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Cartoon Network bringing back ThunderCats for new animated series
- Thread starter Shard Shinjuku
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Why would people watch a western action cartoon when they could just watch My Hero Academia or any number of action anime? The anime industry has the animated action market cornered, but anime comedies aren't as popular in the West, while comedy is the western animation industry's strength.
That's kind of the plot of a lot of post-show adaptations, though, probably to make things more "grim and gritty" and "adult". The He-man movie was basically after Skeletor had won, same with the more recent DC comic, the Transformers comics (All Hail Megatron), heck, the classic comic story Days of Future Past (and later Age of Apocalypse) is just that. It's just that most of them didn't have the bad taste to put in sex slaves, provocative drawings, and rape.
Pretty sad that the CN logo is more detailed than the actual show.
The amount of people up in arms would be much lower (because there is always people who complain) compared with the people angry about Thundercats Roar, hell, as per my original post in this thread im mildly upset about TR, if these X-men were announced i would have a mild chuckle and move on.
I mean, look at this official ass marvel comic:
Barely different to what that picture is parodying.
I read all the Secret Wars tie ins because I'm insane. No joke, this might be the best one. It's so fucking cute
They should adapt the indredible dark and gritty thundercats comic where Wilykit is mum-ra sex slave
And Snarf suffers of depression
what the fuck is this
This is something I had in my mind after peeping the reaction to this show, was that a lot of 80s/90s action shows had very similar art styles. I'm glad someone took the time to lay it out like that. The reaction is overblown
If Disney/Marvel ever want to do a comedy show with a simplified animation style, hope they go with Mini Marvels:
If Disney/Marvel ever want to do a comedy show with a simplified animation style, hope they go with Mini Marvels:
Didn't we already get this with superhero squad?
Seriously. It's like people don't actually remember the '80s. Every
Superhero squad was, well, it was the most literal you could get to "toy commercial cartoon" since it was based on the playskool toys.
Yup. It seems pejorative, but it makes sense that if all the major animators of an era come from the same school, they're going to influence one another.
Not sure if this has been posted yet, but I'll go ahead and post it anyway.
I honestly I don't hate this. He fits the simplified style but still has some flavor to it. You can tell he is a fit dude and not a blob.
I'd be ok with this. I'm not going to lie, I completely forgot about Thundercats but my dislike of this reboot being Teen Titans Go Jr. has me wanting a legit Thundercats. If CN's plan was to do a legit reboot ala Samurai Jack & FLCL next year, it's succeeding.
My problem isn't that cartoons look similar to each other. I'm not the biggest fan of the style but it's whatever. My problem is that this particular shows characters look ugly. I wish it looked like Star Vs. or Steven Universe.
Oh hey I saw this online a few years ago. Though I had just hallucinated it.They should adapt the indredible dark and gritty thundercats comic where Wilykit is mum-ra sex slave
And Snarf suffers of depression
You can only get mad about things getting rendered in a garbage art style if you liked those things in the first place
Where were all y'all who are complaining when Thundercats had a badass anime years ago?
This wouldn't have happened if y'all supported this one instead.
This wouldn't have happened if y'all supported this one instead.
Where were all y'all who are complaining when Thundercats had a badass anime years ago?
This wouldn't have happened if y'all supported this one instead.
It wasn't good several episodes in & got turned into a LEGO show while they were planning Season 2 as a cost-cutting measure.
It had a slow start, but I think it was at least okay. And it definitely had potential to be a lot more in potential subsequent seasons.
Though the people who mentioned the dumb scheduling of the episodes do have a good point. I just recorded them and watched them later.
True! They could've righted the ship & the scheduling issues were on the network for sure. I just can't blame people for ducking out on it.
Yup. I've been privy to many anonymous animator conversations and "CalArts" has been a go-to insult since the days when John K would rail against Sword in the Stone (1963). When anonymous animators would shit on Steven Silver's designs for Kim Possible as being "Flash cartoon art". The times when "anime" was used in the 2000s to deride the art of anything going against the grain artistically.
