So, I Watched Iwájú

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Iwájú (pronounced [ī.wá.d͡ʒú]) is an animated miniseries produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and the Pan-African British-based entertainment company Kugali Media for the streaming service Disney+. It was written by Olufikayo Adeola and Halima Hudson and directed by Adeola, and is the first "original long-form animated series" produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The title of the series, iwájú, roughly translates to "the future" in the Yoruba language (literally "front-facing").
Set in a futuristic Lagos, Nigeria, the series explores "deep themes of class, innocence, and challenging the status quo", as it follows wealthy island inhabitant Tola and mainland inhabitant Kole as they discover the dangers in both lands.
Tola, a young girl from a wealthy island, and her best friend, Kole, a self-taught tech expert, discover the secrets and dangers hidden in their different worlds.

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@JesseGolo 4 ай бұрын

There are a lot of little details I spotted as I edited this video that made me appreciate the show even more. You think it could get a second season?

@gracekim25 4 ай бұрын

Hmm 🤔 possibly 😊

@orebb2204 4 ай бұрын

Nigerian here. I saw the trailer for this thing and immediately thought it was going to be a bust. I found it hilarious when i found out disney plus isn't available in nigeria. A bunch of nigerians on disney's post about the show said they'd pirate it too. Don't blame them💀

@DangericeDreams 4 ай бұрын

That’s so dumb. I’d say to use a VPN, but you shouldn’t have to use circumvention like that just to be able to watch a show made about the people from *your country* on a service you pay for! That’s like making James Bond unavailable in the UK.

@gracekim25 4 ай бұрын

Aw😢 it’s a shame it’s not available there, it’s a very cool show

@orebb2204 4 ай бұрын

@gracekim25 it's just really silly that the show is marketed towards Nigerians, but it's not even available there anyway.

@seyinwogu4726 2 ай бұрын

It's available on Disney channel 303

@reinweissritter 4 ай бұрын

A real shame this show doesn't seem to be being talked about. I was pleasantly surprised with how good it turned out to be, hopefully this is a sign of Disney getting their shit together, even though it's a collab. Well, a man can dream. Also, lmao at the "great disney mom club in the sky"

@orlandotill4652 4 ай бұрын

If there was any video you were born to make it was this one. A Nigerian reviewing a Nigerian Disney animated property.

@maxus8075 4 ай бұрын

Lagos? Man this feels nostalgic.

@kathrynehiersche1817 3 ай бұрын

Iwaju is so good!! I really hope more people start talking about it

@gracekim25 4 ай бұрын

I watched it with my mum and it was very fun❤😊 I didn’t get all the dialect stuff but I just managed to figure out what was being said in yuroba (apologies for the spelling mistake)😳 I’m happy you know about supa team 4 as well ❤ 25.3.24

@DMasterChifu 4 ай бұрын

I was just making a video essay on this series, and I'm glad I checked this video first sha. You hit the same beats as he stuffs I've written so that's nice, but I'm mostly annoyed as to how most of the true things and issues that Bode (the kidnapper) raises about the class difference and the conditions of most nigerians are editorialised as though they are flimpsy excuses... Yes, the rich should be able to send their kids abroad for better schooling and not invest in public education. Yes, it's their right to pay their employees peanuts, it's their money. Also, how did the dude get the job? A minor like him cannot just answer an ad for houseboy, we don't have those... the only explanation would've been if his mother worked for them and he was following his mother, but that's not the case (apparently) and why does he have to go home everyday? The series tries as much as possible to seem like it wants to talk about issues, but it does nothing, it is tame and flaccid and children deserve better. I was 7/8 when I watch ATLA and it tackled similar issues, even worse, with care and understanding, this series felt more like an adverisement/publicity piece for Lagos Island, and it repulses me mostly because most Nigerians would eat it up, because it's the most visible animation for now... and so all would swear allegiance to it despite the flaccidity of the bile-ridden vomit of an animation. it was a nice watch though, if I forget the assertion that there's no future available for non-island based nigerians (unless the wealthy take pity on you, or deem you worthy of explotation). Something you'd expect that a London-based "Nigerian"--who has spent their life shielded by a certain privilege of access to the basic neccessities of life--would write.

