Arcane: Bridging the Rift

i dont give a FUCK bro (using this as a placeholder for the actual Arcane show on Netflix) I hate league of legends. SO much I hate that game so much dude it sucks absolute dick. But this show bro. Oh my fucking god. I have been told by 4 of my close friends to watch this show. I will name them explicitly to give credit Cameron Tyler Mason (Letterboxd: (mass_) Ethan (Letterboxd: (EMiller314) go follow them they deserve it I thank all of you SO much. If I never pushed myself past the first 3 episodes I would not have been able to experience such peak television. The vibrant beautiful animation was unlike anything I have ever seen before, and when my film professor asked me to describe the animation style and I literally couldn't. It is so fucking unique man. These characters bro, I can talk about these people for hours. JINX MAN. Their dynamics too. (Ekko and Powder in s2 e7 oh my fucking god.) Jayce and Viktor throughout the whole series man. I don't want to say anything that will spoil because I am genuinely trying to reccomend this to as MANY people as possible. This soundtrack is probably an 8/10. It would have definitely been a 10 had Imagine Dragons and a pedophile murderer rapist not made the list. Besides that, the poignant parts are made incredibly more poignant with the use of music in here. I absolutely love when western film techniques are employed in animation and that happens a LOT in Arcane. There are tons of great zoom and tracking effects that were just absolutely phenomenal. Breathtaking, phenomenal, insane, heartbreaking, all of the fucking above. Arcane is a show I will hold close to my heart, right next to FLCL and Evangelion (which s2 is oddly a bit similar to). This review is all over the place, my thoughts are scattered as hell too. I will continue to add onto this review over time whenever I get bored. But as of now, perfection, even after the push that was a good chunk of the first season. League of Legends still sucks.