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No. 189393
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My favorite cartoons are Hey Arnold, X Men Evolution, Justice League and Young Justice.
Never finished Young Justice, it was cancelled then it got uncancelled, dunno how it ended. Oh and Sym-bionic Titan which was also cancelled for some reason, and it was getting so good.. CN gotta love cancelling everything. I'd recommend Sym-bionic Titan if I didn't know it ends in a fucking cliffhanger, remembering it makes me want to cry.
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If you watched Ed Edd n Eddy as a child there's at least a 69% chance you grew up to be an edgy fujo with a thing for nerdy men.
No. 189418
>>189393Young justice is still going but it's best to pretend that it only had two seasons.
Also can any anons say if the owl house is actually good or not? I keep hearing good things about it but I don't know if it actually IS good or if it's just people grasping at straws for "representation".
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Forever angry the Reboot license is with a deranged moid who ruins it with unrelated garbage spinoffs and won't sell it to someone who'd actually use it. The animation's aged so badly but the story is still excellent, it would just need a remaster and could be aired today otherwise untouched and have an actual end and not a cliffhanger.
No. 189444
>>189414Hm…idk, honestly. A lot of the characters end up being more complex, which is one of my favorite things about the series – Daria and Jane's friendship gets complicated in interesting ways, everyone in Daria's family gets more depth esp. Quinn and their mom, Jodie gets some really cool bits, Daria herself ends up having to face the fact that she's not actually surrounded by total idiots and she relies on the icy outcast thing to protect herself. But I'm remembering that all pretty cumulatively – it's spread out over the whole series, which is still mostly the really dry humor you might not be digging. It's not really a show you HAVE to watch in order, though – I think the first one I ever saw was the finale, lol. There is some linear development so you won't catch everything and some of these are some of the most climactic episodes in the show, so if you're not into that, ignore this. But if you're okay with skimming for the best stuff, I'd say watch these episodes to see if you dig 'em, and if you don't, it might not be for you:
>Gifted: Jodie and Daria tour a "gifted" school, end up hating it>See Jane Run: Jane gets interested in track, Daria can't deal>Daria!: musical episode, which I mostly remember for the fun format, lol>Fire! and Dye, Dye My Darling: Biggest conflict between Jane and Daria in the entire series, a guy is involved, goes right to the heart of why their friendship matters so much to Daria and also forces her to look at the fact that she is also a dumb teen>Boxing Daria: Last episode, barring the movies. Daria has a big crisis regarding her place in her family. No. 189463
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I love Downtown! the voice acting in particular. the creative process involved a lot of real-life conversation and storytelling between the actors and it suits the setting so well. (has tiktok/gen z hijacked it yet? I feel like it hits a lot of their aesthetic sweet spots and I’ve been waiting for fandom revivalism for years and years now lol)
No. 189465
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GOOD, FUCK THIS MOVIE. Fuck them for touting the director as the first "female solo director" at Pixar, completely forgetting that they fired Brenda Chapman during the development of "Brave". Fuck Pixar, I enjoy watching their company tank.
No. 189727
>>189465>>189636>completely forgetting that they fired Brenda Chapman during the development of "Brave">This is the woman who directed "Prince of Egypt." I wish we could have seen "Brave" as she had originally envisioned.wtf, quick rundown? I really liked Brave even if it was kind of underwhelming, but I'm not very interested in watching Turning Red, though I've seen a lot of bait online about it and how bad female directors are.
>>189723I'm can't tell if you're just shitposting but I think that's Dante AKA Donte from DmC, sorry if I ruined a joke lmao
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Yep. I can already see the pandering with that thirst trap lip filler villain
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>>189814without knowing anything about this, the name reminds me of the show my dad the rockstar
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>>189997it was incredible, also Oliver Cromwell being the main villain was an awesome choice
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did anyone watch amphibia last night? it was so fucking cool
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>>204749I swear, Amphibia is so good. When it first came out I thought it'd be shit but it's incredibly charming. It starts off with random jokey monster of the week stuff and develops into an ongoing high fantasy plot, like SU did
except good, kek Rocketed up the list to one of my all time favorite cartoons, for sure.
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>>204727sorry, you're right, this looks nothing like every other cartoon and has such a unique style
No. 204837
>>204786>really, really grosshow ? the most disturbing thing was the "twerking" and it wasnt even meant to be sexy, she was trying to provoke her mother but they didnt emphasize the sexual appeal. she just looked like a child awkwardly pushing her butt out because she is. correct me if i am wrong, but i dont remember the camera being focused on her butt either. it wasnt sexual at all.
>plotwhat was gross about the plot ? genuinely asking. i cant see any reason why an actual woman hating this unless she was a self hating female
and i am not even a fan of the movie, i just watched it with my friend and her little sister because the characters were her age and i wanted to spend time with them.
>artstylethis one i actually agree with. i thought it looked repulsive in the literal sense of the word, i wasnt even going to watch it because i thought it was that ugly. the artstyle is so hilariously calarts "studio ghibli is my favorite !!!!!" sameface ( and body )
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Has anyone here seen Bluey? It's an Australian show on Disney Jr. Unlike other shows that are very infantile, this one is entertaining for parents as well. The humor is good and the children are very cute.
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>>205914It's so good, though, and the finale that just aired was so satisfying. I really have no complaints, everything was wrapped up very nicely without any Steven Universe-tier asspulls
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I love Big City Greens! The grandma is my favorite character and I just love the little world the show builds of this tiny slice of country in the city.
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>>204864I love Bluey, as far as toddler shows go. Everyone here should also watch Sarah and Duck, whether you have kids or not. It's such a calming show.
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>>206486I love this show it gives me summery vibes.
Reminds me of Gravity Falls, its the perfect thing to watch during the summer for me. The only things I didn't like about it was that the rest of the show went way too fast after introducing
Stan's brother it could have had a whole season after that. I'm surprised Disney
didn't want to keep milking the cash cow, it was the only thing that played on Disney XD when we had that channel
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i get sad when i think about how we never got a kitty bobo show
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>>213303
>Mediterranean/Arabian inspired version of Avatar
>That poster
In what world? Outside of the buildings none of these characters look like they live in a world inspired by Arab culture or the Mediterranean cultures. The only character that fits that description is the mysterious woman in the background
>>213304
Wasn't HGS made largely due to nepotism?
I can't find the same pdf shown in that video but despite the high praise even they said the pitch itself was weak, maybe that's why it didn't get accepted?
No. 214830
>>206566I'm late af, but I agree. It bothers me that it's not real Anne and just a clone, that's literally not the same person we watched in the show. Might as well just keep her dead.
Them growing apart and having normal jobs seemed so unneccesary to me. It's the same old "and then you grow up and never have fun adventures ever again, but it's ok because you're a boring adult who likes it that way!". That is a sad ending to me, as an adult. Feels like it's written by a sad adult who had to abandon their dreams and now preach to kids that that is just "reality" and they "need to grow up some day". And they're only in their early 20s! You're telling me Anne's middle age parents were perfectly capable of becoming top secret alien fighters in the span of what? a few weeks? But the girls discovering other magical worlds and powers exist did nothing to peak their curiosity and instead opt for boring lives?
I would have been more satisfied if it just ended without the plot ever being solved and them going on adventures for the rest of their lives.
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I'm not really super into monster high or fandom discourse so I might just be being retarded but I kinda get the feeling that mattel/nickelodeon might have undone the extra publicity they could had gotten from making Frankie a themlet by messing up the vibe of the designs. MH fans have been complaining for years about them taking any edge out of the designs which was making it lame but they just went and made them even more cutesy bubbly farty.
The people I follow online might be just too normie for this but the only time I've seen people mention the animated reboot is people weirded out at them making lagoona pink.
I kinda get the feeling they wanted to make the show more kiddy kiddy and they thought just slapping some woke stuff in there would keep the older (teenage and young adult) fans in. It will probably be easier to tell when they release a trailer of it.
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What's your opinion on Vewn. She just got her show picked up though there's barely any news about it.
