Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Aug 1, 2020 13:47:49 GMT -5
...and I have to say that I really love this show.
I don't know whether this show made much of a splash last year but that's not important for me at least.
The gist of the story is that three 13-year-old girls find a strange music box that takes them to the strange land of Amphibia, an island that is shaped like a lilypad and is inhabited by anthropomorphised frogs and toads who live in a medieval type of society. We follow one of the girls, Anne Boonchuy, who makes the acquaintance of an adventurous young frog named Sprig Plantar and gets taken in by his family consisting of himself, the strict but kind family patriarch Hoppediah "Hop-Pop" Plantar and the slightly twisted youngest member, Sprig's sister Polly (who is still a tadpole). The first season mostly deals with Anne getting accustomed to living in this strange land while trying to find a way home and also having to contend with her status being seen as a "monster/beast" by the rest of the town where the Plantars live.
I admit that the show doesn't exactly invent the wheel anew when it comes to storytelling since some of the stories being explored here have been seen in other shows by this point and it is not exactly a very original show. Still, I love watching the show mostly because the main characters are enjoyable to watch (especially Anne who is not exactly a goody two-shoes and prone to being mean and inconsiderate but who deep down means well and we later in the season actually get a reason why she turned out the way she was at the start of the show. And not many shows can say that their lead is a Thai-American), the setting of Amphibia with its amphibious and insect-based looks great, the show is well-animated and if I could describe it, I would probably see it as a kind of "Adventure Time meets Gravity Falls" (the latter because of the animation especially, having a kind of Gravity Falls vibe to it).
Furthermore, I like that the show definitely has a feeling of moving forward and changing over the course of the first season despite not having any grand overarching storyline for the most part. It is played more slowly but notable (especially when it comes to Anne's standing in the frog community) with things being set-up for the second season (which is currently airing) and a whammy of a final episode to finish Season 1 (that finale gave me "She-Ra" vibes for how the story might go from that point onward).
To finish, if you liked Adventure Time and/or Gravity Falls, you might want to give this one a watch. For me, I can say that I definitely loved it and it is second to only Ducktales as far as current Disney programming is concerned. Looking forward to the second season currently airing.
I don't know whether this show made much of a splash last year but that's not important for me at least.
The gist of the story is that three 13-year-old girls find a strange music box that takes them to the strange land of Amphibia, an island that is shaped like a lilypad and is inhabited by anthropomorphised frogs and toads who live in a medieval type of society. We follow one of the girls, Anne Boonchuy, who makes the acquaintance of an adventurous young frog named Sprig Plantar and gets taken in by his family consisting of himself, the strict but kind family patriarch Hoppediah "Hop-Pop" Plantar and the slightly twisted youngest member, Sprig's sister Polly (who is still a tadpole). The first season mostly deals with Anne getting accustomed to living in this strange land while trying to find a way home and also having to contend with her status being seen as a "monster/beast" by the rest of the town where the Plantars live.
I admit that the show doesn't exactly invent the wheel anew when it comes to storytelling since some of the stories being explored here have been seen in other shows by this point and it is not exactly a very original show. Still, I love watching the show mostly because the main characters are enjoyable to watch (especially Anne who is not exactly a goody two-shoes and prone to being mean and inconsiderate but who deep down means well and we later in the season actually get a reason why she turned out the way she was at the start of the show. And not many shows can say that their lead is a Thai-American), the setting of Amphibia with its amphibious and insect-based looks great, the show is well-animated and if I could describe it, I would probably see it as a kind of "Adventure Time meets Gravity Falls" (the latter because of the animation especially, having a kind of Gravity Falls vibe to it).
Furthermore, I like that the show definitely has a feeling of moving forward and changing over the course of the first season despite not having any grand overarching storyline for the most part. It is played more slowly but notable (especially when it comes to Anne's standing in the frog community) with things being set-up for the second season (which is currently airing) and a whammy of a final episode to finish Season 1 (that finale gave me "She-Ra" vibes for how the story might go from that point onward).
To finish, if you liked Adventure Time and/or Gravity Falls, you might want to give this one a watch. For me, I can say that I definitely loved it and it is second to only Ducktales as far as current Disney programming is concerned. Looking forward to the second season currently airing.
