#Studio Joho

[alexdron]

[psikonauti]

Moto Joho

Studio Visit, 2022

Oil, acrylic, ink, graphite, oil pastel on canvas

[dexterno-artz]

You just explained everything people hated about the new shorts perfectly. Thanks for this. And also as someone who watched the og JJ shorts when they FIRST aired. I wasn't waiting for only a year or two I WAITED FOR FOUR WHOLE YEARS. Begging for a continuation. And I agree! I was so excited seeing the teaser trailer and all the parts with the villains and CRAIG AND BARRY CONTENT YES PLEASE - then it didn't come for 2 years .......... I remember sending the teaser to my old JJfriends and freaking the fuck out only to get disappointed with this fucking stupid ass jj2 shorts series. Like GTFO what is this bullharkey. Obviously they still have the shorts somewhere but I've been talking with people in my discord server about it and we're thinking there might have been a fallout between joho studios and HB due to budget... But who knows really. Everything is in the dark and from the lack of quality lately... I think that's it - the budget. Hell, even brains mentions if budget permits! And that was YEARS ago. Something is definitely fucky behind the scenes and that's why we're getting all this low quality content and HB+ to get their money back... But man. Idk why they just had to ditch jj shorts fully for some fuckin bullshittery story that makes no sense. I'd rather get what we could have had in JJ shorts even if it ended abruptly or have nothing. At least we'd have more content and actual like story. And content for us artists to draw and be content with. But no. We waited ALL these years and for what? Some low budget fuckin cut of some random ass story with no plot or relevant to the characters. Especially Craig. They did my boy dirty. He does not ACT or PORTRAY as old in the slightest. At this point the fans should just ignore jj2 shorts and just forget it ever existed. Lost media.

new jetpack joyride animated series now coming never

this is a shitpost but i also just wanna rant about this for a bit. listen, i get that making games and animations and managing all this Halfbrick+ stuff at the same time is going to take a while. i get it. everyone working at Halfbrick are humans, and you can't demand and expect perfection. but also, i can't help but be disappointed and concerned about the stuff from Halfbrick Beyond that i was looking forwards to either not arriving or not being very high quality. like,, only three out of the seven promised things we were going to get in 2023 came out that year (those being rereleases of Age of Zombies, Fish Out of Water and the release of Fruit Ninja VR 2), and the ones that did come out later this year, like season 3 of Dan the Man and Thrill of the Fight 2 didn't really live up to expectations. i'm gonna start this with a bit of a preamble ranting about DtM season 3 to kinda illustrate the problems i also have with the new Jetpack Joyride stuff because they actually share a pretty similar problem, and i was pretty disappointed with how DtM season 3 came along because i was looking forward to that.

when the Halfbrick Beyond thing first dropped and they showed the new animated DtM stuff, it was quite interesting! Dan and Josie had gone on all these wild adventures and survived all these fucked up things, so it's exciting to see new little nuggets of what they're going to do next. i wondered just what was in that chest and what Dan was going to discover, what new characters and plot points and themes would be explored in this new stuff. now of course, with most of the stuff Halfbrick promising being delayed, we would have to wait a while before anything surrounding the new series would come out, but earlier this year, we finally got a closer sneak peak at what the new season would actually be about. Dan getting cursed??? that's super interesting! i'm so excited to see what kind of challenges Dan will face, how this little curse reaper guy will affect him on his adventures, how he would deal with it and maybe even use it to his advantage, what kind of character arc he would go throug-

... it... it was golf. it was just golf. that's it? that's Dan the Man season 3?? that was just a bunch of GOLF!!!

like okay yeah the storyline was cute and all, but like... really? that's it? nothing about Marcus, no real continuation from the story that was explored in the first and second seasons, no real adventure or action, barely any focus on other characters, it was just a golf story with little to no development beyond the little curse reaper guy moving on from unfinished business, and it didn't even last that long. needless to say it was very disappointing.

and now that brings me back to the Jetpack Joyride animated stuff that was originally promised to come out in late 2023. god this still makes me so sad. i get that animation and storycrafting takes a LOT of time and effort, but the fact that it's been over a year and we still haven't seen anything new, let alone heard anything of this series, only for a new one to suddenly start being created is very worrying and disappointing. likei'm not even kidding, i would gladly wait another year for the series that was originally teased to be fully fleshed out and developed if it meant we would finally get to see something better than what was released this year. the original pieces of animation that were shown in the series' trailer as well as the little short Halfbrick uploaded looked fantastic. they were all in the original animated style, they looked considerably higher budget than the original shorts with better animation and new environments, they directly involved the Really Bad Corp crew, they seemed to follow a cohesive plot and teased an action-filled adventure story, it had everything going for it and i couldn't wait for it to release. it was SO excited dude, the idea of taking the original shorts and fleshing them out into a full-blown adventure with my two favourite little blorbos and adding more characterisation to the rest of the cast sounded incredible in my mind. but of course, things don't just come instantly, so i waited. and then i waited. and then i waited. and then waited more. and then more.