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>>222290I genuinely love Vewn, her style is really original and memorable imo. I'm super excited to see her new show Dirt girls. I'm really glad that she got some financment because I remeber reader a post on 4chan (so maybe not the best sources) that was a leak of her patreon where she explained that her compositor decided out of the blue to copyright claim every single video of her! I just hope that she got enough money and good conditions to realize the show that she wants.
No. 222297
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>>222284ZIE/HIR oh my fucking god. "Nonbinary lesbian" give me a fucking break. God lesbians going nb/trans saddens me
https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Iris_Menas No. 222399
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>>189393I love X-Men Evolution as well anon.Easily my most favorite adaptation of the X-Men franchise. As much as I like the 90s carton as it was quite iconic, I love Evolution slightly more and I'm still miffed that we didn't get a season 5 and see how they would've handled the Dark Phoenix saga.
But yeah I can go on and on gushing over how much I loved this show. Awesome art style, great character interactions, and decent fight scenes, what more could you want?
No. 222401
>>189463Fuck yes Downtown, great pick anon. For context ,I'm a millennial and I finally got around to watching the show back in 2013 and I was kicking myself for not watching it sooner. I agree with everything you said, the dialogue and banter between the characters was so good and felt so relatable and realistic. I honestly liked all the characters as well, even the ones who are supposed to be annoying like Chaka and Jen. They all bounce off each other perfectly and I'm sad it didn't have at least 2 seasons.
I'm dreading when Gen Z/TikTok generation get their hands on it, we've already seen what they did to Clone High…
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>tfw this is my only currently ongoing comfort show
Bob's Burgers is cheesy with an ugly artstyle but the writing and the characters are too endearing to not like it. I wish more tv shows actually focused onto families being human-like, hardworking and imperfect while also loving eachother despite everything, instead of pulling the same Homer Simpson crap all over again.
No. 225432
>>225410>>225374Yes nonnas!!!! Honestly if someone vehemently hates Bob’s Burgers I get bad vibes—it’s one thing to not enjoy the show because it isn’t your tastes but to hate it? It’s wholesome and fun, it isn’t like there’s gore and r*pe jokes like in family guy.
on the same topic, I really do like American Dad. Not really the older seasons as much, but once TBS got ahold of it, the show really seemed to get better. Francine is a cunt and I love her.
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Finished this recently. I have a lot of feelings.
No. 225442
>>225432hating it for that one voice actor guy is completely
valid. i've hated every show he's worked on because he sounds so boring i want to die.
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Anyone watching Tuca and Bertie S3?
I only caught the first 3 episodes so far since I'm watching them online
Slight spoilers for S3 episodes:
I kind of don't like how they regressed Tuca's character again to make her to the lol random friend that ruins situations for other characters but then everything works out in the end. I thought she would of ended up less destructive to herself this season but maybe we will see where she goes from here.
I liked the idea of the second episode where she was seeing a bunch of medical professionals and couldn't find out what was wrong with her, but it spent too much time on the bees part. Also the Kara cameo didn't really contribute anything.
The snake episode was meh, the whole snake joke was overplayed by the end. I'm curious to see if the Figgy character will reappear after the ending to this one
No. 225776
>>225374I love how much Bob loves Linda, he always goes along with her whimsy’s and tries to enjoy them.
>>225447I like Bob’s burger a lot but I get quite annoyed at Gene’s constant sexual innuendos and oedipus gag, istg if they troon him out.
No. 226305
>>226300Thank you for the heads up
nonny, I'm not watching that shit
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Was told to repost this here (from /snow/):
Major shakeups with David Zaslav stepping in as CEO of Warner Brothers Discovery. Scoob's holiday special was months away from finishing and has been cancelled. Little Ellen's latest season was completed and has been shelved and is now lost media. Final Space was not only cancelled but deplatformed and is now no longer legally available anywhere. Close Enough has been cancelled after 3 seasons. While most of the press has been focused on how live-action is being affected by the WB/Discovery merger the animation industry is likewise looking at an uncertain future, at least that under WBD's domain.
Zaslav is trying to get the finances under control (WB holds an astounding debt) and one way to do that is via tax write offs. They can use a show as a write off but in order to do that they are not allowed to profit off it in any way which means they can not release it. Evidently the tax write off is worth more than having these titles in their library. Longer term I think this bodes badly for western animation. The new CEO wants to trim up the amount of script-driven shows with the idea of having a smaller, current library of high quality heavy hitters and then lots of cheap reality entertainment. Animation is expensive and script driven and might not be popular enough to justify the expense in his eyes. They might pivot (like CN already was) towards focusing on animated content aimed at babies and toddlers ("Cartoonito").
https://deadline.com/2022/08/little-ellen-canceled-at-hbo-max-1235084429/https://deadline.com/2022/07/close-enough-canceled-hbo-max-no-season-4-1235064944/https://movieweb.com/scoob-holiday-haunt-is-cancelled-by-warner-bros-following-cost-cutting-push/https://twitter.com/thecartooncrave/status/1542745758507716608This article is more optimistic:
https://puck.news/zazs-tween-gamble/Hard to say if that article is on the money or not, we'll have to wait and see. If WDB is orienting away from producing animated content for the tween+ set though then the Western animation industry is poised to take a big hit and current industry professionals will be vying for jobs in a much more competitive environment.
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>>227654This image comes from a slide presented at WBD's Q2 Earning's Call this Thursday. Animation is directly implicated (in part) in a loss of 2 billion. The "restructuring of content" should give you pause since it is often corpo speak for, "We're gonna gut this".
New Animation Dark Age?
Warner Brothers Discovery is/was a major funder of animated content via Warner Bro's Animation, Warner Animation Group, Cartoon Network, and William's Street (Adult Swim). Netflix likewise recently restructured its in-house animation studio (laying off 150 people) and Disney recently shut down Blue Sky animation studios of Ice Age fame. So who's left?
>Disney (DTVA, WDAS, Pixar)>Apple (Skydance)>Paramount(Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures)>Universal (Dreamworks and Illumination)>Sony (Sony Pictures Animation)If you want to read other nona's comments from the Western Animation thread on /snow/ start here >>1606635
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My niece was watching the new Snoopy show on AppleTV and I usually dislike children's media but this show was so fucking cute and dare I say comfy. It was modern and updated but still faithful to old peanuts media.
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>>225726I’m gonna binge Tuca & Bertie tonight!
Is Smiling Friends actually funny? Anything it’s comparable to?
No. 229744
>>229506I think it's alright. It's not the funniest animated show I've ever seen
to me that's probably Oblongs, I like the dark deprecating humor of it but I laughed sometimes. I'd compare it to Aqua Teen Hunger Force but faster paced and more internet humor if that makes sense? It was created by people who did NewGrounds animations so there's a lot of homage to that type of stuff there.
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I'm not trying to be a jerk but the way some people are acting over this is idiotic. As a kid I 100% preferred episodic cartoons, less shipping bullshit
No. 230432
>>222290>>222292I'm really glad for her!
>>226300Am also a HB fan, I just wanted deviantart oc hell adventures not this
No. 230907
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(Castlevaniafag sperging)
Idk if someone posted about the new Rondo of blood/SOTN castlevania plans Netflix has but as a fan of the games Im just so fucking tired of this shit.
THEY FUCKED UP RICHTER IN THE TRAILER ALREADY JUST LIKE THEY DID WITH ALUCARD WHYY?!
I just know theyre gonna try to queer bait richter and maria into a poly relationship with alucard ughh. Also music was a really big part of the games so they'll probably fuck that up. I especially hate the showfags who haven't even touched a single castlevania game that try and dispute the criticism or nag that gamefags need to stop being nitpicky of the show and basically taking over and shitting up the castlevania subreddit. It couldve been great if they stopped trying to make character so bishounen looking and stopped trying to tumblr code everything. Warren ellis isnt touching it this time but at this point the shitshow is already leaking it seems.
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>>230330Ok I don’t really care but I just looked it up and it looks like the most unfortunate mix of Bob’s Burgers and Phineas and Ferb
No. 231025
>>230330I'm glad to see that somebody out there is at least trying to make more cartoons for children, you know, the reason why cartoons even exist.
