wait remember mighty magiswords mighty magiswords was Cartoon Network's Whirlwind of fantasy fueled
and collectible driven cartoon that told the adventures of sibling Duo Van Buren prohius
initially made specifically for Cartoon Network's online platform Cartoon Network anytime the series
started out as these incredibly small shorts that started to grow longer and longer and eventually
would transition into a full series from there Chief content officer Rob sorcher stated that
taking the series in such small progression was something that the network had never done
before making Mighty magiswords definitely one of a kind the first short premiered online on
May 5th 2015 and the series grew and grew and over a year later its first official air date
was September 29 2016 on Cartoon Network Mighty magisword centers around a brother sister Duo
who run a Warriors for hire business in which anyone can hire them to complete various tasks
each task is unique and varies in degrees of difficulty but both Van Buren pohais main
objectives is to find and grow their collection of magiswords words but in reality they're just
trying to run away from the reality of their adulthood and if you've ever seen my Pokemon
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vamber Warrior is voiced by gray DeLisle and speaks with a loose and fake English accent
she is the oldest sibling and acts like it or at least she tries to she often Prides herself
on being very opinionated preferring fancier food as opposed to her brother's favorite slug Burger
fast food restaurant she does give in to childish behavior sometimes when she's around her brother
who is in reality extremely similar to her she's actually the only one in her family that speaks
with an English accent which would prove why her accent drops at times or sounds off occasionally
again it's fake prophious Warrior is voiced by creator of the series Kyle carroza he is the
more impulsive one of the two of them he takes on a sort of himbo Personality preferring Brawn
over brains but despite that he could be pretty emotionally intelligent his favorite magisword
is actually more like his pet a dolphin sword that was actually his first their relationship
is pretty solid and normal for a regular brother sister Duo they are both incredibly
competitive and despite clashing occasionally with each other they won't hesitate to jump to
each other's defense should the circumstance call for it other recurring characters in the
series include princess Sanji yeah also voiced by great Lyle who is the ruler of the land with
a stereotypical Valley Girl attitude and witchy Simone friend of the siblings who
manages slugberger who was voiced by Lindsay Smith carroza gat2 and morbidia are the rivaling team
rocket-esque Jesse and James equivalent to the Warriors for hire they're on a competing
business called Wizards for hire and often fail in trying to overshadow vember and prajas you
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the series was created by Kyle carroza who before getting his own series had worked on other shows
in the past like Fanboy and Chum Chum and Fish Hooks Kyle had created a version of the characters
of Van Buren prohais back in his high school days in 1996. his original idea was legendary Warriors
for hire and later another version titled Dungeons and day jobs which is the best name yet his idea
kept growing and growing within the 10 years he was pitching his creative thoughts his ideas were
all initially without swords and centered around the two characters in a jrpg inspired fantasy
world like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VI inspired by these games he came up with his own
band of Warriors originally pitching a different idea Cartoon Network turned him down due to having
another project in the works that was a little bit too similar so instead they landed on his older
developed idea of the fantasy world focused on The Sibling Warriors for higher Duo but the series
was still missing something both the network and Kyle acknowledged that they needed a hook another
element to draw the viewer in and make the world more interesting this is where the magisword idea
comes into play Kyle wanted something to pull the fans in and make the series more interactive
outside of the screen by incorporating the concept of these Collectibles the magiswords Kyle felt
that the audience could relate to the characters more by also collecting them themselves and in
a way it is genius due to how many shows relying on the success of their toy Market although these
swords didn't take the market by storm the effect was still there in the fandom culture between the
characters in the series and the viewers was a great place to connect it also offers a whole
world of possibilities of absurd weapons that kids cartoons are always trying to be creative with
regular simple weapons like swords and guns aren't exactly welcome in kids media unless they are
given a light-hearted and interesting twist these unique and mainly harmless weapons are a great way
to go about that there are over 200 swords that we get to experience in the run of the show some
major players include the dolphin sword the Tomato magisword the Excalibur magisword the zombie
pumpkin magisword the in the accordion magisword and yeah they say it just like that every time
there's a new magisword that gets brought out and fun fact Kyle who voices prohais is actually a
musician who plays the accordion and is heavily inspired in his music by Weird Al Yankovic it's
also a clever little opportunity to incorporate other popular Cartoon Network shows into the
magiswords for a fun little crossover event like the Teen Titans Go Robin themed magisword called
Annoying detective magisword other shows that are featured in the swords include we bear bears Ben
10 villainous Steven Universe The Amazing World of Gumball Adventure Time in okko once the full
concept of the series was developed Cartoon Network first had Kyle developed the series
in the form of shorts for their CN anything app he saw this as an opportunity to show the idea
for his series as an extended segmented pilot instead of limiting himself to the time strain
of the shorts every time he was able to show a multitude of different stories exhibiting the
storytelling potential that vamber and perhais and their magiswords possessed from there the shorts
would get longer until the show was eventually picked up and turned into an actual Series in
