ended up getting into that “smiling friends” which seems mostly like an adult swim show for people exactly ten years younger than me like how venture bros was a show for people exactly ten years older than me. it’s a lot of fun. it’s got a lot of fun skillful animation and gags. you can definitely tell it came from ONLINE but in a good way. i think part of it’s explosive success is that it’s one of the few adult comedy cartoons that doesn’t have a character in the main cast who is a chaos dipshit. without a rick or a bender or a master shake or whatever to constantly antagonize the other characters, the fundamentals of the way the plots shake out have to be different. feels like trying to stay sane and make the best of things in hell which makes sense as an appeal for the Youths Of Today.
I just about preferred YOLO: Crystal Fantasy over Smiling Friends, mostly due to the more Australian-rooted humour, which means it’s very slightly more relatably British
I’m now all the way through it and into Future. I’m impressed that at the end of the main series when Steven goes Mob Psycho that they didn’t lean into it very hard.
I also started watching Steven Universe (although I caught the movie and Future when aired which… perhaps not the ideal way to do things) and am right at the transition from season 1 to season 2. I basically play two episodes when doing my three times a week not-jogging exercises (that make said jogging possible) so I basically get to make regular progress while not just binging through it.
It’s pretty solid so far, some things I know are coming so I get to watch for any hints towards them but I’m also flying blind regarding large swaths of it.
I also go back after certain eps and read what the discussion of it was like at the time, some people make really good guesses very early on and many… don’t.
My biggest shock watching Steven Universe was binging the whole show knowing nothing about it outside of anime ref gifs when it aired then afterwards reading the wikipedia and seeing the laundry list of writers and animators who were harassed while it was airing.
Zuke was a good person, and did not need that shit
Went to the movies and saw Dragon Ball Super: Super Heroes today. First time in a movie theater since, uh, Avengers: End Game I think? There were two teenagers and me as the only people in attendance so that felt low-risk enough. I had a surprisingly decent hot dog.
Anyway! As a hopeless Piccolo/Gohan stan I ate this movie up with a spoon. I guess it carries on some plot elements from the previous movie which I haven’t seen but it doesn’t matter all that much to the main plot. Lots of great stuff for the superfan, lots of good gags that almost made this feel like it captured a tiny bit of the old Dragon Ball vibe. Once the climactic battle starts it drags a little and there are very few surprises. I appreciate that they threw in lots of callback vignettes whenever they referenced some shit from the old series.
So glad I got to see Yuasa’s Inu-Oh in a theater as my first experience with it. What a great, intoxicating time. Makes me wanna read Furukawa’s book it’s based on.
Been listening to its soundtrack for the past week since I saw it. This is the first movie in a long time I’ve seen and thought “Damn, I can’t wait to watch that again.”
Tekken Bloodline was nice and simple and probably one of the better Tekken adaptations fwiw. Ending is a bit rushed. I feel like episode 2 is the high point since it’s the only time Jin gets a focused dollop of character development as he trains up. It’s a weird series since the central family plot is just riddled with abuse and evil. I think the art style works as long as things are in motion but this leads to the camera swinging all over the place. Otherwise characters look very strange from certain angles.
do the triangles over everyone’s head become any less bizarre over time
lol this is just like the first time they came back and everyone was on their damn “eye-phone”
futurama getting canceled and revived every 5 years to yell at the last 5 years of online discourse (or ‘cloud’ if you prefer) for the rest of humanity
Okay, now I am donezo with all the Steven Universe available thus far. Good show. Steven fusing with his dad was awesome
Finished watching Tuca & Bertie S3, which is still reliably decent (if a little less focused than previous seasons maybe), but regarding the final episode, I don’t know how to process that ending with Tuca giving birth to Bertie
some concept leaks came out for that superman cartoon that’s coming out next year. i like the dragonball-ish mxyzptlyk
Maybe it’s because a little of the novelty is wearing off after 3 seasons but I feel like the level of thriller/filler in Love, Death and Robots is starting to skew more toward filler. Maybe only 3 or 4 of the shorts in the most recent one really felt that good.
I remember looking at Mxy’s goblin-lookin’ ass back when the leak first went wide and instantly went “I want some dank vtuber to voice this asshole”
I mean, assuming Discovery doesn’t murder this show before it gets out of production
the presence of women and people of color suggests that discovery will indeed murder this show
Hanawalt: I really want to make more Tuca and Bertie!
Haddish (a few days later): Guess who did something extremely heinous with Aries Spears years ago!!
Was good while it lasted I guess.