The Adventures of Donkey Ollie, or, The Greatest Anime of All Time
December 30, 2016 11:38 PM   Subscribe

Beloved YouTuber Cr1TiKaL (aka penguinz0) has teamed up with Kaya Orsan to provide commentary on the serialized Christian CGI animated series (with an unexpected live-action segment) Donkey Ollie. After the break, every single episode three ways each - Cr1TiKaL's cut-down version, Kaya's full version and the official version (funded and made available for free by the charity Boat Angel). To start, Episode 1 (abridged with commentary, uncut with commentary, original). The series has a surprising history, as revealed in the comments of the Boat Angel videos (e.g. Episode 4's) - animated in the 00's, but recorded in the late 80's and early 90's.

Episode 1: Journey to Jerusalem, or, Awakening (abridged with commentary, uncut with commentary, original)
Episode 2: Road to Damascus, or, The Amazing Jehu (abridged with commentary, uncut with commentary, original)
Episode 3: Camp of Thieves, or, Taken (abridged with commentary, uncut with commentary, original)
Episode 4: Kidnapped, or Blood and Honor (abridged with commentary, uncut with commentary, original)
Episode 5: Shipwrecked, or, Pirates of the Carabiblical (abridged with commentary, uncut with commentary, original)
Episode 6: Welcome to the Island, or, Sisyphus (abridged with commentary, uncut with commentary, original)
Episode 7: Faster than the Wind, or, Egypt Drift (abridged with commentary, uncut with commentary, original)
Episode 8: Let the Children Go, or, The Donkey King (abridged with commentary, uncut with commentary, original)
Episode 9: Don't be Fooled Again, or, Ben-Hur (abridged with commentary, uncut with commentary, original)
Episode 10: Bad Company, or, The Narrator (abridged with commentary, uncut with commentary, original)
Episode 11: Off to Rome, or, Moana (abridged with commentary, uncut with commentary, original) (BONUS: Standalone Donkey Balls Z intro)
Episode 12: No Way Out, or, Gladiator (abridged with commentary, uncut with commentary, original)
Episode 13: The Great Battle, or, Series Finale (abridged with commentary, uncut with commentary, original)
posted by BiggerJ (8 comments total) 10 users marked this as a favorite
 
Um, I am kind of unclear - who is Kaya Orsan?
posted by kafziel at 11:42 PM on December 30, 2016


kafziel: He's new, and will be riffing on more stuff with Cr1TiKaL in future. I just mentioned him as an excuse to link directly to his channel; sorry to confuse. I'd edit my post but the mod/admin/Grand High Arbiter is a harsh master/mistress/being.
posted by BiggerJ at 12:04 AM on December 31, 2016


This looks like potential YouTube greatness.
posted by Annika Cicada at 5:55 AM on December 31, 2016


An acquaintance once designed a game that would teach participants about researching and writing an academic paper. The game itself ended up being something like a formal instruction text, chunked out in rudimentary interactive fiction form, kind of a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story but without any narrative to string you along. But since they had designed this as a Game, and it met the basic mechanical definition of a Game, they were satisfied that it was therefore fun to play because Games are fun to play. And that's why it disappeared without a trace from the indices of pedagogical play; there was no play or game, it was just a textbook with loosely-formed pagination.

This video reminds me of that. It was constructed with some weird notion that as long as it met the pro-forma qualifications of the cartoons kids like (people and animals with big heads and large eyes churning around on the screen with exaggerated motions) it is therefore a good cartoon that kids will like. The creators don't seem to register that an audience that sits through it aren't working off the same checklists; instead they're seeing blobby humans and nightmare beasts and spasming horrifyingly across the screen while some community theater voice actors struggle through a first-take reading. Somebody threw incredible amounts of money at this thing, and I have no doubt it's turned a profit despite that because like the creators, there are aunts, uncles and grandparents across America who are going to pick this off the shelf at the Christian bookshop have sensibilities no more developed than the creators, and they aren't the ones who have to sit down and watch it.
posted by at by at 8:05 AM on December 31, 2016 [6 favorites]


Wow, that's terrifying. Is his name, like, a Don Quixote pun?
posted by lucidium at 11:06 AM on December 31, 2016 [1 favorite]


there are aunts, uncles and grandparents across America who are going to pick this off the shelf at the Christian bookshop have sensibilities no more developed than the creators, and they aren't the ones who have to sit down and watch it.

I think that it may have been on the blue before that someone compared Christian™ kids' entertainment to the off-brand ripoff toys that look like way more expensive electronic games and are much cheaper, the kind that deadbeat dads get their kids for Christmas and birthdays. The animation reminds me of some of the comics that Chester Brown or Dave Cooper used to draw; there's something unmistakeably wrong about the animation, the way the characters' faces (especially Ollie's) are designed, something that's a lot more like a kid's fever dream than anything that kid would want to watch while awake. I may end up watching the lot.
posted by Halloween Jack at 11:29 AM on December 31, 2016


lucidium: No, Mr. Rogers dibsed that.
posted by BiggerJ at 4:09 PM on December 31, 2016


A discovery in the Boat Angel channel - All forty Donkey Ollie children's books (in four ten-book series) in one video. Ten Commandments, Names of God, Lord's Prayer and Miracles of Jesus. Versions in other languages available on the channel.
posted by BiggerJ at 4:08 AM on January 2, 2017


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