My Adventures With Superman: Anime without the Charm
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0:00 intro
0:10 The West imitates anime
1:25 The Characters
4:06 90s Superman vs "modern Superman"
5:51 The villains (rant)
9:57 The Animation
11:50 The comic experts powered by Google (rant)
14:29 Final thoughts - Zábava
It is weird: they understand anime is popular... But they keep locking onto the wrong reasons why it's popular.
Til this day, western companies still think anime is only popular because of its character designs.
@@VileGloryYep. That's how shallow they think people are. They have to think that way because the alternative is realising that no matter what medium they used, what is dogsht is everything they are on the inside. This isn't Superman, that boy isn't Lois, the black guy isn't Jimmy and if they want to stray so far from the original, they should make something new.
it turns out that most people in the position to make these choices are fucking braindead. turns out most of society is braindead
Because they can’t break with their own Politics. They sabotage themselves.
@@VileGlory Charaster designs are definitely a part of the appeal of anime, still only a part. And even then, I fail to see what is anime in My Adventues with Superman's character designs. I'm not that much into anime and I can tell it's a cheap knockoff that looks nothing like anime.
The issue, among others, is that the people who write Superman don't understand Superman. (Not talking about golden age Superman, what Superman is now). Superman is hope. He is an immigrant, who was raised in a minuscule town in Kansas with good, honest values, that tries to live by those values everyday. He goes to the Big City to work a somewhat menial job, but he tries very hard and succeeds. The powers he has are actually a detriment for him. Noone beside Superman could live with his powers. Every single second would be a living hell. You have super hearing, you have to costantly filter what is important from everything else. If you breathe too much, you will murder everyone around you, if you loose your focus just for a second you could slice the room you are in with your heat vision, if you do anything with just a little too much force, you will break everything around you. Did you ever close a door with too much force because you were a bit angry? If Superman did it, the wall will fall down. So he is trying to fit in, trying to be a good man in a tough, crazy world, every day, just like all of us, but for him it's even harder. But he never loses hope in humanity. That is Superman. Despite being an alien, he's the most human of us all.
Interesting. I thought the super hearing was one of those powers he had to activate to use. But that just shows how little I actually know him
Can't have a white man embracing those values in 2023, no sir.
@@x-treme_gamer tbf, i think it is, but you can't decide what and how you hear it, so i always imagined he is so used to it that he can filter information. It's the same for us, we don't pay heed to the cars or the wind or the fridge, until we focus that sound out. What i wanted to point out is that Superman must always control himself, because canonically he could kill us all or destroy the planet if he really wanted to, but he never ever will because it's against what he believes in. It's been done in the comics and in the animation, the fact that superman could rule Earth with an iron fist, but he doesn't because he believes in the system, he believes in the good of humanity. There's your conflict, and sure not every story has to be about that, make a story about a giant gorilla with kryptonite vision, it's harmless fun. But mix it with a story where Superman has to choose between Lois Lane(or someone else he cares about) and an airplane full of people. Make some of them criminals too, to spice it up. Who will he save? Make a story about him saving astronauts in space(or under the sea, whatever), they can't speak or move too much, so while he is saving them,one of them who was trapped under some debris, goes unnoticed until the last moment, where you have Superman and the trapped guy look each other in the eye, both of them thinking:" you are Superman, and you didn't save me". He will have to live with that thought for the rest of his life.
This show in the first 2 episodes seems to embody exactly what Superman is, granted they added an anime style power up but the first two episodes seem to take new and old superman lore and make a pretty entertaining show with it.
I hope it keeps it up.
@@MCPhatmanI feel sorry for you.
I still remember in 2001 there was a panel of Superman crying alone cause he couldn’t save everyone. That single frame captured so much.
That is how you represent Superman's insecurities and flaws correctly, this show tries way too hard to appeal to the lowest common denominator of viewership instead of actually paying homage to the character they're portraying.
I'm not the most knowledgeable about superman, but has there really been a time when superman couldn't save everybody or beat any threat? every DC content and death battle content puts him up as this omnipotent titan who's faster than thought and stronger than everyone but a reality warper
@@destroyallfurries 2001 is the important part of my statement.
you remember something happening in 2001? Something with Towers?@@destroyallfurries
@@destroyallfurries Well in Post-Crisis, the guy sure as hell ain't this omnipotent titan you think of. Yeah, there's plenty of times where he could not save people...
It's so weird that anime is more popular than ever in the West, but the best examples of western anime (Teen Titans, Avatar, etc.) are from like 20 years ago.
@firehaps, no offense but isn’t even weird, anime is very popular and that’s has nothing to be weird about, tell me you never watched anime and called anime is weird 🤦♀
You would think they'd leave Lois Lane alone considering she's one of the best examples of a "girlboss" done right, but I guess the self insert couldn't see herself as one.
None of them ever are
Lois is witty, sassy, intelligent, tough as nails, compassionate and has a happy, healthy relationship with the male lead, a fantastic feminist character. Modern writers think a strong female character is an arrogant, aggressive misandrist that's taking down the patriarchy one forced quip at a time. She also has to be perfect to contrast the idiot male she spends half her time insulting.
I wouldn't be surprised, these "writers" never had originality anyway
@@kermdeezy5330 Also because she is a woman. Only Men are allowed to be women. That other stuff is supposed to be such a machistic lesbian that it's already straight again.
@@kermdeezy5330 I read your comment in the Critical Drinker's voice for some reason, very fitting i suppose.
The writers nowadays forget that Superman has a really nice mother and father, who loved him and instilled in him values and self respect. They think he's like them, a kid with absent parents who've been working all day and he's growing up without guidance being riddled with self doubt.
Screw those writers.
Excellent point
They forget that he was already representing adopted kids.
As the child of an adoptee, with a grandmother kinda like Ma Kent, I always appreciated seeing a loving family, being open about adoption.
Takes a very loving woman, to have a 3 year old happy to help shovel cow manure 😂
That's the reason they keep trying to revamp it how dare a white man have a loving family and father
He still has those parents..... 😂😂😂 Literally the same origin story
Thats the whole point of what made Clark such a great person and Hero. How he was raised on his home in Smallville by his mom and dad. Sure he knows they arent his biological parents but he does not care as Jon and Marth Kent are his real parents in his eyes. Even Kara Zor El (Supergirl lives with Momma and Daddy Kent)
Never take the criticisms of an anime fan with a lisp seriously.
Why
Look you could have kept the fear Superman has of letting loose and going all out. That “World made of Cardboard” speech from the Justice League animated series was moving and understandable.
Man, why can't they do superman justice. I am not asking another injustice superman which I am tired of that take of superman been done to death. But this is just generic anime 101. I want a balance of superman withholding his strength but also having his ideal challenge. The comic where superman cry becuase he couldn't save peope on time, when in all star superman where even when he was severely weaken and sick, he took the time to console a suicidal cancer patient girl to attempt to jump to a tall buildings or the scene on justice league of the cardboard. That for me is superman.
@@kyordannydelvalle523
MAWS Superman isnt actually that far off, if you watch the series.
If anything you get the feeling he is still new to being a Super Hero. But he is still idealistic and gets that challenged from people that either got reasons to be distrustful towards Superman, like general Lane, or those who only understands selfish pragmatism like Dr.Ivo.
This show might have some generic traits (much like Superman does in general, if we are going to be honest), but it's actually a great show with some nice romance and emotional stakes.
Once you of course, look past the parts where this show takes a different approach from the original. Because although there are some interesting story beats based off Superman's lore, it's clear that isnt trying to be a straight adaption, and is more along the lines of an elseworld story that even references TAS among other Superman cartoons as alternative universes.
