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Kismet/*NSYNC Trolls Headcanons

While I'm not sure if *NSYNC will ever reappear in the Trolls franchise as their Trolls equivalents, it's certainly not stopping me from thinking up theories of how the band formed and sharing headcanons I have about the characters themselves. I admit I've loosely based my headcanons about the characters based on what I've learnt about the actors themselves, but overall, I've tried to think the characters as original and not simply rip-offs of their actors.

How the band started:

Hype and Branch started as childhood friends, forming their friendship not long after Branch's brothers left the Troll Tree. I imagine they met in preschool/pre-k and/or Grandma Rosiepuff used to babysit for Hype (I give credit to glitterysparklystuffz from Instagram for that idea) and the two youngsters formed a friendship as result.

Sadly, their friendship became strained after Branch lost his grandma and turned grey. Branch stopped singing and became more interested in preparing for a potential Bergen attack, traumatised by the loss of his beloved grandmother and terrified at the thought of the Bergens finding them again. He spent more time preparing for a potential Bergen attack and spent less time with Hype. Fearing that Hype was only friends with him due to his singing abilities and that he would eventually leave him like his brothers did Branch pushed Hype away, leaving himself friendless and alone...until a certain pink princess began making attempts to win him over and to help him find happiness again. Eventually, we know from the True Colours moment of Trolls that it worked.

Eventually after regaining his colours and his confidence to sing again, Branch made amends with Hype, apologising for pushing him away. Hype also apologised for not being there for his friend during his time of need. Despite some rough moments between them, Branch and Hype managed to rekindle their friendship.

Hype introduced Branch to his new adult friends: Ablaze, Boom and Trickee. They immediately bonded over their love of performing and the band Brozone (which Hype knew Branch was formerly apart of). Eventually, the group formed their own band, *Kismet and even made a record. They were not quite as popular as Brozone but they still have a number of committed fans.

Regardless of their success, Branch insisted that they keep his name and face anonymous from the group as he wasn't ready to go public or reveal his boy band past to Poppy and the other trolls. Hype and the rest of the group respected Branch's wishes and agreed to respect his privacy.

Their performance in Trolls Band Together was their first live performance.

Character Profiles:

Hype:

He and Branch are the groups tenors. They're also the youngest members of the group.

He's known for his energy and hyper dance moves. This is the reason he was named Hype. He does the bands choreography.

Though he's considered charming and is very popular with his love-struck fans, Hype is actually very shy when it comes to love and dating. Though he hopes to find love someday, for now he's quite happily single.

He loves critters and has a pet much like the Troll version of a dog.

After his childhood friend, Branch, his favourite member of Brozone is Clay as he admires his dance moves, especially the famous Rusty Robot dance move, later the Well-Oiled robot. He also loves a good joke like Clay secretly still does.

He's pretty easy-going and loyal to his friends. Though he's also pretty sensitive and doesn't like conflict.

When Branch made amends with him, he didn't hesitate to forgive him for pushing him away. He secretly always missed his childhood friend during their years of estrangement, but felt it wasn't wise to invade his personal space as he feared he'd be rejected again.

Ablaze:

Ablaze is the baritone singer of *Kismet.

Ablaze is the loudest and most exuberant member of the group.

He's Boom's best friend and business partner in their fireworks business: Ablaze and Boom's Fantastic Fireworks. He runs the business and customer service side of the operation. Though he has the energy and charisma of a car salesman, he's always as honest as he is charming with customers. He won't give them anything but the best.

An incredibly loyal and supportive friend to Boom, whom he loves like a brother.

Though considered very handsome and charming to a lot of lady trolls, his heart belongs to his long-term girlfriend turned wife. They had an on-off relationship in their teenage years but are now fully committed to each other and are hoping to start a family.

His favourite member of Brozone is Spruce, now Bruce. When he was younger it was because of his status as the Heartthrob, but now in present day he respects him because he's a wonderful father and husband to Brandy. He hopes to get parenting tips from him.

He'll do anything to make others smile, and sometimes laugh.

Boom:

Boom is the bass-baritone singer of *Kismet.

Boom has a close brotherly friendship with Ablaze. Though quieter and more reserved than his best friend, both have a shared love of performing and bringing joy to others.

He's the creative and brainy pyrotechnic for his and Ablaze's fireworks business. He handles fireworks with the care and technical expertise of a mechanic or rocket scientist, yet also has a lot of flair for colour and shape when setting them up.

He's got a good eye for fashion and style. He feels it's the best way to express yourself.

Like Hype, he's a got a great love and respect for critters. I imagine he's a vegetarian or vegan.

In his spare time, he loves starwatching and studying their constellations.

He's rather slow at picking up on jokes and puns (as shown at the end of Trolls Band Together).

Boom's favourite member of Brozone is Floyd because he's so sweet, sensitive yet also so genuine and real. He loves Floyd's new emo hairstyle especially with frosted parts added to his magenta hair (it reminds him a bit of strawberries and cream soft serve ice-cream). Though he also feels bad for the torture Floyd went through that resulted in his hair bleaching and hopes he's doing okay.

Trickee:

Trickee is *Kismet's countenor singer.

Trickee's favourite member of Brozone is John Dory, both because they're the oldest member of their respective singing group and also because they're both considered the more underrated members as well. John Dory's respective googles inspired his own style choice of googles, but he did want to do his own personal spin on them.

He's great with children and often volunteers at the local children's section of the Trolls hospital. He'll often perform for them and does tricks for them like balloon animals. Anything to make them smile.

He has a great flair for hairstyles and fashion. He has a few younger sisters who love him doing their hair and giving them fashion tips.

He works as a hairstylist at Maddy's Hair Salon.

Both he and Boom were responsible for the groups personal style choices. They often worked one-on-one with Satin and Chenielle in making the groups outfits.

I'd love to hear your own *Kismet theories and headcanons. I encourage us all to be respectful to each other's opinions.

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Dragon Ball Super Movie 2: Super Hero (2/5)

This line might just encapsulate the entire movie. "Yeah, sorry, folks. They made me the star of the movie this time, so it probably won't be as good. Why are you all cheering? Did Goku walk by or something?"

Last time, we set up the main villains of the story. Now, it's six months later, and we find Piccolo sparring with Pan near his house. Yeah, Piccolo has a house now. I remember when they revealed the house in an early promotion for the movie, and everyone was nuts about it. Piccolo has a house! What's inside? Look, he has a mailbox! What kind of mail does he get? What a time to be alive.

So Pan is three years old, according to this movie, so I think the idea here is that this is set just before the 25th Budokai and the finale of Dragon Ball Z. So Super Hero represents a turning point for the franchise. Up to now, every story told under the Dragon Ball Super brand has been set during the ten-year-gap between DBZ Episodes 288 and 289. But now we're at the end, which means the next movie, anime, or manga arc has to make a big decision:

A) Set the story after the 25th Budokai, and work around Goku's decision to train Uub at his home village.

B) Ignore the "End of Z" continuity altogether and just keep trucking along like it doesn't matter.

C) Just keep telling stories in the small time interval between Super Hero and the 25th Budokai and hope no one calls attention to it.

D) Jump back to the beginning of the ten-year-gap and tell stories out of chronological order.

I think A or B is the most likely option, since they wouldn't have jumped this far forward in time for Super Hero if they were worried about staying inside the ten-year-gap. I also suspect that they'll try to respect the "End of Z" lore, if only because they've mentioned Uub a few times in the DBS anime, and Uub actually had a cameo appearance in the manga.

But no matter what happens, Things Are Going To Be Very Different. In theory, Toei/Shueisha can do just about anything with the franchise now. They could kill Bulma, or give Majin Buu a whole new transformation. I guess they could try to steer the storyline towards the events depicted in Dragon Ball GT, but I'm pretty sure that ship sailed when they turned the Pilaf Gang into children. The point is that anything is on the table.

But back to the matter at hand. Pan's whole deal now is that she trains with Piccolo at his house every morning, then runs off to attend preschool until 1pm. Piccolo thinks she's showing great promise as a martial artist, even more than Gohan did when Piccolo first trained him, and Gohan was a year older back then. Pan thinks that qualifies her to learn how to shoot energy blasts like Goten and Trunks, but Piccolo says she has to master the fundamentals first, which means Pan has to learn how to fly, among other things.

This is Pan's character arc for the movie. She's not a major player in this story, but she still has an obstacle to overcome, and by the end of the movie, she succeeds. This is a big leap forward from the Pan we saw in GT, who remained static through the entire series. I guess she sort of learned a life lesson in the TV Special, but she was 110 in that story, so I think the implication is that GT Pan was a bossy twerp for a full century, which isn't exactly satisfying.

The weird thing is that we saw Pan fly all the time when she was a baby. In the DBS anime Baby Pan flew out into space, and she'd float around the house and such. I guess she forgot how to do it, or it got harder as she grew up and gained some weight.

