![]() A newspaper announcement that promises exactly one wish to come true prompts Yoyotoki to gather up her friends Steak (a talking green gummy bear) and Hotwings (…OK, not going to lie, I have no idea what he is. The title character is a decidedly non-magical fox, whose family crash-landed in the land of Mytholopia and are trying to keep their jellybean pot pie business going. Like Adventure Time, Yoyotoki Happy Ears! is set in a strange world where magic is real and the inhabitants are an endearingly weird and extremely heterogeneous bunch. Heightened expectations might have also played a part in my slight disappointment with Yoyotoki Happy Ears!, a surreal animated series created by Adventure Time‘s Niki Yang. ![]() Either way, Everstar has a solid foundation for a show and could grow into a fun sci-fi serial epic, but the pilot doesn’t quite live up to its potential. There might be a disconnect caused by the relatively rigid character models when the overall look is making me expect the variation and squash-and-stretch of hand-drawn animation. It might also be that the pre-release artwork led me to expect a fully hand-drawn animated show, but the animation looks more like a Flash/After Effects cartoon rendered to look like hand-drawn animation. When Ainslie and George end up on the Everstar, the reveal that they’re in outer space feels like it should be much more epic than it is, and the subsequent chase and space battle with the pirates doesn’t quite have the tension that it needs to. There is a certain pedestrian tone to the show in everything from the writing to the animation: dialogue is extremely on-the-nose and the impact of some scenes is muted by the staging and the animated camera work. The two are forced into a crash course in piloting and maintaining the Everstar while evading the pirates and luring them away from Earth.Īll the ingredients for a fun show are in Everstar, but for some reason the pilot episode didn’t fully gel. She and George are whisked aboard, but the re-activation of the ship’s systems lures the pirates that have been chasing the Everstar and forced the last crew to abandon ship. However, she gets much more than she bargained for when she responds to a strange SOS that turns out to be from a spaceship called the Everstar, manned by an AI an a crotchety robot. Intrepid pre-teen sailor Ainslie Wickett enjoys getting into trouble, as shown in a promising opening sequence where she and her best friend George are testing his latest invention at sea in the middle of a massive storm. As usual, you can watch all pilots on /amazonvideo, and vote for which pilots should go on to full series orders at /pilotseason.Įverstar was the show that looked the coolest to me from the pilot announcement, so perhaps heightened expectations are why I felt slightly let down by the actual pilot episode. This set of pilots turns out to have a number of surprises in it, both good and bad and often set up by expectations established by the initial announcement. This year, all 6 new programs are animated, with a variety of selections aimed at pre-schoolers to pre-teens. It’s Fall 2015, and time for a new batch of Amazon Studios kids premieres.
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