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[Vyse Inglebard]

I get where your coming from but I’m honestly kinda disappointed we won’t be getting it. The Boondocks was a important and fantastic show and pushed huge boundaries for African-American animation and satire for it’s time. Considering how the modern world has pretty much turned into the cartoon satire the show was set in, I’d absolutely love to have seen how the show rips into the Trump era and all the woke,SJW culture of the 2010s. It has the potential to be brilliant. There’s so much comedy to be milked from today’s current clown world.

Yeah I guess you’re right. Society has changed so much since the original show ended. It would’ve been nice to see an episode of the Boondocks reboot where Huey talks about the vaccine and the pandemic.

You two are quite the optimistic ones, aren't you? There's no fucking way a Boondocks reboot would be even half as biting and no-holds-barred as the original. McGruder and his team only got away with it because the original Boondocks came out in an era where criticism of everybody was not only allowed, but appreciated as well. Compare that to today's "YOU MUST TOW THE PARTY LINE (Black people/Democrats good, Republikkkans/wypipo bad) OR ELSE" climate, and, yeah, I, too, am also glad that the reboot was ultimately canceled.

 

[Asdfgunman81]

A lot of the stuff was true. Did you see the Tumblr from about 10 years ago that someone at Pixar did making fun of him?

He's not John K.-level bad but he probably should not be working with women.

I didn't see anything of the sort. I would imagine that most of it is artwork from artists criticizing him?

Lasseter owned up to the shit he did and with any luck got help for it. He's a far cry from the usual suspects crying about cancel culture.

Knowing how much money's he's made off of the toy story movies he's directed, and the cars movies. I wouldn't put it past him to be the type who'd bribe people off to keep quiet about the subject.

 

[Commander X]

Note how a lot of the people who went apeshit when they saw someone post that they did not like that one new Pixar movie had "aspiring writer/animator/whatever" in their bio. Not a coincidence.

 

[A Grey Cat]

It’s the voices for the Rescue Rangers movie than anything that pisses me off about the movie. Like if you care so little about this franchise that you’re throwing together a shitty “meta” film made this cheaply, why pay for celebrity voices? Just uses that actual voice actors, fucking hell.

*Rage mode engaged* Ffs why in the name of all things sacred did they give chip the voice of that little shit stain from big mouth Andrew glabberblah blah something Jewish? That's all I hear when he spoke in the trailer, and show off the old merch like the NES game and lunch boxes all you want, it doesn't work anymore. The member berries have gone sour and don't work on me anymore.
*Rage mode off*

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

This has been occupying my brain for more than a few days, and I have no idea why.

 

[Introvertigo]

‘The Prince’ Canceled: Animated British Royal Family Parody Won’t Return For Season 2 On HBO Max

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has opted not to renew its animated comedy series The Prince for a second season. “The Prince is not moving forward,” HBO and HBO Max Chief Content Officer Casey Bloy…

www.deadline.com

 

[Jormungand]

‘The Prince’ Canceled: Animated British Royal Family Parody Won’t Return For Season 2 On HBO Max

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has opted not to renew its animated comedy series The Prince for a second season. “The Prince is not moving forward,” HBO and HBO Max Chief Content Officer Casey Bloy…

www.deadline.com

And nothing of value was lost.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

I'm just going to recommend this series as a complete random tangent. Done as a co-project between France and Canada, it's based on the Lupin books of the early 1900s. And Lupin is white, as it should be, not a nigger like in that new Netflix abomination.
The animation is okay, but the writing is good and it's an enjoyable show. There's a plucky female reporter, but she's a damsel in distress half the time so it's not ruined by wokeness. Tonally, I'd say it's on the level of maybe Batman TAS. A little bit serious, not toned down for kids, but not graphically adult. The music is excellent too, as are the cast of voice actors.

If you're a fan of the Ace Attorney games, and the Great Ace Attorney in particular, it even features an episode with Herlock Sholmes, which the original author of the Lupin stories renamed as a fuck you to Doyle over copyright and that's where Great Ace Attorney got the name from.

It's not groundbreaking, the animation isn't beautiful, but it's an enjoyable watch, occasionally funny and takes place when men were men and women were women, and woke shit didn't exist.

Sadly, there was only one season produced of 26 episodes but it's a nice easy watch. and I blow through it every 6 months or so, partly for the music.

If you haven't guess, I really like this series. Give it a watch, it's worth your time.

NIGHT HOOD : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Complete Series

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[Steamboat_Bill]

Were you complaining when they made Lupin Japanese?

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

Were you complaining when they made Lupin Japanese?

That's a spinoff that is so far removed from the original material it might as well have a completely different name.

 

[thegooddoctor]

This has been occupying my brain for more than a few days, and I have no idea why.

