1-10 seconds in and i hate how this show "animaters". It's literally shaking PNGs which is bad enough but then the MC straight up becomes a square dragged along a blueprint.
2-Ok, i take it back, i despise how this show animates. I do have some mild vertigo so it's a me thing but trying to keep track on the MC's face makes me actually sick. The way she bobs left and right for absolutely no reason is gross. Why can't she stand still while talking like a normal person? I do not comprehend why Brendan did this, it feels like the worst of both worlds. It's has movement for no reason yet doesn't count as animation.
3->she says "she pats her pockets" out loud
WHY? Why would you say that?? I thought the whole point of animation medium was that you don't have to say out loud your actions? There is a sprite of her patting her pockets, you could've played muffled cloth sound effect or something. Oh my god it's been 37 seconds and i'm already mad at the internet.
So the mc wakes up in this place and tries to find her dad but can't. She wants to leave but it's locked (wow door sound effects!)
The MC then has a badly voice acted lines
Did Jello hire these guys from Vocaroo? Or are they his random friends?
Anyways, she calls 911 to turn herself in then an explosion happens and red hair flop team enters the room, calling themselves the banzai blasters. I assume this is a team rocket ripoff because i keep seeing millenial writers ripping them off. Then MC asks cop to hold and anime op plays
(he's here to rob us blind)
To my surprise, the opening is actually animated, It's basically a bunch of characters running after this heart pendant and losing it to the next character. It definitely feels like the concept is ripping of another opening that i should remember but i can't right now. After that its silhouetes and portraits of the main cast then everyone staring at mc. Overall it's too short at 30s~. Either way it's fine at first glance but rewinding a bit makes it look a little confusing.
I understand that this is foreshadowing a plot device and the character powers but half of it feels random.
These character for example seem to get and lose the mcguffin out of nowhere. At first red hair guy drops it after a friend runs on him and blonde guy gets it, then the tower crumbles and a minotaur appears athen turns into that kid and a WHITE FLASH happens and it flies away so the cowboy gets it and trips and guy gets it and runs into a pink wall then 2 guys get it.
I understand animation is expensive but damn nigga, you brag about doing a top 100 anime opening ever video, i expected better than this. At first glance i didn't understand shit, and i still don't. I guess you expect me to rewind and pause but i shouldn't do that.
Anyways, it's episode 1, quiet at the museum we go to "earlier that morning". It's day and we see the museum (?) and the MC's day is doing funny mumbling and shaking. MC calls him out and the subtitles call him "Molly's dad" so i guess he must not be important. At least i know the mc name now.
Molly complains that people are staring and dad says he was just "jazzing up the tour". I didn't realize that his mumbling was supposed to be singing and not autistic screeching while everyone stares in silence. But maybe i'm being unfair, this is probably an attempt at humor (maybe). Also these kids look like a bunch of OCs. They only have 1 sprite.
An adult woman appears and is upset, saying she was only booked for 2 hours so he should be quiet. I guess this is a museum tour.
She then explains "epithets. cool powers. Some have it others don't. You know what you are when you don't have one? A mundie thaaaat's right. You know that you're not six. If you have an epithet you're inscriiiibed. Each epithet has a word assigned to them that lets them do... stuuuff."
I understand jello wants to make a "tired waifu" and has to deliver exposition "you're not six you know this" implies this is common knowledge so why is she explaining this? And she's not even explaining it that well. Also, mundie sounds like a fucking slur or some attempt to ripoff muggle from harry potter.
She asks who is inscriepd and molly dad yells that little girl molly is.
I do not understand why she is sarcastic. Yes, "one out of five" is 20 fucking percent but it's still luck. If epithets have no downsides then people with epithet are literally superior human beings, and if epithets are not equal then clearly some people will have stronger epithets than other. Molly says her power is "dumb" and in, "actually dumb" and that is, in fact, dumb.
So anyway, this guy appears and Lady mera refuses to let him talk. She says its fine let me move with the tour. But the kids disagree.
So Indus, who seems to be doing a retarded himbo impression, has the power of BARRIERS. He can make barriers.
These stats feel like Jello wants to ripoff jojo but jojo stats don't actually matter that much and i think jello expects his to matter but he picked really bad ones.
What is the difference between creativity and proficiency?? How can someone be extremely creative with their power but have no skill with it? Either way it barriers can be scary if you just don't give them limitations or effectively twist them into OP constructs.
