As someone who enjoyed Code Lyoko and Ōban Star-Racers, I welcome our French animation heroes with open arms. The French are even animating Genndy Tartakovsky’s shows!
Well, there's always the works of Moebius.
A little skeptical on action shows ever making a comeback in current year. It feels like there are far too many factors against them, from censorship to profit. Outside of Nickelodeon, really only due to TMNT, the genre as a whole basically died as it was too expensive without much return as toys were not selling like they used to. Viewership was also pretty bad. Some of this can be blamed on the companies, like Young Justice having poor quality merchandise, and the DC shows relegated to early morning Saturday, but even prior it seemed like the writing was on the wall. These shows thrived on toys more than anything, but kids today are kinda hard to predict as while some merch like Paw Patrol seems to sell, a lot of the older kids, 7 and up, that toys were marketed towards are now become less of an audience with game consoles and IPads replacing them. Unironically, a lot of these soy lore shows are probably thriving on millennial and early Z consoomers who buy up the Steven funko pops. With them being lower
The only problem that I have with that pairing it's that is a thing that the series doesn't convey by itself because those two barely interacted together, will be fun when somebody watches Amphibia in 10 years and tries to scroll down millions of twitter posts to get the full context.
Hello? She ra? It squandered potential at the altar of the rainbow brigade before it even aired.
I hate it when they do that shit. For Christ's sake, either kill a character or don't! Don't just pull some dumbass gotcha!
It’s the same problem I had with Grunkle Stan sacrificing his memories in his show’s finale. Both creators really wanted to make a dark, impactful moment in their final episodes but backtrack when it gets too dark, making you wonder why they bothered in the first place.
Voltron: Legendary Defender also killed off one of it’s lead characters, controversial as that was. In Amphibia’s case, it was quickly glossed and all but swept under the rug in the last few moments, making it even harder to follow and cheapening the impact more.
I love that this is on Youtube kids. I wonder how many clicks it takes to get from Baby Shark to Drawn Together.
I would like some new action/adventure shows but no generic heroes or villains, I’m rather bored of the heroes vs villains trope.
I agree.
Drawn Together to me was more like Family Guy, but if done better. The humor itself may have been crass, but there was a slight intelligence to the jokes that made it very watchable in its early run. I liken it to Wonder Showzen with the way how they cleverly use old and well established cartoon characters from the past.