Pan asks if it's true that her dad (Gohan) could be even stronger than her grandfather (Goku) if he tried. Piccolo says that used to be true but he isn't so sure anymore. Pan says she's never seen Gohan in action, and Piccolo explains that he hasn't had to fight, but if the need arises, Gohan will fight when necessary. Then he sends her off to preschool. A short time later, he gets a phone call from Pan's mom, Videl.

Okay, so let's unpack all of this. Piccolo has a cell phone, but he just leaves it in his house while he's training outside, because his Namekian hearing can pick up the ringtone from hundreds of yards away. Also, he holds it like a weirdo, dangling it from his fingers like he found it at a crime scene. Also, the case looks like a cartoon character. This is Penenko, an in-world fictional character that seems to be very popular. Its like a cross between a penguin and a cat, and it has a green tie like Yogi Bear, which I think is a classy touch.

As for Videl, she needs Piccolo to swing by the preschool this afternoon to pick up Pan. This is because Videl teaches a combat sports class, and they're having a tournament today, so she can't make it. As for Gohan, he's too busy working on a scientific presentation, and he hasn't come out of his study in days. Piccolo is annoyed with this, but he agrees to pick Pan up. Videl offers to buy him lunch, but he reminds her he doesn't eat food, so Videl considers buying him a Penenko plushie instead. Piccolo doesn't want one, though, because he already has a pile of them in his house. Presumably those plushies represent a whole bunch of past favors he's done for Gohan and Videl.

Okay, more importantly, let's talk about Videl. This is her only appearance in the movie, save for a still image in the closing credits where she comes home to find the house has been damaged. Still, this conversation tells us a lot about what Videl's been doing ever since she and Gohan got out of school. She's teaching a "combat sports class". This makes sense to me, as she must have given up the vigilante work around the time she was pregnant with Pan. But teaching students how to fight would be easier for her, since she could set her own schedule and arrange for the students to train independently when she's not available. It's the perfect career for the new mom with a talent for whippin' ass.

The thing is, Videl's not just any martial artist. She knows basic ki techniques, but besides that, she's the daughter of a world famous celebrity buttkicker, and she earned a reputation of her own as a crimefighter. So this can't just be any old "combat sports" class. I mean, they're participating in a tournament for goodness sakes.

So this is my Videl headcanon: She's teaching people to fight crime. And not just any crime, but the rocket-launcher-weilding maniacs she used to fight when she was in high school. Videl stepped away from that life to focus on her family, but she's still got one foot in that world. It started as a self-defense class for women, and then she decided she could show them more advanced techniques, until eventually she had a cool stable of badasses.

The tournament she's talking about isn't some fun little romp, although to her it would be, and it's barely beneath Piccolo's notice. But to everyone else, it's some kind of hardcore mixed-martial-arts event. Videl brings her students in and they're all wearing kick-ass uniforms to represent their school. What kind of uniforms? Here's a hint:

GTH. That's the name of Videl's dojo. The Go To Hell Combat Club, so-named because you have to go to hell to learn the combat style of Mr. Satan's daughter. Imagine going to some indy wrestling show and instead of wrestlers out comes a bunch of MMA guys all dressed like Pan from this movie. It probably looks cooler on grown adults, which is why Pan likes to wear it.

So what's Videl wearing when she leads her squad to the competition? Oh, we already know the answer to that question, because we saw her return home from the tournament.

I mean, it makes so much sense when you think about it. remember, we saw Videl wearing regular clothes when she called Piccolo. She must have changed into her Battle of Gods red-devil dress specifically for the tournament. She might have a different outfit for fighting, but this is what she wears when she's in the corner for her students. She's like a sexy ECW manager, which explains the red leather dress, black tights and white go-go boots. She's so over-the-top with this thing that it makes the Great Saiyawoman outfit look dull by comparison, because she's trying to get over this image of smash-mouth combat supremacy. It's the same reason Mr. Satan wears the cape.

This is a weird tangent, I know, but for so many years I've heard fans lament the way Videl was depicted in Dragon Ball Super, and they're absolutely right, but I'm a "yes and" kind of guy when it comes to this stuff. There's nothing wrong with having Videl be a housewife as long as it doesn't preclude some other, cooler lore from happening off-screen. And Super Hero seems to be holding out an olive branch to the fans. Yes, Videl has a life outside the home. She teaches martial arts, so she clearly hasn't given up fighting altogether. How and how much she fights is left to the viewers imagination, and I can imagine a lot.

Anyway, I need to commission some art of the GTH school looking cool. Videl's in the center of the group with a riding crop or something. Gohan's in the background with a snack tray. He made Chex Mix for the whole class because he's a sweetie.

Back to business, Piccolo decides to head for Gohan's house and confront him over this. He knows Gohan won't answer the door, so he just flies to the window of his study and scrapes the glass with his fingernail to get his attention. This fucking rules.

Gohan's working on a study of a newly discovered ant species that glows yellow when threatened, like a Super Saiyan. Piccolo isn't even a little impressed, but he agrees to pick Pan up from preschool anyway. He asks why Gohan never trains anymore, and Gohan gives the stock answer about how nothing bad will happen, and even if it does, Goku and Vegeta will surely deal with it. I mean, that is what happened in the last movie, but they cut it pretty close in Resurrection F. Piccolo uses his clothes-altering powers to make Gohan wear his old training outfit, but that's about all he does.

I don't really understand this constant back-and-forth about whether or not Gohan trains enough in DBS. Obviously, Gohan let himself go in Res F, and then Gohan asked Piccolo to train him again to get him back in fighting shape. Then they made it look like he'd slacked off again leading up to the Tournament of Power, except he did really, really well in that arc. And now it's like he's slacking off a third time.

I mean, there's time for that. We're talking about a five or six year period here. It just seems odd to me that no one mentions we've been through this cycle before. I think the disconnect is that Gohan trains, just not often enough to satisfy the likes of Piccolo or Vegeta. He'll stop training for months or years at a time, so that he can concentrate on his biology career, and then he whips himself into shape when he has the time. This movie pretty much confirms that pattern, but each time it comes up, the characters always act like we haven't been here before.

Gohan offers him another Penenko plushie as thanks for picking up Pan, and Piccolo insists that he never liked them. I think it is very likely that Gohan and Videl do this to him on purpose. I mean, Videl knew this tournament was coming up, and she could have made other arrangements, but this way Piccolo feels obligated to be involved with their family. If they just invited him over to things, he'd probably decline, but this way he feels like they need him and he can act all put-upon, but he still gets to spend more time with Pan and such. Also they might be trying to fix Piccolo up with Pan's teacher, but we'll get to that later.

So now Piccolo just has to get in as much training as he can until 1pm, right? Wrong, because as soon as he sits down to meditate, some new guy shows up and attacks him. He refuses to identify himself, but the Red Ribbon pack on his uniform pretty much gives it away. Plus, this guy has no ki signature, so he must be an android or cyborg like Gero's creations.

So they fight, and it doesn't go well for Piccolo. At one point he asks why he can see words appear whenever he gets his. I thought this was a cute fourth-wall-breaking joke, but in fact this new guy has a holographic projector that makes the comic book sound effects appear behind him.

The mysterious attacker only refers to himself as a super hero, and after he blows up the butte Piccolo is on, he flies back to his base, thinking Piccolo is vaporized. But Piccolo escaped unseen, and he decides to trail this guy and find out who he's working for.

This leads Piccolo to a secret base inside what I believe is a crater. It looks like the crater is full of lakewater, but it's actually a holographic illusion. Piccolo finds a goon in his size and swipes his uniform.

Inside, he finds the bad guy command center, where the new android reports to Magenta and Hedo. Piccolo learns that his name is Gamma, and there's actually two of them. Hedo already watched Gamma 2's attack on Piccolo via a remote feed from 2's eyes, and his only feedback is that 2 should have done a cool pose after killing Piccolo. Gamma 1 is more concerned that Piccolo might have survived because 2 was too sloppy to check for a body.

Sure enough, 1 reviews the footage and discovers evidence that Piccolo escaped. And since Magenta insisted that the Gamma's wear RR patches on their costumes, there's a real risk that Gamma 2 tipped their hand to the enemy. Gamma 2 isn't worried, though, because he still overpowered Piccolo, and the end goal is to defeat Dragon Team, so if this escalates the conflict, then so much the better.

And that pretty much sums up the Gammas' characters. They both play the superhero role they were designed to resemble, but 1 is more cautious and responsible, while 2 is more carefree and funloving. Earlier in the film, we see pictures of Hedo at some sort of autograph signing, and there's a character who looks almost exactly like the Gammas there, so I assume he designed his androids to look just like that character. Hedo doesn't seem too concerned with originality.

Carmine agrees with Gamma 1's concern. Their enemies have the combined power of Goku, Vegeta and Majin Buu, not to mention Mr. Satan. Apparently, the Red Ribbon Army still isn't clear on how powerful he is. If they find out about the Red Ribbon too soon, it could jeopardize everything, no matter how powerful the Gammas might be.

