PART 1

Arcane League of Legends is hands down a really really great animated show……its been a while since I’ve been this invested into an animated show……but this show has grabbed my attention……..let me first show y’all the trailers…..so here y’all go:

Also before any of y’all say “oh lord, …. League of Legends….pfff ..” well ok yes if u hate the game then that’s totally fine …but for this show it doesn’t require u to know anything about the game. this show tells its own story……trust me its worth it……also warning this is aimed for a bit of a mature audience…it has some cussing, blood, violence, people smoking..

If any of y’all are wondering why I’m reviewing the show like this in acts ..well the show did it like this – each Saturday 3 new episodes aired and there’s 9 episodes this season so it only took them 3 weeks to finish releasing this series.

I won’t be mentioning every single scene that happens in each episode otherwise we will be here forever …instead I’ll be going through the important parts in my opinion and only some of the side things.

Arcane League of Legends Act 1: so this show starts off with our 2 main characters….. Vi and Powder……there kids in this scene…. also Vi has pink hair and Powder has blue hair…..anyways there on a bridge at night time while a battle is happening…..we see there uncle Vander fighting enforcers…..while Powder and Vi look at the corpses of there parents in front of them…yeah I should have mentioned this show is grim……in specific ways……right off the bat this is how the show starts its as if it’s warning the audience…like hey u if u don’t like grim and emotional story and u where hoping for a light hearted show then this ain’t for u….just leave…..lolo…..but seriously this is a great way to start the show in my opinion….also no there’s no context yet to why there battling ….but there will be later and I like that because it makes u the audience have a slight reason to stick around …well that’s if the opening catches ur interest…if not…well idk what to tell u….anyways so that’s how we open this show….with 2 kids crying over the corpses of there parents …while crouching on the floor of a middle of a war that just happened…….dammm……so anyways we cut to present day and Vi has grown a bit …she’s the oldest sister and then Powder is the youngest….plus now they have adopted brothers…… a pudgy boy named Claggor….and we wears goggles…..then there’s Mylo……he’s kinda cocky…..plus he doesn’t treat Powder that nicely because she can’t fight and she has a tendency to screw things up…….anyways so they go out on missions together ..all 4 of them…to steel things…..there’s a reason they steel…its because they live in this city called Zaun…..its also known as the under city….and its a hell hole….very smoggy….is filled with tons of hostile people…..people that are not rich or fancy….then there’s Piltover…. its basically the upper city where all the rich folks live ….and that town is way more fancy…..also to give an idea of the loom of this show ….imagine a uhhh……futuristic steam punk type world …anyways off track….so back on track……Vi decides to lead them to rob a rich person’s place ….now why u may ask…well she got cocky and wanted to steel from Piltover……anyways the building they enter is a scientists building and well while they are robbing his place ….Powder accidentally finds something she doesn’t recognize…small blue marbles…….and uh oh someone comes to the door so they lock the door with a chair…so now they have to run out of the building but Powder accidentally drops a marble and it blows up the building……….yep so now everyone thinks a terrorist blew up the building…long story short they run back to the under city….Powder accidentally tosses the stuff they stole into the ocean…so they got nothing out of this trip……and they decide to go back to Vanders bar…where they live in the basement….to hide out for a bit till things cool off…but that never happens…..because everyone in Piltover is shaken by this and want justice…so they send enforcers down there to arrest the culprits……more on that later …for now let’s discuss about the second story that’s happening….see they also do a bit of investigating to see what caused the explosion so they go to the scientists building and the room was owned by a guy named Jayce…..and he was the person that was at the door…he was walking back to his room with his pal who’s name is Caitlyn…..more on her later …also the company sends over a cripple named Viktor….to determine if Jayce was doing something illegal…long story short he was….those marbles where balls of magic….and magic is banned……anyways so they put him on court so the court will determine his fate…..while he’s in jail….his mentor comes in…..a guy named Heimerdinger…..he’s a small furry creature who speaks like a human…but he ain’t human….he’s another species and he’s several hundred years old……..Jayce tells him he was using magic…and Heimerdinger says. …magic. ..no no no thats illegal…I’ve seen magic do horrific things before…..he tells Jayce to not tell the council it was magic and just admit it was a mistake….so he goes in front of the