that was the most tragic cancellation of a series for me, like it was my Firefly. I’m so happy
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good show good news
I was starting to get a little burnt out on hacking down my anime backlog and decided to remember I had some english cartoons in there too. So I got hulu and decided to pick up where I left off in Star Vs the Forces of Evil. I’m about 7 episodes into season 3 now. I love how this show is able to string me along with little developments that happen just before a segment ends. Show has some great faces and good gags. As much as the show is built on levity it sure doesn’t mind going for some hard blows here and there.
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that new Looney Tunes show on HBO Max is pretty stellar and i’m impressed. really manages to maintain the vibe and style of the classic cartoons while updating it in sensible ways.
I’m looking forward to hearing how you feel about the rest. I think I’m less bothered by the story’s progression than a lot of fans were, but they definitely make some divisive decisions.
a cute thing i just found out about, is that the creator of dragon half saw a video on twitter of mike toole talking about the dragon half oav, and is only now finding out how popular it was with western anime fans in the 90s
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New Masaaki Yuasa.
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That has to be the straightest Yuasa joint yet
that man is busy
He’s giving himself a break, having retired from Science Saru a couple months ago after production on Japan Sinks wrapped. Though I guess his Inu-oh film is still coming.
I’m sure he’ll be back doing something before too long. But it’s wild the number of things he’s put out in the last 6 years. Now may be the time I go through his Crayon Shin-chan work.
I’m confused by everyone using the word “retire”, which implies he’s done with animation, and not the term “step down”, which is what he’s doing
maybe my brain is borked
I finally started watching cartoons again after Eizouken ended because what was the point and sat down and binged Beastars and while I gave some of the societal metaphors the side eye a few times, that is a damn good show and also a pretty good use case for CG
but also could you just do a whole show by the people who did the opening, they seem cool
what are people’s favourite examples of CG in anime/more traditional style cartoons?
land of lustrous and kemono friends (especially what it did in the second season) both really stood out in the last few years for me.
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I’m a bit of a fan of bubuki buranki (BBK/BRNK). It can’t keep it up all the time but at it’s best moments I think it does a decent job of tricking you into thinking you aren’t watching CG. Cassette Girl in the Japan Animator Expo is dangerous propaganda that CG can be good.
Got to the part where monsters leave Mewni and the talking points were getting to real after current events.
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realizing that the new looney tunes are from the creator of uncle grandpa and that’s why they are “actually funny”. they’ve really nailed the chaotic energy of the early stuff in a way that mostly nothing has
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ok now i HAVE tow atch these
UG was a show before its time and taken from us too soon and hearing this is the greatest
Welp, finished Star Vs. I think its a good cartoon. The last few episodes were probably more real than I was expecting in respect to race politics, colonialism and good ol fashioned human bigotry. Some characters see the error some double down. It’s a kids show so it can’t go super hard on them but there’s enough there to read it.
Not sure what the fan disposition is for the ending but I thought it was nice if just a tad trite but I felt the emotional swell in the last few minutes. Kinda mixed on how I feel with Star and Marco finally happening at the end because I kinda liked the opening statement of the show that boys and girls can be best friends without getting romantic. On the other hand it does frame it as them being teenagers who have just spent so much time together.
Kinda sad how the solution to the final problem took out some of my favorite characters even if most of them were duplicitous assholes.
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can i please have this cartoon to watch
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God help us, but Esme and I have been continuing to watch Dr. Stone while very high every weekend, and we both unironically love this fucking terrible show now.
The writing is super inconsistent but it does improve significantly over the course of the show. Keep in mind that by this I mean it goes from 1/10 writing to 3/10 writing, but hey. The real strength of it is in its plotting, worldbuilding, and the little science lessons it mixes in. It feels like whoever wrote this trash put all their stat points into plotting and none into characterization.
The show is 100% the misogynist power fantasy of idiotic 10-year-old science nerds everywhere.
But the main character has discovered a tribe of people who have descended from the handful of survivors of the apocalypse, and in the 3000 years since then they’ve developed their own mythology that has turned half-remembered pre-apocalyptic cultural icons into fairy tales with embedded lessons relevant to their natural surroundings, and he’s teamed up with the village sorcerer, a teenager who’s been collecting various minerals and conducting rudimentary chemistry experiments, to jump straight to radio technology so he can do covert ops against a rival village, all the while teaching the viewer small lessons about how vacuum tubes work.
I would never recommend this show to anyone, but damn. How can a show be this repulsive, stupid, and compelling in equal measure?
We both refuse to watch this show sober because there are only two possible outcomes here:
-it’s unwatchable and the show is ruined for us.
-it still rules and WE’RE ruined for us.
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