How Invincible fight girl spoke to me as an artist. (A Heavily personal post)
Look. This might be explained how it dose pretty badly and I'm a bit biased because I really like this show so bear with me.
Yes I know the show isn't really about being an artist and the strangles of it. It's a show about a girl who wants to be a wrestler. Not the BEST wrestler . Just A wrestler and fallowing her dream and finding friends along the way who are interested in sat dream but for different reasons.
But I feel like behind the cool wrestling curtains. There is also a story about following your dreams and for me personally . Wanting to be a artist . And yah I can hear it a mile away. "but isn't that what mha also did" probably idk I didn't watch it to say yes or no. But this isn't about "who did what first"
it's about how this show showed up in the right time in my life and how it feels more of a personal journey of an artist than just a wrestling show . Aka my interpretation of this show.
So how did I get through this conclusion. Well it was a moment from the fifth episode " the perfect streak". And I can't really put it in to words so just going to show it to you
And that when I started to look at this show in a different light. Instead of it just being a cool action show about wrestling. It's really about someone who wants to be something they see as cool and they want to be like set cool thing. And they'll do anything to be it. Even if it starts to hurt you. It's all going to be worth it.
And as an artist. I relate to this more than any other show, movie, character about it
I see the perfect streak it salf as a metaphor of things artists struggle to draw. Like hands,autonomy,poses,perspective stuff like that.
And the wooden doll Andy used to punch as a kid is also a metaphor of things artists used to struggle with as kids . Like a a basic body or hair or whatever you struggled with back then.
And when you remembered how it falt when you started out. When all you really had was a pencil and a pepper and some tutorials on YouTube. And that thing that inspired you in the first place. And when you did finally succeeded in drawing it. To everyone else you peaked. But to you. It was only the beginning of a journey that might last a bit longer than you thought.
And as you still going. All of this. Is just the beginning. So don't gave up.
But if you do. Then Cool it's not going to be the end of the world. Because your not living for the world. You're living for you. And yes that is a line from the busters. People who falled to achieve their own dream and gave up on it. And they seemed pretty comfortable and happy with it. I like that.
And I like how Mikey and Craig are in like a different spectrum of what they see in wrestling. Like what different people see in art.
Mikey likes wrestling. He likes learning it. Analyzing it writtening about it. But not Doing it. Say like an art critic or an art journalist. He loves it and wants to learn more about it but doesn't want to it or can't do it.
Craig on the other hand is someone who sees Andy's skills as a way to making him Rich and probably famous. Now he the side that sees value in art in like how rich is is going to be if he shows it to the world. But ill gave him credit that. He genuinely sees something in her. Instead of seeing what she can do to make him Rich and just being a shittie person to her.
And andy her salf. Yeah I like her. She's a pretty good protagonist. I like how shes detriment to be a wrestler. Even if she was supposed to be a accountnat but desided that she wants to be wrestler. Pushing her salf to the limit. Yah I see her as a pretty good role model for anyone who wants to be something in life .
And I might be salf projecting a little bit. But I can go on and on of why she is bast girl but I might go on for an hour and I've been writing this for 4 hours . Sooo yah.. I don't want to go on longer than I do.
Any way. What did I mean when I said "this show showed up in the right time in my life" well.. It's a long story. Also this is SUPER porsonl so if you don't want to read then skip it there OK :3
Alright where do I start from that mess..
You back in July. I falled 3 classes. Physics,math, and chemistry and oh boy it was nightmare. And when I repeat it the final exams. I falled at math and.... It was the darkest part of my life so far. I couldn't eat. Couldn't sleep. I couldn't even have the strength to get up and study some time. And especially couldn't draw. And even if I did it looked bad. Or ugly. And sometimes I was thinking of dark things that I don't want to go deep in to here. And when I finally did repeat it by some miracle I did it. It's over 9th grade is finally done and I can go to art school now. And it falt like a dream I was so happy about it I literally screamed. I tried burning the math book but my brother needed it so I didn't.
But a few months later I tried attending to art school.. And I still don't understand why but they didn't expect me. There reason was I was to shy. To smell. To fragile that putting me in a school with people like them might result in a lot of bullying. So they said no. And my parents weren't happy about it. They cept blaming me for what happened. It only made me feel even more terrible about my salf.
And one faithful day the same day I wasn't expected in art school.
I was in my room looking for something to make me happy for onets and I saw that this new show that I was waiting for in 2022..oh cob I'm old.. Had Finley eraed. And it first episode was on YouTube. So I decided to watch it and when I did. It was good. I really liked it. Tho the animation was kinda off it still pretty good. And I tried finding the other episodes but couldn't. So I kinda forget about it. But I tried watching it. But a month later a friend of mine said " you're going to love Invincible fight girl" and I was like " I already do. I just don't know where to watch it." And they gave me a way to watch it. W.c.o it was only 7 episodes in at the time I came back to it. I binged it in one siting. And to say I was obsessed would be an understandment of the decade.
It was everything I ever wanted from a show. it was GREAT IT WAS FUN IT WAS IT WAS SAD IT Was...Inspirational and I was in need of it at that time and I love it for that alone. It basically changed my life.
I started seeing my self in these silly quirky characters. Like how Mikey is seen for who he could be and not what he wants to be by his family. How no matter what bertie dose. Her parents will never gave her the time of day. And if they do. It was only for them to call her something mean for doing it.
But I saw my self in Andy the most. Her journey speaks volumes to me. How even if everything was against her and no supported her (at the time) she still did it. And that was only the beginning of the journey. And I can't wait to she's up to in the next few years. If Invincible fight girl doesn't get a season two right now. I will fly to the US and buy a chainsaw and go to David zaslv's office AND-- okay that was a bit to far.
So TLDR Invincible fight girl is a story about following your dreams but also the dangers of set dreams that it can caus to you. Like being an artist
And at times like this one . We need this tip of show.
