Photo-Illustration: Vulture. Photos: Lucasfilm, Netflix, Disney+, Adult Swim In the early days of 2021, truly inventive, exciting animation seemed the furthest thing from anyone’s mind. A slate of upcoming features and exciting shows had been announced, but it took a few months for the release calendar to pick up and give us something smarter than tired rehashes of ancient IP.
Beastars, Season Two Photo: Netflix This prep-school anime gone wild — its protagonists are anthropomorphic animals — is arguably one of the best to hit Netflix in the past couple of years and inarguably one of its weirdest. The world of this series is one in which carnivores have, by and large, given up eating meat to live alongside herbivores, but the urge to slake their thirst for blood is a hard one to overcome.
Available to stream on Netflix. Netflix The Crossing This oil-paint-on-glass animated feature film has more in common thematically with the gut-wrenching animated war films Funan, Grave of the Fireflies, and Persepolis than the works of paint-on-glass master Alexander Petrov or even 2017’s oil-painted animated feature Loving Vincent with which it shares its visual DNA.
Available to stream on Netflix and Funimation. Netflix Funimation Infinity Train, Season 4 Photo: HBO Max You can’t say the writers of Infinity Train were averse to trying new things. With each of its seasons, the animated sci-fi thriller anthology series by Owen Dennis tested the limits of its concept, only to find that the concept was nearly as infinite as its metaphorical engine.
Available to stream on Netflix. Netflix Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway Photo: Netflix Gundam’s latest film is the franchise’s best in at least two decades, even if it’s not exactly intended for newcomers. Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway is functionally a sequel to Char’s Counterattack, the film that closed the book on the conflicts of the original Mobile Suit Gundam series. Like that film, Hathaway is crisply animated and moves at a brisk, politically motivated pace.
The Snoopy Show Photo: Apple TV+ “This commercial dog,” Charlie Brown once said of his dog Snoopy, “is not going to ruin my Christmas.” The Snoopy of The Snoopy Show, though, is not the Snoopy of A Charlie Brown Christmas, but instead a vehicle for flights of creative fancy and joyful exploration of the realm of the possible — which, in cartoons, extends nicely into the realm of the impossible.
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