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I Am Dendy
A character getting a best friend has potential
to add endearment and bring about a new interesting dynamic. This cartoon introduces us to a potential
best friend for K.O., and a whole cartoon spent on them hanging out already
feels great and interesting.
Her name is
Dendy, and while K.O. hasn’t known her prior to this cartoon, she falls into a
surprisingly relatable category. She’s
not very social and mostly focuses on researching others behind their
backs. Even if not many kids know her personally,
she’s still present and it’s always possible to learn about her if they get to know
her. That’s what happens with K.O. when
Dendy plays to his desire to help people by asking him to help repair her
special backpack she uses to put code on devices called a hackpack.
Their search for the required parts takes
them all around Lakewood Plaza Turbo. In
the process, K.O. and Dendy take part in various activities that strengthen
their bond, from getting haircuts from Mr. Logic that give them brief stylized
anime appearances, to going to the arcade, to simply playing tag in an ally
where all the remains of robots are tossed.
There’s a range of feels from K.O. and Dendy’s time together. K.O.’s innocence, friendliness, and sense of
fun is expected, and Dendy has a lot of likability too. Her technological knowhow has her point out
where all the parts she needs are, and even when she ends up breaking things,
she fixes them easily. Also, while she
speaks in a monotone, intellectual tone, Dendy comes off as very charming as it slowly
becomes clear that she enjoys K.O.’s company, especially as they play tag. That’s a nice thing to see from an
intellectual who could easily just explain scientific information and nothing
more.
Then when K.O. and Dendy finally
get to the alley to retrieve a glowing power orb called a glorb, the final
component to fix Dendy’s hackpack, her true feelings for K.O. as a friend are
put to the test when he’s eaten by a robot fish. While K.O. goes about with fruitless attempts
to punch his way out, Dendy sits on the sidelines adding to an extensive
research file on K.O. showing how interested she is in one common kid who up
until now she’s only watched but never gotten to know. It does get concerning that K.O. remains
trapped in the fish when it gets dark, and not only does Dendy become too
engrossed in her research to help, but K.O.’s other known allies, including his
loving mom, don’t come looking for him.
While the latter characters have little excuse, Dendy’s fixation on research is made
better when she’s snapped back into her bonding with K.O. who mentions his Pow card
collection while discussing his will.
Akin to most budding friendships, this turns out to be a common interest
that officially brings Dendy and K.O. together as friends. As a result of their shared interest, Dendy
reveals that her hackpack was never broken and uses it to rescue K.O. This means that for all her interest in
research, coding, and being technical, Dendy is fully established as a cute relatable
kid just looking for a friend, and her adding her name to K.O.’s list of allies
at the end brings great satisfaction that she found one.
This cartoon is just a fun-loving boy, and a
lonely intellectual girl hanging out together as they grow closer, but that’s
all it needs to be great.
A
The Ranking
- I Am Dendy
- Let’s Be Heroes
- You’re Everybody’s Sidekick
- Jethro’s All Yours
- Let’s Be Friends
- We Messed Up
- Sibling Rivalry
- You’re Level 100
The next OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes review is about Rad striving to prove that he knows everything about everything when the bodega employees are assigned to get something from a labyrinth of a storage room.
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