Hilda S1E3: "The Bird Parade"
Family-friendly entertainment media is hardly a new concept of course, but something about the way that Hilda does it feels like the medium making itself part of the message.
Hilda S1E1-3
I've seen cartoons with better visuals than "Hilda," but I'm not sure if I've seen any that do as much with as little as "Hilda."
Mob Psycho 100 S2E3-5 (continued)
It might not be literal, but it is true. It is an accurate artistic representation.
"Little Runmo" and "The Amazing Digital Circus"
A vibe that I’ve come to call “Nintendo Gnostic.”
Gargoyles S1E1-5: "Awakening" (continued)
Now, you might be asking: "how the hell did someone like this end up in the NYPD?" The answer is that 90's cartoon cops are a mythological creature that bears only coincidental resemblance to anything in real life. They are much like the gargoyles themselves in this way.
Gargoyles S1E1-5: "Awakening"
Yeah don't ask me how those thin little support struts are supposed to hold up half a castle's worth of weight. Or how the tower is supposed to hold them up in turn. There was another wizard involved in building this office building I guess.
Sonny Boy E1-3
"Sonny Boy" is an experimental original anime that came out in 2021, and that dared to ask the question "what if a bunch of high schoolers got randomly teleported into a series of sociology thought experiments?"
Did asking this question actually require very much daring? On second thoughts, no, not really. Still a decent premise though.
Arcane (part 2: episodes 4-6)
I did not expect this show to go 1/10th as deep as it has. Kinda floored.
Arcane (part 1: episodes 1-3)
His two hobbies are human experimentation and child murder. And...he might actually be on the right side of history.
Monster S1E6-12 (continued)
Episode 9, "The Girl and the Seasoned Soldier," has our hero seeking out a master to train him in the arts of the warrior so that he may go out and confront the villain.
I never expected to type that sequence of words when describing Monster of all damned things, but this series is nothing if not surprising.
Monster S1E6-12
Johan is probably the smarter one, then. He may or may not turn out to be physically stronger as well (the way things are going, I suspect that he will). And he's a psychopathic megalomaniac.
Partial augments don't necessarily have the superior ambition problem.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex (S1E4-6) (continued)
Either there's some incredibly subtle next-gen meme virus taking people over, or the Laughing Man is just an unbelievably effective stochastic terrorism apparatus
Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex (S1E4-6)
Either incredibly prescient, or a remarkable case of life imitating art.
"Birds Anonymous" and "Three Little Bops"
A look at where American cartoons were at in the mid-to-late 1950's. "Johnny Quest" and its imitators would come a few short years after this, albeit from different studios.
Haibane Renmei E2-7 (continued)
Maybe the existence of an afterlife really just means you keep dying forever?
