Purple
(She/Her)
I just randomly mentioned this in another thread, but I just kinda realized I've never really hyped up this one pretty freaking rad musical duo from Mexico that makes real catchy songs about various gods (and sometimes folk tales and sometimes comic book characters) which also come with really delightful music videos with great character designs and background references to various anime series and videogames. For whatever reason they have a split youtube presence between this channel that generally has all their stuff, and this channel that mostly focuses on the god songs, and it seems pretty random if a given thing shows up on one the other or both.
There is of course the slight catch that all their songs are in Spanish, but generally speaking you get get mostly passable subtitles if you hit the little closed captioning button and fiddle with settings to select English. And at some point someone started up a mirror channel baking actual decent subtitles in for them, but it's quite a bit behind.
The songs tend to be pretty damn catchy and cover a wide range of genres, and they are pretty consistently good at doing real solid mythological deep dives getting into some real obscure details I tend never to have heard previously. They're also particularly fond of highlighting how all these various gods and mythological figures are pretty damn queer and will happily, say, quickly rattle off the 50 or so guys that Hercules canonically banged at one point of another, or the time Zeus impersonated Artemis to knock up her girlfriend.
A few of my favorites of theirs include...
Nobody ever really talks about Hestia but honestly she's pretty rad and this video totally sells me on how I'd totally watch an animated series about her magical girl adventures.
Everyone's favorite gay himbo, Gilgamesh!
Freya who got a pretty raw deal in general but kinda comes out way ahead on the whole Ragnarok thing.
And hey, everyone's way into Hades these days, right?
But yeah, generally all of these are pretty great. And I really love all the character designs.
There is of course the slight catch that all their songs are in Spanish, but generally speaking you get get mostly passable subtitles if you hit the little closed captioning button and fiddle with settings to select English. And at some point someone started up a mirror channel baking actual decent subtitles in for them, but it's quite a bit behind.
The songs tend to be pretty damn catchy and cover a wide range of genres, and they are pretty consistently good at doing real solid mythological deep dives getting into some real obscure details I tend never to have heard previously. They're also particularly fond of highlighting how all these various gods and mythological figures are pretty damn queer and will happily, say, quickly rattle off the 50 or so guys that Hercules canonically banged at one point of another, or the time Zeus impersonated Artemis to knock up her girlfriend.
A few of my favorites of theirs include...
But yeah, generally all of these are pretty great. And I really love all the character designs.