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[StreetsofBeige]

Never heard of it and it came out yesterday.

Got good reviews. So far IGN 9/10, and IMDB users is 8.2/10 out of about 1,000 users.

 

[Deleted member 801069]

same studio that gave us the Castlevania anime on Netflix, so not really surprised by the ratings

Castlevania is awesome, will give this one a chance

 

[oagboghi2]

I heard great things. Will watch today

 

[gow3isben]

Friggin loved it man. Main cast not as good as Castlevania but I love the mythology so overall actually enjoyed it more. The Gods story arc was more interesting to me than the main character's one. Scope was epic.

Loved Apollo and Hermes being total bros. Poseidon was a bit underpowered.

Yet another banger in Netflix original animation epics added to Dragon Prince, Castlevania, and Tales of Arcadia.

There are some mediocre ones like Dragon's Dogma and Voltron and the odd piece of garbage like She-Ra, but the shows that shine are some of the best animated shows I have seen.

I know this studio has another original animation on Netflix about Kung Fu fighters called Seis Manos. Gonna delve into that next.

Hoping for a season 2.

 

[Fugitive Sex]

Thanks for letting us know about this, it looks fantastic.

 

[isual]

i liked the gore, action and story for what it is. only thing that felt off was the sound effects like foley for certain actions or events - it felt quiet.

 

[TaylorSwiftFan]

same studio that gave us the Castlevania anime on Netflix, so not really surprised by the ratings

Castlevania is awesome, will give this one a chance

There were 5 studios that worked on Castlevania.

 

[Tesseract]

between this and the midnight gospel, i've not watched so many cartoons since i was a kid

good times

 

[finowns]

same studio that gave us the Castlevania anime on Netflix, so not really surprised by the ratings

Castlevania is awesome, will give this one a chance

The writing in Castlevania was bad and nonsensical it ruined it for me.

 

[GymWolf]

It looks like castlevania.

 

[Hakiroto]

Thanks for sharing. I really enjoyed Castlevania so I'll definitely check this out!

 

[Kadve]

How can it be an anime when no japanese company is actually involved in its creation? (produced in Texas, animated in Korea).

Looks good otherwise.

 

[Armorian]

Reminds me of this (fight scenes, not so great movie but I always loves this scene):

 

[Cycom]

My brother in law recommended this to me.

Re: Castlevania, s1 was great, s2 started going downhill, and s3 was an sjw cringefest with abysmal writing. You

 

[SirTerry-T]

Friggin loved it man. Main cast not as good as Castlevania but I love the mythology so overall actually enjoyed it more. The Gods story arc was more interesting to me than the main character's one. Scope was epic.

Loved Apollo and Hermes being total bros. Poseidon was a bit underpowered.

Yet another banger in Netflix original animation epics added to Dragon Prince, Castlevania, and Tales of Arcadia.

There are some mediocre ones like Dragon's Dogma and Voltron and the odd piece of garbage like She-Ra, but the shows that shine are some of the best animated shows I have seen.

I know this studio has another original animation on Netflix about Kung Fu fighters called Seis Manos. Gonna delve into that next.

Hoping for a season 2.

What you talking about? Voltron was bloody great!
I did enjoy the first episode of this but I do wish some of that Netflix cash would go towards hiring a few more in-between animators. The layouts and character designs are lovely but there is some stiff animation in both this and the Castlevania series that diminished my enjoyment a bit, or at least took the shine off it. Anyone around here know if this show is even animated on "twos"?

 

[thefool]

Without sounding like a weeb why do they call this an anime?

 

[SirTerry-T]

Without sounding like a weeb why do they call this an anime?

To lure in the weebs
I'm not sure either, isn't most of the production done by Korean animation studios too? That would make the "anime" description even more weird.

 

[gow3isben]

What you talking about? Voltron was bloody great!
I did enjoy the first episode of this but I do wish some of that Netflix cash would go towards hiring a few more in-between animators. The layouts and character designs are lovely but there is some stiff animation in both this and the Castlevania series that diminished my enjoyment a bit, or at least took the shine off it. Anyone around here know if this show is even animated on "twos"?

eh Decent. Think I watched like 1.5 seasons but it just didn't hook me as well as the others I mentioned. Will get around to watching more at some point.

