Animators React to LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS Bad & Great Cartoons 

Studio Ghibli should be its own episode going through the decades and the evolution of its animation. There are lots of great shows to go through like Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Earwig and the Witch. It would be really cool to see how one studio adapted its form over time.

Definitely agree with having a mega episode for Everything Everywhere All At Once, would love to have all sorts of different guests in the studio bouncing off eachother.

I feel like the “B roll” on this show during the guest’s explanations is spectacularly underrated. Like…. They are just giving an example, and then you guys had to go find video showing the technique or example being described. Always amazing.

I watch that show mainly for the different animation styles. So fascinating to see how it's done.

Honestly, I kinda love Alex's idea. Imagine having the VFX artist, the stunt coordinator, and the animator all present for something like the dragon scene from Shang-Chi. Obviously that doesn't have to be it since its something the show has already covered, but a holistic picture view by having everyone there would be neat to see.

I love that Nico uses his knowledge to setup good questions that let the guests talk, rather than spending the time flexing. It makes this series much richer.

It would be soooooo amazing to see stunt, vfx & animation experts all at one episode for Everything, Everywhere, All at once...

SDF Macross: Do You Remember Love is often an overlooked masterpiece. It came out in 1984 and is overshadowed by the big hits like Akira and Nausicaa, but it's got a very different and distinct look and animation to it. The attention to detail on the mechanical parts are huge, seeing the fighter craft and space ships move and articulate all their components is incredible. As much as the classics deserved to be talked about on the show, DYRL is something quite special indeed and shouldn't be missed.

You can't look at 80's animation without looking at Akira. It's simply iconic

Definitely agree with Alex's suggestion on Everything Everywhere All At Once. Invite all different teams (Stunts, VFX, Animation, etc) for a mega episode. And just this once, make it longer for this specific video on YT. The website is great and all, but I would love this mega specific episode of Everything Everywhere All At Once, to be on YT.

Is this the only LDR episode they did? Would have been great to see the reactions cover more of the first two seasons; my favourite episode of the show is actually the very first, Sonnie's Edge as it's just so well done and riddled with details for later viewings. Lucky 13 and Life Hutch are also both superbly done.

"Robot Carnival" (1987), a collection of short movies in different styles, similar to "LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS", is a forgotten jewel in my point of view. "FLCL" (2000) was a great rebel-style anime from the time Gainax could throw Evangelion-money at controversial stuff. "Akira" of course. It changed Anime forever.

That idea Alex had at the end there would actually be awesome. Everything Everywhere All At Once is an amazing movie full of all different kinds of things, it would be cool to have a reacts with multiple different topics on a single movie

The editing on these videos is so top notch. The pro explains a detail, and we get a clip that perfectly encapsulates it. One of the very best series on RU-vid.

Ok, I have a new reason to love these react videos from these guys: finding out a guy you were in band with in high school is a well respected animator for big movies!

Jean (Moebius) Giraud is one of those artists who's widely respected and well known, but he still somehow feels under-appreciated. I'm glad to hear him mentioned as an inspiration, which is true, but I hate to point out that he did not create Valerian and Lauraline (that was Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mezieres. Although both Mazieres and Moebius were inspired heavily by Herge of Tintin fame). Moebius did create classics such as Blueberry, The Incal (with Alejandro Jodorowsky, soon to be adapted by Taika Waititi), and Arzach, which was first printed in Heavy Metal (Metal Hurlant) as he was one of the major contributors during the magazine's rise. He's a long time favorite for myself and many other artists and film makers. If you look at the long list of people he inspired you would see that Science Fiction wouldn't even remotely be what it is today without him. He's pretty much number 1 when it comes to sci-fi artists, much like Frank Frazetta was for Fantasy. I could recommend so much 80s anime in film, but I feel like the comment section is doing a good job with that. Instead, I would like to keep the theme of French artists by recommending the films of Rene Laloux. He is most famous for 1973's Fantastic Planet, but he also made quite a few short films, and two other full length features; The Masters of Time (1982) (aka Time Masters, or Les Maitres du Temps. Which uses designs from Moebius himself) and Gandahar (1987).

The heightened since of focus and education in this episode was actually really refreshing. Something about the way Niko was driving the entire episode was just a little different today; and I really enjoyed it.

As someone who’s an amateur animator, I’m so happy to see this

I love the Everything Everywhere All At Once idea. Stunt, VFX and animation experts discussing the movie.

