Bee and Puppycat (pilot)
In which we take a depressing "cringefail girl" sitcom and suddenly invade it with a weird mixture of Adventure Time, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and maybe a little bit of Captain Harlock.
OK K.O. S1E32: "No More Pow Cards"
I don't think I'm ever going to grow to like this show's visual style.
"Double King"
I don't know what - if anything - "Double King" is saying. But I don't know that it needs to say anything to succeed at being itself.
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."
The Promised Neverland #2-3: "The Way Out" and "A Declaration of War"
I'm honestly not sure if her being human makes her slightly less of a monster, or slightly more of one.
The Promised Neverland #1: "Grace Field House"
All their beliefs, all their security, and the only adult who they ever had - the only parent figure in their frame of reference - all gone in the blink of an eye.
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.”
All Night Laundry (chapters 1-2)
And that's just the guy's dirty laundry. The man himself is even more dangerous. And his employer, meanwhile, well.
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.
New Statesmen #7-8
You want to know what disappointed me about #7-8? No fish-murder kid. Where is fish-murder kid?
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.
Revalkyrie (chapter two)
There's a highlight from early on, when Minamoto is musing on his own ghostly nature and whether or not he should find a priest to exorcise him, that will stick with me in a good way. Other than that, this chapter is all pretty forgettable at best.
