The Dragon Prince: New Animated Series from head writer of Avatar: TLA

[TurtleTitan97]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/07/10/netflixs-the-dragon-prince-new-animated-series-from-avatar-the-last-airbender-writer-announced

The Dragon Prince, created by Aaron Ehasz (Avatar: The Last Airbender) and Justin Richmond, tells the story of "two human princes who forge an unlikely bond with the elfin assassin sent to kill them, embarking on an epic quest to bring peace to their warring lands," according to a press release from Netflix.
Enjoy a first look at The Dragon Prince in the poster below:


Ehasz and Richmond, along with executive producer Giancarlo Volpe (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), will present a sneak peek and an inside look at San Diego Comic-Con on July 21.
No official release date has been announced.
Netflix has been busy lately. It will reportedly outspend every Hollywood studio this year, creating large amounts of original content, like the recently announced second season of Castlevania coming in October, and Season 2 of Aggretsuko, which will likely debut next year. For more on what's happening, here's a list of everything new to Netflix for July.

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[sdp]

Doesn't seem interesting but the Avatar connection is enough for me to wait and watcht he trailer.

[PApagreg]

Artstyle reminds me of Bastion

[drgon78]

Interesting.

[Redeemer]

I am going to check this out when ever it comes out. As others have said the avatar connection has me interested. My only concern is that the storyline sounds redundant/similar to ATLA.

[plastroncafe]

With that linework, that pedigree, and Giancarlo Volpe involved?
Oh yeah, I'm in. I'm way in.

[Splinter the boss]

Was interested at first because of the ATLA connection, however the premise is similar to it, and I'm no longer into it. That's too bad👏👏👏

[Redeemer]

Oh yeah, I'm in. I'm way in.

Insert inappropriate joke here :lol:

[TurtleTitan97]

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[drgon78]

Don't like the animation style.

[Coola Yagami]

Seems all the cartoons with actual effort put into them (looking like actual humans rather than just random blobs and shapes) are on Netflix.

[Utrommaniac]

I see they're going with the RWBY art style...which I've found to be a little off-putting, personally. This seems to handle it a little better though.

[sdp]

I like the style, let's see if the story is any good. It's dropping soon though so won't be much of a wait, I like that.

Seems all the cartoons with actual effort put into them (looking like actual humans rather than just random blobs and shapes) are on Netflix.

Netflix cartoons have some cool art usually but the writing is where they fail.

[PangolinFeets]

The style looks great, but I wish the animation was smoother. I bet fight scenes will look nice.

[PApagreg]

Animation looks kinda bad and jankey, reminds me of Inyushiki but in a bad way.

[TurtleTitan97]

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[sdp]

looks so bland..

The animation looks cheap but I do love the cg celshaded look. Why are the characters in this fantasy world wearing such boring outfits? What happened to cool stylized designs? I mean, it's a high fantasy show, what the hell are you doing that a high fantasy character designs are boring?

[PApagreg]

I would watch an episode of this but my god is the animation terrible, its like every bad anime CG show rolled into a netflix original.

Why are the characters in this fantasy world wearing such boring outfits? What happened to cool stylized designs? I mean, it's a high fantasy show, what the hell are you doing that a high fantasy character designs are boring?
What outfits did you expect them to wear in a high fantasy setting.

[CyberCubed]

Every time I see these new shows they look like CG clips from PS2 era videogames.

[sdp]

What outfits did you expect them to wear in a high fantasy setting.

Anything not that plain? I don't understand where you're going with this as you must be familiar. Since it's being promoted as from the head writer of Avatar then there you can have tons of examples of visually appealing outfits. Everything here seems like a Fire Nation army outfit, but it worked there for the fire nation, here everyone is wearing boring outfits like that.

Every time I see these new shows they look like CG clips from PS2 era videogames.
Name 1 PS2 game that looks ike this.

[CyberCubed]

Name 1 PS2 game that looks ike this.

Reminds me of the Tales series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Abyss

[Redeemer]

The more I hear and see this show the more disappointed I am. The animation still does not look good what so ever, just not digging the style I guess. Also the show same to have the same formula as Avatar the Last Airbender.

