Review of Pop Team Epic

Pop Team Epic is not art. It may be anime, if only in the most literal of definitions, but it is not art. It cannot be art. Art is a creative process, and there is nothing creative about Pop Team Epic. It is an amalgam of references strewn about in the most banal of ways. Skyrim exists. Totoro exists. Pokémon exists. That is all Pop Team Epic has to say. It just reminds you that better media exists, but in ways that are disrespectful and offensive to the time of the unfortunate viewer. Pop Team Epic is a dreadful product. It is anti-art. It is anti-comedy.It is a middle finger to those who produce art because Pop Team Epic is devoid of creativity, vision, and passion; or to put it simply, something that is not art but wishes it was, and so instead it has to violently lash out towards.

The artwork and animation quality is awful. It is a poor adaptation of the source material, as the production staff was so obviously unaware of the differences between print and animated mediums. The sound is exceptionally poor. Normally a production like this would not be given the OK, but in the case of Pop Team Epic, it was allowed to pass because it was not a serious artistic product, but a way to sell merchandise to easily manipulated consumers through viral 24 minute commercials under the guise of of art.