Comic Girls Anime Review

So then anime fans when I said I would talk to you all again soon I freaking meant it because I have a few reviews due out this week and they are both of series and that in the case of this series just finished airing it's fourth episode the fourth episode for the next series review won't air until Saturday so here is my review of Comic Girls.

The plot of this series is it follows the day to day life of four up and coming manga artists who all live and go to school together. This show is really episodic apart from character development there's no overarching plot line to speak what so ever and I like that because not every anime needs to have an overarching story it is ok to have something that's episodic in nature.

Starring in the show we have Hikaru Akao as Kaoruko Moeta , Kaede Hondo as Koyume Koizuka , Rie Takahashi (Mash Kyrielight from Fate Grand Order anime) as Tsubasa Katsuki and Saori Ōnishi (Hisako Arato from Food Wars) as Ruki Irokawa. For me the casting is pretty freaking solid all round the only actor i'd say needs improving is Hikaru but that's not really surprising since she's fairly new to the voice acting game.

Now with anime you never really know how long a series will last and altho you will get a hint sometimes be it either from the name of the show or the genre that's still not a guarantee case in point Shirobako a slice of life series which had twenty four episodes which is why i'm glad that this series is only going to be twelve episodes long as I think this would help the series and it's story out in the long run.

The animation for the series is done by Nexus a studio who have mostly done in between work but have also produced shows such as Wakaba Girl and Chivalry of a Failed Knight so if you liked those shows then there's a huge chance you'll like the animation in this series for me the animation is just ok it does sometimes have great animation but alot of the times things just look a little off.

Now as i've mentioned the characters in this show are all manga artists and they don't all draw the same type of manga either the main character Kaoruko draws 4-koma while Koyume draws Shōjo but it doesn't stop there as Tsubasa draws Shōnen and Ruki draws teens love manga which is pretty much ecchi.

I must say that i'm glad that this series is really covering a wide range of manga genres since it would have been very easy for them to stick to one genre of manga and have the series focus on that genre but here they go into a little detail about each one and to me it adds to the characters.

Now i'll admit that i'm not an artist so I got confused as heck when they went into detail about art supplies they could have at least tried to explain it in a way that was easy to follow and understand but tho at the same time that also wouldn't have made sense in the context of that world since these characters are artists so they would know all of this stuff.

Now then what I found out while doing some research for this review is that as well as acting in the show the leads also sing the show's opening and closing songs it then saddens me to say that both songs are just bland there the typical songs you would here in a slice of life comedy and they don't really add anything to the overall production they are just there for the sake of it.

For me the humor is where this show is at it's best because this show is funny as heck it will take alot for me to laugh but this show gets me laughing in every single episode yes sometimes the jokes are predictable like with the girl who draws ecchi you know what most of the jokes are going to be when her roommates see a scene from her book but at the same time it's still funny to see play out.

Overall this is a fairly solid show and if you want to watch it you can catch it out now on Crunchyroll which I hope you do by the way because you'll be missing out and yes the picture above is a clue to me next anime series review I give Comic Girls a solid 7.5 out of 10.

   

Weird Anime Cliches

Anime is something that alot of people love and it's something that's getting alot of media attention (mostly due to bad live action movies ) but it's also something that has a lot of cliches and since there not going away any time soon I thought let's bring them up and shine a big shiny light on them.

The Main Character Always Sits On The Same Side Of The Class

Yeah I have no idea why this is a thing but for some reason main characters like to sit next to a window in the class room I wish I could say that this adds something to their characters but the fact is 9 times out of 10 all it does is tell us that their dreamers and that's it.

Main Characters Will Mostly Have Colored Hair 

Unlike the last one I have an idea as to why this is a cliche but it's still strange to think that only main characters have colored hair and it's done to make them stand out from the rest of the characters so I do get why they do it but even still one cannot deney it's still a weird cliche.

American Characters Find Themselves In Japan

The last time I saw this was in Batman Ninja but for some reason whenever Japan creates something be it a film or TV series featuring a well known American character that character and maybe one or two others find themselves in Japan and I cannot understand why they do it to me that makes no sense at all.

Gravity Defying Boobs

This is something that mostly appears in any ecchi series but for some reason all of the girls seem to have gravity defying boobs I mean look at most of the female characters in HighSchool Of The Dead for instance there is no way all of the girls aren't in extreme back pain every single freaking day that's not the only show tho that uses this cliche but is it perhaps one of the most well known.

The Beach Episode

I wasn't going to mention this cliche since it's so well known but the more I thought about the more I thought "yeah let's include it" and again this is mostly found in ecchi shows but for some reason they like to have an episode where the main characters go to the beach and the only reason for this that I can think of is so they can have alot of fan service and not have it effect the main story the only problem is it's an obvious excuse for a filler episode.

