Idk how I’ve missed this before now but this is probably my favorite ninjago animation I’ve ever seen… I actually wanna cry, Kai and Lloyd are my favorites and they’ve really come so far over the last 14 years…. they’re brothers your honor 🥹❤️💚
Long time fan of the Crane Wives and HOLY CRAP. This fits so damn well with kai?! I love when you referenced kai's resentment at not being the green ninja, that was masterful, and the quality of the blood! it looks so gross and visceral! Amazing work!
I love thinking about Kai as a character. I especially love thinking about How the fandom has captured Kai's psychology as a character, More specifically how he tackles his emotions and as we figured out his upbringing how that changed. From what I remember when I first started watching and getting into the fandom (I was like 12) Kai was depicted as a pretty goofy an unserious character, overly confident, cocky, and a bit self-centered. And while You can still totally see a lot of those traits in his depiction as a character in the fandom now It's also accompanied with other thing too, in a lot of media he's depicted as protective but one of my favorite traits that the fandom has chosen for him is his violence It's not all the time you find a character who's really known for being violent within the fandom usually it's watered down and I love that you embrace that in this animatic is violence and self-consciousness and other things *(Sorry if a lot of this doesn't make sense I'm currently sleep deprived while writing it and I'm doing the equivalent of talking to a brick wall right now cuz like deep down I know I will not be coming back to edit it So like Oof ig-)*
I absolutley love your Kai design, itself so good with the eyes and the pointy ears! Each panel is so beautiful and I love how it fits him. The bones and eyss glowing are so good and I am in awe of how well detailed this is. I paused on seeing the white rose because it's just so pretty, and literally gasped at the "heart in their teeth" bit because HELLO!?!?!? I've watched this about 3 times and I just noticed the word "break" in "give me something to break with my fists" looks broken. That's so cool!!!! The way the lyrics are written in general is so good with their placement. I especially love how the roots of the weed break up the lyrics at 2:10.
HOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHIT /POS AHHHHHHHHHH THE CRANE WIVES MENTIONED AND IT'S A NINJAGO KAI ANIMATIC???? WITH SUCH GORGEOUS ART TOO???? HOW DARE UA-cam HIDE THIS FROM ME FOR SO LONG OH MY GODS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THIS IS SO GOOD IT HAS ME ITCHING TO REDRAW SOME FRAMES BECAUSE THIS IS LITERALLY BREATHTAKING OHH MY GODSSS KAI THE WAY THAT YOU ARE (◉-◉)
All scenes where you can see Kai's bones/under his skin bc he's glowing 0:34 0:40 2:26 2:30 Honorable mentions: Scene where Kai is stabbed- 0:55 Shot of heart in mouth- 1:04 Gorged out eye- 1:14 Fire- 2:23 ending scenes- 3:08 Glowing eyes 3:35 God I wish I could watch this for the first time again
I’ve watched this… so many times. It’s so genuinely incredible. I love all the details like Lloyd’s eye color changing depending on the era, the symbolism with the butterflies, all the nods to so many eras of the show. The art is genuinely gorgeous, the colors are beautiful. The brother dynamic between these 2 is what sucked me into this franchise, and just seeing this perfectly encapsulates why they’re one of the best parts of Ninjago. Just seeing their growth over the years in this…. I cannot say enough good things about this. Perfectly encapsulates Kai’s arc in becoming Lloyd’s protector. Perfectly shows Lloyd as he grows up throughout the franchise. Perfectly emphasizes the layers of their bond. Can’t stop watching, some of my favorite Ninjago fan content I’ve ever seen if not my favorite.
THE CRANE WIVES AND NINJAGO EXCUSE ME????? HOW AM I ONLY JUST FINDING THIS IS INSANE SFSGSGDH IT'S SO HIM!!! I LOVE the way you've given all of the metaphors physical forms!!! He looks so UNHINGED THIS IS AMAZING!!!!
