Just popping in to say that I absolutely adore Mystery Inc, and it’s really worth the watch. It’s the thing that made me think that maybe Scooby Doo can be good sometimes.
Hot Dog Water Krew represent.
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Mystery Inc had no business being as good as it was. I love that the show rewrote Fred to be one of the funniest characters. I cracked up every time he was visibly horny for convoluted rube goldberg traps
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Even putting aside the trapcore aspect they added to Fred, Mystery Inc used him so perfectly, in that, he acts like Fred from Scooby Doo, and everyone else in that universe acts like a fairly normal person. It just like, draws attention to how fucking weird Fred has always been as a character.
I also did not realize that Frank Welker could genuinely be extremely funny until this show happened.
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I’m pretty sure he’s at least 30% of all recorded american cartoon voices, so he probably has some range at this point.
(Nearly every cartoon animal noise for years was voiced by him, aside from just how many shows he’s just been every other character apart from the main cast…and probably like two guys in the main. He was probably 40-60 percent in the 80s)
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Out now.
Also:
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the rise of the tmnt movie ruled. the show was already gorgeous but with a slightly higher budget they really went absolutely off the chain. the plot is nothing to write home about, but for american superhero stuff not sure there is anything operating at this level outside of spider-verse. the animation on the krang is mind bending stuff. fantastic cartoon
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real scifi channel saturday anime energy on this by which i probably mean it’s sort of robot carnival-ish
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I love shit that reminds me I don’t hate CG, it’s just that so much CG animation is incredibly boring looking
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only thing that particularly bugs me is the aggressive chromatic aberration, just makes the picture blurry
it’s interesting to me that they would reanimate the first season that’s usually more of a japanese animation move
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wwhat the hell
I remember contributing to the Bee and Puppycat kickstarter and didn’t even get access to the whole of the first season, so, uugh
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Staying with a good ex from long ago this weekend, and she asked me if I wanted to watch anything, so I suggested the latest episode of Smiling Friends as I hadn’t seen it and wanted to showcase ‘my kind of humour’ and I feel like I messed up big style? I’ve never been defeated like that 
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I didn’t know I wanted to see Woodstock go to Heian Era Japan and tell a Heike side story but that’s where Yuasa took me. It’s a wild ride and captures the energy of going to a wild music festival. I think my only hang ups are understanding demon mask contractal payment conditionals where giving a double sacrifice results in a default on the cursed and tomona/tomoiichi/tomoari/tomona didn’t really get to find out why two guys showed up and got his dad killed unless that’s a cultural common knowledge hold over for people that have actually read the heike stories . I guess I should get around to watching the Heike Monogatari show that came out a year or so back and learn something.
The Paramount Plus app is maybe the worst of the worst (it’s OK if you want to watch a movie, but any TV show is packed with constant gauntlets of ads), but I am fighting through it and continuing with Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which continues to be incredibly weird and really good. The recharacterization of Splinter might be my favorite part - guy is just super nasty in the best way.
Just gotta work my way through this before my free year is up, so I can watch the movie!
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a bunch of sales flyers for saban shows from the 80s are on the internet archive
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wow the third season of Amphibia really goes places. I am glad the show got a proper ending but I feel like it would have been better if they stretched the last season out into two seasons. The full transition to magical girl anime in the last episode was really cool, i just wish they could have restrained themselves from like commenting on it too directly one of the characters says “this is the most anime thing that’s ever happened to me…” very cringe
but anyway… once i realized they were very specifically having all of the scenes on earth take place in a more or less accurate los angeles i was totally won over. yeah, the entire entertainment industry is in la and tons of stuff takes place in la or is shot there, but very few things actually bother to commit to actually using it as a setting, and using the setting in a way that makes a particular sort of sense if you actually live or have lived in the city. it was really nice to see! and made me very homesick, ironically. now that i think of it alberta is kind of like wartwood, but not as cute.
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I’m dozens of episodes deep into Steven Universe and yeah, I like it. Not much more to say about it than that, though.
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