Animators React to Bad & Great ANIME 2 

I love animators react. Hope you get Genndy Tartakovsky for one of these. His shows are legendary.

“Oddly dark or twisted episode.” My brain went straight to courage the cowardly dog. One of the strangest designs in cartoons and even CGI sometimes.

The new Trigun got a lot of flack for not being exactly like the source material, but I absolutely loved it. The passion put into it was super apparent

Wren’s face watching Chainsaw Man at 4:43 is priceless 😂

Studio Orange is the anime studio that has been getting cg anime done right. They do such a clean job animating and marrying the characters into the environments. And it doesn't feel like they are just trying to make an anime but in cg or awkwardly sticking 3d models in with 2d animation. They have also been adapting really enjoyable series which makes it very easy to tell people to watch their stuff.

LAND OF THE LUSTROUS. In my opinion, it's Studio Orange's underappreciated masterpiece, what they do with the animation and storytelling is masterclass level

The blood-bending episode in Avatar: The Last Airbender is pretty dark. They did a pretty great job of creepifying the normally kung-fu-styled bending animations.

You talked so little about Trigun Stampede. Orange made a tool that would change the mesh of the characters depending on the perspective to mimic the anime style. (Sorry if I described it incorrectly, I'm not good with terminology) It's absolutely mind-blowing how much they evolved from Land of the Lustrous to Trigun. They're definitely the future of cgi anime.

Man, courage the cowardly dog had tons of episodes that just felt dark and such. The main one I can remember is the "return the slab" episode, always creeped me out as a child

THE LAST UNICORN is a classic animated film from my childhood that I loved specifically because it was SO much darker than anything else I was allowed to watch. I'd love to see someone tackle it on the show!

12:41 Episode 5 of Mob Psycho 100 Season 2 is absolutely amazingly animated, but the visuals are so much more gritty and dark than the show's artstyle usually is.

The breakdown of Trigun Stampede and Chainsawman is just a love letter to the animator and a big middle finger to the "fans" that keep whining this and that about those two great anime ❤

Alex was absolutely playing his cards pretty tight to his chest when talking about the corridor animatic... Would love to hear more of his genuine views on both how AI fits in this medium but how well this short aped more authentic anime...

Studio Orange is one of the biggest names in 3D anime. It's really cool to see you guys covering their work. If you decide to look at more of their work, I highly recommend Land of the Lustrous. There are some amazing scenes in it with some really cool use of camera perspective. It's all the more amazing since it's one of Studio Orange's earlier works. The Trash Taste podcast had one of their animators on for an episode which explained a lot of Studio Orange's process. They talked a lot about Trigun and was very informational regarding 3D anime.

The show Chowder from Cartoon Network had a cool texture effect going on, where the people would move but the texture would stay in the same place. Always thought it was unique

Love the chainsaw man appreciation, the anime is so unique with style and camera shots seeing it get that appreciation from an animators eye is awesome

4:43 I love how Wrens facial expression exactly mirrors mine, as I was watching the scenes from Chainsaw Man: Confusion, slight disgust and more confusion.

"The Southern Raiders" episode of Avatar The Last Airbender had a surprisingly dark exploration of revenge. "The Puppetmaster" episode as well. Granted ATLA is a much more mature than usual animated series. But those episodes still stood out as exceptionally dark.

I'm so happy you guys finally brought this series back. Hopefully you talk about more anime, and particularly the 2D animation.

I'd love to see Phil Tippet on an episode of the show, idk if it's animators or stop motion artists or what, but he's been in the industry for years and is still making fantastic art like Mad God.

i'd love to see an Animators react episode just about 90s Nicktoons. Some of the animation on the original seasons of rugrats was INSANE, same creative director as Aeon Flux

I think Invader Zim took an especially dark turn when he took a whole bunch of organs from school kids, because more organs means more human.

I love when Alex is on the show, everything about his insights and experience is amazing.

