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Ah, but even if High School of the Dead was the show in question, Evil Fueher Kim turned it down because of too much fanserivce and too much action, while a lame slice of of life show gets the go ahead. If we end up with Stein's Gate and Angel Beats instead of High School of the Dead, then...

Here's Episode 1 of Steins Gate: http://www.crunchyroll.com/steinsgate/episode-1-prologue-to-the-beginning-and-end-573382 Judge for yourself, but honestly, I don't see what a casual audience would latch on to here. It's...dull.

High School of the Dead has been airing on Anime Network and its affiliates for several months now. Even if it wasn't too awesome/obscene for Adult Swim Action (let's face it, Comedy's gotten away with worse) it's still being aired elsewhere. I'm going with Stein's Gate. It's slow, it's very...

Nerds tend to get more defensive about comics than crops. :P. So it never comes up I bet.

Oh that bit about them not getting anything good is a sig. As for Madoka, while it's a good show and suitably nutty, it's also a deconstruction of a genre Americans don't care about. Think about the idea of showing a de-construction of Westerns to a Bollywood audience or Watchmen to an...

So apparently there was a bump de-confirming both Final Act and Tiger & Bunny. Not sure how valuable it is, but worth noting.

Best Series - Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 Best Single Episode - "Last Dance for Napkin Lad", Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 Best Male Character - Master Shake, Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 Best Female Character - Francine Smith, American Dad Best Supporting Character - Principal Lewis, American...

I'm trying to decide what's funnier still, the helmet video or the duo watching The Ultimate Fighter. I'm also going to second I'm a bit burnt out on Jersey Shore clips. It's dumb yeah, and I know there's less videos for them to use, but the show is almost too easy to mock. The actual...

JMS has a point, as unprofessional as this may seem, although I question if it's just on him. A lot of people dropped Spider-Man after One More Day, which was Quesada's editorial mandate. Even if he had stayed on after that little deal with the devil, the total number of readers would have...

I got promoted to brown belt in judo yesterday, which means I am almost officially better at takedowns than about 3/4's of my classmates (the other 1/4 outranking me in judo or having a considerably longer history wrestling). Still, I always thought I'd get my jiu jitsu purple belt before my...

I could see some weird logic in getting that movie. "We can't get the TV series after the Saban debacle on Fox Kids, so let's just grab the movie and call it a day.". Did come across random in the end, but there was at least some reasoning.

Viacom still retains access to the UFC library pre-2011 until the end of 2012. Strange arrangement admittedly, but at that point Fox can use it and until they can, Spike can't pick up a new MMA league. Newer footage is solely for use by Fox.

Andrew's probably right that Kekkaishi was only picked up because it was pitched to them on the cheap, which while a bit more common when Adult Swim was getting movies and one shots (Remember that one really bad 30 minute OVA about the kids and the mask? Wasn't exactly Dead Leaves) is still...

All I'm saying is it's unlikely. Nothing more, nothing less. On the topic of New Years, am I the only one that misses stuff like the Bashingtons and other NYE content? I enjoyed that stuff quite a bit.

1. Sure they do. It wouldn't look anywhere near as expensive, but they could easily do the premise in a much cheaper format and keep the profits. Better that than use a third party acquisition where they get none of the licensing. 2. Like I've noted before, both Bebop and FLCL were years...