For 80s anime, Macross: Do You Remember Love?, Dirty Pair: Project Eden, Project A-Ko, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Megazone 23, Windaria (also known as Once Upon a Time), Vampire Hunter D, and of course Akira. If you look at any 80s anime series, check out Bubblegum Crisis and Bubblegum Crash. Also, the Dirty Pair OVA collection.

This is giving me such ANIMATRIX vives! Different directors doing each episode, with different art styles. Already loving it!!

Thanks for the feature guys! I love the amazing content you guys make

This was such a fantastic episode! So much knowledge shared and insight. Really one of the best! A whole episode dedicated to everything everywhere all at once!

Man, the edit of this video was 👌 all the detailed shot of everything they sey, EVERYTHING. Congrats to the editor 👏👏👏👏

The first "Patlabor the movie" started in the late 80s. It's one of my all time favorite robot anime. Hope you guys can check it out. Part 2 and 3 of the movie series are just the peak of hand drawn anime and cinematic storytelling.

Is Alex becoming the Gui of Animators react?... yeah!. Soon he is going to be leading the segment 👌.

I discovered this channel a few years ago. Your Videos and content especially the React Videos are so inspiring. Love that format. I wish u all the best. Its very nice to see the progression of the show and the channel and all the new faces from the industry that come to the couch. Just awesome what u guys do. Greetz from germany 🇩🇪 👏🏻

Amazeballz, I have been waiting for this episode for sooo long. Thank you!

Even though it's not really in the 80s, I would highly suggest anything made by Satoshi Kon! Perfect Blue, Paprika, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, etc. He's a master when it comes to surreal anime storytelling and it reflect highly on his visuals!

Yessssss, I've been waiting for this. I'm obsessed with this show (LDR), allowing creative people to just go wild

It's not 80s but, Patlabor has some plain BEAUTIFUL animation, especially part 2s Gunship scene. It is pure visual bliss

One of my favorites was always Bubblegum Crisis. The creator wanted the suits to make sense mechanically when put on, and got to love how it did things like having the name of Priss' band be The Replicants, as a nod to Blade Runner.

I recommend animations from the 80s by Shiro Masamune; like Appleseed and Black Magic M-66. He would later go on to make Ghost in the Shell.

God I love how amazing Love Death and Robots is in terms of the creativity and diverse art styles and stories, it's feels like people are letting loose and creating the coolest things they can think of with minimal restrictions Though I really wish some of the ideas were picked up to become a full on series, like Good Hunting (the cyborg fox woman) and Sonnie's Edge (cyberpunk underground beast fights)

I love the robots in the apocalypse, I would like a whole season of just those robots exploring the post apocalyptic world that's now fun by cats Not that ours isn't run by cats now

This was honestly one of my favorite episodes. There was so much to learn. And i would love to see an episode of "Everyone, everywhere, here all at once" ...Stunt people, Animation, and effects!!! Yes, please give us that, it was such an amazing movie.

"Robot Carnival." It is basically "Love Death + Robots", as an anime from the 80s. There are physical copies however I've recently watched it on prime.

Ghost In The Shell, intro and warehouse battle are the greatest animation in an anime.

I don’t THINK you’ve covered it before - correct me if I’m wrong - but I just finished watching Life of Pi for the first time in years, and the visual effects are still stunningly good. Not just on Richard Parker, which is incredible animation by the way, but so many other effects shots. The sinking of the ship is just amazing. It’d definitely be worth a look on a future episode!

I would 100% pay for a more thorough hour(s) long analyses of shows by animators and vfx artists like this. The insight you get is just incredible

The most insane part isn’t Love Death and Robots, or the cgi and art styles. But the fact Honkai decided to sponsor and show themselves here of all places.

Just realized, possibly, that I saw Alex back in December 2013 in NYC, when he and several animators and artists led an industry panel with WDFA. I was so enthralled I decided to, no matter what, get into animation within some extent. It took 9 years, and Disney Animation is still pie in the sky, but I'm now an in house motion graphics animator.

good to have ya all back. great guests as always

Yes, they finally did it! Awesome episode. I hope there will be more, still a lot of episodes worth covering in those three seasons of LDR.

Congratulations on having ur channel back. I wish you guys all the best. Keep impressing us like you always do.

I was trying to explain to someone the other day the importance of this show and what y’all do and all that I’ve learned from it despite not being an animator or in film at all, and the person just did not get it. I’ve learned so much from this show that has informed what I do creatively and just in general has improved my quality of life so much it cannot be over stated and I love it! Thanks again for all that y’all’s work has done for me. Plus I’m getting my friends into y’all’s work and that’s exciting!

