Just want to praise Invincible Fight Girl
Because this is a modern show at all, let alone something that came from the remains of Cartoon Network, I'm pre-emptively worried about its future. So I should just say right now I kinda love this show and am rooting for it more than almost anything else right now. This is the type of kid's show I've wanted to exist since OK KO's pilot, a cartoon version of shonen anime (which for better or worse, OK KO rarely truly scratched that itch). And not just like a parody or love letter, but one that feels like it properly fits into that specific niche of "edited for Toonami" era anime.
There's a lot I like about it so far but the biggest one is that beyond the typical idea (both in and out of actual anime) of taking the most absurd ideas and turning them into over the top anime clichés (this time how ridiculous it makes the world of accounting look inside a world of wrestling), the series plays itself relatively straight beyond its initial episode. In particular, it really understands specific things in anime, like what angles things should look at at times or specific visuals, specific bits of animation, the atmosphere. It's so specific in a way I'm not sure I've not seen a cartoon pull off in this way (or if it was, it was again, for like a one-off in OK KO between its unending love letters to every single other thing the creators grew up with ever).
Considering how the series is 4 episodes out of 10 (probably actually 20, I know how this shit works), it also feels like the type of series that wants to do that level of shonen storytelling in terms of length too, which makes me so very concerned. I really hope in a year I'm not sad how the series is over just when its hitting its strive.
And in general, its a new action cartoon for kids at all. It exists, at all, without needing to be another DC comics adaptation. Despite a very comedic, goofy start and some standard kid's show comedy, it doesn't feel someone told them "has to be more wacky for the promos" or that they have to hide the premise of the show being taken seriously at all, it can take a lot of what it does seriously, and the jokes fit in fairly naturally.
Like the only problem I have is that because it is Cartoon Network show that's clearly a cartoon trying to be an anime, it occasionally hits a weird note where for some scenes it feels more like...I dunno, almost like an animated commercial for a graphic novel than an animated show. I think its also trying to do an intentional mix of high quality and minimal animation, and its more awkward at times than when a well made anime does the same, perhaps just because its not what I'm used to. But otherwise, its super fun to watch, especially the fights so far hit the hype I want from shonen, maybe not to like a Demon Slayer levels but again, for a classic Toonami era show, it hits exactly as well as it needs to, and then some.
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