council and he of course tells them it was magic….for u see he wanted to find a way to use technology to stabilize magic so they can use magic to advance there technology and well to help people……..but of course there about to ban and put him in jail but his mom speaks up and says can’t he just come home and they say all right fine he’s banned from the university forever and he can go back home…….ok between u and me he got off lucky. ..oh remember I mentioned his friend …..Caitlyn….well she’s the daughter of a rich family…and her mother is just a tad bit snobby she cares how people perceive them….anyways so she bans her daughter from hanging out with Jayce anymore….dang….so…..anyways he goes home gets mad at his mom because she didn’t back him up…..oh but get this Viktor and Heimerdinger is going through Jayce work and Viktor actually likes the research and wants to help Jayce out…..so with Jayce dreams dead and his mom didn’t back him up and he can’t talk or hangout with his best friend anymore …he goes back to his science room and contemplates suicide……..ok ummm yeah thats dark…but then Viktor comes in and basically says am I interrupting anything m…..then he says I actually like ur research I wanna help fund ur research…….so Jayce doesn’t commit suicide. ….anyways back to our 4 main kid characters. ……. so Vander wants to protect his kids from being arrested……and well they can’t return empty handed because they have to pay his friend who’s a collector….because business….so he grabs some junk…takes it to his friend ……and we meet another main character…a kid named Ekko….he’s a black kid with white hair….anyways he goes outside because he’s told to and then enforcers come in with there female leader. …and her right hand rookie. .named Marcus……more on him later…anyways they sit down he loses his temper at Vander…so his leader tells him tk leave while she talks to Vander………outside Ekko peaks in through a hole to hear the discussion…he finds out that Vander made a deal with the enforcers that they will not intervene with them if the under city won’t go up there…….dunnnnnn dunnnnn dunnnnnn……the plot thickens…. so now Ekko knows…..oh and he ends up telling Vi and her group……anyways back to Jayce and Viktor…….so they sneak back into the university to do there research …but they get caught by a female named Mel…..they tell her to give them a chance ans she does she says u have 1 night to give me something….so they go into there room and start working…long story short they where able to harnest magic with technology….and well Heimerdinger and some guards come In because they see something happening in that room……anyways he’s impressed and Mel comes in and agrees that the Era of magic should happen again bit jayce corrects them and says ehh it’s called Hextech…….so then they agree on that name…..and thats how Hextech came to be……oh before I forget remember that character I mentioned earlier named Marcus……well guess what….he’s not a good officer….turns out he’s secretly working for the main baddie of this show…his name is Silco…….his whole motivation is to start a war against the enforcers ….because of he doesn’t see them as equals to the people who live in Zuan……and at first glimpse u thr audience may think he looks like a typical baddie….a guy with a low suave voice….physical scars on the left side of his face…and one of his eye balls is black…..for some reason…I forget why….but don’t worry there’s more to him…..well get to that later I don’t want to get to ahead of myself…anyways so our main 4 kids have to stay low while Vander comes up with a way to deal with the situation they got themselves in so they dont get arrested……but the day has come …the enforcers came back down there to make the arrest….so Vander gives himself up to protect his kids and they accept this and puts cuffs on him…..as they start walking outside. …the female commander gets shot in the head and she falls onto the ground….and Silco walks out of the smoke………then Marcus says no no that wasn’t the plan and Silco says plans changed…and he tosses Marcus the bag of money he promised him………right at that moment Vanders friend tries to run up to Silco and kill him….but out of nowhere one of Silcos…men comes out and beats the guy tk a pulp……for u see this henchmen guy looks all mutated and hulk like size….plus he has purple veins all over him and he fights with anger…..now I knew I forgot to mention something…….so now Is the perfect time to mention it…..see Silco plan is to use a drug he had his evil ish scientist named Singed……crate for him…and the drug is called Shimmer…….and what this drug does is mutates people and brings out there inner darkness………and his plan is to mutate his followers and lead them into war against the enforcers and Piltover………yeah he’s crazy …..anyways so then they drag Vander away and Marcus is just standing there and he tosses his money onto the floor……yeah good choice….anyways Vi goes and tells her sister and her brothers that Vander been captured and they need to go save him……so she and Claggor and Mylo go and save hjm….but they leave Powder behind because Vi can’t loose