Hedo disagrees. Once he collects enough combat data from 1 and 2, he can simply upgrade them and create even more Gammas until they have enough power to tip the scales.

Apparently, Hedo doesn't think it would take very long to get more Gamma's manufactured, which is why they have these two booths already set up. This makes me wonder if Gamma 3 and 4 are already in there, just waiting for Hedo to activate them.

As for Magenta, all he wants to talk about is Hedo's other project-- Cell Max. This leads to a heated discussion over the value of the project.

Basically, Magenta considers Cell to be Gero's greatest creation, and while the RPC has Gero's notes on how to make Cell, they were too complex for anyone to reproduce the experiement. This isn't much of a surprise, since Gero never finished Cell the first time. When Gero learned that it would take decades to complete the work, he turned it over to his computer and moved on to working on his other plans. That computer never finished, because Krillin and Trunks destroyed it and the embryonic Cell back in DBZ Episode 145. However Magenta got the data on Cell, it must have been sent to him before then, but it would have only represented the earliest stages of the project. No wonder his own scientists couldn't get very far with it.

The only reason Magenta even considers it worth pursuing is because a completed Cell showed up to menace the world. Magenta thinks that Gero must have pulled it off somehow. What he doesn't know is that this Cell came from an alternate future where Gero's computer had time to complete the project. So Magenta knows what the finished Cell is capable of, but he doesn't have a complete recipe to make a new one.

But Dr. Hedo is even smarter than Gero, which is why Magneta hired him. The Gammas are fine machines and all, but what Magenta was really hoping for was that Hedo could take the notes on Cell and figure out how to build a new and improved model. And to his credit, Hedo was able to do that, but not completely. He created Cell Max's body and made him far more powerful than the original Cell, but he's still not done because his brain takes a long time to develop. I don't know if this is like a programming thing or Cell Max needs time for his brain matter to grow complex enough to support his mission.

At any rate, Magenta just wants to turn Cell Max loose right now, because he's so high on the prospect of unleashing such a powerful weapon. But Hedo warns him that they won't be able to control Cell Max the way he is now. If they activate him now, Cell Max might easily run wild and destroy the world, which defeats the purpose of using him in the first place.

Hedo's argument is that they don't even need Cell Max, so instead of wasting time on him, they should focus on the Gammas, who are more than powerful enough to carry out Magenta's plans. They can defeat Dragon Team, then the rest of the world will fall to the Red Ribbon Army, and then Magenta can reveal Cell Max to show off his power to the world. Magneta seems to buy into that idea, at least for now.

The thing is, we really don't know how long it would take for Hedo to finish Cell Max. It took Gero's computer decades to finish the original Cell, so maybe most of that time was spent developing his brain, and yet that Cell never did follow his programming completely. So maybe Cell Max would be uncontrollable too, no matter how much Hedo tinkered with him.

Then again, Hedo built the Gammas in just six months, so he's demonstrably smarter than Gero ever was. It's possible that he could finish Cell Max's brain in a matter of weeks and make him fully obedient. He just doesn't want to spend the time because it's busy work and Max doesn't look like a super hero, so he's not very motivated to complete the project. It kind of makes you wonder what Hedo could have accomplished if he'd given it his full attention.

Needless to say, all of this freaks Piccolo out, so he excuses himself and finds a quiet spot to make a phone call to Bulma. She tells him Vegeta has been away for three weeks now, training on Beerus' planet. And Goku went along with him, so they're both unavailable. Piccolo asks her if she can use that device Whis gave her to call him, and she says she'll see if she can reach them that way.

I just want to pause here to admire Bulma's yellow jumpsuit. This is definitely one of her hottest looks, perhaps because it's so workmanlike and unsexy. She just makes it look cool because she's Bulma. She just got done welding a quantum computer to a ham radio or something.

In the meantime, Piccolo leaves the RR base to go to Korin's Tower and get some senzu beans. He's still in the mindset that Goku and Vegeta will be the ones to take care of things, but he has to do as much as he can in the meantime to improve their chances.

As he flies through the holographic lake, we get a nice exterior shot of the base. So yeah, it does look like a couple of craters, although I'm not sure what the use was in disguising the inside when you can see all this stuff built up around the outside. I guess they have some sort of phony mining operation set up if anyone snoops around.

And that'll about do it for now. I've still got a couple of image spots for this post, so let's show off the photos on Gohan's desk. Pretty cool.

And here's a cool shot of Cell, since he came up in conversation.

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Warner Bros has now announced a lot of new revivals and reboots now.

First are two more Adventure Time series. "“Side Quests” takes the franchise back to a kid’s show, marking a return to early days with kid Finn and best buddy Jake fighting monsters on epic quests in an episodic series, eschewing the long story arcs of later “Adventure Times.” “Side Quests” looks set in the same world as the early original repeating characters such as villain The Ice King. Nate Cash, a creative (2012-13) and then supervising director (Season 5) on “Adventure Time,” figures as the series creator."

And Heyo BMO which is "The first-ever “Adventure Time” pre-school series. “In the fantastical Land of Ooo, the little robot BMO is on a new adventure. Now settled in a new neighborhood with new friends, BMO approaches each challenge he faces with his unique brand of enthusiasm and curiosity in a quest to learn and fill his database,” the description runs. Adam Muto, “Adventure Time” showrunner from mid-Season 5, returns as the main creative talent alongside Ashlyn Anstee, a storyboard artist on “Distant Lands.”"

Next is an Adventure Time movie (after several years of rumors) with Rebecca Sugar and Patrick McHale helming it.

Regular Show will have a new series with JG Quintel returning to run it and featuring new characters with some characters from the original series, though it's unknown if Mordecai and Rigby will be involved this time.

The Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends revival is called Foster’s Funtime for Imaginary Friends. Aimed at preschoolers, "a now-young group of preschool imaginary friends learns from an immature elder friend, Bloo, who, as in the original, still unintentionally gets things wrong. McCracken has promised the same fast pace but a fun, simpler structure and less cynical humor. Only Bloo and Madame Foster return."

And a new Scooby Doo series called Go Go Mystery Machine. "“While visiting Japan on the ultimate foodie adventure, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo unwittingly unleash hundreds of mischievous mythical monsters that are now causing trouble all over the country,” the description runs.  Scooby turns to his uncle, Daisuke-Doo, and magical friend Etsuko and gadget wiz Toshiro to help solve the mystery and catch the monsters. "

Thoughts on the news of all these new reboots and revivals?

Source here: https://variety.com/2024/tv/global/regular-show-fosters-adventure-time-scooby-doo-1236034978/

Okay next time just link the article, but yeah there's a LOT in this to unpack and i'm thankful to know all this happened. Starting with the Adventure Time Pile, while these were likely already in the works on some level I wouldn't be suprised if they were waiting to see if Fionna and Cake was a success before announcing them. And honestly.. i'm all for them.

Side Quests sounds like a fun idea, a way to introduce new viewers to Finn and Jake and get them invested in the old series, while giving fans a nostaligia hit, as well as giving kids who may not be ready for Fionna and Cake yet a show. I do hope this means younger than where we started with adventure time as it'd be intresting to see some of the cast in a diffrent place in their lives, but I suspect it'll be likely set during season 1 or 2. Either way not a bad idea, could be nothing, could be a lot of fun. A way to have more finn and jake without undermining what they've built.

BMO's show sounds like a lot of fun and i'm glad to see after all the other preschool cancelations Warner's stillt rying in that regard. Probably not something i'll watch but a good idea regardless.

Finally the movie. HOLY SHIT i'm so pumped for this. The other two projects have my intrest, this one has my attention. Bringing back Rebecca for a full movie that may likely answer what the fuck happened to jake (I doubt it but I can dream can't I?), and finally follows up on the heroes themselves directly, I can't wait.

Fosters Funtime: While I do hope Frankie and Herriman show up eventually, I do love this concept and the teaser animation. It looks really creative and loose and the idea of having Bloo be the deliberate bad exmaple in a pre school show is genius. This one I may check out.

Regular Show 2: Regular Harder: THis one... was a bit of a relief as I figured something like this was in the works as JG Quintel was WAY too fucking calm after what Warner did to Close Enough. So my guess was he had something in the works with warner and thus couldn't speak out like the many other creators who got screwed over. I wouldn't of put it past warner to try and revive regular show without him.

This won't fill the hole in my heart that close enough left.. but it'll help and I like that it sounds like a soft reboot: Mordecai and Rigby are probably gone outside of eithe ra supporting role for Rigbone or a guest spot down the way, but it'll likely take place at the park and follow the next generation of park workers, along with Benson and Skips. It'd be intresting to see what the gen z version of park slackers would be like, and ther'es plenty of room to have other characters intersect. I also hope they give CJ actual closure. That last part's a pipe dream but I can hope can't I?