When it comes to dark animation, I immediately think of Watership Down- there are several different styles shown in it, from the very stylised parable of El-ahrairah at the start, to Fiver's nightmare vision, to the base animation itself - its one of the few animated films in which the style is highly realistic and gritty but still expressive enough to convey character emotions.

A fun stunt scene to look at is the original 1940s Mark of Zorro movie. There's a stunt where Zorro jumps a horse off a bridge into shallow water.

how to do anime: * ACTUAL ANIME * how NOT to do anime: * Corridor Rock Paper Scissors *

Loved the Video. More of Anime reactions would be appreciated. Your work is so good, thank you for delivering again.

These animators react are by far my fav videos, please keep them coming at a steady rate! :)

Would love an "animators react" to the Nimona movie! love the artstyle in that movie!

What Studio Orange has been doing with their CGI is really remarkable, especially with how fluid it was in Trigun. Chainsaw Man also has some amazing CG animation.

Hands down for most dark twist to a visually not-dark show is Made in the Abyss. I could point out plenty of scenes but i would say the elevator scene in particular or episode 10 of the first season where one of the characters receives a pretty horrific injury. It's just such an absurdly brutal show conceptually when it's artstyle is super chibi and cute. REALLY interesting core concept to the world and series, I think you guys would like it.

Trigun looks like someone took all the character intro and special attack animations from a fighting game and turned them into an anime. All those little things that have to grab your attention in the couple seconds they play for between gameplay, but it's one scene after the other with no intermission. And I mean that in the best way possible.

“you don’t notice the hands” I definitely did. and the faces 😂😂😂

There's an episode of the Gargoyles where Demona turns the whole city into statues and just start walking down the street blasting people even just shooting off the arms of one lady I could only imagine the horror she endured when she turned back to Human

spongebob - Squidward in Clarinetland is NIGHTMARE fuel, it starts off normal but then just gets weirder and weirder, its super short but so much happens... It used to make me scared when i was a kid

I would love to see you guys talk about the Midnight Gospel animation. I think it is beautiful, different and a good conversation to hear! Great episode! 😊

I remember an episode of Ed, Edd, and Eddy that I saw as a kid that was so strange and out of place it felt like a fever dream and for a while I thought I actually dreamed it because I didn't see it aired on TV again. I think Jimmy's outline (like, the one hes drawn with) is literally peeled off of him and he floats away like a smoke cloud. And thats just one of many 4th wall breaking things that episode. Idk if that classifies as dark but maybe worth checking out.

A very weird and oddly dark episode that immediately came to mind was the Adventure Time episode "No One Can Here You" where Finn goes unconscious and wakes up to find everyone gone except for Jake who has gone insane.

Space Dandy: A World Without Sadness, Baby. Is an oddly dark episode that has a very different tone from the rest of the show

Love this. I hope there’s more coming in the future

Since the fall season is slowly creeping in seeing y’all react to Over The Garden Wall would be cool especially the last few episodes fitting in with the somewhat dark theme

Any courage the cowardly dog episode always turns incredibly dark, but return the slab is infamous for scaring millions of kids in the 00’s lmaooo

i love this, many people doesn't like anime not being purely hand drawn, but nowadays, many anime applies CG in some part, at least in some of their scenes and i think it's inevitable. Can you guys react more about these stuff? I really expect more about anime that that fully CG such as expelled from paradise and arpeggio of blue steel

Gosh I am so happy you guys reacted to Trigun Stampede, literally is an absolute work of art in animation, cg, ost eveerryyyyyything. Part the fandom is so attached to the older 98' anime and not giving it a chance. Its STUNNING!

YES! FINALLY SOME ANIMATORS REACTS!!! Honestly, it's soo rare, but it's so fun to learn more about animation through you guys so I hope there is more.

I'd love you guys to cover 'Asterix In Britain'. The whole thing is gorgeous but the hand-animated ocean in the intro sequence is some of the best animated water I've ever seen.

