The Delbert Cartoon Report

This week we had a Blu-ray re-release of this anime series (which is one of my favorites by the way).  With the number rising with streaming, it's taking its slight toll on physical media (DVD and Blu-ray), and the major studios are no longer taking time and effort to create exciting new product for themselves.  However, there still is a market needed for this stuff.  So Blu-ray's are still coming out and DVD's, but are they cool and exciting.  The short answer is, not anymore.  Is this one exciting?  Well, let's find out. Unless you're in the minority or a major anime fan, you have not heard of this series maybe.  With the success of the magical girl anime like Sailor Moon, more shows were made of that type.  However, they were mostly for kids like Pretty Cure (Glitter Force in one case, no time for that story).  This mini series tells the tale of Madoka and her friend Sayaka.  One day, they met a strange creature named Kyubey. ...

WARNING:  The following blog post is about a show that may not be suitable for young children.  While this post may not reflect it as to be dirty, removing some elements from this post is just the same as saying it never existed.  Please if you are under the age of 18 ask your parents first before viewing or reading on. There are a lot of things that grind my gears and this is one of them: Kill la Kill fans wanting a new season of the series.  Or worse....CONFIRMING that there is a new season without any credible source. Ok....let's stop right here and point this out.....I LOVE Kill la Kill.  This is one of my all time favorite anime.  Sure it's.....kinky....but yet it has a purpose for all the fan service other than making a male hooked which most anime nowadays do.  So yes, like the fandom, I enjoy Kill la Kill very much.  HOWEVER......I am NOT asking for a second season.  That doesn't mean I won't get excited if it should happen, ...

This new series  of posts takes a look at some cartoon conspiracy theories and creepypastas just in time for Halloween.  We'll start with one of the biggest cartoon shows of the 1990's, Pinky and the Brain. Pinky and the Brain were first a part of Animaniacs, but were soon a spin off series.  The plot is that brain comes up with plans to take over the world.  His partner Pinky is along for the ride and seems pretty dumb.  But is Pinky the dumb one??? Some fan theories say no.  In fact, based on some evidence presented by these theories, he's the genius.  Pinky always seems to say that each of Brain's plans is not a good idea, and each time he's right.  That's a fact as it's how it is in each episode.  But it doesn't prove who's smarter.  Notice in the theme song, there is no stupid character.  "One's a genius, the other's insane."  But they never specify which one is which. In an episode of Pinky and the Brain, Brain m...

Remember the TV show "This is Your Life"?  Of course you don't, and neither did I; it was before our time.  No matter...here it is...based on the TV show and a WB cartoon called This is a Life?  This highlights a character as a look back to honor them. I'm a major fan of Sailor Moon.  It's my favorite anime.  One of my favorite things to do is to celebrate the Sailor Scouts birthdays.  These are based off of official licensed products that talk about each of the characters. Ah yes....September 10th.  My cousin got married that day......15 years ago, Donald Rumpsfelt said that the Pentagon could not account to like 2.3 trillion dollars in transactions and all of those records were destroyed the next day due to 9/11....but that's not important to our topic, the important thing is that one Sailor Guardian has a birthday that day.  She is a fan favorite because of her sweetness yet shy and quiet.  She is smart, but never obnoxious.  S...

This next highlight comes from one of the last PD companies to highly promote the public domain Looney Tunes.  And a very cheap company too. Digiview was formed in the early 2000's.  Their primary goal was to release many titles for a cheap price.  This included family entertainment, classic films, and classic TV shows, and the public domain cartoons were no exception.  For about a buck per disc, you get at least one hour of entertainment (or so they say) on their discs. Our primary goal is to cover the cartoon section.  Their first line of cartoons were the Cartoon Craze. These titles were mix and matches of many public domain cartoons.  Although the main cartoon may be a Bugs Bunny one, that does not mean the whole disc is nothing but Bugs Bunny cartoons.  No indeed, it would be another PD cartoon.  So it wouldn't be a full hour of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, or whoever is represented on the cover. An unusual line of DVDs they did were ...

In 1969, CBS canceled the controversial Smothers Brothers show and replaced it with another variety show.  Titled Hee-Haw, this show unlike most was targeted towards country music fans.  Buck Owens and Roy Clark hosted the show each week, and the show featured comedy, jokes, and country music by the greatest stars of the time like Dolly Parton and Merl Haggart . As part of the series, some animated segments were made for the series.  Much has been said about the TV show, the stars of the show, the comedy, and the music stars that performed, but very little has been talked about Hee-Haw's Animated Critters. These segments were animated by Format Films.  Format Films is best known for The Alvin Show and The Lone Ranger cartoons.  Their UPA/Jay Ward style animation made them a great pick for the show.  Even at the beginning of the show, you saw the donkey going "Hee-Haw" with his eyes rolling around and around. But the donkey wasn't the only ...