Ah, Ralph Bakshi, where do I even begin?
He shocked the nation with his sexy, violent, and (more often than not) racist cartoons -- always breaking down and rebuilding the boundaries and conventions of animation. His distinct style could be felt in everything he directed, be it an animated short or a feature film; it was a strange visual je ne sais quoi that perturbed as much as it titillated. Then in the mid-90's, Mr. Bakshi just sort of...dropped off the face of the earth.
This video is an episode from his short-lived "Spicy City" tv series, his last animation project as far as I'm aware. The look of this postapocalyptic world is so anachronistic that it borders on absurd, but the story more than compensates for any conceptual sci-fi failings.
There are so many philosophical questions that arise from this 23 minute cartoon.
One question in particular weighs especially heavy on mein mind.
Why in the name of all that is holy did they have to animate her freaking NIPPLES?!
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