You know, I honestly do miss the fun/flashy sort of mecha shows that you tend to get with shows like Aquarion EVOL and Valvrave. Yeah, they can be dumb sometimes, and their character/romance handling is often far less than perfect, but they're also very amusing and enjoyable rides (most of the time) and make for great "water cooler/shooting the breeze" talk.

So thanks for the heads-up on the upcoming Aquarion sequel. I'll definitely be looking forward to it (though I hope Kawamori calls the shots more than Okada this time, presuming both are still involved).

...so Vince had Mark drop the streak to Brock?

And here I thought that short meeting at UFC a few years back with him asking Lesnar wanna do it? was actually asking for a favor. The way I heard it, The Streak was offered multiple times but nobody wanted to take it.

Lol, it does sound kinda funny. Since his relative is The Rock, and The Rock also got pushed too fast to the crowd's charin. Doesn't anyone learn anything?

The whole thing sounds banal too. You have a guy that's booked to go to WM in a super predictible fashion while the alternative are just unceremoniously thrown. Meanwhile, Brock Lesnar who has been champion for the longest time just to make a few more dollars is going out the door (again) so it's pretty obvious he's gonna drop the title. None of this would be bad in of itself, except Lesnar's title run was pretty bad, like in not appearing most of the time and feuding with... mostly Cena. So we build this up and even took the Undertaker's streak as collateral damage to build up this unimpressive mound of nonsense. Meanwhile, when Lesnar takes the title away, we get Cena vs the Corporation v35 because that sure didn't get old 10 years ago with HHH again being teh bad guy and of course they can never be defeated, kinda like one of those 80s cartoons.

It's like they didn't learn from last year which Batista randomly won it (I read that, and was like wtf, this guy is back lol) but at the very least they managed to conjure a great way for Bryan to get through. This, they've already said they're not gonna repeat that, because well, talk about digging yourself into a hole.

It's 2015, so giving the fans what they want is changing. News and rumors travel faster than they've always been, and playing blind does them no favors.

I really have no idea.

Also, I see Yosuga no Sora's being licensed? Whoa. I was gonna talk to you about the Royal Rumble news, but that's clearly not as important.

The thing about this year's Royal Rumble match is it got to the classic chaos of several or more people in the ring once, like they couldn't work out the choreography for everyone being in at the same time so we're left with a glorified battle royale. And yeah, when it got down to Big Show, Kane, and Reigns, the crowd was chanting this is bullshit! on top of Dwayne's interference. The push was painfully obvious, and Lesnar just needs to plain lose that belt sooner than later or he'll be elevated to a point where a loss becomes a hard sell. What happened to that match where Cena was destroying Lesnar though, lol.

Yeah Sting is apparently gonna face Hunter at the PPV before WM; no newer faces (or heels) were pushed that day. Still, it's a normal match AFAIK, unlike that ladder match between Hunter and Nash a few years back (great booking for a match with two guys past their prime and half a leg between them gaiz). Maybe Levesque should ask his father in law for advice.

So I wasn't the only one who thought the 2015 Royal Rumble match was shit.

Dat triple threat tho

Rikishi in the WWE Hall of Fame.

Not sure how feel.

Yeah, that could cause trouble.

A bit of a surprising licensing decision given how Yosuga no Sora is a few years old. Are the American licensers going back to the old "license every anime show that comes out!" approach, I wonder?

Oho, are you a Markiplier fan?

Ah, well, I definitely wouldn't say I liked Jessie's voice, but she certainly did a great job at sounding the part.

To me Nikki's VA sounded like she was just reading directly off the script while trying to speak with a tone she didn't have enough practice with and ended up sounding forced.