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Pogonodon posted:Cartoons WERE better when I was a kid.  Kid's right about The Last Airbender
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mycot posted:I did a rewatch of Samurai Jack in the lead up to Season 5 and was pleased to see that it was still badass. Unfortunately, then season 5 happened I am still so frustrated by this. S5S2 was one of the most brilliant episodes of TV I've seen and then we got into literal hentai gags.
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Jul 9, 2023 23:23
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If nothing else, Samurai Jack season 5 at least gave us the Samurai Jack Season 5 trailer
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Jul 9, 2023 23:25
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Assepoester posted:snip
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Jul 9, 2023 23:27
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I pity my child self because he liked Johnny Test. Seriously what the gently caress was I on Didn't Craig McCracken say something to the effect of "Make the shows you remember watching when you were young, not what they actually were" or something to that effect?
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Jul 10, 2023 00:00
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I'd like to think Ed, Edd, and Eddy is still funny to this day. There are things that can age well, or be classics, while others get safely put in the "that sure was a thing" box and fade away. Cheers oddly aged better than Friends, for example. There was an episode making fun of the idiocy of gay panic itself, and it wasn't Friends.
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Jul 10, 2023 00:21
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Assepoester posted:
Yeah lol they picked a loving godawful choice for the "thing kid currently thinks is awesome that will turn out to actually be objectively not awesome later in life". I watched Last Airbender for the first time in my early 20s and it loving slapped then and it still slaps now.
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Jul 10, 2023 00:27
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Avatar had a better ending than most shonen anime there I said it.
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Jul 10, 2023 00:45
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mycot posted:Avatar had a better ending than most shonen anime there I said it.
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Jul 10, 2023 01:09
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Pretend I said manga then because the statement is still true. 
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Jul 10, 2023 01:27
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in that case it's trivially true because the mangas just don't loving end
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Jul 10, 2023 01:33
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nine-gear crow posted:Yeah lol they picked a loving godawful choice for the "thing kid currently thinks is awesome that will turn out to actually be objectively not awesome later in life". I watched Last Airbender for the first time in my early 20s and it loving slapped then and it still slaps now.
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Jul 10, 2023 01:48
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The worst thing about taking inspiration from anime is that it invites a certain set of jerks who use the inspiration to poo poo on a show for not being as good as anime. I really need to not look at Twitter when I see people saying that Supes or Last Airbender look like lovely dollar bin battle shounen shows.
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Jul 10, 2023 01:51
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Arc Hammer posted:The worst thing about taking inspiration from anime is that it invites a certain set of jerks who use the inspiration to poo poo on a show for not being as good as anime. I really need to not look at Twitter when I see people saying that Supes or Last Airbender look like lovely dollar bin battle shounen shows. Yeah I was posting in jest but this is what I was really getting at. Something like ATLA really does do certain things better than its inspirations. Trying to track the character arc of, like, Sasuke is a loving mess compared to Zuko.
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Jul 10, 2023 01:57
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mycot posted:Yeah I was posting in jest but this is what I was really getting at. Something like ATLA really does do certain things better than its inspirations. Trying to track the character arc of, like, Sasuke is a loving mess compared to Zuko. ATLA is great because it just tells a complete, coherent story and then stops, which you wouldn't think would be a high bar but maybe it is mystes fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Jul 10, 2023 |
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Jul 10, 2023 02:14
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I dunno if you guys have kept up to date with anime/manga lately, but the trend has been to actually let the artists end their series when it makes sense to, even when they're mega-hits. Anime have also switched over to allowing space between cours to allow the material to build up backlog and to improve production.
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Jul 10, 2023 03:05
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In theory. In practice the sheer demand for production means that shows are lucky if they get another season in reasonable time. That space between cours can stretch into years as other gigs get animated.
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Jul 10, 2023 03:20
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Assepoester posted:Keep in mind this comic is from 2010 so it's referencing the live action movie. Ah, that explains it then 
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Jul 10, 2023 03:31
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regarding slade Keep in mind I might be wrong and misremembering poo poo. When the early 2000s teen titans cartoon spooled up there was a slight issure Slade was also known as the terminator but because of the terminator movie they the comics people shifted his name. I ve also been thinking about She Ra princess of power and its been years since I ve binged it but what stands out is the Adora, Shadow weaver, Catra triangle of making GBS threads relationships and mother issues. Along with the Entrapta, Hordack, and Hordack Prime relationships And that one shapeshifter dude whose VA just loving ooozed theater kid. all the other stuff in the show sadly just seems like back ground noise compared to the pathos of that stuff.
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Jul 10, 2023 04:53
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https://twitter.com/mcnostrilcom/status/1678210298862247936?t=7wv_ZOC3oeyfqmQ4qiyjXA&s=19
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Jul 10, 2023 05:09
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It's probably the most comics accurate depictions of Lois and Jimmy in half a century.
