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glarnboudin · 6 months

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Man, there's an entire fucking industry of neckbeards on YouTube that devote themselves to malding about how every little aspect of RWBY is fundamentally cringe and boring, from the things that make the series' aesthetic what it is to bullshit like trying to to imply that villainous characters are in the moral right for attempted genocide.

Meanwhile, those same shit-slurping bottom-feeders will happily sing the praises of [insert shounen anime here] that does the exact same thing, often to a far greater extreme. They'll harp on and on about Bakugou or Sasuke or literally any other Edgy McFightyMan about how DeEP AnD muLTifacEteD he is... when they'd be called a Mary Sue in an instant if they were female, or even worse, made by a Western creator.

They'll gleefully gobble the mass-produced slop that they fill their trough with and gloat about how the overarching plot of the current popular thing is sooooo unbelievably timeless... when said plot is just the same bog-standard shit as in all shounen. The System is Perfect and Flawless, and anybody who dissents is a faceless mass of generic pure evil and is morally acceptable to murder/hospitalize en masse; any antagonists that abuse the rules of the establishment for their own gain are doubly Impure and Sinful for the crime of tainting the Perfect System. It doesn't take long for the original message to get buried as the authors of these works are put through the grinder to stretch out the story as much as possible to meet the lethally high standards of the manga industry, corporate overhead demanding that everything be smothered beneath marketable trends that the unwashed masses prefer to consume.

This shit isn't subtext, it's just borderline text - but point that out, and you get barraged by hordes of shrieking consoomers incensed that you dared to suggest anything being wrong with the current Popular Thing that they've decided is the next timeless work of art... at least until the next Popular Anime comes along and they toss it aside with the rest, eager to start consooming the next batch of fresh slop.

Wonder why that happens? Wonder what feature makes RWBY's cast so deeply offensive to this sea of interchangeable milquetoast 'reviewers' that makes blindly consooming this ultra-masculine crap their entire personality? Hmmmmmmm, I wonder.

#rwby #anime #shonen #shounen #manga #if there's an anime you like that you think I might be referring to with this #it is #reviewers #reviews #criticism #neckbeards #misogny #misogyny

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pyxilatezero · 2 months

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Need I say more?

I think the people, objectively, have spoken.

if I were to add in my opinion you’d see that I contributed a few fanfics to the mix

Main reason for my dislike of White Knight: I hate Jaune and Weiss is my favorite character, so I think she deserves better. I know some people won’t say this is a valid reason but Jaune originally and currently isn’t written very well. You basically have to give him his own episode to flush out his plot line, (like in the first season and every season afterwards where he’s important) and he’s not a main character so he takes up screen time. (They do the same with Oscar and the rest of JNPR Instead of doing a JNPR episode, they do each of them individually with sprinkles of plot in between) Honestly, a relationship between him and Weiss would be a bad idea. Case in point:

Volume 1 White-knight Moments:

Jaune unsuccessfully flirting with Weiss (+1)

Volume 2 White-knight Moments:

Jaune unsuccessfully flirting with Weiss (+1)

Volume 3 White-knight moments:

… PYRRHA! (-1)

Volume 4 White-knight moments:

… (No interaction; no points awarded or deducted)

Volume 5 White-knight moments:

Jaune does a common courtesy and saves Weiss’s life (does not count; he would react the same for anybody- ‘nO hE wOULdn’T’ shut up Victoria if any of your friends were dying you’d save their life) [+0.5]

Volume 6 White-knight moments:

…

Volume 7 White-knight moments:

…

Volume 8 White-knight moments:

…

Volume 9 White-knight moments:

Weiss admires Jaune over the fact that he’s mature, and supports him like a good friend after Ruby runs away. He reverts to his old form, and we never hear from them again. (+2)

Total score: 3.5/9 (trying to be generous, I really am)

Main reason for liking Whiterose: Enemies to friends to lovers is an adorable trope, and they get a lot of screen time together in the first few seasons. Also, Monty himself shipped them. While I won’t say Whiterose is objectively better than White Knight, I am going to say that when I include my own opinion, it is better. Weiss and Ruby’s relationship feels more like a slow burn than Yang and Blake’s. We get scenes that could be interpreted that way in almost every season since Volume one. Let me go through them, and to show how unfair this is, I’m not allowed to add more than 1.5 points:

Volume 1 Whiterose Moments

Ruby and Weiss are off to a rocky start, but slowly warm up to each other as time goes on, and they get closer. They have a mildly, could-be considered romantic moment where Weiss makes Ruby coffee so she can stay up to study. (+1)

Volume 2 Whiterose Moments

In the food fight, Ruby dramatically catches Weiss when she falls and pretends to cry over her. (Not really much, but it’s something). Ruby and Weiss consistently pair up to get things done throughout the season, especially when looking into information about Cinder. (+1)

Volume 3 Whiterose Moments:

Supporting each other when Winter gets there (that is Volume 3, right?), excellent teamwork in the first stage of the Amity Arena battle, and Weiss’s concern for Ruby when she disappears. (+1)

Volume 4 Whiterose Moments:

Thinks about each other, but otherwise, nothing. (No points awarded or deducted)

Volume 5 Whiterose Moments:

Weiss remember’s Ruby’s coffee taste. While this could be something any friend does, they spend time together, reflecting over beacon, and Weiss helps Ruby’s sister Yang through an implication that she’s doing it for team RWBY, but especially their eccentric fluffball of a leader. (+1.5)

Volume 6 Whiterose Moments:

Ruby saves Weiss on the train, Weiss saves Ruby in the battle against the mech, and they spend time together in the village with the grim. I should give two points here but I’m loyal to my word. (+1.5)

Volume 7 Whiterose Moments:

Ruby and Weiss sitting together during training, and Weiss supporting Ruby when the team splits up. (+0.5)

Volume 8 Whiterose Moments:

Supporting each other all throughout the volume by working together, and acting as teammates and partners. (+0.5)

Volume 9 Whiterose Moments:

Ruby supports Weiss after her being upset about the fall of Atlas. (Jaune’s interaction with Weiss, -1 point- would have been two, though)

6/9

In any scenario, Whiterose wins. Im sure other people could come up with reasons to disprove me, or say I’m biased (I am, this is in no way objective), but these are the things I saw with my own eight eyes because I own three pairs of glasses, and heard with my (admittedly failing) teenage ears.

I’m sure I’ll get flak for this from both sides of the shipping community, because admittedly, the RWBY fandom can be toxic (but it’s almost any fandom at that point) saying I either graded White Knight too harshly or I gave too many or too few points to Whiterose, and I also did all of this off the top of my head, so I apologize for my many mistakes. I have two last statements:

Rosegarden: 0/9

Oscar is 14 and Ruby is 17. If I, the same age as Oscar as of 2023, would not date Ruby at that time, it’s probably wrong. When it comes to relationships for younger people, it’s best to avoid age gaps larger than 2 years. It’s also best to avoid relationships altogether until you can at least go for a learner’s permit. I rest my case.

edit 3: alright, some people have corrected me on the age part, apparently he’s fifteen. I don’t hate Rosegarden, but something about Ozpin and Oscar being the same person makes me really uncomfortable (again, as someone who is younger). Thats the only reason I didn’t give it any rating- it just feels too close to, well… I don’t really have to say it. Especially when the whole point of things is that Oscar and Ozpin are becoming the same person.

Bumblebee: 8/9

It’s canon, bro. It does feel slightly forced at times, but they’re a strong couple who supports each other and helps each other through trauma. You go girls, lesbians all the way (insert lesbian pride flag here)

edit: got someone sending in a message about neither ever going to be canon. You’re right, but thank you so much for crushing a high schooler’s hopes and dreams. Have a nice day

edit 2: I prefer icerose over whiterose but I’ll get what I can take (canon ruby x ice Queendom Weiss). This is just an overall argument.

