#anne hunter

[amphibia-a-day]

Day 1252 of Amphibia Screenshots

Episode: Anne Hunter

[antiqueanimals]

What's in the Pond? Written and illustrated by Anne Hunter in watercolour, colored pencil, and ink. 1999.

[nerdalmighty]

This dance has been in our family for generations.

[thekingofwinterblog]

I love how Amphibia had an entire episode where Anne tapped into the godlike power of the Calamity Box for the entire episode, and it was completely played for dark comedy because she thought the helpful spirit advisor she created to help her was a hallucination from finally having snapped from all the stress and bad things that happen in her life.

Only in Amphibia

[alilweirddragon]

Hop Pop in Anne Hunter: "It could be poisonous, it could be psychic. IT COULD BE POISONOUS AND PSYCHIC!"

Olivia and Yunan:

Don't know about the poisonous part but the psychic could be right

[vivizcroissant]

Ok, in "Anne Hunter", Anne asks if she can get a cool weapon to hunt and says:

"A crossbow? A kunai? A crossbow that shoots kunai?"

And besides being a reference to Marcy and Sasha, it's basically what happened in "The Dinner"! Sasha bring a dagger, but Marcy used her crossbow to shoot the wasps's stingers, which look like kunai!

[violettesiren]

Forget, forget the playful time, Let every trace be done away, When I with many an idle rhyme Was wont to waste the summer's day.

Then hope was new, and love was young, And fancy on her poet smil'd, And as my roundelay I sung The cares of life my song beguil'd.

Now hope is fled, the heart grows cold, And fancy wears a cypress crown; The roundelay grows dull and old, And all the gay delights are flown.

Forget, forget the playful time, Let every trace be done away, When I with many an idle rhyme Was wont to waste the summer's day.

The Roundelay by Anne Hunter

[sepublic]

           Honestly? Anne Hunter’s ending segment, with Anne doing the Plantar Hunter Dance, might be one of my favorite bits from the show EVER.

           I was expecting the show to go a more traditional route by having Anne learn to hunt the ‘normal’ way, with an arrow and all… But the music. The atmosphere! The sound effects, it’s just… SSOOO good! The rhythm of the song and the exact sounds they used to convey it, especially the wood-pecker, is legitimately entrancing- No wonder the Scorpileo was mesmerized! Brilliant shots and framing… The animation was really good and pretty fluid at this point, and I love how Anne moves so weirdly, yet smoothly and PROUDLY with it all! Legit, with her legs splayed out and bent, her posture really reminded me of a frog- Which lends to this image of Anne becoming truly one not just with nature, but with the world of Amphibia! 

          This is peak Feral Anne, but in a very groovy, rhythmatic sense; The whole scene was like something out of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts! That is to say… It was VERY entertaining and I legit found myself moving and bopping to the beat, the entire time! I could honestly watch Anne do that dance multiple times, I love how unabashedly weird she can get. Anne isn’t JUST aligned with the Frogs at this point, nor is she a Plantar in the honorary sense- She may as well LITERALLY be a Frog and a Plantar! And it was a very neat touch to have some of the plants in the background look like her waving arms, very nice…

           I can already see people being disappointed that the actual action sequence was just ‘fake’, that the glowing blue arrow and Astral Sprig were just a figment of Anne’s imagination (although maybe it’s Anne subconsciously realizing the extent of the power in her, I dunno), but honestly? I feel like what we actually got was MUCH better than what I’d anticipated! The Plantar Hunt dance is arguably one of my favorite sequences in the entire show, because it just so beautifully embraces the wild, frog aesthetic, the same way Anne does in-universe! It’s very meta and just plain fun.