her sister and well Powder wouldn’t be helpful…for one she can’t fight and also her inventions she creates……oh right forgot to mention that she creates things specifically bombs…..but they always fail….anyways so they head out and leave Powder behind…..then we cut to Silco and Vander……he has Vander tied up and here we find out something…Silco is Vanders brother…..Dunnn dunnnnn dunnnnnn…..the plot thickens……we also find our how Silco got that black eye……for u see Vander fought against Silco In polluted water and was pushing his head into the water and the polluted water got into that eye and infected it……yikes……also if ur wondering why they where fighting….well its because Silcos motivations where a little to much……anyways so Silco does offer Vander to join his team…all though he hates him……he never lost respect for Vander though……..but of course Vander says no….so he ties Vander to a chair…also here we see one of Silcos right hand man….and her name is Sevika…….anyways more on her later…….so Vi and Claggor and Mylo show up try to save Vander…..but of course it was a trap and Silco and his men including his henchmen shows up…and he gives him another vile of the drug which mutates him…and as he tries running towards them…vi classes the metal door that’s infront of them …while Mylo tries breaking Vander out of his cuffs ….and while Claggor punches through the wall so they can get out of the place………anyways back to Powder….we see she’s throwing a temper tantrum….she’s crying and trying to rip the head off of a windup monkey toy they have and she tosses it to the ground…the head falls off and she gets an idea….back to Vander and the team….they try breaking him out but the mutated henchman opens up the door….uh oh but in the moment Powder shows up outside with her new invention…for u see she put those explosive marbles in the monkey and one around his neck so when it claps it would break the marble…so she tosses it inside after winding it up….and it explodes…..and this happens….we see Selvika stand in front of Silco to protect him…dont don’t she survives we see her in the other arcs but this time with a Robotic arm…..then we see Singed in his lab and he turns around to see the flames comes to him and he gets burnt….don’t worry he also survives….he’s just now burnt…or Singed if u will……….cough……bad pun I know……anyways and oh no Mylo gets impaled with sharp metal and Claggor gets knocked down but then rubble falls on both of them and they both die………congrats Powder the one time ur invention works it leads to the death of ur 2 brothers….maybe u shouldn’t have helped…..anyways we see her smiling because her invention worked and she doesn’t know she just killed her 2 brothers……then we see Vander under pile of rocks but he pushes them off of him so he can go kill Silco…but there the mutated guy still so he instead fights him but the mutated guy does beat up Vander pretty dang well to pint he’s getting exhausted….but he does kill mutated guy and then he goes for Silco and he shocks him but he doesn’t have it in him to kill his brother ….so Silco pushes Vander off the bridge there on…into vats of those drugs oh no….and now he’s mutated……..oh did i forget to mention the other mutated guy isn’t dead yet but don’t worry because now super mutated Vander finishes the job and kills the mutated dude…while Silco escapes…….in Vanders last control of his mind he opts to grab vi and toss both the out the window over going after Silco…..so he throws both them out th window and Vi survives but Vander doesn’t….I’m his last words he tells Vi to protect Powder…..dang this is sad……but then Powder comes out the corner and says see my invention it worked did u like it….and this makes vi angry because she’s like u did this?……why….then Powder starts crying…while saying I was trying to help….but Vi slaps her and knocks her to the ground and says mylo was right u are a Jinx….and as she’s about to slap her sister again…she just runs off …leaving Powder behind….while she screams for Vi to come back…saying Vi I need u…plz!!!………..aww….but then Silco shows up….and ready to stab Powder…but he asks him where her sister is….and she grabs Silco….knocking him to the ground and she hugs him…saying she left me and she’s no longer my sister….and in that moment he embraces her into his arms and says it’s alright well make them all pay…..oh and if ur wondering where’s Vi…well she was about to run back to Powder but Marcus comes out of nowhere and drags her away…saying shhh if u go up there he will kill u……and thats the end of Arcane League of Legends Act 1…it ends with Powder looking at the distance with an angry expression……oh and the lightning I’m this scene is clever because it makes her eye look purple…which is the color of her eyes in the game…and if yall wondering why her eyes aren’t purple in this show…well we will get to that later I don’t want to spoil it…..anyways I freaking love this arc it was a really well done emotional Art……I love the visual effects …..the animation style……I rarely feel emotional over a show but this show got to me….I highly recommend it…I’m gonna give this Act a

SOLID 10/10