i reallylike lololo and lalala.

i love that their names are lololo and lalala

HOSHI NO KIRBY EPISODE 1

you know saturday morning cartoons? this is so very saturday 2am cartoons to me. i felt like i was watching it while in a dreamlike state almost the 3d animation is. something...! whenever kirby is a 3d model kirbying around it looks completely fine but dedede's 3d animation was so so stiff and it looks so cheap 😭 even though in 2001 im sure 3d animation was a LOT more expensive than 2d. or maybe 3d was used because it was cheaper? either way. it doesnt RUIN the show by any means, its just a strange choice because there's not a lot of consistency for when 3d used. it almost gives the impression that any scene animated totally in 3d had to be added at the last second because of how isolated it is from the 2d animation. the mouth animations on dedede and escargoon remind me very heavily of the mouth animations for that one sonic game they can be VERY overanimated LOL thats all i have to say for art direction. i REALLY LIKE the 2d style! the 3d models are just baffling me greatly!!! ANYWAY!!!!! the story itself is very fun. there's an evil octopus EATING ALL THE SHEEP AND SPITTING OUT THE BONES and dedede VEHEMETLY DENIES that he's responsible for it. the village people go to an old wise tree for advice. the wise tree says that a Star Warrior named Kirby will defeat the demon monster eating all the sheep (thats what they call it.) kirby crashlands and meets fumu and bun! children of the royal.. sooomething i forgot a little bit. their parents are politicians in some way LOL. they befriend kirby and try to learn a little about him. he loves to inhale! oh yeah at one point some guards come searching for kirby, and the guards are the blade knight and sword knight from the games!!! it was really cool to see actual enemies included in the anime i figured it'd be mostly anime-originals. Also Meta Knight (i did scream a little when they revealed meta knight) kirby defeats the octopus monster in a neat little fightscene! i was really happy to see that they included his copy ability in episode 1. FIRE KIRBY!!!! Also dedede downloaded the demon monster octopus. From the internet. and he talks to a REAL HUMAN MAN to complain about the octopus

do i want to watch more?

i think i would probably switch to the english dub if i were to do that. it feels like the type of cartoon i'd be half-watching while doing something else. which isnt an insult! that's just how i feel about most kid-oriented shows

favorite screenshots

i really like kirby's face in the first one.

MAGICAL NYAN NYAN TARUTO EPISODE 1

... ... Huh. i never thought that a show about a magical catgirl could be so boring. this might just be this year's seikai no senki. (read: boring anime. NOT similar to seikai no senki. in any other way.) first off. nobody cared at all about this anime to the point that the resolution is absolutely so so poor and the subtitles are all in the no anti-aliasing yellow-with-black-outline style... in 2001. LOL we open with a narration depicting a war between two cat kingdoms. i was made very excited by this, as i assumed the characters would all be literal cats. (i was WRONG about this.) one cat kingdom is on the verge of collapse, and the cat king puts future control of the cat kingdom into the paws of his newborn daughter. he then sends her away with a royal babysitter (they used a more regal name than that but i forgot. sorry)

then we cut to present day. meet iori and taruto! iori is a regular normal human guy. and he's fucking insufferable a little bit in a funny way. taruto is an incredibly childlike catgirl who is also Very Small. she has magical powers! taruto and iori are moving to a bigger house with a third girl whose name they Do Not Tell us so i am also just not going to show you a picture of her. imagine miku with brown hair. she's also mean and keeps referring to taruto as "that cat"

oh btw i lied you are getting a picture of her. because at one point iori just starts talking about yams and potatoes. it's okay, characters just randomly appearing throughout the episode with no explanation or reason is totally normal in this show.

in that last screenshot there, you might notice two other characters in the foreground. For some reason there's two strange catwomen stalking taruto around her new home? we don't really get any context on what they're doing there, they just started appearing in scenes from this point onwards. so far. nothing has really happened. we get to see a sudden dream sequence from taruto because she accidentally casted a magic ball on herself and iori while they were playing (iori was waving around a cat toy for her) . and its the most. its so. this is the only two screenshots i took of the sequence because they caught me so off guard.

the sequencing of this dream is basically. iori has taken care of taruto since she was a baby. and then it cuts to taruto grown up (more than she is now) wearing a pretty dress. and then we see iori again wearing a white suit. he's holding a big bouquet of flowers.

THE SOUND OF WEDDING BELLS FADES IN

and then it cuts to a cartoonish house with a chimney with stacks of heart-shaped smoke coming out of it. we see taruto again wishing iori goodbye as he goes off to work. the brown haired miku is here too as a stupid dog So i guess what we learn from this dream sequence is that taruto loves iori. i can only hope this isnt reciprocated and is meant to just be played as a kiddie crush? i can only hope. taruto later refers to herself as "iori's fiancee" but iori isnt present in the scene so he's not there to confirm or deny this. I can only fucking hope. Alright, you ready to move on from that? Next scene? Of course you are! taruto wakes up from her nap. (iori is still asleep so he's basically fridged for the rest of the episode) she wanders into the kitchen because she hears a weird noise AND THE SCALING OF THE CHARACTERS CHANGES DRAMATICALLY. here's two pictures of taruto's current scale. she's about the size of a small human child, right?

This is taruto in the kitchen.

