{"id":33093,"date":"2020-04-17T16:50:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T20:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=33093"},"modified":"2020-04-18T13:05:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T17:05:39","slug":"tv-on-dvd-infinity-train-volume-one-dvdgift-ronja-the-robbers-daughter-the-complete-series-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/17\/tv-on-dvd-infinity-train-volume-one-dvdgift-ronja-the-robbers-daughter-the-complete-series-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"TV on DVD: Infinity Train: Book One (DVD)+Gift\/Ronja, The Robber\u2019s Daughter: The Complete Series [Blu-Ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I truly hope you\u2019re doing well in the current social climate and are celebrating Friday the best way you can. This week, I\u2019m reviewing two brilliant animated series that\u2019s female oriented, but fit for every audience imaginable. They\u2019re two very complex and amazing animated series you can sit down and watch with the whole family, that promote strong female heroes, complex ideas about youth and discovery, and confronts very real overtones about loss of innocence and growing up way too fast.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Owen Dennis who was a former write and storyboard artist for one of my all time favorite animated series \u201cRegular Show,\u201d returns to bring us the acclaimed \u201cInfinity Train: Book One<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d available very soon on DVD and Digital! This is an entirely different kind of animal from \u201cRegular Show\u201d launching us in to a bizarre, scary, and exciting adventure with heroine Tulip (Ashley Johnson). The red haired bespectacled teenager spends her days in front of her computer escaping the tension between her parents, both of whom have divorced. When she learns she can\u2019t go to computer camp, she\u2019s so heartbroken that she runs away.<\/p>\n

She happens upon a massive train she boards hoping to go on a journey and it doesn\u2019t take too long to realize she\u2019s on a unique train that works as its own land. It\u2019s the infinity train, a massive world within a locomotive. Visiting various worlds outside the train, and confronting herself from within, she teams up with her companions Atticus (Ernie Hudson), the brave canine king of Corginia, and One-One, a robot with dueling personalities who is tends to be both her friend and her adversary quite often.<\/p>\n

Owen Dennis\u2019 series is so brilliantly realized and unique and although he does center his series on Tulip, the show is never afraid to become absolutely spooky. This becomes especially true when we learn about the horrific Amelia, and the robotic Steward, two conniving and sinister technological beings that oversee the Infinity Train that have plans for Tulip. Like much of \u201cRegular Show,\u201d Owen Dennis has a fun ability to take the smallest nuances of life and the environment and transform it in to something fantastic and bold.<\/p>\n

\u201cInfinity Train\u201d steers away from comedy and satire and dives head first in to the more menacing and creepy elements of Tulip\u2019s seemingly mundane world, all the while using much of her adventures as overtones for her struggles with adolescence, as well as her unresolved feelings about her parents\u2019 very traumatic divorce. It\u2019s a marvelous often mind blowing adventure from the Cartoon Network (in the league of the equally under appreciated \u201cOver the Garden Wall\u201d) that deserves so much more attention, and now you can and should seek it out.<\/p>\n

\u201cInfinity Train: Book One<\/a><\/strong>\u201d is on DVD and Digital on April 21st\u00a0 <\/sup>and I strongly, highly recommend buying it (digital or physical). Among some of the best special features, there are looks at the animatics that helped storyboard so much of the beautiful world, there\u2019s a gallery for the \u201cInfinity Train,\u201d there\u2019s commentary for various select episodes, the mix of the final episode, and finally small documentaries about the various train carts Tulip visits through the duration of \u201cBook One.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a special memento, Warner Bros. is offering fans a FREE \u201cInfinity Train\u201d coloring sheet to download and color at their leisure<\/a>! Be sure to tag @cinemacrazed and @wbpictures and let us see what marvelous works of art you\u2019ve created!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>From Gor\u014d Miyazaki, Polygon Pictures, and co-produced by Studio Ghibli, comes \u201cRonja, the Robber’s Daughter: The Complete Series<\/a>\u201d<\/strong> from Shout! Factory and GKIDS. One of the most underrated fantasy series to come along in a while, \u201cRonja\u201d is a cel shaded animated period series set in a far off land where the rich get richer and thieves thrive by taking what they need to survive. In the vein of \u201cRobin Hood,\u201d Ronja is born from a mother and her father Mattis.<\/p>\n

Mattis is the leader of a clan of thieves that dwell deep in the forest and survive by stealing from the wealthy. They\u2019re at war with a rival clan of thieves, all of whom are also trying to find treasures. Mattis must come to terms with being a parent and surviving with his dangerous lifestyle, especially as Ronja matures from a precocious baby to a curious and adventurous preteen. As Mattis and his wife Lovis allow Ronja more freedom, she learns that the world is filled with perils and dangers that keep her on her feet.<\/p>\n

Much in the realm of other Miyazaki and Ghibli projects, \u201cRonja, the Robber’s Daughter<\/a>\u201d is centered on a strong and powerful young woman who comes of age amidst extraordinary circumstances and conflict. Miyazaki also opens up his world, making Ronja\u2019s landscape so vast and nigh endless. The more she learns about the world and her surroundings, the more she comes to the realization that her world is very small, and she has to pick allegiances very soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cRonja\u201d is filled with rich characterization and excellent drama that paces itself balances unique themes about aging alongside some fun adventure you can only find with Studio Ghibli. If you\u2019re a fan of Studio Ghibli, you know exactly what you\u2019re getting in to with \u201cRonja,\u201d and this series unfolds with an epic pacing and unique characters.<\/p>\n

The Blu-Ray includes all twenty six episodes of the series on four Blu-Ray discs from GKIDS and Shout! Factory. The set includes an eleven minutes Interview with Gor\u014d Miyazaki who gives us a sense of his intentions toward the series. He discusses how they made the third episode first and then did the first two, the large number of women that were part of the production in various roles, and his work on previous Ghibli films before working on this series.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the six minutes Press Conference including the director, voice actors, and producers alike. Gor\u014d talks working with CG even though the studio wasn\u2019t a place for it. Finally there\u2019s the thirty eight minutes The Making of Ronja which delves in to the production process with footage of meetings during various stages of development.<\/p>\n

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I truly hope you\u2019re doing well in the current social climate and are celebrating Friday the best way you can. This week, I\u2019m reviewing two brilliant animated series that\u2019s female oriented, but fit for every audience imaginable. They\u2019re two very complex and amazing animated series you can sit down and watch with the whole family, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,99,340,349,451,580,906,996],"class_list":["post-33093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-den","tag-adaptation","tag-animation","tag-family","tag-fantasy","tag-hayao-miyazaki","tag-kids","tag-science-fiction","tag-studio-ghibli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33093"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33102,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33093\/revisions\/33102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}