High Guardian Spice - Tumblr: The CalArt Anime

[Jonah Hill poster]

I don’t even think you can even call this CalArts animation. Scenes like the ones shown on this thread remind me of Newgrounds shorts that just so happened to have talented webtoon creators making animation.

I doubt they would ever stream/televise this outside of their niche, though. Most of this just seems like a Madoka Magica and Touhou rip-off.

 

[Trilby]

I mean, the arms would fit…
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And speaking of perspective.
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God those fuckin' backgrounds.

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

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Honestly, the dude isn't even made misogynistic. He's just cocky and incompetent for most of the episode, but the moment the MC takes control and shows him, he's immediately like 'Oh wow, you're so cool and cute!'. At best, he admits that he didn't think such a cute girl could be so strong (and considering how skinny the main characters are drawn in this, can you blame him?). Yet they treat it like he was actually a jerk this whole time. It's only after everyone gets mad at him for no good reason that he says a single insult (calling the MC stuck up), and immediately the teachers are on board for him to get hit by the dwarf and scolding him.

 

[Jaimas]

I swear to god this show is like Xavier: Renegade Angel if you were trying to be coherent about it. As a result, it's nowhere near as entertaining.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

And speaking of perspective.
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You know you love Steven Universe too much when you follow their example in shitty perspectives.

 

[Yukako]

I mean, the arms would fit…
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If you ever feel bad about your art, just know that this was made by industry professionals.

Honestly, the dude isn't even made misogynistic. He's just cocky and incompetent for most of the episode, but the moment the MC takes control and shows him, he's immediately like 'Oh wow, you're so cool and cute!'. At best, he admits that he didn't think such a cute girl could be so strong (and considering how skinny the main characters are drawn in this, can you blame him?). Yet they treat it like he was actually a jerk this whole time. It's only after everyone gets mad at him for no good reason that he says a single insult (calling the MC stuck up), and immediately the teachers are on board for him to get hit by the dwarf and scolding him.

Never doubt Twitter's ability to make strawmen amusing characters with the most personality.

 

[Horribadger]

This is so bad I think even a bunch of random assholes from Kiwifarms could shit together something better.

 

[Faggitory]

These three are like Huey, Dewey and Louie duck, finishing each other's sentences

I sorta like how they all look like the same woman, but at different ages. I'm assuming they're all in the same family, right?

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

Fucking called it: https://twitter.com/i/status/1453582655845543936

So, in our progressive show about giving positive representation to transgender folk, the motivation for our dude wanting to transition is: His asshole brother kept calling him girly, he's not traditionally masculine and he really likes the girls who are really the only people he interacts with on this show. Basically, this show is making it look like he only 'feels wrong' because people keep insulting him for not being manly enough.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

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How are they drawing black people right, exactly?

This is low effort, but nothing about this character says "black" when you change her colors. Do they want to be represented but without any characteristic besides dark skin? Because the original character could well be Indian too.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Has anyone pirated this yet? I can't find it on KissCartoon and the like, and that's the only way I can start analyzing and riffing on this series episode by episode because I'm a masochist, I just refuse to give Crunchyroll any views.

And I'm serious, I'll take the bullet and do screencap recaps like I did in the Higurashi thread, but only through pirating.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Fucking called it: https://twitter.com/i/status/1453582655845543936

So, in our progressive show about giving positive representation to transgender folk, the motivation for our dude wanting to transition is: His asshole brother kept calling him girly, he's not traditionally masculine and he really likes the girls who are really the only people he interacts with on this show. Basically, this show is making it look like he only 'feels wrong' because people keep insulting him for not being manly enough.

Grooming.

This is called grooming.

 

[Aria]

Has anyone pirated this yet? I can't find it on KissCartoon and the like, and that's the only way I can start analyzing and riffing on this series episode by episode because I'm a masochist, I just refuse to give Crunchyroll any views.

And I'm serious, I'll take the bullet and do screencap recaps like I did in the Higurashi thread, but only through pirating.

It's so horrible that no one wants to torrent it or pirate it.

 

[SBG]

I don’t even think you can even call this CalArts animation. Scenes like the ones shown on this thread remind me of Newgrounds shorts that just so happened to have talented webtoon creators making animation.

I doubt they would ever stream/televise this outside of their niche, though. Most of this just seems like a Madoka Magica and Touhou rip-off.

My first thought seeing the trailer that came out was John Kricfalusi's original meaning of CalArts animation, which was the habit of animators to recycle looks not influenced by life or other cartoon styles so much as specific cartoons that seemed popular to the animator.

The designs in this often seem to just look 'off' as though the person doing the designs was trying to imitate anime they'd seen, but are trying to avoid defined bodies like you'd see in shows like Wandering Witch.

Took me a moment when watching the Spice trailer to put my finger on it, but the Spice girls have no knees. It's similar to the noodle animation you'd see with Adventure Time or Steven Universe where their limbs are bendy tubes. Whoever was doing the designs was trying to marry anime faces to the Tube animation that's been popular with SJWs.

 

[Miller]

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Wait, that's a guy? He's got the same chest as the girls on the right.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Wait, that's a guy? He's got the same chest as the girls on the right.

There are no manly characters in the show. All boys all soft, fat, or girly.

 

[Po's Cootah]

There are no manly characters in the show. All boys all soft, fat, or girly.

Because "toxic masculinity bad"

 

[SBG]

Always gets to me how they do the bean mouth to avoid sharp angles. I'm convinced at this point they do it to express that the character is childish or 'soft'. Cause you'll find they have sharper angles on the characters meant to be more mature or evil. Like the tall one in this show having the pointier chin whereas the three younger girls often look as though they have no chins because their heads are too round. Whereas the adults will often have solid chins if they're meant to be taken seriously.

Same reason for no knees, too pointy.

 

[TheresaCrab]

Fucking called it: https://twitter.com/i/status/1453582655845543936

So, in our progressive show about giving positive representation to transgender folk, the motivation for our dude wanting to transition is: His asshole brother kept calling him girly, he's not traditionally masculine and he really likes the girls who are really the only people he interacts with on this show. Basically, this show is making it look like he only 'feels wrong' because people keep insulting him for not being manly enough.

I honestly cannot stress enough how much I hate this type of character. The message behind it is simply horrible and it can be downright harmful to people who struggle with similar issues. "Oh? You don't act like a literal stereotype of your sex 24/7? You clearly must be an opposite sex then, go transition immediately!!1!"

This is a character that got literally bullied into being trans and they treat that as a good thing?? Fuck this bullshit.

How much more refreshing would it be if he was a feminine guy, who during the course of the show slowly learnt to embrace his femininity and accept himself for who he is and eventually stood up to the people who abused him?? Without all this trans bullshit? AND staying 100% straight and cis (and getting the girl)? To prove that straight men can be feminine too, without being seen as a joke?

I'm asking too much, aren't I?

 

[Migurdia]

I'm still unsure what the entire point of High Guardian Spice is. I know Crunchyroll isn't full of the brightest people around but why would a company whose entire purpose is to cater to weebs and distribute anime waste time and resources with this cheap looking cartoon about trannies?