it's December 2024 now, and i don't think i need to say that those episodes didn't end up coming out in either 2023 or 2024, and instead, these weird little new shorts started slowly being released, and i am,,, pretty displeased and even confused with how Jetpack Joyride's story is going according to these shorts. they don't continue on from the jumping off point that was established in the Rainbow Barry episode, but instead are their own separate things that just kinda,,, tell this random story with no real build up. like it's so sudden and goes along so quickly that it feels incomplete. the episodes are so short and there are so many bits that just don't get explained that it feels kinda,, unfinished??? and the plot itself is just... there are elements that i really like, but the way it's strung together feels like a rough first draft, and i of course very much dislike the direction that was taken with Craig's character. Craig possibly being related to Barry in some way by being a Peter Simpkins clone just doesn't have the buildup, foreshadowing or anything else to really justify it suddenly happening in these shorts, and it feels like a cop out, as though a rug were suddenly being pulled out from under your legs and you're just confused about why that happened when you fall down. i feel really bad typing this out but like,, that's how i feel about it. i'm disappointed, honestly.

i've been kinda coping about it for a while, thinking "they just need more time" with every month that passed in 2023 until the next year. i've been picking everything i like from the new shorts and desperately trying to get any sort of enjoyment out of them. and yeah, maybe they do need more time! but that doesn't really explain wtf these newer shorts with newer assets are, and i can't say i really enjoy the new ones because they're just... i ultimately just don't think they're very good, especially compared to what Halfbrick made a few years back.

i don't expect Halfbrick to bend backwards for their fans and do everything we want them to. i do not want that. at the end of the day, it's their games and they can do whatever they want with them. but at the same time, when you set and expectation you don't meet, it shouldn't come as a surprise when people are disappointed and even angry about it. i often dunk on people who constantly beg for DtM2 on anything Halfbrick related, but honestly, i get it. i don't think anything has really been said much since that delay notice and the discord QnA and that silence can leave people who are expecting something out of it to feel impatient, worried and angry. it's kinda worse for those who were expecting the new Jetpack Joyride series to come out, as literally nothing has been said about it since that trailer and the short video became unlisted a while ago. it's just been silence ever since until these new random shorts started coming out. i can't help but feel a longing sadness every time i watch them or go back to watch the original trailer for the series Halfbrick originally intended to release. it's like looking into another reality of things that could have been and it makes me so sad. i don't know if they've cancelled it yet. not a word has been said about it and it wasn't really that well marketed to begin with. but with how things are going right now, i'm not so sure that Halfbrick's ever gonna release it, especially with this new storyline they're crafting. if there's one silver lining to this, it's the fact that i'll always have my own imagination and write something i would have loved to see.

now if you'll excuse me i'll be rewatching the trailer and the short over and over and rest my hand longingly on the screen as though it were a lost lover

[joshuadraws]

A much better #LionsBlaze drawing based on the amazing #cartoon from @StudioJoho and @olanrogers Can't wait for #FinalSpace !

[recentanimenews]

Attack on Titan Final Season TV Anime Unleashes Supporting Cast Members

Attack on Titan Final Season will conclude the adaptation of Hajime Isayama's epic story on December 7, but before then, the official Twitter account for the anime franchise announced more additional cast and their voice actors for the upcoming TV anime series. Be warned though, their names may be spoilers (and don't Google them)!

    【新キャスト解禁！】 「TVアニメ『進撃の巨人』The Final Season」新キャストを解禁！ ファルコ・グライス：花江夏樹 ガビ・ブラウン：佐倉綾音 ピーク：沼倉愛美 ポルコ・ガリアード：増田俊樹 ウド：村瀬歩 ゾフィ���：川島悠美 コルト・グライス：松風雅也https://t.co/jYIeJ35GDc#shingeki

— アニメ「進撃の巨人」公式アカウント (@anime_shingeki) November 2, 2020

    Joining the returning cast from the previous three seasons are:

  Falco Grice - Natsuki Hanae

Gabi Braun - Ayane Sakura

Pieck - Manami Numakura

Porco Galliard - Toshiki Masuda

Udo - Ayumu Murase

Zofia - Yuumi Kawashima

Colt Grice - Masaya Matsukaze

    The series adapts the ongoing manga from Hajime Isayama that runs monthly in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine. Isayama said in an interview on Japanese show Shin Joho 7days Newscaster in June 2020 that the manga series was "about 5%" away from completion, with only that last little bit left for the series. 