creating his smaller and runtime shorts he found himself voicing many of the male characters and
the network liked it that way bringing him on for the voice of prohius for the official series
Mighty magiswords has some pretty mixed reviews a lot of the negative sentiments can be attributed
to the extremely fast pacing which often allows a lot of the jokes to fly over the viewer's heads
specifically for a younger audience and on the other hand of that go by too fast
for older audiences to even enjoy the voice acting is actually incredibly strong with the
main characters but can feel a bit too much of the same when voice actors are recycled for Other Side
characters but don't end up changing their voices all that much or even at all the overall look
of the series is probably one of its strongest if not the strongest attribute that it has the
backgrounds are different and unique making the World building of this Fantasyland incredibly
fun for the audience the animation medium is definitely taken advantage of in the characters
expressions and over-exaggerated movements it's just downright fun to watch while some of the
jokes and pacing of the series leaves a lot of Blank Space the visuals make up for it quite a
bit it all feels free-flowing and not constricted to a singular shape structure from the way that
the hair flicks around when characters are speaking or moving to the way the action is
trade the show used every bit of its unique art style to its Advantage now there are a lot of
Side characters in the show that are pretty cool and unique all around again maybe minus
the voice acting aspect but when you have a character like grupp who is around quite a
bit and has a less than pleasant voice it for sure can take away from the enjoyment of the
show especially since all I seem to see and hear while I look at this character is Fred
fredburger which is a character I do like but in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy he is
used very sparingly to a point that it works more for the comedy aspect of it and doesn't
become a detractor I do however really like the whole sword collecting aspect I think that for
the most part A lot of them felt very inventive and holy unique I looked forward to the weirdest
ideas they had for the sword and how they would or wouldn't be used in an episode I think where
the show starts to fall apart is that it feels like it focuses more on the jokes per minute
versus what actual substance comes from the episode it's too fast for its own good trying
to speedrun the episode's story but rather than trying to give you something tangible to take
away from it you get 100 jokes flying at you from the comments made or slapstick comedy but
maybe a few of them ever truly do hit the pacing is truly what led to the show's eventual downfall
only lasting for two seasons ending back right where it started watch out van burrito is to
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so while a lot of people attribute the series not continuing past its second season to its poor
pacing animator David Barron voiced a few other reasons which had a bigger effect on the series
not being renewed he states that poor scheduling such as dropping a massive amount of episodes
only to go radio silent for a month really hurt their viewership it also didn't help that the
lack of merchandising in marketing was also a major hit to its success I mentioned earlier
that the Collectibles market for the series is practically screaming gold mine with the amount
of fun and easy producible swords that could have been made but the second half of the second season
was dropped all at once online instead of being aired on TV really just showed the team that the
network wasn't really interested in the series anymore Baron also mentioned that because of
how fast-paced production was moving by the time audience criticism of poor pacing reached their
ears there wasn't a ton of content left to create that would accurately address the pacing issues
so the lack of Mark getting merchandising and proper airing just speaks to how it wasn't being
prioritized by the network but those are just his speculations as to why the series wasn't renewed
for a season three or for that matter continued to be shown on the air early on in the development of
the series Alex explained that a potential season 3 would likely have been the Warriors exploring
other lands of their world this was originally a concept that he wanted to explore in season 2
but was unable to due to lack of time if he had more time his vision would have been complete in
expanding past the television screen and in more ways for the audience to participate contribute
play watch and collect however interactive games were made smartphone games like Shirley youquest
and magimobile were created as well as a few Cartoon Network online games like deadly darling
the quest of towers dimensional domination and many more it sadly was too little too late in
trying to turn this show into something great and evolve the show itself becoming this cartoon that
premiered with a lot of potential it was visually different from everything else on the network at
the time it had had some really cool ideas but couldn't Carry On from there into the rest of
the series which would turn out to be more of the same episode to episode fast-paced story rapid
joke slinging and random swords seem to be the formula while we have a bunch of Side characters
and an interesting world to explore why didn't we do that to begin with it could be a mix of
not knowing what to do sitting on this idea for so long and finally fine-tuning it from the web
shorts to a full show just led to not being able to find a direction to take the series in which
is sad because the potential is all right there in front of us it could have been a big hit for the
network but now it's looked back upon as mostly a forgotten show and not in the fact that you
can't remember it in general but in the ways of what the show was about what are the characters
we meet in the show's names what's the world we're in called exactly the title when thinking back on
this really only brings up memories of different cool and weird swords and the memory of what this
show could have been but let me know your thoughts on Mighty magiswords how do you feel about the
show's pacing which magisword was your favorite if you did watch the series and had a favorite
magisword let me know in the comments thanks so much for watching like And subscribe later