AO "Between Moments" page 25
Posted June 27, 2025 at 2:13 pm

Which do you think is more compelling, Hero Punch, or Princess Robots? I like the gritty street level dynamics of Hero Punch, but I think Princess Robots has a certain flair to it, in spite of the overtly magical undertones. The themes about "power is both necessary and corrupting" and "losing more than you gain" are subtle but constant, and I really enjoy that so much of the world is left open to interpretation.

-The Snow Queen


I um. They are both children's cartoons, right? Are we sure that the creators were thinking of those themes? I haven't watched as much as you, but it sometimes felt like the creators were just going with whatever looked cool. Did they even intend all that?

-Kay


I think that if season 2 had been made of Hero Punch, we would have seen them expand on how "evil" is much more subjective than most people believe, and that we must look at intention as much as execution. How perhaps the greatest "evil" is to do nothing and let the world fall inevitably into the hands of those that wish to do nothing more than feed upon it.

-The Snow Queen


Uh. Possibly? Is that the one with the guy in the costume that ends up punching himself or something?

-Kay


However, I find myself reflecting often upon how in Princess Robots the Robot Princesses understand that they are no longer what they were but still fight for the memory of what they used to believe. The question of if that is noble or not is profound, I believe. Do we fight on tirelessly even for a concept we no longer feel, holding onto our conviction of what was, rather than what is?

-The Snow Queen


I. Ah. Want to watch that sitcom with the people in the apartment again? I think that got a few laughs out of me? Maybe?

-Kay


Yes!! Oh that one really speaks to the sublime beauty in enprisonist storytelling!

-The Snow Queen

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