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- movies@piefed.social
The finale to the hit Glitch animated series has $5 million in presales in just four days, and theater owners are lining up to add the event to their screens
The finale to the hit Glitch animated series has $5 million in presales in just four days, and theater owners are lining up to add the event to their screens
Amazing Digital Circus? Fathom? Glitch?
Haven’t heard of any of these, what am I missing lol? Is this a USian thing or am I just living under a digital rock? =P
Amazing Digital Circus is an indie animated series on Youtube. Its produced by Glitch productions. There are 8 episodes so far, with one more releasing later. The 8th and 9th episode are getting a special release in theaters. Its being done through Fathom Events, which runs “special movies” a lot. These are often reruns of older movies. Like, around here they run Ghibli movies every few months.
The whole event is kind of a big deal because Glitch is an indie Youtube based production house. That they got a theatrical release was big. Its been incredibly popular and getting a wider release, which is even bigger. Because they are not a big studio.
As for the show, its a deceptively complex series that feels vaguely like a kids show, but gets pretty deep on a lot of issues in a metaphorical sort of way, and sometimes more direct. The core plot, the main character, Poni, suddenly finds herself trapped in this virtual Digital Circus world. Its run by an AI entitiy that controls everything. There are several other people whom she meets who have already been trapped there for an unknown amount of time. No one remebers their real names and some details about their real lives. The mystery of how they are trapped there gets unraveled while they do little adventures.
Its on Youtube for free if you want to watch it.
Might be worth a watch but the final episode hasn’t been released yet if I understand correctly? Any ETA on that? :)
June 4th in theaters, June 19th on Youtube.
I haven’t watched it yet, but Ive heard it pitched as a modern version of “I have no mouth but I must scream,” the seminal horror story by Harlan Ellison.
I don’t know the story, but one of the main TADC characters is mostly mouth. He doesn’t scream a lot, though.
What was I trying to say?
“I have no mouth and i must scream” but it pretends to be a kids show.
Having now watched it, lol, I wouldn’t call it horror. It’s mostly just silly.
I’d say it’s more like Deca-Dence if anything, but with a lot more comedy and less plot-driven.
Indie adult animation series published on youtube with wild international success. It’s pretty good
Adult? Really?
Well, Teenagers and adults are the audience I should have specified. It doesn’t look like but but the themes it touches are not for children.
Yeah, it’s basically PG-13.