The hiatus finally comes to an end, as Disney put an episode up On Demand. The video quality seems to be messed up, as the characters are far more granular than they normally are, but I'm just glad it's back. I know most people on here dislike it, or think it's Dora the Explorer, but I think it's written fairly well and its 22 minute episodes actually allow them to have an actual plot.
Steve Blum voices the new episode's villain, an African Leopard. Man's voice could melt butter.
Come on dude, we all know you just watch it so you can jack off to it later.
This shit is nothing more then officially sanctioned Lion Kind fanfic. I mean, Christ, the one in the picture has Deviant Art OC hair for god's sake.
You can believe what you want. I genuinely like it. The weakest part of the show is Kion's magical roar. Just typing that makes me feel stupid. The songs can be stupid as well - today's episode was essentially a rap - but some episodes have catchy songs that aren't bad at all.
Most cartoons now-a-days are only eleven minutes long. It causes the ones that attempt to have actual stories to feel rushes. The Lion Guard is a full-length cartoon and I like how they never have to rush things to do what they want.
I have been meaning to check this show out
It's gotta be said, however, that not every episode involves that stupid roar. Those episodes feel more natural to me.
I agree with OP. Slightly wonky animation aside, it feels like a genuine callback to the the Disney Toons of yore - 22 minute, plot driven episodes, fun character interaction, and it's a tie in to a well-loved franchise.
It's good fun.
These threads never last long, nor do they get very many posts. I don't think anything will ever change that, sadly.
Has the hyena girl come back?
I watched the first couple of episodes and was really thrown by the animation quality. The walk cycles especially. All the characters either had a terrible float walk or they had to do a leaping walk to compensate.
Not yet. She was listed as a recurring character, and since the Jackal matriarch is expected to return next week, it shouldn't be long before we see Jasiri again.
That may get better in season two. Or it could somehow get worse. We'll see.
did Never Roar Again get delayed because there was a crocodile in it? Disney has been trying to get rid of them
Maybe. I doubt the episode was banned. Even if it was, it would inevitably air in another country and make its way online eventually. Probably just delayed until it's out of the news.
I think its odd that they aren't showing it on air. The show pulls good numbers
They want to promote their on-demand service. Each week, they put a different episode up early before it premieres on Friday. Last week, it was that space ostrich cartoon.
So any chance we're going to see Scar's ghost come and tempt Kion to be evil?
Get a busty waifu to appear in the second season
Worked for WOY
Given the show is about quadrupedal animals, that's unlikely. Maybe Sup Forums will still lust after Vitani when she shows up with Kovu later this season.
If Vitani shows up it will become very popular. Especially if she's awful to Kiara and her friends
She will show up. It's been announced. We don't know the specifics, however. Despite the retcons, the show is trying to honor The Lion King 2's canon.
The Lion Guard will be very popular on Sup Forums in the future when the kids who grew up on it develop their libido and realize the Lion Guard and Zootopia had a large impact on it.
Since the Lion Guard would have been really useful during Simba's Pride I get the feeling Kion and his friends are a kill
>Probably just delayed until it's out of the news.
This
i caught the tail end of an episode a few days ago and it seemed cool.
is it worth watching?
how does it tie into the lion king?
is Lion King II no longer canon?
The show does have some form of continuity, although so far, it's only been in characters being introduced and sticking around. Hoping the delay doesn't cause any oddities.
>lion king
>disney junior
Come on, disney.
what happen?
It depends on what you want out of it. The show tries to tie itself into the first movie, but I felt that it did so rather poorly. It tried to explain that Scar was the previous leader of the lion guard, but that the group was disbanded after he misused his power. The power, there, is the problem. The show practically has magic which wouldn't have fit into the Lion King.
The Lion King 2 remains canon. Kiara is heir to the throne, but she isn't the carefree girl she was in the movie. She's much more serious. The creators said the show takes place during the time skip in the middle of the second movie.
I still wish they would reference that Fuli wants to kill and eat the very people they try to save. I suppose Kion would, too, but his family hunts for him. Today's episode dealt with a creature being hunted by the leopard, but the hippo kept telling him that he'd be safe in the pridelands. No he fucking wouldn't. Fuli's murdered tons of animals without qualm.
>The creators said the show takes place during the time skip in the middle of the second movie.
welp
so then the lion guard is definately dead?, lol
it seems so odd, but, eh
> It tried to explain that Scar was the previous leader of the lion guard, but that the group was disbanded after he misused his power.
hmm
thats interesting
i guess i'll try and check out a few episodes then
I'd recommend skipping the TV Movie, but you are free to do what you will.
I hate their paws, I hate them so much.
Couldn't they put in just a LITTLE effort?
Do you mean their walk cycles? Everyone always complains about that. Paws are paws. Not sure what you want if that's what you're complaining about.
But looking at this screenshot, and any others, really, it does feel like the biggest problem with the animation is the floatiness of it all. Characters seldom appear to be touching the ground. Whether they're walling, laying down or anything, it's like they've been greenscreened into a scene and are just floating there.
That'd make for a good finale for the show in general.
And he'd succeed if Kion's absence Lion King 2 is any indication.
Why are american productions allergic to alternate universes?
