*ARCANE* was NOT what I was expecting | S1 - Part 1 | First Time Watching (reaction/review) 

when you said “that poor girl… THESE poor GIRLS” i was like finally. people immediately lose their empathy for vi as soon as she lashes out on powder but… shes just a kid who just watched her whole family die in front of her eyes, AGAIN LIKE IN THE BEGINNING WITH HER MOTHER, because of a bomb her sister set off. she lost everything in one night, yes she was harsh with powder but shes a kid. she suffered a lot that night and her being villainized by a lot of people for her reaction is very concerning edit: to the replies saying they saw powder get most of the heat, that’s horrible too! from my experience I always see people immediately attack vi for how she reacted but what happened to both powder and vi is horrible. they’re BOTH kids and both shouldn’t be attacked! i’m just saying, vi may look mature and whatever but she’s still a kid and deserves empathy

riot cant make a balanced game or a non toxic community for shit but they sure as hell have one of the best writing teams to exist. the entire league of legends world has so much lore and is so big its insane.

"the villain..."this is a greek tragedy, no good, no bad, just characters trying to advance their agendas, protect their loved ones the best they can... and misery just ensues... "We are all villains in someone else's story".

Arcane is (and I don't use the word lightly) a masterpiece. From the visuals to the characters to the music to the story to the underlying themes, it's just a remarkable piece of art. So excited to see you experience the full ride of season 1!

Oppenheimer is not that far of Heimerdinger is a combo of the famous scientists, OppenHEIMER and SchröDINGER .

Imagine Dragons song fit so good, because it was written for specifically for the show. Even more so - EVERY SONG you hear and EVERY SOUND you hear were crafted by Riot's composers. If you're interested, defently check out "Arcane: Bridging the Rift" series, which is 5 parts top notch documentary on how show was written, animated, how songs were made etc. Very good sh****!

I have never clicked on a video SO FAST!! Arcane is one of THEE best animated series out there, and you can not change my mind. The writing, characters, story development, and animation are all just so top notch!! I might just go back and rewatch it again a 4th time...lmao

"I hate this." Man, do I ever feel this. My feelings at this point were "how DARE this show be so cruel, but so utterly brilliant about it." They laid the groundwork perfectly, and yet, very few even see it coming until it's right there. It's hard not to be impressed even while you're recovering from the emotional damage.

you don’t even understand how excited i am to see this, the squeal i just let out hahaha 😂😭

Vi hitting Powder comes from her way of solving Problems, meaning with fists. She just saw the dead Bodies of her brothers and her father figure drawing his last breath. Her response to the emotional turmoil within her can not include wise and thoughtfull factors. Her realising the fact that she hit her little sister is wrong is the most mature result she can fathom. She realises she needs to take some distance from the situation in order to protect Powder from herself in that moment. Although she only moved around the corner, not to far away from her which is indicating that she still wants to be there for her sister, but that idea was scrubbed by Marcus's actions to Vi. Arcane is an exellent adult drama series, don't let the fact it's animated fool you.

I'm glad you just didn't blame Vi. It's easy to understand Powder's POV and what she was trying to do, but people usually don't understand Vi's outburst. She had just lost three of the only four people she cared in the world and because of the fourth one. I imagine is maddening. But she regained control of herself after saying Power was a jinx and stepped aside to calm down. Unfortunately, because Marcus kidnapped her she couldn't come back and Powder felt abandoned. it's so so sad. Specially having a sister who I love the most in this world, I imagine how I'd feel if it was us. So unfair. Loved the reaction as always

you’re right to call vander father, along with powder (obv) milo and clagger are like vi’s brothers , they’re all wards of vanders 🥺

OMG YOU'RE WATCHING ARCANE You're not going to regret it I swear I'm a huge fan of ATLA and arcane may be my second favourite show, it's incredible

"I want that in a open world RPG-Game" --- Well, RIOT is working on exactly THIS as a MMORPG. But not only the city of piltover. ALL of Runeterra. 😄 "Looks like its all painted." --- Thats because IT IS 😆. 3D models, but completely hand painted textures and Background. They even painted several faces for each character depending on the lighting.