I was literally just imagining an animatic to this song for another character in a different series (Skizz), and then this comes up in my recommended. Awesome!
1:23 I've always wanted to read a fic or animation where he first gets his scar, I feel someone could put so much angst- (I love this so much, more people need to see this 😭)
Season 4, Tournament of Elements. While hold Chen's staff Kai lost all sense of self control and let out all of his rage and jealousy almost killing Lloyd.
Everytime this video shows itself to me, I click it without fail, thank you YT for showing me this over and over, I didn’t know I needed to see this side of the fandom but I am so glad I did
OH MY GOODNESS THIS IS AMAZING AND SO SO INCREDIBLY UNDERRATED DUDE DEF DESERVES MORE LOVE (also please add a gore warning stuff like that makes people a bit uncomfortable so please always add warnings/nm)
I'm not crying, you are crying. (also OMG THIS IS A HUGE WORK OF ART)
Damn, i love the angst 🥲 (No idea if it is, but i love it-)
Kai's eyebrow thingy tho where is it
Idk how I’ve missed this before now but this is probably my favorite ninjago animation I’ve ever seen… I actually wanna cry, Kai and Lloyd are my favorites and they’ve really come so far over the last 14 years…. they’re brothers your honor 🥹❤️💚
Sutch a bueterful art style!!!!
Eu amei muito detalista maneiro demais isso mostra a amizade deles o quanto durou até o kai ser levado pelo portal 😢
Long time fan of the Crane Wives and HOLY CRAP. This fits so damn well with kai?! I love when you referenced kai's resentment at not being the green ninja, that was masterful, and the quality of the blood! it looks so gross and visceral! Amazing work!
I love thinking about Kai as a character. I especially love thinking about How the fandom has captured Kai's psychology as a character, More specifically how he tackles his emotions and as we figured out his upbringing how that changed. From what I remember when I first started watching and getting into the fandom (I was like 12) Kai was depicted as a pretty goofy an unserious character, overly confident, cocky, and a bit self-centered. And while You can still totally see a lot of those traits in his depiction as a character in the fandom now It's also accompanied with other thing too, in a lot of media he's depicted as protective but one of my favorite traits that the fandom has chosen for him is his violence It's not all the time you find a character who's really known for being violent within the fandom usually it's watered down and I love that you embrace that in this animatic is violence and self-consciousness and other things *(Sorry if a lot of this doesn't make sense I'm currently sleep deprived while writing it and I'm doing the equivalent of talking to a brick wall right now cuz like deep down I know I will not be coming back to edit it So like Oof ig-)*
The amount of times I've watched this
I absolutley love your Kai design, itself so good with the eyes and the pointy ears! Each panel is so beautiful and I love how it fits him. The bones and eyss glowing are so good and I am in awe of how well detailed this is. I paused on seeing the white rose because it's just so pretty, and literally gasped at the "heart in their teeth" bit because HELLO!?!?!? I've watched this about 3 times and I just noticed the word "break" in "give me something to break with my fists" looks broken. That's so cool!!!! The way the lyrics are written in general is so good with their placement. I especially love how the roots of the weed break up the lyrics at 2:10.
Kai is BEST BIG BROTHER ✨❤✨ also, brUh, I was already to cry before the end and those last 2 images broke the dam ✨❤🥺😭😭💚✨
HOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHIT /POS AHHHHHHHHHH THE CRANE WIVES MENTIONED AND IT'S A NINJAGO KAI ANIMATIC???? WITH SUCH GORGEOUS ART TOO???? HOW DARE UA-cam HIDE THIS FROM ME FOR SO LONG OH MY GODS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THIS IS SO GOOD IT HAS ME ITCHING TO REDRAW SOME FRAMES BECAUSE THIS IS LITERALLY BREATHTAKING OHH MY GODSSS KAI THE WAY THAT YOU ARE (◉-◉)
The level of detail is incredible!
This is perfection at it’s finest
I just would like to say this video is amazing. you should get a lot more credit for this amazing video.
