MinatoArisato's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Darkstalkers REANIMATED]

There's a face I haven't seen in awhile. This looks amazing, it must have taken a long time to animate so smoothly. I really missed out on the Darkstalkers series. It has such amazing character design, but I never really grew up with it to get the same nostalgia others have. It's hard for me to pick up a fighting game and play through it unless there's a really good single player mode, which all modern fighters besides Blazblue seem to lack.

Anyway, you did amazing. Going right in my favorites

MichaFrario responds:

Thanks! I didn't grow up with this, first played DS in the mid 2010's Older fighting games like Soul calibur 2 had nice single player modes

['TILL THE COWS COME HOME]

I always love seeing these art school films. This one is particularly awesome. Great concept, great humor, style that's going to age really well. The cow glitching out and the horn being part of the music were the highlights for me. Everything was very cute, and the ending just kinda kept going and left lots to the imagination. I hope you have more creative ideas like this in the future.

[A Den for Sick Moths]

Man that was fantastic. I love how you incorporate the sketchy artstyle into motion. You used minimal animation for some parts where it wasn't needed, then heavy animation showing you can do it cleanly and perfect everywhere else.

I also loved the little details, like the worm wrapping around like a mask, or helping pull out the boned hand when cutting the moth creature. I know there's more than that, but those were parts I really liked.

Also the sound design, I don't know where you get your sounds from, but the whole thing has such a unique strongly insect feel to go along with all the tension. Really setting yourself apart with this animation.

AntonM responds:

Thanks for the kind words :))) Over the years I've just built this huge selection of homemade sounds just from making a couple toons here and there

[Lego Wonder Woman Watches Dune (2021)]

Please remind me of the song at 1:38
Love your videos by the way, always so much background stuff to look at and so well animated. You've got a great niche and you're one of the best if not THE best at what you do.

[Spooky Scary Skeletons Cover AMV]

10 seconds in I was impressed by the animation
20 seconds in I was like "Did I just see the lich from loop hero? no way"
I loooooove all the references here and how tastefully it was all done. You basically just took as many skeletons as you could from different animation and gaming media, and they're all so well drawn an animated. Absolutely incredible. I can't say I'm crazy about the cover, it's good, but I just wish it was a little better given how great the visuals are that go with it. If you ever do an enhanced version of this down the road, the singer can also do another even better cover of the song. The potential here is wonderful.

[Papa & Boy in "Take a Bath!"]

I'll be honest with you, although there's a lot of thought put into the dialogue and it's a longer cartoon, the style and design was kinda irksome to watch. The effort is high, and I don't want to discourage people being creative. But compare it to another simple character design series like SrPelo's spooky boys and there's a lot more that could be improved in making people distinctive. It's hard to want to watch a series like this when the characters themselves aren't likeable or have little personality outside their dialogue.

[Mario Movie Leaked Ending]

Can't stop looking at 'Kart Inurance"
This is stellar btw

[I WUZ A TEENAGE SERIAL KILLER?!]

This had the cutest animation style. I loved it. Funny concept but kinda =/= ending. I wish it was longer

horrorhare responds:

i wish it couldve been longer, honestly wanna make another short like this in the future! if it hadnt been for the tight deadline and other school stuff, i wouldve fleshed it out more lol. thank u for the compliments tho :3!

[Eddsworld - Surf & Turf Wars pt. 1]

Man whenever you get to the Afterlife Edd is going to be stoked that you continued his series for so many years after he was gone if he doesn't know already.