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Last time I spotlighted the first three Nicktoons, and now here are the other Nicktoons that celebrated their birthdays in August. Sorry once again for getting this out late.

The very first day of this month we saw 2003's My Life as a Teenage Robot celebrate it's 18th anniversary. If there's one word I could use to describe this show it would be style. Even amongst the stiff competition from its other Nicktoon bretheren this show manages to be the most visually distinct in its aesthetic, with it pulling off a mixture of Fleischer era and 50s art deco with a clear influence taken from various sci-fi media and a gorgeous, eye-catching colour choice that would change to fit the mood and environment. The premise of a teenage girl trying to fit in in highschool by itself is not too exciting, but the added elements of the protagonist being a mechanical super heroine, whose body can transform to adapt to a variety of situations as if she were a walking swiss army knife, and all the shenanigans and genre campiness that come with it.

Three days after that is the 9th anniversary of a show that also happens to feature a robot, as well as a monster. Robot and Monster premiered in 2012, following the two titular characters, one being cynic down on his luck and the other being a friendly optimist, making ends meet working at a blinking light factory in a society where organics and mechanicals co-exist and the primary food source is bacon, with the main underlying theme being of how two vastly different individuals can be best friends in spite of all odds. This series was another one that has been mostly forgotten by the general animation fandom and lasted only one mere season on Nickelodeon. Despite this its surprisingly has a loyal underground following that can be found if you explore well enough through Twitter and DeviantArt.

Rocket Power premiered on the 16th in 1999 and as of now is twenty-two years old. This series prided itself in being drenched in the craze of extreme sports that was prominent in the later 90s and early 2000s, an element of which lead many to be divided on the series nowadays. Some consider it one of Nickelodeon’s all-time classics, while others consider it to be one of the weaker entries of their golden era. I myself never really found myself attracted to it as a kid, as the main topic it revolved around never really appealed to me personally.

And at the very tail end of the month there's Tak and the Power of Juju, which is in a unique predicament compared to other series as it had a life in video game as a video game series and cameoing in other Nickelodeon games before the actually hitting TV screens in 2007. But for simplicity's sake we're counting just the show's premiere that took place fourteen years ago. The show followed an apprentice shaman gifted with a mystic power that allows him to serve as a link between his realm and that of the Jujus. This series is most notable for being the first CGI Nicktoon to be directly overseen in-house, and had garnered mixed reception for its deviation from the games in terms of tone, established lore and having none of the original voice actors aside from Patrick Warburton. I myself found out about the series through Nicktoons: Attacks of the Toybots, and evidently I can assume many others did as well. Afterwards I did manage to catch a couple of episodes and got my hands on a copy of the second game, Tak 2: The Staff of Dreams. I remember quite enjoying both, but couldn't get past the Planetarium level on the latter and can't really say for certain the actual quality of the former as I've been unable to come by any episodes for the past decade. It did come out on Paramount+ recently though for any American viewers who are interested.

Like with what I did for Jimmy Neutron last month, I drew the CGI characters here in 2-D with coloured outlines and then applied airbrush effects on the inside to create a fake 3-D look. I think it worked well for Robot and Monster, though I'm not sure about Tak.

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Last time I spotlighted the first three Nicktoons, and now here are the other Nicktoons that celebrated their birthdays in August. Sorry once again for getting this out late.

The very first day of this month we saw 2003's My Life as a Teenage Robot celebrate it's 18th anniversary. If there's one word I could use to describe this show it would be style. Even amongst the stiff competition from its other Nicktoon bretheren this show manages to be the most visually distinct in its aesthetic, with it pulling off a mixture of Fleischer era and 50s art deco with a clear influence taken from various sci-fi media and a gorgeous, eye-catching colour choice that would change to fit the mood and environment. The premise of a teenage girl trying to fit in in highschool by itself is not too exciting, but the added elements of the protagonist being a mechanical super heroine, whose body can transform to adapt to a variety of situations as if she were a walking swiss army knife, and all the shenanigans and genre campiness that come with it.

Three days after that is the 9th anniversary of a show that also happens to feature a robot, as well as a monster. Robot and Monster premiered in 2012, following the two titular characters, one being cynic down on his luck and the other being a friendly optimist, making ends meet working at a blinking light factory in a society where organics and mechanicals co-exist and the primary food source is bacon, with the main underlying theme being of how two vastly different individuals can be best friends in spite of all odds. This series was another one that has been mostly forgotten by the general animation fandom and lasted only one mere season on Nickelodeon. Despite this its surprisingly has a loyal underground following that can be found if you explore well enough through Twitter and DeviantArt.

Rocket Power premiered on the 16th in 1999 and as of now is twenty-two years old. This series prided itself in being drenched in the craze of extreme sports that was prominent in the later 90s and early 2000s, an element of which lead many to be divided on the series nowadays. Some consider it one of Nickelodeon’s all-time classics, while others consider it to be one of the weaker entries of their golden era. I myself never really found myself attracted to it as a kid, as the main topic it revolved around never really appealed to me personally.

And at the very tail end of the month there's Tak and the Power of Juju, which is in a unique predicament compared to other series as it had a life in video game as a video game series and cameoing in other Nickelodeon games before the actually hitting TV screens in 2007. But for simplicity's sake we're counting just the show's premiere that took place fourteen years ago. The show followed an apprentice shaman gifted with a mystic power that allows him to serve as a link between his realm and that of the Jujus. This series is most notable for being the first CGI Nicktoon to be directly overseen in-house, and had garnered mixed reception for its deviation from the games in terms of tone, established lore and having none of the original voice actors aside from Patrick Warburton. I myself found out about the series through Nicktoons: Attacks of the Toybots, and evidently I can assume many others did as well. Afterwards I did manage to catch a couple of episodes and got my hands on a copy of the second game, Tak 2: The Staff of Dreams. I remember quite enjoying both, but couldn't get past the Planetarium level on the latter and can't really say for certain the actual quality of the former as I've been unable to come by any episodes for the past decade. It did come out on Paramount+ recently though for any American viewers who are interested.

Like with what I did for Jimmy Neutron last month, I drew the CGI characters here in 2-D with coloured outlines and then applied airbrush effects on the inside to create a fake 3-D look. I think it worked well for Robot and Monster, though I'm not sure about Tak.

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