We've come to the end of Digital Week and sadly I've not finished Log Horizon in time to review it, but no matter. This innovative cartoon more than makes up for it as we look at Reboot.
Now the opening Narration is better at explaining this show than me so here's the low down for you.
"I come from the Net. Through systems, people, and cities, to this place - Mainframe. My format, Guardian: To mend and defend. To defend my new found friends, their hopes and dreams, and to defend them from their enemies. They say The User lives outside the Net and inputs games for pleasure. No one knows for sure, but I intend to find out. ReBoot!"
Long story short we follow the life of Bob, a Guardian for the world of Mainframe, who along with, mentor Phong and friends Dot Matrix and her irritating brother, fight to protect Mainframe from the evils of Megabyte, a relatively simple plot but what really gives this series the edge is that this is the first ever full CGI cartoon ever made.
While it does look horribly dated now it was also CGI's infancy and no one expected to see it go anywhere, but then when Toy Story came along a year later it was a big enough phenomenon that it's the go to format for animated movies now. However on a TV level Reboot was more than just an early CGI mess of green people, as it was well backed up by a good story and exceptional voice work, something more important than getting the CGI to look nice.
If it wasn't for the fact that this was the first CGI cartoon, it would've been ridiculed for it's animation but as it stands now, it's a piece of archived history and while there has been talk of a revival, I don't think it needs one as they got it right first time.