This was one show I was not expecting much of but it blew me away. The animation and writing are just incredible

I have always found it interesting that Jayce remembers everything about his rescuer, down to the exact movements and symbols he used, but he doesn't remember his face. Really shows how he views things.

Powders voice actresa was only 11 years old when recording this... Fakking _unreal,_ what a talent. Her name is *_Mia Sinclair Jenness._* You should probably remember that name. She will go places.

It's worth noting about episode 3, that topside and the undercity both conducted their first successful hextech experiments on the same night, at the same time. While Jayce and Victor hijacked professor Heimerdinger's office, Powder was making her monkey bomb.

This show is seriously phenomenal. It's truly amazing how good it is. And when you were wondering how it felt painted, that's because it was painted. While the sets and characters are 3D models, their textures are all hand painted and all the backgrounds are hand painted.

It looks like it's all painted because it IS painted lol. Every texture is hand drawn, the backgrounds are hand drawn images, and the effects are hand drawn frame by frame too. There's also no mocap, it's animated frame by frame. You should watch bridging the rift after finishing the show, it's the behind the scenes of the first season and it's just as enjoyable as the show itself. It really makes you appreciate the massive effort that was put into this show.

This is seriously one of the best pieces of FILM I’ve ever seen. The animation, the voice acting, the music, the story, EVERYTHING. I am SO excited to take this journey again with you.

from the creating Arcane miniseries "Interviewer: How do you give the textures that painterly look? Artist: Haha, We paint."

Adding another comment now that I've actually watched the whole thing lol. The way you catch on and understand the characters and setting so quickly is awesome! Yeah a lot of people will blame Vi at the end there, but you can see her instant regret after she hits Powder. You see her look at her bloodied knuckles, and probably remembering Vander telling her that her fists aren't always going to solve all her problems. So she goes around the corner to just calm down and get some space, but unfortunately the chips just don't fall well for either of them.

So cause you were asking, they never explain in the show how exactly Viktor got to Piltover because it got cut. But the reason they were throwing around (and the writers said this in interviews) was that Viktor's parents saved up all their money to buy one of the Academy's uniforms, which they then gave to Viktor. With the uniform he snuck into the academy and started studying as if he was any other student (I guess Viktor is a great liar when he wants to be). When he was finally found out it was by Professor Heimerdinger, whom instead of throwing Viktor off the premises and/or jailing him, took Viktor under his wing. That's why Viktor is assistant to the dean of the academy.

Favourite animated series EVER!! (Right behind ATLA) Also the reason the song fits so well is because the song enemy was literally made FOR this show.

YES YES YES, this series is purely perfect storytelling, breathtaking animation and acting, it blows you away. One of the best of recent years.

They build the conflict really well and also the fact that there is no good solution, not anymore. Vander does not want another uprising, because the last one cost so many lives, but in the meantime, his people are dying of starvation and being slowly poisoned by the water and the air. At this point, there are pretty much two ways: Keep the status quo, lettin the undercity slowly die and decay until their spirit is completly broken or fight, probably losing hundreds of people in the process with no guarabtee that things will egt better. no matter where you look, that isn't a good solution. The only way to do this without bloodshed would be Piltover giving sweeping apologies and starting to funnel quite a bit of money into the lanes for infrstructure, education etc. but I think we all know that isn't going to happen

The female enforcer with the gravelly voice is Shohreh Aghdashloo, an Iranian-American actress. She is beautiful and amazing. My favourite character of hers is in The Expanse, a sci-fi TV show based on a series of books by James S.A. Corey - a duo of writers, who have created an amazing and believable world. If you haven't watched that series you really should. I think you would love it. Also, you would probably like Altered Carbon, which I thought had a great concept.

“I didn’t think things could get that bad.” We were all there, mate. 😂

This is my favorite show of all time. Genuinely everything is so amazing. The music is my favorite and Spotify hit me with that fact cause the year it came out, I was in the top 0.001% of listeners XD I'm so glad you're taking the opportunity to watch this Oscar!!!

YES HES WATCHING ARCANE😮

I think a huge part of its success is the artstyle, it's a masterpiece

WHAT NO WAY YOUVE NEVER SEEN ARCANE AHHHHHHH! Dude this is gonna be an incredible watch i couldn't think of any other series id rather watch you react to And i think for your OWN enjoyment as you said watching each act all in one sitting, then you really get the most out of it its really meant to be enjoyed like that they even released it with each act a week apart. Cheers! Hope you enjoy this is really something special 😊

Oh boy here we go again, let’s see how this goes. Yeah, how far are people willing to go to pursue their goals? Will they truly be capable of giving everything to get it?

