nixieseal: oolathurman: angry-weeaboo-rants: dearydeerling: Here’s the first episode on the of
nixieseal:oolathurman:angry-weeaboo-rants:dearydeerling:Here’s the first episode on the official channel!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LneTmKxQzkYهذه الحبقة الأولى على القناة الرسمية بالعربية الفصحى:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAdilk1OVl8WE INTERRUPT OUR REGULAR SCHEDULED POSTING IN ORDER TO GIVE YOU THISGuys, go support this series. It’s very new, there’s only one episode so far, it’s only 11 minutes, but it’s amazing. The animation is nice, the art style is very fun, there are two different dubs, yes two, one in English and one in Arabic (I think, if I’m wrong, correct me IMMEDIATELY, I only speak English). Both versions have subtitles, too! The them esong is very catchy and fun, their ability to give us more information with just smaller details is pretty great, everything about it is just SO DANG COOL. They need more love, go check it out. It gives off some nice magical girl vibes.As of 28 may 2018, there are two episodes out! And there are three dubs - formal arabic, informal arabic, and english, captions available on all three as the previous poster mentioned.The series is called Emara, by Eating Stars Studio. According to this article (posted June 2017) director Fatma Al Muhairi, an Emirati native (United Arab Emirates), wanted to see more Arab representation in cartoons and animation, and she put together a small team to help her get the job done. It’s a show by Emirati, for Emirati, featuring a female main character that’s “tough but down to earth. Not overly powerful, but not breaking down in tears every two seconds, either. Most of all: she wanted her to be Arab.”In terms of the show, it’s a really fun take on older anime styles (though when I say older, I mean older than 2010). The theme song, the animation style, the way backdrops are painted, they all lend to to the magical girl genre, its tropes, etc. Even in the gifset above, you can begin to see that callback to that animation style, with very exaggerated movements and the expressions, the slow-mo. Hell, even the logo for Emara is very anime, and Al Muhairi did say how she did reference old cartoons she and her team watched growing up.As of the publishing of the above article, one of the team members/affiliates is hoping to push for at least 1 million views for the videos. Only then does he believe that the show has a fighting chance to make it on TV. They also mention in the article that the director would prefer if fans watched it on streaming services like Netflix. It doesn’t quite seem to actually be on Netflix yet, so I assume that watching through the Youtube links above is our next best bet.“On YouTube, you know very well how many people are watching, and advertisers will advertise on the show if it passes a certain number of viewership,” said [Mohammad SaeedHarib.] “If it hits the one million mark, [TV] stations will wake up, anyway. The numbers don’t lie.”Director Al Muhairi told the paper, “I know I am [hungry for representation], and I know a lot of people I work with, they are as well. We did this hoping that the majority agrees with us, and so far we’ve had a lot of good feedback, so I think we’re on the right track.”There are now three episodes out. And I absolutely adore this show! It may have some of the telltale signs of being a low budget production- like low frame rates and some poor quality voice recording- but the writing and art direction are superb. It’s intriguing and as somebody who wants to see more diversity in animation, this is a good thing to support. -- source link
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