Fireball

Another new and short CGI anime from past year.

But this time, it's done by Disney, yes, Disney.

Fireball excists out of 13 episodes between, roughly said, 1 and 3 minutes.
The story's no big deal, since there's none.. no.. really. On the back-back-background there is on, some war between Mankind and Robots, or something of the sort. The "story's" that happen in the episodes is a different story, it starts the same everytime, but it develops to some random conversation ending or monkey sounds. Which is pretty fair, since it's hilarious.

The art is very good, I like it, the Robots are done great and the animation is ... a bit stiff (it's supposed to be stiff) but good. Nothing to say here really, for a short like this, it's great.

The sounds great to, besides the "stop-motion" conversation parts, the voice-actors do a great job, and so does the monkey. All sounds are done carefully, but good.

The characters are the highlight of this series, the robot who's name isn't important (Gedächtenis) and none other than Drossel von Flügel, apart from the names (that makes sense if you know these characters), they are unique. The "stop-motion" way Drossel lives is at least unique, but hilarious, she does randoms poses every two seconds, if not every second. Gedächtenis is a smart robot, but probably a bit frightened of his master. Then as last, the funky monkey which delivers some problems in episodes and scares the main characters with loud screeches, he .. or she.. is done brilliantly as a background character.

This is a good-to-highly-enjoyable series for a quick fix of anime, if you need it. It's not really a recommendation, but you just have to see this. The overall rating brings the score back to an 7,8 which I'll round off to an 8. Which, is my personal score too.

pretty much nobody knows that this little show even exists. but they should. its great.

its an entirely CGI anime, but it actually looks good for 2008 , no cell shading, only traditional 3D texturing and rendering

the characters (all two of them) are incredibly funny to watch goof around in their endless kitchen-floor-tile void-scape (watch the show to know what tf I'm talking about). and when they throw in a 3rd character for like one episode, that's when things get really wacky

the episodes are very short (only around 1-2 minutes), and literally every second has something crazy going on, the jokes are sprayed out super fast, ... so the dub is recommended for a first watch, and, oh yeah, for some reason they decided to dub this in English

if you decide to give it a go, and find it enjoyable, please go and watch the other seasons. all together the entire series (four seasons) takes about an hour and a half to watch all the way through (that includes intro/credits for each episode), and since the episodes are so short, it might be best to set aside the time to just let the entire thing play with auto-next-episode

TL;DR / conclusion
overall a very enjoyable show: surprisingly great animation, goofy funny characters, a good dub, and movie-length total runtime between all four seasons

definite recommend: very cool series