I get the feeling the hazmath suits would only provide temporaty protection given how the fuzzballs managed to borrow throught clothing and affect the skin below without trouble. Everything on that planet is well able to ignore most protections.
@@TechnoticPlate my fair guess is that given the nature of the company it's likely that the ship is not equipped with many suits, probably relying on drones for work in zero-g and lack of atmosphere areas
The puffball monster is a really ingenious monster design. The puff balls are localized numbing agents, with enough of them on a limb making it difficult to move the body part. The monster itself knows that the prey cannot escape, so it slowly wakes up and meanders towards the immobilized prey. It doesn't need multiple methods of attack since it doesn't need to fight, just one singular armour piercing fang does the trick. It has 6 flat feet to navigate bumpy terrain easily, thin legs to better meld to the body. Long flat tail to make the creature blend into the environment better. I love its whole shebang. Quality stuff
You have a lot of issues with the idea that such a complicated system could evolve. I understand that on a really old planet with life that's been around for a long time maybe something overly complex could develop but this is well beyond chance
@@RediTtora-sx1hb bruh, it's basically a living mushroom, or maybe, something akin to a parasect - yes, the pokemon. Two things merge to become one, but the being is actually the fungus controling a body and not only looking for nutrients, but for something else to infect. So, insectoid, spores, not a single care but to get the next target. Yep, sounds like cordyceps or whatever it's called.
@@RediTtora-sx1hb Nah, I saw one too many documentaries about it. The thing is very real - if it infects cicada for example, makes males act like females to mate with uninfected males and spread more. When there's not much more than the minimal for movement left in the bug's carcass, it climbs as much as it can to let the fungus take fruit, or grow the outside part and release even more spores. I'm not saying the thing in the video is a cordyceps, that's an alien, but numbing spores? Yeah, sounds fungal enough to me.
It's awesome how they show the yellow fungi on its circuits might be responsible for the robot self awareness. Like it's litteraly growing an organic nervous system inside it thus developing a bottom up intelligence on top of its programming. High quality sci fi here, no joke
I mean , is not so much sci-fi since mycelium + circuit boards result in wetware which is something that exist irl thought experimental , so fungi growing in the circuit board and changing the programming isn't that far-fetched
Moral of the story, if your robot starts gaining sentience in a strange planet don't be a dick and turn it off. Also probably a good idea to start kissing what ever passes for it's ass.
In her defense she literally has never seen this before. I feel like any sane person would like to make sure their only lifeline on an alien world is functioning properly. Their relationship improves way more after this though
Have you ever watched the movie The Burrowers? Kind of the same concept, the creatures only come out at night, they attack and immobilize/paralyze you with some kind of neurotoxin, and then bury you under the ground so only your nose or mouth are above ground so you can still breathe. And then they come back and feed on you. However you are still conscious and Alive the entire time while they are feeding on you... you just can't move or do anything about it. Now that is utterly horrifying!
Did you know that there is something in real world that is basically a horror movie There is an insect that is colored emerald or smth it stings roaches to hypnotize them or smth then it cuts off the antenna to taste the liquid in it puts it in its burrow lays eggs on it the eggs hatch and burrow inside the roach avoiding the organs so it doesnt die then uses it as a cocoon or smth so when it finally grows it just gets out of the roach I like those dudes tho because i hate roaches
Scavengers reign seems like a combination of the wilderness of rain world and how the environment isn’t just you, and how everything has a use, like in scorn
@notchedbandit there is alot of substance actually. The story is good in my opinion with multiple plot lines intersecting that hold a variety of characters. Some of which are polar opposites. Also entirely new sci-fi concepts.
One of the best series I've encountered in a long time. I literally just finished watching season 1 EP 12. Great story amazing art. If you're into exobiology this will blow you away, the creatures & how that world works is so imaginative.
I was about to go on gushing over the creatures, (and i am) like that puffball bug i loved its whole thing with the proboscis and paralyzing puffballs. But them the robot scene, great first impression of the robot, i did not know if it was sentient or not but then i was introduced to a really emotion filled statement about turning them off, i was completely caught off guard.
In the show, the robot (Levi) is shown to, at the very least, have a personality before this scene. Levi, immediately after this scene, asks Ozzy (the girl who's getting puffball'd) to not turn her off again, as "it stops them from seeing, thinking, or feeling." The puffball bug is really cool though.
So does that creature just essentially create abunch of floating Nerve agents that immobolize nearby prey, or even possibly lives symbiolically with a plant/fungi?