#rwby #whiterose #rwby weiss #rwby ruby #rwby jaune arc #weiss x ruby #jaune x weiss #character review #ship dynamics #canon probably deduction #but not really?#anti white knight rwby

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blue-cheeseinmyoffwhites · 5 months

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Buddie #10 & Bumbleby #19 for Tumblr Year Ships let’s goooo

#the way these two scenes carried their fandoms #let’s go gays #911 abc #evan buckley #eddie diaz #buddie 911 #buck x eddie #rwby #bumbleby #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #blake x yang #greenlight volume 10 #gay #lgbtq+#queer ships #tumblr year in review

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razorblade180 · 1 year

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Rwby vol9 ep5 Review

Only two things matter

First..

They really gotta stop leaving Ruby alone. They know she’s feeling sad and this world will yoink her at every opportunity.

Second…

I NEED ANSWERS!

I have many big feelings. Little bit scared that this could be Jaune’s final volume because of some craziness about him choosing to stay or finally being the person to sacrifice everything.

Or this show can be really nice to me specially by when they all go back, they’re the same age as when they fell in, but retain all memories and experience like Alice in Wonderland. The next episode better be his perspective and everything he’s been through.

How does the last person who fell become the person who’s been here the longest!? Respect for kicking ass with a broken sword though. Blake looked so excited then shocked. I need her to go full bookworm and lore dump the Rusted Knight info.

Also…fuck yeah, his hair is different! I feel like this is the exact hairstyle that people always put in time-skip fics but it works!😅

#rwby #rwby spoilers #jaune arc #ruby rose #weiss schnee #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #rwby volume 9 #rwby review

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squipedmew · 4 months

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here's my 2023 art summary! (template by CainineThistles) I feel like I've improved a lot as an artist, particularly with posing and backgrounds.

Slight personal ramble under the cut:

I know I posted a lot less this year, and real talk, the back half of 2023 was really hard. I had a lot of mental health struggles, mostly relating to my coping mechanisms. I know I joke a lot about being 'chronically online' but it genuinely was a real problem. I didn't really feel like I was living my life, you know? Not to mention, basically everything I drew and wrote was for this blog. I barely created just for myself anymore. I got so consumed with trying to get my art and fics to blow up, that I kinda forgot why I started in the first place - to just have fun.

Taking time off of tumblr was huge for me. I rediscovered the joy of art and writing all over again, and tried living more in the real world. I got more involved with the people around me, and I even got into a relationship. Being present is really scary, but it also helps. I actually felt like a person for the first time in recent memory.

I guess what I'm trying to say, is don't let those fictional worlds and online numbers consume you. Try to be present and live in the real world more. I know it's cliché advice, but it seriously helped me a lot with le mental health, and there's a whole lot more going on around you than you'd think.

Anywho, here's to 2024!

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constantvariations · 7 months

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You know, rwby could be so much worse

It could have sex scenes

#rwde #watching a review of a sarah j maas's fae series and holy cannoli batman the smut sure is smth #the bees kiss could have been a 6 page expo dump abt lesbianism #colleen hoover 🤝 crwby 🤝 sarah j maas: denying gods pleas to stop seeing abuse as romance #i want to peek at the timeline where rwby is rated r just to see what we dodged #i think the style would be close to 50 shades #'the sex feelings flooded my body like a charging herd of itty bitty elephants. we're talking small' lives in my head rent free #canon rwby smut would be so at home on wattpad

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dextixer · 9 months

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RWBY: Arrowfell review - An autopsy of an overpriced dissapointment.

RWBY as an IP has not had a good run with their video games since the show inception. While some games definitely gained popularity amongst the FNDM like Amity Arena. None of them have stayed for long, either being discontinued in the case of the online games or simply, not being played in the case of the single player ones. RWBY: Arrowfell is no exception, despite the game being produced by another studio. With this review i would like to talk about it more in-depth after playing it and talk about why it failed.

Did it fail?

First things first. I have to answer the simple question of "Did RWBY: Arrowfell actually fail?". Yeah. It did. While no EXACT data can be gathered due to it not being publically shared, one only needs to look at places like achievement tracking websites of Xbox, Playstation and Steam one can find that only around 500 people in each of these got an achievement for opening up a chest, something that you can do in the first 5 minutes of the game. Even if we agree to be generous and say that 5k people bought the game (Which is more than double the people that got the erliest achievement in game).

