Shakashuri Blowdown

Season 1

Xavier: Renegade Angel

Season 2

Vibracaust

Created by Vernon Chatman and John Lee for Adult Swim, we have a very surreal, very unhinged, and very adult CG animated series following Xavier, a bizarre man-creature thing wandering the earth in search of wisdom and true meaning. With a beak for a nose, a snake for a left arm, and covered in fur, the animation is very early 2000s CG, almost deliberately bad close to uncanny. The voice acting is fine but heavily leans on the lead Xavier's monologues and musings, also voiced by Chatman, as he makes constant bad puns and non-sequiturs . For those that have seen the twos' previous work for Adult Swim Wonder Showzen, most will expect the very crude, absurdist jokes, however even I was surprised how surreal, almost nonsensical this was. I don't know if I didn't quite get the meta-commentary but the humour certainly just didn't land for me. I may have laughed once over its run and breathed out my nose heavily a few times, but spent the majority of the time gazing skeptically at what I was watching. Seen as a bit of a grail in the physical media collecting world, the show has some cult following, which I can understand I guess but just isn't for me. If you love other Adult Swim series of the era, the likes of Wonder Showzen, 12oz Mouse, Frisky Dingo, etc certainly check it out, at two seasons of 10 minute episodes its fairly short.

Animation

Comedy

Adult Swim

Follows the humorous musings of an itinerant humanoid pseudo-shaman and spiritual seeker named Xavier.