I'll never forget watching the 90s Superman animated show. There was an episode where Supes gave a speech about good and evil, and I just remember my mom was in the kitchen and overheard it. She stopped what she was doing, came into the living room and asked what show I was watching. When I told her, she told me she WANTED me to keep watching that show because it had good moral characters.
I realize now what she meant. Show like this CN one, not only destroy our nostalgia and icons, but eliminate role models for children.
Well, let's take a look at the morals here - Clark desperately wants to fit in, even to the point that he's afraid of using his powers for good. In teh same way, he lambasts Lois for having lied to them while his entire life is a constant lie to everyone else!
Lois believes her hunches justify putting others in danger, she lies to her new interns, abuses their rust in her as the senior and can count herself lucky they weren't fired on the first day. For all she knows, Clark was buried by a shipping container being thrown at him by a weirdly Evangelion-look-alike robot - still, no accountability on her side, instead she's pissed that Clark doesn't come along with her and Jimmy for the second excursion.
Clark's adoptive mother is trying to hinder her son when he - older version - feels ready to explore his legacy. Understandably as a child he was fraked out and they consoled him but as a young adult who wants to know - rather needs to know - where he comes from, only thing she considers is her fear of her son potentially changing; that was what puberty already was about or moving to Metropolis...
Perry is not only an editor who has to deal with his journalists potentially going rogue, he is an adult taking care of interns - it is his damn responsibility to assess the potential risks adn after what they went through at the docks, he gives Lois a stern talking to but doesn't fire her for putting Jimmy and Clark in danger?
Regarding moral values, I honestly find even less of them in this show's premiere episodes than story telling.
superman: now I know it's tough to turn down a dare but sometimes being brave means using your head and not doing something dangerous because someone dared you
batman: you play chicken long enough, you fry
@@BigBossBernie Not defending the show because I haven't seen it yet. But I'm Confused isn't that an example of starting points for the characters to develop from. Clark Literally has that same fear/uncertainty of using his powers in Earth One Book. Granted it would be better to start off with Superman as Superman. but is it that bad if the Show lets the characters develop in basically a year one story.
@Samrules888 you saved me a rant good youtuber carry on .
this comment make me cry.
I dont blame tomboy lovers who are in love with the lois lane design. I can see where they're coming from, but I still have an issue with her being Lois Lane.
But they only like tomboy look not the character itself. People on Twitter believe this version of Lois Lane is better than her 90s counterpart and that's total BS! These tomboy lovers are desperate because they want to have one
Same, I love her design, but I just wish she was her own character and not a "replacement" for Lois Lane
@@donatran6418I can’t see anything except that. It’s a 1 to 1. Direct cut. Even the personality.
I dunno... I don't see MAwS's Lois as being that far off. She actually kind of reminds me of my all time favorite Lois Lane (Smallville's Lois Lane!) because she's an energetic, fast-talker with hard-headed determination. She's pushy but has a snarky affection for Clark, Perry, and Jimmy. Even the Smallville Lois could be considered a tomboy in season 4 when she dressed less feminine than Lana or Chloe.
I was legit wondering who that boy is.
My takeaway from the beginning of the video:
-> Damn, the new Jujutsu Kaisen opening is an absolute masterpiece
Agreed the new season is straight fire 🔥
They took Superman and made him into Spider-Man, in terms of personality. The insecurity, the babbling, the nerd-ing out; it's all just Spider-Man 24/7 for the character, and it's such a bad way to do Superman as an adult.
For Spider-Man, it makes sense that he would be like that because he goes through human struggles despite his powers. He's always struggled with insecurity, which is why he is always joking and babbling. But for Superman, he's a superpowered individual who is more like a god living among and like the rest of us. Plus, Clark had a little over a decade to learn about his powers and finding out who he is as a person. Peter was given these powers immediately as a teen, just about to crossover into adulthood.
The more they do this the more they convince me that it isn't about "modernizing" a character, but a systematic tearing down of the ideals that these characters are supposed to stand for.
It's Marxist demoralization.
You're right. They call it subversion and deconstruction.
Always has been and it's a concerted effort once you open your eyes to it it's amazing and terrifying what you see which is why many won't even when it's in front of them.
idk in my eyes is this really that bad at least in this show I've not seen any case of it being political or mean spirited to the source material
When you're asked "why is batman the bad guy" or whatever it was before being allowed to write about the character, I'd say it's definitely about tearing down iconic cultural icons.
I actually kinda like lois' design. Too bad it doesn't look like lois.
yeah but it's a nice tomboy and i love tomboys - unfortanelly is the only good thin about this series
Never got the tomboy gf obsession. You're basically saying you like masculine women?
Agreed. As a tomboy myself, I approve of the design, but yeah. Not Lois.
@anon7596 tomboy girls are not really masculine .... are just fierce and aggressive
@@anon7596 nah i like the stetic of tomboys - not ever tomboy acts masculine - they can just like tipically boy stuff or have short hair - but i like some spunk girl too
Bro they keep black washing my red head brothers and sisters. When will my people get justice 😭
Funny enough this isn't the first time they turn Jimmy black
“If Guts and Casca got together…” So basically lose one of the major plot points and subtle themes about Berserk, makes 100% sense. It’s like saying, “Let’s do Star Wars, but have the concept of Anakin and Luke being each other’s foil thrown out the window.”
Seriously man, that was really just an innocent comment made by a fan of Berserk that thought that this series was almost like watching Guts and Casca have a happy ending together...
Which can be nice to the heart, considering the horrible stuff they go through.
To think that this somehow "misses the point of the characters", is to miss the point of the comment.
its crazy that we live in a generation where all the fanfiction writers we would make fun of actually work in the industry now
Because actual fans are busy working real jobs.
Don't compare them to fanfiction writers, they actually love the source material and actually try to tell a decent story.
That’s the worst part about it. After being rightfully rejected by others in their youth, they’ve now taken it upon themselves to inject themselves into every piece of media released to the public. These freaks should’ve died off already, but yet here we are 😩
To be honest nobody gotten shiped yet
@@ytredvb because the author self insert girlfriend of Lois hasn't shown up yet. IT ALWAYS HAPPENS
And to this day Superman the animated series is still the gold standard for Superman
Along with the '92 Batman Animated series being it's standard.
@@Mcaark RIP Kevin Conroy
@@KAMFP "Without Batman, crime has no punchline..."
Yes that's the one they need to put as live action...just copy that universe and good to go.
Yall not gonna mention the justice league cartoons?
This guy must have gotten very sick from eating donuts, that’s the only reason I can think of for him spending so much time ranting about the donut scene
The art style kind of reminds me of Netflix's "She-Ra" and "Voltron: Legendary Defenders", and Amazon Prime's "Invincible" combined. And I agree with you on what they did with Livewire in this show, they have the idea of making this show to be modern and yet they ruined it while making her to be some armed illegal drug dealer and not some online influencer or podcast streamer. They must be really obsessed with the futuristic cyberpunk design for her while trying to make a show to be in modern times yet it doesn't blend in with the modern times era.
It has that soulless "anime-inspired" art style that has been around since at least Legend of Korra. I blame that show for this god-awful trend in western animation.
It's funny you mention she-ra, considering one of the producers is josie campbell, someone who worked on she ra. Should also explain why the show is the way it is
@@gal12345ish No freaking way! 😂
@@JonnyHorseman At least that filth known as The Legend of Korra has a good soundtrack and it used the Korean animation studios for all their worth, these people didn't bother with...anything.
I'm starting to think you guys just hate it because it look anime inspired
Imagine turning Deathstroke into a Yaoi pretty boy voiced by Jerry from Rick and Morty.
