Money laundering scam, bad writing, and horrible human beings behind the scenes. When you put all three together you get this cartoon. This abomination of animations quality is the equivalent of giving people on tumblr a budget
This show has the most unsubtle agenda driven self inserted plot I've ever witnessed. Its as if they watched rwby and steven universe and then they took all the horrible aspects of those shows and then created this.
Where to begin, well lets first get it out of the way that this show is a scheming scam plotted by evil people with agendas long enough to fill 12 decades worth of garbage. Crunchyroll stole money from its subscribers who believed they were supporting the anime industry. No, well it turns out they weren't, their hard earned money was dumped into this cartoon that has jpgs of lampposts and bread because the the people behind it were unexperienced/lazy. Not sure with, not really interested. It is known however that there were major problems behind the scenes of this show.
Since the first trailer of this dumpster fire was released this show has received massive backlash, and for good reason. The teaser depicted the shows "writers" and "directors" basically stating how no other studio does 2D animation anymore and how what they're "working" on is going to be some next level thing. They also praised the writing room being 100% female.......yeah I'm sure that was a good idea......
The characters for this cartoon are the most cliche, robotic personalities and the main 4 are basically taken right out of rwby. Theres the main one named rose whos mother is missing and she has her sword (a lot of originality Ik), and her voice is inconsistent throughout some episodes. Theres her best friend sage who is..... there.... Then theres blake a non human, oh sorry I mean thyme, a non human moody lump of coal who contributes nothing besides negative comments that are badly written. Just a side note, she is also an elf with a bow and arrow, again the originality in this show is very good. Then theres the spunky blonde dwarf who is easily the only decent character of the main four who has a hammer.....did I mention this cartoon has a lot of originality? They all fit cliche character types, and theres side characters who are worth noting.
Theres snapdragon, a wimp who enjoys wearing dresses. Theres two cousins who are agenda characters to promote the writers self beliefs, who do notuing for the story. Theres a purple haired girl whos easily the best character in the show, not really saying much though. Theres a bunch of quirky side characters whos jokes all fall flat because the writing is horrible. Theres someone called slimeboy whos voice actor needs a better mic. The voice acting sounds so unnatural for pretty much all the characters. They sound like robots pretending to be human beings. I'm surprised theres no scenes with bbq sauce in the background. That way we would know that they're real.
The writing and dialogue....omg. I dont even know how to describe this. Ok so this cartoon has to the look and feel of a pre schooling cartoon. The dialogue is so bad and simplistic that you are forced to think that. But its not a pre school cartoon, this is for teens and adults. It has adult language and violence. Its so inconsistent with the dialogue.
The agenda they were trying to sell is so unsubtle. Its so blatant what they were really making this for. Not to tell a good story, not for fun, theres none of those things here. This is a poor attempt at propaganda
This show was doomed from the start. No one had any hope or beliefs that this cartoon was going to be decent