Regular show while not an amazing cartoon will always be great for how it pushed the PG rating for innuendo and adult jokes as far as it could for a CN show. It’s kind of amazing how they got past the censors, great stuff.

 

[Mr. Nobodyguy 202]

I'm just going to recommend this series as a complete random tangent. Done as a co-project between France and Canada, it's based on the Lupin books of the early 1900s. And Lupin is white, as it should be, not a nigger like in that new Netflix abomination.
The animation is okay, but the writing is good and it's an enjoyable show. There's a plucky female reporter, but she's a damsel in distress half the time so it's not ruined by wokeness. Tonally, I'd say it's on the level of maybe Batman TAS. A little bit serious, not toned down for kids, but not graphically adult. The music is excellent too, as are the cast of voice actors.

If you're a fan of the Ace Attorney games, and the Great Ace Attorney in particular, it even features an episode with Herlock Sholmes, which the original author of the Lupin stories renamed as a fuck you to Doyle over copyright and that's where Great Ace Attorney got the name from.

It's not groundbreaking, the animation isn't beautiful, but it's an enjoyable watch, occasionally funny and takes place when men were men and women were women, and woke shit didn't exist.

Sadly, there was only one season produced of 26 episodes but it's a nice easy watch. and I blow through it every 6 months or so, partly for the music.

If you haven't guess, I really like this series. Give it a watch, it's worth your time.

NIGHT HOOD : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Complete Series

archive.org

Fun fact, Bob Bergen (Porky Pig’s VA) voiced Lupin in the Secret of Mamo

 

[The Cunting Death]

I am actually a bit curious about this since neo noir isn't a topic that is often done through animation. Done a lot through video games though. I would like to see a trailer for this since it does sound promising. As for Lassester's behavior. Something did come off towards him, but weirdly enough. I think everyone was just pointing fingers at him because of the #Metoo stuff. What are the odds the women were telling the truth?

I've read the reports about him, worst thing that happened was he put his hands on women's legs but it was more in like a "buddy, I need to tell you something" sort of way.
If this was Harvey Weinstein raping bad then I'd be glad he's gone

 

[Asdfgunman81]

‘The Prince’ Canceled: Animated British Royal Family Parody Won’t Return For Season 2 On HBO Max

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has opted not to renew its animated comedy series The Prince for a second season. “The Prince is not moving forward,” HBO and HBO Max Chief Content Officer Casey Bloy…

www.deadline.com

May it forever be dead.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

While I think of it, I should also recommend Blake and Mortimer.

Another France/Canada production (seriously, the 90s were a golden era for that) based on a French comic published around the same time as Tintin. It's another adventure series ala the Tintin comics/animated series, except this features two adults as its main characters. One is a professor and one is a former soldier and intelligence officer. It has more sci-fi/supernatural elements than Tintin or Nighthood, but it's solid and a fun watch.

Blake And Mortimer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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[Private Pyle]

That's a spinoff that is so far removed from the original material it might as well have a completely different name.

Plus it’s explicitly mentioned that that Lupin is the partially French grandson of the original gentleman thief. Hence “the Third”.
Although tbf the Netflix version only styles himself after Lupin rather than claim to be the actual Lupin but that’s for another day. Neat recommendation btw.

‘The Prince’ Canceled: Animated British Royal Family Parody Won’t Return For Season 2 On HBO Max

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has opted not to renew its animated comedy series The Prince for a second season. “The Prince is not moving forward,” HBO and HBO Max Chief Content Officer Casey Bloy…

www.deadline.com

To the surprise of absolutely no one. I’m actually curious over who thought this a good idea to be greenlit.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

Plus it’s explicitly mentioned that that Lupin is the partially French grandson of the original gentleman thief. Hence “the Third”.
Although tbf the Netflix version only styles himself after Lupin rather than claim to be the actual Lupin but that’s for another day. Neat recommendation btw.

Hey I'm not bashing Lupin III. I've watched a good chunk of the movies and the first five series. I like it, a lot. I just consider it a spin off at best. It's really it's own thing. Nothing wrong with that, even in the 70s when Lupin III started, the original stories were public domain (I think). I don't think they're ripping anything off, I just view them as two separate entities.

As for the new one, as soon as I heard Netflix and saw a preview, I stayed far away.

 

[Bread Fetishist]

So, I watched The Cuphead Show, and I thought it was pretty fun. But then, for some reason, they decided to just end the first season on a cliffhanger.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

So, I watched The Cuphead Show, and I thought it was pretty fun. But then, for some reason, they decided to just end the first season on a cliffhanger.

So the Sonic SatAM approach...

That can't be good.

 

[Crescent Fresh]

So, I watched The Cuphead Show, and I thought it was pretty fun. But then, for some reason, they decided to just end the first season on a cliffhanger.

So the Sonic SatAM approach...

That can't be good.

It’s not the end of the first “actual” season, they ordered like 20-30 episodes.