Filler , Filler And More Filler

Now I assume that it's common knowledge as to why we have filler episodes of popular (it's so they don't catch up with the manga fyi) but even so alot of them are really bizarre and their always a mixed bag in terms of quality.

Errors In Animation

Honestly can we all just agree that animation errors are now an anime cliche because they happen all the time and all of the time they are funny as heck to see the most weird one tho that I can think of is in episode of Fairy Tail 2014 where there's this pretty good scene happening but for some reason the camera holds on Erza with her finger on her lips.

Now I know there are alot more cliches but if I talked about every single of them I wouldn't ever get to publish this post and if you like filler episodes then good for you and the same goes if you like beach episodes so then anime fans we'll talk again soon.

The 100 Season 5 "Eden" Review

Fans of The 100 rejoice for season 5 is here and for the first time ever i'm posting a review on it and i'm going to stick with the schedule i'm doing for The Walking Dead reviews so that's premier , mid-season finale , mid-season premier and season finale then now we've got that out of the way here is my review of the season 5 premier Eden.

The basic set up of this episode is it's six years since the season 4 finale earth is all but a wasteland and there are new threats to deal with. That's honestly the best way I could describe this episode since most of it is just catching up with the characters but I will say that the episode is pretty interesting.

Starring in the episode are Eliza Taylor , Marie Avgeropoulos , Bob Morley , Lindsey Morgan and Lola Flanery. I have to to say that this episode really is a tour da force for Eliza who really does a fantastic job she and Lola have great chemistry together and I cannot wait to see what else they got up to in the coming weeks and months.

There is a time skip as I mentioned before but a huge chunk on this episode episode actually takes place several weeks after the season 4 finale and for a large portion of the episode we just follow Clarke and that to me was when the episode was the most interesting because we got to see this headstrong character at her lowest moment and see how she would cope with that situation.

For this series there's shockingly not that much action with like I said a large portion of the episode spent catching up with the characters but when there is an action sequence for me it was very raw and grounded in reality but tho the action sequence didn't really last long in fact it was only a few minuets which when you take into account that the episode is forty five minuets long really doesn't take up that much time.

I have no idea who does the CGI for this show but bra and vo because the opening shot is freaking fantastic to look at it's not movie quality by any means but it's better then most of the CGI you'd see on television these days and for me that's better then nothing at all.

Overall this was a decent return for the series and it kinda serves as soft reboot for the show as well which honestly i'm ok with but I can see die hard fans getting angry with that but for me this episode gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Craig Of The Creek Review

Hello their Cartoon Network fans this has been a review long in the making and it's also a review i've been waiting to do since it's a really good show so here is my review of the new Cartoon Network show Craig Of The Creek.

The show is episodic so the premise of the show is basically Craig and his friends get into adventures at a creek.For some reason when I watched the pilot episode it reminded me alot of Disney's Recess and honestly the same is true for this series and that's not a bad thing at all in fact it's part of the show's charm.

The show stars Phillip Solomon as Craig , H. Michael Croner as J.P. and Noël Wells as Kelsey but is really interesting is that for the pilot and the first three episodes Kelsey was voiced by Georgie Kidder and there's no given reason as to why they switched her out. The acting in the show is pretty decent and I like that they got an actual kid to play the main character and Phil does a good job voicing Craig.

In all honesty there's nothing really bad I can say about the show apart from the fact that it's way to short this series really should have been a full twenty two minuets since that would allow the stories more time to breathe instead of moving at breakneck speeds but honestly that's my only major complaint.

This show was made in house by Cartoon Network and was thus animated by Cartoon Network Studios and i've seen the list of shows they've made and damn that's a lot of good shows back to the animation tho this is show is really well animated I know that comes across as me being surprised but i'm really not since this is the same studio that animated Steven Universe and Adventure Time.

Now I know alot of people are going to say that the characters look like Steven Universe characters but to me that kinda makes sense since the creators of this show  Matt Burnett and Ben Levin did write episodes of SU so it makes sense that that show would influence how some of  the characters look in this show.

For some reason I remember alot of people talking about the pilot of this show which for some unknown reason is not uploaded on the official Cartoon Network Youtube page but i'm glad that I watched the pilot the first chance I had because if not I feel like I would have missed out because the way the pilot played out it was just screaming to be picked up for a full series and it's very rare that you see a pilot like that.

For me the best character in the whole show period is Kelsey I just love the fact that she's really over dramatic and she's basically into Game Of Thrones which is my show (#TeamDany4Life) and for me she is not only the groups strategist but she's also the crazy one of the group and that only makes me love her even more.

