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There's a little detail in the manga that could raise a few questions about canon. In chapter 74, Liz mentioned a time where she got to see a jazz musician perform live one time. It was then shown in an illustration that the musician was Miles Davis- who died in 1991! Raises questions about Liz's age and/or the decade the story was set in.

Liz: “Hey, it’s not like I’m old or anything...The manga started in 2003, so let’s pretend I was a little kid dragged by my mom to a performance, and that most of our story in the manga took place in the 2000s.”

Soul: “Or we’re not quite in everyone’s timeline, readers are too hung up on a story about the Grim Reaper and weapon-people fitting into their ideas about their own world, and Lord Death picked and chose when he picked up people at times different than when they died--”

Tsubaki: “Isn’t it in bad taste to try to look at the lives of real people within our tale?”

Jacqueline: “NOT alluded to Kennedy’s affairs--I’m sure we’ll be fine.”

Shinra: “Be thankful you’re in the same time period as the ‘real world’--I’m stuck in a post-apocalyptic fire-land, so aside from a random Star Wars reference now and then, we lost most of our pop culture.”

Black Star: “...Who the hell are you?”

#everyone replies #long post #juggleofletters

The next time you interview GoRa, do you think you could ask them why they made the gang Homra interrogated in the Hotel international criminals? They could have simply made them domestic, Japanese criminals from a distant part of Japan.

... I think you’re misunderstanding this blog... we don’t interview GoRA... this is a fan blog completely unrelated to anything official.

My guess would be, ‘foreign languages are cool’.

- Ivory

#answers from the slate #queue #juggleofletters

Could you be honest? Do you wish Soul Eater had more episodes like a percentage of the fan base?

Yes--because not only are there chapters of the manga that would look great animated, but both the manga and the anime were lacking in developing major and supporting characters.

#soul eater #juggleofletters

Do you like South Park?

I don’t like South Park any more.

When South Park started, I was an ardent fan. After the movie, I got sick of it. The shock value of the coarse language and taboo bodily humor was outweighed by my feeling that the joke stopped being on ignorant people and bigots. Instead, the direction of the jokes seemed dependent on the capriciousness of the creators, especially whatever ideology or set of ethics was bothering them that week.

The humor was just cynical complaining about problems without demonstrating solutions, the stories were bleak with little hope offered, and the characters were dumb--little of which I find entertaining. Their approaches to storytelling didn’t work for me.

#hey #non soul eater stuff #juggleofletters

How would you rank all the anime shows that are airing or have aired on Toonami?

Here’s my list--let the arguments begin.

Let’s stick with just the anime (no movies, no puppets, no animation from nations other than Japan, although it will be dodgy with some international productions that I likely forgot to include) that were on Cartoon Network and Adult Swim in the United States, not including additional shows that aired on other versions of Toonami (Kids’ WB, other nations, etc).

Here’s the list I’m using:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonami

And this will be a long post divided into three parts: What I would gladly re-watch; what I have not watched enough to fairly judge; and what I do not want to watch ever again or at all.

#toonami #long post #juggleofletters

In regards to my previous post, Bruno, Ali G, and Borat were characters portrayed by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who portrays them in a gag-interview type show based in part on troll value. They were even brought to the big screen, with Borat even winning awards. I’m not sure you initially got the reference.

Yep, I understood the references.

I still think Excalibur would out-troll them since at some point one of those three would crack or break character.

#excalibur #juggleofletters

What would happen if Ali G, Borat, and Bruno (separately, not together) try to interview Excalibur?

What happens to anyone: they make an Excalibur face and leave in disgust. Nothing can stop Excalibur.

#excalibur #excalibur (soul eater)#juggleofletters

Do you wish Soul Eater reruns would return to Toonami?

Not really--given how many other shows, old and new, that have never been on Toonami or United States cable overall really need to be put on the lineup but can’t given limited space, rights issues, and too many long-running series right now.

If anything, Cartoon Network needs to stop keeping anime just on Saturdays. Putting long-running shows on weeknights is a start. And the Network needs to stop presenting teenage-geared programming on Adult Swim when a teen line-up is needed in the afternoon or early evening--something where Soul Eater and other teen shows, including non-action ones, can go.

But no, cable has been about airing the same five shows 24/7 so you don’t have to pay for multiple shows and can marathon them, because people can watch what they want on demand--and Cartoon Network doesn’t care about variety in programming, or even necessarily good programming at all times.

And we really need more series on Toonami with female leads.

#cartoon network #adult swim #toonami #juggleofletters