All scenes where you can see Kai's bones/under his skin bc he's glowing 0:34 0:40 2:26 2:30 Honorable mentions: Scene where Kai is stabbed- 0:55 Shot of heart in mouth- 1:04 Gorged out eye- 1:14 Fire- 2:23 ending scenes- 3:08 Glowing eyes 3:35 God I wish I could watch this for the first time again
0:34 hey so this scene, I've been thinking about it for months, the glowing scratches an inch in my brain
Bro 4:01 gonna make me cry, the hug is to real Kia is the best big bro to lloyd
I’ve watched this… so many times. It’s so genuinely incredible. I love all the details like Lloyd’s eye color changing depending on the era, the symbolism with the butterflies, all the nods to so many eras of the show. The art is genuinely gorgeous, the colors are beautiful. The brother dynamic between these 2 is what sucked me into this franchise, and just seeing this perfectly encapsulates why they’re one of the best parts of Ninjago. Just seeing their growth over the years in this…. I cannot say enough good things about this. Perfectly encapsulates Kai’s arc in becoming Lloyd’s protector. Perfectly shows Lloyd as he grows up throughout the franchise. Perfectly emphasizes the layers of their bond. Can’t stop watching, some of my favorite Ninjago fan content I’ve ever seen if not my favorite.
I had no clue the ninjago fandom was still going this strong, I haven't thought about this franchise since they made the video game
Live laugh love Kai from Ninjago (This animation is simply 👌👌)
It's been a hot minute since I got emotional over legos but the volcano scene broke me
The sibling bond is SO CUTE I SWEAR
I love your text placement on the panels, it really makes the illustrations hit that much more!
Something tells me you would like Shadow Slave
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I LOVE THIS SONG OMGGGG
Istg your animatics are amazing but you only have 3 😭😭
I literally cried this is the sweetest This thing i've ever seen
I love that wild look in his eyes, almost like he has a bit of dragon in his blood. Love that detail you gave him
THE CRANE WIVES AND NINJAGO EXCUSE ME????? HOW AM I ONLY JUST FINDING THIS IS INSANE SFSGSGDH IT'S SO HIM!!! I LOVE the way you've given all of the metaphors physical forms!!! He looks so UNHINGED THIS IS AMAZING!!!!
I was literally just imagining an animatic to this song for another character in a different series (Skizz), and then this comes up in my recommended. Awesome!
1:23 I've always wanted to read a fic or animation where he first gets his scar, I feel someone could put so much angst- (I love this so much, more people need to see this 😭)
I like so much that at the beginning, when they train, a red butterfly and a caterpillar are painted. Like Lloyd has spread his wings yet
This is so goood!!! I've always loved Kai and Lloyd's dynamic!
I love how you draw Kai's eyes !
His swords have Kai on them in ninjargon(ninjago language)!
Incredible art, geez loosie, wow! ❤
This looks so cool! Genuine question: when was Kai evil? I haven’t watched ninjago in a while 😭
Season 4, Tournament of Elements. While hold Chen's staff Kai lost all sense of self control and let out all of his rage and jealousy almost killing Lloyd.
@@JulesBarcona oh I remember that! Thanks!
I love this
Bro this deserves way more views than 11k 😭
Everytime this video shows itself to me, I click it without fail, thank you YT for showing me this over and over, I didn’t know I needed to see this side of the fandom but I am so glad I did
This is the most perfect thing I’ve ever seen in my whole entire life❤❤❤❤❤❤
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ngl they kinda adorable
OH MY GOODNESS THIS IS AMAZING AND SO SO INCREDIBLY UNDERRATED DUDE DEF DESERVES MORE LOVE (also please add a gore warning stuff like that makes people a bit uncomfortable so please always add warnings/nm)
Bro I love this too much 😭😭🔥✨
I absolutely adore big brother Kai! It’s so freaking cute!!!
Incredible art! Love the song choice, and the imagery!
AAAAAHHHHHH yes