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Mike Toole
@MichaelToole
Editor-at-large, Anime News Network @Anime. Reverse influencer. Soccer dork, A/V pro. Views seen here are mine alone. He / him / what’s-his-face. DMs are open!!
May 19, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
"There are business owners everywhere that need employees, and they can't get anyone to come and work, because the government is handing out unemployment, and people would rather sit on their butts and do nothing and be lazy lumps of blob." typical imo. bloody typical
May 18, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Reading a lot about large platforms banning any sort of sexual content. Back in the 2000s, I once sold a big stack of hentai anime DVDs on ebay. Helped pay the rent that month. Where would you even go to do that move now? (the only hentai DVDs I still own are the ones where I'm quoted on the box. i will not be selling those precious keepsakes)
Mar 20, 2021 • 27 tweets • 7 min read
the lord of the rings and harry potter movies wouldnt even make my top 25 fantasy movies, sheeeesh that was beastmaster. this is the sword and the sorceror
Mar 18, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
halfway through justice league. it continues to be about as good as the 2009 watchmen movie. thinking about a lot of stuff that i didn't really notice in the 2017 cut, like how they made cyborg older and flash younger. the tweaks to steppenwolf's armor don't bother me, but why did they give him that weird monkey face? they should've made him look MORE like regular ciaran hinds, not less, IMO.

and given him the beard!! i hate these movies' anti-beard agenda.
Nov 7, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
cannot overstate how hilarious and utterly batshit crazy this is, for several reasons. I'm a longtime pro AV/events guy, so let me explain: First of all, obviously you can project that you're speaking from a position of prestige and power at a place like the Seasons. The chain has HIGH standards for its facilities, looks both clean and opulent, top to bottom. They'll have staff on hand to welcome the party.
Sep 27, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
35 yrs ago, Harmony Gold combined the 1978 Captain Harlock series w/1982's Queen Millennia series, in order to reach the 65-ep target for daily syndication. It aired in a few markets and disappeared. oh hey look the internet archive's got 61/65 episodes!! archive.org/details/captai… This particular version is fascinating to me, for several reasons:
1) Harmony Gold had 43 episodes of Harlock '78, but somehow couldn't secure the obvious choice for syndication, the OTHER 1982 Matsumoto series, the Eternal Orbit SSX series, starring Captain Harlock...!
Sep 26, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Neil Sedaka has been giving mini-concerts on Youtube pretty much every day since April 8. He still sounds great! I've been hoping he'll play his songs that were appropriated for the anime TV series Zeta Gundam (especially "For Us To Decide," which was never recorded in English!) Turns out I was mistaken - @neilsedaka sings "Better Days are Coming," which was covered in Zeta Gundam as "Zeta - Toki wo Koete." It's at 3:42 in this concert. (thank you, @micpp42!)
Sep 23, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I get this when I try to watch the Revs game on ESPN+

these games are usually, but not always "blacked out," a gibberish term IMO. i paid my subscription fee, let me watch the fuckin game. if I subscribe to the local cable TV channel w/the game that's an extra $50/month, absurd incidentally, the #NERevs are usually very, very good at getting broad, inclusive TV deals set up. In 18 years of watching, I have _never_ had a "blacked out" game until this month.
Sep 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Since the conversation is once again tilting this way, I consider what I pay for instead of paying for an expensive cable TV package. I get:
Funimation and Crunchy ($50/year ea)
Netflix ($144/yr... wow, that got expensive, hrm)
ESPN+ ($50/yr)
NHL ($120/yr)
CBS ($60/yr) That works out to about $40/month. Even the cheapest, most basic cable TV package is $50/month, and gets me almost none of the above stuff. Why pay for TV?

I've considered it because of this recent vexatious development. Still too expensive, tho! Image
Sep 2, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
i mean ImageImage he's seriously trying to do the "hey fans, tell your local doofuscon to invite me!!" move, only with a giant toy conglomerate
Aug 31, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
everyone is definitely always wrong. critics and audiences alike, big huge dumb babies, watch what you enjoy, that means it's good ImageImageImageImage disrespectful tbh ImageImage
Aug 30, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
oh my god, come ON Image Image
Aug 17, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
ah, heres a good thread, because it mentions AnimeLog, the new anime studios YT channel that sure sounds like it will soon be a way for me to legitimately enjoy, like, HEIDI or STAR OF THE SEINE. It also touches on the largely inscrutable (to an old like me, anyway) youtube shitlord phenomenon., talking about a particular obviously-false video that has 200,000 views. Now, I'm curious: how many of those views are real, do you think?
Aug 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
LRT: that's an interesting sentiment, because when I first heard Susumu Hirasawa (Millennium Actress, natch) he _immediately_ reminded me of Peter Gabriel. Especially Gabriel's collaboration with Deep Forest: This song came up in my working walk shuffle. Man it STILL sounds futuristic to me.

Man. Remember soundtrack albums?
Aug 1, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Looks like @Otakon online is happening, maybe?? I’ll be presenting later today! Image I salute the bravery of Otakon for leading with a LIVE trans-pacific panel... bumpy ride so far.
Jul 31, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
spotify lost $186 million last year. Here's the billionaire CEO, whining that musicians need to make more music for his fiscally barren garbage platform. use bandcamp instead, buy the music you love thefader.com/2020/07/30/spo… It is interesting to me that my desire to buy and own my music, and keep most of it copied onto the device I carry around with me all the time, makes me a dinosaur.
Jul 31, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
FATAL FURY 2: THE NEW BATTLE turns 27 years old today. This is a fun little retrospective about fans' reaction to Mai Shiranui making her first animated appearance. Sometimes people forget that the first big fighting game to get the anime treatment wasn't Street Fighter, it was Fatal Fury. This feature was actually a TV special; Viz released it on video in North America in 1995. This was a a BIG FAVORITE at my dorm. Image
Jul 15, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
LRTs: @GKIDSfilms sticking to the 'classic' Lupin the 3rd English dub cast for a big-deal theatrical film entry-point-for-new-fans is a very classy move, and IMO cements the cast as an institution. I hope to hear them in many more Lupin the 3rd dubs!! I'm still thinking about this, because it strikes a contrast against what Warner Bros did with their new Scooby-Doo movie-- celebrity-recasting, despite the fact that there is a solid, extant cast, some of whom have been voicing their characters for 10+ years.
May 7, 2020 • 348 tweets • >60 min read
for every like this tweet gets I’ll show u a dvd on my shelf Blackjack OVA
Jan 8, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
LRT: This is a good read on the state of paid translation for anime and manga. I'm curious to know the source of Crunchyroll paying $80 per episode. That figure is credible-- in fact, it was key to translation/subtitling pay rates deflating dangerously circa 2010. 1/? Prior to that, translation and subtitling anime often paid anywhere from $200 to $300 for a single 24-minute episode. (Think $10-15 per minute.) When the home video market crashed and anime started migrating to legal streams, this paradigm shift also extended to translation.
Jun 9, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Let me quickly lay out what this is - the larger of the two beards in this clip is Ty Beard (nominative determinism!!). He's the attorney that Vic Mignona retained for his legal case that we've all had to think about for the past 2 days instead of more fun stuff, like anime. Beard's remark in the clip - "Would the Farms be so kind as to 'find out about this guy' for us?" is regarding @greg_doucette, a NC attorney who's spent a merry 48 hours critiquing what looks like a pretty bumptious case for the entertainment of #LawTwitter.