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Hazbin Hotel Initial Opinions
Oct. 31st, 2019 11:40 pmGood. So good. Holy fucking shit, HH is so good.
I didn't realize how starved I was for lush western 2D animation that isn't beholden to ages 10-and-under ratings requirements. I've relied on anime to fill that niche for a long time, but anime has very different style conventions to western 2D and it's so fucking good to see western 2D operating in this sphere.
Like, nothing against adult animations such as Disenchanted or Big Mouth, but the animation style lacks the vivid, model-bending mania that you see in the bulk of 2D animation. It's as though peopel have been convinced that for western animation to appeal to adults, it much be staid and heavily on-model or hideous gross-out style. And those styles of animation are great and valuable too, but oh my god they've been the only thing you can see in adult animation for so fucking long. For decades, possibly? (My sense of the passage of time is very poor, and so is my memory, so this may not be correct).
Effusive praise for the visual design aside, it's also got musicals! About horrible things! Which is my favourite kind!
And the songs themselves are great, too, which is rad because musical interludes in animation absolute can get away with being kind of shit. As long as the visuals carry it, it's more than sufficient. But bruh, they did not fuck around at all.
There's some discourse hovering around tumblr/twitter where antis and puritans have concluded that a show about literal damned souls going to literal rehab shouldn't feature "problematic content," which I'll go into in this cut, but tl;dr: it's pointless, masturbatory bullshit to make puritans feel better about how much they hate themselves.
There are several arguments I've seen, and I'm going to speed through them and how stupid they are.
( Wank )
Back to the goods!
If I were the kinning type, I would kin Angel Dust. What a glorious queer disaster slut. Bless him.
Vaggie and Charlie's relationship is cuter that fuck, I don't know how to cope, it's so good. Like, they know eachother flaws and help compensate for them so well and so immediately, and it's glorious.
A main cast that consists exclusively of queers is rad. I love that. I love it!!!! There's not enough of that! Even in adult animation, where it should by rights be everywhere!
Sssir Pentious is great, I assume he's dead for real and we won't see him again, but dude. His lil obsessive step-on-me-daddy Egg Henchmen were also fantastic.
I want Cherry Bomb to rail me behind the denny's at 3:47 AM on a sunday morning.
The voice acting was so good!
The manipulation of the fourth wall as an artistic choice without ever actually breaking it was glorious and I nearly pissed myself when the Radio Demon pulled that shit.
My basically only complaint is a throwaway line and a couple of implications that drug addiction is a cardinal sin which can get you damned to hell, but given that it's a show about a rehab clinic in a christian theology, I can let that one slide. Might be somethign to consider if you're especially sensitive to drug addiction jokes, though.
I didn't realize how starved I was for lush western 2D animation that isn't beholden to ages 10-and-under ratings requirements. I've relied on anime to fill that niche for a long time, but anime has very different style conventions to western 2D and it's so fucking good to see western 2D operating in this sphere.
Like, nothing against adult animations such as Disenchanted or Big Mouth, but the animation style lacks the vivid, model-bending mania that you see in the bulk of 2D animation. It's as though peopel have been convinced that for western animation to appeal to adults, it much be staid and heavily on-model or hideous gross-out style. And those styles of animation are great and valuable too, but oh my god they've been the only thing you can see in adult animation for so fucking long. For decades, possibly? (My sense of the passage of time is very poor, and so is my memory, so this may not be correct).
Effusive praise for the visual design aside, it's also got musicals! About horrible things! Which is my favourite kind!
And the songs themselves are great, too, which is rad because musical interludes in animation absolute can get away with being kind of shit. As long as the visuals carry it, it's more than sufficient. But bruh, they did not fuck around at all.
There's some discourse hovering around tumblr/twitter where antis and puritans have concluded that a show about literal damned souls going to literal rehab shouldn't feature "problematic content," which I'll go into in this cut, but tl;dr: it's pointless, masturbatory bullshit to make puritans feel better about how much they hate themselves.
There are several arguments I've seen, and I'm going to speed through them and how stupid they are.
( Wank )
Back to the goods!
If I were the kinning type, I would kin Angel Dust. What a glorious queer disaster slut. Bless him.
Vaggie and Charlie's relationship is cuter that fuck, I don't know how to cope, it's so good. Like, they know eachother flaws and help compensate for them so well and so immediately, and it's glorious.
A main cast that consists exclusively of queers is rad. I love that. I love it!!!! There's not enough of that! Even in adult animation, where it should by rights be everywhere!
Sssir Pentious is great, I assume he's dead for real and we won't see him again, but dude. His lil obsessive step-on-me-daddy Egg Henchmen were also fantastic.
I want Cherry Bomb to rail me behind the denny's at 3:47 AM on a sunday morning.
The voice acting was so good!
The manipulation of the fourth wall as an artistic choice without ever actually breaking it was glorious and I nearly pissed myself when the Radio Demon pulled that shit.
My basically only complaint is a throwaway line and a couple of implications that drug addiction is a cardinal sin which can get you damned to hell, but given that it's a show about a rehab clinic in a christian theology, I can let that one slide. Might be somethign to consider if you're especially sensitive to drug addiction jokes, though.