Teenagers had sitcoms because they're supposed to be able to relate to real people in real situations.
These fantasy cartoons are nice for teens as well, but the themes are too deep or too complex for children that have to either watch paw patrol at 9 or watch amphibia or Star vs the forces of evil and not give a single tiny little fuck about who wants to fuck who because it's "icky" and plain awkward.
No. 231039
>>231025lmao no, cartoons don't exist because of children. They are on TV because they wanted to market to children though.
But I'm glad that not all cartoons for kids are poor attempts at "mature" complex overarching stories. I'm kinda tired of those. If people want to make that kind of series they shouldn't make them for children. Not only does the target audience (children) not watch them as much as older people, but the age rating restricts the creators a lot.
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i like the boondocks
>>189998GOD SAVE CROMWELL
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I may be late on this one but I recently watched Inside Job and I love it. I find it as enjoyable as Rick and Morty but with conspiracies and without the show being too obnoxious. It's rare to see a female lead for an adult animated series that is also likeable and I applaud them for that. What's also rare is that the male main character is an attractive man who is sometimes sexualized and objectified. Usually it's the other way around because of how most adult animated series are male centric so it's a breath of fresh air. Anyways it's a good watch. Hoping for season 2.
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>>189358I really want them to leave the avatar world alone and move on because almost every revisit has been a huge downgrade.
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Is Avatar: The Last Airbender worth watching for the first time as an adult?
No. 258518
>>189358>Your favorite cartoonsIf movies: Watership Down, Felidae, Plague Dogs, Prince of Egypt, When the Wind Blows and a bunch of Don Bluth movies as well as The Last Unicorn.
If series: Animals of the farthing Wood as kid, otherwise I only watched anime.
Later it would be Primal, South Park, Over the Garden Wall, Metalocalypse, Samurai Jack, Bojack, Steven Universe and some Transformer cartoons.
>What are you watching right nowTransformers Earthspark and just finished Pantheon. Both promising IMO and Megatron is hot, Optimus is cute and the Pantheon story is interesting and I have a thing for digitization related themes anyway.
I hate everything CGI pixar/dreamworks and I have yet to watch the Cartoon Saloon movies but think I will like them.>>189814Honestly think it looks fine besides the kids. I am not a fan of loud lively kids and I never needed them to relate to a story when I was a kid so not sure why they are shoved into every new cartoon these days. Otherwise it could be good but I agree I don't like the design of the villains.
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Can we talk about fan works based off western animation here?
Someone on /co/ is making a webcomic called the Kyle Saga basically doing post-canon fix ficing of Nu-Ra and I really like it. The art is basic but it gets the job done and the story is currently addressing stuff that the original really should have reagarding the Horde and what they're going to do after the war without being disrespectful to the source material.
I dunno, I think it's neat. Definitely one of the better fix fic/comics I've read.
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King of the Hill will be my favorite cartoon for life i just cant imagine anything surpassing it
Im currently watching South Park and have about 5 more seasons to go and ive also been rewatching Teen Titans here and there.
I want to rec Clarence to any cartoon fan i can i think the art style turns people away from it but its genuinely a very funny show with enjoyable characters and many nostalgic elements. Its very slice of lifey
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What are some cute, "pure" western animated works? Akin to Ghibli, classic Disney princess films or Vila Amalka (Amalka the Fairy).
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Didn't know if I should post this here, in the movie thread, or in the video game thread lmao
So what do nonnies think about the new Mario movie trailer, and what do you think about the way Peach is depicted? I honestly couldn't help but kinda roll my eyes at this "strong female character" attempt, with the battle axe and the biker suit, I just hope they don't overdo it, and that she uses her parasol a lot since it's one of her main items/weapons in the games.
I also feel like the second trailer spoiled the whole movie and that they could've shown a lot less and it would've still been exciting. Maybe half of what they showed in the trailer would've been enough.
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>>259756She looks more sexualized now with the skin-tight suit, what was wrong with her princess dress? anyways, its an illumination film so its going to be a generic movie for toddlers and the fat manchildren stinking up the place are going to give it an standing ovation while the ipad toddlers with ADHD play with their phones. Its really sad to see Japanese videogame companies pander to westerners, a 2D Mario movie made by any Japanese animation studio would have been amazing, but no we get a generic westerb movie by the shittiest western animation study no less.
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>>259756I wish princess peach has a scene where she’s tired and frustrated about her kingdom being constantly targeted to the point where she breaks down crying. Then she builds herself back up, grabs her parasol and beats up some enemies. Wish western media had female characters actually cry while also being a “badass” it would be a nice callback to sailor moon since you know every modern animation rips it off and all. Kek
No. 259823
>>259756The Mario games are children's games and I never played them growing up so I have no nostalgia for the franchise. The movie is going to be a generic kids movie, which is fine. They are the target audience not adults. I don't think it's going to be very good movie but it's really not worth getting angry over. Though I will admit I thought Peach's voice sounded kinda weird… I don't know how to describe it but it doesn't fit her character design and it sounded like the voice actor didn't have much experience in voice acting(I'm too lazy to look up who her voice actor is but I assume it's a famous movie actor who hasn't done much voice work).
>>259786>The west doesnt know how to be subtle about female characters being strong willed. don't say "the west" when you mean Hollywood capeshit. Lots of great female character have come out of American and European media outside of Hollywood
No. 259898
>>259822>strong female characterSpeaking of Bo Peep, why do the character designers think a strong woman has to wear pants? Peach could be strong/powerful in her dress.
Unfortunately the jumpsuit has already prompted "fan artists" to draw coomer garbage. But maybe she's wearing it in that scene because she just got off her bike or something
No. 260162
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Forever mad this show was planned so awfully/got cancelled because her story and the mysteries surrounding the infinity train and her were the main reason I kept watching it. Glad the parts had at least some conclusive sub-stories though, think part 2 was my favorite, followed by part 3.
I just wish the creators hadn't assumed they would get 8 seasons from get go, this almost never happens and cancellations after season 3 are pretty common with cartoons.
No. 262844
>>189463>>222401This is late, Ik but I actually watched Downtown because of this thread and absolutely loved it. It was on YT though so I could see people commenting and it was absolutely full of zoomers trying to moralfag. Every other comment was calling Jen a pick me and talking about how
toxic she was. Shut up this is literally the point, they're not supposed to be rolemodels, they're young people acting like retards because they're young. And of course the same people complaining about her and Chaka never said a word about any male characters being shitty. They would comment under every episode so I remembered them and it was always talking shit about the female characters.
On a different note, the show made me feel nostalgic for a time I don't remember and deepen my hatred for social media. I just know I would hate Chaka with a passion if the show was set in 2020s kek
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A new Avatar series has been announced to be released during 2025 and I’m very nervous. Some of the decisions made for LOK, the Avatar comics, and books make me a bit nervous. I didn’t like how republic city looked it, it ruined a lot of the charm of the Avatar world for me
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Mike Tysons Mysteries is so painfully underrated its hilarious and the characters are great
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>>266363I watched because of Norm Macdonald as Pigeon. It's alright as a show but his scenes were hilarious
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>>234189>>259606I'm so devastated to hear that season 2 of Inside Job got canceled. Fuck Netflix. It's one of the best adult animated series on the platform other than garbage like Big Mouth being pumped out with 6 seasons.
https://twitter.com/shhhhhionn/status/1612257517165514753?t=y8VTjlEk6kxvh666YeHb_g&s=19 No. 268327
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>>268315same
nonnie same, I was so excited to watch more, fuck this, it's so weird that they confirmed the season then backtracked. I wonder what happened
I was ready to draw and sperg so much about Reagan, damn it, she was everything to me, my ultimate waifu No. 271147
>>268327I watched it out of curiosity and shit i liked it so much, and I’m not even a cartoon person
Why would they axe this and pay for the velm garbage
Also bumping this thread above the spam
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reading the comments under any episode of this is frustrating because they all sound underaged. I know why this show appeals to children but does it have any fans over the age of 12?
No. 271806
>>268315I wasn't even much into it but I was happy finally getting two good main characters. Reagan in particular is the first female cartoon MC in ages that I genuinely liked.