The laser spin is also a great example of great direction. The point about "feeling himspinning the gun inside" really showas that. The build up of the cool looking spinning isn´t just there to just look cool. It directly sets up the finishing move that follows. The gun "charging" getting brighter in the colour of the beam, during the spinning trick. It directly feeds into the next event and already subconciously brings the mind to spinning the beam. The realisation of what will happen during the short build up of the laser being still directly comes from the ideas set up before. Thats how this stuff is done well. As George Lukas would say "It´s like poetry, it rymes."

First glad to see this series back! Second, here's a few dark and or twisted animated content I got some suggestions!: .first some Ed Edd n Eddy eps (aka my favorite show) Once Upon an Ed, Rock-a-Bye-Ed and The Day the Ed Stood Still 3 out of the 4 Wallace and Gromit shorts (since those are inspired by Alfred Hitchcock and other thriller films), The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, and A Matter of Loaf and Death Along with the Movie, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Dexter's Laboratory: Monstory Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation: L.I.C.E., Operation: U.T.O.P.I.A., Operation: L.O.C.K.D.O.W.N., Operation: S.I.T.T.E.R., Operation: B.U.L.L.I.E.S. and Operation: U.N.C.O.O.L. OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: We Got Hacked, Plaza Alone and The K.O. Trap Rocko's Modern Life: To Heck and Back, Sugar Frosted Frights, Ed is Dead: A Thriller!, She's the Toad (the WeeWee moment specifically) and Put to Pasture Glitch Techs: Castle Crawl Hey Arnold!: Haunted Train, Monkey Business and Phoebe Cheats Phineas and Ferb: Night of the Living Pharmacists the 2010s/2020s Mickey mouse shorts and specials: Ghoul Friend, The Scariest Story Ever: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular!, Black and White, For Whom the Booth Tolls and Just the Four of Us Wander Over Yonder: The Pet, The Search for Captain Tim and The Heebie Jeebies Bump in the Night: Farewell 2 Arms and the majority of Gumby eps. could be good footage to find Plus some classic shorts: Donald Duck shorts: Donald Duck and the Gorilla and Duck Pimples the Tex Avery short, How Do it? Looney Tunes shorts: Pigs is Pigs The Old Grey Hare, Hyde and Go Tweet phew well that should be more then enough hehe, yeah just wanted to give you guys plenty of options well hope this helps and can't wait for the next episode!

Clone Wars Umbaran arc had some dark stuff to it. There were many dark moments in Transformers Prime, which is a fantastic show in general

First one that comes to mind is TMNT 2003 and Danny Phantom. These shows have at LEAST one "what if" episode and that what if is DARK. ASF. In TMNT 2003, the episode "Same as it Never Was" details Donatello, often described as the gentle, kind hearted one in this and many iterations, goes to a future where the family he knows, is quite different, and the future isn't anything to look forward to. it's important to note Donatello's disposition because THAT'S what makes this episode super fricked up. Why DONNIE of all Turtles? In Danny Phantom the episode "The Ultimate Enemy" details Danny coming face to face with his own future self,, and it along with Donatello, is also nothing to look forward to. It makes you realize how much trauma Danny goes through on day to day basis, and still manages to hold through, mostly because of his support system. But if he didn't have that support system, his grief would be all consuming. Highly recommend you react to both. The animators do a lot of fun things with shadows, and angles that make the episodes stand out. Even to this day, I'll never forget the words "Some things my boy...are better left unsaid." along with "my brothers....my poor brothers."

Always a treat to have Alex on.

The Animals of Farthing Wood kinda traumatized me as a kid. Particularly the scene where the hedgehogs get run over. A mouse's babies also get impaled on thorn bushes. Yes, it's a kids' show. The "Future Tense" episode of Gargoyles where everybody dies was also pretty dark.

I love seeing animators react. Would love to see you guys react to some of Monty Oum's work (from Dead Fantasy, Red VS Blue and RWBY). In my opinion he animated some of the best fight scenes I've ever seen.

