Invincible Fight Girl is a welcome, colorful addition to Adult Swim's Toonami roster.
In these desolate Zaslav-run times of Warner Bros. Discovery, animation has been well ... think of a gutter, now dig five times deeper than that.
These days, new cartoons made at Cartoon Network Studios (which now shares a building with Warner Bros. Animation) face two outcomes: they either die a tax write-off or live long enough to see itself become an Adult Swim series. Besides, Adult Swim starts at 5 p.m. ET now, so logically, what was going to happen? This, after all, is what happened with My Adventures With Superman. Now Clark Kent has a drinking buddy in Andy from Invincible Fight Girl, the star of the latest show developed for CN that ended up being part of the Adult Swim block.
In a wrestling-oriented world, young Andy (Sydney Mikayla) is a would-be accountant living on a remote island full of accountants, but with dreams of becoming a wrestler. The moment her parents took her to her first match as a kid, she got starry eyed over seeing the swift moves and skill of Quesa Poblana (Rolonda Watts) and imprinted on the sport. After her incompetence during a tax day for wrestlers inadvertently lands her in a match with some of the best ranked fighters in the world, Andy's secret wrestling desires are revealed to her family and she sets off into the world to train.
Invincible Fight Girl boasts a vibrant landscape that resembles, bear with me, if My Hero Academia were subjected to a body slam by the WWE, and the resulting impact on the ring spawned a fusion of the two properties. The mockup of wrestling characters around the series intermixes humans, rainbow-colored people, and anthropomorphic animal creatures, yet they all resemble familiar faces and figures from wrestling culture. While the narrative keeps things grounded by having Andy navigate the functionality of various facets within the wrestling world, creator Juston Gordon-Montgomery and his team's episodic world building makes it all come alive.