The New Adventures of ILXor: The Animated Series Poll voting and campaigning thread

I had no idea they were still making venture bros!
Also the theme song by Jim Thirlwell is solid.

They aired a new season in 2918, and a lot of it was excellent

Worth the 899 year wait?

Yep. This is why I shouldn’t post from my phone

Might vote for this even though it wasn't nominated and I doubt anyone else would even if it had been:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNobEXuYFeM

Can we submit unranked ballots?

i just spent a few hours watching cartoon intros... for research purposes, sure.... Anyway, I found this surprisingly awesome one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTUAMVJD7XY

I had forgotten about the period where celebrities would make cartoons where they star as children.

Bobby's World with Howie Mandel.
Life with Louie with Louie Anderson.
Little Rosey without Roseanne.
Bruno the Kid with Bruce Willis, who also sings the theme song.

There hasn't been much Moral Orel conversation - I assume ilxors already know how good it is? In case they don't -- the whole thing is streaming on Hulu. It's the kind of thing that I think ilxors in particular might appreciate being as how it's in large part a satire of right-wing Christianity + small town hypocrisy.

Metalocalypse which has been mentioned is also great and also should be a crowd pleaser around here I'd think? It's about a metal band that is so big they're like the planet's largest (or one of the largest it's been a long time since I watched it) GDP. The band members themselves are total idiots for the most part (as mentioned above hilariously voiced) but bc of their influence + power they're tracked by a shadowy cabal group. the episodes are like 15 min or less each so v easy watching. (this is the episode i mentioned above where nathan apologizes - nb it is iirc the final episode of the show so idk if you want to watch it out of order)

the bravest warriors is a very cute post-adventure time sci-fi teen team show that is all available on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv99gj1xxWw

Bee and Puppycat is also a post-adventure time show that is available on youtube but more unique - kinda a quirky young adult coming of age (?) show about a young woman w/ malaise/depression who does extra-dimensional tasks for pay w/ a half-puppy half-cat extraterrestrial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dop4MTlf_zc

Legend of the Galactic Heroes is one of my top 3 anime ever and it's a space opera about a war between a enlightened autocrat from an old european sorta astro-hungarian style nation and a failing flawed democratic nation whose army is led by a brilliant tactician. The episodes contain lots of dialogue about the merits of autocracy vs democracy, the failings of both, the struggle of human being to be free, and are then punctuated by epic space battle scenes scored with classical music. In some ways it reminds me a lot of War and Peace tho there's v little civilian story - but if your favorite part of W&P is discussions about chain of command and the importance of staff commanders this is yr shit for sure. It can be streamed on HIDIVE which has like a free month trial if you want to check it out: https://www.hidive.com/tv/legend-of-the-galactic-heroes -- here's a representative quote from it: "The nation that neglects social inequality, mischievously increases military budgets, and then uses its power internally to suppress the citizens on the pretext of invasion by an external enemy is on the road to extinction."

Space Dandy is another anime - this one is a super trippy sci-fi anime by the guy who created cowboy bebop about rare alien species bounty hunters. it's a little crude (the guy is a pervert who hangs out a lot at an interstellar hooters essentially) but many of the episodes turn into these bizarre mindbending plotlines w/ really dazzling animation. i loved getting high and watching them bc it really felt sometimes like staring into a bizarre vortex. i think it can also be streamed on Hulu.

other stuff i want to promote i think ppl here probably already know about so i won't extoll the virtues of like bojack or rick and morty or steven universe or adventure time.

and if ppl want to proselytize for shows i'm up for watching anything if you point me in the right direction to stream it

Mordy your enthusiasm in this area is infectious so please extoll whatever you want

apparently the disconnected nature of Moral Orel, which I enjoyed when I caught an episode, was due to the fact Cartoon Network chopped up the running order and didn't air some episodes

going to have to go back and check it out. thanks, Mordy!

This last season of Archer (Archer 1999) was pretty great, but that's coming from a sci-fi fan enjoying the various references.

If you haven't been watching for a while, at the end of season 7, Archer is shot and goes into a coma. The last three seasons have been Archer dreaming variants of the standard Archer actors in three genres (noir, pulp fiction/adventure, sci-fi), with Archer waking up at the end of this last season. Season 11 just announced, so we'll see where that goes.

Moral Orel is outstanding. It does an insane pivot from being ridiculous to harrowing while retaining its identity; it's honestly one of the more impressive storytelling feats I've seen.

