In a world where the 90s never happened – The Avengers: United They Stand Review

In a world where the 90s never happened – The Avengers: United They Stand Review

We all know about Avengers: United They Stand. A legendarily bad show they barely lasted a full 13 episode run on the old FOX Kids’ block before being quickly binned and forgotten by everyone who experienced its lousiness first hand. But now, we have a new Avengers show out, so a look back at the previous animated incarnation of these characters seems like the most sensible idea at this point in time. If you thought this show was bad for…

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A Year of Disney’s Shorts: Set 4

A Year of Disney’s Shorts: Set 4

Four shorts this month- two new blog entries and two previous entries, “Mickey’s Service Station” and “Thru the Mirror”. Instead of repeating my opinions on them, just read these. Now for the new shorts- The Band Concert (1935) Here we go, one of the big ones. This cartoon is regarded as being one of the most important from the 1930’s for being Mickey’s first fully Technicolor cartoon. Although the Silly Symphonies became colorized a couple of years prior to the…

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Puella Magi Madoka Magica – On the Contrary, Is Not Suffering

Puella Magi Madoka Magica – On the Contrary, Is Not Suffering

What I expected. In the not-too-distant future, there lives a girl named Madoka Kaname who wishes that she could overcome her submissiveness and be something in this world. And luckily for her, this world is full of magical girls who earn their worth by killing monstrous beings known as witches. With the help of her animal companion, Kyubey, Madoka must make her wish and become the strongest magical girl to– –OH MY GOD, THAT GIRL JUST GOT HER HEAD BIT…

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Avaitor Hits Beauty and the Beast With His Best Shot

Avaitor Hits Beauty and the Beast With His Best Shot

A bit of a late entry here, but we at Animation Revelation (or at least yours truly) has been paying attention to The Film Experience‘s Hit Me With Your Best Shot series. Covering everything from La Dolce Vita and The Night of the Hunter to Bring It On and X-Men, the blog series is a showcase for outstanding or poignant single shots from any types of movies. Although we’re all fairly big film buffs here, AR is a primarily animation-related…

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A Year of Disney’s Shorts: Set 3

A Year of Disney’s Shorts: Set 3

Here we go, five shorts this month. How do they fare for me? Let’s see. Mickey’s Service Station (1935) This time I start off with a black and white short. In it, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy run a gas service station that are given 10 minutes to fix a squeak in Pete’s car. Funny since this short is only about 7 minutes long, and it takes about 2 to give them the time to work on it. Not much in…

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Ludovico Trials – Kicking Clannad In the Nads (Part 1)

Ludovico Trials – Kicking Clannad In the Nads (Part 1)

Episode 1 We pan out to a bleak town, where we hear someone bitch about the monotony of it all. Not even a minute passes by, and it already gets tiring, with such crisp dialogue as, “There’s no place I’d rather not go ever again.” As we get more scenery of the setting, our lead, Tomoya, walks into the path of a red haired girl who inexplicably mutters “Pan-pan,” the Japanese word that children use to say bread. Why a…

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Ludovico Trials – Ren And Stimpy: Slow Death (Part 2)

Ludovico Trials – Ren And Stimpy: Slow Death (Part 2)

As we continue down the rabbit hole, we now arrive at the infamous Games episodes. The Games era, at the time, was considered a huge affront to the concept of Ren & Stimpy. It leaned far heavier on gross-out gags than any other kind of humor, and episodes themselves frequently devolved into nothing more than a contest to see if the next joke could out gross the previous. To fans, this was seen as sacrilege, but in reality… it was…

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Special Review! Excel Saga, Volume 22

Special Review! Excel Saga, Volume 22

I recently stumbled upon this fine fellow’s wonderful review of the upcoming 22nd volume of Excel Saga. Now, we here at Animation Revelation don’t usually review graphic novels, but I felt that I needed to make an exception in this case; Chris “Studly” Zimmerman’s review simply was not mentally deficient enough to provide a proper analysis of content or achieve his goal of delivering a brilliant critique on Excel’s latest misadventures. As you are no doubt aware, AR takes great…

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A Year of Disney’s Shorts: Set 2

A Year of Disney’s Shorts: Set 2

Time for the next batch, and let me say that I fully enjoyed both sets so far and can’t wait to do the next one. Before I start with the three “new” cartoons I’m reviewing, let me give a special mention to my first repeat short of the series- “Thru the Mirror”, which I reviewed last time. Besides being on one of the hard-to-find Treasures sets, it has recently been rereleased on Alice in Wonderland‘s Blu-Ray release, and it looks,…

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The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya: And Being All The Better For It

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya: And Being All The Better For It

Yes, everybody else blogged about the movie months ago. Yes, this probably won’t change whether or not you’ll go and watch it. Yes, none of us except for DaemonCorps or Desensitized like Haruhi that much to give anything resembling an informative review. But in the end, does it matter? Well, yeah. But alas, fuck it. Let’s get to the review. It’s Christmas time for the SOS Brigade, and what a better way to celebrate the holidays than to loosely enact…

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