Villainous

With the shorts it seemed that this was going to be a great dark TV show and that it would break the tradition of mexican animated shows being all about their culture, but it didn't. The show feels rushed with the plots centering on the characters traveling to some place to fight a hero (Which mostly are based on characters from other franchises) the characters aren't charismatic and are frustrating and cliché and everything feels like a Mexican Telenovela that somehow got turned into an animated show. Most of the lore of the show is not explored and the show itself just depends on references and cameos of other Cartoon Network shows. Black Hat is not even the main character like the shorts made it seem he was and he's just a comic relief character that has not relevance to the plot.

I really liked this show, it has a very unique and different type of humor which is very funny, the designs are really, really good, animation is also perfect and the plot is very unique and entertaining to watch, however, my problem is that we dont see too much of it, I mean that it only has 6 episodes of 11 minutes and most of them feel rushed in the plot without time to develop an even better episode, also at some points I just get tired of the mexicanisms (me being mexican) because they can be just way too many. Still, I would love to see more of this show, with longer episodes to truly work off the plot and jokes.

The premise of the show is very interesting, giving us the villian point of view is maybe not new, but since the begining is made clear that the "heroes" aren't always very heroic and the "villians" sometimes do well, something not new for a mature audience of series and movies that aren't exactly what people will call "cartoons", so the real improvement is using a new format to express this realistic idea.

By the date I'm writing the first parragraph of this review on June 17th 2022, there are only 6 episodes and it seems to be a lot going on behind the scenes, plenty of questions are in front of us like: What exactly is Demencia? Why does Flug use a bag in his head? Why Flug said he usually has nightmares? Why is Demencia connected with reptiles? Why is Flug connected with airplanes? What's all with the Black Charro thing? How would Goldheart try to attack Black Hat Organization?, the show really goes outside the tv/streaming screen having websites and even social media for some characters, but I like to stick to only the episodes to solve things, needless to say, to my knowledge, none of the questions are really answered there, the lore of the show seems and feels very rich, I hope it's the case, but only time will tell.

If you recently discovered this show please give it a chance, the pilot is in youtube both english and spanish, you have my word that the show is good, specially the 6th episode.

This review will probably be edited and improved when more episodes are realeased.

I loved every second of it, the character design and the humor are amazing, it remind me a little bit of ''mucha lucha''. Can´t wait to see more of this amazing universe.

I recently watched the episodes and I like how the story flows through! My favourite episode is definitely the Pilot since it is really introducing us to the world of Villainous! Thanks AI Animation Studios!