When molly dad say its cool she's a little sad, then he says she must save that energy for night shift and she gets sadder and says "but you said you would be home tonight! I ran the store yesterday, and the day before that! I wanted to catch on homework". Her dad says he's doing the field trip today so he punched the dad card and gets the rest of the day off.
(more loud narration but this one was a little funny cause molly said and then her dad said it as if to mock her)
Okay so molly's dad is like, an asshole or something??? I can't tell if this is played for gags or he's just useless, but even the most useless cartoon dads out there can tell when their child feels sad. I think molly's dad doesn't have good enough expressions, he only looks at people with the fish stare.
After this scene i realize it's barely been 6 minutes and holy shit i can't do this if it's this slow, i'll take my entire day.
Indus tells mera that people aren't interested. She is annoyed and says "ofc this stuff is basic and insulting" (maybe try not making it like that then?) and indus actually tells "lady mera" it's their job to make it interesting. So he tells children the story of a magic artifact, the arson amulet that can steal a person epithet. It sounds soo valuable that someone might try to steal it. Then mera pulls him and whispers that it's not public yet.
So Indus is breaks the box for no reason. I guess he's just kidna retarded. The kids jump at the stuff from the box and a new kid appears who wasn't there. Gonna take a polite guess and assume it's a nerd girl who dresses like boy and rips off that female pilot from the voltron reboot.
Mera calls molly's dad to help and he goes to steal stuff too. Okay that was certainly some """""animation""""". Indus then tries to distract the barrier by hulking out and ripping his clothes. This actually interests Mera and i'm SHOCKED! Does this mean Mera is a straight woman? There is 0% chance jello would do this nowadays. But the kids don't care and go back at fighting over museum stuff.
Molly whines that it's too loud and uses her DUMB power to silence it. I heard people hype up how creative and clever and well written the power in this show are, and this being the mc, and jello being the writer, i get the vibe that her "dumb weak power" will actually be "strong cheater power". (sarcarsm) Never seen that one.
That said, i don't like this because "the power of dumb" isn't that clever in the first place. If Molly can just make people dumb then she just has plot armor and if she makes different stuff then she's stretching the definition too far and it's lame and gay.
Molly bumps at teh gay nerd and some sprinkles fall on her. She walks away and narrates her walk until she feels tired out of sudden and drops on the floor. Man, it's really weird how this "cartoon" is so fast paced and so slow paced at the same time. We get an intermission and mera saying the museum closes in 5 minutes. Thekids leave and one of them stole a sword. They are very clearly an adult making kid voice.
Molly's dad just walks away and forgets his daughter. Bad points for him. The museum and we timeskip to current time. Why did no one find molly knocked on the floor? NO ONE KNOWS. If you freeze frame tho you can see the nerd appear on the blueprint after mera and indus leave tho, which is nice. I feel like jello shouldn't rely on this trick but it's an unintentional way to use the medium of youtube to enhance your """"animation"""".
Okay, i take it back. I thought this was a molly thing but if EVERYONE is going to voice out their random actions, like they're a c tier e-celebrity roleplaying in a d&d podcast, then you're wasting the medium there. This action doesn't even make sense. It would actually be more funny if the guy didn't explain it at all, if he JUST looked around, and kicked a random vase and said "heck yeah!" but no, jello doesn't trust his audience enough.
As i expected, he fails to break it and has a soldier shoot the vase btw. It was predictable because the setup for the kick was too long.
Oh god it really is just tabletop roleplaying. I forgot that this was based on jello playing a shitty anime roleplay game once. These things are just shit his friends made up on the spot isn't it? Anyway, Giovani explains he's there to steal treasures. I assume the nerd one is here for that too as they appeared when indus mentioned the amulet.
This guy goes on for too long. There is a reason cartoon's only has one "dumb guy" character, not THREE (so far). Molly tells the cops there is a robbery and giovani starts making some kind of fireball and yeets at molly, then stomps the phone.
I understand this is a COMEDY show (where the jokes arent funny or delivered well) but is it not meant to have any stakes whatsoever? I understand this guy is a joke but they have guns too so maybe a lil bit of fear?
I have a theory that this guy is just jello trying to copy Papyrus from Undertale.
Giovani blufs about her epithet, then molly says her is dumb, and he laughs her for revealing it, then picks her by her coat. It's like a retarded child version of jojo mind games.
Giovani says he has no time and walks off. Oh wait he changes his mind and tells someone to watch the girl and he has some boss and subordinate humor with the boys. Turns out ben can't use mom's car too late. Then ties molly to the chair. Then subordniates start arguing. Molly hopes it ends fast so maybe they can give her a ride.