 

[El Pistolero]

Is this running at 5 frames per second? The animation is so bad that it reminded me of those 70s animes-, and while the setting is captivating (Greek mythology for you), the plot and dialogues are even worse than Castlevania. Mediocre at best, after 4 episodes. I wonder how the rest of it will fare by comparison, but I can not summon the motivation to go ahead with the rest of the story...

 

[MastAndo]

Is this running at 5 frames per second? The animation is so bad that it reminded me of those 70s animes-, and while the setting is captivating (Greek mythology for you), the plot and dialogues are even worse than Castlevania. Mediocre at best, after 4 episodes. I wonder how the rest of it will fare by comparison, but I can not summon the motivation to go ahead with the rest of the story...

Yeah, I wanted to give it a shot since I dig Greek Mythology, but I can't get over the piss poor animation. It's basically a slideshow, and it's kind of messing with my eyes. It did look like a mixed bag in the trailer with some scenes looking smoother than others, so I may give it another shot.

 

[Kadve]

Yeah, I wanted to give it a shot since I dig Greek Mythology, but I can't get over the piss poor animation. It's basically a slideshow, and it's kind of messing with my eyes. It did look like a mixed bag in the trailer with some scenes looking smoother than others, so I may give it another shot.

It reminds me a a lot like the style Warner Bros is using nowadays for their dtv animated movies. Don't think they have any connection, so might just be what's in right now

 

[thefool]

To lure in the weebs
I'm not sure either, isn't most of the production done by Korean animation studios too? That would make the "anime" description even more weird.

Yes, they tend to outsource animation but the main creative outputs are, usually, japanese. Directors, writers, storyboarders, character designers, art directors, etc.

 

[Fbh]

2 episodes in and it's pretty fun so far .
The writing is a bit awkward just like Castlevania but I'm liking the voice acting itself a lot more. It sort of fits better, Castlevania always felt off in that department.

But yeah...holy shit is the framerate bad. I actually restarted the App during the first episode because I thought the choopy look was due to some technical issue.
Netflix should really start making less stuff but putting more money into each project. A lot of their original animations have terrible framerate and even big live action shows like the Witcher have terrible VFX

What you talking about? Voltron was bloody great!

Yeah Voltron is great. One of the best "western" animated shows since The Last Airbender.
The last few seasons were a bit underwhelming (still enjoyable though) but the first half of the show is fantastic

Reminds me of this (fight scenes, not so great movie but I always loves this scene):

This show is actually written by the same guys as Immortals

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

How can it be an anime

It isn't.

 

[Weiji]

Tried two episodes, not very good. Poor animation, poorly constructed story / characters that feel bland.

 

[Lokimaru]

Tried two episodes, not very good. Poor animation, poorly constructed story / characters that feel bland.

It was swear some of you guys would nit pick a handjob from a pretty girl (or guy if that's your thing).

 

[Durask]

How can it be an anime when no japanese company is actually involved in its creation? (produced in Texas, animated in Korea).

Looks good otherwise.

Yeah, not sure why this is anime. The artstyle looks Western to me.

 

[Fugitive Sex]

It's called an anime because it's heavily influenced by Japanese animation, and seeks to distance itself from modern American forms of animation quality.

Also, you people are being pedantic as fuck.

 

[autoduelist]

My 6 year old loves mythology. Safe for him?

 

[gow3isben]

My 6 year old loves mythology. Safe for him?

There is gore and sex present.

 

[autoduelist]

There is gore and sex present.

Gore probably wouldn't be a issue [he has seen Indiana Jones, etc, and knows tv violence is makeup and cgi] but sex is a hard no. Thanks!

 

[O-N-E]

It's called an anime because it's heavily influenced by Japanese animation, and seeks to distance itself from modern American forms of animation quality.

Also, you people are being pedantic as fuck.

Well it failed.

If Avatar isn't anime, there's no way in hell this is.

