And that is why the current cartoon industry in the west fell into the toilet, their distain for the late 2000s junk led them to latch onto anything different and not notice the warning signs, And let it fester so bad that you can no longer salvage it, Only throw it away.
I need proof of this because that is some serious balls if true.
Alright, just remembered that my retarded ass confused it with Genshit and the whole bullshit strike with Paimon's former English VA, and how it was mentioned in the game afterwards (especially given how similar this situation was compared to it). My bad.
I think it has less to do with art styles or with the spectrum of stories (think of how much isekai slop gets churned out and people gobble it up). Rather, it's because the Japs still remember that a story has to be about two humans relating to each other, not post-ironic hipsters quipping at each other, sassy queer latinx xisters dunking on the huwaite man, or the author nudging the audience going 'eh? eh?'. I don't think it's a coincidence that Columbo is getting a minor meme resurgence on YouTube, despite it being older than 75% of YouTube's userbase, because back then we in the West still knew how to tell a story.
This is another interesting thing I've noticed about Japanese (and Chinese) slop. Even the most formulaic and corporate garbage is quite clean compared to Western stuff of the same caliber because they properly study writing and the visual arts.
You had a whole ass season or so of Garrison's tranny arc, of which he manages to swade some guys/gals to fuck his neo-vag and even helped save a Lesbian bar. That's a lot more than what could be said about what current troons can accomplish, in fact it's still a way more flattering depiction of mid 2000s trannies because the world was still under the impression that troons can fool people into thinking they are the actual gender they larp as.
I am fucking *begging* Western animatiors to stop trying to be edgy, provocative, and weird with animation. We get it, the dog has balls, the 10 y/o says the Fuck word. Fritz the Cat came out in came out in 19-fucking-72. We've all moved on, except apparently you assholes. No wonder the Japs are kicking our asses.
That's HIM btw.
It doesn't even matter because Japanese media is way edgier anyway.
This looks and feels like some shit John K would make, is Tartakovsky low on booze money?
Fritz the Cat is also still (re)watchable because apart of it being good for pushing the boundaries back in the 70s, it was not the only thing that was good about it. The movie in general reflects its time and society, edge is just a tool to convey that. Sure, maybe, in time people weren't aware that it reflects anything, and too thought that it's just pure edginess. But I still don't think that the garbage that is getting released nowadays will stand the test through time the same way Fritz the Cat did. It's just some edgy garbage that exists for shock value or for edginess sake. Like with cheap horror that uses jumpscares instead of clever writing and genuine thrill, this thing will likely be forgotten literally the next day it gets released.
Didn't Trey and Matt literally come out as Republicans like 15 years ago?
Fritz the Cat is a representation of post hippie culture and was absolutely hated by R. Crumb. It was the first cartoon to get an X rating. There really isn't anything particularly edgy in it, it's really similar to most counter culture flicks of the late 60s and early 70s. Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat is probably what people think of as being edgy, but even that has social commentary and theming that make it rewatchable.
To think that Spike could have gotten actually violent and awesome anime inside of Adult Party Cartoon, one of the worst things I've ever seen and clearly showed John K was as only good as his writing team l.
Thank you. Ralph Bakshi changed a lot about Fritz adapting the comic and I appreciate it because he took something that started as lazy, edgy commentary and turned into something meaningful. The commentary it does on what we now call SJWs still hits even today.
If Cools World and his later projects didn’t flop or get meddled. Adult Animation would still be treated with respect.