Not to mention giving Livewire the mental illness haircut. And of course, she is voiced by Zehra Fazal 🙄
She had "mental illness" haircut in the original animated show lmao shut yp
*_"Jessie wtf are you talking about."_*
I cannot unhear Cyril Figgis and Jerry from this voice, two incredibly dweeby characters, with heart but both prone to failure.
Not the kind of voice or characterization I associate with Deathstroke.
(I am not a big american comic guy but I know bits and bobs, read some comics and watched the good shows)
She's got that therapy haircut
Hey Chris Parnell is fantastic, I wouldn't make him Deathstroke though
If they really wanted to show a Superman who is unsure of himself, they should have done an animated Smallville instead
For real. Jesus they missed the mark.
Even then, they’d find some way to butcher that too
By the time he reached Metropolis he should of had very good control over his power. He shouldn't be making these mistakes. After all much of his powers started showing up in high school and earlier
@@crestofhonor2349 Originally, he had his powers pretty much as soon as he landed on Earth. The movie from the 70s includes a scene where he lifts up the back end of John Kent's truck when he's only about 3 years old.
Smallville is too complex for modern audiences. They had to retard it waaay back and then do this sailor moon look alike crap. Or they could have a mental breakdown on tiktok
You guys watched it for the sake of the Superman franchise? I watched it for the sole purpose of wholesome slice-of-life moments with Tomboy Louis and Geeky Clark Kent
Yes, only watch it for that because if you're familiar with Superman this will disappoint 😂
@@JaWe-qx3tdI'm familiar with superman, and I not disappointed
I think you mean himbo Clark kent
@@JaWe-qx3td that's doesn't have to be a except adaptation of Superman as long as they keep core parts of him (which they did) it will be fine 👍
@@JaWe-qx3tdit was meant to air on normal cartoon network. So the audience wouldn't have been familiar with superman. The target audience
That side-by-side comparison of "office chats" between Clark and Lois from the old days and now is astounding! It truly nails the difference about how grown-up were "cartoons for kids" back then, and how immature and ridiculous are things aired at midnight now. Characters behaving as if it's another high school "comedy" a-la Velma. Yuck.
I have a very, very bad feeling about the animated LotR-themed series WB is currently making.
It was always so interesting watching Loise and Clark talk during the scenes at the Daily Planet. Even as I child it felt cool watching.
It honestly feels like Cartoon Network did not know what to do with this show. Apparently what’s happening is that Warner Media is now trying to make the main cartoon Network block appeal to 7 year olds and younger. This show originally was going to appear on the main network before Warner decided that the show was most likely “too violent”. So they instead decided to put it on the Toonami block which starts at around midnight on Saturdays or placed it at midnight in order to kill it. Either way the show was definitely made for children considering the bare minimum violence and use of toyetic character designs for Superman and the shows antagonists.
Well warner made the mistake of approving two seasons off the rip like velma.
@@ItsAGundam
They’ve already approved another season?! 😂 I still can’t believe that they kept this show and cancelled the new Batman animated series that was being produced by Matt Reeves. It’s their loss tho since apparently that show is going to Amazon which will sit alongside The Boys and Invincible.
I miss the old DCAU. Good animation and characters. Plus the crossovers were awesome!
Not gunna lie, I didn't like the artistic changes made. That style, with the black eyed Joker, felt like a step down.
The stories were still great, don't get me wrong, but the original style was iconic!
@@dudepool7530 I can see where you're coming from, but one redesign that I liked was Scarecrow. He looked very horrifying.
@@dudepool7530Joker received the modern logo treatment
Yeah they didnt have to race swap a character because they had characters like John Stewart. Who was a far better written character than everything they are putting out now.
I loved the Justice League Unlimited show growing up. Young Justice was good too (for a normie like me), because they didn't swap characters they just introduced new ones.
2:40 Superman canonically had something which these writers can't comprehend - good parenting
Of they don't read the comics, they really don't have a concept of what good parenting is, and tbf most people nowadays can only dream of what being having two loving parents is like, most people nowadays grow up in broken household and either a single over worked mom, or two abusive parents who hate each other and couldn't care less about their kids, some times I see things like this and it makes me feel sad, it's sad that growing up in a loving home by with two loving parents is soo much of a luxury, not even rich kids get to have that, it's just depressing 😢
Do we have sources for that or are we just projecting?
@@darkmetal2412 if we were projecting, these people would actually have morals.
How are you gonna blame a child for having shitty parents that’s the equivalent of blaming a rape victim of the rapist’s actions
@@Nicejokeright I'm not blaming them at all, I'm just mourning the consequences
Whoever made the decision to turn Lois Lane into a tight tan-skinned tomboy deserves a fucking raise and a medal. Honestly, the idea of Joker killing this version of Lois makes the idea of Superman turning into a dictator ten thousand times more believable.
Down bad.
I have seen this exact comment every where jeez yall really are npcs
They got rid of Lois' signature blue-violet eyes and blackwashed Jimmy, then turned Livewire into that She-Ra androgynous abomination. We can already see that the staff's focus wasn't on telling a good story, but on changing the characters to fit their perceptions.
Simperman: “But this is an alternate universe so jimmy can be black.”
That’s an argument I had with someone who likes this tshi. Blackwashing is still blackwashing!
Jimmy was black on CW's Supergirl and there weren't complaints in mass. So what's different now?
@@TheMysteryDriverNo one watched the CW.
@@TheMysteryDriver are there still people who unironically watch CW’s dc shows?
@@TheMysteryDrivercounterpoint: it's the CW. Nothing there is good anymore.
Seeing as how the people who wrote that terrible She-Ra reboot are also working on this show, it doesn’t really surprise me why this series ended up in it’s current state.
But damn did they do Slade dirty.
They really did my boy Slade dirty like wtf?!
That's why jimmy looks like that gay bow! I f*king knew it!
Making an assasin androgynous makes zero sense
I literally felt like, "What is this tumblr ass shit" the whole time!
@@SonicSkychaser I was thinking at the time it was Grant Wilson
Anytime something is adapted for "modern audiences" they do us the favor of telling us in advance that it's gonna be bad.
You probably would have said the exact same thing if this aired 20 years ago
@@nicholaspatrella9454 thats consistency
That’s not really true.
Batman 1989 changed for modern audiences were ready for a more gothic version of Batman since The Adam West TV Show in 1966 which ended up changing how people viewed the character in the public eye.
Changing something that has potential to be better than what it is isn’t a bad idea, JUST HAVE GOOD VISIONS.
Just cuz you don't like it does not automatically make the show bad
wow, back in my early 20's adult swim at midnight had cowboy bebop, big o, trigun, wolf's rain, flcl, blue gender, ghost in the shell: sac, witch hunter robin, and inuyasha are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head. It's what literally got me into anime. this new adult swim is terrible looking.
We can't forget about lupin the third.
How have we not gotten past the "why can't I just be normal" trope in everything
Cause if the writers finally figured out why they can't be "normal" and just lived their lives, they'd no longer have what they think is a personality.
@TheTGOAC it's just that it's the Go To gag for sooo much of all of this content for 20 or more years.
I get that it's a common device to lay out and establish the rules in each new thing. But my God, the omg so random, "I just want to be normal" bull shit has to stop.
You see it in comics, tv, cartoons, movies (especially every marvel orgin movie), games, etc etc
It's then followed up with a "I didn't want any of this". I'm just a kid.
Fuck that. Kids imagine themselves as great huge embellished things all the time. How about a character embrace and celebrate their specialness.
because u need a character to struggle tbh the one REALLY bad thing about superman is he is OP his only weakness is a SUPER rare crystal and even if he dies he can just be revived it makes him not interested for most people
@admiralkaede anyone who has ever read many superman comics or watched the 90s cartoon or JL cartoons knows that's not the case.
I've been hearing some version of that topic for 20 plus years. What is this based on? People just remember the first 2 superman movies from 40+ years ago and don't consider things aren't the same?
