After many requests from Marquis, who should honestly get all credit for this blog still being functional or thought about at all, I have updated everything and made this part of AR usable again. I will try to make it look a little prettier and get stuff sorted better in the near future. It only took 5 years… sorry y’all. Thanks for reading if you’re still here! đ
Itâs a tale as old as time, where two Australian brothers make some crudely-animated Mario shorts and find enough success to form their very own animation studio. Then a little voice pops up in their head whispering âYou should make cartoons that remind people of Reboot. Remember Reboot? Remember Hexadecimal? âMember?â and they do so, making so many CGI shows about video game worlds that make viewers like you go âYeah, I remember Inklings. I remember Gaia Online culture. I…
“I didn’t take Lazarus for an anime adaptation of Driving Miss Daisy.” – Mumi on The Weeb Crew So yeah, the new show by acclaimed director Shinichiro Watanabe, about a select team of individuals sent to save the world from a mad scientist’s plot to kill most of humanity using pain-relief medication, wrapped up a few weeks ago. Short review: It sucked. Long review… Okay, good things about Lazarus first: It gave artists I like and respect paid work. Iâm…
Assault Lily Bouquet Yet another battle school anime, except this time the girls call themselves Lilies and the monsters are called the Huge. Huge what? How should I know? Euphemisms aside, I donât know how some anime fans can do it, talking about shows that tread through the same formula and the same thing season in and season out. Iâm sure every anime season is always someoneâs first, but for longtime fans, what do they get out of shows like…
Deca-Dence So hereâs a show with some nice world-building, a lot of attention to detail, and something grander clearly in the works. But it doesnât connect together, and I just sat there thinking this show should be blowing me away but isnât for some reason. Then I realized, âWait! Iâve seen this first episode before over a decade ago.â Post-apocalyptic world. Main characterâs stuck in a bottom of the barrel job. Her mentor is played by Katsuyuki Konishi. Giant monsters…
Arte Itâs 16th Century Italy. A noble teenage girl wants to be artist. Her name is Arte because she likes art. But her mother tells her she canât be an artist because she is woman, and must marry man. Art does not want to marry man, so she runs away and cuts her hair, because Mulan did it in that one movie called Mulan. Art becomes apprentice to a vague approximation of Leonardo Da Vinci. Leo tells her she canât…
22/7 I donât know what to make of a first episode where a girl with crippling depression forced out of her job has to join an idol group to have her emotional needs met. Itâs almost like someone taped the scripts to two completely different shows together. One minute, sheâs off on a rant about adults and their lies. The next, a scene all about gorillas. 22/7 really tries to have it both ways by portraying how much teenage life…
Azur Lane Azur Lane is a mobage featuring WWII-era ships anthropomorphized into cute girls with giant guns and cannons strapped onto them. “Wait a minute Hellrider, isn’t this just Kancolle?” And you’d be correct, dear reader. Not one to be outdone by glorious Nippon, China has decided to go in on that gacha money and release their own equivalent to the WWII mobage, but with the added benefit of something resembling actual gameplay. Unlike Kancolle this anime follows an ensemble…
After years and years of begging for at least one Greg Weisman show to get a third season, the control brains gifted fans with a third season of Young Justice. One with higher stakes, with gore and sex you couldnât get from a Cartoon Network airing. Seemingly cut plot points are rescued from cancellation hell, and you finally got to see what Darkseid was going to do after that cliffhanger from ages back. I could almost call it miraculous, if…
Picture yourself like this: Youâre a new kid in school. The unwanted misfit of the class. No one there really likes you because you donât act like anyone else, while your teacher spouts nonsense meaning nothing to your ears. The rest of the world is happy, naive, and wants you to smile no matter what you feel. Meanwhile, the higher-ups youâre trying to impress? They only see you as a never-ending nuisance. A pest trying too hard to impress and…