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Mike Toole

@miketoole.com

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He/him. Semi-pro anime dork, longtime AV professional, enjoyer of soccer, beer, cycling, movies, and some other stuff.

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Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 1h

oh, wow

SUGAR @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social · 2h

Sugar is back! New music at sugarcopperblue.com PLUS May 2026 live shows in NYC and London. All the info is here!

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 6h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 2h

they tell me cats do this because they love crinkly, crunchy sounds. i can believe it - both of my cats' heads whip around when I rustle some crinkly plastic. only one of them is really zealous about chewing on it, though 😸

The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 1d

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 1d

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 3h

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 16h

One of the things i like about Tokyo Revengers is that it's about post-2000 bosozoku, when the subculture was collapsing into a junior wing of the criminal underworld. There are these wild swings between preposterous, chaotic high school brawls and genuinely deadly, suspenseful situations.

Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 16h

It's hard to get bosozoku anime/manga just right. You gotta have the right mix of hot-blooded, righteous fist-fighting with other 15 year olds, lots of dumb-looking motorbikes and cars, and at least periodic examination of how utterly absurd the bosozoku subculture is.

Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 16h

It really is! I don't care if there are leaks in that house, I wish I'd inherited it. 😀

Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 16h

I am six books deep in Tokyo Revengers. Fun little series about an aimless 20something who slips back in time to his delinquent younger self, tasked with unraveling a gangland mystery that eventually resulted in the death of his old flame. Lots of bosozoku silliness.

Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 16h

yes! currently, I am borrowing Delicious in Dungeon, Hirayasumi, and Tokyo Revengers from my local library. They're all good. Delicious in Dungeon is my favorite.

Delicious in Dungeon manga 1 by Ryoko Kui. A knight in armor stands in the foreground of a dungeon corridor, holding a frying pan and spatula. In the background, the rest of a traditional adventurers' party (dwarf, elf, and halfling) can be seen, as well as a red dragon.

Hirayasumi manga volume 1 by Keigo Shinzo. A pair of characters do exercises in the front yard of their ordinary house. The man, on the right, is unselfonscious, similing as he stretches and wearing a white hoodie and blue shorts. The girl to his left looks a bit embarrassed; she's wearing red striped shorts and a yellow t-shirt with a black star on it. There's a beach ball in the foreground, and laundry drying in the background. Is that an old-fashioned radio on the engawa??

Tokyo Revengers volume 1 by Ken Wakui. A twenty-something man in a red hoodie stares resolutely. He has dark, messy hair and a green backpack.

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red 🎃 @prettypinkpansy.bsky.social · 2d

im fucking sobbing i thought he had a pair of really tiny shitty legs sticking out

Cheap Ass Gamer @cheapassgamer.com · 2d

Cable Guy: A New Hope Darth Vader Star Wars Phone Stand & Controller Holder - Officially Licenced - Exquisite Gaming $15.92 via Amazon (Prime Eligible). https://ow.ly/8c7C50X6GRb

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 1d

A squirrel is standing inside and peeking over the top rim of a hollowed out pumpkin. The top of the pumpkin can be seen behind. The squirrel is wearing a slouchy black witch hat with orange stripes and holding a squirrel-sized chef knife. The knife is because the squirrel has carved the words ‘MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN’ in the side of the pumpkin and in the ground in front the word ‘TODAY’ has been spelled with stringy orange pumpkin guts with seeds scattered all around.

Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 22h

ah, heres where we start splitting hairs, because I think of all of those as super robot shows, distinctive from 'real robot' mecha shows in their relative lack of extremely detailed line drawings and somewhat more realistic behavior that mecha shows are known for~

Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 22h

there are a lot of great lines in ken le survivant. many of them are based around extremely dumb-sounding voices. this is one of the best line rewrite gags, though.

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Dave, Second Dude Under Heaven @sasuraiger.bsky.social · 22h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jji... today i learned that in the french parody dub of fist of the north star, when yuria jumps, shin yells "i wasn't finished building the railing! bring me the guy who built this, she's dead because of him!!"

Ken le Survivant "Julia, je n'avais pas fini de construire la rambarde !"

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Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 22h

I don't fault Mark for going after an eye-grabbing headline, but man... no Sunrise mecha series can be "most obscure" when there's a whole pile of 1980s MIC shows that continue to delight younger fans when they go "wait, what the hell is J9??" and try an episode out.

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Prairie Rose Clayton @hooverdam.bsky.social · 1d

On the one hand, this is a Boston (ok, Framingham) brand known worldwide

On the other, this is like sending the kits straight there

Boston Legacy FC @bostonlegacyfc.com · 1d

Announcing our front of kit partner, TJ Maxx

Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 1d

oh boy, there's finally a da-- ahhhh shit, it's on a tuesday.

i could TECHNICALLY make this, but 'technically' is doin a lot of work. we'll see I suppose...!!

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d

Mega Man Animated TV Series (Blu-ray) preorder down to $37.99 on Amazon (out in 2 weeks) buff.ly/7YzxEfO #ad

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Mythy the Kitty @mythiot.bsky.social · 1d

Nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted you as the soyjak doomscroller Bob and myself as the chad organizer Sensei Sergio.

Bob Ferguson from One Battle After Another

Sensei Sergio from One Battle After Another

Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 1d

yeah, 3.0+1.0 actually came out on video well before the others, presumably because their old funimation license hadnt totally lapsed yet.

i just... man. i like the rebuild films a lot, and i like dubs a lot, so basically i gotta buy 1-3 again?? hahaha. ahaha.

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🦇Count Grantula: Dead and Loving It🦇 @grantthethief.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna be getting mileage out of this one

Karashi from Akane Banashi saying this sucks, man

Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 1d

someday we'll get the whole story of why they dubbed these movies twice (3 times, in rebuild 2's case). is it REALLY because people were laughing at one specific dub screening that senior khara staff were present for?? could be, could be...

vi @v-i.dev · 2d

Not that this is really going to be a surprise to anyone, but the GKIDS Blu-ray for Evangelion 2.22 came in, and there's no Funimation dub in sight, only the Amazon/Dubbing Brothers one. Will update when 1.11 comes in if it's magically any different.

ENGLISH VERSION
Studio
DUBBING BROTHERES USA
Director
JOE FRIA
Project Translator /
English ADR Script Translation Supervisor
DAN KANEMITSU
Localization Quality Assurance
MARK SKIBO
Lead Recording Engineer
DAVID COBB
Assistant Recording Engineers
AFSHAR KHARAT

MICHAEL "S3RVO" LEONARD

REED LOVELL
Editor
DAVID COBB
Mixer
PATRICK GIRAUDI
Production Manager
VERONICA VALENCIA

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sping @boogerstyle.com · 1d

It's just awesome that all of the most powerful people in the world openly acknowledge that "low skill workers" do all of the most important work while also continuing to maintain a system that ensures the overwhelming majority of people are perpetually poor, miserable and dying.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.