MinatoArisato's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Week 7 Woes]

rofl the fucking girlfriend dragging around the speakers and popcorn got me. Good shit afro

[Madness Combat - Teleport Interference]

This was cool as shit, the fight animations in 3D I was unsure about the slower pace at first, but it picked up a lot as the movie went on. I want to say there were some missed opportunities, like when the hulking guy is falling off the bridge and grabs him, he could have thrown him more violently on the way down or injured him some more like in the usual madness animations, Also when he was slamming the shotgun on the ground could have had some shots fire for extra impact. The ending was a little sudden as well, not quite as climactic as I was hoping for. Overall though, the animation was incredibly smooth, really detailed renders. You said you were working on this for 2 years, props to you for finishing it.

[Elain Gets Adopted]

Has it really been 7 months since the last one? jesus christ. All this covid stuff really steals time.

I don't really know where to begin, I started watching this last night before bed up to the doghouse trip sequence, then had some cool dreams, then finished watching it later today. I should note that it was hard to stop watching and I was tempted to watch all 17 minutes right away despite crippling myself after 20 hours of no sleep.

I love your work fam, I love how creative your animations are. You're right beside David firth when it comes to visual rides and story sequences that I have no idea where or how the plot will go, and its that mystery and adventure that drives me to keep watching. The fact you're also a musical prodigy of some kind just makes it 1000x better. I really really enjoy your animations, and character designs. Even when it's just simple shit like "Yeah her and dento have triangles for heads" but they're two very different triangle heads. Then you've got the crow man who's name I already forget, with his constantly stressed out eyes and numerous coat guns. I found his parts really entertaining. Also making the bounty pretty much all teeth no eyes, hulking dude but well dressed. Really solid designs.

I also like that you gave some followup on the clown bounty and crow man just turns him into goo and jars him. Very amusing.

So 7 months animating this? That must have been a ton of work. But it really paid off, if the first Elain was just 'good' (and it had some great parts don't get me wrong) this one builds on it and puts it up to amazing. Very good pacing, plot, and even better visuals, people watching both together should have a good time. It's a different type of movie than Runmo, but I would put it right beside it in terms of quality and effort. I really hope you get similar success with this one as you did with that, as your creativity is truly a wonderful thing.

Anyway, this review is getting long and I'm probably starting to repeat myself, but I just want to say I look forward to next animation, music, so on and so forth, It's readily apparent that your stuff stand out as far as creators go.

Have a good day

[Chun-Li - Stop Motion Project]

Chunder-Thighs
I love stop motion and stop motion films, the fact its such an involved process and takes a lot of hard work gives me a lot of appreciation for it. People see nightmare before christmas or corpse bride and theyre like ''ooh spooky movie'' and im like "This looks fucking cool and someone probably died with how long it took to finish." Kubo and the two strings is the most recent stopmotion i've seen, and now yours.

SketchMeNot responds:

Oh gosh due thank you so much for your kind words!! (>w<) This project was definitely waaaaay harder than I expected it to be hahaha x,D Still, it was super fun and I'm really glad I got the chance to try my hand at stop motion. Stop motion media still amazes me every time I see it! (^w^)

[Fondling Meno]

That was much better than I thought it was going to be. Holy shit, the Dorey animation with the elongated drooping retard mouth all the time was legitimately very funny. Absolutely spot on characterization. Was nice to see all the differences between the scenes since I saw this movie very late and never die see Finding Dorey yet. Great work fam, well done.

[Kirby Guardian Ep6: Reincarnation (Part 1)]

Still love these, this one was pretty cool too. I just wanna say now that you've been doing this awhile, I really appreciate the original takes and stories of your videos. Like it's one thing to make 'a kirby video' it might be moody, it might be funny, whatever, but what you're doing with the existing characters is very original, the story is always engaging and i'm eager to see what happens. This one was very different than the others, but it ended up being so in a good way too. Keep making stories told through visuals like this, it's been great.

Edit in case you see it: Animation is a ton of work, and yours is stellar, didn't even include that in my message, I'm glad you've got lots of ideas still, I'll definitely keep watching, keep being creative my guy.

KimiOmega responds:

Thank you so much, Minato
I'm glad you're enjoying the ride so far! I have a ton of ideas for this series, not sure if I could animate them all but I'm taking the challenge. I hope you like what I have in store!

[ENA - Temptation Stairway]

QUIT THE HITTING AND FINISH THE JOOOOB!
fucking lol.
I feel like I can't write a good comment for this animation, I'm thrilled by how delightfully weird everything is, the 90s internet adventure feel. I think ENA's dialogue is weird and suits the mood, but some of the other voices and dialogue were too normal, like the dolphin. None the less i'm happy you made another one in this style, it's really great to watch.

[Let Her Know (Or Something)]

Love these two fam, happy to see another cartoon with them. Please make more.

[Link in Mario Maker 2]

That was way better than it needed to be. Those transitions between different zeldas were great, and I loved the credit sequence. That puts it from 'neat animation' to 'timeless art' in my books.

[The Birds and The Bees]

I wonder how Edd would feel knowing people are still making videos for him all these years later? I hope there's some kind of afterlife or he still exists somewhere so he can see this stuff. If so he can at least know people still show up because of him.