So happy to see you used my tutorial in one of your examples! Thank you!

That everything everywhere all at once episode sounds really cool. Even though it would be a scheduling nightmare

1: A Mega Collab Episode for Everything, Everywhere All At Once would be EPIC! It needs to happen eventually! 2:For an Old School Anime give Gunsmith Cats a try! Its not exactly 80's but its slick son! Also give Vampire Hunter D a look!

Angel's Egg and Akira were both in the 80's, but I would love to see a mention of Neo Tokyo (meikyuu monogatari) from 1987. It's a 50 minute anthology of three separate shorts, very technically and aesthetically innovative.

I hope you'll react to "bad traveling" and "beyond the Aquila rift", too. Those are my absolute favorite episodes and I wish to also get a little more inside from the creators. Especially what they had in mind, when they made the ending of "Beyond the Aquila Rift"

i love the guest and i would love more animators react and the theme that you chose is fantastic plis make an episode, there will be a lot to analize.

Amateur 2d animator here! Love all the Reacts shows! It's great that you guys talk animation as well! As for 80s anime: Akira (Obviously), Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind, Patlabor, Neo Tokyo... And Ninja Scroll if I can squeeze one in from 1993.

That shot at 8:24 immediately reminded me of pwnisher's render challenge. I like to think that they were referencing how hugely popular that challenge got.

I would personally watch the Everything Everywhere video on repeat overnight just to make it worth y’all’s while, that’s such a good idea

you offer the look behind the curtain - vet the reveals even enhance the excitement on the rewatch of the source material. that is movie magic

Visions of Escaflowne is an amazing anime that’s pretty old (i don’t know if it is from the 80’s but it could be) some of the designs choices of the anime are insane and it would be so cool to see you react to it :x

Would love to see an animators react to Arc System Works and their games. Their approach to toon shading and framerate manipulation for recreating 2d is pretty revolutionary.

as somebody working in 2D animation compositing I'm so grateful you guys shed light on this part of the process!

It's the little star flash before a large break or explosion for me. Tickles my britches every time

Welcome back Corridor Crew! The channel got hacked, & they still managed to get an "Animators React" video up on Saturday, that is legit professionalism! ❤U!

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is an amazing anime movie from the 80s. Correct me if I’m wrong but I think it’s one of the first movies Studio Ghibli ever made.

The chaos an episode would have if you had a full couch + arm chairs + bean bags with all the professionals just talking about a movie would be fantastic!

Thanks I'm a massive Love+Death+Robots fan. I searched but can't find any analysis of Fooly Cooley by your crew, would love to hear you cover that bit of animated history.

I would love to see some “before its time” type stuff, hedgehog and the fog, mindgame, any off the beaten path stuff to be analyzed would be awesome

Ghibli's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind has some amazing animation. The flying, the fights, the demon beam at the end... A masterclass.

Yesssss, finally an episode on Love Death & Robots ! Especially happy about The Very Pulse of the Machine part of this episode !

Love your channel, I never miss a video! I think you guys should do an episode focused on puppetry and stop motion! I’m a huge fan of both mediums, and think they can be as visually appealing as animation or visual effects. Specifically, both in honor of the movie’s 40th anniversary this year, and because it just an amazing scene, the puppet show scene of episode 7 of Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance on Netflix

For me, 80s animation has to be Macross Do You Remember Love? The cell shading is beautiful. Unlike the TV series, they actually had a bigger budget. And Japanese animators are great with motion before there was motion capture.

Awesome, was waiting for this for sooooo long. This really is the pinnaecle of animation (CGI and otherwise) at this point. And besides that, most of the episodes are really amazing stories too!

Amazing episode. And also wow, we were so close to knowing whether Alex is uncut or not. You guys should probably tell your guests when they should adjust their shorts unless it's a flex on purpose 😐 11:57

GUNDAM, the time they take to draw tech/mech is so detailed and i love it

A WHOLE EPISIDE on Love, Death and Robots?! We've been waiting for this!!

