This is great. CN is picking it up because it's the best thing to fall in their laps in over a decade and they can't pass it up. I hope they don't ruin it.
First and foremost, the animation is good. Gestures, faces, multiple people moving at once, multiple perspectives, everything is perfectly fluid and everything is constantly in motion. The quality is up there with the best of full-length movie productions.
Lots of love and effort went into this. Even the background characters are well designed. The artists drew a lot of high quality static images that they insert as background paintings, posters, or slideshows. It works well.
There is good chemistry between the characters. Demencia's over-the-top nuttiness carries the show just like her superhuman strength and agility carries the team. Without her, the show would just be Flug snarking off. Good, but not great. Flug is the heart, the glue, he throws the pitch and the others hit home runs. 505's quiet innocence is a good contrast to Demencia's wackiness and Black Hat's villainry.
The characters' emotions shine through, both the main characters and the minor characters. They are all very expressive in understandably human ways. Or devilish ways, in Black Hat's case. This is one of the things that makes the show great.
The cameos work. They don't seem forced, they seem like they were added because the writers love the other shows and wanted to make references to them.
Can anyone ID the defendants in the dock next to Frankie Foster?
>>19746 Is the blue guy supposed to be Totoro?
>>19753
> Is that a touhou reference?
The big anime eyes clinch it for me. The other ghosts don't have eyes like that. I bet it's a style reference where they take elements from several different 2hus and merged them into a new character. Yuyuko's a ghost girl who wears a robe, Byaruken's multipiece dress opens in front like that, the hat looks like Koishi's, and the hair looks like the SWR sprite of Tenshi who wears a similar hat. Then they gave their new character a background as a human girl. I bet they didn't think that hard about it and just made a 2hu-style girl with whatever concepts came to mind at the moment.
Are the other ghosts
>>19728 also references? Casper is obvious. The doll is The Living Doll from the Twilight Zone. Some of the others seem to be drawn to some model.