DC Super Hero Girls

After watching the entire series, I found this series to be quite the roller-coaster ride in terms of focus and enjoy-ability. It's definitely not the worst series I've seen, but there's a lot that needs to be polished.

To start with the positives, I enjoyed the voice performance. Each character syncs well with the voice performance, and each character gives off a certain vibe. I especially enjoy the different animation styles chosen for each character. Squash-and-stretch for the enthusiastic Bat-girl, awkward but proud for the foreign Wonder Woman, shy and reserved for Bumblebee. It blends very well and looks great as a visual perspective. I also loved the first four episodes. They fit together to create a 4-part story on the creation of the team, and I was immediately sucked into the girl's world.

However, all of the other aspects of the show are lacking. The animation, while fluent, definitely has it's moments where it's and "Adobe Flash-ey". The characters are also very bland and have much potential to be desired. None of them have any dimension, and come off as flat, bland characters meant to have only one true emotion in the story. All characters are cliche and have nothing that gives them any sort of personality.

The entire show feels like a long trope, with episodes centered around themes we have seen over and over in popular high-school dramas, except with superheros instead of average teenage girls. While the first four episodes were exceptional, the rest were quite tedious. Episodes center around dull plots such as going to the mall, going to school, learning to be brave, learning to work as a team. Most episodes follow a repeated cycle of having to face a new villain and fighting them, though we never get to see the villains much after-wards and leave them feeling like plot-devices. Along side a short run-time and seemingly random plots, having superpowers certainly doesn't save them from such bland plots.

To conclude, I enjoyed parts of this cartoon. It's not going to be the next "Justice League" or "Teen Titans", but I'm sure that kids and parents will find it as a fun diversion to watch on a rainy day. This is only the first season, so it certainly has a chance to become something better.

Fun re-imagination of DC's heroines in high school - with all the usual high school antics, moodiness, relationships, jealousies, and close knit friendships. Plenty of references to keep a true geek happy, and enough backstory for a novice to follow. Plus most episodes are just 8-12 minutes so "go to sleep after this episode" can turn into "just one more" and it's ok :)

Not half bad at all. Pretty entertaining actually. Much better than that atrocity Teen Titans Go. This is more my idea of a childishly hilarious show. Its not perfect but its pretty good.

This is what you get when you cross a beloved Comicbook franchise with a show about technicolored horses.

A vast improvement from the original version of DC Super Hero Girls, as it focuses more on the main characters, storytelling and comedy rather than being a marketing scheme to sell dolls.

Lauren Faust comes in and fixes the problems of its predecessor with diverse character designs, comical timing and a great cast of voices.

It's a cute series, I like the messages and the themes, my only problem is that I wish it wasn't episodic and that the stories were more connected like the first 3 episodes. It's also really loud a lot of the times but I can live with it.