@@BirchTheGreat not many people read comics and I'm one of them but still I've seen a lot of the movies and even some of the cartoons they are good but I do for sure think there is some rose tinted goggles for sure on them also a double standard when things like young justice changed how he acted but people didn't claim it was "erasing a legend"
The amount of times Superman has found out who he is again is appalling, you’d think he’d remember who he’s been after awhile
Superman's just finding the pink kryptonite
@@KAMFP I thought he had just sipped some bud light xD
i feel the same way about thor movies thor 1 odin sends him to earth to find himself thor 2 he declines the throne because he still needs to find himself thor 3 he still needs to find himself after losing his hammer thor 4 still needs to find himself and now he has lose all that holiday weight i mean come on thor you have had like 1500 years
@@nirvv84 you touched on a topic I’m also passionate about, yes, total agreement there
But who am I?
Nobody gives a shit, Logan!
I actually like it, what am I?
normal
There's nothing wrong with liking it, I personally don't but it's cool if u like it.
This entire video is an adaptation argument, saying this stuff is bad because it's not what it was before, without explaining how it doesnt work in the show. It's fine if you dont like it because it's not the superman that you enjoy, im not gonna say that youre wrong for thinking that. I will however say that isnt a valid argument for why the show is bad.
The show lays out its characters, which are different interpretations than they are traditionally, and follows through on that pretty well. You may not like this take and that's perfectly fine, but that's about your own taste, it's not an actual criticism of the show.
And it's not like there arent any legitimate ones either. For example, the continuity error with the donuts, but there were plenty other, more important ones that were missed.
When the little girl in episode one demands that her paper be distributed alongside the daily planet, that could be a huge problem if Mr. White finds out, which could be interesting drama if they follow through on that, though i doubt they will but they could surprise me. In episode two, Livewire's plan to blow up everything is obviously stupid because she'll die too. In episode 3 when one of the bad guys punches the ice machine to stop it, that was really dumb. None of these were brought up in this video and this isnt even an exhaustive list.
Of course, the writers can totally screw this up later on, but they've done a good job so far, and calling the show bad or mid because you dont like it does a disservice to the actual quality character writing so far. Just say, "It's not my thing."
Love this show
Ironic.
In the past, children's shows treated you like an adult.
In current year, adult shows treat you like a child.
"adult" shows
[Looks at all the animated adult comedies] Yep, checks out.
Well, no. In the 90s and early 2000s, *some* sparse children's shows treated kids like they were intelligent, rather than drooling dullards - Gargoyles, Batman TAS, Justice League, Beast Wars, Cybersix, etc. - and included elements that could be enjoyed by adults and children alike, appreciated on diverse levels.
The majority of them were forgettable trash, and everything from the 80s were enjoyable toy commercials with almost no depth, even those that we remember fondly. Try watching any two random episodes of the 1980s Transformers. They're utterly juvenile.
We recall the former simply because they were outstanding.
This, like most material produced these days, treats kids as dumb.
But they're right to do that, in some ways, because kids are stupider than ever.
@@reimannsum9077 And why do you think kids are stupider these days? Really gets the almonds toasting.
@@donutbevil9669So us 90's kids are some sort of Ubermensch.... because of cartoons.
Imagine Teen Titan's Slade in ANY TV show nowadays. The psychological trauma would be immense.
These children would lose all their sanity. They'd go from puppies and unicorns, to meeting Mr. Horrorshow himself.
I'm just amazed that they managed to make the owl house canon in the DC universe. They really wanted Luz and Gus to have a future in show biz didnt they?
They cancelled the Owl House, so the Owl House found a new host in Superman XD.
I see what you did there lol 😂
@@KAMFP They left the Boiling Isles for Smallville real fast. 😂
Shows like this are the reason I just show my kids the cartoons from the late 90s and early 00s that I grew up with. Between shows like Justice League, X-Men, TMNT (03), Static shock, Teen Titans, Avatar, etc, etc. There really isn't much point in letting my kids watch, or even read most of the modern stuff.
“Dad can we watch gravity fal-“
“NO! SIT DOWN AND WATCH MY SHOWS- okay this the part where Batman fights the joker.”
@@okayitsdead6631 I should have clarified, I meant remakes and re imagined shows. But you have to admit, Gravity Falls is not comparable to the majority of shows that have come out in the past decade.
@@theodoretaylor5772yea it’s a tier above
@@theodoretaylor5772 Old things good, new things bad.
We need to leave that kind of thinking behind with the boomers.
@TheKeller101 No, we need to objectively review what's coming out and give honest opinions, especially if we have kids so that we can ensure they don't have low effort, low brow cash grabs masquerading as content for children.
It's purely about monitoring influences.
Honestly having watched the show, I think you're just being overly cynical towards it, Gundam. The animation is ass and the writing isn't great but I do think the relationship aspect of the show is pretty wholesome and adorable. And we're missing that a lot in western media these days. Not everything superman related has to be balls to the wall action and him saving people, it's also important to show his development in his early years and how he matures not only into the cape, but into the glasses as well. Still love your stuff tho Gundam keep up the good work
His channel is entirely made of outrage bait. It's kind of his job to be overly cynical and negative towards everything. He knows that's what pays the bills, nobody would watch him if he was positively reviewing media he liked or enjoyed, people enjoy him being annoyed and shitting on stuff. That's the thing with these copy and paste outrage channels, once they get popular they can never talk about stuff they like again, only stuff they don't.
@luisyupari I don't agree with his takes on everything, a lot of these shows and movies he talks about aren't really as bad as he makes them out to be. But when it comes to the social media drama and gaming news he's pretty justified in his cynicism.
@@cabnbeeschurgr6440 Paying attention to social media drama and gaming "journalism" is in and of itself laughable behavior to be honest.
@@luisyupari eh he delivers it in a much more digestible way than some guy in a suit with a 3 hour corpospeak script. It's good enough for me
The animation isnt that bad. The shading and shadows are flat but the art style is okay
*"HOW MANY TIMES DO THEY HAVE TO REWRITE YOUR STORY?!"* - Goku to Superman in Epic Rap Battles of History
"YOUR POWERS HAVE BEEN BORING SINCE THE 19 FUCKING 40S"
*"Deafeat me with heat beams? You're crazy, cuz I'm a Super Saiyan while you're flying miss Daisy! You're pretty pasty to be powered by the sun, you can't float to Son Goku, cuz I Kaioken get it done!"*
You'd be surprised how many people are impressed when you bust this out! Gets that good geek street cred 😂 especially when you have Goku tatted on your arm (DragonBall days).
I love how if you remove the intro and outro from Z the runtime of the show is almost half. I also love the idea that the reaction cuts are basically the plot besides the fights. I also like how everytime they wish no one has wished that no one had powers or could endanger whole planets or life in the universe. I also really like the version of the show that uses swords, they called it bleach
@rallyfeind making a wish that big is impossible at least with dragon balls made by mortals. That would be beyond Kami/Dende's power as well as Guru. The dragon can only do a wish that does not exceed their creator's power.
"Hey, goku - how many forms are you up to now; like, 237 or something..? Shame your writers seem to confuse 'character development' with handing out new powers like candy bars... sh*t - even **VEGETA** has a better arc than you!!
Remember when Superman was stuck in a part of the galaxy with no stars and eternal darkness so he had to wander before losing strength and finally found stars and flew through each one, powering up before landing a time-tranceding punch?
Wouldn't you like to see that animated?
Wishful thinking
Yeah but the story to that point was so convoluted
@@andymk8951 welcome to DC comics
@@andymk8951 basically every universe has this issue lol
Uh, no.