Go-Go Mystery Machine!: This one i'm fucking HYPED for. It's the first children's scooby doo show in a while since the pre school show got scraped and given I've struggled to get through any of velma and the netflix show is probably a ways away, this sounds like a fun format break: an anime take on 13 ghost that still feels unqiue and fresh and gets into japanese mythology, somewhere Scooby Doo really hasn't gone. Pumped for this

Lovey Dovey: Not a reboot.. but still sounds like a LOT of fun: a lovesick wedding dove trying to find his true love ends up with a crowd of pidgeons who want to fuck a big bird stand in. It's goofy, looks nicely looney tunes, and seems like a great concept.

All in all not a bad crop. I'm not a fan of Warner's reliance on IP.. but it's good projects all around.

[animesavior]

“About earlier, I'm sorry. Back when I shut down your ideas about love, my father didn't...well, he never approved of how I lived my life. And when your opinions are continuously shunned and ignored, it makes it hard to accept the opinions of others. In order to defend your position, you assert your legitimacy by rejecting what other people have to say. But you're not concerned about winning approval [Akira]. You just say whatever comes to your mind. I guess that made me a little jealous, and the old me slipped out for a bit. The truth is, I'm just bad at romance. I'm afraid of getting hurt. Which is probably why I put up a front and acted like work was more important.  [...] If one day, I do find myself falling in love, I can only hope that it's with someone I can be this open with.” -          Shizuka Mikazuki, Zom 100 (Ep. 08)

The Toonami Trending Rundown for June 8-9, 2024. Some fun times this week, as Beatrix joins the crew in Zom 100 as they go out for sushi and a hot spring visit, while Lex Luthor leads the charge in calling for Superman’s denouncement, and Sabo substitutes in for Luffy in trying to secure the Flame Flame fruit in One Piece, among other great moments.

In terms of trends, Toonami trended in the USA alongside My Adventures with Superman and Zom 100. In addition, Android 18 interestingly enough trended during the night. The reason? Check out the next episode preview for My Adventures with Superman, and you can probably see why fans have compared the show’s newest character Kara to DBZ’s Android 18.

No trends were spotted during Week 2 of Toonami Rewind on Friday, which probably wasn’t helped that Summer Game Fest (considered to be the successor to the now defunct E3) was going on at the same time.

This week’s feature was a new ID indent titled Rubiks Cube, as TOM and SARA try to solve a Rubiks Cube. You can check it out below.

Speaking of Summer Game Fest, Toei Animation and Bandai Namco released a new trailer for the upcoming video game, Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero. The newest game to the Dragon Ball franchise, it will be available for fans to play on Steam, the PS5, and the Xbox Series X/S this upcoming October 11, 2024.

Dragon Ball will be once again featured in San Diego Comic-Con this July, as Toei will once again have a booth in the convention center halls during the event on July 25-28, in addition to an outside booth at the Marriott Marquis next door for non-badge holders. I’ll be covering SDCC for Toonami Squad once again, so be sure to follow @AnimeSavior and @ToonamiSquad on Twitter and Bluesky for any news that will be coming about during the con.

This week, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival is taking place in France, and among the awards and presentations, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim have announced several new and continuing original productions. Of interest for Toonami viewers, Adult Swim has greenlit production on a third season of My Adventures with Superman. Among some of the other productions from Cartoon Network include an animated adaptation series of Get Jiro!, a graphic novel penned by the late Anthony Bourdain and Super Mutant Magic Academy, a new Adult Swim original series created by J.G. Quintel (of Regular Show fame) and Jillian Tamaki, the creator of the franchise’s original comics. The Adventure Time franchise will also see three different animation productions, including a movie; Adventure Time: Side Quests, which will feature stand-alone episodes in Finn and Jake’s adventures; and Adventure Time: Heyo BMO, a preschool series starring BMO.

Toonami creator Jason DeMarco is also at Annecy this week to promote the new Lord of the Rings anime film, titled The War of Rohirrim. Directed by Kenji Kamiyama, produced by Joseph Chou and Jason DeMarco, and animated by Sola Entertainment; the anime film will also feature the talents of Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, as executive producers. "The Lord of the Rings: The War of Rohirrim" opens in theaters on December 13, 2024.

Hera and Wulf, respectively, from The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. Photos from Warner Bros. Pictures via Entertainment Weekly.)

Unfortunate news in the anime industry this week, as Gainax, known for giving us the Evangelion, Gurren Lagann, and FLCL franchises, alongside other classics including His and Her Circumstances, Nadia, Gunbuster, has filed for bankruptcy after 40 years in existence. Studio Khara, Evangelion creator Hideki Anno’s newest animation studio, will assist in foreseeing Gainax’s liquidation, including transferring or selling the rights of all their remaining properties. While Gainax will be missed among the anime community, its legacy will certainly live on through its successor companies and veteran animators, including the likes of Studio Khara, Studio Trigger, and Production I.G.

Not much else to say other than see you again next time for another round of the better cartoon show. Later.

Legend: The shows listed are ordered based on their appearance on the schedule. Show trends are listed in bold. The number next to the listed trend represents the highest it trended on the list (not counting the promoted trend), judging only by the images placed in the rundown. For the Twitter tweet counts, the listed number of tweets are also sorely based on the highest number shown based on the images on the rundown.

United States Trends:

#Toonami [Trended with #Zom100]

#MyAdventuresWithSuperman [Trended with #Zom100]

#Zom100 [#8]

Android 18 [#18]

Tweet Counts:

Android 18 [1,575 tweets]

If you wish to send me a tip for the work on the trending rundown, donations can be sent to PayPal.Me/DanielLimjoco.

“Does that mean…you…” Only Toonami on [adult swim] on Cartoon Network.

[chimuet-isbell]

I love the direction the Amanda the adventurer series seem to be going for, or I least what I personally see with the inclusion of the possum, I don't know why I haven't seen anyone mention this (maybe it's too obvious lol) but his role seems clearly inspired after Swiper from the original Dora series, basically what Woolley is to Amanda what Boots is to Dora. This makes the pattern for the future of the series more clear basically hinting that each game will focus on the relationship of Amanda with the character trope on duty for her to somehow manage to get rid of in a brutal way, characters tropes that are common in this preschool series, first was the best friend sidekick now is the antagonist that always show ups out of nowhere to cause trouble. This has so much potential for possible characters tropes to be explored and twisted, imagine who could be next is really fun, maybe the teacher character? Maybe the group of side characters friends that are always a small group, maybe even the obligatory parent character! This last one could get very crazy, honestly with this much potential and possibilities I am relieved that I can finally guess what could possibly be next for this franchise because before when we only had the first game I couldn't think on anything they could possibly do next when it came about the in universe show itself, (maybe is my personal lack of creativity but I hope not to be the only one in this) it was later with the demo of Amanda the Adventurer 2 came out when I take a closer look at how the first game ended...

I didn't appreciated it before but the second to last episode about "the surgery on Woolley's head" is the climax and the moment the series makes a point of no return with the most explicit scene yet in which Amanda finally gets rid of the sheep that kept getting in her way permanently, and oh seeing how this is highlighted in the second's game logo and how it changed to a similar one to the logo seen in the last tape of the first game where Woolley basically erased we now know this is permanent and important. It was pretty clever since what happened in that episode wasn't anything extraordinary nor anything we aren't used to with the tone of the rest of the tapes or other games in the genre but in an in universe perspective is such a big deal that will stay with big consequences for the future and I'm excited to see what will be the consequences everytime the show progresses.

My only complain is that I'm not 100% satisfied with the "twist" they go for them equivalent of Swiper making him just a realistic looking model of an animal that doesn't talk or seems to have a personality, it was the most easy and safe path they could possibly go for since I expressed it before this idea has the potential for so much more as a whole but to be completely honest at the end is more of a personal preference and I'm more mad at the fact it wasn't exactly what I would've wanted

[pixeljade]

Man. Looking at the state of the TV animation industry these days sends me into an irrational rage as someone who grew up in the 90s and 00s.

I mean that was an era with two stations dedicated almost entirely to animation (Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network), 3 if you include Toon Disney later on, not to mention original animated blocks on WB, ABC, ABC Family, Fox, and Disney proper; plus you had several preschool stations too. Both Nick and CN had systems where they created small shorts which could turn into bigger series and *put them on the air so viewers could help decide*! Add onto this that you had the massive boom of experimentation brought on by the development of digital animation tools, AND the fact that Anime was being imported all over the place, injecting new ideas into animation, AND you had Adult Swim creating the first dedicated adult animation block...there were COUNTLESS series which are still impacting the zeitgeist today! Even the series which got canceled early became cultural icons, Invader Zim basically built an entire subculture! Animation was EVERYWHERE, and it was new and different every fucking year!

