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NEWS: Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir Animated Series Gets Manga

enurtsol wrote:

TarsTarkas wrote: Maybe will get that anime sometime in the future if the manga is good. But they need to age up the action at least to the teenager level at a minimum. What's teenager level?

Each episode was the same as the last. The villain just picked a new victim each episode. Rinse and repeat.

Ah, Monster of the Week. Just say MOTW, like Sailor Moon and most other magical girls

enurtsol wrote:

Ah, Monster of the Week. Just say MOTW, like Sailor Moon and most other magical girls

Except Sailor Moon doesn't make you feel like you've lost brain cells watching it. People craving for magical girl shows, particularity non-Japanese magical girl shows, can do so much better than Miraculous.

We all have our ways of coping with being looked up, and apparently mine is getting far too into a show that I only started watching because my kid liked it. That show is Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir and somehow it’s gone from “thing that will keep my daughter’s attention for 20 minutes so I can clean up” to “oh my god this is actually really fun?” But I must ask myself: how did it come to this?

The answer I think is simple: Sailor Moon.

Now, stay with me. I grew up, like a bazillion other people, loving Sailor Moon, and much of the comfort and attraction of that show was in the formula of “monsters of the week” and then the episodes that would occasionally come in to add to the greater mythology and expand the world. It was alternately soothing and intriguing. It also had cool costumes, fun powers, star-crossed lovers, and a great setting in a non-American city. Miraculous has all of those things. I have no doubt this is intentional and to me that’s fine. It’s a new show with new stories, but a familiar feel. Heck, the opening notes of the theme song even sound a little like Sailor Moon‘s!

enurtsol wrote:

Ah, Monster of the Week. Just say MOTW, like Sailor Moon and most other magical girls

Except Sailor Moon doesn't make you feel like you've lost brain cells watching it. People craving for magical girl shows, particularity non-Japanese magical girl shows, can do so much better than Miraculous.

No one has insulted the fans of the show, even though I think the show is for a much younger child crowd, there are things I like about it and I am glad it is getting a manga adaptation..