An updated and revised timeline of the entire series, including movies. Needless to say, there are spoilers for everything. Click the link below:
We’ll update the timeline again when the second part of S2 is released, or if there’s new information in supplemental materials.
If you spot an error, please drop a message on Twitter or on Discord, the links are in the sidebar!
It’s been a while since we’ve been blogging, and blogging again. And right now we’re not so sure about how much blogging we’ll do about season 2. It’s not just about how much our lives have changed since the first season (it’ll be 11 years when S2 airs – we’re no longer students, we have day jobs and commitments) but also the fact that it’ll be on Netflix and the first cour will be released in one go.
A large part of the experience for first season, probably for most of the people who got into TIGER & BUNNY while it was still airing, was waiting for the next episode to come out. Waiting, discussing, theorizing, talking about the plot and the characters. The wait for the final episode was both excruciating (and filled with carbs) and a lot of fun. We literally talked about TIGER & BUNNY every day for months. This social aspect is really important and I’m not sure if the series would have gathered the following it did if it had been released in one go for streaming. It might have been fast forgotten if it hadn’t been for the fans talking about it so much throughout the entire first season as it aired.
Times change, and binging a series can be fun – we’ve probably all been there with “just one more episode”. A binged series has to be great to make it memorable, it’s just too easy to zone out mentally when you’re on a full day marathon through the season. There’s no time to digest what you just watched when the next episode is already queued. Streaming platforms dedicated to anime (Crunchyroll, Wakanim, etc.) still do weekly releases, and Disney+ has been successful releasing an episode per week for their MCU series – although some of them actually work better when binged, and they feel like they were made for binging despite the weekly releases. Netflix is the outlier here and we sort of wish S2 would be streamed somewhere else.
The first season is currently available on Netflix in my country. They have removed all sponsor logos from the hero suits (which makes the opening sequences very awkward without nothing to zoom to) and the episodes lack the C-part. Not including the C-part (the stinger after the ending and before next episode preview) is like walking out of a Marvel movie the moment the credits start rolling. Many episodes had vital plot points in the C-part. So, if any of you have watched the first season only on Netflix, we urge you to find another version and check it out. This is the biggest problem with the Netflix release, parts of the episodes missing without good reason, and it raises a worry if S2 will have these mindless edits.
Lastly, there’s the QUALITY GYM. Parts of S1 production were rushed which shows in animation quality – something that is very common in anime as new episodes are produced while the show is already airing. Having half of the season released in one go means more even and higher quality… but the QUALITY of S1 had its own charm. If you haven’t seen the TV versions of the episodes, you might not realize how big the differences were.
Check some examples below, comparison of TV version and the corrections made for blu-ray release:
Thank you, and again thank you everyone for taking part in the 10th Anniversary Rice Event!
Some of you we recognized from the first event 10 years ago, so it was amazing to see you taking part once again, along with the new fans that have joined in for the 1st time. With season 2 slowly on the horizon, who knows what will come out from it, that maybe we’ll be able to celebrate it for the 20th anniversary…? Whatever happens, we can’t wait to see!
Without further ado, you can find all the pictures here in the gallery.
Submission form data will be saved until April 11th in case something needs fixing, after that it will be deleted.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of TIGER&BUNNY, we again invite you all to cook up some fried rice! To grab some inspiration, you can check out the original event gallery. If you’ve never cooked fried rice before, we have translated Kotetsu’s own fried rice recipe.
How to take part:
The submission period will run from March 27th to April 3rd at 20:00 GMT. After the submission form closes, the pictures will be posted as a gallery for everyone to view. (We’ll have the gallery up as soon as possible, but it depends on how much rice you cooked!)
We can’t wait to see what you cook up this time!
(This post has been edited on April 3rd.)
Today it’s been three years since the final episode aired. Happy Taibaniversary and thanks, and thanks again!
We’re still here, although it’s hard to blog actively when so little is happening, a.k.a. still waiting for S2.
Meanwhile, I’m browsing through all the fried rice.
This is Sternbild 