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[nZ...]

== This is the real thing this time ==
Score: 8 | Critic Review
This is the longest episode in the alphabet series, sitting at over 3 minutes long, making this the episode with the highest production value, and the best one in my eyes.

It is a prequel to episodes A-Y, and explains the reason why the main antagonist acted the way he did.
To sum things up, when they're all young (ie. lowercase), L and O bullied N, so he retaliated by making L break wind using A, R, and T. This escalated quickly, he gets beaten up and is exiled and now lives in a cave. The other letters also break his teeth, so that's why they're so sharp.

Like with the other twenty-six installments (this also counts the low-quality 'Z' posted a week earlier), it always introduces a new letter. This time, Z is introduced, and all the major events in this series take place atop his massive head.

The series also has letters combining together to create various words, such as 'coward', starting with G and 'cab', and getting slightly more advanced as more letters enter the picture and the series evolves over time.

Other than that, it does uses some cliches here and there, and it's also not overly complex. I was also not really impressed about the 'white void' background that was used throughout. Only question remaining is 'What's ol' Mike Salcedo gonna do next?'

PS. You probably didn't notice, but in this review, I did not use the sixth English alphabet letter even once. Not even in the review categories.
Animation: 9 | Sound: 9 | Storytelling: 8 | Style: 10 | Letters: 26 | Backgrounds: 5

[WE HAVE COME FOR YOUR NECTAR, But I Actually Animated it]

== Another one?? ==
Score: 5 | Critic Review
It's already been about 1 month since that all caps 'NECTAR' meme hit its peak, and I've seen other animators recreate this meme before, so, you're a little bit late to the party.

I'd also like to point out that there's been some community backlash when one of the more 'viral' animators jumped onto this trend and submitted three versions of the same meme to Newgrounds in a row and won Daily awards from P-Bot, hence why the scores of every other version got downvoted to around 3 stars or less. Even I took a hit when I spent about 1 day making my own version.

Looking past that, the animation itself is still decent, albeit some shortcuts taken, such as stretching frames (notably Squidward's mouth), little to no in-betweening, some inconsistent outlines, and colour bleeding out of Squidward's neck. Animating to a 5 second meme is already quicker and easier than animating to 50 seconds, because.. math, so it shouldn't be hard to take the time to give this movie a little bit more polish, although I'd recommend longer movies.

Graphics: 6 | Sound: 5 | Originality: 0 | Length: 1 | Style: 7 | Humor: 5

[Puru Puru Puruaether]

== Get your baseball bats ready! cuz you're goin' to Horny Jail ==

Score: 6 | Critic Review

I'm surprised there weren't any other reviews until 30 minutes before I submitted mine, despite being out for well over a day, and amassing a total of 1.3K views and 167 votes.

Let's analyze what's going on here. We have a nice hot blue-haired anime chick in some sort of maid outfit holding some dish, next to an ass shot (same animation) exposing her panties. The final 4 seconds instead has another girl dress her up in a pink dress to take photos and is less horny and more fast-paced and meme-ish, if I have to describe it.

She almost looks like cel-shaded 3D, but what I think is being done is some slightly convincing 2D rigging. The way that the folds of that skirt distorts as it accelerates upwards away from the ass is a dead giveaway.

Either way, still a great gift to give to the guy who has R34'd everything. I'm sure he'll appreciate it!

Graphics: 8 | Sound: 9 | Length: 3 | Horny bait: 7 | Style: 9 | Humor: 7

RE: That’s an irrelevant question.

lewdishsnail responds:

Do you have autism?

RE: Thank you for not taking the joke badly. I also just don't like these kinds of reviews because I'm not a fan of the "horny jail" jokes. It's just annoying. I am welcome to actual critiques, I'll just ignore the intro.

[JUMALAUTA]

== SOMEONE SET US UP THE DRINK AND DRIVE ==
Score: 9 | Critic Review.

This is an incredibly surreal cartoon with a kickass soundtrack and the perfect mix of gore, trippiness, and eyeballs, ie. not to everyone's tastes, but if you're into this sort of shit, you're in luck! A ton of work has definitely went into drawing all that.

Although there was some looping, and the movement doesn't really seem to follow any specific set of rules (though that could be its own thing), there were a lot of scenes that use movements animated on ones via frame by frame. Some examples include, but are not limited to:

- Whenever Rape moves, he always exaggerates in a different way, such as behaving like slime as he slides out his car or into the alcohol store, his face coming on when inside said store, and his leg wiggles when he steps on a cat and his face exits his skull to look at the bus timetable

- 0:33: The smoke that comes out of Rape's car and the tires on the subsequent scene
- 0:41: His hand as the beer bottle rotates, and the froth that comes out when he slices it open with a knife.
- 1:07: The blood coming out of granny's head as she hits a rock, although her brain is surprisingly smooth.
- 1:53: The bus 'walking' with its wheels, though that could be clipped by 2 seconds.

