The character designs are all visually striking, with exaggerated facial features presented at extreme angles, and every person clearly delineated from one another, no matter their background or how prominent they are in the story. And the fight scenes — of which there are thankfully many — are fluid, clear, and thrilling.
This anthology series tells stories of Wakandan secret service members who are sent on missions to the outside world in order to collect technological artifacts that could reveal the existence of their homeland. The animation is high quality, as is the writing. I hope they make another season.
’Eyes of Wakanda’ is a short 4-episode limited series that takes you through Wakanda’s influence throughout time. The animation is smooth and looks great on screen while the voice actors do a good job of bringing the characters to life. It does enough to present a semi-interesting story, but in the end the short running time doesn’t help to fully hook you and leaves you wondering if you’d ever come back to revisit after the first watch. ‘Eyes of Wakanda’ is worth that initial watch for what it presents, but left us feeling like we wanted to see a bit more with more connections between each episode to make it feel like everything had a bit more weight and importance to it. Brad: 7.5
Josh: 7 Full Review: ****/@wellbringthepopcorn
Director/executive producer Todd Harris emphasizes the action and does it with style to spare for each of these exciting, briskly told tales united by the actions of a secret Wakanda group called the Hatut Zaraze.
The first and last episodes are the strongest, while the middle two are less memorable. But even the weaker episodes are a pleasure to look at, thanks to their vibrant colors, luminous production design, and rich art direction.
There are nice nods to other aspects of Marvel at large, and the series wraps up neatly in episode 4. However, Eyes of Wakanda is in no way required viewing for the MCU.
In an era where Marvel projects are routinely dinged for being too long, here’s one that’s not long enough — that’s over just as it feels like it’s finding its rhythm. That may not be the worst problem, but it does mean this debut season plays more like a prologue than the next great chapter of the MCU.
Why do these people always have to try and **** on other myths/properties to promote their own? Achilles needs help from Wakanda? Seriously? Then again, the whole set promoted the idea that even black men with superpowers needed women to guide them. Hell one of them was even Japanese. They can't even get their DEI messaging right. Honestly, I wasn't going to like this because I find nothing compelling about Wakanda or Black Panther. How can you get behind a country that allows their neighbors to suffer in endless civil wars and a slave past just to protect your jiggly metal resources? Wakanda ****.
No one asked for this show to be made. Even by itself it feels like an Ad for future Marvel TV Shows & Films. Plus it doesn't even feels like it's part of the MCU cinematic universe, but instead an alternative reality that most fans stay away from located in Universe 999999999.
Their treatment of the battle of Troy was absolutely a violation of other cultures history. To the akin of casting the holocaust as a fight to benefit the needy in Germany. I am disgusted and horrified that this would even considered an investment opportunity for any company. People complain about whitewashing and black face, yet let this abhorration of a cinematic device see the light of day is deplorable. It is so bad I literally made an account to give this abortion of a mini-series a negative review I enjoyed reading The Odyssey in high school. I enjoyed reading greek and roman mythology (as well as many other world mythologies, from native american, to scandinavian, to african, to egyptian, to various asian cultures (indian, chinese, japanese, etc). To see a mythology so baselessly **** of its origins is just horrible. Defending this as free speech would be akin to defending the KKK and their viewpoints.