@@liammeech3702Note that you don't know, but the first episodes had to be rewritten because they contained adult, racist, sexist jokes and everything else, these writers were fired and replaced.
The creators giving Donkey Kong of all characters an angelic singing voice is the equivalent of Miyamoto deciding to make Bowser a talented digital animator.
@@samuraijackoff5354 but sadly it's confirmed Seth Rogen is voicing him instead of this Chad. I don't hate Seth Rogen but I do hate his lack of range in most voice work I've seen him in like in the Kung Fu Panda movies, Horton Hears A Who, the 2019 Lion King remake, etc
In all of my time knowing of this shows existence, I never once questioned why it has musical numbers, take that as you will. All I know is that it wasn't a mistake to have them.
They really thought to themselves "Ah, yes, the strongest, dumbest, noncharismatic, and clumsiest character should have a singing voice of stunning perfection". I mean, hey, I love his singing too, but who the hell directed this show.
@@plush1563 Well, that's kinda my point. Outside the musical numbers, he has no style, he has no grace. IN the musical numbers however, that's where he shines.
Honestly, the voice actors for DK and K. Rool had the best songs in the whole show. Even if the lyrics weren't really good, the delivery was what made them so memorable.
@@isaacthemonke233 it could be possible but obviously not everyone will reprise their roles for one reason or another, like the voice of Cranky Kong, Aron Tager, passed away in 2019 for example
4:26 Not only does King Kong exist in the Donkey Kong universe, but that there are two incidents of giant gorillas kidnapping women and climbing up high buildings.
1:30 OMG FINALLY! I’ve been looking for this song and had almost given up and thought I imagined it in the show! I’ve had this part stuck in my head since I was a kid!
The animation and writing is terrible, but the music and singing is phenomenal. I've never seen quality and trash distributed in such stark contrast like this and it's bloody amazing.
I kind of get the animation. It was the first of it kind and to even use motion capture but being the first isn't always means best But what is wrong with the writing? I'm literally rewatching the show right now and I haven't noticed to bad of writing aside from a couple of episodes.
This is the singing equivalent of the Pictonary NES title theme. Like holy fuck, why did they say to themselves “DKs singing voice needs to go hard af”
@Dry Boi Mmmmh................ yeah okay that i can agree to (granted he doesnt have that many songs though, only notable one i know is "You're one of us" one from when DK loses his memory)
One of my favorite facts about the motion capture is they they also tried to motion capture the mouths of the performers. And looking at comparisons between the performers and animation, they had pretty good tech. If they had time to fine tune their models a bit more, the show would probably have been more visually applauded. Season 2 did not use mocap, so that's an exception to everything, but season 1 should be acknowledged for the skillful execution of finicky technology. It's just a shame that their choreography was a bit goofy.
I saw an upload of a full demo by the animation company that supplied the tech. The mouths are not mocapped, but actually is much different. The parts of the face (mouth, eyes, teeth, etc.) each have preprogrammed expressions, which are then used in tandem by a rigger. The tech is intended to be used to animate in real-time, so the face rig was a glove where the voice actors would flex their fingers to change expressions, while the body actor would have to predict what movement would match with the incoming inflection. I'm not sure if the show was also recorded this way, but the possibility is there.
Honestly, I don't think either season looks awful, and I think the writing is pretty damn great, it has a very modest quality, like you're reading a pretty damn fantastic fanfiction.
@@horaciosi Eh not really. His japanese voice sounds deeper but his english voice is undoubtedly better. Also I think it fits. Hes an animal but hes fairly young and high energy.
here are the songs that I like the most Absolute Zero 0:01 Anyone Can Dance 1:33 Mirror Never Lies 6:49 Road to Success (the best one, so damn catchy) 8:29 Island of Congo Bongo (probably the one that could be the theme song) 10:18 Gotta be Bad (not the best, but catchy) 11:43 Banana Dosie Do 13:57 Vote for Me, I do Nothing (sounds like today politics lol) 14:47 Metal Head 15:18 Gotta Make Them Enemies 16:20 man there are a lot of good ones apparently
1:15 Even his ENEMY loves it! 2:14 The ONE TIME she enjoys being near him!😅😂 3:46 I can only imagine how the Characters and VA’s would think of that line 6:43 He must be TALENTED to get that down! 7:30 THAT is what happens when you get CARRIED AWAY 🙄😂 9:32 That is TRUE! 13:09 A WHAT?!🤨 14:23 What causes any of this?
This whole show is somehow both terrible and amazing at the same time. I kind of like it because of that. Every character is a literal idiot, the animation, while being very close to the original games, is objectively pretty bad, and some of the stories are just so bizarre. But at the same time the songs, especially ones by Donkey Kong, are catchy and surprisingly really good, despite some of the lyrics being laughably awful. That and it is legitimately funny to me, both ironically and un-ironically. It kind of reminds me of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog or The Super Mario Bros. Super Show; it’s objectively pretty bad, but you can tell whoever made it had a lot of fun doing so. And come on, that animation clearly inspired Xavier: Renegade Angle. 😂
Unfortunately, Sterling Jarvis has not seen much voice work outside of Donkey Kong. He was in OK KO and that's about it. He is a Broadway actor however, where he rightfully belongs.
Hi, hello, I notice this video is getting a lot more attention as of recently. So I thought I'd write this. I made this video when I was going through a phase where I would obsess over the DKC cartoon. I made several other videos like this, covering almost every other character (minus Candy, Cranky and a few one offs). I made a separate video for the DK songs that his speaking voice actor, Richard Yearwood, did. That's where songs like Our Love Is Stronger Than a Golden Banana and Treasure Rap are. I am not being ironic in even the slightest sense when I say that Sterling Jarvis is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard in my life, and it's a damn shame he didn't get much TV work outside of this cartoon. As far as my knowledge goes, he has appeared on OK KO to do a song there, and he also did the theme song for Zaboomafoo. FAQ: Where is Diddy Drop Rap? I excluded that song cause I just really don't like it, I think it's one of the worst in the show. Where is Monkey Business? I was peer pressured into putting it in the Richard Yearwood video cause I'm a dumb dumb.
I actually don't agree with you on the Diddy Drop Rap. I just looked it up, and it's unironically lit (thank you for bringing it to my attention). It definitely needs refinement, but I don't know how much of that is just because of the poor sound quality of the video itself. My only debate would be about whether rapping is actually singing or not. I'll consider it not, so that I don't consider the title of this video a lie. Anywhoo, nice vid, you must have worked hard to edit it together. Particularly those songs with a lot of alternating singers.
