10 years ago today, Vortexx ended, bringing traditional Saturday morning cartoons to an end.
It would be replaced with Litton's One Magnificent Morning the next weekend.
Broadcast Partners tried to make a new Saturday morning block in 2015, but that never came to be. Sinclair did make a new weekday and weekend morning block called KidsClick in 2017, but that only lasted just shy of two years.
NBC Kids (which was preschool E/I shows) still went on until 2016, and was replaced by Litton's The More You Know.
MeTV currently airs a retro-themed Saturday morning block.
Why do people cringe at their old art. genuinely. i'm going through my art from 2015 and all i can do is go aww. even at some 'bad takes'. my drawings weren't great, but oh my god were they adorable.
Also it's very cute to see a young queer me who didn't know it, draw 'yaoi' and sometimes 'yuri' (self-proclaimed at the time. didn't have to be about anime). it's cute how i didn't yet fear ship art, even same-sex. this was right before some classmates opened my sketchbook without my consent while i wasn't there and caught a gay wedding full on display. Since then, my ship art became subtle, only delegated to maybe some blushes.
And then, it disappeared.
I miss how young me wasn't afraid to explore queer themes in art. It's sweet to see the ship art, even if it's "badly done" or it plays into yaoi roles of the time in some areas.
I just hit the page with the gay wedding, and it's actually sweeter than I remembered. It's so sweet. I'm genuinely gonna cry. For a long time, I couldn't look back at it without cringing at the memory of my classmates huddling around the table where I'd left my sketchbook. And the way one of them asked me why two guys were getting married. But now, I'm hit with how sweet and utterly genuine my art used to be, and for that reason, I absolutely love it.
It's between the characters Riki Ryugasaki and Samuru Shigami from B-Daman Crossfire. I have no idea why I was so obsessed with that anime, but the ship had me at a chokehold.
The only time I cringed was when I looked at my drawing of Frisk and Sans laying with their heads on each other with the label of ship art on top, but I was a child who headcanoned Sans to be the same age as Frisk, so like. yk.
But that's the Only time I cringed through this whole experiment. Every single art piece besides that one has made me smile or in some cases laugh at the absurdity of it (oh god the vinscott with vincent taking off phone guy's phone MASK so you could see a bit of his face underneath. I laughed. and GODD the jeremike of mike lifting up jeremy shouldn't be as funny as it is. it's hilarious, but a bit sweet. and the little me on the next page with my palms open and a rainbow coming off from it like that one spongebob meme saying 'yaoi'. god i love you child me. i could NOT draw shit like that nowadays. keep it up i guess!)
Okay the cisswap Jeremike is actually cute. if only in the regular versions i didn't uh. make jeremy an... hm. yaoi term that starts with 'u' and ends with 'ke'. but anyway. The Michelle and Jenifer drawing is actually pretty cute.
AWWW I just encountered a 'pocky challenge' (unfinished) drawing, that's ADORABLEE. Okay my Maxaac / Imaax art was so cute... Isaac is thinking about him in classss... aww........
Anyway. Love your old art, guys. This has been a general PSA.
Não me canso de repetir o quanto eu adoro o anime de Bottleman DX!
Sabe aquele anime que você assiste sempre que está para baixo? Aquele anime que, mesmo sendo curto, mesmo você saber de cor todas as falas e acontecimentos é o seu "comfort anime"?
Pois é, esse anime para mim é B-Daman Crossfire. Sempre que estou para baixo, cansado, estressado, exausto, esse anime me traz uma energia muito boa.
Só que Bottleman DX está se tornando meu novo comfort anime!
O roteiro é muito gostosinho, os personagens são muito bem desenvolvidos, o design é muito bonito. No fim, é só abraçar a maluquice que é a proposta desse universo, desligar do mundo um pouco e curtir, se divertir com esse anime.