Arcane is full of very human characters, and the way it forces you to empathize and sympathize with all the characters is what makes it such a masterpiece. (Silco is the best of them all, by the way.) And remember: "The Arcane is dangerous."

That song in the end- Goodbye is still one of my most listened to songs on Spotify. The discography of Arcane is insane.

Welcome to the ride that is Arcane. It is a ride filled with pain and agony but is also one of the best-made tragedies that I've ever encountered. One of the lines that really stands out to me from the first act is where Vander is challenging Silco about why he's doing this all, and asks if it is for pride. It is easy to dismiss Silco's response of "For respect!" as just being rationalization, but as someone who has been systematically denied respect within their own household, I can tell you that respect is like air... and being deprived of it can drive someone to desperation, every bit like... being drowned. As for it looking painted, the animation studio digitally painted the skins for the 3D models, and (even wilder) they added all of the effects like flashes of light and smoke in as 2D images over the 3D images by hand as well. It is... _insane_ the level of detail that they put into this show on pretty much every level. I'm definitely looking forward to continuing the journey with you. This is unequivocally my favorite thing to watch reactions for XD

Yeah the heartbreak of Arcane is that you understand where all the characters are coming from. Even when they do something abhorrent you can see how they came to that place. It's a very human story and while the worldbuilding, art etc are all amazing, it's the beautiful character writing that holds and lift up the story to unbelievable heights. My heart bleeds for both Vi and Powder here at the end because both their actions make so much sense and they are kids who already has been through their fair share of trauma. It's sad and horrific but so beautifully done. This is what happens when creative and talented people are allowed the time and space to do their thing. I mean even Imagine Dragons went into this because they are League fans and they wrote Enemy (the intro song) for Arcane.

Thank you, and I mean, thank you SO MUCH for understanding Vi's perspective in that scene! I know lashing out at your sister is not gonna help or make things better and I do not wish any child to go through the realization that they just accidentally killed their family, but after you just find out she's the reason your family died all over again in front of you when they could've survived if she had just listened to you, you can't just realistically expect someone to stay patient. Patience has limits! Granted, she could've said something like "I'll be right back", but her walking off was the most mature response. She was too angry at the moment, so she needed to cool off so she would later come back and discuss it more calmly.

I'll never pass up the opportunity to enjoy Arcane for the first time through someone else's eyes! Loved your commentary on it so I'm happy you popped up on my recommended! Gotta check out your other reactions

2:30 forget RPG game, they are making an MMORPG 3:37 because it IS all painted. I recommend watching the 5 part "making of arcane" after this, called "bridging the rift" 48:00 welcome to Arcane~ the show is lit. named after a type "Magic" within the world

I could gush about this series for hours. Thanks so much for giving it a chance! I'm so happy you enjoyed Act 1. Everything is just so impressive; animation, voice acting, writing, character designs. All of it.

Funny you should mention Hailee Steinfeld voicing Gwen Stacy. The voice actor for Mylo, Yuri Lowenthal, has been the voice of Spider-Man in the video games since 2012! I'm surprised he wasn't around longer because he's probably the most prolific voice actor in the cast.

I love that last scene between Silco and Powder. Because in that moment, Silco made a choice. He choose to take in Powder, a kid that has been betrayed by her closes person, like himself. He is pretty much seeing himself in her in that moment and Powder knows she cannot make it on her own and jumps on "the enemy" because Vee was her everything.

You: "Wow, thst was amazing, im hooked" All of us:

There’s few things in life that repeatably make me tear up. Ep 3’s ending is one of them.

Oh my God... I saw this notification and had to stop everything I was doing... This has been one of my favorite shows of all time! 😮

Oh my god, dude. I am so excited that you're starting this series. It is a MASTERPIECE.

Oh Boy oh boy. Be prepared to have your heart ripped out, teared to shreds and then go "Can i have a little more sir?"