 

[Labolas]

What you talking about? Voltron was bloody great!
I did enjoy the first episode of this but I do wish some of that Netflix cash would go towards hiring a few more in-between animators. The layouts and character designs are lovely but there is some stiff animation in both this and the Castlevania series that diminished my enjoyment a bit, or at least took the shine off it. Anyone around here know if this show is even animated on "twos"?

Voltron's last season dropped the ball and hurt the overall series. It also didn't help that creators and va's were placating the pairing/tumblr crowd as well which ironically caused them to get death threats. And out of all the characters, Shiro was the only one with any real closure when in reality he should have been the one to be killed off. And Lance was left with a case of blue balls. Funny enough, I thought that the earlier seasons were great, amazing even, but they kept throwing around that Shiro's gay and there's LGBT representation that they shot themselves in the foot by doing so.

 

[NahaNago]

I found this show to be boring as well. How they presented the story was just really weak. I kind of felt that a lot of the story elements should have hit me a lot harder. They failed to wow with the gods and the titans.

 

[AquaticSquirrel]

So how woke is this on a scale of 1-10? I don't trust anything "original" in the animation department that Netflix is involved with unless it has an existing source material that the show is sticking to. Even then they sometimes fuck it up, look at Saint Seiya

The art style reminds me of a mixture of Castlevania and some of the DC animation stuff.

 

[Javthusiast]

Nothing about it is anime, it's a cartoon as Castlevania and Avatar, that aside I am excited to watch it.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

All of the Netflix made "anime" I've seen is hot garbage. Castlevania is the one decent one I've seen. I'll give it a shot though because I'm a sucker for adult animation.

 

[gow3isben]

So how woke is this on a scale of 1-10? I don't trust anything "original" in the animation department that Netflix is involved with unless it has an existing source material that the show is sticking to. Even then they sometimes fuck it up, look at Saint Seiya

The art style reminds me of a mixture of Castlevania and some of the DC animation stuff.

0/10

The female characters are crazy bitches or relatively normal non-powered people. No forced diversity. No LGBTQ plus themes forced down our throats.

 

[AquaticSquirrel]

0/10

The female characters are crazy bitches or relatively normal non-powered people. No forced diversity. No LGBTQ plus themes forced down our throats.

Oh that's pretty surprising, in that case I'm in to give it a try

 

[Fugitive Sex]

There was a strange moment with a black man (with some kind of African accent whilst everyone else is American) who mentioned something about how the Greeks wouldn't choose him as he's black or something like that.

Greeks didn't like barbarians in general, black or otherwise, so it felt somewhat odd to hear.

 

[jason10mm]

My 6 year old loves mythology. Safe for him?

God no. It is violent as fuck. Very little sex/nudity so far (I'm 4-5 eps in?).

Plus it is just confusing as it relies a lot on flashbacks to give exposition. While it isn't very fluid, the character designs for the Giants are pretty cool. The demons are very generic. Cerebus and charon were cool.

 

[Fbh]

5 episodes in and it's really mixed.

The story is pretty fun but the animation seems to be getting worse with each chapter. Episode 5 pretty much looked like they ran out of money....and there's still 3 more episodes to go.
There's also some weird scenes that even as a cartoon break the immersion. Like this one time the main character (who so far has shown no superhuman powers) uses a basic wooden bow to shoot arrows that fly past some hill that looks like it's dozens of miles away. Or someone "sneaking away" in basically plain sight with the bad guy facing them and standing literally a few feet away, or when you can feel them stretching out scenes by showing flashbacks of stuff that happened 10 minutes ago.

 

[manfestival]

Never heard of it and it came out yesterday.

Got good reviews. So far IGN 9/10, and IMDB users is 8.2/10 out of about 1,000 users.

this looks more like western cartoons than anime but interesting nonetheless

 

[Bruno_Arrais85]

it's just me or the animation was really choppy? Also this is not an anime lol

 

[Mossybrew]

Yeah this show is just not very good. Nowhere close to Castlevania quality.

