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Cannon Busters: Episode 1 Review

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Netflix brings out a lot of original shows to their platform. One of the genres they have started to excel in is original anime. Anime is loved by many people because you can fit so many characters, plots, troupes and action sequences and it all feels natural and a product of the show. One of the anime shows Netflix has brought is Cannon Busters.

Without any knowledge of the show and only a trailer to look at before watching the first episode, it felt very reminiscent of a Trigun meets Cowboy Beebop. Is Cannon Busters worth a view? Well, after watching the first episode, I think it has enough to maintain an audience and offer the viewers different kinds of characters and a unique setting to help tell an interesting story. So, we shall review the first episode and there will be spoilers included, so, be prepared but I doubt there is enough to spoil much.

We immediately meet the character Philly the Kid. He is a wanted man with a huge bounty on his head. However, there is a myth surrounding Philly and that is that he cannot be killed. Meanwhile, his comedy emerges when he needs to run to the bathroom because of a percolating stomach. In Balloon Town, we meet Sam (an android) and Casey Turnbuckle (a maintenance bot) walking through the town trying to find Philly.

At the saloon, gun fire happens and people start fleeing. Bounty hunters seem to find Philly and shoot him. He rises shortly after and the missing piece of his chest soon healed, a la Wolverine style. Sam and Casey introduce themselves and ask for friendship and guidance to Gara’s Keep to find Prince Kelby (Heir to the Botican empire). When the bounty hunters start firing at the three, Philly reluctantly agrees and throws Casey outside to his car with a quarter. Casey puts the quarter in an old arcade quarter insert and a screen in the car emerges saying “Raging Bull Mode” turning the car into a bull mecha (giant robot). Meanwhile in the bar, Sam notices a cannon on one of the bounty hunters arms and her eyes turn dark red. Her mouth opens and a light energy starts to build up around her.

The hunter said she is a cannon buster (no knowledge what that is and love the name drop). The building comes crashing upon them with no injuries. Just as they tried figuring out what to do, three mecha show up and start firing at the three. More specifically, they are Botican assault mechas. We don’t know why they are attacking the bounty hunters, but with nice driving of “Bessie” in car mode, he is able to fool two of them into blowing up. The car eventually turns into the mecha and destroys the last one, throwing it down a canyon. However, the last scene of this episode shows the mecha falling down the canyon as well due to losing its footing, ending the first episode.

This was a very entertaining and pretty action packed episode that pulls you in as a viewer. Offering violence, comedy, giant robots, explosions all set in a post apocalyptic world. Without knowing anything about this anime, seeing just the trailer and now the first episode, I think this anime could be a lot of fun and offer something for everyone. I think it tows the line enough with the curse of Philly, the car turning into a mecha of a Bull and the two androids wandering around a barren wasteland looking for a missing prince.

It has nice ingredients for a good action/comedy/adventure anime that has likable characters and endless possibilities. A lot of foes to come across since it’s set in a world where automail seems common and hybrid human/droids could be just as common. I enjoyed the first episode and will look forward to the rest of the show. What will become of Philly and learn more about the three main characters. How they ended up in this situation and what kind of baggage will they be secretly towing along.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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