We got another one! 😂 I have been sustaining myself while waiting for season 2 by watching other people react and fall in love with arcane. I will be refreshing RU-vid daily waiting for your next upload!

Oooh, you're in for a treat watching the rest of this. Everything about Arcane is just masterful - the animation, the music, the voice acting, the storytelling - it's very telling that a lot of hard work went into it. You'll love the rest of it, and then you'll watch to re-watch it. Also, season 2 is due to come out November this year!

Vander kept evading too much. He should've been honest with Grayson at the start, and said, "I can't, it's family." I would bet any amount of money that Grayson would've worked with him to come up with some other solution. She wouldn't put a child behind bars, especially not one of Vander's kids, and more especially when it would jeopardize the somewhat peaceful balance they'd established. She'd work with him to come up with some other solution. Grayson also should've put it together immediately. Vander's probably ratted people out before for causing too much trouble and risking the peace. Why clam-up now? He's obviously protecting someone specific, someone important. And the sudden nature of the change in behavior makes it pretty clear it's not just someone important in an abstract sense. It's personal. It's family...someone directly precious to him, personally. She just didn't want to see it because she still innately doesn't trust him completely. If he'd just been honest about it. They both know each other well enough. They each know the other is "good people." They're both the type to have your back with absolute dedication, when it matters most. For all their flaws, they're easily the two most trustworthy people in the show. And they didn't trust each other.

Goddamn, it's been a while since I last watched Arcane, but it still OBLITERATES me every time. It is an absolute masterclass in writing, animation, art direction... everything. If there is one single piece of work everyone in the industry needs to watch and take notes religiously, it's definitely Arcane. Hot damn.

Like what others are saying, YOU HAVE NO IDEA how excited I was to see you starting this AMAZING show

the best way to explain the oscillation talk of jayce and viktor is by thinking of a bike, youre most likely to fall of if you go slow, but if you go fast, the bike is more stable!

I was SO excited to see you’re reacting to Arcane, it’s fantastic, and I appreciate how much you empathize with the characters, and pay attention to their motivations, I’m really looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the rest of the episodes :D

Omggg Arcane!!! Didn’t expect this ❤

You should watch Nimona, it's got a similar animation style and is realy wholesome, there's alot of story and it's just a realy good movie in general.

What makes this show so amazing, is that every single scene has a purpose. There are no filler scenes. I've seen this show at least a dozen times and I am still picking up little hints and foreshadowing.

Buckle up! In the best way, this series never lets up and only gets more beautiful and crazy from here. There's also an amazing "making-of" series here on the League of Legends RU-vid channel. But it's very spoiler-filled, so definitely come back to it, once you've finished the whole season. One of the best making-of documentaries I've ever seen.

"What's with the art style? It looks like it's all painted." That's because it is :D

Totally understand you, the end of this arc is absolute tearbending disaster, such a tragedy, what makes it even more tragic, it's a realistic tragedy 😭

Arcane is really good at making you understand why characters make decisions, that from the viewers point, are clearly the wrong decision.

Soooo happy you are reacting to this show. I saw it as it released and I truly love it! Hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did! Love your channel, definitly one of my favourite reaction channels on YT.

This is a great show! The characters as you already noticed in episode 1 are really well thought out. Throughout the series, they maintain consistent motivations based on the info the character would have in the moment way better than most modern shows. I can’t wait for you to dive deeper!

Not only is the story and the artstyle awesome, but the fact that they managed to make such a good series that is EVEN BETTER when you actually know the game(s) and the characters and all the eatereggs hidden in the series, makes it just a perfect series in my opinion.

I don’t know if it’s true, but I’ve heard people say that only the professor and Jayce know Victor is from the undercity

"I'm just going to jump right into Episode 3." Ah. So blissfully naive. :)

I have watched this show 5 times already because I NEED to satisfy my urge for the next season

There's a lot of duality in this show.. like how powder use the stones in a chaotic way while jayce and Viktor use it more stable

As a wise french animator, when asked: "how do you make this paint aspect to it" said: "WE PAINT"

Ritos animations are just out of this world. So smooth.