Now TV animation is basically a wasteland. Most animators are saying nothing is getting picked up unless its a reboot or a sequel or a tie-in (even Craig McCracken said his new shows werent getting picked up iirc), and animation studios are shuttered left and right. Even the shows I loved most from this year, Fionna and Cake and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, were rehashes of previous franchises. Even great shows from the horribly short streaming boom are getting deleted unceremoniously from existence! I want to beat David Zalsav to death with my bare fists for what he's done, but he's hardly the only fuckstick CEO who's decided animation 'isnt worth it'. Even Disney feels less and less focused around animation every year, shoveling more franchise slop into our mouths, and cancelling great shows because they're even a little gay. Netflix is still making SOME stuff, but its hard to get excited when its probably not gonna get more than an incredibly short season or two. There's also indie projects here and there, but those are still slow to produce because there's no studio backing most of it.

Idk. Its just extremely upsetting to think that I saw what was probably the peak of the animated industry (at least, for now) come and go. And now so many folks I know and love who went to school for this will be stuck churning out more Spongebob content and never get their own ideas picked up. I do support the indie works to the best of my ability, because I do think that whether you like Hazbin or TADC or not, they're at least healthier for the animation ecosystem than Corporate-Approved Animated Program #201836, BUT i am not exactly missus moneybags over here. Idk. I just miss the old days I guess.

[745voiceofthepeople]

Zuko: That’s cute. But this isn’t air temple preschool. It’s the real world.

Aang: Why? Because you still believe you can end this war with your sense of honor intact? Vengeance in not Justice.

Zuko: I do, Guru goody goody…

Aang: Stand in the ashes of thousands of dead souls, and ask the ghost if honor matters?

Zuko: …

Aang: The silence is your answer

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Aang and Javik are beloved characters in their respective franchises. They are both amazingly awesome and some of my favorite characters (though Azula/Katara and Garrus/Thane take the #I spot respectively).

No one can deny however that they both had…different reactions about the genocides of their people, and differing ideas of vengeance and Justice. Though to be fair, Aangs people were a race of peaceful monks, while Javiks were imperialist space bugs so…yeah

[purplelea]

did anybody give you the obligatory twewy ask yet?

THANK YOU!!! Nope, the only two asks I got were from my kh mutuals, so they didn't ask me that XD

ANYWAY. LET THE FUN BEGIN

Blorbo

Neku 100%. CALL ME BASIC ALL YOU WANT, BUT NEKU FUCKING RULES OKAY?? He's everything to me. He's just a guy. He got shot thrice. He's a fashion disaster. He tried to kill the person who is now his best friend. He's a mom friend. He's so powerful he can one-shot Minamimoto. He's a walking stick. He's friends with the local divine being. I love him.

Neku "best character development ever seen in a video game" Sakuraba. Also he's a bi icon.

Scrunkly

SHIKIIIII

She's. sooooo shaped. The girl ever. Almost gets killed and then goes "whoops my bad it was my fault anyway hehe". Her self-esteem is lower than the Mariana Trench. She's so obsessed with details and clothing that she forces a guy she met 4 days before to strip in the middle of the street. Her stuffed cat will make you eat your words if you talk shit about her. Scolds Neku like a preschool student when he tries to fight the final boss without her and Beat. Calls him a chicken when he runs away too much from fights. Absolute Queen.

and... BEAT!!!

I had to put my boy somewhere. And he's so shaped too so. That works. Fun fact: He's actually the most consistent character alongside Kariya and Uzuki in the twewy franchise. These three really go together, I love them. ANYWAY. I love Beat. If you don't, get out of my house. In this blog we love and support Daisukenojo "Beat" Bito, proud owner of zero (0) braincells because he gave them all to his sister when she was born, and of a heart of pure gold. And a really cool skateboard. Never forget the skateboard.

Beat is just the sweetest guy ever. He also gives the best hugs and that's a canon fact because I said so.

Scrimblo bimbo

SHUTO DAN, AKA SHOOTER, THE BEST SLAMMURAI IN TOWN (DUH DUH DUUUUUH)

Also called "the tin pin guy" by anyone who doesn't even remember his nickname. The number of people who actually know his real name could be counted in one hand I think. Anyway! I love him!! He's so cool!!! He's just there and he wants to play Beyblade with everyone!! He's 10 years old and he can't draw to save his life! He's super dedicated and always looking to improve! He's also a really good and fair player and accepts his defeat without contesting it- which is something super important and really cool to see especially considering his young age.

Glup Shitto

ERI. THE FASHION QUEEN. Do you guys have ANY IDEA how MAD I am because we didn't see her in neo??? "It was to avoid spoilers about Shiki in the first gam-" FUCK YOU. GIVE ME THE GIRL. She's so great. We saw her for like 5 dialogues in the og, 4 scenes in the anime but I will never ever stop talking about her. She envied Shiki just as much as Shiki envied her. She loves Shiki just as much as Shiki loves her. She met Shiki and saw her as the most talented girl she ever met. And then Shiki died, and Eri was ready to give up on her dream because it didn't have any sense now that Shiki was gone. She went to put flowers on Shiki's grave everyday because she didn't want her best friend to be lonely. She probably pushed Shiki to make Mr Mew the face of their brand- and it worked! The bestie ever.

Poor little meow meow

Haha. This is the tricky question. Previous ones were easy to guess, but this one? Man how alone I feel in this fandom... AS A HAZUKI STAN >< yep. Hazuki Mikagi, a well known mass murderer, famous for wearing crocs and for his excessive use of the word "friend" as punctuation in too many sentences and with people that are absolutely not his friend. People hate him for killing people, which, in all honesty, is absolutely fair and understandable, but I love him for his character development. "What character development are you fucking talking about Léa" well dear reader, may I offer you this link that will take you to my little character study of my favourite mass murderer so you may understand more what I meant. Enjoy~

Horse Plinko

Here I will put Joshua, because it's always fun to torture Joshua (the whole fandom can agree on this) and also because I've always been too nice with him in my fics (with one exception hehehe) So yeah. Get in the plinko twink <3

Eeby Deeby

I actually can't remember who I meant to put in here. I think he was a Player? No, a Reaper... Urg, why can't I remember? Oh well, I'm pretty sure you see who I mean.

Ask game: give me any fandom!

[doodlebugreturns]

I think it wouldn't be too bad of an idea for Nintendo to make a preschool cartoon with the Mario franchise. Basically Mickey Mouse Clubhouse but with Mario.

(Although, I would much rather for the Super Mario Bros. Super Show to be rebooted, better than ever.)

[motivationamit]

#makarsankranti #bragnam #businessopportunityseeker #playschoolactivities #playschoolfranchise #newbusiness #lowinvestmentbusiness #startyourschool #howtostartaplayschool #Preschoolfranchise #abacusforkids #abacusfranchise #kindergartenfranchise #startabusiness

[zaradrawsyourmom]

Why Kids’ Shows Have Become Terrible Over The Years

An essay by Zara  

I remember watching Disney Junior on late school nights. The commercials, the theme songs that get stuck in your head…yep, I was obsessed. But lately, like all the reviews, say children’s shows have fallen from grace- like, ALL the way down. Most TV kid's shows have become unoriginal, and most don’t even teach children anything. Lots of money has been lost by many companies trying to feature programs that the “kids are into these days-“and for good reason. Three good reasons, to be exact: which we’ll go over right now.

Part One: Repetitive Programming

As I covered in the introduction paragraph, kids' TV ratings and stocks (??) have been going down a lot. One of the reasons why is because they’re so BORING. So, you might’ve heard that a lot of reboots have been popping up in the last few years (I’m looking at YOU, Disney). And most of these shows have been marketed toward children in the form of shows and movies. For example, back in like 2010, there was a line of dolls called Monster High. They had their own Youtube series and everything. Around 2016, the company making this franchise decided to discontinue the Monster High line and look for other ways to make money. And while I was switching through the TV channels, guess what I found? So, the company making Monster High decided, 6 YEARS later, to make a live-action Monster High reboot. They COMPLETELY changed the main cast of characters to make them look more “modern”. And let me just say, they FAILED. MISERABLY. Search them up for yourselves. Need I say more? Every character’s original aesthetic, personality, and story arc are THROWN out the window like nothing. I hope Nickelodeon is happy. Just NEUTERED. And it’s not only brands like these getting remade and rebooted. Carmen Sandiego, Blue’s Clues, The Powerpuff Girls…the list goes on and on and on. And since more shows keep getting rebooted, the quality of these shows keeps declining. The ideas and storytelling are so unoriginal. I could easily come up with a tv show plot in like 1 hour (I could try). For example, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. This show was a big success for PBS back in the 2010s, but the thing is it also happens to be a reboot! It is very rare for a reboot to be successful.  But it’s not exactly teaching kids the right things.