  Previously released trailer for the upcoming season:

  The official Attack on Titan Twitter account announced on May 29 that the series will be airing on NHK-G in Japan, with MAPPA taking over the production of the anime from WIT STUDIO. Attack on Titan Final Season will be directed by Yuichiro Hayashi (Dorohedoro, Kakegurui) with series composition by Hiroshi Seko, character designs by Tomohiro Kishi, and Kohta Yamamoto working on the music alongside series composer Hiroyuki Sawano.

  Previously released visual:

  Attack on Titan Final Season is scheduled to broadcast on NHK-G at 12:10 AM JST on December 7. Crunchyroll announced on September 22 that the final season will be coming to the streaming service "later this year", and is currently streaming all the rest of Attack on Titan.

  Sources: Attack on Titan on Twitter

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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.

By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

[mystery-rick-smile-skull-15]

Dan the man is a great game..

Also happy valentines day to all my friends

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@askstella-andfriends @ask-mun-hannah @fluff-lord @angelposts-things @justdaphnyuwu @erickick @fishyundertaleseabunny

[nobabeno]

[alexdron]

WTF 101 designs - Final Main Characters

Designed with Director Mark Paterson

Production Company - Studio Joho

Client - College Humor

[joshuadraws]

@StudioJoho and @OlanRogers have rocked #TheLionsBlaze cartoon. We'll be delivering fanart this week to @thesodaparlor while we're visiting.

[mystery-rick-smile-skull-15]

Please play this game!!!

I heard you can play as Barry Steakfries for JPJR!!

Please, it's a great game-

[suechoiart]

Captain Marvel (2019) and Demolition Man (1993)

I am marinating the portions of Dada’s Boys that I’ve read over the weekend. In the meantime, I wanted to practice some writing and ramble about two movies I’ve watched over the weekend.

Captain Marvel (2019), and

Demolition Man (1993) 

((If anyone has a high-res copy of the poster...I’d be eternally grateful)) 

Incoherent rambling ahead

Summary: Captain Marvel wasn’t a good  great movie (it was a fine movie); Carol Danvers is pretty cool but very similar to Cpt America’s character; looking forward to the second half of Infinity War; Demolition Man does a *lot* of things a *lot* better than Captain Marvel. Was Captain Marvel feminist? Lessons from good action movies. 

I don’t explicitly mention plot points but /educated readers/ could probably deduce some spoilers both movies. (I’m being sarcastic. I definitely mention movie details without any regard to spoilers.) 

I have a soft spot for both Marvel Studio movies and fun, cheesy, action flicks. I love the behemoth that MCU has become, something they could not have known when Iron Man was created 10 years ago... and I love the purity of action films - of good guys ‘beating up’ bad guys - and the heart actors and directors bring to it shown in movies like Die Hard. Some of the Marvel movies are right in that spot - and their strength shines more in the ‘character interaction’ department; whereas pure-action-comedy movies like Jackie Chan’s Hong Kong productions and The Matrix have great characters but the action sequences, where the actors themselves have to train at significant amounts, shine the most. 

The more I think about Captain Marvel, honestly the more disappointed I am. Frankly for the big breaking International Women’s Day release it was not rich enough. I thought Black Panther had done marvelously (I still tear up thinking about the themes of disaphora in BP), nor was a pure comedic genius like Thor: Ragnorak .... It was a very, very, very average Marvel film. The first Ant Man is better than CM; the second Ant Man is not as good as CM. 

Which is to say that CM is not a bad film, but unfortunately disappointing for what it was ‘supposed to be.’ I don’t feel bad thinking this way, because BP was a great success in my heart; it spoke to a universal theme while championing a targeted audience (of race and origin). As I am an immigrant, although I cannot associate with Black History Month, I can still relate to it deeply in terms of diasphora and displacement. (Wakanda forever!)

I’m urged to clarify again that CM was not a bad movie, but I think it failed because it placated a lot of the villains and conflict in favor of ~Carol Danvers~. 

So, good parts of CM: Carol Danvers is pretty darn awesome. I really think that she brings hope to the Avengers, -- she symbolizes what the humans have better than any of the outer-Earth lives that are out their in the MCU: she gets back up. No matter what she’s told, whom she’s told by... She always gets back up. I did tear up here. I really did like that notion that she, and her humanity, is how the Avengers will win. 

So.... That falls pale in her co-cast:

Nick Fury, who spends 75% of screentime cooing over a cat, and apparently too young to be the badass Fury that we know and love;

Kree mentor who tells her “u ahve 2 much emoshuns 2 be a gr8 kree” 

Best friend whose character is only to tell Carol how great she is 

Cat, saves the day probably more than she does 

Somewhere between those lackluster sidekicks and Carol Danvers’ overpowered ‘superpower’ ... You basically get women are cool and funny and get over it as the central theme of the movie. 