 

[Calvin69]

Oh that's pretty surprising, in that case I'm in to give it a try

Wait so let me get this straight... If there's any mention of an LGBT character that's too 'woke' for you and you don't want to watch it? Never mind the fact that 1. LGBT people just exist so it makes sense for them to be in stories and 2. The Greek Gods were GAY AF! Apollo, Hermes, Hercules, Zeus, Dionysus, and Poseidon all had male lovers... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_themes_in_classical_mythology

But thank the gods that there's only straight people so they don't turn you off by their 'wokeness' lmao.

 

[AquaticSquirrel]

Wait so let me get this straight... If there's any mention of an LGBT character that's too 'woke' for you and you don't want to watch it? Never mind the fact that 1. LGBT people just exist so it makes sense for them to be in stories and 2. The Greek Gods were GAY AF! Apollo, Hermes, Hercules, Zeus, Dionysus, and Poseidon all had male lovers... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_themes_in_classical_mythology

But thank the gods that there's only straight people so they don't turn you off by their 'wokeness' lmao.

Low effort attempt, I give it 1/10. Try harder next time.

Nobody has an issue with gay characters in shows or women or ethnic minorities. People do have a problem with woke political ideology propaganda and beloved IP subversion being forced down our throats in pretty much every entertainment medium in the western world these past 5 years or so.

Every damn time, it is always predictable and always the same boxes being ticked and the same ideology being spouted. I can't speak for everyone else but personally I'm tired of it and any show that goes that route is an instant ignore for me.

At least I can ignore shows that are open about being creatively bankrupt and devoid of any soul, the worst part is when they start out a show, or game series, or series of films and it is not woke and becomes popular exactly because of that it is allowed creative freedom and meets good quality standards, but then the woke subversion and infestation starts and by season 2 or 3, or movie 3 or whatever reboot it completely jumps the shark into full on woke propaganda ruining an otherwise good and entertaining product.

 

[Fbh]

Still ended up finishing it for some reason but it's like a 4/10 show.

Promising at first but overall the story and writing are really bland and the animation just straight up looks unfinished

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Just finished it. Awesome 9/10.

- Awesome visuals
- Great pacing across 8 episodes
- Tons of characters (including popular Greek myth gods)
- Solid voice acting and classical epic music
- A serious series. Hardly any jokes and cheesy stuff
- Lots of action and killing
- Has the look of anime (faces and blocky square art), but 10x better than the usual cheese heavy Japanese anime. You won't see dumb faces or teenage girls screeching
- Season 1 ends on a solid foundation for season 2, but doesn't end it in a stupid way
- If you like the old Batman Animated Series, you'll like this. Has the style of a Japanese cartoon, but better pacing, acting and tone from western directors
- If you hated Batman TAS because it was too serious, you'll probably hate Blood of Zeus. If you're looking for corny anime which is one part action and one part characters acting goofy cracking jokes every 10 seconds, you'll probably hate Blood of Zeus
- Way better than Castlevania. Castlevania was good, but had crap animation and half the episodes were a snoozefest (season 1 was good though) as hardly anything happened. Zeus has good flow. And unlike Castlevania, you don't have anything like Sypha and Trevor being a forced tandem of arguing love birds for sake of jokes
- Characters in Zeus (Heron or main villain) have a maturity to them, where they know their weakness. Trevor Belmont always acts in that cocky joking attitude. Again, it's one of those things either you like or hate. If you like the main cast to be like crazy and arrogant like Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon, you'll probably like Trevor in Castevania more. If you don't like that kind of character, you'll like the cast in Zeus more. Even the gods in Zeus know their limits. They aren't perfect. You even see gods get the shit beat out of them

Only drawback is the main antagonist is a bigger plot than Heron the main hero?!?!? Kind of weird.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

There was a strange moment with a black man (with some kind of African accent whilst everyone else is American) who mentioned something about how the Greeks wouldn't choose him as he's black or something like that.

Greeks didn't like barbarians in general, black or otherwise, so it felt somewhat odd to hear.

It had to do I think with betting. The Black guy was a champ and would win tournaments, but according to him, people didn't like to bet on dark skinned people.