What's worse is that I am disappointed to see yet another one of the very few adult shows getting cancelled AGAIN (after Infinity Train) because the rest is ugly shit for toddlers, super safe juvenile stuff or edgy shit for 12 year olds that pretends to be for adults because it shoves gore and sex into everything.
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I love Over The Garden Wall so much! The atmosphere is the one thing I love the most about this cartoon because it's pretty eerie.
No. 271862
>>271787I loved watching this show on youtube but i dropped it when they switched the platform. Heard it got cancelled in the end because of some drama?
It wasnt popular around kids when it came out, but its been years ever since I watched the show.
No. 272831
>>260247>>258831I finished it this year, and it ruined me. I didn't want it to end and actually got post-series depression from it. What do you recommend as a painkiller? I think I'll listen to the DVD commentary on each and every episode.
This might be old news because apparently there had been rumors, but a revival on Hulu was confirmed yesterday!! I'm so fucking
ecstatic nonnas
>>259020Amen to that, sister
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Could anyone tell me about the show Close Enough? The only thing that I know about that animation is that the creator was behind the animation Regular Show and the fact he inserted himself, his wife and daughter as the main characters? Saw some anons talk about it on /ot/ however they didn't delve into it beside adding a few clips of the show which seems interesting.
No. 273185
>>273069>>273076I get you
nonnie, cartoon self-inserts come across as super annoying compared to other types especially in recent years.
No. 275400
I know a lot of anons don't like Steven Universe (totally ok), but I have to say that when the show aired and I was 15 it was… a breath of fresh air in between so many cartoons that relied on shock value and gross humour to make children laugh. I don't quite like those cartoons that show vomit, or pimples, or whatever, or any show that is nonsensical and stupid, like Uncle Grandpa, Spongebob, Clarence, etc.
That's why when Steven Universe premiered, I felt like I finally had something to watch.
I agree that the series leaves a lot to be desired, especially the plot, which becomes more retarded as the show goes on. I think I stopped following SU when they finally confirmed that Rose Quartz was Pink Diamond. It was such a non-sensical decision, to make them the same character… I also didn't like how the narrative basically forced us to feel… sorry for her? I can assure you that I didn't and that I hate her a lot, lmao.
BUT I have to say the first couple of seasons are great. Steven is adorable when he is a kid, the songs and the soundtrack are gorgeous. The animation and backgrounds were also pretty cool, in my opinion: fighting scenes, dancing, explosions, interesting shots, etc.
>inb4 "you don't like spongebob, opinion discarded"
I can admit Spongebob has some clever lines and jokes, but overall I could never get into it and TRUST me, I had to watch a bunch of episodes when I was in my teens because my lil siblings wanted to.
No. 275432
>>275404I like they all resemble a bunch of kids I knew when I was a kid myself. That most of the adventures they have is made up or exaggerated by their own imagination.
And I love the little things, like when Sumo breaks his leg (if I remember correctly) and his mom tells him there is icecream hidden in the freezer so his siblings won't find it, it is like that when you have siblings.. I like when Clarence shows up uninvited to the girls slumber party and they have the same fun the boys would have but Sumo and Jeff are alone and they wonder what Clarence is doing in the girls party ("probably pillow fighting and talking about boys") and at some point they start dancing like the guys in boybands kekk. Also when Sumo and Clarence think they broke the tv when they were playing fight and lie about it "tv went weird out of nowhere" and the mom just tells them "just unplug it and then turn it on again, see?" old ass tech solution. I love their teachers, resemble a lot the ones I've had, I like the adults feel like adults even when they're ridiculous and that Clarence's mom is shown doing stuff with her kid, like when she puts Clarence in karate but she is the one having fun there while Clarence thinks it's boring. Also when Clarence was obsessed with that ugly doll he carried everywhere and people tried to make him stop playing with it.
I guess people might come at me for comparing it to Hey Arnold but it feels like the new generation's Hey Arnold in which there is no bigger plot about defeating an absolute evil to achieve world peace, just a bunch of kids running around being kids, but these kids are not the same, it's not the 90s anymore. I also watched Craig of the creek which is basically same premise and I felt that while it actually has good lessons here and there, the lessons (and the references) were kinda forced where Clarence goes with harmless fun and some references could fly over your head. Hey Arnold gets some nice lessons which I believe might be what Craig of the Creek probably tried to emulate maybe? But Hey Arnold feels a lot more mature, Craig and Clarence lack that maturity and go on a more positive note without the depressing moments.
I also like that I can enjoy it with my mom and she enjoys the adult characters too, and how she always point out that Clarence is probably an autist because he behaves exactly like the autistic son of her friend she used to babysit kek
Tl;dr: harmless fun about kids and crazy adults reminds me of Hey Arnold a little bit but has its own charm. Fun for all family, makes me nostalgic. 5/5 watch it always it's on tv.
No. 275446
>>275432I can see you are invested in the show and I think that's pretty awesome. I didn't notice all those things you just described, maybe if I watched the show now I could appreciate it more. I guess I just never related to the characters as much as you did, so for me it wasn't that interesting.
Also, I never watched Hey Arnold, so that may also explain why Clarence was not my cup of tea (since I didn't grow up with that type of cartoon).
It's cute that you and your mom both enjoy the series btw.
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Anyone looking forward to Unicorn? I’m still salty over what happened with Symbionic Titan so I hope it doesn’t flop.
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>>275400not to be weird but steven universe came out when i was a kid and i honest to god don't think i would have been as okay with being a lesbian as i was. like i instantly accepted it ( inb4 rightoids are like zomggggg succesful grooming!!!!! ) and i can say with utmost certainty that my affinity for the show in conjuction with being apart of the internet fanbase is definitely majorly responsible for that as i come from a highly religious
muslim family in the third world. that said i also stopped watching as much/being a fan around the same time as you did kek but i wasn't shocked i was just disappointed that it was so incredibly predictable, though it was a children's show after all.
>>275432>I like they all resemble a bunch of kids I knew when I was a kid myself>I also like that I can enjoy it with my mom and she enjoys the adult characters tooanon me too!!! i loved watching it with my mom on the telly kek and let me just say that the finale made me cry. i love that show it was so much realistic good fun like being with your friends as a child again. clarence is my favorite show to watch especially after a hard day, possibly even my favorite newer cartoon.
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i went on a binge watching all kinds of 90s cartoons especially stuff that was on liquid television and cartoon sushi, and it made me sad that this era will never return. adult cartoons these days are so sterilized and clean and safe compared to the wild shit we got back then
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>>294584>made me sad that this era will never returnsame. it's kind of crazy it ever existed tbh. the amount of creative freedom and
time these studios had to work on this stuff. what's interesting is now the process is obviously so streamlined and mass produced but the output
feels much less than before. because so few animations now are even worth paying attention to. the 90s was much more potent in creative output and subversive dialogue.
what's really annoying too is that I'm sure there are so many animators and writers out there right now, itching to make something unique and interesting, without trying to shove a message down anyone's throats, but none of the execs will ever pick them up. that's why south park and the simpsons are still running… they just want things that already exist and are easy to and quick to run. there is zero interest in anything new or creative. and I'm not sure how that's ever going to improve now we're in the AI era.
what are some of your favourite 90s adult cartoons btw? I rewatched Duckman again recently and it's so great.
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>>294604i think, for me, a big aspect of enjoyment comes from the animations themselves. i like to see things that are hand-drawn moving around. i know a lot of shows are under hellacious deadlines and it's really not easy to make cartoons and put them on tv in general but every time i try to watch one of the modern adult cartoons i get so bored by what i'm seeing. as you say, there is a lack of creativity. there is also a lack of fun, a lack of the love of cartoons as an inherently silly medium imo, there's often this weird cynicism in modern adult cartoons that they have to have some deeper messages or be ironic in a way, idk. this specific era of the 90s was very punk. very free, very focused on authenticity, creating whatever you wanted and i feel like that's gone. i also marvel at the fact that any of this was even broadcast on a major network.
anyway my personal faves of this era:
- aeon flux
- the brothers grunt
- the maxx
- angry cabaret
- joe normal
- the head
- daria (ironically, one of the "cleanest" ones i like as far as lines, and i feel like it set a foundation for the stiffness and sterility of modern adult cartoons which i hate as i mentioned. i love it in daria bc it was so unique at the time.)
