I’m not gonna lie and say that I remember the exact date that Toonami went off the air in America. On the contrary, it’s all a blur to me—I remember I was in high school, and I remember finding out somehow that that night would be Toonami’s last airing (Pacific timer, so I probably found out from someone online, or a commercial, or something) and not really feeling that much more past that. In general, I watched the action block…
Episode 2: Class-Representative Selection Match For the record, I’m not actually expecting this show to be… well, ‘ya know, good, at any point during the course of its 12-episode run. Going into a series that I was already told beforehand would suck, I’m naturally expecting the worst of the worst at the turn of every frame. That said, I am, however, expecting the 11 remaining episodes to not be as dreadfully boring as the first. After all, this is supposed…
Heh, kind of difficult to be objective about something like Problem Solverz, since you’ve got a 95/5 split for a fandom…and what a small, isolated fandom they are. Anyway…Problem Solverz started airing on Cartoon Network earlier this year, coming off the heels and in the heat of the big reform they’ve been making over the past few years. Folks had just started migrating back to CN to partake of its new smashing successes (namely, the bizarre and imaginative Adventure Time…
Episode 8: The Cohesion that Vanishes Into the Twilight After being told by Sunohara that more and more people are forgetting Fuko, Tomoya is having an introvert moment before Nagisa and Fuko snap him out of it by confirming that the wedding will be next Sunday. So yay, everything’s happy for almost five seconds. We proceed to get more footage of Fuko trying to hand out starfish. However, people are just ignoring this little green girl and her promise of…
Last Thursday, the Nicktoons turned 20. We had a plan to celebrate this and everything, but our series seemed to have fell through. But the interest was still there, and after watching the Nostalgia Critic’s Top 11 B:TAS Episodes list, I decided to take a crack at something different myself. I picked eleven memorable episodes from eleven memorable Nicktoons and put them up in this list. There’s no ranking here, and each show is put here in broadcast order. I…
Episode 1 – All my Classmates are Female Believe it or not, we actually kick things off on a bit of a flying start. Literally. Cut to scenic, sunset-splashed ocean setting, where several peeps in airborne robot suits (a guy, buncha girls, and some unidentifiable person hiding behind a tinted visor) are duking it out in what appears to be the BATTLE OF THE CENTURY. Or something. I’m given the vibe that visor-guy appears to be the antagonist, while the…
Again, sorry for the delay, and this time, I only have two entries to share. But first, go read. Mickey’s Amateurs (1937) Eh, more or less a colorized remake of “Orphan’s Benefit”. Not much to say here. Some different events, same scenario. Mickey Plays Papa (1934) Now this one is a little more fun. It stars off with Mickey reading Pluto a spooky bedtime story (because who doesn’t do that with their dogs, right?), when a curious stranger comes to…
Yeah… it’s one of those episodes. Episode 7: Star-Shaped Plot Tumors Previously on Clannad, Tomoya and Nagisa find out that Ms. Ibuki can neither see nor hear Fuko. The show doesn’t really explain why, so it just expects us to roll with it and bawl at how they can’t share their true feelings with each other now. Yeah, call me a soulless monster for not feeling it, but I need logic before I can get the slightest bit involved in…
Episode 6 – The Older and Younger Sister’s Plot Contrivance It’s morning, and Tomoya has been introduced to the sight of Mrs. Furukawa’s star bread. Lined up on all the rows of the bakery, Nagisa’s mom takes an abnormal pride in how she “designed every single one of them, from cream-filled to jam-filled.” After Tomoya bemoans her for concocting such a horrid idea, she falls into a Degrassi moment and complains that her husband said the same thing. Unlike the…
Episode 5: The Scenery With No One to Care About Last time on Clannad, it was revealed that Fuko’s the centerpiece for the show’s first arc. More specifically, she’s the comatose little sister to a character we only saw once so far. Now put that fistful of sleeping pills away, for the worst has yet to some. After putting two and two together, Tomoya starts playing Scully and remarks on how mental it is for a ghost to be living…