There are two dark and disturbing episodes from my childhood that still live rent free in my brain to this day: Dark Harvest from Invader Zim and No One Can Hear You from Adventure Time

I love your content. I've been watching for years. How am I just now finding out there's another channel called simply Corridor?

weird how 2 of the most memorible works that have been on the react shows were commercials. this snap and the train are insane works of art

This is my favorite series you do!! More animators please - animation is the crowning achievement of tv and film rn and deserves more attention

Twisted cartoon episode: there are a lot of crazy Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes but the “Return the Slab” guy is by far the most haunting for me

I remember an episode of Rocky & Bullwinkle (that's how old I am) where they went through a portal in the space-time-continuum and turned into vegetable versions of themselves. I'm pretty sure Rocky was an onion and I think Bullwinkle was a bunch of celery. I think it was a real episode, and not just a atrange dream, but it weirded me out enough that I still remember it more than 50 years later.

I am about 5-6 months behind on watching any Corridor stuff, so bear with me. I would love to see you all cover my favorite 80s cartoon, "Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers". It was one of the first *Western* cartoons to use anime in the space scenes and it had such a unique visual design for it's time. It doesn't get a lot of love, since it was only two seasons and didn't get a series ending wrap up show.

Trigun was one of my all time favorite anime's when I was growing up and when they said they were remaking it and that it was going to be CG, not going to lie I was completely put off. However decided to give it a try when it aired and it is outstanding. It's the first time watching a CG anime where just every episode visually something amazed me, it's well worth watching.

I love the Animators React episodes! Would be great if they looked at Land of the Lustrous for CGI animation and maybe also Promare Knights of Sidonia would be an interesting one for them to look at as well Violet Evergarden is also beautifully animated

Some pretty dark episodes I enjoyed were "Heart of Ice" - 'Batman: The Animated Series' and "I Remember You" - Adventure Time

1987 Christmas Claymation Special "Carol of the Bells" always hit me in a creepy yet lighthearted way

Studio Orange is fuckin’ incredible with their 3D CGI work. Ufotable is the runner up, in my opinion, mainly because Orange uses almost full 3D in all their shows while Ufotable is smart about incorporating 3D in the backgrounds for dynamic shots.

Invader Zim's Dark Harvest episode still sends chills down my spine...

Very viscerally memorable animation from my childhood: Rocko's Modern Life; the episode where they go to the baseball game; the part where the hammerhead shark gets hit in both eyes with the baseball. Jeeeezy Creezy! I will remember that slow motion animation for the rest of my life.

Bro, same period as ghostbusters : The Men in Black cartoon. The episodes with the ex MIB Agent using grafted alien body parts. Good stuff man.

a oddly dark animated episode i remember is the episode ¨haunted¨ of teen titans were robin mind was being tortured by alucinations of slade fighting with him but really he was fighting no one and only hurting himself

Finally, Trigun Stampede caught your attention guys! I'm a fan of the original anime (and its approach to the story) and Trigun Stampede brings another new approach to the Trigun universe. Besides of the story, Studio Orange is a beast of 3DCG anime, I can guarantee you'll mesmerized by their animation. They took all the essence of anime and express it through new techniques, just try watch the first episode and pay attention to the character's facial expression. Although they use 3D CGI, they never skip the dynamics of the expression and movement, Meryl Stryfe was never as cute as this latest rendition of her

12:48 Please, please talk about a long-forgotten show I used to love: The Pirates of Dark Water. It was so dark at times and I miss it.

the story book animation of the children's story from the middle of the anime Monster comes to mind for some reason.

I would really love to see you guys opinion on the anime "Gankutsuou" which is a futuristic adaption of The Count of Monte Cristo The anime style is really beautiful

Madoka Magica has a famous tone shift from lighthearted to super dark, but that was more than one episode and very intentional. I think Neon Genesis Evangelion had similar shifts in tone over the show. I would love either to be covered by Animators React!

