On Wakfu



Wakfu is something you should watch the shit out of.  And I’ll tell you why.

Wakfu is a French cartoon series animated completely  in Flash, except for the two episodes animated in Japan.

And it is the greatest fucking cartoon I’ve ever seen in my goddamn life.  You want to know why it’s great?

I’m not getting all up in spoilers.  You want a reason to watch it?  In the first episode a time mage fights a dragon.  They fight again about halfway through the series.  Oh yes did I mention that the time mage is the villain? Because he is.

And he’s the best goddamn villain I’ve seen in years.  He’s wonderful.  Delightfully mad, brilliant in his schemes, armed with potent powers and a back story that… Well no spoilers.  I dream of writing villains as good as Nox.

The heroes? They’re wonderful.  Each of them.  Most of them fit neatly into the character role, but unlike shows that try to pretend that they’re not doing that they instead embrace it fully, and each one comes out wonderful.  Some of the twists in the character development, well, almost all, are predictable to a student of stories such as myself.  And, yet I was compelled.  I had forgotten that things I saw coming ages ago could be so compelling I didn’t care that I knew they were going to happen.

Yugo, the main character, the kid in the fucking awesome hat you see in that picture stands tall and proud above the rest for the following reason.  He’s the best written child protagonist in recent memory.   And I know, some of you might be like “But FaustianFool, what about Aang”

Aang was good, I’ll give him that, but Yugo is better by a mile for one simple reason that’s compelling enough for me to not need any more.  Yugo doesn’t need to go off and get captured or become useless for the other characters to have a good CMOA, they can have those while he’s there thank you very much.

Honestly I could rant and rave about how great Wakfu is all day long.  I won’t.

It’s great.  Watch it.  No seriously go do that.  The second season starts like this weekend.  You want to find out where? Go ask /rs/.

Or start a thread about it on pretty much any entertainment board on 4chan.  They’ll point you to it because they love Wakfu as much as I do.  Seriously.  I found out about it on /a/ in a best villains thread, watched the whole damn thing.  They talk about it on /tg/ and have mad love for it and I hear /co/ likes it too.

Or google it.  I’m sure there’s a torrent.

 

Also, ending in a kind of rude image, on the off chance you, for some stupid reason need more, worse reasons to watch Wakfu.

No seriously 4chan loves this. I have found nothing bad said about it.

Why the fuck are you still here? Wakfu’s not going to find itself.