Part Two: Lies

Ok, before I start to say anything, Daniel Tiger and the company that owns it have not done anything wrong (that I know of). So, what have they done wrong, you ask? Well, it’s most likely what they are broadcasting to children. In the show, there’s never anything going wrong. It’s all peaceful and cheery. In one of the episodes, Daniel Tiger and his friends are at school (it looked like a preschool, but I believe Daniel is over the age of 4-5, so it’s probably a kindergarten). The episode in question was tackling having control over their feelings. My main problem with episodes like these is that there are never any examples of strong emotions. In most of the episodes, they sing a little song that has the life lesson of the main episode in mind. The song in this episode indicates that it’s not ok to hurt someone just because you’re angry. My main problem with this is that it would be most likely that a child wouldn’t know that. And for some reason, every time characters are arguing they never hurt each other in any way, with usually the teacher dissolving the fight or the characters stopping themselves before inflicting pain onto the fellow student. This is what is messed up because this is not how the world works. They are teaching the children at home that nothing bad will ever happen to them, they will always have friends to support them, and that everyone will be friendly with them. I understand that these are young children and one of the most well-known shows on kids' television can’t just straight-up show violence, but do you think it would be better if the kids found out themselves? Shows like these need to show what the real world is like and show children the hard truth of society, because it is SO much different from the real world. I don’t want children watching some show where everything is a happy-go-lucky paradise and thinking this is how the world works. I have a little brother that watches this show. I’m worried that he might think this is what reality is like and learn the hard way. I’m tired of kids’ shows dumbing down real-life problems. It is going to make the kids at home think it’s not that big of a deal. And there might also be kids with disorders(like ADHD and autism) that make them think that there could be something wrong with them. At first, this might not be much of a problem (unless your kid is a die-hard Paw Patrol fan) but when you start to look a little closer, you will notice some creepy details. Have you ever noticed that in kids’ shows some conflicts and problems would take half a second to solve in the real world? Is there a reason for all these problems being solved by the heroes (they are usually kids) so quickly? No, seriously; is there THAT MUCH of a deal if your clothes don’t fit or your friend won't share the bouncy ball with you? I suspect that there is something else going on beneath the surface, but that is a conspiracy for another day. Let us move on to the next reason.

Part Three: Hungry For Relevance

To me, it always seems that companies are looking for “the hottest trends”. They are always trying to be unique within their programming or collaborating with studios to make it seem special. This rarely works. What makes something special doesn’t have to be big, shiny, or extraordinary (you’ve heard something like that in every Christmas special EVER, but no matter). Case in point: Sprout (aka Universal Kids). I used to love watching Sprout when I was around 4 or 5, more than Disney Junior. They had so many cool ideas to spice up their programming. I loved the natural feel they gave their shows, nothing forced or too extra. You could call their production studios and they would feature your child’s birthday on TV on your child’s special day. That is what I call COMMITMENT! And even if you didn’t get your name called out you could still look forward to your favorite shows! The Goodnight Show is a name that will live on in kids' tv history. Sprout is truly a fantastic tv channel. Or…at least it was a fantastic tv channel. Back in 2017, they got bought out by NBCUniversal (hence the name Universal Kids) and they changed EVERYTHING. They completely ruined the natural vibe that Sprout was going for. They added spinoff no-one's-ever-heard-of Dreamworks shows, the cookie-cutout main character shows, and worst of all, Cocomelon (in case you have been living under Dwayne the Rock Johnson, Cocomelon is a painfully unoriginal show that took over YouTube in 2018.) They even had AUDACITY to include segments promoting the new branding. I kid you not, one of the segments included a kid saying, “Universal Kids is coming to Sprout, and that’s okay.”  And to that I was like,” No, it is not okay. NO, it is not ok that you take away the preschool channel I BINGE WATCHED away from me in an instant.” There was even a petition made by angry parents to keep Sprout the same as it was. That is enough proof to prove how amazing Sprout is. But who cares about other people’s opinions, amirite, Twitter (sarcasm)? As of now, there are like 2 or 3 shows on the network. The only way that the company is staying afloat is because of Cocomelon, I am not even joking. I’m tired of companies trying to appeal to kids with trends. Instead of doing that they should try to just take in the aesthetic of their company and run with it. If PBS did it back in 2005, so can the other competitors. I rest my case.

Conclusion

In this essay, I covered the downfall of kids’ shows or just the kids’ entertainment industry altogether. The main problems I covered are that they are repetitive (or just straight-up old shows that made money before with new coats of paint thrown on), they sugarcoat their lessons WAY too often, and more often or not, there’s no charm or originality in their programs. Now don’t get me wrong, there are still some good shows by good people on the air today (Bluey, Hilda, Kid Cosmic, etc.) but it’s a bit of a rarity. So how should they fix this? The first would be to produce original ideas for their shows. Being original can help you stand out against competitors, as I mentioned with Sprout. The second strategy would be to double down with real-world topics. This benefits because it saves parents from explaining and kids will be aware of how the world works. The third one would be to spice up their shows. Adding just the slightest amount of charm can help kids get used to programming.

That’s it baiiii-

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball Super Movie 2: Super Hero (4/5)

BIG

ORANGE!

The whole movie has been building to this. The Red Ribbon Army wants to take out Gohan, but they don't want to ambush him at home like they did with Piccolo, because Gohan lives in the city and there would be too many witnesses. So instead Commander Magenta has Gohan's daughter kidnapped from preschool, in order to lure him to the RR base. That way Dr. Hedo's new androids, the Gammas, can fight him on their home turf.

What the Red Ribbon doesn't know is that their kidnapping only got this far because Piccolo has infiltrated their ranks, and he managed to convince Pan to play along. His plan is to use Magenta's plan as a way to motivate Gohan so that he'll fight to his fullest potential and defeat the Red Ribbon Army.

Complicating matters even further is the fact that the Gammas are programmed to think of themselves as superheroes, i.e. the "good guys". When Gohan asks why they're doing this, Gamma 1 insists that it's all for the sake of bringing down Gohan's "evil secret organization". Naturally, Gohan has no idea what he's talking about, and it all sounds pretty stupid when Gamma's side is the one doing the kidnapping.

One thing that bugs me about Hedo and the Gammas is that this movie doesn't really spend a lot of time providing any context to the "super heroes" that Hedo loves so much. Everyone says the Gammas look like old fashioned superheroes, but I sure don't see it. Maybe they're meant to evoke the Sentai genre, but does that exist in the Dragon World? I mean, this fictional Earth has actual superheroes in it, like Mr. Satan and the Great Saiyaman. Shouldn't Dr. Hedo be idolizing those guys, and designing the Gammas to look like them instead?

I guess I should use an example. So in Batman: The Animated Series, there's an episode about "The Grey Ghost", a fictional hero within the world of the show. Bruce Wayne watched Grey Ghost episodes as a kid, and the character partially inspired a lot of the gadgets and tactics he later used as Batman. The episode was about the actor who played the Grey Ghost, Simon Trent, who was voiced by the late, great Adam West, just to hammer home the analogy.

Anyway, the way they made that work was by showing clips from the Grey Ghost's TV show, and flashbacks to when Bruce used to watch it as a kid, and all the merchandise made for the franchise. Grey Ghost was a pretty standard Golden Age pulp hero, like the Shadow or Green Hornet. The BTAS writers didn't just assume you already knew what kind of hero Grey Ghost was. They showed you.

Now, in Super Hero, they sort of take that concept for granted, and all we see of Hedo's "super heroes" are a few actors in costumes, or just the costumes as Dr. Hedo imagines them. We're never given a sense of just what the Gammas are supposed to be imitating. They're supposed to be very flamboyant and over-the-top, but they don't look that much flashier than Piccolo. I mean, he wears a cape too? He broods, he flies, he shoots lasers out of his eyes. Oh, and he has a kid sidekick who grew up to become even flashier:

Fuck yeah! This movie doesn't do much with Super Saiyan, but it looks damn good when it happens. See, Great Saiyaman got the super hero pastiche right because Gohan was using it as a disguise. He had to dress differently to protect his secret, and then he started getting into the act, talking all high and mighty, and doing Sentai poses. Then he'd take the costume off and act like his ordinary self. So the superhero tropes were obvious. Arguably, Gohan was already a superhero anyway, but as Great Saiyaman he turned that up to eleven by having a secret identity, a transformation watch, and a pesky love interest determined to expose him. The trouble with the Gammas is that they're only six months old, and the costumes is all they are. We never see the tropes that they're meant to resemble. The movie either assumes we already recognize the reference, or there is no reference. That's a tough tightrope to walk.

Anyway, Gohan and Gamma 1 fight for a bit, and Pan's excited to see this because at the beginning of the movie she told Piccolo that she never saw her daddy fight before. Earlier, she wondered if he would really leave his work to come rescue her, and Piccolo said he'd beat him up if he didn't. So Gohan had a lot to prove here, even if he didn't know it

But Piccolo is still concerned, because Gamma 1 seems to be learning Gohan's moves as they fight, which means Gohan will have trouble defeating him. He needs to fight at a higher level, and Piccolo has an idea to motivate him further...

Up close, this looks kind of silly, like you can obviously see he's not even holding Pan by her collar, and he's got his other hand holding her up. I guess Piccolo was afraid of damaging her preschool uniform while he toyed with Gohan's emotions, which is pretty much the most Piccolo thing ever.

