I wouldn't even call Regular Show that smart or well written, it's just that the anguish of a man about to lose his job because his employees slacked off is infinitely more relatable than "I'm a hecking sociopath anime bunny boy that uses humor to cope". Plus Regular Show characters talk like humans and not anime characters.
Comparing this to Bionicle makes even more sense when you consider that a big theme in Digital Circus is mental health, and Bionicle’s most famous commercial features a song that’s literally asking the listeners to not kill themselves.
Ok, not autistic question about Bionicle:
The ending of Soma is incredibly depressing despite the protagonists achieving their goal of escaping to the fake reality because the game doesn't shy from the fact that the Ark is a soulless artificial simulation that doesn't fix the fact that humanity is extinct and the only potential hope of its survival is an AI mindlessly pumping out endless abominations that the protagonist can potentially kill before the end. It's like they ripped off the premise of Soma without understanding the nuances.
Nah, it was that he resisted letting his reptilian gf crack his troon egg instead of meekly accepting the grooming, making life difficult for all the other they/them freaks around. If only he wore that ribbon and kept the dress all would be forgiven. The cardinal sin for troons is telling troons "no."
I remember seeing a Xitter post that was like “the problem with modern voice actors in Western animation is that they all talk like they’re in an anime and not like they’re in a cartoon”. Very true observation.
I hope it does because GLITCH should not be associated with Gooseworx troonery and at least Gameoverse doesn't look like it has that (what am I saying they all bait and switch that shit don't they)
After bionicle ended there were a lot of retroactive "canonizations" of shit by one of the main writers that will never stop bothering me because they have very much "nothing matter" vibes about it in a way that Bionicle itself seemed the complete opposite of. I'm not going to ever accept the "oh they don't feel romantic feelings for others they're just like cells int he giant robot dood" shit undoing the whole relationship between two important characters in the years before this plotline. However once again those were made AFTER THE SERIES ENDED so I fucking ignore that shit. Bionicle being over and a solid series with some very small hiccups during it's run is something you will never see again in anything made to sell kids toys. It's not even the only thing from around that timeframe that was solid media meant to sell kids toys.
There's a number of reasons, one of them being some woowoo shit about the characters having weapons. I've seen some people claim it was due to poor sales but it very clearly wasn't just that because towards the end the sets got really REALLY weird with their seemingly intentionally brittle and cheap parts. Like you can easily take apart and put back together 23+ year old lego ball joints but the ones from 2008-2010 are going to explode immediately. I could go on for hours about my schizo theories about lego's internal wars between the designers and bean counters but yeah something weird happened with Bionicle, especially at the end.
The problem with modern cartoonists in general is they want to make fake anime instead of Western cartoons.
You're very close
Which is fucking crazy considering how much Japan and America have been taking inspiration from each-other from the start.
At least this autism has prevented us from getting Gen 3. Thank god.
goddamn bionicle went so hard, sucks I was a poor kid that couldn't afford them 100% nostalgic for them and ZOIDS
I loved Zoids as a kid. I only ever owned the shield liger and sniper raptor though, but I have fond memories of watching it while eating my breakfast before school every morning
