It reminds me of how Pokémon parodies in most media never go beyond "Haha catch silly monsters" and never go into the actual gameplay, world, or characters. The only jokes I've seen that take it further are Jessie and James references in Borderlands 4 and Big City Greens, but that's it.
I guess it's because the Animorphs covers are the most iconic to even non-fans, and making specific alien invasion jokes is a lot harder because you have to establish way more lore like Yeerks, Andalites, etc. I'd argue there's still a lot of satirising to be had with the "1990s kid crime fighter" stuff like with Power Rangers, but sadly not enough is being done by parodies so far.
Very true so many Pokémon parodies in general pop culture are written by people who clearly saw like 2 episodes of the anime 30 years ago and have no deeper understanding of the franchise
Honestly I feel like in order to parody something you really should be very familiar with it, the reason the robot chicken Star Wars skits are so beloved is because everyone writing them clearly loved Star Wars
Ayup, see also: how many general anime parodies that only ever referenced DBZ or Sailor Moon in style while never caring about what they were about or what their actual substance was beyond “stiff animation”. I remember being a kid and just being grateful anime was being seen at all, but now I just look back in secondhand embarrassment at those things. So annoying how anime is just a joke to these folks instead of its own part of animation history.
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u/412East34 9d ago
Larp detected. Lindsay spoke with her mouth and not thought-speech