What’s your favorite ep so far?
I have now watched all of The Amazing Digital Circus:
It’s as good as people have been saying it is! I absolutely loved it.
Zooble is my MVP, Caine’s the funniest, not a bad character in the bunch though.
Hard to say too much about it without spoilers, but I really appreciate how many episodes take about half the runtime to just let characters talk to each other and work through their shit. Very good world-building too, all consistent and weird, down to the way vg physics and object collision work in this world.
Obsessed with Bubble for reasons I don’t understand, she is extremely funny to me even when all she does is just float there 99% of the time.
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TADC has such good writing, after the last episode I was like “only…3 months until the next one…”
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I’m still in season 1 but so far I really liked the episode with Mr. Freeze and the one where Batman dates the girl who’s in the rich people gang who rob other rich people while flying around on playing cards.
Also love the villain Derek Powers after he turns into a radioactive skeleton and has to wear special synthetic skin to look human and it keeps chipping off when he gets angry.
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It’s always been easier for me to get why this one got big more than Hazbin, just seems more…put together.
I’d even liked the creator’s previous creepypasta work which mercifully ended before any of it was explained:
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I think it’s simply, I Click Thumbnail With Cute Character.
Pomni is adorable, people click her picture, and after watching a bit get hooked. Hazbin also has a weirdly similar powder-white clown-like cute girl as the lead, only this one looks like a Disney princess, and people see New Disney Like Thing and click it. I read that TADC merch sells incredibly well in Japan and here, which I think speaks to Pomni, Ragatha and Jax being a draw simply as characters in a vacuum.
To compare them, it’s no contest, of course, Digital Circus is funny, interesting, creative, moving, fun to watch. It takes every opportunity to try something new or weird. Clearly made with love, backed by a lot of talent. I cannot believe this thing was made in Blender.
Hazbin is like Equestria Girls with an infinite budget. The world doesn’t really make a ton of sense if you dig too deep into it, meaning you’re not meant to take it seriously, but I also think you’re not supposed to think too much about the world of Frozen. It’s surface-level, it moves, there’s tons of well-performed music, there’s a ton of budget so it all looks great and professional. So yeah people also just binge through Hazbin seasons and move on.
I think if Hazbin cut its cast down to a forth of what it is, and spent nearly as much time as TADC on developing them, it could be quite good too. But I wonder if the Amazon studio looks at something like the long one-on-one conversations they have in Digital Circus and think that things like that aren’t what animation is for. I imagine they think that animation can move fast and can be anything, so thus, it must, because why else then would it be animated?
I thought about this with Common Side Effects, one of the best shows - animated or not - I’ve seen in ages, and that show is really just a lot of character-to-character scenes like you might get in Better Call Saul or something. It doesn’t really need to be animated, but, I like a lot that it is. It certainly gives it freedom to do drug visions with a level of grace you would not be afforded in live-action.
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Just finished the Batman Beyond where they reintroduce Bane. I really like how they bring back the old characters and put a new twist on it. We get to see the original Bane all old and shriveled up on life support and then later on it’s revealed the new Bane is his caretaker. Also the venom being administered via nicotine patch versus a special suit with tubing and stuff meant they could motivate the new Bane by having him be a drug dealer selling venom patches to the jocks at Terry’s school so they could use them as performance enhancers for their low gravity full contact lacrosse games or whatever they’re calling it.
Also Terry still being in high school gives it a kind of early Spider-Man flavor because he has to deal with things like maintaining his relationship with his girlfriend or keeping his grades up while crime fighting. In this one he got grounded after his mom caught him with venom patches he was taking to Bruce to analyze lol. Just lots of nice touches all around,
I’ve also gone back in the last couple weeks and been watching some of season 3 of the original series where the whole thing is about the Bat Family with Batgirl and Nightwing and I’m assuming the Damien Wayne Robin. I watched the one with Scarecrow which I’m blanking on what all went on in that episode aside from his new look which does not resemble a scarecrow at all but a big stocky dude with a fedora and a noose around his neck. What is up with that? I enjoyed the one where Catwoman tries to seduce Nightwing into helping her steal something.
Good stuff. Glad I slept on it because Kevin Conroy is gone and we won’t get anything new from him anymore so I at least get to experience this fresh and new.
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I think the young Robin in the cartoon is Tim Drake
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It’s because he was in the movie but I was very impressed with the fact that the joker is not in the the beyond series At All, he is Not There.
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found out there was a dubbed Mystical Ninja cartoon and watched it for a bit. there’s probably been stronger stuff to get through localisation but i’m a little impressed they didn’t rewrite “seppukumaru”'s intro lines (timestamped 3:10)
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uncle walt uploaded
The short begins with images of Walt Disney at various ages, followed by a slow pan across a graveyard full of the headstones of Perri the squirrel and her family (a reference to Disney’s 1957 live-action fantasy Perri, a film based on Felix Salten’s 1938 novel of the same name). The next shot seen is that of a very early-style Mickey and Minnie Mouse, followed by racist caricatures and toilet humour. A sequence is then seen in which the female centaurs from Fantasia are seen working in a red light district, with Goofy as their pimp, followed by a scene in which various disturbing scenes from Disney films are shown, with a group of rabbit children looking on in horror (including the scene from Disney’s 1937 animated fantasy Snow White in which the Queen transforms into a hag). The final images seen are that of the seven dwarves from Snow White gathering around Mickey Mouse in a “Mouse-ka-mausoleum”, worshiping him in a scene reminiscent of one seen in the original 1937 production.
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Primal season 3 started with a bang. I don’t know where they’re going with it yet but I like the setup of a Zombie Spear with dim memories of who he used to be reacting to things around him. He is a monster now but there is still humanity within. How inhuman has the world grown while he’s been dead I wonder.
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watched the first episodes of ikoku nikki. i think they changed the order of certain events in to make the adaptation flow better. the dialogue feels so natural, its refreshing. bawled my eyes out in the first episode even though i knew what happens. beautiful stuff.
excited for the new frieren season as well but it’s kinda sad they won’t adapt the best arc in the story . . .
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i started getting emotional at the start of gunbuster’s final episode, and that only escalated as it went on.
by the final shot, i was destroyed
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Oshii directed VOTOMS with the ugliest CG you’ve ever seen, please spare me
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Production I.G has aggressive AI usage in their works recently days, I guess here’s the new result. (noted: the news link is also read like AI, most of Japanese companies don’t resist the AI usage in their works)
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the more cg in a votoms project, the better it is
(no, i have not seen votoms finder)
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Halfway through, Jormungand is my favorite anime in ages. Its premise asks the question: what if Metal Gear Solid 4 were actually about Drebin, and he were a woman with a team of badass bodyguards who protected her as she sold weapons around the world? Well, you get something considerably more fun than actual MGS 4. Besides having some excellent gun- and knife-play and tactics, it’s a solid reminder that competent characters with quirks that make them mildly insane is a winning formula.
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