But from a distance, it just looks like he's hurting Pan, and she cries out, which upsets Gohan... and the Gammas. Gamma 2's like "What are you doing!? We don't hurt kids!" And that surprises Piccolo and Pan.

But it still works. Gohan flips his shit and transforms to his Mystic/Ultimate/Elder Kai Unlock form. You know the one, he used it to fight Super Buu, and then he used it in the Tournament of Power. Piccolo is thrilled by this development and Pan wants to celebrate with double fistbumps. Pan is adorable in this movie.

The fight is a long way from finished, but Gohan does a lot better in this form. Also he blew away the rainclouds over the Red Ribbon Base, so we can see the fight better. Now, Gamma 1 is on the defensive, although with his powers, that's not a bad place to be.

Let's talk about Gohan a bit. One common critique about this movie is that it's all about super heroes, but Gohan never whips out his Great Saiyaman outfit. And I agree, it does feel like a missed opportunity, but I also think there's a very good reason for not having Great Saiyaman in this movie.

For one thing, Great Saiyaman would probably steal the Gamma's thunder. It's their only gimmick, and if Gohan's vamping it up in his own hero suit, then it dilutes the concept. Like I was saying before, Piccolo and Gohan are pretty much superhero characters already, so things are already strained enough.

More importantly, though, one of the major themes of this movie is "I wish Gohan would do (x) like he used to." Pan wants to see her daddy fight. Piccolo wants to see Gohan train. Magenta wants him to be the kid who defeated Cell, because otherwise he wasted two billion zenni on a pair of androids. If Gohan's just a mild-mannered biologist, then this battle was pointless.

The audience wants Gohan to be the Great Saiyaman, because Great Saiyaman is fun and cool, and it fits the tone of the movie. Only it doesn't fit the tone of the movie, because it never happens in the movie.

Well, some of the audience wanted Gohan to be Great Saiyaman. Then you have others who wanted Gohan to become this edgy badass, like when he slaughtered all the Cell Juniors, but to the nth degree. I remember after the movie came out, some fanartist was bitter because they should have done what he did in his fancomic, where Cell comes back and murders Videl and Pan right in front of Gohan, which makes him go berserk. Twitter dunked on that guy for a few weeks, and rightly so. Here's the thing: The Gammas desperately need Gohan to be that edgy fancomic version. Their programming only makes sense if Gohan's the villain in this story, and that would be easier to believe if Gohan would flip out and decapitate someone.

But that's not how Gohan works. He's not a machine like the Gammas who can be switched from one mode to the next. The Gammas have to be superheroes, but Gohan can be all sorts of things: father, husband, Saiyan, Earthling, warrior, scientist, superhero, etc. Piccolo can kind of steer Gohan in the direction he wants him to go, but he had to stage a phony kidnapping for this. And Piccolo is Gohan's best friend and mentor. If he has this much trouble putting Gohan in a box, then how can anyone else?

Gohan is a complex character, with many different aspects to him, and this is what makes all of his different facets work. The whole point of Kid Gohan flipping out and crushing the bad guys was that he was usually so meek and unassuming. If he was a badass all the time, it wouldn't matter. If he was Great Saiyaman all the time, no one would care. If he truly sat in his house studying bugs all the time, it wouldn't mean anything. What makes Gohan cool is that he can be all of these things and more. But he'll never be evil, and that's what's got the Gammas so flustered.

So Dr. Hedo gets worried about Gamma 1 and sends 2 in to back him up when...

OH YOU DIDN'T KNOW?

YOUR ASS BETTER CALLLLLLLL SOMEBODYYYYYYY!

Speaking of professional wrestling, check this shit out.

A brainbuster DDT? In my Dragon Ball? It's more likely than you think!

So while Gohan works over Gamma 1, Piccolo shows off his new power-up to Gamma 2. Unfortunately, it's still not enough. Gohan can fight evenly with 1, but it's the classic DBZ android problem, where the androids can fight at full strength without getting tired, and Gamma 1's battery is still at 82%. As for Piccolo, he soon discovers that his power up doesn't quite tip the scales against Gamma 2. Here we see him do a cool Special Beam Cannon, but 2 just throws up a force field to deflect it.

More importantly, Piccolo taunts 2 about how he seems like an okay dude, except he's following bad orders. 2 insists that he was created to follow orders, but Piccolo knows that on some level the Gammas must realize that this is wrong. And that dilemma is probably what's keeping Piccolo competitive in this fight. Gamma 2 is too distracted to deal with him properly.

So Gamma 2 gets so frustrated that he batters Piccolo and throws him down into the depths of this crater the Red Ribbon Base is in. I'm not sure how this place works. It looks like there's catacombs at the bottom or something. How ancient is this thing? Anyway, Piccolo does the anime thing where the hero seems to plummet to their depth, and then they have this big epiphany about friendship or believing in yourself or something. Except instead, he just flashes back to when Shenron boosted his power... and gave him "a little extra".

Awwww yeah!

Yeahhhhh!

Well now you fucked up, Gammas, because Piccolo's orange. What does this mean? Well, for one thing, Piccolo's antennae float instead of dangling over his brow. For another thing, he's got red eyes, which is always cool. Also his bara titties are even more bara than ever.

And I think you can work out the rest for yourself. One punch and Gamma 2 is down.

At this point, Magenta gets nervous and orders his troops to shoot Orange Piccolo, and that doesn't work at all, so everyone starts to run away. Carmine tries to cover Magenta's escape, but Pan chases after them, so Carmine starts shooting at Pan, but then...

Gamma 2 disarms Carmine with his pistol, and says he now understands who the real villains are. Kind of impressive he got his wits together so soon after taking that punch.

Then Pan wrecks Carmine's shit, which I just noticed is kind of like how Gohan took down Cell with two hits. I'm pretty sure it was a punch to the gut followed by a kick to the head, but Pan's only three, so it's okay if she gets the order wrong. The important thing is Pan gets to beat up a bad guy all by herself. If this were GT, they'd have Giru save her or something.

So Piccolo tells Gohan the fight is over, because it seems like Gamma 2 has finally seen the light. I guess Gamma 1 doesn't need much convincing, since he was having a similar crisis in his own fight.

So the fight is over, right? Not quite. Magenta runs, but he doesn't run away. Instead he goes deeper into the base and tries to activate his ultimate weapon, Cell Max. Dr. Hedo follows him and warns him that it's too dangerous. Hedo completed Cell Max's body, but his brain is still in development, and he'd be uncontrollable if brought online.

But Magenta doesn't care. As he sees it, things went wrong today because he trusted Hedo. The Gammas lost because they weren't powerful enough to defeat the enemy as quickly as Hedo boasted. Hedo says that they were only having trouble because they couldn't sense any malice in their opponents, but Magenta says that's the problem. Hedo insisted on programming them with all that superhero nonsense. Magenta wanted weapons, not cartoon characters, and so he's going to end things by unleashing Cell Max.

So Magenta shoots Hedo to stop him from interfering, but it doesn't work, because Hedo has bulletproof skin, thanks to some enhancement he made to his own body. So Magenta reveals that he has his own enhancements and takes off his shirt to reveal he's a cyborg. He admits that his body modifications might not be as sophisticated as Hedo's, but he's confident that he's strong enough to win in a fight.

You know, I was wondering why Magenta didn't make himself taller while he was having himself converted into a cyborg, but then it occurred to me that maybe he did make himself taller. He's still pretty short, but he's taller than his dad, Commander Red, so maybe he used to be the same height as Red, and made himself the height he is now. Maybe this is tall enough for him, or this was the practical limit of his cybernetics.

None of that matters, though, because Magenta forgot Hedo's other trick, that cyborg bee he used to spy on him at the beginning of the movie. It carries a powerful venom that can kill any living organism with one sting. Even cyborgs can't withstand it, because the venom disables their biological components. It seemed kind of weird when Hedo spelled that out in the limo scene, but now that we know Magenta is a cyborg, it makes sense. This is what they call Checkov's Cyborg Bee Sting.

So now the fight is definitely over, right? No, because Magenta presses the button to activate Cell Max right before he dies. Seriously, Hedo really fucked up here. Sure the bee sting was fatal, but it took a while for Magenta to actually keel over, and Hedo kept gloating about stealing Magenta's money instead of watching him.

Meanwhile, Bulma has arrived with reinforcements: Krillin, Android 18, Goten, and Trunks. I'm not sure why she did this, or how she even knew where to go, but it's Bulma, so she might have traced Piccolo's cell phone or something. Anyway, the big story here is that Goten and Trunks actually look like teenagers, and pretty close to their designs in the final three episodes of Dragon Ball Z. Fans have been asking about this ever since Battle of Gods premiered in 2013, because Goten and Trunks were supposed to be like 10 and 11, but they still looked like they did at ages 6 and 7. This kind of made sense, because Goku looked pretty teeny at 15, and Gohan was kind of small for 11, but the premise really felt strained beyond belief as Dragon Ball Super wore on, and the boys got older and older with each new story arc.