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>>294612here's another one i just thought of. "invisible hands" by richard sala. this style of art, i feel, was prototypical at the time and now i see similar everywhere. i wonder how many people were influenced by this? anyway, it's yet another cartoon which barely exists beyond the internet.
>I used to get asked about this serial a lot. It's never been on video in either VHS or DVD (there are reasons) though other Liquid TV animations were. However, it has been on YouTube for a long time now, so I don't get asked about it as much as I once did. I'm just glad that folks can (finally) see it again if they want to. And I hope some people may enjoy a look at the drawings I did for it. No. 298606
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I started watching Harriet the Spy and it’s turning into a binge, this show is so andorable and ridiculous I can’t believe no one is talking about it. Won’t ever be considered a masterpiece because it doesn’t have an overarching story or muh deeper meaning but that’s why I love it. It’s just cozy, cute, and dorky and I laugh more at this cartoon than most. I haven’t read the books or seen the original movie so idk if that’s where the bad reviews come from
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I never got the appeal of we bare bears. It's a children's show but the main characters act like manchildren. I'm not against adult protagonists in children's cartoon and hidden adult jokes but the way the bears act is so unappealing I doubt if they hadn't been cute-looking bears then no one would had cared much about this cartoon. They also desperately wanted to get an adult fanbase since they had many "relatable" weeb jokes in it but the show never got a major adult fanbase the same way SU and KO did. I assume it was popular amongst kids since it did have a long run
No. 298685
>>298680I don't get it either, it's boring as shit. Adults probably only like it because kawaii, but even in that respect it's so tryhard.
This shit is everywhere, so it must've been made specifically to pander to normies who don't care about substance but aesthetics (nothing wrong with liking a cute aesthetic but if you just want to appeal to that crowd, why even try making at show when it's obviously not gonna be good.)
The purpose of this show is to cause a lot of "awww"s from the audience, boring more.
No. 298692
>>298685the bears aren't even acting kawaii panda gives me perv vibes
>it's so tryhardlol agreed. You can tell the pitch meeting went "this is a comfy show thats like a slice-of-life anime only it's not anime!! people on the interwebs will call it wholesome!"
No. 299317
>>299309I have high hopes for this.
If you check their kickstarter they actually seem to have a very developed concept
you can almost guess the entire story from the kickstarter tbh and I really feel there will be more a focus on artistic psychadelic animation and personal angst. The type of LGBTQUERTY stories you're talking about are usually extremely lazy about preparing the actual concept compared to that.
Also, I think we've reached a point in discourse where even the queerio kids want to have some stories where the characters just are LGB
T without their non-straightness being their single character trait, so I'm hoping an artistic short like this wouldn't go into the cringy type of thing you're thinking of.
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>>299309It's an independent Filipino studio, but I'm pretty sure most of them are Filipino Americans or from Western countries. I'm hyped, but I do have concerns.
>Hyped up the movie now when it doesn't come out till "Q2 2025">Calls itself an adult film worked on by "20-somethings" but has been in development for over a year and had a still-current minor work on animation and character designs>One of the leads of the studio still participates in NFTsAlso, I think the Twitter page has been getting very annoying, and I don't think I'll be able to stomach seeing it hyped for two more years. They'll eventually run out of things to say or leak their whole movie at this point.
No. 299322
>>299318>the Twitter page has been getting very annoyingTheir social media is just them posting resharing memes, which is definitely obnoxious. I see this a lot with zoomer/young millenial online-based indie teams and it always feels annoying.
I think for this short it might be better to forget it exists until it gets released or only occasionally check for updates. That way you don't have to deal with two years of meme posting and you run less risk of it feeling way overhyped
No. 299334
>>299322Yeah, it's mostly them just sharing memes or building hype for the series, but I still think they're doing it way too early. I would even understand if they did it even just a year earlier than release, but at this point, it'll be forgotten in two years and this major hype they built up will go to waste. Not to say everyone will jump ship, but the reactions will be lessened.
Hoping the film will be at least an hour considering the budget and the fact that it's still incomplete.
No. 299337
>>299318The only thing that’s giving me red flags is the “20-somethings” and other quirky language used on their page but it’s easy to overlook at the studio trying to make itself more relatable and less corporate.
I didn’t notice the date, you’d think from the hype it was coming out in a few months.
> One of the leads of the studio still participates in NFTsDefinitely wouldn’t have expected that given the general vibe of the movie and studio
No. 299341
>>299309I haven't heard about this until now but it looks good. I never been fan of merfolk/human romances though even when it's done artistically
>>299318it's a green flag that they call it LGBT and not queer. I welcome any gay story but I can't stand those "we're gay because we like snails and everything I listen to is automatically gay music omg please tell us how quirky we are" stories. I can't stand "we are sooo quirky" het romances either. This one at least looks like it's aiming for something more tasteful rather than baiting terminally online gay-larpers into talking about how relatable it is
But the fact that they refer themselves as "twenty something" year olds is a major red flag. Don't try to be quirky please
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>>299337It was pretty shocking. The co-director posted picrel on her story and said she thought NFTs were neat. It prompted the studio to post a message about not supporting NFTs, claiming they don't support nor do them anymore, but the NFT company(?) she worked for continued to defend and sell the ones she created. I don't know if she's still actively making more or not though.
No. 299377
>>299318I kept telling myself that just because the story had Pinoy elements doesn’t mean it’s made by a Filipino studio and artists but you’re probably right.
>>299359It’s not that big of a deal but I also understand where you’re coming from, it doesn’t make sense from an online marketing pov exclude or downplay that it’s lesbian/wlw/gay/SSA/queer.
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>>299346I remember being very hyped by the concept art made by Christina Zhang, didn't even know that a trailer was out yet, but this message just killed it instantly. I hate how it implies that their stuff is going to be SO different from all the others "wlw media". There is books, movies, comics and mangas that could fit the themes they mention, it's really concerning that they do not seem to know any of it while making a whole movie about it and implying that their stuff is going to be better.
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What is your favorite thing about the artstyles of animation in the west? I like the variety
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Idgaf about Marvel or DC but one thing I know is that I'll never get tired of the endless seething their more obsessive fanboys over stuff like this kek.
No. 302138
>>262844Super late but I watched Downtown recently too and share the same feelings. Insane how many zoomers were in the comments kek, and there are tiktoks about the show now too. I also noticed that they seem to worship Serena despite her being hypocritical and judgmental? Maybe it's the goth girl worship.
I saw so much headcanon posting about Jen being ace despite that never being confirmed and her literally wanting to fuck Alex.
No. 302149
>>262844Sorry to double post but that's another thing I noticed when Zoomers are introduced to media. They completely miss the point of characters being flawed or realistic in any way, especially if it's to drive a narrative. They ignore that entirely and just think this character or media is BAD. Characters need to be heckin wholesome and flawless to be digestible to them. I've seen some say they want Peggy's character changed for KOTH for being too
toxic.
No. 303701
>>302149>I've seen some say they want Peggy's character changed for KOTH for being too toxic.It boggles (heh) my mind how many people get their britches in a wad over her. Yeah she can be egotistical at times, but she's a very entertaining character and genuinely cares about her family. Her egotism was even explained in later episodes as a result of her
growing up with an overbearing mother and not fitting in with other, more stereotypically feminine women like Minh and Nancy. I've actually talked to scrotes who love Cotton but hate her, as if Cotton wasn't a narcissistic abuser to his son and wives. Peggy actually encourages Hank to stand up to his father and generally supports Bobby and Luanne as well, even though her attempts at support fall flat sometimes.
No. 303827
>>303701>It boggles (heh)I love you
nonnie kek!
