feeling generic as all get out

Storm Hawks - Largely forgetable Canadian show intended to sell toys

Megas XLR - Giant robot show for anime loving gamers by anime loving gamers which was too busy making references to resolve it’s plot before it got cancelled

Fantastic Four: World’s Greatest Heroes - The reason why we don’t let the French animate American super heroes, leave that shiz to the Koreans

The Batman - The first time WBA tried to re-invigorate Batman when nobody asked them to, during their “anime phase”

Justice League: Unlimited - WB’s valiant attempt to make use of their vast hero library when all anyone cared about was Batman

Teen Titans - WB’s answer to the popularity of Justice League and Dragon Ball Z

Wulin Warriors - Abridged version of a popular Taiwanese puppet show that was the worst thing Toonami ever played

Duel Masters - Sometimes a spoof on Yu-Gi-Oh, sometimes not, depending on dub

D.I.C.E. - Bandai decided Gundam wasn’t for America and tried to make something more tailor made for Americans and sucked at that too

SD Gundam - Bandai decided it would be easier to sell Gundam toys for a show that was actually appropriate for children to watch, at least it wasn’t Doozy Bots

Gundam SEED - Mobile Suit Gundam: bishounen edition, and nobody watched it either

G Gundam - Gundam meets pro-wrestling where people talk with the fists of giant robots

Mobile Suit Gundam - Trailblazing anime that no kids watched in 2001 because it was so dang old by the time it got here

Gundam Wing - 5 probably gay bishounen make war look cool with giant robots

Rurouni Kenshin - The story of a wandering swordsman who just wants to leave his past behind him but constantly has it come back to bite his ass

Yu Yu Hakusho - The bait and switch show that throws in a tournament whenever the writer can’t think of anything else to do and you love it anyway

Dragon Ball Z - Muscluar strangers get into fights and stare at eachother for longer than one might consider appropriate

Dragon Ball - The whimsical adventures of Goku and friends before they turned out to be aliens and got too serious for toilets

Dragon Ball GT - When TOEI tried to recreate the fun of Dragon Ball and the intensity of DBZ and failed at both

Cyborg 009 - Reboot of a classic anime that nobody watched because it still looked like classic anime

Astroboy Boy 2003 - See Cyborg 009 only this was way more Americanized

.hack//SIGN - That time Bandai wanted a a multi-platform cross-over hit and ended up with an interesting concept for a game/anime that was poorly executed by BeeTrain at their BeeTrainiest

Star Wars: Clone Wars Mini-Series - Probably the best Star Wars anything since the original trilogy but it was glorified filler for the pre-quel trilogy

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe - The first good 80s cartoon reboot that died like all other 80s cartoons reboots would, poor toy sales

Transformers: Armada - Transformers meets Pokemon

Zoids Chaotic Century / Guardian Force - When toyetic shows succeed at having a compelling plot

Zoids ZERO - People fight with sentient zords to sell toys

Card Captors - Poor attempt at adapting a fun shoujo about a girl and her magical cards saving the world

Hamtaro - The cute show about hamsters that literally only the CN executives thought was a good idea for Toonami to show

Justice League - The show DC made to draw attention to other characters than Batman when Superman alone wouldn’t do the job

Batman Beyond - The 2nd best Spider-Man cartoon ever made

Superman: The Animated Series - The excellent Superman cartoon that was over-shadowed by the Dark Knight

Batman: The Animated Series - The show that started the golden age of American action animation that upon retrospect had a lot of dull episodes

Big O - Japanese Batman with giant robots and a really convoluted story

Outlaw Star - Two guys find an android girl in a suitcase and jack a ship and Joss Wedon swears he didn’t rip this off

Tenchi in Tokyo - The reason we didn’t see another Tenchi series for a long long time

Tenchi Universe - Alternate telling of Tenchi because why the hell not?

Tenchi Muyo - The pioneer of the harem genre that we still can’t believe aired on a children’s network

Ronin Warriors - 5 bishounen save the world using toyetic battle armors

Sailor Moon - A crybaby is given super powers to save the world but thankfully so are her much more tolerable friends

ReBoot - CGI on a TV budget in the 90s showing the adventures that go on inside of your computer, where you the user always ruin everything

The Superfriends - The popular superhero cartoon that is laughably bad but continues to be homaged to this day

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest - Re-imaging of vintage adventure series that was cutting edge at the time but looks like crap now

The Roulete - Roughly Turner’s last attempt at making use of their old action brands until they delved into more self-parody for Adult Swim

Voltron - The world’s first abridged anime

ThunderCats - The poorly acted and poorly animated fantasy adventure from the 80s about cat people who don’t wear enough clothes

[vigaishere]

Yup. I don’t know what to say except that he’s the wonderful, handsome, the man of my dreams, but saying yes was just fine.

[atopfourthwall]

<3  ^_^

[auraofazure]

Well, mazel tov to the two of you!

[unkonageki]

Happy Birthday Makoto! ( ˘ ³˘)♡

[gelsadrah-deactivated20170821]

gekkan shoujo nozaki-kun is a treasure,

[deactivated-86634592222-deactiv]

if i don’t reblog this assume im dead

[jinzlers]

I have never identified with a video more in my entire life

[hawwwlucha]

Still relevant to the video.

[toonami]

You’re the best

[yaoi-journey]

damn makoto, thats huge loool

[sizvideos]

Sir Patrick Stewart Loves A Male Kiss

Video

[spookychan]

Sir Patrick Stew going in for the hetro male kiss. This is kinda amazing the fact that it tears down all that macho bullshit and is closer to love and compassion of one’s fellow man. 

[jessicalprice]

Sir Patrick Stewart, waging war on the culture of masculinity that isolates men, deprives them of physical contact, and punishes them for normal human emotional needs.

Dude is a hero. 

[cartoonnetwork]

Ice Bear can build a better robot