Review of Larva

Larva (2011–2022)
1/10
Not The Kind Of Cartoon For Me.
11 November 2017
Firstly, I didn't know that this is another one of those foreign cartoons (particularly from South Korea) until I read about it on its Wikipedia page. I also didn't know this premiered in the U.S. on Netflix. I came across this series when it was featured on the latest edition of Wonderama, which seems to have stopped showing it thankfully, as I haven't seen it being shown in the last, recent episodes. Had it still been shown, I would've changed the channel to something else and changed back when whatever short ended.

Anyway, I'm not really big on any of the sick humor cartoons like this, so I don't go out of my way to search for and watch them. If I do, it's rarely and by chance. And Larva is more of the same that falls exactly into that vein. What else is new? This series revolves around these two larvae generically named after the colors they are, Red and Yellow. There's no dialogue, just the two grubs making unintelligible sounds, like grunting and moaning, so it's action-driven. The comedy that occurs is gross-out and sick, such as in one short, Yellow breaks wind and the gas explosion is so strong it causes birds to drop out of the sky. Another is Yellow using his mucus to stretch, reach for, and grab things, since neither he nor Red have any arms/hands (although Yellow did eventually grow a pair of each of those in a short in which he was playing the bongos with his head). I saw only a few of these and I think there are like over 200, but I have no desire to see more. It's just more mindless dreck that seemingly continues to dominate in the animation world. As for the CGI animation, it seemed alright to me, but I can't say much more than that, as I'm not quite good enough to tell the differences in quality among CGI-animated materials, let alone what past year they could've been rather than the current one. I can't recall much of the music featured in this, it isn't all that memorable enough to me, maybe other than that rhythmic, percussive playing in that bongos episode. As for the two main characters themselves, Red is the smarter of the two, whereas Yellow is goofy. There isn't much meaning to this series, it's nothing all that special. For those who aren't into this sort of thing like me, I say skip it. It's truly too childish or kiddie for anyone outside of the toddler to preteen demographic to enjoy (although there may still be some exceptions, despite that). An example of why some, certain adults are so negative and close-minded towards all cartoons in general, because of junk like this. It's a shame and horse-feathers that imports like this get more attention when, say, the majority of the literary-based Nippon anime series in World Masterpiece Theater has never been brought to home media release, at least with English subtitles in the U.S., let alone receive an English dub (preferably flawless). What the horse-feathers is up with that mess? Anyway, not recommended. Find it to be a mind-numbing waste of time.
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