Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City

What is the recipe that makes this show a success? It has fun and charming characters, solid humor, good messages, and great music. It has everything that makes a show great.

The character designs in this version look absolutely horrendous, especially when compared to the past Strawberry Shortcake cartoons, they just look so basic and ugly to me. They definitely could've come up with way better designs then what we got.

Also why did they have to put Strawberry and her friends in the city when the franchise is known for its cottage-core feel? This is what I hate the most about this show. They're trying to urbanize the cottage-core queen and her friends. If you ask me the city setting just does not work for the Strawberry Shortcake franchise and it REALLY shows here.

If you ever watched Tom and Jerry or the roadrunner and the Wiley Coyote you can see there's a lot of classic cartoon antics and over expressions that are just pure cartoon! Unlike the duo dynamic of many old cartoons, this features a group of friends and even the villains can become friends. It's super upbeat without toxic positivity. My favorite change in this rendition of strawberry shortcake is the pets they take a more starring role and are cuter than ever. I love the overdramatic bold loud storytelling. A really solid short form cartoon for children. Kind of wish they might have a longer episode and go into deeper lore about berry works and the her lucky spoon.

I've been watching this series because Strawberry Shortcake was something I was into when I was younger, and it's definitely something I would've enjoyed if it had been around back then.

Where the show shines is in its cast of main characters, its humor, and in the unique and important lessons it teaches, which usually manage to be a bit outside the scope of what you'd expect to see. For a kid's show, I think it's impressive when its resolutions are ones that I tend not to see coming.

With that said, the show flounders just a bit when it comes to worldbuilding -- which may seem petty when I'm talking about a kids' property like this. The main, recurring cast of characters are all distinct, funny, and likable, but the big-city and background characters all feel just a bit too ordinary. Supposedly, this all takes place in a world where everyone is themed after a type of desert or something, but you wouldn't glean that just by looking at the background characters. It's usually only their names that fit the theming, which makes the names feel out of place.

It might not be something a lot of kids would take issue with, and that's all fine and good. I just think that a little more effort could be put into the worldbuilding and character design, is all. But other than that, the show's pretty great.

It was alright but not something that i familiar and growing up with. Unlike the previous version of the same premise, this taken in almost realistic modern world, less cute material more like a grown kids material. I am not fan of the 2d animation style on this version for this particular permise as i used to watching this on 3d style. But its not bad. The characters were made more human like and stories that we can relate to. The songs were okay, not cute nor catchy but passable. Bit lay onto more towards action, fantasy and slice of life. More like a superhero vibe. The sound engineerings were weak. Great line of characters of different races and background. Recommended.