‘Supernatural: The Animation’ Poorly Received At SDCC

With the home video release in the US for Supernatural: The Animation just about to land, the preview for it at the San Diego Comic-Con doesn’t bode well, though it’s hard to say because of the mixed audience with what they wanted. According to a report out of Deadline, Warner Bros. TV had the first panel of the convention and showed off several upcoming shows, such as Alcatraz, The Secret Circle and Person of Interest. What they did was to kick it off with Supernatural: The Animation though and it was pretty much the bottom of the barrel in terms of audience reaction, and critique of the animation from Madhouse.

It was the first show that got most the jeers, almost from the word go: Supernatural: The Anime Series opened the screenings, and judging by the audience reaction the crowd was mostly neutral on the concept, with a vocal contingent openly hostile (when it was announced S:TAS would be the first show screened, there was audible grumbling). As the show wore on, that malcontents only seemed to multiply.

Produced by Japanese animation studio Madhouse (also behind the recent anime reinterpretations of Marvel properties), the series reimagines the first two seasons of the live-action show. The first episode (“All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1”) opens with brothers Sam and Dean casually bickering while they eat lunch, when Sam suddenly vanishes. The rest of the episode is spent with Sam trying to make sense of where he’s reappeared, and Dean trying to track him down. Sam is in a post apocalyptic-looking city with a few other individuals who, like him, just woke up to find themselves in the rubble. They all have supernatural abilities, too, and quickly learn an entity called The Yellow-Eyed Demon (amusingly, nobody ever refers to him as less than this; they always say The Yellow-Eyed Demon, every word) has gathered them here in a survival of the fittest-type game where the “winner” gets to lead his demonic army on Earth. Or something like that.

[Source: Deadline]

Chris Beveridge

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