Some things to mind is that there's a few bits of text that aren't in English, though captions are provided and there's no 'voiced' dialogue. Also 'Rape' isn't exactly the most common or acceptable names out there.
Either way, incredible job!

Graphics: 10 | Sound: 10 | Seriousness: 3 | Violence: 10 | Style: 10 | Entertainment: 9

Catoblepas responds:

Thanks for the thorough review. Yeah I like to over-animate the little details sometimes.

[The Powerpuff Girls (real)]

== CHEMICAL ==
Score: 8 | Critic Review

This is a very good addition to the Toonami Collab. The joke here is that rather than creating three Powerpuff Girls, Professor Utonium accidentally turns himself into a Powerpuff Boy.

It's supposed to mimic the style of the original PPG show, but it does end up looking very rough in a few spots, some of them intentional to give the line wiggle effect, and some where it's not needed (such as static backgrounds). This ends with some explosion + car crash + whatever stock footage used in a meme-ish way, which I have to reduce points for.

In addition, Corey did a good impression of the character and it's always nice to let someone else help you out with some VFX (I couldn't figure out which effects Extream ended up doing).

RE: RGP: If the Sydney Morning Herald already reported on it, then it ain't spoilers pal!
RE: Corey: No problem dude!
Graphics: 9 | Sound: 9 | Accuracy to Show: 9 | Colours: 10 | Style: 10 | Writing: 7

VoicesByCorey responds:

Appreciate the compliment AF!

[Go Kitty Go! - Animated Music Video]

== Not fully compatible via Ruffle ==
Score: 9 | Critic Review

Nice to see a brand new Flash movie hit the charts today, in roughly a similar style as 12 years ago. However, it does use various filters not compatible with Ruffle. This affects the text's drop shadows, the kitty's left arm+fist when it rises up and down and when it claps at the end) and also the scrolling background when it's blue (the default colour is pink).

Other than that, animation is very clean, although with very minimal frame redraws. Various effects are done via motion tweens, which isn't uncommon during Flash's heyday.

On another note, I tend to use the desktop Newgrounds Player to run Flash content nowadays, so that's always an option.

Graphics: 9 | Sound: 8 | Recycling: 9 | Ruffle Compatibility: 7 | Style: 10 | Entertainment: 9

[Monkey Wrench - The Ghost Egg]

== Where's my pizza? ==
Score: 10 | Critic Review

If I were to give this a review, it would be better to put this into comparison with actual animated TV shows like Adult Swim's Rick and Morty or Smiling Friends, to name a few, rather than any individual animators on the web who can only dream of having the budget and talent to create full episodes with professional quality animation, writing, storytelling, voice acting, music, etc. over the course of many many months.
The closest comparison I could find on the internet for free in terms of scope and professionalism would have to be Helluva Boss, Satina, Ollie and Scoops (which Zeurel also helped animate), Harry Partridge's Starbarians, or the later Spooky Month installments from Sr Pelo (which progressively get bigger and pushed beyond Halloween every year)

The only problems I found with this, problems that can affect both independent and professional creations like this one, are a few audio issues, notably the music being too quiet in the big fight scene in the end, and also Shrike (the one who looks like Earthworm Jim) being too generic of a Spanish stereotype. (sort by score and jump to the last pages)
Hopefully these will be ironed out in future installments. if or when they come out.

I'm also going to note that the two main protagonists bear a great resemblance to the characters in the 2012 short 'Lard Ass', also created by Zeurel.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/597197

Graphics: 10 | Sound: 8 | Overall Premise: 10 | Effort: 10 Style: 10 | Entertainment: 9

[2 girls 1 tank]

== It's barely even August! ==
Score: 8 | Critic Review by Anonymous-Frog

It's not even Halloween yet. I guess Sr. Pelo's not the only one posting Halloween movies too late (or too early). I'm also surprised this wasn't a 2 Girls 1 Cup parody, despite the title.

This movie has fairly good visuals, although various assets are digitally altered rather than redrawn, ie. modifying its width, height, rotation, etc. This is a very decent way to avoid drawing too many frames, a trick I myself often use. Here, it's used alongside cel-shaded, realistically proportioned characters, but in some areas, they only use one frame for certain actions, for example, in 0:37 when the two girls run away from 'scary armor guy' (I'm not familiar with LoL enough to know this guy's name, and thus I can't comment on how accurate this is to the source material)

Only thing bugging me is that the girls keep moaning all the goddamn time, which may be annoying.

Graphics: 9 | Sound: 5 | Recycling: 7 | Boobs: 4 | Style: 10 | Entertainment: 8

teemovsall responds:

boobs 4?? I'm sad now :(
The title is "2 girls 1 tank"! Because tthe armored guy is a Tank type, this is the joke :P
Thanks for your review

[How Battle Royales would really go down]

UPDATE: This review is out of date.

I think you forgot to give it a title.