#Inuyasha and Kagome are the best parents of this whole shitty story.

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Custom Toonami Block Week 161 Rundown

Spy X Family: This is actually a pretty good pair for one of those split episodes. First half deals with Anya getting some bad news that the next semester’s classes will divided up by performance and Anya’s basically at the bottom while Becky’s in the middle and Damian’s at the top so not only would she lose a friend but it’d put the mission at risk if she got separated from Damian and the weird part is it seems like even if she gets her grades up she’ll still be separated from one of them so it’s a good paradox. Still we kinda get sidetracked by a fight over a macaron that’s supposed to make whoever eats it smarter, The gloomy Oblongs-looking kid from the other episode gets it and they split it amongst them with the one not getting any decided by a game of Old Maid, shenanigans ensue. Anya cheats to win but everyone calls her on it and then while trying to cheat less she almost loses and only wins because Damian moe radar starts going off again but of course even with the magic macaron she isn’t any smarter, though Loid notes she seems to know what she’s talking about with foreign languages despite her spelling being atrocious. Second half Franky namedrops a super secret spy group that definitely won’t be important later and then gets ditched by Loid when he wants to use his gadgets to look for a stray cat for the girl he’s flirting with. This is where he trips across Yor and she gets involved. Yor and Franky are actually a surprisingly good comedic pair and I really like this bit despite it being simple and silly. Yor ends up getting humped by cats until she’s able to rip open Franky’s varia suit to scare the cat back into line but turns out the girl’s already married, oh well.

Inuyasha: It’s another ‘Miroku was shitty in the past’ episode, this time actually acknowledging that Miroku and Sango are engaged at this point in the story. Turns out two years ago Miroku visited this girl who was very sick and jipped her parents out of some expensive medicine and promised to marry her daughter to keep her going which puts him in an awkward situation now that he’s back and a demon wants to marry her in exchange for helping with said medicine so the dad’s like ‘hey fuck my daughter and she won’t be a virgin anymore for the demon to marry’ and god this plot is messed up. To her credit, Sango is trying not to hold something Miroku did in the past over his head too much and acknowledges the complexity of the issue but you can’t really blame her for it bothering her unlike all the Kikyo stuff in the past couple episodes with Kagome. This also gets worse when the girl says Miroku already fucked her in the past which… eww she was probably not of age yet and was also bedridden that’s just kinda not a good look. The demon is a giant catfish who is kind of a creep but honestly relatively understanding about the whole thing despite being upset, also helps that he’s not very strong and one good smack from Inuyasha turns his rampage into a pity party. It’s kinda funny when Kagome’s watching the telenovella thing going on with Miroku and Sango while Inuyasha’s fighting a giant catfish and Shippo points out they may have misdirected the plot a bit. The catfish runs off with the girl and Sango runs off in general and Miroku gets to be possessive when the catfish grabs up Sango too and sucks up THE WHOLE FUCKING LAKE in his Wind Tunnel which is probably bad for this girl’s family as it seemed to be their best water source but whatever. Sango gets to have Miroku do a few laps chasing her around the lake and the girl admits she never fucked Miroku and Miroku’s just like ‘yeah I thought my fiancée would trust me enough to know better but then again I was a creep’ so it’s kinda both their faults which doesn’t really resolve anything but it’s fine I suppose.

Yu Yu Hakusho: The Demon World Tournament and we get the real dual reasons why the Dark Tournament fighters were brought back: they’re basically jobbers for the new guys, with Jin, Suzuki (off-screen) and Touya all losing their fights to some of Raizen’s old friends so they can do the JJK ‘stand proud, you’re strong’ to characters we’ve been following a lot longer. This is kind of infuriating in the same way bringing back the Edo Tensei Zombies in Naruto or the Arrancar/Fullbrings for Bleach was, it’s the end of the series and you bring back some old characters for nostalgia but don’t have the narrative room to actually do anything with them so you basically shelve them and it kinda sucks. Though to the story’s credit, Kurama and Mukuro do pick up on the alternative motive for the tournament being making friends of people who can respect each others’ strength just like Yusuke did to all these guys during the Dark Tournament, sort of a ‘fight in the right way’ type deal that builds up respect instead of resentment. I am still kinda frustrated that we don’t get good resolutions for some of these guys but I do appreciate that Yusuke’s final master plan is ‘everyone fight until we’re all friends’ it’s like weaponizing Shonen Protagonist powers on a global scale.