The irony here is that the animation industry now has more non-CalArts grads than ever before. Stephen Universe and OK KO are from grads of the School of Visual Arts in NY, to give one example. Gumball (which has been brought up a bunch) is not even an American production. But people just point and shout CALARTS!!!! Even though ten years ago "CalArts" meant anything that looked like Dexter's Laboratory.
With a list of shows so varied, what exactly do you mean by "shows like these"? Steven Universe explores so many themes in its overarching narrative, but it's also basically lesbian freedom fighters from space and their adopted son protecting the Earth after they rebelled against their leaders. Shows like Gravity Falls and Steven Universe aren't simple comedies, devoid of storytelling and action. You're judging these shows based solely on how different they look from the ones you watched as a kid. You're admitting here that you have nothing to base this opinion on yet, here you are on earlier in the thread:
The problem is that most of those fanarts still look more visually appealing then the new Thundercats.
Real-Talk: Would people be more comfortable if the show was being handled by Ian Jones-Quartey & his crew, given that people have been making parallel's to Thundercats: Roar & OK-KO?
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Where were all y'all who are complaining when Thundercats had a badass anime years ago?
This wouldn't have happened if y'all supported this one instead.
Hey don't look at me, I fucking loved the show when it aired, still do!
Where were all y'all who are complaining when Thundercats had a badass anime years ago?
This wouldn't have happened if y'all supported this one instead.
That show was amazing! Watched it when it aired in the UK!
It's being done by Studio Yotta, who do OK KO (and also the Sonic Mania shorts)
They're mostly Newgrounds era animators. Early gigs were Starbomb music vids but I imagine they get stuff done under budget so they're the go to guys now.
This tweet guy works there.
I like Gumball and TTG a lot so high bar to clear in regards to animation.
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I sadly didn't even know it existed until last year, but I did my part and bought the Bluray! I loved the series and would've liked to see it have an actual ending.Where were all y'all who are complaining when Thundercats had a badass anime years ago?
This wouldn't have happened if y'all supported this one instead.
Now I really wish we would've have gotten ponytail scarfed Cheetara...
Wow, it absolutely fucking sucks to know this exists.They should adapt the indredible dark and gritty thundercats comic where Wilykit is mum-ra sex slave
And Snarf suffers of depression
Had a lot of good art and money behind it, if not interesting writing and plot progression. But the toys weren't selling, which is the only reason it was made.
This wouldn't have happened if y'all supported this one instead.
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As one of the only people that emphatically loves Teen Titans Go! I say bring it on.
Probably won't be good but it's not like the original Thunder Cats was a masterpiece (although I did dig that anime-ish reboot years back). People are just remembering it as deeper/darker than it actually was.
Which is how we get stuff like this.
Probably won't be good but it's not like the original Thunder Cats was a masterpiece (although I did dig that anime-ish reboot years back). People are just remembering it as deeper/darker than it actually was.
They should adapt the indredible dark and gritty thundercats comic where Wilykit is mum-ra sex slave
And Snarf suffers of depression
Which is how we get stuff like this.
I don't know, the internet as a whole seems awfully up in arms over a hannah barbera property no one really gave a shit about for the last couple decades outside of jokes on robot chicken.
Where's my Capt. Caveman reboot? Seems the choice is the IP languishes in obscurity or this, idk. Take the shot I guess.
Where's my Capt. Caveman reboot? Seems the choice is the IP languishes in obscurity or this, idk. Take the shot I guess.
See this actually looks pretty good and I'd totally watch it.
The so called "calarts" style isn't inherently bad. The Thundercats designs are just unappealing.
I mean, there was another cartoon in 2011 along with a line of toys, and an online only set of toys based on the classic property. So it's not like it was dormant since the 80s.
Tbf, TTG and Thundercats are made by Warner Animation while Ben 10 and PPG are made by CN
But what's the point of rebooting the show if it is nothing like the original? Couldn't they make something oh I don't know Original?