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Jul 10, 2023 08:59
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Reposting a fan art I did a while back, same sentiment:
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Jul 10, 2023 10:28
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Oh by the way on the whole moral message thingy I found this:
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Jul 10, 2023 21:46
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mycot posted:Kids cartoon chat is just especially terrible because on top of all the spicy takes you also have "cartoons were better when I was a kid" going on at all times. I think cartoons went through a bit of a peak like 5 years or so ago when all the projects that had gotten started in the wake of Adventure Time were running their course, but at this point, most of those have dried up, with not all that much to replace them, between streaming services getting cold feet, Warner Brothers having a bit of arson, and seemingly most of the upcoming crop of shows favoring less grand overarching plots. Although I also think these things go in waves, so there's times when just a lot of great stuff is coming out, and times when things have hit slumps or shows have ended without something filling the void yet. It's kind of hard to crunch the numbers since I don't really know the dates when shows came out, and the fact that there's so much you can watch when it's not new blurs things.
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I think it's ironically the stupid Execs being shuffled around that leads to the bounties. Stuff like Flapjack and Chowder were around at the tail end of CN being just stupid for live action poo poo. So you get one or two projects that land, which gives the folks working on them a little leeway to pitch their own stuff, which leads to genuine hits that run For A While. Then they stop fostering new growth because poo poo Princess Bazooka didn't make it big like AT why are we spending So Much Money on this poo poo and they retreat into the safety of established shows and it all goes to poo poo again.
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Rhonne posted:What year does this show take place in? I noticed in the beginning that when kid Clark saved that mother and child, there was a smartphone in the van, and in present day, Lois had a hologram projector or something when she was talking to the chief. I mean Clark is just out of college so he's what, 21, 22? So that scene with him saving the woman in the van would have been like in 2011. I had a smartphone in 2011. And with the holograms this is cape cartoons there's always goofy supertech.
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Jul 12, 2023 14:55
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Kinda like Zim, we were told "near future in another universe."
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Jul 12, 2023 15:21
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Metropolis is literally nicknamed "The City of Tomorrow" in comics so vague near future works well.
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https://twitter.com/lberzins_voices/status/1677034622905987073?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q Getting major Scorpia vibes from this take on Heat Wave.
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/lberzins_voices/status/1677034622905987073?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q Interesting as to my knowledge Heat Wave is primarily a Flash villain, I guess this means the show basically has carte blanche to pull from anything in the DC universe
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/lberzins_voices/status/1677034622905987073?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q I'm gonna guess the girl she's with in the picture is gonna be Captain Cold as well then?
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nine-gear crow posted:I'm gonna guess the girl she's with in the picture is gonna be Captain Cold as well then? The other girl is Livewire from the previous episode Larryb fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Jul 13, 2023 |
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nine-gear crow posted:I'm gonna guess the girl she's with in the picture is gonna be Captain Cold as well then? Nah, she's already Livewire
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Jul 13, 2023 06:31
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The first episode of MAWS I worked on premiered last night!  Here's the first BG I did for the show, spoilered since it's still early. I'm just excited. 
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Jul 14, 2023 20:16
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Das Boo posted:The first episode of MAWS I worked on premiered last night! I just watched it and I really liked it! How much of the bank heist art did you work on? any of the interior shots? I thought it was a really cool use of a small space to show off the action. Lois is such a gremlin in this show she's great. And I thought I recognized Cat Taber's voice.
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Arc Hammer posted:I just watched it and I really liked it! How much of the bank heist art did you work on? any of the interior shots? I thought it was a really cool use of a small space to show off the action. More BGs: Fair bit of it!:     Back when we were on Zim, Jake was talking to me about how to approach Lois. I'm not about to pretend it was my idea, but it was my opinion that Lois shouldn't be no-nonsense and then get herself into predicaments where she has to be rescued all the time; that would make her look like an incompetent blowhard. I really like that he made her a chaotic good to Clark's lawful good. The focus is on her and Clark right now, but Jimmy will be coming into his own a little down the line.
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Jul 14, 2023 21:36
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Das Boo posted:More BGs: And I assume that’s the reason the show is called My Adventures With Superman (it’s not just Clark’s story)
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Jul 14, 2023 21:40
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 I like the show mostly, but I hope they end the storyline soon where Lois and Jimmy don't recognize Superman. It's always been weird to me that the people close to Clark wouldn't clock Superman once they met him up close. Jimmy lives with the guy and Lois has basically hugged both Clark and Superman! It really undercuts the idea that Lois Lane is a good reporter for me.
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Jul 14, 2023 21:59
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I'll always love the joke about the time traveller in the live action Dean Cain show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoTgskfvw2I
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One of the reasons most people don’t link Clark and Superman in many versions is because most people don’t know Superman has a secret identity. He tends to straight out tell people his background minus the Clark stuff.
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