>a week since release >zero threads Wow, this show must have flopped on an unbelievable level. It's incredibly bad but that never stopped tasteless kids from shitposting about wanting to fuck one of thr stick figures from Lower DecksMaybe this show failing as hard as is physically possible might finally show producers that this shitty, cringey, hack-driven, motormouth "comedy" doesn't work.>Paramount's WB takeover is going through We're doomed.
>not even notable enough for /co/ to shit on it Ouch.McMahan is doing an AMA today, hope he doesn't post something fucked up while day drunk
>>155570371Nobody genuinely gave a fuck about this show. The internet did what it always does and get outraged over the trailer because it's a few minutes long and requires no investment and made the show look terrible, but didn't actually watch it because they stopped caring after shitting on the trailer. It doesn't appeal to Golden Axe fans and doesn't bring it newcomers. It's for nobody.Also Paramount Plus.
The show is chamberlein heights levels of garbage.
>>155570371There's no child characters for the autistic pedophiles on this board to jerk off to.
>>155570371It's based on a 40 year old video game franchise Sega has always treated like shit and hasn't had a new installment in what, 20 years?
>>155570470The dwarf is child sized and the retarded self insert acts like a childI just wonder how we got to a place where "comedies" aren't any amount of visual gags or written jokes or even puns, just nonstop fucking blathering.I gave episode one on YouTube a shot and they manage to fuck up the delivery of what technically counted as 7 different jokes in maybe three minutes.JOKES HAVE BEATS
>>155570426link?
most hatewatchers are zoomers and they have no idea what golden axe is
Why is the main bitch so ugly? She looks like a man.
>>155570371Hate, disgust etc are still emotions. Apathy and indifference are the lack of it. Is it bad, yeah, but who cares. and I actualy liked Golden Ax, Kickmaster as a kid.
>>155570371Shows so bad that not even troons are hooked
>>155570585That's the point, it's Gen X writing.Men are weak or gay, women are strong and look like men, and everything is a sex joke.
>>155570585because she is the man in the setting, while the "barbarian" is the damsel. As moronic/braind dead as a usual 1980s damsel too. Maybe if this was a real 1980s style (impossible) toon, some old farts (like me) would have liked it. But as an anon above me said. It is an 40y old and forgotten frenchise. So in the end it is a combo of a show style for people who don't like the style of cartoons, or don't care/know anything about it. It is not better (for those that like the style) then other cartoons like that. Ah and for kids it is just boring, same way as all the other Velmas, Lower decks etc.
>>155570545https://www.reddit.com/r/animation/comments/1wmdzho/hi_reddit_mike_mcmahan_joe_chandler_and_giancarlo
>>155570649>>155570643>>155570585Hey, OP hereYou're retarded faggots if you really want to turn this show being dogshit into some kind of culture war when it's really just bad joke writing, bad delivery, and bad pacing/editing.You can go repost the same regurgitated cope in some other thread.
>there are actually a couple sequences where there's no dialogue and they tried to do some visual gags>apparently that wouldn't fly with the editor's room so they went out and got Sunwong Cho to explain the visual gags to you while they happenImagine being brought in and getting paid explicitly to ruin jokes
Among Us show was also ignored
>>155571132True, but by all accounts that show was actually kinda funny.
Golden Axe could be greatBut1-The Jokes are bad andget in the way2- the OC just suck
It's a shame that this show seems to have actually had a real animation budgetIt's much more watchable on mute.
>>155570371My irl friend told me about this but I didn't know about it until he told me
>>155570371>Wow, this show must have flopped on an unbelievable level.Well this is one of the very rare times we can get actual easily identifiable metrics on it since both of the first two episodes were released on youtube, and after 1 week Episode one managed 125K viewers. That's stunningly weak, a lot of reviewers get that in one day just talking to a camera. What's more damning though is episode 2 has 55K viewers. Holy fuck, that's painful. Less than 1/2 of the already small amount of people who gave episode 1 a chance even bothered with the second which is right there, for free, costing nothing but time.This was a B O M B, there's really no way to spin it.
Can we get a a meme of the dwarf ass on fire from the first episode
>>155571132Oh hey, they posted the first episode on youtube for that one too! What's it up to?>7.3 millionSo slightly better.
>>155572133way better, but /co/ kindy ignored anyway
>>155570371Lol Amerishits What if every character was an obnoxious unlikeable prick
>>155570643Thats millenial writing or pandering.
>>155573182>>155572768>Oh man this show sucks and ruins all its jokes with bad delivery and editing?>This must be a woman's fault!You literal faggots are making actually discussing bad shows impossible Fuck off
>>155570371I'm only halfway through, I think it's mostly okay.
>>155574108>I'm halfway throughYou like it more than 70% of people that watched episode 1 because you watched more than just episode 1
>>155574306gee I wonder why
>>155574492I, too, wonder how anon could sit through this crap. I barely made it through the opening scene where they rapid-fire and rapid-miss a bunch of terrible jokes and tapped out completely when the one moment of silence for the visual gag of Gilius losing his clothes sleeping in a fire was interrupted by the narrator going "HAHA OH NO HE LOST HIS CLOTHES IN THE FIRE HE PROBABLY SHOULDN'T SLEEP THERE OH HO HO WHAT MIRTH"
This show kinda pisses me off because it's not so bad it's good, it's mid at best which will make it completely forgettable over time. It's not shitty rigged animation. The artists were trying, which somehow makes it worse.
>>155570371I still don't understand why, of all the Sega franchises, they chose Golden Axe for the "dude, isn't this le meta???" type of show. The games were originally a tribute to Conan the Barbarian with no comedic vibe whatsoever. Sega has other games with the actual wacky humor like Jet Set Radio or Crazy Taxi that might've worked (doubt, with writers like these), so my theory is that this series was made by people who unironically hate Golden Axe.