[PApagreg]

Anything not that plain? I don't understand where you're going with this as you must be familiar. Since it's being promoted as from the head writer of Avatar then there you can have tons of examples of visually appealing outfits. Everything here seems like a Fire Nation army outfit, but it worked there for the fire nation, here everyone is wearing boring outfits like that.
I would't say everyone, the Human faction has similar clothing to the fire nation sure but the Elf faction's clothing looks different

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wpZ6tPMeeP8/maxresdefault.jpg

[TurtleTitan97]

4 episodes in, and the show has so far lived up to the hype.

[sdp]

Watched the first episode so far and it has potential, the characters all look bland as hell and do look out of a PS2 cutscene. I like that though, it has a unique charm and feels like a high budget version of those low budget DTVs from the early 00's, which even though sounds like a negative to me it's a positive. The CG animation seems to lag at times which is odd but it's that same charm I mentioned.


I would't say everyone, the Human faction has similar clothing to the fire nation sure but the Elf faction's clothing looks different

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wpZ6tPMeeP8/maxresdefault.jpg
It's still boring, especially since Elves always have cool outfits.

[Allio]

Outside of animation itself I liked season 1

[sdp]

Well I finished watching and man is the show choppy and it feels like a stop motion show at times. I thought it was cool in a retro nostalgic way but it's distracting. I still feel the world is rather boring at times with some boring character designs, clothes, animals etc. It's not always like these as it does have some cool designs from time to time but not enough as say Avatar.

The main cast is pretty cool though and the story is interesting, it's not tapping full to the potential of this fantasy world but the potential is there. Even these first 9 episodes are pretty entertaining with all these faults and I can't wait to see more. Counting Netflix splits cartoon seasons in half I'm guessing it won't be a long wait for the second part, maybe in February. This isn't Avatar but it could become much better and I can't wait for more.

[TurtleTitan97]

Season 2 has officially been confirmed for 2019:

https://i.redd.it/xudcofk2qeq11.jpg

[Redeemer]

I hope they revise the animation style and give the animators a bigger budget

[Redeemer]

Just finished season 1of The Dragon Prince and after getting use to the animation I was able enjoy the series. I ended up binge watching the 1st season. I can't wait for the second season!.

[sdp]

We're not getting new episodes until 2019 sadly, they're saying it's season 2 but it's rally the second batch of season 1. We won't likely see animation improvements until a season 3 if it does get a new order of episodes which isn't confirmed.

I started playing Dragalia Lost around the same time which is also a fantasy story focused on dragons and now I'm getting my continuities mixed up :lol:

[sdp]

Season 2 dropped last friday, finished it:


Show doesn't seem as choppy anymore. The plot kinda drags in the middle. Overall it was weaker than the first season. Plenty of SJW here like two nobodies just show up in one episode and have an interracial lesbian kiss for "progressive" points that would get them free marketing. The SJW isn't the reason the show sucks though (sorry vegita, don't go ranting for 5 paragraphs), I mostly think that the bland character designs is more to blame of the SJW agenda which sucks. The show just isn't all that fun, and this is no A:TLA sadly. I'll continue watching but I didn't really care for where the plot was going at the end of the season.

Here is my review (https://miscrave.com/articles/the-dragon-prince/) of the show in general but it hasn't been updated with my thoughts on season 2.

[AT-Man]

The second season was even better than the first one, and not just the animation, but character development too. Ezran has become my favorite character and I care about seeing pretty much anyone in the show, because they're all interesting. This show is almost like a good blend of LOTR, GOT and ATLA. Most of all it keeps me guessing and doesn't do some tropes we've seen a million times.

I guess showing a married couple share a kiss is SJW propaganda now.

[sdp]

Watched the third season and well it's a bad show, would never recommend to anyone. The story is mediocre, the characters are mediocre, it's boring and slow, it's far more worried in being as progressive as possible in pretty much every way you can imagine than it is at being a good show sadly.

There are some good ideas here and there in the season but overall nothing to salvage the show. You know you've done something wrong when a mobile game meant for micro transactions somehow has a more compelling story than this. A shame, Avatar The Last Airbender this is not, and ironically enough as progressive as the show tried to be (hence the support you see for this show online) the producer of the show is now being called upon for not being progressive.

Feel free to skip this show.

[CyberCubed]

So this show was made specifically for the tumblr crowd?