Jujutsu Kaisen: It’s the end of the Gojo flashback arc and… god this one kinda hurts too, like not a sharp possibility-shattering pain like Riko’s death but the dull ache of something that happened long ago but still hurts. It’s been a year since Riko died and since Gojo’s fuckshow strong now he’s doing more solo missions which means Geto’s also doing more solo missions which means Geto gets time to brood and mull over his future supervillain tendencies. He’s basically already struggling and then gets confronted by Todo’s future teacher with the idea of how to stop Cursed Spirits which is presented with a lot more honesty and relatability than it was in the movie with the ‘fuck everyone without superpowers’ cult. Essentially normal people are like cups with pinholes in them, they sweat and leak and that sweaty leakage becomes a flood of Cursed Spirits, but Jujutsu Sorcerers are like tumblers, everything’s sealed inside and the fluid maintains the required temperature. Now admittedly Todo’s Sensei was obviously not trying to come out and say kill all normies but the idea of harassing the entire world until everyone either gets superpowers or dies is a lot more substantial when you realize Cursed Spirits only exist because the normies literally can’t hold their water and then the dudes that can hold their water have to go out and fight and die for them and the leaky cups don’t even know they’re leaky and just keep doing it. This all comes to a head when on top of this Darth Plagueis-esque conversation and designated too good for this world flashback guy gets killed and Geto is sent off to a Higurashi-style superstitious village that locked the two teenage girls from the movie up for doing weird shit when Cursed Spirits created by the normies were the ones that actually were running amuck. So yeah, Geto’s done, he’s just like ‘fuck it, burn everything’ mode. He and Gojo have a goodbye scene that basically matches what happened in the movie and it’s like Episode III where Gojo just can’t kill his best friend despite Geto admitting if he does he’ll prevent all the deaths of the people he’s about to murder. Geto starts his weird cult with the remains of the HappyHappyists and Gojo takes up Megumi in a fractured effort to get SOMETHING good to come of that whole experience and Gojo wakes up to see his three knuckleheads fucking around and I’m sure none of them will die in the near future and everything will be fine.

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off: The whole episode is set up like a found footage documentary which is kinda cool but far from the neatest media blending this series has done so far. But yeah, Ramona’s still on the set of the movie, once again trying to confront a second Ex that is now playing Scott in the movie about his Vegan Portal showing up in the kidnapping video. However when Todd and Envy can’t stop making out, Wallace decides to fix that… by making out with Todd instead and causing him to have some bisexual panic and admittedly their little relationship is cute though Todd is either a terrible person or I’m massively disillusions on how flighty the flings of twenty-somethings are. Envy’s understandably pretty pissed that Wallace turned her Vegan boyfriend gay and they fight but because they’re too rich/arrogant/catty to actually fight they fight like Batman villains in Arkham Asylum and have their henchmen fight instead. Eventually things cool down and Ramona gets confirmation that another Vegan must’ve snatched Scott because the Vegan Signatures don’t match Todd’s powers. Also Matt comes down in his Kaibacorp copter and cancels the movie because it was ridiculously unproductive and making him out to be the midboss he is. He and Ramona talk and he gives her the dirt on Gideon’s new living arrangement and she has her new target.

Ranking of Kings: So these two sets of filler vignettes actually happen after the last episode so we have some kind of illusion of progression at least. The first involves Bojji as king doing his normal shit and helping out some kids by literally giving them the shirt off his back which is nice and all but you’d think as king he could be like ‘go get this boy some clothes’ instead of pulling the same tricks he did at the beginning of the series. Anyway they save the kids’ bird but through the journey Bojji hammers home how much he misses Kage who left for… some reason, idk, despite Bojji still needing help to be a good king and Kage saying he’d be with him always I guess we needed a reason for conflict even though I have no idea why if the next season’s just going to be retreading past arcs, at least this gives the impression that Bojji was king for more than like, a week. The second but is the same kind of story but with Daida re-instated as king and trying to be a better person and showing off his growth around town. He tells Miranjo to keep a low profile since some peeps are understandably still mad about her almost murdering the whole kingdom but she sneaks out to teach children how to read and write and so Daida decides to demolish the old barracks and make a school instead which is a good idea in principle as long as they have no wars forever and this whole incident with the Underworld Fugitives doesn’t prove that their army is woefully inept and leave all the work to like seven guys.  

Vinland Saga: It’s a Canute episode and damn has he been up to some shit, whilte Thorfinn’s been farming and idly contemplating death, just as Canute predicted the former King of England is like ‘oop Sweyn’s dead, time to come back’ so Canute’s in the same war for England that his father was, though his troops are not terribly fond of his ‘no murder and pillaging’ policies and Thorkell’s having a hard time adapting to them not fighting until everyone else is a bloody paste on the ground too. The Lord of Mercia sent for a ceasefire and Canute comes out himself just to send a message, this guy tries to buy him half with a fuckton of gold to get him to pull out of his area and Canute’s just like: ‘Bro, I’ve killed people for this, you’ve killed people for this, if you think any amount of money is going to justify the lives of everyone on both sides who have died for this you can go fuck yourself. Since you’ve already betrayed your supposed king by trying to bribe me for special treatment, let’s do that but in a way that matters, okay? Come help me assassinate him and I won’t drive your region into the fucking dirt.’ And the lord does seem to reject this offer at first until Canute shows him just how many camps he has and how absolutely fucked there, like the only reason the war isn’t already over is because Canute doesn’t want to just go in and murder everyone. So he presumably scares the shit out enough of the King’s retainers to get him assassinated and then his son takes over and HE’S assassinated so they’re like ‘yeah sure let’s just give it to the Danish guy before out guys keep mysteriously dying’. And just like that, with a strategic show of force Canute is crowned King of England in a third of the time it took Sweyn and with far, far less bloodshed. Like I wouldn’t say Canute’s hands are clean or anything but he seems to be doing a decent job of keeping the warmongering to a minimum for the same results.

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