MinatoArisato's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

['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.

[Monkey Wrench - The Ghost Egg]

The ghost egg reveal wasn't as mindblowing as I was hoping for, but I loved your voice acting Zeural. Certain things about Shrike's voice seemed a little odd and weird like his random spanish, but It was either his voice or all of the crazy good expressive animation that kept me watching start to finish. I usually have a hard time getting committed to long videos like this and watch in pieces.

The different side characters introduced like the lizard lady was a very cool design. I think certain like, general story dialogue stuff could be slightly better, but the characters themselves were very expressive and cool to look at. I think the skeleton guy's voice was sort of mismatched, but I get that he's supposed to be a dumb henchmen kind of character, so maybe just the delivery could be better. Given he was responding to lizard lady a lot, when I heard the little clam looking guy sounding like commander peepers from wander over yonder a bit I felt like there was overlap.

But yes, I don't want this just to be a bunch of me complaining about random little shit, I'm only saying it because I really love the genuine potential and how fucking awesome everything looked. Seriously, all those action sequences were cool as hell, Shrike animated fluidly and pulling faces during every step of combat. It was all fucking clean and awesome. Lots of physical gags and I loved it. I will DEFINITELY watch more. I'm sure this took forever to make, so I don't know when to expect another, but I really hope I live to see the day.