I agree completely. I don't get moids who love Cotton's character. He's funny sure but an awful person. Peggy is delusional, has trouble understanding others' needs but but means well and hasn't psychologically damaged anyone, unlike him. It reminds me of the fanboys who hate Skyler White and simp for Walt
No. 304127
>>303701NTAYRT. I don't know how unpopular this opinion is, but I have always loved Peggy, I wouldn't want her to be changed because she's """
toxic""". However, I do have a problem with the way she's portrayed sometimes. It's just after a certain point, I started to notice that her flaws were being exaggerated to a ridiculous OTT degree, to the point that the writers seemed to want her to be annoying to the audience and to constantly punish her for her many mistakes. Sometimes the writers got way too mean with her and I hated seeing her suffering, crying, and being treated like a retarded idiot so often while her husband fixes everything she messed up. One or two times I wouldn't have minded, but it started to become too common. There was a season where the writers seemed to notice they were getting too carried away, and after a series of mean episodes they finally gave her an episode where she solves her own fuckups using her own intellect, so that basically confirmed it for me.
I always thought it was funny when she acted a bit selfish or overconfident for a quick joke and when her flaws are not blown out of proportion but, maybe it's just me, or because I binge watched the series instead of taking my time with it, but I realized the writing isn't always consistent - there are multiple retcons later on in the series so I take some backstory details with a grain of salt - and her character did change over time, though not always in a good way. Same with other characters. This becomes especially glaring when, at the same time, Hank started to become more and more flawless.
>>303827>I don't get moids who love Cotton's character.>It reminds me of the fanboys who hate Skyler White and simp for WaltThat's because they're misogynistic moids for the most part, they're unable to see male characters that are supposed to be bad people as bad.
I always hated Cotton with a passion, so much so that I have been thinking of posting him in the characters you hate thread, kek. He is funny and gave us plenty of funny moments, yeah, but he was a massive piece of shit, I guess it's one of those "love to hate" characters. I read somewhere that
he would die but since I was still watching one of the early seasons I got impatient and every time he appeared I kept thinking "when is this fucker going to die?" I can't believe it took him like 10 seasons to finally kick the bucket. That scene where
Peggy talks to him before he dies was so based, I love her so much.
No. 304364
>>294720I watched the show in full for the first time earlier this month and I had a blast with it. I remember the show used to come on at like 5 i the morning on Adult Seim way back in the late 2000s and I though the show was boring (I was a teenager) and slept on it.
But I gotta say watching it as an adult, I adored the show even if the art style is not great but if anything, it helps it stand out even more and it helps the show has some pretty good humor in it.
I honestly wouldn't mind seeing the show continued and they had Brandon, Melissa, an Jason as college students.
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>>311152And Maria looks so pretty, I'm looking forward to see her and Richter in this. I loved playing Dracula X Chronicles, looks like there are massive changes to the plot (which was bare bones anyway).
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>>311962You can thank Ayami Kojima for it, it's inspired by her CV concept art.
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Metalocalypse Army of the Doomstar is finally out so I am watching this now. The day is saved I guess.
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>>302067I don't care about Marvel or DC either but I like this himbo Superman. He's pretty handsome and husbando material.
>>302072I see that too though she also looks like Luz from The Owl House. Funny how their names start with the letter "L".
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>>316835Apparently, here is Marshall Lee and Prince Gumball as humans in the normal/real world. I'm digging Marshall Lee's design though I'm hoping and praying to see the OG back. I miss my vampire bad boy.
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>>316848Those two better be an item or I will riot in the street. I've waited over a decade for this shit.
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>>302067As much as I dislike neckbeard comicsgate faggots like this, I'm not going to watch something they hate just to spite them. Like other anons have said, it has an ugly Voltron style and comes across extremely fan-fic-y. It's a really transparent, pathetic attempt by WB suits to sell their tired IPs to Voltron/Owl House/She-Ra fans. I'm pissed off that this cynical crap got greenlit instead of picrel.
No. 316982
>>302067Reminds me of newer transformers stuff, especially the comics. I enjoyed them a lot but the seething never fucking stopped because dudebro fans cannot get over any sort of writing that is more nuanced than black vs white PEW PEW.
Also, they got mindbroken by some gay male characters and make text walls up to this day where they explain why robots that feel emotions, thirst and cry can somehow not feel love and can therefore not be gay even though the ages old first series already contained canon romances but they were hetero, so it doesn't count as love to them(?) (maybe that's how these people view marriages lmao).
I wasn't sure whether I should watch this new Superman since I love the style but am not a Superman fan. But now I will watch it for sure, thanks to all the seething. I am sure I will enjoy it. It always baffles me that these people don't move on. They are obviously too old for this or unwilling to engage with it anymore. They should rewatch the old shit they are into then instead of seething until they're getting strokes.
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>>316848Look how they massacred my boy
No. 318318
>>317942They never indicated if "Bubba" was short for something, if it all. Barnaby/Beauregard are the ones I feel like I saw most often? But those were just headcanons. I always figured human Bubblegum or Gumball would have some kind of German name, since they speak German? Also his last name is "Prince" which is just lazy. "Gabriel" probably would have made more sense, since it sounds closer to "Gumball" and is also just more elegant.
I know I'm being autistic about this. It was my stupid fixation as a preteen, let me sperg kek>>317918Fans are probably just going to continue to call it sugarless gum, like they always have. Showrunners need to stay in their lanes.
No. 319413
>>302067OK I watched a couple of episodes of this (wasn't paying full attention though) and I don't know how common this is in western animation, but the dialogue, pacing, even the voice acting in most cases sounded so tryhard and… tumblr-y? I don't know how to describe it but both the dialogue, humor, romance and especially the artwork (I never watched Voltron) remind me of a mix between western and Korean webtoons, which made me cringe. But sometimes there are good moments, and I really like Lois's character, her personality is cute. Obviously Clark is hot, but the half-toonboom animation and art style that looks like an imitation of Korean anime are a bit off-putting. And the fact that these two got their crush at first sight moment so fast made me roll my eyes. Everything seems to happen so fast. But hey, the action wasn't that bad.
If this is what Voltron was like, thank fuck I never watched it. I didn't pay a lot of attention because I realized from the beginning that this show makes me cringe a lot. Despite that, I will keep watching this way, because I don't actually hate it.
No. 319442
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So it's out, finally. I liked it. You can really kind of feel how it was meant to be a season of a show in the pacing, though. I hope maybe they can do something like make a few feature-length OVAs, I think the format would work well for them.
No. 319653
>>302067I kinda want to like this and even like the style but had issues finishing the first episode for how generic and boring it starts with the whole star reporter wish thing and the team up kiddy investigation.
It feels to me like every single US cartoon has this exact same first episode these days. Maybe it gets better later but it could have had a so much more interesting start IMO.
No. 319662
>>319650in hindsight everything boomers ever said about them was based and true. millennials may have grown up with cool animated media but that ugly tungle art style and the gender idpol that typically accompanies it is all a product of the "how to draw manga" anime club misfit generation, and it's going to take ages to breed it out.
and how the fuck did so many of the old newgrounds ones get outed for having
poop, diaper, or fart fetishes? I can name like four off the top of my head
No. 320330
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Idk if this fits here but it's kinda sad to me how the art style changed from the right and left ones to the middle one.
No. 321049
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>>320330If they wanted to keep her looking 'young for younger audiences' they could have stuck close to her Starlight Adventure face, it went downhill after that.
No. 321710
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>>321544To be fair Infinity train only had two good seasons, season 3 and 4 were pretty damn trash.
No. 321781
>>321721Yeah it's a fucking shame. Plus the few people that cared would have to pay for subscription for AMC+, a streaming service literally nobody even knew existed before.
These managers believe that you could just open yet another streaming service when most people already pay for five of them, upload two good series and get millions of subscribers within the first weeks and if not it's getting cancelled. I think people need to realise that there are too many streaming platforms, one of them costs like 12 EUR/dollars a month. It's too much money and not profitable to pay for so many when most of them only own maybe two series you feel like watching per year.
No. 321788
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>>321710I still liked s3 but can totally see where you are coming from. And S4 felt useless even to me. Maybe it could have been better if they were more daring with the plot and interactions, but like that it felt like an in-between season without much of a reveal or things happening.