For dark moments from animated series there are tons of 90s and early 2000s shows that fit the bill. Two that standout to me are: Batman TAS season 3 ep 4 and Batman Beyond season 1 ep 9. The TAS episode is the introduction of baby doll, this episode left me shook and it was the first time I learned about a pituitary gland issue that can leave full grown adults looking like children just like in the movie orphan. The batman beyond episode reintroduces bane and his venom compound. It is now a PED for teen athletes, called slappers, and the villian ODs at the end it was grueling. The episode really hammers in a conversation about addiction when you see bane's withered body after decades on venom. Oh and the static shock episode on school shooters and bullying, so dark.

Loved the episode! I would also reccomend Niko, Wren and Alex to watch the Fate Memorial Video of 2023. 3D, 2D mixed together so you have so much to look at and talk about. It's eye candy for everyone!~ Thank you guys

The Rugrats episode with the Big Baby nightmare. It was unnecessarily terrifying.

Would love to see you guys react to some of the original Beast Wars show. There is some important stuff with that one. Also, there are some strange choices made later seasons, but with character models from the first season.

I love Trigun and Trigun Stampede is visually so different it took some getting used to but i love them both now so much

I remember two episodes from the 90s Spider-man animated series Make-A-Wish and Attack of the Octobots. Doc Ock manages to control Spider-man and use him as his subordinate. A young girl saves him in the end. Spider-man brings her home. She asks him if he can take off his mask. He obliges. She says I won't tell anyone for as long as I live." When Spider-man leaves, the camera pulls out to reveal that the girl lives in a home for terminally ill children.

I'm waiting for the Across the Spider-Verse video. That needs a full episode dedicated to it.

A dark twisted episode for sure is the Nina Tucker episode in FullMetal Alchemist Brotherhood.

I can't unsee Alex doing reference vids for Olaf in Frozen 2 in the BTS doc on Disney+. He's definitely one of my favorite animators because of it.

I vividly remember watching Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island and having nightmares for a while after, it so different from everything else

Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man have great animation!

I was so glad that Trigun Stampede was done as well as it was. Easily one if not the best anime I’ve seen done with 3D animation.

For a dark episode of animated show... Adventure time? The episode with the deer with hands "No One can hear you"

When I was a wee sprog, back in the 60'sand 70's, there was a few shows that would go serious psychedelic in some sequences. One such show was Rocket Robin Hood. In season 3 they had a episode called "Dementia 5" which was seriously off the chain. at about 13;00. The character and background design was based on the style of Grey Morrow. You mght want to try the episode. It might not be to your cup of tea, but when I first saw it at 10, if was the wildest art on TV.

Animators React is the most informative of the react arcs. Love these so much. 🙌

Reboot produced some of the most disturbing nightmare fuel scenes and episodes of any "kids" show.

Always looking forward to this show!

You could take a look at "Crisis Joung" a french violent and funny anime. Great episode, as always.

A lot of their choices in their “anime” inspired shorts make more sense when you realize their level of emotional investment in the style 😂

Land of the Lustrous is a must have to be in this channel! I'm surprised it hasn't been checked out yet by you guys!

You're telling me Alex Snow had a Berserk shirt on and yall didn't react to Berserk CGI?! ❤ the show

I'd really love to see the guy(s) from Fortress Films come in and talk about Source Film Maker (SFM). They released a full length movie (Emesis Blue) using the TF2 IP and had such a crazy story and amazing lighting and animation as well!

Would love to see you guys cover south park some day, from the paper cut outs to the present. They have such a wide scope to look at and from what I understand were churning out episodes very quickly. would be dope to see matt and trey on here. Plus, team america was amazing and deserves a look at with all it's practicality. great video as always, look forward to the next one

I want to see either a VFX artists react or an Animators react to ANIMUSIC!!! They're cool and still hold up really well for their age. The midi-motion technology is super cool, too!

Not really an episode but a cartoon movie called The Brave Little Toaster, and it was just frightening as a child

would love any commentary on the film "Grave of the Fireflies" (1988) - how is that thing so effective at being sad!