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Elemenstor: 2666 A.D.
The first appearance of Earth B. This series took place in the far flung future of the world described in Wizbits: Elemenstor High.
The general idea behind this show was to take a wildly popular franchise and ship it off to an animation mill in Korea, where individual episodes would cost roughly US$37 to produce. A strong marketing hype billed it as the next "Star Trek: Voyager", and it developed quite a buzz on the internet. Sadly, the show failed to deliver anything but disappointment and pain.
Aside from an animation style that could only be described as "unnecessarily-exaggerated-japanimation" the show also suffered from poor and often downright confusing writing. A series that is largely centered on bringing to life wooden furniture should not be based as a futuristic interstellar adventure.
There was also the matter of the translation of the episodes. With even the most poorly rated translators working for US$6 an hour it is unsure how the production was able to afford one, given the episode’s low cost. Rumor has it that they had an intern translate all the scripts using a knock-off pocket translator. Evidence of this can be seen in various nonsensical lines that appear in each episode. Here are some examples:
Athei: My heavens that was a close one! Do you still have all your parts about you?
Ictog: I am the producer of this show. I molest tropical fruit.
Athei: Excellent. We best keep moving, that blast hit them square in the face.
Urionk: By the binary-stars! That cleaved his head right off.
Ortyra: Please help me, I am trapped in a basement in Korea. Please alert the authorities.
Urionk: No, you are right, we best burn the body before it has a chance to recover.
The voice acting was another weak point of the series. Almost every character is voiced by different people throughout the series, including some who change mid-episode. In an interview one of the producers reveals that they had a hard time retaining people from episode to episode, to the point where on the last episode they just used a computer based voice simulator and changed its pitch for the different characters.
While over 100 episodes were created in the initial 4 weeks of production, only 3 and a half saw the light of day before the show was abruptly canceled mid-episode. There are several opposing theories as to why the show was canceled so suddenly, the prevailing one being that the show received an unprecedented number of complaints due to the fact that each episode was a half hour blood-bath. This probably could have been avoided had the producers chose an airing time that wasn't in-between Dora the Explorer and Blue's Clues.
There are currently several online petitions calling for the release of all 100 episodes on DVD, but they have failed to obtain more than a dozen signatures total.
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