To be honest I mainly wanted the series to finish properly because I am into Amelia Hughes and the whole lore involving her. The central mystery was intriguing and you simply do not get awesome, badass but also broken older women like her in cartoons or anime otherwise. if you are very lucky you might get a male character like this and even that is rare, but women never.
It's a fucking shame that the creators were so careless to believe that they would surely get 8 seasons greenlit, something that barely even happens with mainstream shows. You should always assume that the next season will be the last one. In that sense s4 was especially enraging, since it was so damn useless. If they had wrapped up the main plot it might have had a bigger impact, maybe making more people watch it and allowing more season. Stuff like s4 would have worked as spin-off and sequel too. The important shit should come first.
Sorry for that long rant lol, I am just sad about this wasted potential.
No. 336565
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>>336288THE NEW SCOTT PILGRIM SHOW SUCKED DICK. DO NOT WATCH YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME.
ALL WE WANTED WAS AN ACCURATE ADAPTATION BUT O’MALLEY SHAT ALL OVER FANS HOPES AND DREAMS. MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE BEEN SUPER EXCITED FOR MONTHS AND TALKING ABOUT HOW AMAZING THE SERIES IS GOING TO BE. ALL WE GET IS SUBVERSIVE META TIME TRAVEL BULLSHIT. IT STARTS OUT LIKE THE COMIC BUT WE NOTICED IT WAS SEVERELY RUSHED ONLY FOR SCOTT TO “DIE” AT THE HANDS OF MATTHEW THE FIRST EX. SCOTT HAS A FUNERAL SERVICE AND IM WAITING FOR THIS JOKE TO BE OVER BUT IT KEEPS GOING. TURNS OUT SCOTT WAS KIDNAPPED BY FUTURE LOSER OLD SCOTT AND HE GOT DIVORCED FROM RAMONA (WTF). HATE THIS SHIT IM BEYOND PISSED. No. 336720
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>>336565I probably won’t watch it but I like that they gaybait with these two, manlet nerd x gigachad is my guilty pleasure BL theme
No. 336734
>>336717Maybe the modern demographics can't even relate to happily married people anymore because of the divorce rates lmao.
Honestly I feel it's the same type of overreaction Disney does by reacting to each and every modern criticism of their older stories, but in this case it's writers reacting in a way any endgame couple in the original that had critics say they "wouldn't work out because of X or Y" needs to get "reality checked", as if people could never work on their differences and become a stable couple, not even in movie land.
No. 336930
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>>320330All of these art styles look like shit. Corinne was the last time Barbie looked pretty.
No. 337997
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I'm going to sperg out here:Jellystone is a massive shitty disgrace to all Hanna Barbera cartoons and if you say anything remotely negative about it some retarded autistic fans are going to accuse you of being an angry boomer or even a nostalgiatard.I don't know how something devoid of imagination, soul and heart (the older cartoons have) got greenlit.this pile of shit shat all over the original cartoons yes I know I sound like a Boomer but many fanturds are acting as if this garbage is a faithful revival which is obviously not.hate the bald man child who created this.William Hanna and Joseph Barbera are rolling in their graves.
No. 342849
>>342303Sage for nitpicking
I know Kung Fu Panda has always been popular with furries but why make the new female character a fox?of all the cool animals why a fox?it's repetitive and boring they can't choose another animal already?foxes are extremely popular with furries but this is getting stale.I just know there's already r34 of her.
No. 344676
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this show is so much worse than I remembered
No. 344938
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Imagine what could've been…
while i'm here: i wanna make playlists for each character if anyone has suggestions that would help
No. 346633
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>>341953am I missing something as to why this show seems to be so unanimously loved? I couldn’t make it past ep 4. maybe I had too high expectations because I liked the artwork/animation, and the concept of a gnc female samurai sold me. it has a lot of the ingredients I would typically like, but it was so poorly executed
>created by a white man and his wasian wife before I even looked it up it was so obvious that this show was created primarily by white people and perhaps a self-hating wasian with a surface level understanding of japanese culture. it’s pure self-fulfilling western fantasy fueled by white guilt and orientalism
>gnc female mc is NOT actually a lesbian disappointing
>other lead decides to runaway from her life as a princess to be a prostitute and this is perfectly reasonable this part was so stupid, not to mention how excessive the sex scenes were in general
>badass mc is unreasonably powerful despite having little formal training and no real training arcI just don’t like this trope. everything about this show felt too unrealistic
No. 346679
>>346633It's already been discussed in the animation cows thread and I couldn't make it past the pilot, but I find it so weird how hard they insist on Mizu's mother being a whore who fucked a white devil wah wah it sounds simultaneously self-hating and extremely fetishistic from Noizumi's part considering she apparently wanted the show to be rep for her blue eyed daughter (who is 3/4 white ??) and I can't get past the basic ass names that sound like they were picked for a 12 years old weeb's first sparkledog OC and the surface level cultural understanding that you mentioned.
Also it might sound nitpicky but WHY is America so allergic to the idea of handsome Asian men ? What the fuck is going on with Taigen's face ? They really couldn't watch a bunch of old historical movies for inspo ?
No. 346725
>>346662good to know, I thought I was crazy for not loving it
>>346679oh I missed this being posted about in the other thread so I’ll try not to repeat what has already been said, but I totally agree. the entire show reeks of fetishism mixed with modern western values to appeal to scrotes who are addicted to jav (like how geishas are treated as “sexually liberated” women while also being a bit taboo by doing degenerate acts). taigen also pisses me off as a character because he’s so ugly but also the main love interest for both female leads. like all of the male characters are ugly. weird how they can’t write decent male asian characters, but unsurprising since this show was created by a white moid. I get if someone enjoys the action sequences or the mc on paper, but that’s all there is to like imo
No. 346868
>>346662Not trying to turf. I liked the action scenes and Mizu. I found it flawed but it was enjoyable enough. Nowhere on the level of something like Arcane but not as awful as a lot of current cartoon slop.
>>346679There's a lot of genuine criticism and I also found the prostitute stuff unnecessary and fetishy but the part about her mom is
a twist, the prostitute isn't Mizu's real mom. They put so much emphasis on the "true" identity of her mom at the end I wouldn't be surprised if her mom ends up being white somehow while her dad was Japanese.>>346679>>346725Taigen is hideous and deserved to get beat up.
No. 348221
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Is the Scott Pilgrim animated show worth a watch? I've been watching clips and it looks cute plus I really enjoyed the original movie version
No. 356856
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>>348223>>348278Updating to say I watched it and I adored it! Since I haven't read the comics I have no comparison or gripes about the alleged inconsistency there but as a fan of the movie it was wonderful. I loved the animation, the humor, how the director, creator and OG cast mostly came back and expansion on everyones backstories.
No. 356902
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I absolutely adored Hilda. I was so sad that it ended after three seasons and a movie, since there were a lot of characters I would've loved to see revisited. The series was so sweet and comforting, and the mom-daughter stuff made me tear up quite a few times.
No. 357048
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I'm about halfway thru bee and puppycat and it's just a fun, comforting, visually fun show that I appreciate having a small cynical edge. I've binged this and the midnight gospel recently, thinking of another cartoon to watch. is the gender swapped adventure time spinoff any good?
No. 357051
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>>357049What a shame, maybe I'll just rewatch OG adventure time since it's been a long while since I've seen it.
No. 365076
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I'm rewatching this. As a kid I watched up to maybe season 3 and then the rest went unaired for awhile and I got too old to care. It's ugly as sin, sure, but it's a good show.
One thing I don't get though is that people say Courtney is a better friend to Ginger than Dodie. Unless Courtney gets a redemption arc later, I don't see it. I have a soft spot for her in the way I like Rarity from MLP for being so over the top. But a better friend? Nah. Not trying to defend Dodie though. She sucks too.
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>>365076I actually find the art style kind of charming especially compared some other shows that are considered ugly. Maybe I just have bad taste, but the only thing I would change is moving the mouths up.
No. 366862
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Finished picrel today. It brought back so much memories, and I finally knew what episode the specific scene of someone making mashed potatoes and dropping it on the floor, then scoped it back to the pot, and Lor -the blonde girl- saw him and decided not to eat the mashed potatoes, and her family of 19 or something ended up all sick and she took care of them all. It was a Christmas special where she recalled the incident, I finally know!
