56: Rebuttal
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Explanation
This comic pokes fun at the phenomenon of cartoon reviewers, especially on platforms like YouTube - the person who is implied to be a big fan of a simplified children's cartoon with crude humor defends their favorite show by saying that "cartoons are NOT for children only", and defends the case that animated shows are a serious artistic medium. (While they certainly can be, one could argue about the artistic value of a cat-like creature standing next to a pile of poop.)
In their argumentation, they bring up critically acclaimed animated films:
- Coraline (2009) (not 2006, and is not a cartoon but a stop-motion animation),
- Spirited Away (2001) (famous film from Studio Ghibli)
- Kung Fu Panda (2008) (not 2007, and not nearly as critically acclaimed or "mature" as the other two, but very popular - likely brought up as a way of providing comedic relief and showing the TV person's personal opinion of a movie they watched as a kid, doubly so by mentioning a specific emotional scene).
Transcript
Two panel comic.
Panel 1: The POV of someone watching TV, holding a TV remote in their left hand. On the TV, there is a simple creature with a large round head with whiskers and a cat-like mouth and a tanuki-like striped tail. Behind it is a steaming pile of poop. The same creature and its poop can be seen on a poster hanging to the left, and behind a window to the right.
On the right hand of the person watching TV there is a similar-looking simple cat, this time with ears and a more detailed head. It says: "you're like a walking cringe compilation stop watching that" "FAIL"
Panel 2: The person watching TV responds, in increasingly small font: "that does it you big bully cartoons are NOT for children only they can be full of depth and emotions and even make you cry just look at films like Coraline (2006), Spirited away (2001), and even Kung Fu Panda (2007) (specifically the scene where Master Oogway dies sorry for spoilers) but yeah just because it has lines you can actually feel a lot through the emotions displayed by the director given that even they are adults, THEY have grown up with cartoons and thus formed and even DEEPER bond with the medium for all its capability and potential to be elevated. Animation should be taken just as seriously as everything else. Animation is cinema. The friendship between you and I will require some healing, but i still believe in your openmindedness to change"