Turanga Leela: The Burden of Competence
It is easy to reduce Turanga Leela to one eye and a roundhouse kick. That misses the point entirely. Her real superpower…
Read MoreKenny B is the founder and lead writer of Cartoon Vibe, covering both Western animation and Japanese anime. Raised on 90s Saturday morning cartoons, he writes in-depth character guides and series breakdowns on everything from classic Hanna-Barbera and Disney to modern shonen, digging into the studios, characters, and stories that define pop culture.
It is easy to reduce Turanga Leela to one eye and a roundhouse kick. That misses the point entirely. Her real superpower…
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There is something deeply satisfying about a good mystery. It is even better when the one cracking the case is a talking…
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Klaus Heisler is a man trapped in a goldfish bowl, but his spirit is trapped in the forever-online cycle of modern culture.…
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Roger Smith is quite possibly the greatest sitcom character ever written. Why? Because while every other character is locked into their personality,…
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In the late 1950s, movie detectives were all grit and cigarettes. Hanna-Barbera looked at that whole hard-boiled world and made a cat…
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Every great cartoon needs a great villain. The hero is only as good as the monster trying to stop them. So here…
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Before gritty reboots and sprawling cinematic universes, Saturday morning television was a much simpler, weirder place. In 1967, Hanna-Barbera gave us Birdman…
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Here is the thing about loving Berserk. Once Guts and his brutal, tragic world get under your skin, most other anime feel…
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I have an unfair bias when it comes to tiger cartoon characters, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. The moment…
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Nobody should be this fun to watch lose. Yet the most insufferable egos in animation are often the characters we quote the…
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Cartoons promise a safe place. Bright colours, big jokes, a hero who wins by the end of the episode. Then you look…
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Every great cartoon needs an agent of chaos. This is the character who kicks over the anthill and ignores the rules of…
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Ever wish you could just leave the ground behind? Anime grants that wish constantly, and it does it in wildly different ways.…
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Flight has always been the ultimate power fantasy in animation. But looking back at the greatest flyers in cartoon history, it is…
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In modern animation, world-building usually implies spaceships or magic kingdoms. But Craig of the Creek achieved something much harder: it turned a…
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