The overall show is good, it's hilarious and fun, and I enjoyed Tino's -the blond boy- parents divorce and mom's remarriage possibility plot. Lor is my favorite character because she's so braindead and a good gnc/tomboy character. Carvar or whatever his name is -the black boy- and Tish -the redhead girl- are the worst of the cast and very annoying, but they did have their moments as well. Tish's mom is so cool lmao.
No. 366893
>>366890I just got past the 2nd TV special where Ginger goes to the private school, and then the episode where Courtney exposes the plan to break up Darren and Ginger. I really felt for her and want to see her to continue growing but she has so many bad moments too that it's hard to see her make a full turnaround.
I see people stanning Miranda too and saying she wasn't that bad of a character. How? She's had maybe 1 or 2 redeeming moments so far but she's straight up evil, the fuck.
No. 367025
>>366893Nta but I think Courtney had so much potential
and the ending did her so dirty for no reason at all, but I agree Miranda is horrible.
No. 367140
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>>367025I low-key fantasize that the show gets rebooted somehow and Courtney gets a proper redemption.
Miranda was a great character tbh. Just a straight up hater bitch for no reason. She seemed so real, just like the mean girls I went to school with.
No. 367284
>>367140I wish it would, but it didn't seem as popular as the so-called "classic Nicktoons". I didn't even know what happened to the show in later years until recently. Nostalgiafags probably overlook it because it was too realistic and for girls.
And even if they did, there's a non zero chance they'd fuck it up anyway and add dumb shit like making Macie trans or something
No. 369174
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Me and her definitely wouldn't get along cause she's probably really political but honestly she did nothing wrong. I watched season one when it came out but it's been too long for me to remember enough to start from the second season. Honestly I completely understand why she was the way she was with him.
sorry for shitty picture btw everything is a goddamn webp now
No. 371633
>>367140>>367025>>367315>>367551Okay I'm all done and it's time for my cartoon persona to cross my arms and offer my critique:
Wow. I went my whole life not seeing Season 3 and expected so much of it and it just, didn't really do anything. Like, they enter high school, there is some minor drama with Darren being on the football team, his relationship with Ginger, and then it just ends like that. Courtney and Miranda are practically written out of the show, other than Courtney getting bullied a few times and then the grand finale of her becoming poor. By the way last anon, it's implied she moves into the Foutley's old house. She doesn't die in poverty. But still. They really could have done more with her character. It seemed like the creators wanted her to get her comeuppance but she really wasn't as bad a bully as Miranda, just a histrionic diva, so why even go this route?
Other than that, Macie has zero character development which sucks. They try to force Carl to change but the show doesn't last long enough after that to really convince the viewer. Polly and Noelle vanished too, why? I know they had to cancel this show due to poor ratings so the creators probably had more in mind than just wrapping it up so abruptly, but I really wish we got more than this.
I can't believe Rugrats All Grown Up lasted longer than ATBG.
No. 377032
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This show isn't as bad as people let on and I've become unironically invested in it. It's not a good show either, but the hatetrain is way overhyped. It's more tolerable if you view it as parody.
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I'm sad anons
No. 405415
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Anyone else here that watches The Dragon Prince? Is it worth getting back into? Dropped the show when they introduced the tif as Claudia's love interest, but I am willing to get back into it if season 6 is decent.
No. 408047
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>>408013Honestly, Westaboos make some pretty nice stuff, so Pixiv isn't a bad option (although you can't sort by popularity unless you're a paid member.) You can take a look at Tumblr and Twitter and just follow the handful of people you find who make art that is actually good and not just retarded BIPOC LGBTEJKU headcanons. Keep in mind that Twitter and Instagram's search functions are kind of shitty. Avoid Pinterest, because everything there is stolen and nothing is sourced. Boorus are better, because at least there's a source for the art most of the time, though that source is pretty much always going to be Tumblr, Pixiv, Instagram, or Twitter. Regardless of where you go, you'll have to wade through some cringe, but once you find some good artists to fill up your feed, you're good.
No. 417569
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Curious what other nonnies think of Scavengers Reign. I really like the premise and all the creature/planet ecosystem art but God the humans are so icky to look at that I'm put off. It's very comic book lite style that reminds me of like Infinity Train.
No. 417631
>>407474Yeah that type of humor was super common at the time, especially the shows that aired on Adult Swim. It seemed way less obnoxious when you were catching it in the middle of the night between episodes of Robot Chicken and Squidbillies. I think the creators matured a lot as they continued to work on it, but it's supposed to be an edgy adult parody of those old Johnny Quest adventure cartoons and spy media as well as capeshit, so that type of humor is kind of its whole deal.
Have you watched any more since you posted, what do you think of it now?
No. 418135
>>417569the art is beautiful, but the story and characters fucking suck. if you have to make your characters act ooc and stupider than they are, your writing is bad. the plot is too centered
on a wheeping ginger manchild feeling guilty for being a cowardly shitbag while being gestated by a panda beast before becoming some planetary comet being to wrap up the plot?? if it was just about Azi and the robot it'd be 10/10 otherwise its a 2/10 from me. i hate it even more because there is not a lick of criticsm online for how infantile the writing is, just redditors slurping up scifi shlop plot and soyjacking over it
No. 418376
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The show is mid as fuck but Bane basically adopting Goldilocks was so cute, I hope he gets with that dominatrix chick so he’ll be happy.
No. 430911
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I can't believe how shit the writing for the first act of S2 Arcane is compared to the original. What the fuck happened? Why is Jinx having a shitty internal monologue while reused scenes from S1 flash on the screen with a sad blue filter slapped on them? And they fucking repeat that the next scene, just reusing S1 scenes but with a sepia filter and sad music playing.
Again, what the fuck?
This feels like it's been written by an entirely different team of people.
The dialogues feel so out of place like they're from a different show.
Why are the characters constantly explaining what emotions they're feeling word by word instead of showing them?
No. 430918
>>430911I was just about to ask if anyone had a spoiler free recap because it's been so long since I've seen the first season I can't remember what happened. I never played LoL either.
The level of flashbacks might be for people like me kek
No. 430940
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>>430936I saw today that this is the most expensive animated series of all time. How could they not throw a few million at the original main writers to get them back? It's insane.
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>>430958The episodes are around 45 mins, instead of the typical 21 mins. So if you double that it's still around the same price - 125/18 = 6.9m. Add in the marketing stunts like picrel, hiring Imagine Dragons to make the OP and a French animation studio I can see it making sense.
No. 431095
>>431091High animation costs make the most sense out of all this—it is a pretty shocking number overall, but breaking it down that way does add up.
Imagine Dragons is a core part of League of Legends branding and have been for several years, although it’s usually just licensing out pre-existing songs, but I guess none of that necessitates them making their deals any cheaper just because they’re being hired so consistently.
Skimping on the writing is how these high budget high rating shows completely fall apart, sadly. The Witcher’s core writing problems spiraled out of control, and everyone knows what happened when writers rushed Game of Thrones.
No. 436616
>>430958late, but $250M for the whole series is very reasonable imo, a single 90-ish minute animated film can often cost over $150M, not including marketing (some studios Keep their films below $100M, but Disney/Pixar, for example, generally don't). Granted, a lot of those films dump their budget on celebrity voice actors, but still. There are a lot of people to pay when it comes to animation, and much more pre-production and production work than live-action, and Arcane's entire look is one that requires a lot of fussing around (even though they do know how to cut some smart corners eg using projection mapping instead of 100% modelling environments all the time).
As for the writing specifically, while I obviously don't know shit about the behind-the-scenes, the S2 screenplays were likely already drafted at least by the time S1 started airing since it was said that S2 was in production at the time, and most of the writers also worked on S1. Throwing more money at the writers likely wouldn't have changed much if anything.
I'm not saying anyone has to love the show or whatever, just tired of people thinking this stuff should cost pennies when there's a crew of people working multiple years on one project, or thinking that writing for animation has the same flexibility as writing for live-action can.