Obscure Anime of The Day:

Sangatsu no Lion

Aired: 2016-2017

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Psychological, Romance, School, Seinen, Slice of Life, Sport

Dorothy🫖

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🇬🇧Princess Principal🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Dallas Reid | Friday, 04.05.24

Same voice actor, different anime characters - featuring Dallas Reid.

Happy birthday! 🎂

2016

Seitarou Tanabata - Nanbaka (anime; English dub)

2017

Naoto Miura - Clockwork Planet (anime; English dub)

Asta - Black Clover (anime/movies/video games; English dub) (2017-present)

2019

Hiyori Tomoe - Ensemble Stars (anime/video games; English dub)

Tsuki ga Kirei OP

How Animation Discourse Can Feel At Times: The Complete Collection

It's the end of a story driven Disney TVA era

I'm drawing the turtles into some Ducktales clips, because so many of them just fit too well to ignore. Probably going to post a group of them together in a larger video after I get a few more done... but I just finished this one, and it was too entertaining not to share!

(Audio is taken directly from the Ducktales episode, just pitched down a bit!)

Now uploaded as a Youtube short as well, for easier sharing.

I love that The Ghost and Molly McGee's forced cancellation isn't just frustrating to fans of the show but to people in the animation industry as well. They're just as sick as we are about how much studios disrespect animation. They keep looking for the next Spongebob, Simspons, or goodness forbid Family Guy, but instead having faith in the creators and their content, they just...wait. They wait to make a profit and do the bare minimum to market their shows and make them available.

Let's look at Gravity Falls for example. I remember that when Gravity Falls was still airing, you would be able to find out a new episode was coming out based on coming across a commercial by random chance or by the people working the show promoting it online. Add that with the fact that it was on a different channel that required you paying MORE for your cable to get it. It WAS available through Disney Channel, a channel more available at a cheaper price, but the entire of Season Two got moved to the more expensive Disney XD, where Disney shows go to die, because...REASONS. With no warning or announcement. I think I found out about Gravity Falls moving to Disney XD because the trailer played during a commercial break. And that's just the START the show's problems. Mixed in with poor marketing, the show would have a crazy inconsistent schedule, where we'd have four episodes a week, a few months of NOTHING, a few more episodes a week, nothing for a few months, a random episode playing between that nothingness with next to no promotion, and all of that happening to the rest of the show until it finally died a slow death with its series finale where four episodes got stretched out for six months. That...is NOT okay. And it doesn't stop with Gravity Falls.

Steven Universe, OK KO, Ducktales 2017, Amphibia, The Owl House, and now Ghost and Molly McGee are all shows that had similar and sometimes WORSE treatments as Gravity Falls did, where the networks gave next to NO marketing, the creators had to promote their own shows themselves, and the airing schedules were so inconsistent with wildly long hiatuses that only the most dedicated fans were willing to keep watching. General audiences (mainly kids) weren't willing to keep up with shows that had ongoing stories if the episodes stories kept being too spaced apart and never had reruns as frequent as other shows like Teen Titans Go or Big City Greens (Or whatever's constantly on network TV nowadays. I don't know. I mostly watch shit on streaming).

The people of the animation industry is catching onto all of these tricks, and they're getting sick of it. They're getting sick of inconsistent schedules. They're getting sick of trying to bend over backwards in every possible way to make the show they wanted. By either making serialized content as episodic as possible so the network could air it more or by condensing their stories as much as they can, already expecting that forced cancellation to happen sooner than later. And in some cases, they don't even get the luxury of being told their show is ending. Did you know that Inside Job and Paranormal Park both had seasons that were already in development before Netflix pulled the plug shortly after releasing new episodes of their shows? Did you know that The Ghost and Molly McGee was already working on a Season Three before Disney shut that down so they had to force out a series finale that would still be good despite the cancellation? Because it's true. It's ALWAYS true. Creators want to make MORE, but the studios won't let them because they didn't profit off of it. Except they WOULD HAVE if they treated it better.

I want kids to grow up with characters that stick around through their childhood, just like I did with mine. I want kids to have their own Ed, Edd n Eddy, Codename: Kids Next Door, Phineas and Ferb, or Kim Possible. I want kids to watch shows that last more than two-three seasons, stick around for years, and leave an impact as if they have all the time in the world because to them, it feels like they do. I want kids to have a show that ends on a high note because the creators wanted it and not because the networks demanded it. But the unfortunate thing is that it doesn't seem possible nowadays. Because if a mostly episodic show like The Ghost and Molly McGee fails, despite being charming and inoffensive and something most kids will love, the what hope IS left.

Pennywise ; It ☆ Kotobukiya

Happy Halloween from the Creepy Twins and the Evil Mechanic! 🍂🎃👻

Obscure Anime of The Day:

Kemono Friends

Aired: 2017

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen

It's gotta be a record or something for how many times he's been hung upside down

I Accidentally Broke an Expensive Vase and Now the Ouran High School Host Club Wants Me to Pay Them Back with My Body?!

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If OHSHC was a mainstream isekai webtoon cover featuring: Haruhi the isekai’d student Tamaki the crown prince Kyoya the head butler Hikaru & Kaoru the servants Honey the pastry chef Mori the royal guard

Kotobuki-sō

More media leaks and believe it or not the original plans for Ducktales 2017. Yes, the original plan was for Ducktales to be based more on the Carl Barks and Don Rosa comics, with Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck as the main characters. Especially the last poster by Joe Pitt, who was also one of the animators for Gravity Falls, Wander Over Yonder and Mickey Mouse Cartoons. These are designs from other animators, but there are more links to the OG Ducktales and the comics than to Ducktales 2017. Yes, Disney later rejected the ideas from Joe Pitt and then gave them to other people.

What do you think about all this? These are the original designs for Donald, Scrooge, Huey, Dewey and Louie, Webby, Miss Quackfaster, Gyro and Gizmoduck.

Still as a fan of the Donald Duck comics, I regret that they didn't adopt the original ideas for the Ducktales reboot to be more close to the comic book material, but again this is just my opinion.

Disney TVA shows: First and last scene