The lack of Grim Dark is the reason I love this show. Such a cool callback to clasic marvel animated shows, like Spiderman and his amazing friends.
To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back.
It's sad that I don't think I can overcome my initial shock enough to get into this show. It doesn't sound bad, and it even seems like there was a good about of care and thought put into it.
Ed is the best kid. His personality fits with Captain America A LOT. But Hulk, Thor and Iron Man choises seem more pale in comparison.
To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back.
I meant Chris, sorry!
To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back.
I have only seen five episode so far. I don't consider the show amazing yet, but I definitely enjoy it better than the current batch of Marvel cartoon. The use of anime codes on the Marvel Universe is actually kinda fun, and as pointed out above the show manages to have seriously efficient villains while not being excessively grimdark.
But one thing I really appreciate is the fact it's surprisingly quite faithful to the Marvel Universe if you exclude the whole DISK premise. I mean, the characters are faithful to their well-known portrayals, the Universe is similar... weirdly it's almost more faithful than some cartoons^^'
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Surprisingly Good
It's easy to dismiss this show as stupid the instant you hear the premise: Avenegers fused with Shonen anime in the vein of Pokemon or Mega Man NT Warrior. The Avengers are sealed into disks that only a group of children can control. Sounds like a cheap Merchandise-Driven cash-grab with a bunch of obnoxious kids distracting from the super hero parts, doesn't it?
But it's not. The real thing that makes this series the 2nd-best Avengers cartoon (behind Earth's Mightiest Heroes, of course) is the fact that, despite being aimed at young children, it doesn't treat the audience like idiots. The gimmick is given a plausible reason for happening (The disks were supposed to be supervillain prisons, but Loki turned them on the heroes and then they got tethered to the children by accident). The kids aren't just thrown off into adventure; there are a couple Reality Ensues moments where the schoolchildren are helpless against the supervillains, and Pepper even protests against the child endangerment. And the show takes time to develop the characters, too. The story is really simplistic, but it goes at a steady pace, which is a breath of fresh air from the manic pace of the current batch of western Marvel cartoons.
Also, you'd think the kids would be annoying, but they're not. Most of them are actually pretty mature, and a good amount of focus is given to the relationship between the lead kid and Iron Man, so it doesn't feel like the heroes are reduced to toys. But the kids also don't hog all the screen time. And on top of that, each child complements an Avenger's personality in some way: The lead gets Iron Man because they're both main character, the cynical kid gets Cap because he's idealistic, the wimpy kid gets Hulk because he's strong, the lead's brother gets Thor because Thor has a brother, and the girl gets Wasp because they both have vaginas.
Add in the fact that it focuses mostly on A-listers like the Avengers, Nick Fury, Spider-Man, and even the X-Men, and it's hard not to love this show. The only issue is the cheesiness (especially the obligatory Calling Your Attacks) and some of the character designs being weird, but that's only because the show is trying to embrace some classic anime elements. And this show isn't exactly Grim Dark anyways, so a little corniness just makes it more endearing.