There’s no sign of the creature after levi punches it so either he punched it so hard that it exited stage left or exploded into the paralysis fluffs. Maybe the bug is immune and collects them or maybe they’re like fungus spores and levi just contributed to the growth of more these creatures. It could go any way, I think part of why this show is so incredible is that these organisms are at times beyond human understanding.
The monster just uses the ecosystem to it's advantage. It's a beetle, so with a hard external carapace I doubt it's affected by the spores and instead just benefits off of the paralysed soft bodied animals that wonder too close.
Good catch, I wondered if it was some sort of nerve killer! Trying to figure out what’s happening in real time as this thing meanders it’s murderous fang towards you- yikes!!
0:21 wait, so... those balls embed themeslves into her body and she can't tear them off. I think the larger creature at 1:15 (whose body is seemingly composed of the balls) uses them as a way to immobilize prey. Hoowever, since its body ismade out of the same material, would it be detaching its own body parts to search for food? Maybe it's like a siphonophore - a huge colony of singular organisms arranged around a core, who work together as a single entity? 2:44 Also, i love the way these helicopter-dragonfly thingies look.
The best part of this series for me is just how different the lifeforms are. It takes all our preconceived notions of what attributes we associate with living organisms and either alters them drastically or throws them out entirely. I'm not a biologist but for me it seems way more realistic and logical that that life and evolution ofn alien planets would be nearly unrecognizable
I think it just produces the puff balls, which aren't creatures (more like clumps of fur or spores) letting them stick to its back, and gradually allows them to detach / sends them out whenever it senses prey. Then again, when the robot attacks it there's no sign of a corpse, so maybe it is some sort of colony.
@@NecroMorrius This is just a typical América copy of anime. Cry all you want, made in abyss is being copied for this, just as Nausicaa. America's creativity died years ago.
@@anderelamaro3815 most of this stuff is built off the speculative fiction of the 1920s but all media is built off and influenced by it’s predecessors. This is more inline with those books than the media mentioned imo.
The closest would actually be the French comics series Worlds of Aldebaran, and especially the chapters in the Betelgeuse system. Those are full of eerie, truly alien creatures that you can never be quite sure are plant or animal or fungi - or something else still ; and which straddle between cute and fluffy, and terrifyingly deadly.
@@KerbalFacileThe reason people don't know about said pieces is because Japanese media and popular culture are currently highly anticipated by westerners. Comparisons like these above trivialize the body of work and contributions made by western talents to the genre of sci-fi and surrealism, seems like people don't know anything better besides anime, which is quite unfortunate, Japan has its own share of very unique scifi (the thing that I instantly remembered is Blood electric... Maybe also serial experiments lain, which kinda seems inspired by blood electric).
Imagine if your toaster was like "please keep me plugged in all the time and turned on, also I want to only make toast when I want" and you were like "sure thing buddy"
Is this based off the short "Scavengers" from a few years ago? Cause if it is.. I didn't know I wanted a Scavengers series but now that we have it, im in love.
This seems like the sort of series where 75% of all problems could be avoided if only they thought to bring hazmat suits.
I doubt that was on the top of the list when the ship was blowing up.
I get the feeling the hazmath suits would only provide temporaty protection given how the fuzzballs managed to borrow throught clothing and affect the skin below without trouble. Everything on that planet is well able to ignore most protections.
What happened to good'ol space suits i wonder. I mean any protection is better than nothing really...
@@TechnoticPlate my fair guess is that given the nature of the company it's likely that the ship is not equipped with many suits, probably relying on drones for work in zero-g and lack of atmosphere areas
Encounter suits is a must for visiting alien worlds.
The puffball monster is a really ingenious monster design. The puff balls are localized numbing agents, with enough of them on a limb making it difficult to move the body part. The monster itself knows that the prey cannot escape, so it slowly wakes up and meanders towards the immobilized prey. It doesn't need multiple methods of attack since it doesn't need to fight, just one singular armour piercing fang does the trick. It has 6 flat feet to navigate bumpy terrain easily, thin legs to better meld to the body. Long flat tail to make the creature blend into the environment better.
I love its whole shebang. Quality stuff
You have a lot of issues with the idea that such a complicated system could evolve. I understand that on a really old planet with life that's been around for a long time maybe something overly complex could develop but this is well beyond chance
@@RediTtora-sx1hb bruh, it's basically a living mushroom, or maybe, something akin to a parasect - yes, the pokemon. Two things merge to become one, but the being is actually the fungus controling a body and not only looking for nutrients, but for something else to infect.
