With the success of Pokémon, several other children's anime shows have been released on U.S. television to help capitalize off its success. One of the less popular of the bunch, which seems to have come out of nowhere, would be Flint, The Time Detective. While definitely above other Saturday morning cartoon drivel, Flint is average quality at best.

Being a Saturday morning children's show, Flint is unfortunately dub only. However, being that this is aimed strictly at children, it isn't too bad. Besides, the dub is handled quite well; the voices fit and the acting is at par.

Way too many dark colors were used for the packaging on this DVD release. With the happy cartoony cast, you'd expect something a little more bright, more along the lines of the Pokémon releases. However, the case itself is black and the background on the backside is of pure dark colors. Happy children's shows should be nice and bright, not dark and moody like this.

Flint's DVD menu is extremely basic. At the opening menu with a picture of Flint standing in the background, you're given the choice of picking which of the three episodes you want to watch or if you want to watch the trailer. Nothing too great here and the trailer, which isn't really even that exciting, is the only extra available.

After the first episode, which sets the story up, Flint, The Time Detective becomes very formulaic. Flint along with his two normal buddies from the 25th century are called to go chasing after Petra Fina each episode to stop her from kidnapping the rare Pokémon-like timeshifters. During the episodes present on this disc the trio travels to both second century Japan as well as 16th century South America on their hunt for Petra Fina. The historical element is a plus and does keep things from getting too uninteresting.

Although the character designs do look good and many bright colors are used, the actual animation isn't topnotch. A low cel count is used and during some of the more complex scenes, the characters tend to look a lot like paper cut outs. It's what's expected from a children's show.

The comedy, although I can imagine it would work with children, is not always very funny. When a character says something is bologna, as in something being not true, lines like “It's not bologna, ham, or any other kind of meat product” are thrown it. It's the kind of humor that tries to be intelligent but doesn't completely hit with older audiences. Flint never takes itself too seriously and does try to make fun of a lot of things, which can be cute at times. Just don't expect this to be any kind of a riot if you're over the age of 10.

Flint, The Time Detective isn't a bad show, it's just a children's show. If you have young ones in the house and insist they have a DVD collection of their own, purchasing Flint wouldn't be too bad of an idea. If Pokémon is their thing, they'd probably enjoy this at least a little. However, I can't really recommend this show to anyone else.