Category Archives: Cartoons
Sailor Moon Abridged By Those Good Folks
Like most people my age, I’m a huge fan of the Dragonball Z Abridged series by TeamFourStar. It’s a classic internet series, made with clear love and just funny as hell! Those good folks at TFS went all the way through the Cell Saga before burning out on the whole project, and they went out with a damn good bang! Some Buu Saga shorts exist, and they’re fun too!
Anyway, all of this is to build up to say I randomly found the other day that they’d started doing some kind of Sailor Moon abridged series as well! It’s shorter, snappier and is that same level of humor.
So yeah, watch and enjoy. Nothing too crazy. Just those very talented anime abridged folks at TeamFourStar have started doing Sailor Moon for some reason. It’s not a full episode by episode series, so it’s really abridged, and that’s fine by me, because entertainment is entertainment!
And stay tuned for additional parts they seem poised to put out in the near future, I hope!
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Bat-Fam is Gonna Be Weird as Hell
Bat-Fam is a new Batman cartoon coming to Amazon Prime today. It’s a spin-off of the Merry Little Batman cartoon from a few years ago, which I didn’t watch. It’s about Batman as a dad, with little Damian Wayne as Batboy. It is what it is! And now it gets a whole cartoon with a whole wacky Batman family of characters, like Crazy Uncle Manbat.
Looks crazy. Looks weird as hell. But it also looks perfect? Like, I’m glad Batman cartoons are willing to go in this direction. Get weird with it. Get crazy. Get funny. Whatever you wanna do, go ahead and do it with Bat-Fam. Maybe I will give this one a watch.
Bat-Fam should already be available on Amazon Prime!
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Let Them Have More Fionna & Cake
I’m still alive! It’s been a week and a half since I last posted, which might be the longest I’ve ever gone without a post. Wild. But I had a really busy week last week at work, and then the comics I read weren’t really worth talking about for a review column, and then there simply haven’t been any trailers or videos or news worth sharing — or, at least, going out of my way to make a post to share.
But I needed to write something and I’ve settled on the Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake season 2 trailer from Comic-Con a week or two ago.
HBO Max has also just released the opening title sequence! Neat!
I love Adventure Time and I loved the first season of the Fionna & Cake spin-off. So I’m very excited for a second season. As with this franchise, the possibilities are limitless for where they can go and what they can do. Can’t wait!
The new season kicks off on Oct. 23…which is tomorrow! Whew, good thing I’m alerting you people to this gem right now.
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NYC Comic-Con Trailers Already! Like Game of Thrones and The Mighty Nein!
New York Comic-Con has kicked off and I’m not there. I’ve got work and stuff. But a bunch of trailers have already arrived online, and I’ve compiled them into this nice big blog post. It’s probably not every trailer that’s come out so far, but it’s all the ones that caught my eye, and that’s really what this blog is all about: me!
First up is the first trailer for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, another Gamer of Thrones spin-off. I haven’t seen a single episode of House of the Dragon, but I obviously enjoyed the original and this one looks like fun!
Maybe I’ll give this one a shot. Or maybe I’ll finally watch House of the Dragon. It’s hard to say with me. I watch and don’t watch all sorts of things. But this trailer makes the show look very fun, with solid production values and some good main characters. That’s good enough for me!
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms comes to HBO MAX on Jan. 18.
Next up is a trailer for the second season of Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the animated spin-off from the Mutant Mayhem movie.
Looks great! I loved Mutant Mayhem. I loved the first season of Tales. They introduced a fun new mutant I really like: Lee the Eel! And this second season looks to bring in Old Hob from the IDW comics, as well as possibly Tokka and Rahzar! I want this show to use existing mutants! That’s half the fun of seeing new adaptations of the Turtles, to see the new adaptations of classic characters as well! So I’m fully on board.
Season two of Tales of the TMNT comes to Paramount+ in December.
Let’s move on to a trailer for The Mighty Nein, the second campaign from Critical Role. I am not a Critter, which is what I think CR fans are called. I’ve never watched their D&D show, but I’ve seen clips, and all those clips are from The Mighty Nein sessions, so I’m very excited about this new adaptation!
And it looks great! The characters and voice-acting will be the highlights, and I can’t wait to see some of my favorite clips turned into actual animated TV show.
The Mighty Nein comes to Prime Video on Nov. 19, which is soon!
The last trailer to catch my attention is the one for Pluribus, a weird, sci-fi show by Vince Gilligan, the guy behind Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. I loved both those shows so I’m obviously excited for this new one!
And we should all be excited! Looks sufficiently weird and sufficiently sci-fi. And we know we can trust Vince Gilligan.
Pluribus…or maybe it’s Plur1bus…comes to AppleTV+ on Nov. 7, which is even sooner! Neat!
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Ninja Turtles Mini Sequel Coming in December!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem was phenomenal! And the follow up cartoon was also super fun. So as a lifelong Ninja Turtles fan, I am fully on board with the current media status quo. And we’re next going to see these turtle teens in a new short cartoon premiering ahead of an upcoming Spongebob movie on Dec. 19.
Looks good to me! The animation is still awesome. The jokes are cool. The turtles are pretty awesome. I’m glad to see new material since we don’t know when the movie sequel will come out.
Will I go see this Spongebob movie just to see this short? No. I’ll have to figure out some other way to watch. I’m sure it will be fun!
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