That ammounts to 5000 x 30 - 150 000 - Euro earnings.

The game was first teased in 2021-07-09. But considering that the footage of it was already presented it most likely was already being developed for around maybe half a year to 3 months. So let us be generous and say that it was started to get produced in 2021-04-09. It was released in 2022-11-15. Around 19 months of production.

Some of you might ask, why is that important? Well, because with estimating the time of production we can try to estimate how much money was spent making the game, at least at the lower end. By using employee wages. I live in Lithuania, mandated minimum here is 800 Euros per month.

For 1 employee to be paid wages for the entire production period costs around - 15k Euros.

WayForward has a studio of over 50 people. Even if all of them were not working on the game the entirety of the time. If even 10 people did. Which is a low estimate. That alone would suck up all of the earnings the game made.

All of this is guesswork of course. And NO company will share information on whether or not their game did badly (They will only share good news). But even with doubling the numbers that we can see, well. It aint looking good. Of course, its always possible that Way Forward locked a single person in a shed till they made the entire game.

So yeah. As far as i can see. It failed. And at best MAYBE made small profit if RT game them additional funding or money and ArcSystems did not pay for the entire thing themselves.

Price sets expectations

So, now that we are done examining the cadaver, let us speak on what killed it. And what killed it... Is first of all. The price. The quality of a game matters, but at the end of the day, expectations for that quality are set by the price.

Arrowfell costs 30 Euros. For a sidescroller that is an above average price. Most modern sidescrollers the type of Arrowfell cost between 20-25 Euros. Blasphemous - 25 Euros. Hollowknight 15 Euros. Shovel Knight - 15 Euros. Dead Cells - 25 Euros.

The reason i listed these games is for comparison. A 5-10 Euro increase in price might not seem like much, until one considers the differences between these games. The games i listed are considered to be the BEST of the best of modern sidescrollers. They were part of the sidescroller rennesaince that the video games industry experienced not a long time ago, and each of them boasted MANY welcome features. Be it amazing storytelling and boss battles or massive replayability.

Arrowfell cost more than them. And yet... It broke no new ground. In fact, it broke no ground at all. It released as quiet as a whisper with only really RWBY fans knowing and talking about it. As far as the sidescrolling genre goes, Arrowfell gave nothing to it.

It would be one thing if Arrowfell was comparable to the games i listed before. But it simply isnt. Which of course, leads me to the next point.

Simplistic Gameplay

Arrowfells gameplay is not worth 30 Euros. The games i listed before have very responsive combat systems, different weapons, characters, various upgrades that change the way that the game is played etc. The combat in them feels crisp, and the boss battles can even come close to those of Dark Souls in terms of both difficulty and spectacle.

Arrowfells combat is simply... Its Boring. There are basically no differences between the playable characters besides their special abilities. They all feel like the same character. That is bad enough, but there is also another problem. The game has no dodge/block button. Something that MOST combat games have figured out long ago. The only character that has a dodge is Ruby, and thus, for the most part, she is the only truly playable character in the game.

An enemy only has to TOUCH your hitbox. Not with an attack. Just with their HITBOX and you will take damage. You doing damage also does NOT stagger them, so you are forced to either hit and run or hope to god that you will kill the enemy before it attacks.

Some people have complained that playing this game is difficult. I thought it was simply them being bad at the game. But that is not the case. After playing the game myself, the reason why this game is so difficult is because its combat is simply shit. It has no mechanics that would be expected of a sidescrolling game. Enemies getting staggered on hit is something that was figured out in the EIGHTIES. Most of the game also has barely any verticality to speak of except in SOME cases like boss battles. So dont expect to easily jump over most enemies either.

You also have a ranged attack. A ranged attack that drains your health and does half the damage that your melle attacks do... Think about it, in a game about RWBY, the place of the "Its also a gun meme" you are disincentivized to use your GUN attack because it activelly drains your health.

