When did this happen? Yesterday. No, actually today. From 1 to 3 in the morning. I’ve been coming down with a cold all weekend and no one in my house could sleep. We were delirious. We decided to watch all of Neo Yokio, a fairly new show on Netflix. The show have been described as Animesque or Americanime. Certainly, it is an American cartoon which trades its entire existence on parodying existing anime and anime tropes. Perhaps in the same vein as Big Hero Six’s San Fransokio, the city-state in which the show is set is the emonymous Neo Yokio. One would perhaps assume that this portmanteau of New York and Tokio would represent an actual combination of the two cities but, in fact, the name does not correspond to any sort of meaning connection or juxtaposition but is, in fact, a pun on the name of the fictionalization city of Neo Tokyo from the groundbreaking animated film, Akira. The actual setting of the show is just New York in an alternate timeline with widespread flooding, a persistent Soviet Union and a presumed dissolution of the United States into city-state. Pivotal to almost each episode was the parodying of a mockery of an established anime trope. In the first episode, the school ranking system is transformed into an exaggeratedly gentrified city-wide ranking system of the city’s bachelors, which is displayed on a billboard in times square. The entire city is depicted as closely following the rankings of the high society bachelors. Further, it parodies the idol phenomenon by creating a cultish following of a teenage fashion blogger. In the second epiode. The second episode expands on these themes but further appropriates the pop star phenomenon by creating a Westernized version who is a sadistic mash-up of Sailor Moon and Taylor Swift. Her name is Sailor Pellegrino and she is eventually revealed to be a demon. Episode Three is all about a dresscode and introduces the over-repeated concept of hikikomori into the show. The fourth episode bastardizes Ranma 1/2 and puts it in the Hamptons. Then the fifth episode sucks and so does the sixth. Man, it was a bad show and I really don’t want to talk about it anymore. Honestly, I knida loved it for how bad it was and how the entire thing seemed to be a joke at Jaden Smith who the main character was based off of and was voiced by.
0/10, would recommend
