Journey to the Blue Sky Episode 7: Nimona

In this episode of Journey to the Blue Sky, Arun and Patricia bend the rules a bit by discussing about the 2023 animated film Nimona based on the 2015 graphic novel by N.D. Stevenson. A commoner named Ballister Boldheart is being knighted in the Institute for Elite Knights where ordinarily people who are descendants of royalty from Queen Glorith would be chosen. Things go horribly wrong when he is seeing killing the queen with a laser coming out of his sword and is deemed a "murderer" and "monster". A shapeshifter named Nimona wishes to be Ballister's sidekick to cause mayhem, but instead he wishes to find out who framed him so he can clear his name. Originally produced by Blue Sky Studios, it was cancelled in 2021 when Disney bought the rights to the company and shut it down. It was picked up by Annapurna Pictures and released as a Netflix exclusive. When the film was released, it became a critical hit for its animation, voice over performances, its LGBTQ representation, and satirizing the formula of animated films. What did Patricia and Arun think of the film? Listen and find out.