LOL: Arcane

[Greylurker]

So...just watched the first three episodes...

Personally I thought, that was pretty fantastic

[AJCarrington]

I just finished this up last night...incredibly impressed with both the story and the animation. Extremely pleased to hear that is has been renewed for a second season.

[Greylurker]

Just finished it here too....
oh my god what an ending

...she is...so broken. Caitlyn was right she is too far gone, nothing Vi can do will put her back together

and so it begins. Zaun vs. Piltover
until the bitter end

[Themetricsystem]

Haven't made time for it yet but I keep getting absolutely bombarded by friends' recommendations (Some of whom are EXTREMELY picky about what they consume to the point of being downright annoying) to watch it and after stopping downstairs to refill my coffee I find my wife with her Bluetooth headset and the show going on her phone while making lunch.

Apparently I need to set aside the time to watch this tonight because I'm getting left behind.

[Greylurker]

LOL

It was way better than I was expecting. All I really know about League of Legends is that it's some sort of 5 on 5 Capture the Flag PVP thing. Not something that strikes me as being particularly deep. So the show kind of caught me by surprise with how well done it is.

[magnuskn]

The best show I've watched in years and most definitely the best western animation of all time, beating out my former favorite The Legend of Korra. I can't recommend this show highly enough.

[Blosodriette]

This show is great, agreed!

[Themetricsystem]

I binged through it the last two nights.

I am not exaggerating in the slightest: This show is EASILY and hands-down, the best (I'm talking the animation, the acting, the actual STORY, and even pacing) adaptation of a video game property into another form of media that has ever been created. RIOT Games couldn't have knocked this out of the park any harder IMO.

Quite literally, just about any frame in the show can be paused and it would be a fantastic wallpaper. The characters (even the unimportant throwaway one scene characters) are absolutely full of life and personality, the environments are bleeding with detail, care, and attention that was given to them, and ... can I just take a moment to talk about how the first few episodes actually took the time to setup the world-building and character backstories for the rest of the season. Most shows fumble through this and it ends up rushed, often into a single episode but they did it in such a way that it established everything without the need for flashback scenes, character exposition explaining what is going on in their heads, or repeatedly bashing you over the head with the lessons you were supposed to learn.

Absolutely phenomenal, I'm excited to see what else springs from this success, to say the least.

[Bjørn Røyrvik]

Can't comment on its relationship to the game, but the show was decent-to-good. Pretty to look at, good animation, OK story, but other than Victor, Mel and possibly C...whatever her name was, I didn't care much for any of the characters. The first episode was nothing special but it picked up.

[Themetricsystem]

Sat down and watched the series through with the wife again as I got way ahead of her initially and the second time through continued to impress me with tons of things I just didn't have the visual/mental bandwidth to catch on the first watch, especially many of the recurring themes that the show plays on such as family and also more subtle cinematography that alludes to past or future events.

Again, it may not be up everyone's alley but I am even more impressed with the show after completing it again and highly recommend that anyone, even those who care nothing for the League-verse, give it a shot. There has been a lot of good TV to come out over the last few years and Arcane almost certainly tops my personal list of enjoyable and deeply satisfying storytelling.

[Quark Blast]

I'll second that.^

Best animated series I've seen.

[Aberzombie]

I watched this show after finding a recommendation video by Critical Drinker. I thought it was really well done. Solid story, great voice acting, cool characters, and kick-ass animation. I look forward to future seasons.

[Aberzombie]

Grain of salt time.

Saw a rumor tweet (do they still call them that) the season 2 for this show might be arriving Winter 2024.

[Quark Blast]

This nicely sums up the known-knowns, the known-unknowns, and of course the unknown-unknows re Arcane Season 2.

[Thomas Seitz]

Just because...

[Greylurker]

Season 2 begins

I'm taking it slow, episode a night, so only one episode in but already....you can tell this is going to get ugly.

Never did get into the video game, so still pretty clueless on the character backstories outside of this show but I can't help feel Jayce did not make the right choice with how he saved Viktor. That just feels like it's going to go hideously wrong somehow.

[Aberzombie]

I watched the first three episodes. Yep, it’s getting pretty ugly. I never got into the game either, so I don’t know the lore. It does seem like the forces of magic are going to not be happy with what’s been going on in Piltover.

[Aberzombie]

Following up, the animation is just as kick-butt as first season. They're mixing in some different styles here and there, but it enhances the main stuff. Can't recall if they did that for the first season as well.

[Quark Blast]

Powder is considerably less sympathetic. And this season has a more martial feel to it, making things more girl-boss than last season (didn't think that was possible). Still the best new animation out there.

[Aberzombie]

Overall, I was less impressed with the story this second season. It was still entertaining, but kind of meh. The animation continued to blow me away though.

I heard this is the last season. I'm kind of sad to see the series end. I'd have liked to maybe see them expand that world some more. Maybe bring in new cities and lands, more characters.

[Greylurker]

From what I was reading it's the last season for Arcane but that they plan on doing other things for other parts of the world. Different characters, different setting, different story.
No idea if they will use the same style of animation or try something else though