So for me it wasn’t off-brand to be sitting there and enjoying this cartoon.” I still watched Saturday morning cartoons at that age. After school I’d come home and this was on and maybe I was a little bit older than I should have been for enjoying that show, but I loved animation. So you didn’t have a plethora of choices. I was born in 1970, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was on in the early ’80s. “I’d been a massive Star Wars fan… my interactivity with Masters of the Universe wasn’t the toys as much as it was the cartoon, which I watched literally every episode of. “When I was watching I was about 11 or 12 years old,” Smith recalls.
Series creator and executive producer Kevin Smith recently told Den of Geek about his own experiences with the world of He-Man and the MoTU franchise growing up.
It’s all coming from a place of love for the franchise and expertise in its complicated history. Netflix’s Masters of the Universe: Revelation, on the other hand, has the stated purpose of being a direct sequel to the original animated series, Filmation’s He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, and both that mission statement and the faithful character designs make it clear this new series has old school fans in mind. She-Ra prided itself on subverting expectations, from the character designs and animation style to its studied unwillingness to ride on He-Man’s coattails and its wonderful commitment to representation and diversity. And ol’ Prince Adam has been upstaged by his twin sister Adora, recently the subject of Netflix’s excellent She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, arguably the best adaptation of elements of the MoTU world to ever hit the screen.
#REVELATION ONLINE ANIME CREATION MOVIE#
There have been endless attempts to get a new live-action movie out of the gate over the last decade or more. He-Man himself hasn’t had an animated series of his own since an excellent 2002 reboot stalled after two seasons. For a brand as beloved as Masters of the Universe, the franchise sure seems to have fallen on tough times lately.