The Toonami Thread

TOONAMI, I HAVE RETURNED!

This guy is sounding like a Metal Gear villain.

Good evening, everybody. :) May the Force be with you.

How are you all doing tonight?

Time for the grand finale of Ninja Kamui.

The end of the ninja has come.

Okay. Everybody relax, I'm here.

I went to see The Phantom Menace last night with some friends. Still not great, but way less annoying than I remember. There's nothing so bad about Jake Lloyd's acting that it even comes close to excusing what those loser Star Wars fans did to him. He did okay for a kid. Other performances in the movie are far worse.

Edited by Lennik on May 4th 2024 at 12:08:23 PM

Doing fantastic!

This whole show comes off as a Spiritual Successor to Metal Gear.

Edited by Rojixus on May 4th 2024 at 11:05:25 AM

I consulted a lawyer about trying to keep my job after reasonable accommodations were denied, and he said it wasn't worth fighting (it would have cost me $5,000 to retain him). I asked out a coworker who is looking for someone to marry, and she says I'm too old.

-sees the herd of pigs being loaded onto the plane-

Nice to see they let Hayao Miyazaki direct a scene.

Annnnd that's it for Joseph.

Time to deal with Yamaji.

Great fight scene.

To my knowledge, yes. Funimation had its own cable channel and Syfy used to have its own dedicated anime block (Saturday Anime, then Ani-Monday), but those were a good 10-15 years ago and were sadly already in decline even before everyone decided to get aboard the streaming train.

It makes the Toonami revival surviving this long and surpassing the original incarnation's run by quite a bit all the more impressive.

All the more reason to finish up that post-S1 finale review/afterthoughts piece I've been sitting on for months. orz

And in light of this news, wouldn't it have made more sense for the upcoming two weeks of Ninja Kamui marathons to instead be reruns of MawS' S1? A refresher certainly wouldn't hurt.

Write me down as "cautiously optimistic." S1 had (IMO) issues balancing its A and B plots as is, so adding more to everything already carried over could easily lead to a Bleach-esque situation where a lot of new moving parts get introduced only to for a handful to receive any proper focus and conclusion.

Maybe the writers have found their groove, though. Or maybe we're going to leave things off on yet another Sequel Hook for a potential S3, only to do this whole dance again in a year or two. Who knows?

We've been making Revengeance jokes since the first episode, so it's only fitting.

He even showed a scene of photos of armies for his monologue

I need to actually watch the finale of season 1 of Superman. I missed it.

ALEX REALLY IS LEX LUTHOR! I KNEW IT!

Though since Clark and Lois are now together that means they might spread more focus on other characters now.

Jimmy looks to be doing some interesting stuff in the trailer.

Edited by slimcoder on May 4th 2024 at 9:20:14 AM

Sara: This show is extremely brutal.

Is it more or less than the other famous ninja anime, Ninja Scroll?

“Keep your own god. In fact, this would be a good time to pray to him. For I beheld Satan as he fell from Heaven. LIKE LIGHTNING!”

RULES OF NATURE

Higan has finally become...THE NINJA KAMUI!

Theme Music Power-Up, go!

@ slim: Ironically enough (and I'll touch upon this in my review should it ever see the light of day), I actually think S1 rushed through the buildup of their relationship, but it is what it is.

So long as they can add some more substance to their dynamics and prevent them from suffering the accursed Shipping Bed Death now that they're together, I guess I won't have anything to nag about on that front.

@ Dem: It's brutal, but it's not that brutal.

Also doesn't have gems like "Burn in your golden hell!"

Edited by X2X on May 4th 2024 at 12:26:10 PM

Oh man, that’s cool. Standard cloth-clad ninjas disabling the Gusoku gear to show how far gone the organization was, and how the other guy is working on the cause of peace.

Edited by Enlong on May 4th 2024 at 12:27:08 PM

Yeah, that was cool.

And so is this finale.

Huh...that ending felt kinda abrupt.

That’s a neat ending. A guy who was looking to die for his revenge ended up living because of the new reason to live that he found.

Show only had 10 episodes, it is what it is. Poor guys could only make do with what they were given.

Edited by slimcoder on May 4th 2024 at 9:31:48 AM