@JesseGolo 4 ай бұрын

When I first watched the show, I thought he got the job through Happiness, but I quickly realized that that doesn't really make sense.

@edvardandrehuamanidelgado9102 3 ай бұрын

@JesseGolo First of all, sorry for my writing mistakes, I'm not a native english speaker. Now to the case, I thought he got the job because he was begging for a "decent" job that could be done without studying (his Mother was sick so he needed Quick money and her Mother wouldn't accept that he work for the kidnapper) so he went to the rich People. Then Tola's father accepted him 'cause he's just a kid and not a "potential threat" as the father acts through the whole serie. So thats why Tola's father treats him like another "manipulative person" and tells her daugther that Kole's with her just because they're rich.

@edvardandrehuamanidelgado9102 3 ай бұрын

Also I think it can't be compared with ATLA beacuse the excessive difference of number of episodes. It's easier to tell big society problems when you have like 4 seasons. This just had 6 episodes to tell a big problem such as class difference. Maybe you could use Arcane that is more near to 6 (just 9 to tell the same thing and the storytelling is profficent) but again, I think Disney wouldn't like to go that far with the realism. So that's my problem with the serie, the ending. In my opinion, it's like another completely different story or a forced cut in the previous story. So, yeah, I agree, could been waaay better but for a Disney inclusive serie, it's a little footstep forward.

@breathofhopeafrica1318 3 ай бұрын

@themasterchifu I think you need to calm down! One fictionalised animation series from the point of view of a young Nigerian writer and director working with a global team and all these plenty things you wrote??? Like everything in Lagos and in someone's imagined future of the city should fit into your own POV? A six episode limited series with run time of about 15 to 25 minutes per episode and a first-time collaboration between Walt Disney Animation and any other company in its 100 years should have everything??? Take it easy!

@DMasterChifu 3 ай бұрын

@@breathofhopeafrica1318 Aunty Bimpe ejorr, no vex. I've said this, and I'd say this again, IWAJU was good, it had a very good team behind it (I appreciate the efforts Mr. Tolu put to making it seem original, and your conscious efforts in character building--I am a fan), and y'all had the idea to make an african animation--more like to be the first big african animation--and yes, this would open doors for so many nigerian creators (assuming some persons don't attempt to gatekeep, or try to pull off some shinenagan and capitalise on this entire stuff by selling a paid course on how to pitch a series. Holy father, Nigerians!), yet that does not mean one cannot analyse and criticise the themes present (or absent thereof) in the TV series. We already know that the animation would be good, and for that we appreciate the hardwork of the animators, and the consultants, like you Aunty and Mr. Tolu, so that leaves just one thing and the most important thing, the story and what it's saying. Like I said before, the series waves it hand at some issues and then does nothing, Unless you're saying I'm misconstuing what's in the series, I don't know what you mean by fitting it to my POV. I'm saying y'all tried a lot, but y'all can do better. I don't know why I have to keep saying this, but I'm a fan, and wish you all the best, but IWAJU should've been better, yet I still understand why it was the way it was, and that was my criticism.

@coolgirlchris 4 ай бұрын

Love this- keep up the good work

@igormendonca4026 3 ай бұрын

hey, I heard of this African cartoon called Twende that's coming up, think you're gonna make a review of it?

@JesseGolo 3 ай бұрын

Maybe

@mwara74 2 ай бұрын

It says it is 'A Kugali Production' so I hope some of the IP ownership rests with an African company, even if most of the makers now live in the UK. But is this the only way to get an African story animated at high level? If we let Disney have the profits?? I hope there is residual income coming to Nigeria from this use of Lagos and Nigerian accents and a Nigerian story. Otherwise it's just user friendly Africa ... as usual.