But WAIT, THERE IS MORE! Dont worry trooper, you have 3 health bars to help you deal with the shitty combat system. EXCEPT that once you lose ONE bar it does not fully regenerate and instead leaves you on LESS than half HP.

But heeeey, RWBY has an upgrade system! You can upgrade your characters! That must be exciting! It must be new powers!? Maybe new weapons!? No. Its all percentage increases. You can increase damage/health/gun/health recovery. Thats it..... Yeah... Thats it... Cookie clicker has more exciting upgrades.

Simplicity in video games CAN be a benefit. Shovel knight is a relatively simple game for example. Yes, it has its own quirks, but it gives you TOOLS to deal with your opponents.

RWBY Arrowfell is simplistic to the point of making combat not only boring, but also frustratingly bad. I have unironically seen flash games with better combat systems.

Its boring, its unimaginative. It lacks the BASICS of proper combat systems (dodge/block), and the 4 characters you can choose from might as well be one, because their ONLY difference is their specials.

Flash Graphics

The gameplay is bad. Okay, so, is the game at least pretty? No. No it is not. While the backgrounds can look pretty nice, the design of the in-game characters and platforms feels like babys first game on mario maker. Its very cartoony but not in a stylized way. Its very... Functional. You can understand what the character is, what the background is. But none of it looks good because, once again, there is no stylization to the game. Its all simply functional. And quite frankly, when this kind of game has to compete with games like Blasphemous and Hollow Knight? That just wont cut it. But words in this case simply cannot cut it. So instead, i will let pictures speak for themselves.

Can you see the difference? Where Hollowknight and Blasphemous both are stylized and look AMAZING in their own ways. Arrowfell looks like a pre-fabricated 3d mess. Its looks like plastic. Can you see just how DIFFERENT the goliath looks textured in comparison to everything else?

The RT animated cutscenes, in my opinion, while good, do not save this mess of an artstyle considering this is what you will see most of the game.

Sound Design

I like RWBY music. I truly do, at least the Early RWBY until it all became practically the same. The sound design in the game is fine. It doesnt grate on the ears. Different situations have appropriate soundtracks. Its nothing special in my opinion, its more RWBY. But thats quite frankly fine with me.

Story

I have already written a few threads about the story of Arowfell. To summarize, the story is very simplistic. It follows team RWBY first mission after they got their huntsmen licenses in V7. They go around Atlas investigating Grimm attacks and weird Grimm attracting equipment which came from a defunct Atlas military base, Arrowfell. Most of the new characters presented in the game are inconsequential and barely appear in the game. Like team BRIR. The story is functional, but no more than that.

As far as my other threads on the topic.

A) This is a thread i made about weird characterizations of team RWBY - LINK

B) This is a thread i made about the writing of Hanlon Fifestone - LINK

Conclussion

RWBY Arowfell is an overpriced sidescroller game that offers nothing new to the genre at large and is of IMMENSELLY lower quality, artistically and gameplay wise than any of its cheaper contemporaries. Even for RWBY fans, i would never recommend this game. Watch the story on Youtube, and spend your money on any of the other titles i have listed in this thread, some of them are even on sale.

#rwby #rwde #rwby arrowfell #dextixer reviews

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starredfishing · 4 months

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rewatching rwby again and i find it funny that in v2 they drop an entire in universe lore reason for ppl to be named after colors but only like 10 characters in the show r named after colors

#starry.txt #NOT CRITICAL I JUST THINK ITS FUNNY DKFKDK #esp bc ozpin mentions that the gr8 war started it so youd assume the generation above them is mostly colors #but we also dont know many adults who lived around that time! idk #i did notice that as the seasons went on it got harder and harder to figure out ppls colors. a design thing 4 me.#i think that like 7/8 of the main teams being colors makes them stand out tho!#i want to make a review of the entirety of rwby i dont have the tech or the time tho

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min3nc · 1 year

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watched the rwby x jl movie finally!

my only complains about the whole movie was that some action scenes felt kinda slow. Aaand that weiss was almost always away from her team one way or another :(

it was so fun to me that Yang said ONCE that she thought Diana was strong, and for the REST of the movie Blake spent the entire time showing off. Like. Ah. Yes. I’m a warrior *jumps out of a moving airship* *drives a motorbike WITH ONE HAND while swinging fucking NORA VALKYRIE around like it’s nothing* like damn Yang please. Blake is bound to be built like a brick wall. Like if I had to choose for only one of the bees to get a muscular 3d model i would 100% choose Blake. Have her look like wonder woman.

