Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts makes coming out as gay simple and direct (Patreon)

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2020-03-17 10:24:17

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2023-12

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While a simple coming out story shouldn't be a surprise, how tactfully it is handled in Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts is still a pleasantly noteworthy occurrence.

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Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts makes coming out as gay simple and direct

Over the past couple of years, DreamWorks has been putting out thoughtful and ambitious new children's animation, raising the bar for shows that challenge younger audiences with more complex narratives. The studio's 2016 reboot of Voltron and 2018 reboot of She-Ra both took initially simplistic premises designed mostly to sell toys and developed them out into emotionally engaging narratives that captured audiences with their characters' depth of motivations.