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At least there's the Unicorn, which I plan on seeing in Odaiba.
Usagi Standard Time.
I was pretty sure we got 08th MS Team and the original Gundam series before G on Toonami, but I don't remember for sure.
I also could only be thinking that because I actually watched Wing, 08th MS, and OG. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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That trope is named "Toast of Tardiness" on TVTropes. I personally wouldn't have called it that, though I don't have a better name at the ready.
Just went wiki diving, here's the Toonami premiere orders:
March 2000- Gundam Wing on Toonami.
November 2000- Endless Waltz Toonami premier.
July 2001- Toonami showed both Original Gundam and 08th Team. The OG Gundam run skipped both Doan's Island and cut off before the ending because of 9-11.
November 2001- 0080 shown on Toonami.
February 2002- 0083 shown on Toonami.
August 2002- G Gundam shown on Toonami.
September 2003-SD Gundam
April 2004- Gundam Seed
There's more later, but that's the retro period in question.
getting the trilogy movies on dvd back then and watching and rewatching them is what really got me to fall in love with UC gundam, also while the dub was decent for the time there really is no beating the og cast
Yeah, that was one of the more crashing-to-a-halt endings I've seen -- and as far as storylines go, it felt strange comparing
All the other dangling plots about characters just stop, I guess, that's sort of expected, but this felt more than usually clunky as far as "finishing the story" goes
I'm still enjoying this on a chapter-by-chapter basis, but I keep getting lost about who's who and what's going on in bits of the story where the bigger-picture plot starts to come back and the various rakugo hierarchies become important, I'll admit.
In other "this weeks chapters", Green Green Greens continues to be a very competent sports story with the usual sorts of things you'd expect, but it's very enjoyable along the way. Two On Ice is, somehow, still going, and now is going to be about TV ratings for sports shows? (and also the intricacies of how competitive skating is scored?) I really have no idea where it's going, I'll admit; I was expecting it to be ending any moment now but the story doesn't quite feel like that yet.
Also Midora is in rough shape
I still think the story peaked with school festival arc.
This was probably dropped in a ton of threads about today's chapter already but screw it.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Im good with it given the wat it’s the perfect dark mirror of
AfO instead hangs onto his own original existence for like, what, two hundred years, then when he can’t do that any more sets out to deliberately create a vessel to pour himself into, literally stripping away everything that was theirs (the love of their family, their inborn traits) and replacing them with nothing but misery (a quirk that can only destroy, stripped of its ability to restore, the constant abuse and neglect) to break them enough that they’ll won’t stand up any longer when it comes time to take over the body.
AfO is a rotten piece of shit.
Now with 100% more Akane Tendo.
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This is just so fucking unsatisfying.
Sheesh, Tanjiro got ripped.
Big damn heroes doing some heroing in style!
Cliffhanger!
The stupid, it burns.
Even his 11th Hour Boss nature of it isn’t 11th hour, because the entire deal for the past, what, two, three years worth of chapters has been “All For One is making Shigaraki his vessel, literally copying his consciousness over into him and effectively existing in two places at once as a weird hybrid of the two (until suppressed by Shigaraki’s pure rage and hate) and his original self in his original body”
I can get folks not being happy with where the manga is at right now, but it’s not exactly a roadmap that’s been hidden.
EDIT: yeah, the arc started on Valentine’s Day of 2022, with the Final Act Saga itself kicking off in March 2021
EDIT: Chapters 297 and 298, from January 2021:
January of last year, ch 379, where Shigaraki used his hate and anger as the fuel to drive AFO’s consciousness into the backseat when he’s been basically spending the earlier part of that arc.
And now the entire basis of that hate and rage has been undermined, which mean the thing keeping AFO in check is now broken, letting him resume control until he’s purged from Shigaraki
EDIT: pages out of order need to fix once I’m not on phone
I had to try real hard t mot make a gotta hand it to ya joke
This is mha right
Was the baby grape head guy
Please tell me he dies
One, we actually had a pretty good roadmap! We had AfO get hoist on his own petard, as his shortcomings and weaknesses finally caused his plans to fail, which is a good way to conclude his arc - the fact that he was incapable of treating people with respect becoming the core of his downfall. And then we have the fight between Midorya and Shigaraki, where the win condition for the former isn't just stopping the latter, but saving him. These are both good arcs, with some really cool character resolutions!
And they threw it away for a shitty plot twist that is as trite as it is telegraphed.
Two, the whole "I manipulated everything!" spin actually weakens chessmaster/magnificent bastard/charismaniac type characters by basically basically handing them the "I WIN" button to get out of any jam. What makes good chessmasters - what makes them compelling - is when they're able to roll with the punches and make the unexpected work for them. With this, AfO just becomes another author's pet antagonist.
Just because we knew the asspull was coming doesn't make it any less an asspull.
No
So now AFO exists as the consciousness copy in his Quirk which is currently in Shigaraki
It's an asspull because it replaces some actually good plot arcs with a trite, less interesting one, all for the sake of...what, actually? Like, this is the sort of gooseshit Red called out in her video on plot twists:
And yes, the author may have planted these plot seeds prior - but part of being an author is knowing which plot seeds to harvest...and which to cull.
Again, it doesn't matter that the author set this up (because the author isn't required to use every plot seed they set up - in fact, figuring out which ones to push forward is part of the art.) This is the whole issue here - what's happened is that we got two interesting arcs replaced by one much less interesting one, and that's the infuriating part.
I have never experienced any organization I’ve worked for firing the worst employees. I’ve experienced arbitrary firings mostly based on clawing back pay and retention of those willing to suffer the most abuse. Performance never really entered into it.