Maybe in a "What If?" show like Marvel, cause otherwise there ain't no way to account for THAT kinda of power level if you do that
I thought people were liking it… then I remember I was on the Super Best Friends Subreddit and only seeing horny posting of Lois being a tan short hair Tomboy. Nobody was talking about the show, just that she looked cute.
And that's about a much ad they care
I will be honest, I see a Gundam, who went to see a series just to hate it.
It's funny how in this show, Superman's father looks more like Slade than Slade himself.
I actually had this on while I was doin something I had no idea that little punk was supposed to be Deathstroke. Unacceptable
@@lonewolf_a_real1the slade from teen titans was much better
@@michaelclifton9498 you right or my fav, batman arkham origins Slade
LMFAO GOOD POINT
@@michaelclifton9498lade from Teen Titans was such a great villain. Also voiced by a great voice actor who just nailed that role.
This is a perfect example of how American culture has devolved in the last few decades. A cartoon made for kids in the 90s is much more refined and mature than a cartoon made for "adults" in 2023.
Thinking the same thing
That’s because kids in the 90s were still expected to grow up. Kids in the 2020s are only expected to grow older.
You have a lot of 20 and 30 something “adults” in the current West who grew up in a toxic environment where comfort and safety was the ideal whilst ambition, bravery, and hard work were denigrated. Let alone the toxic race and sex rhetoric. The result is a bunch of physically adult but mentally damaged people who never made the normal, healthy transition from childhood to adult independence and self reliance. Instead they’re stuck in some messy perpetual teenager state, whitener it’s daddy issues, cynical edge-lord type BS, or a kind of whiny childishness.
My Adventures with Superman is made for 10 year olds. It's meant to be a children's cartoon.
It's also unfair to compare some of the greatest cartoons in history in the DCAU to bog average things like My Adventures with Superman.
One set of series revolutionizes what is possible in children's' animation.
The other does not. Compare it to some forgotten bloatware from the 90s, like, I don't know, Street Sharks, and you've got a more fair parallel.
Another example of our *devolving* culture is people that don't proofread their comments.
@@theeffete3396 happy now?
I'm currently a animation major and there's a certain graphic novel I would love to adapt in my career someday. However with this trend going on it worries me that it will fall to the wrong hands and forced to change something that's against the vision I have. I hope this won't be the case if I do have a opportunity to adapt that novel someday
I swear if a youtuber talk shit about something their entire fan will just hate it. I seen other youtuber who likes this show and the entire coment section all agree with them.
This is a case where people are just waiting on their commenter youtuber to have an opinion.
If you like it. You like it. Nobody is stopping you. Gundam gave his opinion about the show. That it.
@@HaruWuu yeah but I'm not talking about his I'm talking about the comment section
@@GrutenZylos Oh that. Yeah. I can agree. But it mostly depends on the CZcamsr creator. Believe me, I cringe at most of the comments. And realize that they come from Twitter.
Yeah it's clear most of his fans haven't actually watched the show and just label it as woke trash
@@HaruWuu And because of that, he's convinced other people to not watch the show, even having the viewers of this video shitting on the show without seeing it.
Redheads are the true oppressed minorities in modern media.
Also, "western anime" still looks like Totally Spies. Drives me insane.
First 5 totally spies seasons were peak cartoon shows. If i see Totally Spies ruined like that, i will lose all hope for cartoons
You haven't lost all hope by now?
Seriously I'm just waiting for all these people to be jettisoned from the industry before I so much as glance in DC's general direction.
Really that trash Totally Spies? At least use Avatar as the example for western anime.
Totally Spies and its side hustle Martin Mystery were the bomb back in the day.
The art style is giving me war flash backs of High Guardian Spice. That's not to say that western shows can't mimic anime but when it fails it comes of cringey as hell.
Imean this art style isn't bad it's just HGS ruined it
thats exactly why I avoided it. that artstyle is a dead giveaway its gonna be garbage.
It's like those "writers" only watched sailor moon, demon slayer, mha, & rom com anime and just go like "inspiration!" Then they proceed to go diarrhea on their notes, and it just comes off as uninspired and lazy.
Ugh that toixc shit 🤢🤢🤢
@@veggsbacon1891 Honestly it's kinda sad because a story about Clark Kent figuring out who he is and what he's meant to do with his powers could work. But the story needed to be set when he was just going through puberty and have that be when his powers started to emerge NOT when he's an adult.
Livewire Jones was not something i ever thought i needed, but that was hilarious XD
I am HIGHLY insulted seeing the design they used for slade in this show. They couldn't even pass off his look as a younger version of himself, they turned him into a god dang twink!
They already have prewritten stories that are amazing. All they have to do is animate them. Not only are they ripping off super man they're ripping off the art style. Insane
Or you could just learn to draw and animate but that would be too much work, right?
@@AngelSaintCloudWhat is your point?
@@AngelSaintCloudsuch a retarded argument. Oh this Resturaunt is serving shit food? Make your own REEEE!
You could just get an actual argument that’s not inherently childish and pathetic, but that would be too much work and thinking, right? Sit down.
@@marcelberes469he has none. People who make this argument have no point to make. It’s just copium from a snowflake who can’t take criticism. Nothing more.
Luz from Owl House legally changed her name into Lois Lane.
I thought this was a Shitpost joke but,no... You're not only serious but it's so,fucking similar I'm wondering how Disney hasn't fired up the Lawyers
And became straight.
Yet more solid proof that same gender relationships, are just a phase.
@@sgtstr3am785? Disney has nothing to do with DC?
@@BlaBlaBla-76 Owl House is Disney. Superman is DC. Can you figure out the rest? It was 2 sentenced dude
I knew this new design reminded me of someone. They look the exact same in pretty much every way.
Ngl I like this animation style
I’ve realized it’s all the weird kids who like this the ones you draw the same art style as every oc artist or just copy deku from my hero
I didn't know they did that to Deathstroke. I was planning on checking it out cause I heard some good things about it. Annoyance of black-washed Jimmy aside.
They really Tumblr-fied him. They Tumblr-fied the whole show. If they really wanted something that campy, then I would have done a Supersons cartoon.
Jon and Damien have such great chemistry and friendship and I would love to see them animated. You get childish Superboy/Jon trying to figure out who he is and how he fits as Superman's son, and the more seriousness of Damien who's experienced the darkness of humanity. It writes itself!
Got ol' Deathstroke looking like a boy band reject
Am I the only one who knows the art style reminds us of the She-Ra reboot?
They made a super sons animated movie that was pretty good, I recommend checking it out
They will make damian and jon luv eachother
And ani twitter will c
@@mikey.526 I largely disliked the Super Sons movie. They regressed Damien's character, again. Best I could describe him as the annoying version of a kid trying to be edgy.
And Jon was just completely OOC. For him, I'll go with whiney. So I really don't think the characters bounced off of each other at all in that movie.
My brother was saying how this didn't bother him that much cause it's just a different version and there are all types of the different versions of Superman. To which I replied "Yes but this version is appealing to a type who doesn't read, doesn't like or doesn't even watch Superheroes. Let alone read any comics. All they do is write yaoi fan fiction on Tumbler" You should not pander to a crowd who has no respect for the medium they're adapting. Cause once you do, they get into it [which is how this thing is getting made in the first place] and then they change it and want it to always be this stuff. It's always gotta be CHANGED to fit THEIR OWN IDEAS cause the original/real one had something wrong with it. They don't understand the original or even like the original. So they'll fix it. Give them an inch and they take it all. Gate keep what you love.
Sadly, they've done this to everything but the most obscure properties I grew up loving. Hell, I'm terrified to mention the obscure stuff these days, because I don't want to lead to the destruction of it...
