Review: Krapopolis “Prince Hippo”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

As Krapopolis prepares its first naval fleet, the city is greeted by the people of Atlantis, who are revealed to be the same species as Hippocampus and invite him back with them. He initially refuses, but Tyrannis encourages him to go so he can talk to their ruler himself. Once there, it is further revealed that Hippo is also a prince and meets his mom for the first time, but it’s soon made clear she and their government simply want to know Krapopolis’ defensive weaknesses in order to invade, so they quickly flee out of there, with Hippo now truly knowing his truly family.

OUR TAKE

Krapopolis has officially had the longest season out of all of Fox’s animated shows in the 2023-24 season, more than likely because they already had a bunch of these episodes ready to go before the strikes threw a spanner in things. The side benefit of this is that actually gives them a chance to flesh out a lot of the characters over the course of twenty or so episodes. As such, we finally get an episode going into Hippocampus’ background and species, which is oddly spaced out after we got one for Stupendous as early as the fourth episode. Naturally, with her parentage being more or less just some rando that Deliria shtuped some time ago, Hippo (I can’t believe that’s really what they’re going for in terms of giving him a nickname) turns out to be the son of a fish empress who is probably going to end up being a recurring threat. I guess it makes sense seeing as Stupendous comes from cyclopses, who seem to have the same amount of brain cells as they do eyes, while Hippo has always been the smart one of the family, which I suppose is now revealed to be genetic and species trait. The smarts weren’t exactly coming from Shlub’s genes, that’s for sure.

Speaking of Stupendous though, she and Deliria get the subplot, in this case being about Delira gaining a priestess who seemingly is devoted to worshiping her, but Stupendous is very quickly suspicious of her. This proves to be the right call as it turns out that the priestess is part of a group that is targeting gods to seal them and presumably kill them. Aside from the fact that both plots this episode involve one character telling another character that a new character that’s complimenting them is actually bad (and being right), it’s also interesting that this is the second episode where a group of humans plots to lure Deliria into a plot that would kill her. They seem unrelated, but I could see that becoming a bigger plot down the line as we continue to flesh out the world and the varying views people have with the gods of this world. Anyway, we’ve still got three more episodes to go for Krapopolis’s first full season, which should be real interesting considering they’ve used up a fair amount of episodes that were meant for a second season.