I know voice actress for Rita the Cat, charges a huge fortune. The Goodfeather, Chicken Boo, and Button & Mindy get way too repetitive (I remember disliking these segments more and more as I got older). Them dumping Slappy and Skippy was dumb move. Minerva.....too fucking lazy and scared to be more riske in that regard.
Who doesn't like a month-late response, right?
Assuming we're talking Solar Opposites, personally I love it.
I don't dislike Solar Opposites; as a fan of Rick and Morty, in good faith, I basically CAN'T dislike it; it's almost the same thing. My only gripe is that for anyone to have spun off from R&M only to do "R&M adjacent"... why? Use your creative talents to do something new, not more of the same. It's like my favorite steakhouse opening another steakhouse next door with a different name, but same menu. Just feels lazy. It's still funny, but too same-y. Could easily be a concurrent story line with recurring characters within the R&M universe.
Solar opposites is quick with their wit, but often too crude to actually be clever, and maybe that's what they're going for? They appear to not have the time for R&M's style of philosophical and existential leanings deferring to "use foul language and sex jokes to net a laugh now before the next one 15 seconds from now." Again, not a bad thing, just a trifle too similar in tone and style to merit it being a "different show."
In the sequel that came out last year every school kid all go to the same high school except that girl with a huge crush on her teacher, she's briefly mentioned and then never again. I'd say it was a different time, but it wasn't that long ago and even on release it was a bit weird...
I thought it was just CLAMP’s thing. I’m reliably told similar things show up in a fair few of their work.
Unfortunately, no.
I believe the intent was more "CLAMP's into that sort of thing" rather than "it's mostly limited to CLAMP". Arguably the most recurring theme in their body of works is that love transcends the concept of boundaries, particularly those we simply take for granted like gender, nature, and age. ...And that of course runs the gamut from sweet or tragic, passes through philosophical, and goes all the way to "I'm sorry, WHAT???" depending on the subject matter. Eg, the student teacher romance is still iffy but more defensible when the student is prepping for college, but is extremely - as you said - "WTF" when the student is in elementary school.
Yes, that is what I meant. It’s not uncommon in anime/manga because it’s an old and ingrained cultural thing in Japan, and other parts of Asia, but CLAMP themselves seem to treat it as a central theme that they hang their stories on to the point that it’s noticeable in their case.
I gave it 5-10 minutes. The best way I could describe it is that it's not "clever". It just blasted me with gay ...idk.. digs? It reminds me of the Black Falcon Key & Peel skit, except that skit didn't wear out its welcome. Like I wonder how creative they can really get with a show that dedicated to Gay life memes?
My sentiments exactly.
I watch about half of it last night. It's ok. I got excited with the scorpion animation in the intro being pretty slick, but I couldn't help but notice where they cut corners on animation. In animation you usually have around 24 frames per second. You can cut corners by doubling and tripling frames so you end up only doing 16 frames of unique cell per sec, however the more you do it the more stilted animation looks. Its as though the figures pause a tiny bit when they move. In some scenes, especially the combat ones they animated more unique frames so it looks fast, high budget anime like. Then others its kind of herky jerky. Theres also corners cut on general animation. Theres a scene where Jaxs arms transform and his body doesn't move the whole time so it looks more cheap saturday morning cartoon than say big budget animation like the EVA rebuild movies. Its middle of the spectrum animation wise. Not terrible, not amazing. I think what I'm arguing is that for something like Mortal Kombat I think animation fluidity is more important than they gave it credit for. Unique cells cost money though.
