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Neo Yokio, or Jaden Smith Does Anime

Okay, I was first introduced to this by some random news alert on my phone, specifically calling it as a parody, which is what I assumed it was. Is this damn thing actually taking itself seriously? Are we witnessing the arrival of the anime version of The Room?
 
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Given there's no writers or directors credited, I'm pretty sure this is just Jaden Smith's passion project. It's blatantly a self-insert fantasy for him, especially given the love interests are played by models instead of actors.
 
Gitaxian said:
Given there's no writers or directors credited, I'm pretty sure this is just Jaden Smith's passion project. It's blatantly a self-insert fantasy for him, especially given the love interests are played by models instead of actors.
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Wait, how in the hell did he get this together? I thought he was some two-bit actor.
 
Yeah he probably got this made via daddy's money. And possibly Jaden saying that if the costars worked with him then they may meet Will Smith.
 
Gitaxian said:
Given there's no writers or directors credited, I'm pretty sure this is just Jaden Smith's passion project. It's blatantly a self-insert fantasy for him, especially given the love interests are played by models instead of actors.
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Itgotworse 26 said:
Wait, how in the hell did he get this together? I thought he was some two-bit actor.
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Daniel Estacado said:
Yeah he probably got this made via daddy's money. And possibly Jaden saying that if the costars worked with him then they may meet Will Smith.
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Can you people get a grip?

Jaden Smith has been in a handful of productions, it's a little early in his career to call him one way or another. This thing is pretty explicitly Ezra Koenig's project.

It's pretty weird how grown ass men are obsessed with tearing down this fairly inoffensive kid.

And if Neo Yokio is as bad as reported, it probably won't be Jaden Smith's fault either.
 
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Teocraso said:
Can you people get a grip?

Jaden Smith has been in a handful of productions, it's a little early in his career to call him one way or another. This thing is pretty explicitly Ezra Koenig's project.

It's pretty weird how obsessed grown ass men are with tearing down this fairly inoffensive kid.

And if Neo Yokio is as bad as reported, it probably won't be Jaden Smith's fault either.
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I was making a joke.
 
Teocraso said:
Can you people get a grip?

Jaden Smith has been in a handful of productions, it's a little early in his career to call him one way or another. This thing is pretty explicitly Ezra Koenig's project.

It's pretty weird how obsessed grown ass men are with tearing down this fairly inoffensive kid.

And if Neo Yokio is as bad as reported, it probably won't be Jaden Smith's fault either.
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I wasn't aware of that. From the way people were talking about the dialogue sounding like his Twitter, I assumed Jaden had a bigger role in things.

Either way, it's still basically what would happen if you gave someone who writes shitty wish fulfillment fanfics a budget and let them make what they want.
 
I don't now what you're all whining about. I've just watched the first episode and it's the funniest shit I've ever seen, it's fantastic.

"The prime minister of chanel", "thank you sales clerk" etc etc. They're all completely oblivious rich assholes.

"It's always darkest before the dawn, sir", says the robot butler, after Kaz's ranking dropped from being the second to only the seventh most eligible bachelor in neo yokio. "Shall we get you a giant toblerone?"

Literally he goes up to the top of a skyscraper to put flowers on his own grave, which he designed himself, and then lectures an old man that the purfume he's spraying on his wife's grave is outdated. The whole thing is a blatant pisstake.
 
Daniel Estacado said:
Yeah he probably got this made via daddy's money. And possibly Jaden saying that if the costars worked with him then they may meet Will Smith.
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Jaden also is seen as having a lot of star power with people his age, which is still seen as a very desirable demo. Granted, a lot if not most of that rubs off his dad but I wouldn't be surprised if someone came up to him and said, hey, you're hip with the kids, wanna make an anime since anime is hip with kids?

Also, umm...what exactly is, like...the plot of this? What's specifically bad about it? I know some links have been posted but actual opinions here seem to be limited to blurb quotes.
 
Having watched the first three episodes: there's clearly going to be an overarching plot of some kind, but it's primarily a comedy series.

It's like... It's Only Sunny in Philadelphia, except set amongst the mega-rich and combined with some wacky anime shit. The protagonist has angst because he's not "old money" enough (in spite of being from an immensely wealthy family & throwing away cartier watches like they're used tissues).

He's a demon-hunter; the first episode has him exorcising "the greatest fashion blogger of our age". The second episode has a demon possessing Damien Hurst's "For the Love of God" promising to make the Metropolitan Museum "Run red with the blood of the bourgeoisie" and features a subplot about him worrying over his tuxedo being midnight blue rather than black.

If you like the comedy genre of anti-humour about conceited dickheads then you'll like this, basically.
 
I watched the whole thing and while I like parts of it I just gotta give a heads up that episode 4 is like...super uncomfortable and transphobic/lesbianphobic

So just a heads up I guess
 
Based on the impressions of objectification the trailer alone gives...it would be extremely disingenuous for me to claim that I feel shocked.
 
Okay, I'm pretty sure the supposed "badness" of the show is intentional -- if it comes off as stiff and absurd and just plain dumb, that's part of the joke. The problem is that you have to find stiffness, absurdity, and "THIS IS STUPID" funny in order to get the joke.

If you're not a big fan of, say, Wes Anderson movies (and I'm not), then you're really not going to like this.
 
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