This movie tries to rationalize it by having Piccolo be all surprised to see this growth spurt, and Gohan tells him that this is how it is with Saiyan children. They stay small for a long time and just suddenly grow in their late teens. Okay, but Mai's not a Saiyan and she wasn't growing up either... Oh well.

Meanwhile, Hedo desperately tries to cancel Cell Max's activation, but it's too late. Different flavors of Kool-Aid are being pumped into his incubation chamber. Purplesauraus Rex, Pink Swimmingo, Great Blue-dini, Kickin' Kiwi Lime, and Black Cherry, the most powerful flavor of all.

I guess I have to give Hedo credit for trying, but the guy's busting out of the chamber right now. Cell Max is already active, my guy. It's just a matter of how strong you built the chamber. Meanwhile, the good guys are unaware of any of this. They're too busy asking Piccolo what he's gonna call his new orange transformation. "I guess I'll just call it 'Orange Piccolo'" he says. Thank you, Piccolo. Just for being you.

"Never mind that shit! Here comes Cell Max!"

Everyone's like, what the fuck are you talking about, Dr. Hedo, but then... yeah, you'll see. We'll all see, won't we?

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10 Reasons Why a Preschool Franchise is a Profitable Business Idea

For the dedicated educator who wants to make an impact on children, becoming a preschool franchise owner is one of their best options. And as for the money part? You’re in the right place. Establishing a preschool is not only taking care of children’s education and development, it also opens up a business avenue for entrepreneurs. Well, this presents us to the question, “Is opening a preschool business profitable?””. becomes more and more important, particularly in countries like India where early childhood education is becoming increasingly significant.

So, why a Playful Minds preschool franchise: Here are eight good reasons to own and operate that things will be fine. Read on to find out more!

1. Proven Business Model

A preschool franchise has a proven model of the business which is tried and tested in multiple locations to make it successful. This particular model mitigates the risks of a new start and offers a way for operation speech.

2. Rising Dependence on Early Childhood Education

We know that the need for quality early childhood education is greater than ever. Preschool franchises continue to have a reliable source of revenue given the increasing awareness among parents who understand how pivotal it is for their children’s education in early years.

3. Established Brand Recognition

You start with a huge leg up in one of the most crowded internet spaces by operating under an established and respected brand. Brand credibility pulls in parents who have faith in names they are accustomed to therefore it makes an easy way for building a strong customer base and ensuring that you always have returning students coming back.

4. Franchisor Provided Support

The franchisor provides franchisees with excellent support. The last one administer training, marketing resources, operational guidelines and additional support even after the start of your preschool to improve management.

5. ROI on Scale

While you may not be thinking about it now, preschool franchises can give great returns since they are in a high request with low overhead. Its business model has been created in such a way that they become profitable while still being able to deliver good quality education.

6. Ready-to-Use Curriculum

A well-researched curriculum: one of the primary benefits that come along with a preschool franchise. A curriculum that is not only able to meet educational standards, but also fill developmental needs of young children providing a premium education experience.

7. Community and Social Benefits

Running a playschool franchise lets you do something important in your community as well because we change the way parents think about their child by providing quality education and care. Not only does this make you more likeable but it makes your community support and loyalty even stronger.

8. Scalable Business Model

Preschool franchises are also an attractive business because of their potential for growth; you can open another and eventually own a chain depending on how your initial franchise thrives. This scalability opens the doors for growth, and grow exponentially more profitable.

9. Efficient Cost Management

Cost Management on clock Franchise systems are typically low cost efficient operations. Not only will the franchisor deliver you well-honed tools and strategies to operate more efficiently with lower costs in anything from staff recruitment, facility management through software and etc.

10. Fulfilling Work-Life Balance

Your preschool franchise can give you a meaningful career and benefit your life at the same time, as the ability to own an educational facility that is tried-and-true will have people taking notice of both it (the school) and YOU. The fact that you can enjoy contributing to the development in education of children and maintain a profitable business at once adds an extra element of appeal to this venture.

In conclusion, a preschool franchise offers the best of both worlds — financial opportunity and personal gratification. With a well-established business model, recognized brand and support system you will be making a big positive difference in the lives of others while realizing immense profits.

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THE BEST WAYS TO PRACTICE WRITING

Writing is an essential component of our everyday life. It means to express ourselves rather than the common understanding in Indian classrooms of copying from black/whiteboard.

We may assist our child to improve writing abilities at a young age by getting a head start with some basic exercises. You will be contributing to your child's future success as a student and as an adult by teaching them how to express themselves. Also Read About :- Best pre school in Delhi

Writing is a fundamental means of communication as well as an important aspect of education. However, in today's technology-driven society, kids aren't given any opportunity to practice and enhance their writing skills. Many parents are left wondering how to enhance their child's writing skills as a result of this.

It takes time and effort to acquire great writing abilities, and it may be a difficult undertaking. Fortunately, there are many things that parents can do at home to assist their kids to develop their writing abilities.

What can you do?

It's crucial to remember that writing may be just as difficult to teach and evaluate as it is to learn. Many students struggle with writing with clarity, coherence, and order, which might discourage them from writing if they are upset and hence it imapcts their overall language development as a domain.

This is where parental participation may make a significant difference. Encouraging your kid to build excellent writing abilities at a young age and to become a better writer as he grows older can have a long-term good influence on their writing and may make writing a simpler and more pleasurable process for them.

To get you started, Junior Delhi School, India's premier play school franchise, provides a variety of ideas for things you can do to help your kid become a great writer.

From enjoyable activities to everyday reading and writing sessions, these strategies for improving kids' writing skills can help your child develop his or her talents quickly.

READ UP

Reading regularly is a stepping stone to better writing and helps kids enhance their writing abilities. It increases kids' vocabulary and teaches them alternative ways to use words. This also facilitates their use of these words in their work.

With younger children, make it a point to read together every day and to foster their love of reading as they develop.

PLAN IT EXCITING

At Junior Delhi School, the leading preschool in India, we make kids participate in writing-related games and activities. Crossword puzzles and word games are enjoyable for all ages. Kids particularly enjoy the "write the word" game, in which they look for items and write down the word when they discover them.

WRITE LETTERS

Today, letter writing is something of a lost art. Encourage your kid to send letters to his or her friends and relatives. Distant family members will especially appreciate getting handwritten letters, and it's a terrific method for kids to practice writing abilities.

MAINTAINING DIARY

Keeping a diary is a terrific method for youngsters to express their thoughts and ideas while also building on their writing abilities. Plan an outing with your kid to select a fun diary and encourage them to write in it as much as possible. Make it a regular part of his or her day.

INVEST TIME

Make it clear to your child that you are there to assist with spelling or proofreading anytime he or she requires it. Teachers at Junior DPS, India's premier play school, do the same. We make certain that each child has access to the assistance he or she requires while writing. Making writing time a priority for yourself can help your child enhance his or her writing abilities. Read More About :- Top 10 playschool in Delhi

FOLLOW THEIR INTERESTS

Consider your son's or daughter's favorite cartoon character. Perhaps he or she is preoccupied with dinosaurs. Connect any of his or her interests to writing. To promote writing, we at Junior DPS plan activities such as asking the kid to write a new short story about his or her favorite characters, or allowing him or her to compose a narrative entirely about dinosaurs.

BE AN EXAMPLE

There is no better way to learn than to watch someone else do it. Allow your children to witness you write regularly. Writing will come more readily to them if it is a regular part of your everyday life. A simple grocery list or letter to the teacher, holiday or thank you cards, or even a beautiful note to your child is all acceptable.

USE TECHNOLOGY TO YOUR BENEFIT

There's no denying that technology has a significant impact on our lives. Make use of it by having your youngster establish a blog. By encouraging regular writing habits, you may assist your child focus on strengthening his or her writing abilities.

IMPROVING WRITING SKILLS IS A MUST!

Writing is a valuable practical life skill. While exceptional writing abilities need time and care to develop, you can aid your child with these simple writing activities for students. Know More :- Best play school in Delhi

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Why Should You Invest in a Preschool Franchise Business?

In today’s world, entrepreneurship is one of the most popular career paths for those seeking prosperity & advancement. Every single individual is coming up with new ideas, & while some achieve success & reach new heights, others are forced to abandon their aspirations owing to a variety of obstacles.

To the rescue of these people, there are a number of franchise possibilities available; all they need to do is select the industry they wish to enter. Investing in one of India’s greatest preschool franchise businesses is one such opportunity that creates chances for everyone.

Owing to this, let’s discuss why investing in a preschool franchise business is an excellent choice.

They Have a Well-Established Reputation

When you invest in a franchise business, you gain an established name as well as its services. This relieves you of the responsibility of building a brand presence among your target audience, allowing you to focus on other important parts of your business.

Furthermore, the organization supplying the franchise is accountable for maintaining its name, as it must preserve the market value connected with it.

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