The idea of "it's another universe, so nothing matters" bogs down the intrigue of the source material as well. Look at what they did to Spider-Man. Spider-Man is now a generic set of powers and costume that you give to anyone. Not only that, they basically gave Spider-Man his own mini-team with characters like Miles and Spider-Gwen, which kind of undermines the point of Spider-Man in the first place. What makes Spider-Man cool if everyone can be Spider-Man if they just get a convenient radioactive spider bite?
Mickey Mouse doesn't feel like a character because he's just a generic smiley cartoon that Disney plasters on everything. They've turned characters like Spider-Man into the Mickey Mouse of superheroes, and this show does more of the same for Superman.
Straight up Owlman approach. Nothing matters. The only choice that makes a difference is burning it all...
Your brother sounds like he might be a bit on the slow side.
@@flarestorm9417 think you just have a negative outlook and lost your way somewhere in life. Spiderman is supposed to be inspiring while you sound like a negative Nancy that doesn't believe in yourself. I hope things get better for you.
Anything sounds smart if you boil it down to one specific thing, but that just shows how far your intellect goes. No offense.
Anyone can be Spider-Man, but that doesn't make you peter Parker. Peter Parker himself just wants to help people not hog the glory. He would be in tears to know there are people who will take care of new York if he passes away. He's not immortal even with super powers.
Part of growing up is learning to let go.
Youth fades away and if you aren't ready you'll spend the rest of your old man years fighting for something that could have helped people instead.
" I'm mad because you aren't consuming media the same way I am" instead of " here's a worthwhile story that could instill values and confidence in a person who Is struggling with becoming an adult while I've taken it for granted"
I have a few minor gripes, but I’m interested in Clark’s development as well as Kryptonian lore. With the potential leaks I’ve read, I can say they seem interesting on paper. Just have to see the execution.
This shit gets funded but can’t have another season of drawn together noooooooo…. Lol that would be asking too much
Ling ling best caracter!!!!!!
Am I the only one who finds it weird with how they're handling Clark's powers? Like they made it so that he "unlocks" his abilities every episode like a video game character. Part of what makes him great was being able to control his many abilities from the start (heat vision, super hearing, x-ray vision, etc...) but it's like I'm watching Invincible rather than Superman with how they're handling his abilities.
Which ties into my other point. That's, Shazam! Shazam has the power glows henshin hero power set that he controls independently, has to master in turn, and can be removed or replaced. They wanted to make a Shazam show!
I mean, it worked pretty well for Smallville. Though, I think he’s a bit old for the “unlocking his powers” trope. They showed him getting super strength and flight as about a 10 year old, how does he not have control of it after a decade of practice? Either he should be younger or his powers shouldn’t have appeared until he was a bit older.
Him unlocking his abilities has been standard for a long time. Smallville build 10 Seasons around him finally learning how to fly. The only reason he knew how to use his abilities in older stories is because we jumped over his discovery phase. Most of the time it’s skipped with him traveling the world between leaving Smallville and joining the Planet. At least since the 80s which is the main inspiration for most Superman origins these days.
@@DivertingTales Evolving abilities over time is one thing, this feels like he's unlocking them like a video game. When his eyes light up you can almost see the UI saying 'New Ability!' with a short video tutorial on how to use the Megaton Punch command.
@@zachariahjonahmaldonado5897 So now you went from learning powers is Shazam (which is both factually wrong for Shazam and Superman) to it being because of video games? (
btw: Shazam specifically didn’t need to learn how to use his powers because he had the wisdom of Solomon telling him how to use them. Him not knowing is a new addition)
From those two episodes it seems that the blue lightning eyes is going to tie into the Kryptonian ship he came with because it reappeared when he got his suit from it which was inspired by the New 52 were his suit was also from Krypton. They seem to be building something around the ship which is blatantly foreshadowed by Jor El speaking about something in Kryptonian without us or Clark understanding what he is saying. Something that is usually not done. So the writers are setting up mysterious surrounding the ship.
I think the main problem here is that the OG commentator and you don’t actually know much about Superman or his various incarnations both in comics and other mediums. Nothing I have seen about Superman in that show is new. The first thing I thought when seeing the lightning is whether they are going to do the 90s electric Superman version down the line (google it and you will be shocked that Superman has been more Anime than you can imagine)
People in the comment section would lose their minds if they use the birthing matrix and complain these writers ruined Superman.
In which case Superman has been ruined fro most of his existence because whatever you think Superman is supposed to be I can probably give you at least a 5-10 year period were he didn’t fit that in the main comics.
The DCAU from 1992-2006 will always be my favorite.
Sadly greatness like that will be replicated again
Let's not forget, it opens with him as a child learning about his powers and then cuts probably 10 years into the future. He has had a decade to live with these powers.
But as soon as it cuts he's smashing alarm clocks, ripping his shoes in two, etc. Sure you could reason that he's anxious/nervous because it's his first day for a new job or whatever, but even when that seems to have settled somewhat he still casually "accidentally" rips the handle off of a door of a doughnut shop he's apparently a regular/"favorite customer" at, breaks the door even worse on his way out AND most likely was the cause of the other broken door referenced by the owner of the shop that he repaired.
Now that episode 7 is out I would definitely love to hear your take now…cause this Lois acknowledges that she isn’t as good as any of the other Loises thinking she isn’t worthy of Clark.
He can't change the take, he'd lose credibility and what got him video views for the revenue. He's kinda stuck with this trash take.
@@Ebonyleopard yeah his take was pretty garbage…”its America tryna be anime.” Like who tf cares man it’s not awful or anything. It’s still a good show it doesn’t need to be compared to some of the best anime’s 😂
Nowadays, most adults on Twitter and TikTok have the emotional and intellectual maturity of toddlers, so what can we expect from actual kids?
Hopefully those kids will become better parents.
I feel like a lot of kids are going to grow up with a disrespect of authority and/or adults
A "self insert" sounds like exactly what is happening here. they just keep inserting things into themselves until they are satisfied with the mess they've made.
😂😂😂
was the pun intended?
Phrasing?...
I... I still enjoyed it...
This man is a fed trying to delegitimize responsible gatekeeping against *actual* soul-less hacks. I know because I didn't take my meds.
I realized recently why it is that race swapping always bothered. I come from Puerto Rico and my family is very mixed, having Black, Native, Spaniards blood and a few others.
I loved John Stewart's GL from JLU, Cyborg from Teen Titans and so on. I kept up with the characters and read all the comics and I loved every moment with them.
And this is what I realized: A character that is race swapped can never have that. If your favorite depiction of a character isn't the original and you go back you realize they weren't what you thought they were, it divides you from what you liked. How can you enjoy Hawkman in movies if you can't go back and connect with him? They might as well have been a completely new characters.
for a number of fans who are annoyed with the whole race swap thing including myself. We regularly pull out the "they should just be a new character" card.
@@NoahGooder you realize those characters are supposed to be black ?
If you can’t connect to someone because they are a different race then it seems like your the problem.
Exactly. If you want hero’s of color, there are plenty in comics who haven’t had there stories explored (Blue Beatle, Bronze Tiger, Firestorm, etc). As well as previous colored hero’s who could be brought back for modern audiences (Blade, Spawn, Static Shock). Idk, just feels weird having to color wash characters when there are so many good stories that don’t need any changes to them.
@@samuellindsey6379 Well, we are getting a blue beetle movie.
Gag me.
After what's been done to almost all these characters in the comics, i really don't want to see animated versions of that.
To quote a better Western superhero animation:
"Look What They Need to Mimic a Fraction of Our Power!"
I actually like this show…
Let's face it...the few people that like this show, like it because of tan tomboy Lois and not because Superman.
Tan tomboys are just too popular.
Or think clark is hot. And this show is very focused on these two, so it makes sense for the attractiveness of both be the selling point to an extent.