DBZ can make a movie where a dude invades the earth while everyone is alive, but before namek and after saiyan arc and not give a fuck about explaining where it fits because ovalol. But america does a story that doesn't fit and all of a sudden they need to explain exactly where it fits in with a previous continuity for the franchise.
Seriously, just say "alternate universe" fuck. fuck fuck fuck.
I personally don't like alternate universes. To each their own, I suppose.
Why would an episode be about keeping an animal from being eaten at all? Circle of life and all that jazz.
If youre not going to stick strictly to what was established, you're not doing a good job of using that continuity in the first place.
Make a new continuity if you want to deviate, it's not hard at all.
They only stop outsiders from eating. Predators from the outlands or beyond. If anything, the lion guard is only protecting the royal family's food source. Fuli only got stopped due to miscommunication.
And what would that solve? You're arguing semantics. Would it hurt your feelings less if it were called by a different name? Retcons happen. Things change. Simba's first son was completely written out of Disney's canon when they made Kiara.
Making new continuities preserves what was before in a way that new material can be made for it. Look at transformers or gundam for an example.
By keeping a single continuity, you limit the material that can be made. This means, that for example, if you write faggot lion away in the events that lead to the second movie, then you must also find a way to write him back in if you want to do shit with him again. And you're limiting the stories you could tell, since rather than being able to tell a new version of the events of 2 with the new characters, you must stick to the original telling.
By having new continuities, you open up what stories you can tell while keeping the old stories as they were, ready to be revisited.
Most people don't want to follow a dozen different continuities. Everybody hated the Star Wars Expanded Universe. And who can even keep up with comics where there are a hundred different universes with different continuities? There's a reason movie universes are doing so well, because they are all connected in one continuity.
>Vitani shows up
Is this confirmed?
Not really, shared universe movies actually follow their continuity.
Aaaaand, you already have multiple continuities going on. Instead of explaining how peter became young again, they rebooted the movies. Started new continuities where they can tell the story they want without having to explain anything.
Yeah. Nuka and Vitani are voiced by Andy Dick and Lacey Chabert. So it will be cub Vitani.
Jason Marsden is voicing Kovu, and he voiced Kovu's adult version. Not sure what to make of that, but I suspect Ryan O'Donohue wouldn't be able to replicate the voice anymore.
Went two months without a new episode. Not going to let this thread die so quickly.
who's that?
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The villain from today's episode, voiced by Steve Blum.
Let it die. This show is so bad, it doesn't even get backlash.
What's the logic in this? Humans kill kids all the time, we still get movies about them anyway.
Shit i love steve blum villains. When does the next episode air?
The next episode is technically this one. The one after that is on the 15th.
Honestly I'm kind of amused that of all things they're making an effort to preserve the continuity of Simba's Pride. I know some people really hate that movie/Kiara and so it's sort of funny to see that even when Disney makes an entirely new show about Simba's son she's still there and it's all leading up to a movie they hate anyway.
Lion King fans are some of the most bitter fucks on the internet.
Im guessing they are trying to kill off any potential connection to the death. They don't want people seeing Disney croc characters and bringing it up in conversation.
Thanks
>tfw all the potential wasted by being a disney JUNIOR show
I cant stop thinking this every second im reminded this show exists.
It's not written like a preschool cartoon. No blatant educational messaging, and the predators don't shy away from trying to eat the smaller animals. There was a dead elephant in one episode but it wasn't shown in detail. It's still a kids' show, but it's not as bad as it could have been.
9 year olds are all on call of duty now. Who else is gonna watch colorful talking lions?
>anything will ever change that
Of course it can. We just need some humanization art.
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I saw an episode while sitting my sister's brood.
Was rather surprised that is was about how persecuted minorities will act nice, then try rob you blind. Jackal style.
Yeah. I expected the jackal pup would have at least been redeemed, but no, he went along with his mother's plan without a word. The show does that a lot, like the crocodile episode that had the "bad guy" win. The good crocodile was forced into exile, and Simba told Kion that such is the way of things and maybe, over time, the new leader will do good things.
Show does these weird perspective shots from time to time.
I've heard that a lot of people in the industry know the overt message they're pushing is bullshit, but they can't speak out because all the people in management are true believers.
So, you get episodes where the moral was "Well, you were still right to try to help them." overtly, but it's pretty clear that the real moral was "groups have stereotypes for a reason."
There -might- be hope for the future.
He's a cute lil fucker
There's porn of him and Kion. Because the internet is a sad place.
You could say he did Kion Jackal Style
>sad
Oh, boy, that pic looks like incoming rape...
Explain fans of Marvel's comics.
I still find it weird that M rated titles are the turf of 9 year olds.
His whole fuckin family's trouble...but I'd plow his mom.
She's supposed to be back on the episode in two weeks.
>The Lion Guard mistakenly chase off aardwolves instead of hyenas and the Pride Lands become overrun with termites.
>*Ana Gasteyer (ABC’s “The Goldbergs”) recurs as Reirei the jackal.
It's not often you get a kid's show that does something like this. Even adult programming has them at least bring the "bad guy" to some form of justice.
It just means the story boarder is placing more effort into his job than everyone else.
Well, this is probably it for the thread. I might make another thread on Friday when the episode premieres on television.