So, insectoid, spores, not a single care but to get the next target. Yep, sounds like cordyceps or whatever it's called.
@@leonoliveira8652 how does a cordyceps work? Do you know? Or are you just going by what you saw on the Last of Us
@@RediTtora-sx1hb Nah, I saw one too many documentaries about it. The thing is very real - if it infects cicada for example, makes males act like females to mate with uninfected males and spread more. When there's not much more than the minimal for movement left in the bug's carcass, it climbs as much as it can to let the fungus take fruit, or grow the outside part and release even more spores.
I'm not saying the thing in the video is a cordyceps, that's an alien, but numbing spores? Yeah, sounds fungal enough to me.
@@RediTtora-sx1hbguy said monster design not real life organism lol
It's awesome how they show the yellow fungi on its circuits might be responsible for the robot self awareness. Like it's litteraly growing an organic nervous system inside it thus developing a bottom up intelligence on top of its programming. High quality sci fi here, no joke
Reminds me a lot of slime molds
Its actually a workable tech called wetware that combines mycellium and circuit boards. (Or so ive heard)
@@nunyabiness9382 you teach me something new today, thanks :D
It was already self aware, it just seem to have other directives now, question is if it will be sentient as in have qualia this time.
I mean , is not so much sci-fi since mycelium + circuit boards result in wetware which is something that exist irl thought experimental , so fungi growing in the circuit board and changing the programming isn't that far-fetched
Moral of the story, if your robot starts gaining sentience in a strange planet don't be a dick and turn it off.
Also probably a good idea to start kissing what ever passes for it's ass.
Fr XDXD
Lmao
To be fair, LEVI was acting strange and ignoring her commands, which very easily could've caused more harm to her than good.
I feel like the real solution is to get a better robot
In her defense she literally has never seen this before. I feel like any sane person would like to make sure their only lifeline on an alien world is functioning properly. Their relationship improves way more after this though
That is kinda horrifying. Being incapacitated and the horror of something coming to feast on you is just a scary ass concept to me.
Have you ever watched the movie The Burrowers? Kind of the same concept, the creatures only come out at night, they attack and immobilize/paralyze you with some kind of neurotoxin, and then bury you under the ground so only your nose or mouth are above ground so you can still breathe. And then they come back and feed on you. However you are still conscious and Alive the entire time while they are feeding on you... you just can't move or do anything about it. Now that is utterly horrifying!
@@ItsFreakinHarding. Damn bruh you ain't letting me sleep with that description.
@@ItsFreakinHarding.yummy fresh food
Did you know that there is something in real world that is basically a horror movie
There is an insect that is colored emerald or smth it stings roaches to hypnotize them or smth then it cuts off the antenna to taste the liquid in it puts it in its burrow lays eggs on it the eggs hatch and burrow inside the roach avoiding the organs so it doesnt die then uses it as a cocoon or smth so when it finally grows it just gets out of the roach
I like those dudes tho because i hate roaches
That's how alot of animals eat, have you never watched animal planet
As soon as the monster extended that mandible I got Starship Trooper flashbacks!
Would you like to know more?
@@PhilosoG Naw, I'm just doing my part.
Same!
Brains!!!
An iconic timeless classic cultural reset
She's lucky that robot saved her, that monster is insane
THE ROBOT HAS A NAME
@@rowshambow Levi?
@@JAMES.CRADDOCK Leelai, Lelai, Leli one of those prob
That's a woman?
@@jamesliu8095you can't hear?
Scavengers reign seems like a combination of the wilderness of rain world and how the environment isn’t just you, and how everything has a use, like in scorn
Rainworld mention
Also someone said the gore is straight out of made in abyss
This is Akira and Annihilation rolled into one.
I wish the story was more interesting. This show is the definition of all flash with no substance.
ahh it’s nice some know of annihilation
@@dream8870 its highly underrated
@notchedbandit there is alot of substance actually. The story is good in my opinion with multiple plot lines intersecting that hold a variety of characters. Some of which are polar opposites. Also entirely new sci-fi concepts.
@@notchedbandit Your opinion. Your entitled to it.
One of the best series I've encountered in a long time. I literally just finished watching season 1 EP 12. Great story amazing art. If you're into exobiology this will blow you away, the creatures & how that world works is so imaginative.