But also people are happy to have a not edgy superman. That honestly the biggest one.
@@dodonixx953Superman isn't edgy 😂
@@dodonixx953they changed everything about Superman. "WhO AM I " 😂
@@JaWe-qx3td yea he isnt anymore, which is good. The who am i questioning isn't new either, i dunno were you got that idea.
@@dodonixx953 Superman always was a symbol for humanity or whatever, he isn't suppose to be edgy
Feel like this version of Lois Lane is designed so that Twitter/Tumblr type can see her as a anime pretty boy or trans so in their mind they can fantasized that Superman in a gay relationship.
It a trend they seams to do alot.
Dammit, that's probably it. I kinda like her having a tomboy look, but when they make her that flat... I thought from some of the distant shots, that Supe had gone gay.
You’re in the wrong side of town my boy
Well, I wasn't thinking of that until you said it....
Considering that she looks like a grown-up version of Luz from the Owl House, it checks out. I never saw much of that show, but it is loved by the Tumblr crowd a lot.
@@flarestorm9417it is mainly because she is a lesbian,, that's why.
It’s unfortunate bc i thought it’s more adult bc of its air time but then it turns out to not be great haha. Rip bring back the old DC animated days
Dc animated is still solid as fuck
@@666slateran666like what? Genuinely curious. Last few things i saw were mid
@@statesminds both the Constantine movies were solid. The batman long halloween was also excellent. And even the recent batman and superman movie that focused on their sons wasn't as Cringe as I expected it to be. In general the consensus has been that the animated DC movies are where the good content is and the live action has been booty aside from one or two things.
It's cuz it's appealing to modern audiences. You know...the adults who never made it to actual adulthood.
@@MikeKnight4771 ...and who made the show themselves
Waiting for the "It's not made for YOU!!!".. then accusing fans of bigotry when nobody watches their show
This makes me happy.
It makes me happy knowing my favorite stuff will never get the same treatment.
Visionaries.
Inhumanoids.
Pole Position.
Bubblegum Crisis.
Didnt Superman spend YEARS honing his abilities before he even moved to Metropolis?
That's literally the only thing that make sense. He discovered his power as a kid even in this show
Not this version of Clark, this Clark was afraid of his alien side, so he stopped pushing his abilities. He also doesn't really know what is Krypton or who his birth parents were.
@Horacio_Poggi but in the show, he literally speaks with his Father Jar-El at Kent Farm before he goes to Metropolis. So how does that make sense, and also, in every story of Superman, he has always had a sense of duty to protect those weaker then himself.
@sadimasochist4543 Clark couldn't understand him because Jor-El was only speaking kryptonian. He is only now as a young adult, starting to discover more about his alien heritage. This version of Clark was helping people in secret. It is only now that he is in Metropolis that he is revealing himself to the world.
@@sadimasochist4543 No. He hasn't spoken to his father since he was ten years old, and only did so at 20, after his first battle, in episode 2 - without being able to understand almost anything that Jor-El tries to explain to him because they do not speak the same language.
I wish that people would actually watch the shows that they critique.
Atrazine really is in most water supplies, and it does turn a large percentage of exposed male amphibians into female amphibians. Alex may not always be the most charming with his phrasing of things, but the man is based.
He actually said in an interview that he chose the wording on purpose because everyone knows the clip of him screaming about gay frogs but if he just sat there and talked about atrazine nobody would care.
Males cannot be turned into females, it's physically impossible. If you mean it makes them act like females, then sure.
Alex Jones also denied mass shootings...
You know what’s funny that Batman the animated series and the follow up the new adventures of Batman were also for kids but were as dark as it got but still respects the intelligence of the viewer
And this doesn't?
If you watch the animated series you know what I’m talking it’s hard to put it into words for me but it does show don’t tell and even respects the character of Batman and doesn’t rewrite him to be who am I or the self Journey
@@toddbata8644 I have multiple times, debatable to a certain degree as they did change certain things but still respect the heart of the character, but go into detail of how this doesn't respect human intelligence.
@@toddbata8644 I have seen it and can you provide me evidence of it's show don't tell story writing exactly? Because I've only had seen scenes where you are just able to read a character before they even open their mouths.
That's debatable as they did rewrite Batman in that series compared to the comics and lore but they still stayed true to the character. Can you provide me examples of how how this show doesn't?
8:45 they did turn frogs gay. They added a Chemical to a tank that house frogs the males couldn’t tell the difference from the females and then you had male frogs humping male frogs. Probably adding it too tap water.
What itsagundam said about updating livewire is what they really did to her in the comic, they updated her from a radio shockjock to a CZcamsr/streamer
I mean honestly that makes sense since DC has a habit of rebooting every other year and if the settia meant to be modern day than Livewire should be a streamer of some kind because who under the age of 50 still listens to the radio anymore when there's so many better alternatives
@@Drums_of_Liberation true i mean it kinda makes sense radio stuff is really not common anymore
I know they did that in the MCU with J Jonah Jameson. They turned him into Alex Jones and it actually worked. Mainly cause JK Simmons nails Alex’ mannerisms
@@ChrisSuperDude to be fair the MCU stole that from Insomniac just like they stole May's gravestone inscription from them.
Listen, all ill say. *ALL ILL SAY.* Is that new Lois hits those long forgotten Tomboy vibes we all miss having around. Yea, it's a shame they couldn't ya know, write someone new in and add her in, but ill take a tomboy over every other self insert we've had in the last 10 years.
I'm willing to forgive this shows existence based solely on tomboy Lois.
I fuvking love tomboy Lois, ill leave it to my favorite _artists_ to write a better episode/scenario
Based
I wish I was born in the 90s
The vein of the character and its foundation is around her femeninity. If you lived in the 90s you could easily see how truly sexy Louis was a strong independent woman that paved her way in a male dominated world, intelligent, witty, and highly confident.
But modern writers are unable to see undertones and subleties. They are not visionaries; modern writers are blind.
@@Cloutweb1 I mean I get that man, but still it could be worse. You literally never seen the tomboy look in media anymore that's not attached to like 27 alphabet letters and 16 genders like some baskin robins treat of the week. While it dosen't capture the strong girlboss energy, it's not Susan from the boiler room who somehow inherits Superman's power and does his job but better.
Keep seeing horrifically cringe ads for this.
If I was a Superman fan I'd be terribly offended.
I will admit that I like this Lois' tomboy design but she looks so different that I wish they just made her, Livewire and Jimmy brand new characters. I want to see new characters not race swaps.
Yeah that's what i think too, pretty much.
It's not an awful design, and from what i've seen they at least made her decently cute, feminine and even dainty.
But it's not Lois... This isn't "alternate universe", this is "alternate franchise"...
Livewire wouldn't look out of place in some kind of cyberpunk show, and her masculine appearance is only really a problem next to the feminized men of this show... If the men where manlier looking, she would look quite nice in context. Sharp features can work on women (especially cartoons), absolutely, and the dark skin adds to that almost exotic look.
But it ain't livewire...
Hell, change their last names and we can say it's an alternate universe. There is already like 500 other ones already.
I woulda made Jimmy Asian, Livewire an OnlyFans model and Lois a BBW. It's still diverse, but not as cringe a tad bit more realistic and relevant.
It's not Lois tomboy. It's a boy. I look at pictures of that animated show and I see Boys' Love/yaoi. I was a fujoshi. That's 1000% BL art style and how Western artists have been drawing BL when the genre started becoming so popular that online Western BL comic artists were striving to become pros, gaining a following via deviantart, tumblr and other social media.
Girls who despise girls, drawing tomgirl boys as substitutes of themselves to be the bottom of a pairing with a blushing hunky top. But the couples are so saccharine sweet, they are just girlies drawn with pseudo penises.