>>155574626>my theory is that this series was made by people who unironically hate Golden Axe.There are too many references and in-jokes relating to the game for that to be so.
>>155574595>It's not shitty rigged animation. The artists were trying, which somehow makes it worseIt makes it so much worse. The animation is actually pretty good, to the point that if it had been in service of even a mediocre script it would've been a good watch.But the very first thing you see is great animation over some of the lamest faux-improv dialogue you've ever heard and it just ruins everything.
>>155574678>>155574626It was made by Mike McMahan, someone that "loves" a property by memorizing minutia and adding fetishes
>>155570371I tried watching it but it's writing is god awful. It's like Rick and Morty style writing with out the nielism. It tries to be lore accurate but it's incredibly unfunny when they try to be. Felt like they play it too safe and that sucks the fun out of the show.
>>155570371>adult cartoon>doesn’t look like Family Guy or Rick & Morty>doesn’t look like diet anime either>people still complain about it
>>155574844Not all about looks, it's about writing. At least for me it is.
>>155574844>>155574865Yeah the designs aren't exactly great but the animation itself is strangely high quality.Too bad the failed comedy makes it unwatchableFrankly I don't even know how much of it is bad writing so much as bad editing and direction. I feel like a good 1/3 of the jokes in the show could work if given time to be properly delivered (which you could do by cutting the other jokes)
I dare the writers to do a Sakura Taisen episode
>>155575001>>155574939Seriously. Cut 2/3 of this dialogue and it wouldn't be so grating. Every joke is just dragged out and murdered.
>>155574939I think part of it is the narrator. He either shouldn't be in the show or speak less. I hate the writing trend that tells the audience "character X is the badass!" When they do nothing interesting and it's all laid out for you like these writers don't realize they are treating their audience like idiots. It's unwatchable for me, but that doesn't mean it's not bad for other people out there, just don't know who their audience is at this point.
>>155575143I don't really recall the narrator showing up for more than the beginning of the episodes.
>>155575061Maybe some anon can edit the season and make a one hour movie.
>>155575307I didnt see the entire thing I was that turned off by it. I made it almost half way
>>155575307I tapped out near the end of the first episode but he came back to ruin a bit while Gilius was traveling alone in silenceGod forbid there be a moment without someone talking
>>155575451Yeah, narrator pops in again talks about Gilius sleeping in the fire. We get it!
>I would argue this IS serious animation, because the art team did an amazing job mixing fantasy and action and violence along with the comedy. But I’m guessing what you mean is why did we go with a comedic telling of Golden Axe at all, instead of something like Castlevania or Arcane? Part of the answer was that nobody was asking for a Golden Axe show except for me, and I tell stories and create shows like this: a mix of genre and comedy. >Those appeal to me because I find dark animated shows to be less fun. I like a show where the characters get to be funny even when dealing with real stakes of the world they inhabit. I think comedy makes serious stuff land harder sometimes, and emotional storytelling rings more true to me. So I pitched this version of Golden Axe to Sega and to CBS, if you don’t like it you can direct the complaints to me. This wasn’t an assignment, it’s a show I pushed for because I remembered being happy playing this game, and being in this weird world, when I was a kid.>The other answer is that you already have a lot of serious fantasy and swords and sorcery genre, it never occurred to me that we were running low on stuff like that. If you need a serious fantasy show, you can for sure find them, especially animated. Go read Conan, Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Heavy Metal Magazine - lots of good stuff that I love!>And finally: Golden Axe the game has a sense of humor. You kick little imps to get magic! The game is fun, the show is fun. It didn’t make sense to carve that out of Golden Axe in order to make a darker show. Mike McMahan on why we didn't get a serious Golden Axe cartoon.
It doesn't even look amusing.The "ISN'T THIS GENRE WEIRD AND STUPID LOL!?" brand of humor is just tiring at this point and there is a LOT of that with fantasy cartoons in particular. The only interesting thing is how weird it is how random a license it is.It kind of makes me want to go play the games again though. I'll give it that.>>155571132That one was shockingly pretty good for what it was.>>155577799>If you need a serious fantasy show, you can for sure find them, especially animated.>Proceeds to list three book series and a comic magazine that isn't even strictly fantasyKek.
>>155577799I don't really think he is fully wrong, but it would probably have landed better if the humor was reduced by like 20%.
>>155574939>the animation itself is strangely high qualityIt's Titmouse. They always do good work.
>>155578256Why the fuck is this joke so stretched out.Skeleton roars, people react, skeleton coughs and holds up scroll to deliver message instead of fightYou don't need to spell out the joke as you're telling it like you're talking to a 5 year old or an alien. We fucking get it.
>>155578393same reason as the end.He describe himself, than say it was him.
The animation is good, but those designs are ass. I feel like one of the things you could have easily done equal opportunity fan service for Tyris and Ax Battler, but I don't like looking at them in this show. And the writing is drawn out and annoying.
Less of the narrator, just have him be normal. Everything else works for me.And SEGA really needs to release Revenge of Death Adder, hell do a Golden Axe collection and put the VS fighter in there too.
>>155570371Shut the fuck up you brainless shill.
>>155570371I feel so vindicated by this flopping because Lower Decks had the loudest, gayest, most obnoxious fanbase since Steven Universe despite not even being popular.>>155572075>first two episodes were released on youtube, and after 1 week Episode one managed 125K viewersYouTube recently changed how it counts views so in reality it probably got half of that. Now every click on a video counts as a view.
>>155581663kys retarded animeposter