Also. Jessica is so fucking cute. I was so surprised that I remember the green lantern’s oath too. I loved her so much ugh her design is the best out of all the justice league “kids”.

#rwby #rwby x justice league #sardina reviews #bumbleby

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azazel-dreams · 3 months

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Justice League x RWBY - Superheroes & Huntsmen

Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤

#justice league #RWBY #Justice League x RWBY #Superheroes & Huntsmen #films #film recommendation #film reviews

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retrokid616 · 2 months

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MY thoughts on RT

so normally by now i should be prepping my pregame for this week's cr but i'm gonna keep this short because i said more yesterday as this happened on my youtube channel and other platforms so to sum it up...

1. I love and respect RT since RVB

2. holly shit i have nothing but respect for every RWBY fan right now more than ever

finally 3. this sucks i've seen this company change so much after 21 years the good and the bad but i've always thought they make it in the end but i guess not so to all rt content and staff i don't have time to express how hartboken i am with you i wish you luck where ever y'all go in the future

yes i am that much of a old nerd to quote back to the future 3 but it may be cringe to some but it's the most honest i feel for y'all right now anyway good luck to you all.

#rooster teeth #my thoughts #retrokid reviews #live blogging #back to the future part 3 #godspeed RT #long live RT #rwby #ah #f-ck face #face jam #funhaus #2024 so far #21 years of fun #ever wonder why were here?#red vs blue

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shortkingvi · 1 year

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misery! sadness! the bees are holding hands 😊 hopelessness! tragedy! weiss is running in circles 😔 devastation! loss!

#v9 review thank u #rwby

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historyhermann · 4 months

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My top ten animated shows for 2023

Collage of all ten top animated TV shows for me in 2023, using available screenshots. Top row: Kizazi Moto (left), The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder (middle), Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (right). Middle row: Villainous (left), Supa Team 4 (middle), My Adventures with Superman (right). Bottom row: Disenchantment (left), Adventure Time: Distant Lands and Young Love (middle two), and RWBY (right)

I decided to put together my own list of my top ten animated series for 2023. I'll be focusing only on Western animated series, not anime or films. Like Jean pointed out, this year, for television, was tumultuous, with the twin strikes of actors and writers through the summer and into the fall, leading to delays. However, this, generally, did not impact animated series, only live-action ones, for the most part. There are rumblings on social media of a possible strike by the Animation Guild when the union's contract with Hollywood studios expires next year. Whether that comes to pass or not, the impact of this year's strikes will undoubtedly impact future creatives in animation.

There are many shows worth putting in this list. I struggled with only choosing ten shows. However, I'm content with those which made it onto the list, reflective of my (sometimes) eclectic and animation-heavy tastes. Although I watched live-action series in this past year, like Jean, I didn't watch enough of them for an entire list. This year was, as Jean pointed out, strange when it comes to entertainment. I see that as a positive. I look forward to the series upcoming in 2024 and 2025. The Disney animation powerhouse will lead the way, followed behind by other studios. As a warning, this review will discuss murder, blood, death, mental health, near-death experiences, gentrification, sexism, suicide, blood, torture, and abuse.

excerpted from "Burkely's Top Ten Animated TV Shows of 2023"

10. "Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire - Streaming on Disney+"

9. "The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder - Streaming on Disney+"

8. "Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur - Streaming on Disney+"

7. "Villainous - Streaming on Max"

6. "Supa Team 4- Streaming on Netflix"

5. "My Adventures with Superman - Streaming on Max"

4. "Disenchantment - Streaming on Netflix"

3. "Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake - Streaming on Max"

2. "Young Love - Streaming on Max"

1. "RWBY - Streaming on Crunchyroll"

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