Leila Hamm 9/17/24 Leila Hamm 9/17/24

Katalepsis III: "Conditions of Absolute Reality" (part one)

Now in the company of some conveniently attractive local occultists, Heather is on a mission to rescue her long lost sister from the lair of a reality-warping god monster, using that monster's own power and hoping it doesn't damn her. Also she's fighting local baddies, making friends with From Beyond fauna, and being a queer harem protagonist, just to keep things from getting too dark.

Leila Hamm 9/15/24 Leila Hamm 9/15/24

Poorly Drawn Lines S1E5: "Exercise Day"

If any of you have seen the animated "Peanuts" or "Garfield" cartoons, it kind of has that sort of vibe.

Leila Hamm 9/14/24 Leila Hamm 9/14/24

Bee and Puppycat (pilot)

In which we take a depressing "cringefail girl" sitcom and suddenly invade it with a weird mixture of Adventure Time, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and maybe a little bit of Captain Harlock.

Leila Hamm 9/12/24 Leila Hamm 9/12/24

OK K.O. S1E32: "No More Pow Cards"

I don't think I'm ever going to grow to like this show's visual style.

Leila Hamm 9/12/24 Leila Hamm 9/12/24

"Double King"

I don't know what - if anything - "Double King" is saying. But I don't know that it needs to say anything to succeed at being itself.

Leila Hamm 9/2/24 Leila Hamm 9/2/24

Hilda S1E3: "The Bird Parade"

Family-friendly entertainment media is hardly a new concept of course, but something about the way that Hilda does it feels like the medium making itself part of the message.

Leila Hamm 8/31/24 Leila Hamm 8/31/24

Hilda S1E1-3

I've seen cartoons with better visuals than "Hilda," but I'm not sure if I've seen any that do as much with as little as "Hilda."

Leila Hamm 8/28/24 Leila Hamm 8/28/24

The Promised Neverland #2-3: "The Way Out" and "A Declaration of War"

I'm honestly not sure if her being human makes her slightly less of a monster, or slightly more of one.

Leila Hamm 8/25/24 Leila Hamm 8/25/24

The Promised Neverland #1: "Grace Field House"

All their beliefs, all their security, and the only adult who they ever had - the only parent figure in their frame of reference - all gone in the blink of an eye.

Leila Hamm 8/22/24 Leila Hamm 8/22/24

Mob Psycho 100 S2E3-5 (continued)

It might not be literal, but it is true. It is an accurate artistic representation.

Leila Hamm 8/20/24 Leila Hamm 8/20/24

Mob Psycho 100 S2E3-5

Weird in a different way than MP100 normally is.

Leila Hamm 8/13/24 Leila Hamm 8/13/24

"Little Runmo" and "The Amazing Digital Circus"

A vibe that I’ve come to call “Nintendo Gnostic.”

Leila Hamm 8/9/24 Leila Hamm 8/9/24

All Night Laundry (chapters 1-2)

And that's just the guy's dirty laundry. The man himself is even more dangerous. And his employer, meanwhile, well.

Leila Hamm 8/9/24 Leila Hamm 8/9/24

Gargoyles S1E1-5: "Awakening" (continued)

Now, you might be asking: "how the hell did someone like this end up in the NYPD?" The answer is that 90's cartoon cops are a mythological creature that bears only coincidental resemblance to anything in real life. They are much like the gargoyles themselves in this way.

Leila Hamm 8/4/24 Leila Hamm 8/4/24

Gargoyles S1E1-5: "Awakening"

Yeah don't ask me how those thin little support struts are supposed to hold up half a castle's worth of weight. Or how the tower is supposed to hold them up in turn. There was another wizard involved in building this office building I guess.

Leila Hamm 8/4/24 Leila Hamm 8/4/24

Sonny Boy E1-3

"Sonny Boy" is an experimental original anime that came out in 2021, and that dared to ask the question "what if a bunch of high schoolers got randomly teleported into a series of sociology thought experiments?"

Did asking this question actually require very much daring? On second thoughts, no, not really. Still a decent premise though.