She sees indus then. She makes a silence bubble and drags the chair near indus. Turns out he is guarding. I guess we'll ignore how he didn't hear the explosion? Oh he saw the cameras and molly was there. And some guys. And the entrance exploded. You know what would fix it? A BARRIEEEEEER (some peak comedy here).
Indus then smacks the chair with a small barrier in his hand, and i'll concede, this is such a whimsy level of retarded that sparked a little joy. He removs with his hand. Indus says he'll deal with them and will fight anyone who opposes lady mera. He challenges them and she explains they can't hear him. He does it again outside.
NOOOOOOOO JELLOOOO WHY DID YOU HAVE TO POINT IT OUT IT'S WEIRD! Why can't you even commit to your bit, why did you have top irony poison it!
Anyway they ask who is the winner and molly says mr barrier. He dashes at them and gets stuck on the wall. Well "dashes" is a stretch. I guess this show will never have a single real action fight will it? Ben complains about having no cool name and he wants to become the kid butcher. Ohwait it's kid puncher, it was almost cool for a bit. Molly narrates that she picks a bunch of tacks and throws at the floor, making them "dumb tacks".
(you missed the chance to have molly say "you already had a hostage". Wasted the joke)
Indus says her epithet must have a way to save her but she says she is not supposed to use it on people. She then makes a guy braindead. Then she says she is a car who is angry and wants to beat up the other guy.
Okay jello, you know this is
hard brainwash right? It's actually much stronger than what i expected, to the point i'm puzzled why Molly was embarrased about it as if it was thrash, and how the hell these powers are not regulated.
And i'll say, damn jello,
you really took the "weak clever power used well" trope in the most boring predictable ever. It gives someone pretending their overpowered OC is balanced. I knew it would happen but i expected at least some escalation, not this.
Anyways indus yeets himself out and makes some dust, with molly saying thats gonna be a lot to clean up.
(is this an mcu tier joke???)
Molly wants to call the police, indus says he was instructed not to. What about the other guys? Indus is surprised and goes after them.
>sleeps in race car bed
oh my god he really is just a papyrus clone...
He tells mera to give all theasures. She laughs and asks if he plans to take the tons worth of stuff there. He says only the cool ones then.
I think Mera is cool, but i don't know if it's cause she's actually cool or "ambiguously gothy sassy tired waifu with vocal fry" is inherently cool. At least she is a non retarded person which is severely lacking in this show. She mocks giovani a little too much tho,
it's starting giving mary sue energy. Aren't these guys packing real weapons? They fire at her but indus saves her. I thought that was her plan but she's surprised he got there quietly so it wasn't? Why was she so smug if she could die here then??
(GOD FORBID THIS ANIMATION HAD ANIMATION. THE MOST YOU GET IS SQUARE PORTRAITS ON A SQUARE GRID AND RECTANGLES POWERS.)
Giovani then pulls a bat with a knife and "steam comes out of his body".
(its like the oposite of animation. Jello invented some kind of "no-nimation".)
Okay so he did this twice, does giovani actually teleport then? The red steam makes it sound like it's part of his soup powers but i'm not sure how soup translates to teleporting?????
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"I dumbed down your attack so it did one damage"
Oh my god jello, you must feel SO CLEVER with the CREATIVITY of your MC POWER but in reality you're no better than isekai thrash with videogame rules. You're are literally
that guy on the rwby OC roleplay table that everyone hates playing cause their vague power does everything. You're really dumbing down my will to live right here!
Indus calls himself a failure. Mera asks what happened. Molly says her epithet can "dumb down any pain you feel" and asks for a phone. Mera smiles and asks indus to grab her.
You know, If jello was a good writer, he would make Giovani wake up and smack mera again and kill her right now. But he isn't a good writer and this is just a joke show designed to self flagelate jello's intellect. Instead he not only ignores giovani, he has giovani point out he's being ignored.
(Man, i can't believe i thought this show had stakes for a few seconds. Jello almost got me there.)
Indus throw giovani back at the minions, where the "throwing" is just the sprite spinning and speedlines.
(wow look at this hype anime battle... And that's number damage? Is this actually videogame rules?)
The way characters don't move at all makes these attempts at fights look lame as fuck and the powers look even lamer. I guess Mera can break stuff with her mind but she only has 1 frame. At least we get an actually good twist.
SHE WANTS TO ROB THE MUSEUM TOO! Ooooooooh. That surprised me. Okay you got me. That actually makes what indus said about the amulet funnier in hindsight, cause HE was going to steal it. See jello i can praise you too.