Wait, this is a series?!? I thought it is like a one-shot animation
The art looks like shit
The environment was cool but god the “environmentalist” message was so shoehorned in at every possible moment.
I was about to go on gushing over the creatures, (and i am) like that puffball bug i loved its whole thing with the proboscis and paralyzing puffballs. But them the robot scene, great first impression of the robot, i did not know if it was sentient or not but then i was introduced to a really emotion filled statement about turning them off, i was completely caught off guard.
uncanny similarity to the brain bug from starship troopers
In the show, the robot (Levi) is shown to, at the very least, have a personality before this scene.
Levi, immediately after this scene, asks Ozzy (the girl who's getting puffball'd) to not turn her off again, as "it stops them from seeing, thinking, or feeling."
The puffball bug is really cool though.
So does that creature just essentially create abunch of floating Nerve agents that immobolize nearby prey, or even possibly lives symbiolically with a plant/fungi?
Think of it like a spider web.
The cotton monster, preys on the ones who ravaged its kind for far too long
There’s no sign of the creature after levi punches it so either he punched it so hard that it exited stage left or exploded into the paralysis fluffs. Maybe the bug is immune and collects them or maybe they’re like fungus spores and levi just contributed to the growth of more these creatures. It could go any way, I think part of why this show is so incredible is that these organisms are at times beyond human understanding.
The monster just uses the ecosystem to it's advantage. It's a beetle, so with a hard external carapace I doubt it's affected by the spores and instead just benefits off of the paralysed soft bodied animals that wonder too close.
its amazing how they show and dont tell ,the smallest contact with that puff ball made her hand lose all sort of control
Good catch, I wondered if it was some sort of nerve killer! Trying to figure out what’s happening in real time as this thing meanders it’s murderous fang towards you- yikes!!
This brings me right back to Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind. Love seeing creative alien beasts in a vegetated environment.
Pollen allergies be like:
This is truly a Puffballsunited moment.
0:21 wait, so... those balls embed themeslves into her body and she can't tear them off. I think the larger creature at 1:15 (whose body is seemingly composed of the balls) uses them as a way to immobilize prey. Hoowever, since its body ismade out of the same material, would it be detaching its own body parts to search for food? Maybe it's like a siphonophore - a huge colony of singular organisms arranged around a core, who work together as a single entity?
2:44 Also, i love the way these helicopter-dragonfly thingies look.
The best part of this series for me is just how different the lifeforms are. It takes all our preconceived notions of what attributes we associate with living organisms and either alters them drastically or throws them out entirely. I'm not a biologist but for me it seems way more realistic and logical that that life and evolution ofn alien planets would be nearly unrecognizable
A siphonophore is a fantastic analogy.
That explains how it managed to dissipate once it got stabbed.
I think it just produces the puff balls, which aren't creatures (more like clumps of fur or spores) letting them stick to its back, and gradually allows them to detach / sends them out whenever it senses prey. Then again, when the robot attacks it there's no sign of a corpse, so maybe it is some sort of colony.
Its a her shes just butch
Absolutely gorgeous show. Will go down as one of the greatest animated series in history. I can’t recommend it enough.
This has insane made in abyss vibes
Made in abyss is cringe incel trash, this is art.
@@NecroMorrius Being super edgy like that is almost admirable
@@NecroMorrius
This is just a typical América copy of anime.
Cry all you want, made in abyss is being copied for this, just as Nausicaa.
America's creativity died years ago.
@@mcmarkmarkson7115I mean the dude does have a point, the author and A LOT of the fan base creep on little anime girls.
@@anderelamaro3815 most of this stuff is built off the speculative fiction of the 1920s but all media is built off and influenced by it’s predecessors. This is more inline with those books than the media mentioned imo.
the most amazing part is just like in nature the puffballs look so beautiful and unthreatening
The music makes this all the more nerve-racking. Actually feels like you’re being numbed
honestly the name puff adder would be 100% fitting
puffs get added
adders use fangs (i guess in this case fang, or proboscis)
fits in my way of viewing things if anything
You did a better job promoting the show than MAX did.
This show gives me the same animation aesthetics as Nausicaa and the valley of the wind.
Kinda does, yes
Check out Moebius
I think of Sable, but everything is trying to kill you instead
The closest would actually be the French comics series Worlds of Aldebaran, and especially the chapters in the Betelgeuse system. Those are full of eerie, truly alien creatures that you can never be quite sure are plant or animal or fungi - or something else still ; and which straddle between cute and fluffy, and terrifyingly deadly.
