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[Cultural Shock (Or When Anime Meets Cartoon) - Idiotopia Skit]

Knowing the history of Alex's humble beginnings makes seeing what he makes today seem all the more incredible to watch.

Seriously, from seeing the crude drawings in the very start of MFN. Then later that rough, but still very impressive bunny girl demo in 2014. I couldn't imagine you would be later drawing ANIME FILM TIER frames mostly by yourself. That stuff takes an OFFENSIVE amount of time to draw. While it's easy to just look at the cat girl (not dismissing her, she's drawn to downright professional quality), the backgrounds are ridiculously detailed, well drawn and animated. They're not static either, there's significant After Effects work at play here, particles, warping, and all of it seamlessly blended with traditional 2D animation.

Finally seeing it voice acted by a professional Japanese actress just helps sell the idea all the more.

Though, one thing. I may not be a comedian or much of a writer, but I do have one suggestion. Please, please for the love of your deity of choice, !!!INCLUDE SUBTITLES!!!. Half the jokes fly by because of the funny voices or get lost in the mixing/accents/action.

Mini rant over. Godspeed, hope Idiotopia takes off, at least in the West. Much fortune to you and your team.

-Ark

AlexCrish responds:

Thank you for an amazing overview!
You are not the first one to request the subtitles, but one of very few to speak out loud the problems unfortunately. I used to include subtitles everywhere on YouTube and then somehow forgot to do so in the last years wondering why my videos began to underperform ._.

[Madness Whitehank Zero: The Mulligan]

Basically 40 minutes of White Hank kicking arse. Pretty well animated with some great sprites, sound effects and nice music selection. Although, most of it has very little tension due to the amount of sheer amount of plot armor and powers the protagonist has (and gains new ones as need be), the only time I had any measure of tension was at the half way mark at the miniboss battle. But even that is weakened by the fact that there doesn't seem to be a way the protag can die. (shot? no problem. stabbed? just fine. Eviscerated by 10 swords? You even tryin' lol!?)

I don't know about you, but I would rather imagine fight scenes involve at least a semblance of either side being able to win. Steamrolls get boring after a while.

As for plot, its sparse and mixed in every so often, I didn't really get any of it until I read some summaries.

So yeah, enjoyable, but maybe focus the creative vision a bit more.

kokkare responds:

ummm i play fnf