I think the “Carol Danvers gets back up” is problematic, because I read it in a very gender-neutral language (see above: I’m framing that as the HUMANITY’S reason to win, not WOMEN’s) -- potentially because this movie is situated in a world where the Avengers lost half of total lives in the universe... But also because the wOmyN aRe StRonG idea was so, SO obtuse, especially as response to CD’s Kree mentor (played by Jude Law) -- who, again, emphasizes how much weak Carol is because she lets emotions control her. Except it’s not about emotions. Emotions are not why Carol Danvers gains strength! (It’s her humanity!)  

I think the emotion thing *could have* worked, had Carol not been very, I’d say extremely level-headed in spite of a lot of the weird stuff that happened through the movie. She never broke down, never threw a tantrum.... She was just a very secure person with a sense of humor that Fury even enjoyed. 

So then, what was Jude Law even talking about? I find the “emotional is bad, logical is good” construct very gendered and extremely problematic, especially in our political/internet-driven social climate. In words of misogynists and keyboard warriors(who tend to be young males), being logical and rational is obviously superior; and emotional bad; and as a consequence many women (or emotional men) suffer through invalidation of their experiences. When Carol Danvers, as seen in the film, does *not* have issues controlling her emotions.... why does he even say that? Why is that even written in the script? 

In short, .... Considering that this is supposedly Marvel’s stake on feminism (yikes, it didn’t even register to me as feminst) ... I have to borrow the words of this great Mashable article by Jess Joho: 

The only thing that feels truly retro about Captain Marvel's '90s setting is its shallow take on feminism that we should be moving away from, not using as a crutch. It's not just that so many of the movie's heavy-handed Feminist Moments come across as disingenuous. Those moments also tap into an old conceit of equality as a sort of revenge fantasy, mixed with the undertone of a battle of the sexes. [...]  The feminist-ish sentiment of "girls are just as good as boys" defines and measures women's empowerment as it compares to men. Consequently, it devalues and trivializes feminine power in its own right.

... so considering that this is, the first and only solo female movie in MCU...... They really, really could have done better. I hate to say this but (because MCU > DCEU), ...... Wonder Women did it a LOT better. 

Onto Demolition Man. It’s past my bedtime so I’m going to just rush through random thoughts via bullet points: 

Wesley. Snipes. (Probably doesn’t help that Blade is also one of my favorite movies.) 

Sylvester Stalone was great in this movie. He had great form in all of the shots he was in. Commandeered every scene. 

ALL OF THE CHARACTERS! They were so lively. Everyone had motivations that drove them, instead of being basically houseplants that can drive spaceships (ahem...CM...) 

I definitely have another soft spot for movies with ridiculous plots. “LAPD gets cryofrozen as a criminal for failing to save citizens, but in tern DEMOLITION MAN-ing an entire complex throughout his career. When big bad evil Wesley Snipes gets parole, only one man can stop him --- the very Sylvester Stalone, The Demolition Man, who put him in jail!” “oh and this is a weird 2023 where you have to pay fines for cussing.” 

Oddly enough this movie has a great example of ‘secure heterosexual male protagonist’ and ‘female love interest with her own motivations’.. They actually agree to (CONSENT TO!) make love, and she starts and finishes in her own terms. 

Sylvester Stalone’s character is actually very caring and understands his role in the world he wakes up to; he is not at all gross (”back in my day” is never said) and he understands his position as a guest to all of this, while asserting his own views of morality onto the world. 

Also I’m very upset that this movie achieved themes of displacement, utopia, and “who is the real bad guy?!” a lot, LOT, better than CM. 

Denis Leary plays the rebel in the movie and also made this music video, which actually aligns a lot with my thesis interests (masculinity, prescribed notions of American life, suburbs....) 

I just have to reiterate again that (1) Sylvester Stalone did not have to prove his masculinity to anyone, but his humanity is acknowledged by even the heroine in this character - (2) why must women still be *acknowledged* by man of our competence in 2019!?

OH, this movie makes SO MUCH BETTER 90s REFERENCES THAN CAPTAIN MARVEL!!! This is important. Captain Marvel makes 90s references as much as it nods to feminism. There’s a Blockbuster. And a Radioshack. Do they even realize those stuck around into the 2000s? 

To conclude... I understand the constraints put onto Captain Marvel, sandwiched between freaking Infinity War 1 and Infinity War 2. But had Marvel Studios not learned their lesson from the tragedy of Age of Ultron? Even Joss Whedon, who arguably is a very well accomplished director, could not make AoU work. It was not a good movie. And he freaking set up the entire Avengers franchise! 

I can’t know what lead to the underwhelming result that is Captain Marvel, but it is not a great product to stand on its own. 

DEMOLITION MAN IS STILL RELEVANT! Captain Marvel will still only be relevant in the future if we don’t, as a society, move on from “girls can do anything boys can do” mentality.