@@KerbalFacileThe reason people don't know about said pieces is because Japanese media and popular culture are currently highly anticipated by westerners. Comparisons like these above trivialize the body of work and contributions made by western talents to the genre of sci-fi and surrealism, seems like people don't know anything better besides anime, which is quite unfortunate, Japan has its own share of very unique scifi (the thing that I instantly remembered is Blood electric... Maybe also serial experiments lain, which kinda seems inspired by blood electric).
Watched the whole show, it gives me made in abyss vibes, very beautiful yet dark place ❤
I totally agree!
The music when the monster showed up is insane.
The random recommendation of this clip some months back is what led me to find and watch this diamond in the tough. Such a great series
ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS TO FOLLOW THE GOD DAMN TRAIN CJ
WAS THAT A REALLY HARD TASK TO DO CJ?
I feel the monster is kind of an insect that uses the spores for immobilization with some kind of neurotoxin in the spores, this is so scary.
R.I.P. little bloated head baby thingy 0:47
🫠💀i still think about how Velma got a season two right away.
Give that robot a hug cuzz they just went through a traumatic experience being shut off
this series feels like something Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira drew.
The aldebaran and Betelgeuse cycles. Those comics feels exactly like this.
So underrated
Such creative aliens in this series
this deserves more views.
Feels like something from Made in Abyss.
I get that vibe too
That wonder and mystique of the world definitely feels similar.
David Bowie and Fantastic Planet vibes
Imagine if your toaster was like "please keep me plugged in all the time and turned on, also I want to only make toast when I want" and you were like "sure thing buddy"
Any insect that has a proboscis to eat other living things really creeps me out
When Studio Ghibli hired Junji Ito:
Amazing show dont sleep on it
Didn't know this had a sequel
"All we had to do, was follow the damn train, CJ!"
I remembered this incredible phrase after I looked at the first character XD
Oh boy Levi is such a great and interesting character, I sure hope nothing bad happens to her.🙂
The puffballs are kinda like antibodies, they’re little things that immobilize bacteria, and make them easy for macrophages to eat
Very good
Touch Fluffy Get Dizzy.
Pretty cool
This cartoon gave me a phobia.
A robot just decribed my biggest fear for death. A bit funny.
Fluffy ball monster is cute
They did to 100% take inspirations of "Nausicaä and the Valley of the Wind".
This animation is completely imaginative from a novel
This show is like if Studio Ghibli's tone was "the horror of the unknown" instead of like "wonder" or whatever
It's the animation for me
Incredible hunting method
This would make a cool game
I remember dream with a alien world like this
woo Registeel saves the day! :D
Minds me of the cartoon Johnny Quest
I have no idea what this is but uta pretty sick :3
For anyone's interest: This art style is called Moebius style named after french artist Jean "Mœbius" Giraud.
And no one ever does it anywhere near as good as he did.
The fuzzballs off yoshis island must have inspired this
That thing was like the brain bug from Starship Troopers brain sucking Scene
Reminds me of Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers and the brain scene!
dipper almost got rekt by cotton LOL
Karl Johnson 🗿
Wow!
Just finished it
Like that one scene from The Incredibles.
Non friendly version of The Trouble with Tribbles.
Is this based off the short "Scavengers" from a few years ago? Cause if it is.. I didn't know I wanted a Scavengers series but now that we have it, im in love.
It's a new pokemon😊
Cotton came back to settle a score
All you had to do was avoid them damn aliens cj!
Seems like mother nature has more bite to it......
This looks like a movie from creatures of sonaria
I honestly expected them just to be a ball of hair surrounding a stomach and mouth.
this is probably what rain world is like
Rimworld in "blood and dust" settings with Randy random be like.
Season two is coming out soon
Sorry, this monster is the cutest
I'm getting flashbacks to the Incredibles inflating tar balls scene
thats just a fluffy brainbug what
Evil puffs = no more working nerves
This boy reminds me of that main character from GTA
POV your facing the singularity in dead by daylight.
This planet is like a Myst Age from Hell.
Cotton wanted revenge💀💀
Besides the death
scary as hell
Touch fuzzy get dizzy
Why does this give me Made in Abyss vibes?
Made in the abyss type world
Gang wars : the cotton strikes back
the fields have laid dormant for hundreds of years
What episode is that? I watched it and don’t remember those scenes
The eternal gale
Does anyone know the name of the track that plays when the monster attacks?