Arcane (2021)

Folio Swami November 10, 2021

★ 4/10

The production team has worked real hard to make something worth the money they were given. The characters are well drawn. And the animation is okay. The effort is obvious seeing the catch lights that are on any character, regardless of lighting. The story is rather boring, and uniform. Stealing is good. Capitalists are bad. Magic exists. It's all a mess. So far Netflix has released only three episodes, and the idea is how good it is to have people live on taxes. Don't worry little serf, your offspring will have a beautiful life thanks to the taxes you paid.

JustcallmeT November 24, 2021

★ 10/10

So much better than Dragon's Blood. Characters are more interesting and the story is more immersive. Voices are good too. Plus creative animation.

mgenth December 15, 2021

★ 10/10

There is a moment of leap. About creative process, it must involve gathering or meeting certain standards at any point given of the chain of production. We may define, latu sensu, the resulting quality as the strength of the weakest piece of a chain. Arcane is not about clichés, although injustice, discrimination, ambition, love and hate, being universals of human nature, are, at the same time, in and out the category of ordinary repetition, plagiarism or lack of insight. There is nothing ordinary about Arcane. All of it is flawless, touching, remaking the animated fiction, between sci-fi and fantasy, as in life,to the next level of realization. Like, after jumps like The Matrix or Inception, Alita Battle Angel showed the power of animation, maybe a transversal frontier that is leveling up the entire human culture, from 2D animation to virtual and augmented reality, this is about …

harshrox2 December 28, 2023

★ 9/10

great a and stylish action, beautiful story arc , with great resolution and one the best antagonist , breathtakingly imagery. The story handles the burden of setting up game characters beautifully, not coming off as a series needed to put unnecessary character to setup game character, except victor part seems to comes out of nowhere, though the two main character and their story chef's kiss . 9/10

popcar2 May 4, 2026

★ 7/10

**Season 1: 9/10** **Season 2: 4/10** I was a staunch Arcane defender when it was only one season. Sure, it was a bit cliche and melodramatic, but the animation was unbelievably good and the characters were awesome to watch. The story as a whole was pretty interesting and I wanted to see where it was going. Then season 2 happened. What a mess, my enthusiasm for the show went straight down. Every single story arc set up in season 1 has been butchered to quickly rush the characters into what they're known as in League of Legends. Every single character was ruined. I enjoyed season 1, but for some reason the writing of season 2 makes me cringe a lot. It's like they asked the Reddit fandom to write the second season instead. Arcane had a lot of potential and threw it all on the floor. What we ended up with is a wannabe MCU superhero flick that also wants to tie into all the movies…