Dino Stamatopoulos is kind of an underheralded genius. He wrote a lot of the best Mr. Show sketches.

moral orel WAS amazing, i had nearly forgotten

the big o is possibly better than i remembered. the design of the show is astonishing

moral orel was obviously very high quality, it just was a bit too gonzo for me to watch regularly

i went to college w/ the creator of bee and puppycat and knew her a little bit -- she was an amazing artist even then

OK since we're in an evangelizing mood:

HILDA is an extremely sweet story about a girl who lives in a magical forest with her (single) mom but because of circumstances has to move into the city. It's definitely aimed at young kids but is smart and complex enough for adults to enjoy. See also HILDA on Netflix deserves its own thread, where this is OTM:

The animation and character design are lovely (I don't know why but I find Hilda's beret to be an exquisite touch), and the story is surprisingly intricate for a kid's show -- things mentioned in the periphery in one episode pay off several episodes later. (As an aside, you know you've reached peak serial narratives when something aimed at 9-year-olds has multi-episode arcs.)

Also the theme song is by Grimes (?!).

the big o is possibly better than i remembered. the design of the show is astonishing

― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, August 8, 2019 8:41 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

and i either forgot or never made the connection that chiaki j. konaka, the creator of lain, was the head writer of big o. which makes so much sense

As for themes, Daria is up with my faves at a quick brain-glance. I'm also (sorry pvmic here) fond of Futurama because of the 60s song it was ganked from!

Copyediting:

Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures
Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures
Tinin, The Adventures of (1991-1992)

Thanks!

new on netflix - a reboot of rocko's modern life!?!

feature-length film I believe

Yeah, I was never huge on the series but the movie/special sounds intersting! The main cast returns from twenty years in outer space to see what a horrorshow we've made of the planet since then.

a new Invader Zim movie is coming to Netflix soon, too!

netflix reviving all the shows that made me feel out of the loop for not liking

can we talk about how people are planning on balancing their ballots btwn stuff they suspect just wouldn't hold up today but is v important part of their youth w/ stuff they think is still fantastic? kill yr darlings? so hard to do.

Can we submit unranked ballots?

― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, August 8, 2019 1:47 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Nah.

I'm considering interpolating points for ballots with less than 25 entries linearly from 25 to 1 rather than giving 16 points to the 10th choice of someone who only submits 10 shows, does anyone think that sucks?

no i think that's excellent

The contender which for me hits both the 'youthful impact' and 'holds up' criteria is G.I. Joe, which I remember more about than most other childhood media and which has been revealed, to the extent that I've reviewed it in my dotage, to be a really fuckin' weird show. Lotta comics writers involved (including Steve Gerber, which I have to believe influenced the weirdness to some extent).

i'm voting only for shows i think are outright good, some may be "this is outright good for a ten-year-old." but no mere "this is dross but i remember being attached to it."

Yeah, I used to watch the shit out of some Snorks but I somehow doubt it's weathered the test if time.

Just finished Over the Garden Wall and despite not feeling the sense of humor in the first episode, I acclimated to its charms pretty quickly. Moreover, the way the world unfolds is a gem of storytelling. Glad I stuck with it!

holy hell, i had totally forgotten about Duckman! i never loved it, but it had it's moments, will add that to the list. (of things to watch/rewatch)

i looooove duckman but part of me can't imagine it's held up

ya, i feel like time will not have been kind.

would love to rewatch nonetheless. The comics are good!

the rocko's modern life reboot was fun and reminded me both of what was v cool about the original rocko (and how heavily influenced by ren + stimpy it was!) but also it was the perfect length like 40min and i don't feel like i need to watch any more

ppl recommend me other things to watch plz. i'm going to watch big O.

anyone interested in the non-action side of anime should try A Place Further than the Universe it's real good and only 13 eps long

Anybody tried Infinity Train yet? Haven't heard anything one way or the other yet

Oh no, where are Alvin and the Chipmunks? That show basically formed my impressions of life and culture between the ages of 3 and 8. I will write it in my ballot for sure.

Very glad someone nominated Serial Experiments Lain! That show captures the thrill and mystique of early internet communication so well and it looks extremely cool.

A Place Further Than the Universe looks great - will definitely try to watch that. Any other recommendations for anime of a sort of strange or magical bent?

Watch Mission Hill!
Iirc all the episodes are on YouTube.

anyone interested in the non-action side of anime should try A Place Further than the Universe it's real good and only 13 eps long

just watched the first ep so cute!!!

xp Land of the Lustrous is a neat fantasy anime with some pretty unique visuals and worldbuilding

Infinity Train was great

will give it a shot