@@little_dandelion The bigger issue is how you are admitting that you view a lot of BL artwork to where you can decipher the styles...
I loved the Superman Animated Series. I'm not even a Superman fan and I loved that series.
Mercy Graves also came from that show, voiced by Lisa Edelstein.
It just looks like more Netflix She-ra/Voltron garbage. If this is what "anime inspired" means to be in 2023, I long for Kappa Mikey and Martin Mystery where it didn't mean generic.
I'm tempted to place bets that Twitter/Tumblr is going to get invested in its paper thin story (read: they want to ship paper thin characters) and will get mad when it eventually ends and either its not resolved or goes in a direction they don't want.
They literally just turned Superman into a Shoujo Manga character, he talks, moves and emotes like a woman.
The one thing I hate the most about this show so far is the running gag of him not able to control his strength. He learned about his abilities when he was young so by time, he became an adult he had control over it.
It's almost like Superman is growing up. 🤔 Who knew?
@@AngelSaintCloudit shouldn’t take year for you to learn how to not break a clock with you hands lol.
@@AngelSaintCloudat this point in this the show happens HE should have control so the fuck are you on?
@@AngelSaintCloudHercules was in full control of his strength by adulthood, so what's Clark's deal? Can an alien not live up to the mental maturity of a God? Lol
Because his powers are actively in flux for reasons that haven't yet been explained but, based on visual cues, appear to be related to the development of "Superman Blue/Red" style changes that are emerging.
You know how that bib thing could've worked? Have Lois still picking sprinkles out of her clothes two days later.
Yeah, I image Superman the Animated Series would do something like that.
That requires effort and passion towards a project.
Meh. This sounds less like criticism of the flaws of the show and more like a gatekeeping old man yelling at the new generation and how it’s ruined it for the older generations, especially considering how you watched two episodes and now profess yourself an expert on this subject.
I really just don’t understand when people harp on design changes with a “This character doesn’t match the design I had for them in mind and that offends me”. This especially seems odd when the aspects of the character that makes them ‘them’ are not lost in the reboot. New Lois is as headstrong and ‘truth/justice over personal safety’ as old Lois. To claim that they ruined her character because she looks like (as some people in this comment section suggests) a short-haired, self-insert lesbian is as superficial as it gets. As for the other redesigns, especially the villains whose characteristic traits seem to verge far from their original counterparts, let them have more than two episodes to explain why they are that way and not conforming to the already trodden path.
As for the ‘Identity Crisis’ point, I do agree that maybe it could’ve been better suited for a Smallville sort of show, but it still makes sense in Metropolis. Kind of ironic that a person with “The voice of an disenfranchised generation” pointed to it as a flaw of the show because all I see around me are people going through the same damned problems. I thought it was a nice touch, humanizing the leads to be representative of a generation that doesn’t really fit in, doesn’t know what exactly to do. I dunno, that seems fitting for a show on AdultSwim watched by people in their late teens/early 20’s, and if you can’t take that at face value it was originally slated for CartoonNetwork and not AS but corporate changed their minds. Blame them on the midnight showing, not those who made the show.
I’m not sure why the comparison point for this show immediately is Jujutsu Kaisen. Yes, this show isn’t as good as, oh I don’t know, one of the best shonens to have come out in the last decade. But comparing unfavorably against one of the best this medium has to offer should not immediately label this show a soulless Western anime ripoff.
Oh well. I think, based on the comments I’ve read here and the titles of your other videos, my take probably will not be welcome here. But I do sure hope people who are interested in a new Superman animation only to become disinterested in it immediately because a CZcamsr has designated it an inferior product will give it a chance.
You're right on the money. I am glad others are disagreeing with Gundam and calling him out on his shit. Whether he actually responds to being called out remains to be seen. My guess he's working on another low-effort rage video
Why would Clark Kent wear glasses BEFORE the creation of the Superman identity? Superman's identity would have to have predated his moving to Metropolis. Instead Superman would wear a mask like every other DC hero or villain.
This would have been fine if it wasn't tied to a preexisting property. My heart really goes out to the artists who took on the project. They could only work with what was given to them. They make bomb af art.
Yeah the character designs? shite the art itself? smooth as fuck
I agree, it would've been better if it were an original or have some creativity (better) in the story
Yeah Studio mir is great. The scripts they were given… not so much I imagine
dc conservatives when a elseworld story takes place on a earth different than the usual dc universe:
@@hesklairvoyantI mean, how would you feel if that elseworld existed just to say, "The people you know and love, across *all* the multiverse?? They're shit, now, we don't care what they *were,* because now they're politically correct! And you have to accept that or you're the evil of society and everyone hates you for existing."
Going for the “who am I” thing with Superman of all characters is just hilarious. The writers did all the check mark bullshit like butchering Lois, and ruining Jimmy, and just emasculating Clark. All before writing the damn plot. Because of course you can’t have the male lead to already understand himself and uses his power to help others. Nah he needs two tumblr self inserts to guide him to fight other tumblr self inserts.
They made Lois Lane a boy and Jimmy Olsen is black. That was all I needed to know.
That Alex Jones voiceover on livewire was hilarious! God-tier stuff my man!
What he said about Jujutsu Kaisen is true. The damn thing was written like it didn't have any brakes. It felt like it stopped when the author ran out of paper that you have to keep going until the actual climax of the arc happens. If anyone wants to pickup the Manga I suggest you wait for it to end because the cliffhangers are unreal.
Same with My Hero Academia, when I keep forgetting who the heck Izuku even is.
The sad thing is, I've always wanted an animated Superman show about Clark trying to 'be normal' and not let his powers get out of hand- as if to show that being Superman and crushing supervillains is the easy part of his life, but being Clark Kent and opening doors or shaking hands is the real challenge in his life.
But this is... bad.
eh from what ive seen people say it's not.
@@1roxyfan491 I don't give six sideways shits what people say to you
Something tells me you've only seen episode 1.
@@The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World. something tells me you're the kind of person that's gotta eat the whole turd before you say it tastes like shit.
@@The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World. I'm up to episode 6 so far so good.
As a redhead i am mad that we lost our repersentation in this show, i will go and tweet about it i think XD.
Redheads are actual minorities. Only about 1,5% of the world population, I think.
The disappointing part is, I was expecting at first to have the plot revolve around an older Clark Kent who’s moved on from his old life that we all know in love that had his mortal friends like Lois and Jimmy, and that he would be starting a brand new adventure while being accompanied by these new teen characters (who I wasn’t expecting to be Lois and Jimmy). And that’s the thing. The show’s redesigns/reimaginings for these already established characters (aside from Clark) are so detached from their original source material that they’re unrecognizable, so much to the point where they might as well be their own characters. It would have also been a more creative and better choice to take such a beloved and well-known character like Superman and just place him in a new setting with new characters and all, instead of just retelling his story from the very beginning and reusing the same old cast of characters that people have already gotten to know for a long time now.
Another inconsistency that wasn't mentioned in the first episode is that this is one of those shows that give black people two toned hands, but the first episode isn't consistent with it. In the part when they're in the boss' office in the Daily Planet, in some parts, Jimmy's hands are two toned, but when he moves his hands in the next frame, his hands are all one color and it fluctuates throughout that entire scene.
And it's the same in the convenience store with the black girl. Her hands are one tone throughout most of her first appearance and maybe a frame or two being two toned within that same scene but it's barely noticeable.
Though, I don't know why they only do that for black people. There are other darker/tanned skinned characters that don't have two toned hands and are more often than not just background characters, but the only ones they show that do are all black and often front and center and even then its not even every black character, so what's the standard for having two toned hands? Black people aren't the only people whose palms are lighter than the rest of their hands...