The show for me is really freaking funny like really funny and while you do get jokes in their for little kids i'm sure that there are some jokes in their that are for adults but there's a chance that I might be wrong and the jokes are so well written which is something i can also for pretty much all of the characters and I say pretty much because J.P. is just the typical dumb kid character.

Overall I highly recommend you check out this show trust me you will not disappointed just set aside a few hours and binge watch a a dozen or so episodes you'll love it for me this show gets an 8.5 out of 10.  

  

Spy Kids: Mission Critical Review

Oh Netflix while your live action shows are really good your animated out put is mixed at best for every Voltron there's a Big Mouth and they are at it again this time turning a franchise that is no longer relevant into a TV series so here is my review of Spy Kids: Mission Critical.

How do I describe the plot to this show it follows brother and sister duo Juni and Carmen Cortez who now attend Spy kids Academy and form a team to stop S.W.A.M.P.. I've been trying to work out where this show fits in the continuity of the films and the best I could come up with is that it takes place after the first film but just before the second but even with that the story is still predictable because you know who's going to come out on top because of the fact it's a kids action show.

Starring Not Alexa Vega (Ashley Bornancin) , Not Daryl Sabara (Carter Hastings) , Caitlyn Bairstow as Glitch , Nicholas Coombe as Ace , Nesta Cooper as Scorpion , Not Antonio Banderas (Christian Lanz) , Not Alan Cumming (also Christian Lanz) and Not Carla Gugino (Mira Sorvino). Do you notice a problem with the casting alot of the actors didn't reprise their roles which for the main kid characters does make sense but they couldn't be bothered to bring back any of the adult actors they don't even feature Uncle Machete.

I do have to say that the acting for the most part isn't that bad Ashley and Carter do a good job with their actors the problem is if you grew up with the movies then all you'll hear is the original actor saying these lines and that makes me wonder why didn't they just get the original actors back and make the series a sequel to the films.

Ok Netflix we both know that you don't like to promote your animated shows as much but when you release a trailer just one week before the show premiers then there's something clearly up because that's good at all and i've only been able to find a single trailer and that's really it just imagine how much hyper there would be if they treated their animated shows like they do their live action stuff the hype would be of the charts.

Yes you can see the series right now on Netflix not like they would have let you know about it i'm sorry to keep on going about this but only releasing one trailer and literally nothing else is pretty bad from a marketing stand point and it's something the company needs to stop doing.

The animation was done by Rainmaker Studios who are known for doing the animation for the Barbie films and *sigh* the upcoming Barbie Netflix show and I have to say that even tho i thought the animation would be bad it's not as bad as I thought it would be don't get me wrong it's pretty bad but it's also pretty decent at the same time you can tell that alot of care and effort went into the animation and for me that's a huge plus.

I have to just come out and say it the characters to me look like pure nightmare fuel I didn't know this show was coming out and the first thing I saw for the show was a picture on Kimcartoon and it really did make me wonder if I should watch it because the characters looked hideous and this might just be me but the characters eyes look a little two big.

I really am thankful that this show is only ten episodes long not because it's a bad show but because like I said before you know where the story is heading so your just sat there watching all of the story beats play out and that does make it feel kinda boring to sit through.

I will say that in terms of it being a kids show there's nothing harmful in their the show does have a lot of life lessons thrown in but don't go into it expecting it to be like the movies because it's not it's worse then the movies but little kids might enjoy the show.

This is a show based on an action franchise and with that in mind the action scenes are actually pretty good granted their aren't as good as they could have been but for a kids show they are pretty decent and well put together my only gripe is they are spy's and they do very little spy work in the series they just go in all guns blazing and they come out alive some how.

Overall in terms of a kids show this is pretty decent but I feel it would have worked more if this was a sequel to the films rather then taking place in between films since if it was a sequel then the story could have been unpredictable but since it's not we know who's going to come out on top and with that mind the show gets a 5 out of 10. 

DC Superhero Girls Web Series Review

Comics fans their are alot of stuff aimed at boys but there really isn't anything aimed at girls well in 2015 that all changed when DC Comics announced DC Superhero Girls which is a line of products aimed at girls and one of the things that launched with this line was a still on going web show which i'm going to review for you all right now.

The premise of the show is well known DC characters both male and female attend Superhero High a school designed to train young superheroes. Yeah this show has no real plot to speak of and what happens in one episode won't effect the next episode unless it's a multi-part episode which was rare for the first three seasons but for some reason the fourth season is full to the brim with them.

The series has a pretty awesome voice cast and since the cast list is so huge i'm not going to name every single actor so we have Grey Griffin as Wonder Woman , Giganta , Silver St. Cloud , Korugarian and Platinum , Anais Fairweather as Supergirl , Mae Whitman as Barbara Gordon / Batgirl and Speed Queen , Tara Strong as Harley Quinn , Poison Ivy and Raven and Hynden Walch as Starfire and Blackfire. 

