Good for you. Not sarcastic, it's better to like stuff than mindlessly hate something just because others hate it.
The first five minutes are quirk-overload and even for someone who has unironic affection for "beanmouth shit" like me it was a bit much. The rest of the film is a perfectly serviceable coming of age film.
A few years later and the fact that feminist worship of their menstrual cycle being pushed in western animation has only gotten more preachy and in your face has made my anger at the film soften a LITTLE bit....conversely I think Turing red is the snowball effect that lead to all the "single at 30 cat ladies," writing these trash fire episodes in the first place.
It helps that with Turning Red it's not even a huge part of the film, it's just more of a catalyst to the actual problem of the panda form.
Eh, I don't really have a problem with it. Style guides are essentially cheat sheets after all, because Alex Hirsch isn't animating the entire show by himself, other artists who have their own styles and strengths and weaknesses are.
I don't think it's the subject that's wrong, I think it's just the way writers go about it sometimes. Not every girl has a parent that's going to explain to them what this is, and not every middle school has sex ed. I don't really know how effective this is going to be, though, since most kids really don't watch ongoing cartoons. From what I've seen/heard, it's random shit on YouTube.
This feels like rip-off avatar the last airbender.
If they want to make an all black cartoon using African tribal aesthetics then good for them they should continue to do that instead of fucking up other series. I don't think this will cause any outrage unless they add white people as villains, but I doubt a black female child lead in an action show is going to grab boys' attention.
Looks alright imo, reminds me a bit of Thundercats 2011 or Generator Rex. If they go all in on African culturalism mixed with fantasy with no gay shit included (
) then I can see this being a fun watch about learning and exploring the history of Africa through fantasy.
I'm disappointed that this african-based cartoon is using an anime style. Granted, I'm not really up on what African cartoons look like but I'm hoping it's not this, this looks choppy and uninspired.
I hate how saturated and clean it looks. Literally looks like it was made out of north korean sweatshops.
Speaking of, has anyone else noticed how many pieces of entertainment nowadays seem to have completely whack saturation values? Like I'm not talking just animation but videogames and film to an extent too.
THE AKIRA BIKE SLIDE. AGAIN. LOL. STOP. I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE.
tbh I think they had that first five minutes much earlier in the script and just didn't take it out because mei is not as much as a 'girlboss' mega confident type that she is in that first five minutes throughout the rest of the film, it's weird.