yo, tell me about arcane. what the hell is it? lol it looks cool but ????
i just think of that mobile game
LOL Yeah, so it's an animated series on Netflix based on that mobile game (League of Legends), but speaking as someone who knew shit all about League before watching, it's pretty beginner friendly and is sort of like... adjacent... to the game, the characters/lore don't line up 1:1 etc.
Specifics of the plot would be kind of convoluted to explain without spoilers because it's one of those shows with a large ensemble cast whose individual motivations all collide to create the episode-to-episode events. The general set-up is that there's a rich scifi/fantasy city built overtop a much poorer slum and the two segments of the city are veering towards civil war. The main cast includes characters from both sides, from poor orphans to the richest woman in the city, etc, and I thought it did a pretty good job of presenting a cast of characters who are behaving understandably or sympathetically even as they're making objectively terrible decisions lmao.
The animation is the strongest part of the show, it's incredible. In addition to being very beautiful I don't think I've ever seen the level of detail, facial expression, etc in an animated series before (especially one for adults... god). Every character has so much personality in how they move, react, etc, even when they're in the background of a scene. Not tryna drag other animated shows because I know it's mostly a question of budget and time but like... the difference between this and She-Ra for example is unbelievable. The nuance to character performances feel more like I'm watching something live-action.
I think the story itself takes a little while to get going -- you really gotta hold on until episode 3 lol -- but once the pace picks up in the later episodes it's pretty breakneck. I liked or was interested in basically every character by the end and found a lot of the relationships compelling, including ships and familial ones and ones I didn't expect to care about. I watched most of it like "This is pretty good I guess" and then since the finale I've thought of little else and immediately started rewatching, lmao, so it was a sleeper hit for me.
Also Imagine Dragons is there for some reason
tl;dr I'd recommend giving it a shot if you like animation at all, or if you like scifi/fantasy ensemble casts. There's a lot of cool varied characters and there's women over the age of 25 etc. Also everyone is hot.