As I said before the cast list for this series is freaking huge and alot of them are reprising roles from other shows but tho for a web series I thought that the acting wasn't that bad which given the talent mentioned shouldn't really come as a surprise but like I said this is a web show and the acting isn't always great in those.

This web series has been a huge hit with other 300,000 subscribers on Youtube and goodness knows how many people who go on the website but tho with the brand being a hit it's also spawned several direct to DVD films and has an upcoming TV series coming up on Cartoon Network.

The animation for the series is of course done by Warner Bros Animation and lets just say that I hope the animation in the TV series is better because if not this show is going to get a lot of hate from people because the animation isn't exactly what one would call good in this web series don't get me wrong it's fine for a three minuet short but it can be pretty bad.

Speaking of bad half of the faculty and some of the students of Superhero High are Super villains which to me makes no sense at all Harley in this show isn't a villain she's a hero and the same goes for Poison Ivy and Killer Frost among others and all of these characters aren't heroes their freaking villains and the only character who acts like a villain is Cheetah.

Like I said before this is a show for little girls so it's not shocking to see that the main cast of characters are all women but what is shocking is that for some unknown reason Wonder Woman is a student at the school despite the fact she's older then everyone there combined and the fact it would have made more sense for her to be the principal of the school rather then Amanda Waller.

Since this is a kids show that means that there has to be a lesson learned during almost every episode and the lessons are about as generic as you can get like for example having fun with your friends is the most important thing yeah if you've seen any episode of any kids show ever you know what kinds of lessons will be learnt but tho with all of that said they do a good job of working these lessons into the stories.

The show does have a surprising amount of action in it and i'm shocked by that because each episode is only around five minuets in length but tho the action is very generic and it does become boring after a while I shouldn't be bored by an action scene I should be on the edge of my seat but here i'm almost falling asleep.

I will give the show this it does have a pretty catchy theme song and that song for me is the best part of the series if a show has a dull opening I usually skip it unless there's some easter eggs to be found but here I watch it just for the song that's how good it is.

Overall this is a pretty good way to get young girls into comics but at the same time it's not also giving us the true version of most of it's characters I just hope that Lauren Faust can do a better job with the TV series the web series gets a 5 out of 10 from me.

  

The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe Review

Cartoon fans Cartoon Network brings out alot of shows per year but Cartoon Network UK however doesn't really do that well as of right now that all changes with this show so here is my review of The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe.

The premise of the show is a young prince goes on a quest to retrieve the magical Golden Feather for The Eagle King. I admit I like the set up it's something fresh and different and for once the time frame of each episode helps the story and if you didn't know each episode is around three and a half minuets long and is pretty episodic.

The show mainly stars Rasmus Hardiker as both the prince and his squire but there is a different cast star almost every episode but tho you won't know who they are unless your a Brit but I will say the acting all round is fairly decent it's not the best voice acting out there but for what is basically a web series it's pretty decent.

Now I just mentioned that is a web show pretty much well that's because if your in the UK the only way you can watch this show is via Cartoon Network UK's Youtube page so for all intense and purposes this is a web series but tho it does also air on other Cartoon Networks throughout Europe but tho as of right now there are no plans for it to air on Cartoon Network in America.

The show is made by Eva Lee Wallberg and Christian Bøving-Andersen who both worked on The Amazing World Of Gumball and I think that the characters in Ivandoe look alot like the characters in Gumball they have very similar design styles and that's kinda distracting for me.

Animation wise the show's not that bad like I said it's made by the same team behind Gumball and that includes the same animation studio and they use one of the same techniques that they used on Gumball where they take live action backgrounds and animate the characters and I really like it makes the show feel more charming then it could be.

This show is a co-production between the UK and Denmark so there is alot of influences from the UK seen in this show and one of them is the name of the show which is a play on the book Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. 

Honestly there's not really much I can say about the show apart from the fact that it is pretty funny and there's no fart jokes at all which for me is always a plus the jokes aren't always the smartest jokes out there in fact most of them you'll see coming a mile away but that doesn't mean that you won't at least be smiling when a joke is told.

As of right now there are eleven episodes up on Cartoon Network UK's Youtube page and it won't take you long to catch up it only took me something like thirty to forty five minuets so you could very easily binge this series in an hour.

The show's theme song I think is very catchy it's short and to the point and it does have some funny lyrics and to me that helped bring me into that world since you know your in for a good time the second that song starts playing.

Overall this show is a fun little distraction which is fine because I get the feeling that's all it's meant to be just a three and half minuet distraction and if that's what your looking for then you will love this show for me tho the show gets a 6 out of 10.