"The Five Star Stories" Good luck finding it without going into the grey zone, but my God it is gorgeously animated. Other notables: "Arcadia Of My Youth", "SDF Macross" (TV series)/DYRL (movie version), Aura Battler Dunbine (TV series), Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Mobile Suit ZZ Gundam (both series), Bubblegum Crisis 2032 (OVA series), Megazone 23 (OVA series), Appleseed (80s OVA), Akira (classic film), and--last, but not least-- _LEGEND OF THE GALACTIC HEROES!_ (Yes, its original OVA run began in the late 80s.)

love love love their comment !!! so knowledgeable and great , inspiring as dream to be director for animation one day

Check out Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Especially the way the Ohmu are animated. Their shells are painted segments, but their legs are traditional cell animation. Very clever blend.

Keep it coming, I love the Series and Your Reactions, Guess what there's an upcoming Vol.4, for LOVE, DEATH AND ROBOTS

For a great 80's animation example, maybe try The Guyver? It is a series so the animation is the down and dirty cheap animation, but some of the effects and stylistic choices they made really gave it a look that managed to punch above its weight class in quality, while still keeping the number of drawn frames to a minimum in order to keep the fast series schedule they needed.

Appreciate the look at 2D animation on this channel

Alex's idea to get everyone on the couch for a unique episode would be amazing! Logisitically, I can see this being difficult to align calendars, but I have faith in my Corridor Crew ;)

Great animes from the 80’s with beautiful animation Neo Tokyo (1987) Grave of the fireflies (1988) Akira (1988) Nausicaa of the valley of the wind (1984) Memories (3eps) (1995) ….not from the 80’s but it needs to be talked about

Oh man, the 80s had some great anime to go through! I would definitely recommend Akira and Twilight of the Cockroaches, The Guyver, Demon City Shinjuku, the original Dragon Ball (maybe a comparison between that and the new 3D Dragon Ball movie that just came out?) There were also some great giant robot shows then too: Macross, GoLion, Gundam!

Loved this episode, thanks guys for all the fun time

Redline is an amazingly animated anime movie with over 7 years of production from one of the best studio's at that time. Released in 2009 instead of the 80s although i still recommend you check it out

I would love to see you react to Patlabor or Ghost In The Shell. Heck, the dogfight in Macross Plus was bloody amazing and still holds up today. Always loved that style in anime. Even GitS from 95 has some amazing callbacks to the handanimated 80's. Anything mecha from the 80's to the 90's I'm totally down for.

This episode was great. Felt as though as I was in a masterclass for animation/movie direction or something. Great job guys.

Laputa (Castle in the sky) - the part where the robot wakes up in the castle - theres some amazing areas where the metal doors are being shot by the laser eye and circles out in a really cool unique way which totally sells the concept. Very cool stuff there to react to!

so happy one of my fav artists work got displayed....hicham habchi did killer designs in kill team kill

Some of the most impressive animation from the 80s I've seen is in Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise. It was the debut title for Gainax which would go on to make Evangelion and others. The Rocket launch/invasion scene is some of the most impressive hand animation I've ever seen.

I had to go back in time for some of these memories. Anime that wasn't necessarily amazing, but visually extremely impressive - listed by how stupidly long their title is: Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (1987) Super Dimensional Fortress Macross (1984) Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend (1987) Angel's Egg (1985) Akira (1988)

If we're talking anime from the '80s, it would be cool to see the evolution of animation specifically within the Gundam franchise. Mobile Suit Gundam to Z Gundam alone shows a significant improvement, but they're really only a few years apart.

Love the tease for Wicked City at the end and would love it even more to see u guys react to it too

you should definitely check out Akira, grave of the fireflies, Kiki's delivery service, first of the north star, Gundam char's counter attack. those are great animated anime in the 80s

After a devastating event finally, our lovely episode comes back,

At some point, could you cover how even the most amazing animation in ❤️❌🤖 still struggles with uncanny valley in its “photo real” humans? As single shots they’re fantastic, but so often they have stiff faces, even if “the pores stretch”, and there’s always something off about their movements…

OMG thanks for bringing those two fellas in. I could watch this forever. Immense love for LD&R.

Everything Everywhere At Once made me fall in love with movies again. The Daniels and Russo brothers seem really decent and would be worth contacting for an episode before the Oscar hype kicks in. Screening the movie on a projector once a week at my place, everyone everywhere is invited.

I'd love to see the Corridor Crew react to Mike Habjan's Superman VS Hulk series of videos, that'd be awesome!

Not an animation one but just seen a Ladbrokes ad in the UK that's based around Rocky I with a lot of other stuff imposed - love to see it explained haha

nausica valley of the wind, has amazing creature designs and mind blowing sets.