Got it? this is a screenshot taken literally THE EXACT NEXT SHOT. THIS IS TARUTO NEXT TO THE FRIDGE.

SHE'S GETTING SMALLER.

NOT FOR ANY STORY REASONS. THIS ISN'T A DREAM SEQUENCE. SHE JUST. GETS. SMALLER. it turns out that those two ADULT WOMAN CATGIRLS FROM BEFORE are in the kitchen STEALING a cake that iori made. THE TWO WOMEN THAT WERE ADULT SIZE BEFORE? THEYRE SMALL ENOUGH TO FIT IN THE FRIDGE AND ALSO THAT PLATE IS FUCKING HUGE IN COMPARISON TO ALL THREE OF THEM???????? THAT'S NOT A PERSPECTIVE TRICK THATS THE SIZE OF THE FUCKING PLATE

Why are they all small. I don't know. They go back to being regular size when they reenter the same room as the human characters. i dont know. they all run out of the kitchen because they hear scary noises and think that it's a monster coming to eat them. taruto runs back into the room with iori still sleeping and convinces herself that she needs to fight the monster. so we spend about 4 minutes watching her tear up a room full of moving boxes btw intermittently we get small scenes of these three ADULT SIZED CHARACTERS wandering through the wilderness searching for... something. i assume they're searching for the missing catgirl princess for ill-intended kingdom war reasons? whatever

taruto crawls up into the attic and discovers the scary sounds were coming from a talking flying squirrel that i didnt care about enough to take photos of. taruto gives him the ability to fly home because he was too hungry to fly on his own and then he leaves brown haired miku returns back from the store (she went to the store) and discovers the absolute MESS taruto has made.

THE END

DO I WANT TO WATCH MORE?

I'm scared of this show.

FAVORITE SCREENSHOTS

I have none.

METROPOLIS (2001)

alright well i know technically i already finished 2001's anime but then this one made jack go crazy so i watched it. Insane movie. yeah of course im not going to give you a fucking synopsis are you kidding? that was like 1 hour 45 minutes long i would ruin the movie for everyone if i did that. i will still tell you what i thought about it though. you just don't get any context for it. all of the backgrounds are absolutely GORGEOUS and so well drawn and rendered. it's kind of fascinating how much this movie feels like it was staged like a live-action production. it's also just crazy to see anime in 2001 be widescreen considering how much of it was made for tv square ratioed. i was especially a fan of any time we saw machinery or otherwise industrial hardware because it LOOKS LIKE IT ACTUALLY WORKS!!! like it actually all fits together and Makes a THING!!!!! Tima and Kenichi make me want to fucking sob and cry. seeing tima's development through the film in general made me want to purst into tears. I want to punch Rock very hard in the face but also i feel so bad for him. the robots in this fucking movie do things to me. i like how the trash robot is named fifi. the ending is one of the most beautiful things ive ever seen and also AAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGHGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

would i watch it again?

yes! but with friends. its so fascinating i wonder how much my thoughts on it would change with a rewatch.

favorite screenshots?

well i took about 1 million of them the cityscapes and buildings are faucking incredible. every single shot of a dirty old alleyway is breathtakingly real. the videoplayer i was watching it on suddenly decided to stop functioning halfway through the movie so i dont have any pictures of the ending. Oh well! go watch it yourself.

the art direction is CRAZY. CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!! THERE'S FUCKING COLORRRRRSS THEY NEVER DO COLORS IN SHOWS ANYMORE. this movie really has a lot going on. im sad i didnt get a screenshot of the kenichi room but based off the name Kenichi Room you might be able to guess what im talking about (no you're not. you're wrong. yeah that's wrong too. i dont know how else to describe it sorry)

stats time stats time stats time YAYYY!

YEAR 2001 OVERALL STATS

🎦I want to CONTINUE: 7️⃣ out of 🔟 shows ‼️ 🎨ARTSTYLE SCORES: GRAPPLER BAKI - 4️⃣ SALARYMAN KINTARO - 8️⃣ HARE+GUU - 5️⃣ 1/2 SUPER GALS! KOTOBUKI RAN - 9️⃣ the artstyle was my favorite thing about this show LOL SHAMAN KING - 8️⃣ FRUITS BASKET - 9️⃣ HIKARU NO GO - 9️⃣ HELLSING - 🔟 HOSHI NO KIRBY - 4️⃣ i feel REALLY mean for this one but the 3d drags it down a lot MAGICAL NYAN NYAN TARUTO - 3️⃣ 📏 MEDIAN SCORE: 8️⃣‼️ METROPOLIS - 🔟🔟🔟🔟🔟🔟🔟🔟🔟 i already gave the award category definitions last time so this time it'll be a lot more brief! 🖌️ ART - HELLSING! (METROPOLIS is the real winner for this one but it doesn't really feel fair to compare a feature-length film to a 23 minute episode...) 🔖 STORY - HIKARU NO GO! 🎶 SOUND - HOSHI NO KIRBY! i was bopping my head along to the opening and i DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE IT!!!! ❌ UN-RECOMMENDATION - MAGICAL NYAN NYAN TARUTO!!!!!!!!!! IM SCARED OF IT!!!!!!!! aaaand the 🌟 FAVORITE award is going to have to go to the ONE AND ONLY...