Episode 3 is what elevates this series from being merely excellent to it being one of the greatest animated series ever made. Not only is every character completely believable and logically thought out, but the events that happen feel like the natural result of everything leading up to it. Not to mention, if you pay closer attention to the first three episodes, it isn't just the climax of Act 1 that causes Powder's evolution into Jynx, rewatch those episodes again and pay careful attention to how they treat her and what specific lines of dialogue they use. They don't just treat her negatively at times, but actively *encourage* her to make bombs and keep making statements that would frankly get any normal adult put on an FBI watch list, much less a child. Powder doesn't view herself as a child, she views herself as a freedom fighter/revolutionary and they actively encourage this believe, even if they don't realize they are doing it. Beautifully written character work.

Oh can't say how glad I am that u found this series, noticed that u only saw 6 episodes so far but these first three jus gets u hooked What a beautiful and horrible story

AAAHHHHHH YOURE FINALLY DOING IT!!!! I could not be more excited to see how you receive this masterpiece. It's one of the best pieces of content I've seen in years. ENJOY

Oh, I am sooooo excited for this. I just rewatched this like last week and yet here I am, ready to watch again!

29:32 well it's a complicated topic but some people who experienced drowning feel 'peaceful' only after long deprivation of oxygen which generates the euphoric feeling, but besides that drowning is very stressful (well, like any near death experience but here it's completely out of your control and breathing is the most important function so this sucks bad) and painful as the water enters your lungs, it burns

oh man you can just feel the hurt and pain of the two girls at the end. It's hard to feel mad at either with both being so young and just not understanding.

The voice performance they got out of that little child actress during powder's breakdown is incredible.

I'm so sorry what you have to go through with this show, part one is ROUGH

Don't worry for calling Vander Vi's father, she does consider him that completely so it's accurate, we know it's not that you think he's her bio father or something, for us too he's her dad.

"I want that in an open world rpg game." Funnily enough, Riot has been working on their RPG mmo, which takes place in this world.

I was going to talk about how they made this animation but I'm sure someone already did. So I'll comment on how this show has characters both from the game and completely new made just for this show and the writers treat all of them with such care and attention to detail that you would never know for sure which one is from where as a newcomer. That's great.

NO WAY! You are in for a treat, my friend. A treat that sometimes takes forms as a pill not easily swallowed, but a treat nonetheless!

Everyone had like the same reaction thinking “Yay Powder did it!” To “Oh no…Powder😢”

The deep-voiced actress is Shohreh Aghdashloo. She's great in both live-action (The Expanse, 24, etc) and voiceover roles.

Animation has it's own Oscar type awards. Arcane won all of their nominations, can't remember exact number. But they swept. Love the reaction. Please binge them... so I can... binge your reactions... No, seriously, don't make us wait a week. Please.... =p

OH BOY HES GONNA HAVE A GREAT TIME WITH THIS ONE

Omg I never thought you would react to this! But I'm so glad you are it's such a good series!! ❤

This was on my husband's watch list for a long time as a League of Legends player but I kept pushing it off since I don't play. He finally convinced me to give it a try and we binged the entire thing in like 2 days. I think I enjoyed it more than him! I even asked when it ended if there was going to be another season about other characters. He had told me to watch for Heimerdinger as he would likely be my favorite and he wasn't wrong until we meet his companion! Can't wait for the next installment!

This is one of my favourite animated serries. It's extremely well made and acted. A very Close second is "The Legend Of Vox Machina" which i'm hoping you'll react to after this one :)

The main reason i love Legaue of Legends is because of the world and character lore its so vast and amazing

You shall soon learn there is no good or bad guys! Like definitively good or bad! There’s a quote later on “in the pursuit of greatness we failed to do good” or something like that but that quote defines this series completely!

my second best animated masterpiece after ATLA, you're gonna love it!

'EVER wOnder WhaT itS liKe To Drown?'...... yea

Friendly reminder that Mia Sinclair Jenness, the VA for Powder, pulled out a performance of that quality at FOURTEEN YEARS OLD

«I didn't think things could be that bad...» - that's like the motto of Arcane 😄

"Is she just in shock with all this violence?" Oh sweetie, oh honey...

*sees the vision of how dangerous the arcane can be*: "its like Oppenheimer" Heimerdinger: literally being named after Oppenheimer

Episode 3 is absolutely, heart-wrenchingly unfair and tragic. This series does not pull punches 💔