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Note Block Universe is the 29th episode of the Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts series, being the 10th installment of Season 3.
Synopsis[]
Green has to use music to ask where Purple went.
Plot[]
Green stumbled into a world with flying mobs that communicate using music, and where trees are made of note blocks instead of wood. A passing fox greets Green, and shows Green to a pig, a cow, and a sheep. The animals dance around while singing; Green asks them without music if they know the whereabouts of Purple, but the fox, pig, cow, and sheep do not understand non-music communication. The fox starts asking the others, and they dance around again. Green notices the note block in front of him and asks the dancing mobs again about the whereabouts of Purple, but this time using the note block. The mobs create a vision with musical notes which have Purple running past them. Green greets them a goodbye and the mobs fly away, but not before bringing along a note block.
Green then heads into a cave on the side of a small hill and finds a passive baby zombie flying about the caverns. He uses the note block to communicate with the baby zombie, and the baby zombie leads Green further into the cave. An adult zombie flails around, floating in the air, and a drowned rises from a small pond in the cave. A dissected low to the ground joins in the rhythm while a Zombie Villager does the same. Green tries to talk to the undead mobs when the baby zombie gives Green a lever. Green creates more organized notes to talk with the undead and asks them about Purple's whereabouts. The zombie creates a vision of Purple with music notes, showing Purple running past them. The other undead sing the same thing, and Green thanks them, then emerges out of the cave.
Green comes across a Taiga biome, and stumbles across a village, where villagers dance and sing whimsical music traditionally by farming to the sound of music. Green interrupts the villagers with the note block to communicate with them, but it makes a synth noise. The villagers notice and chuck the note block away, then try to get him to sing. Green tried his hardest to produce a musical note of his own without the note block, but managed to produce a clarinet noise. Green quickly masters it and manages to blow much faster notes in higher pitches. The villagers applaud Green and take him along with the medley. then, Green asks the whereabouts of where Purple is, and they sing back, singing that Purple went past them and on. Green thanks them while the villagers sing goodbye.
As Green finds his way to a Badlands biome, he finds two llamas in the dry and sandy place. The llamas spit at each other as he passes by; suddenly, a milk bucket floats in the air, which gets drunken up and reveals to be a wandering trader, who begins singing while his two llamas stand up and begin beatboxing. Green finds this irritating and continues walking. The wandering trader continuously shows Green his merchandise and puts a flower ring around Green's head. Green is still not entertained and gets rid of the flower ring. The wandering trader proceeds to show his sales, including undead coral blocks and other miscellaneous items and shove it to Green's face.
At that moment, Green notices a familiar figure of a stick figure walking in the background. The one he was looking for: Purple.
Purple notices Green as well, and immediately runs away. Green immediately goes after Purple, both divided by a river in the Badlands biome. Green tries to communicate to Purple by singing, but Purple ignores him and continues to run. Green continues to try to communicate to Purple, and Green sings a stop sign entirely made of musical notes. Purple smashed the stop sign and continues to run away from Green, who's still across the river. They come across a steep plateau made of red sand, and Green sings more notes and music to try to get to Purple's attention. Green sings a vision out of notes, asking Purple why he locked up him, The Second Coming, Yellow, Blue, and Red. Purple smashes the vision, and continued running. Green sings another vision, asking Purple why he betrayed Green and Blue in Episode 10 back on June 19th, 2018, and left them to nearly die in the void. Purple responds, but with a horrible violin screech, destroying the vision. Purple runs off into the mountain that proceeds the plateau. Green uses Purple's Elytra who he took from in Episode 25 back on June 12th, 2021 and flew over the gap to the bottom of the mountain. Green sings a vision of himself to Purple, trying to communicate with Purple, but Purple attacks the vision with notes. Green collects Purple's notes, and creates two miniature versions of Purple, one as an angel and the other as a devil. Green wants to know if Purple is good or evil, but Purple stops and releases an outburst of violin screeches making an angry face.
Slowly, Purple reaches the peak of the mountain, and Green follows him. After a while, Purple starts using music to tell a story:
Two stick figures with unofficial names "Dark Blue" and "Pink" fell in love with each other and had Purple as their child. Dark Blue wants to train Purple in combat, but Purple was not a very good fighter, however, his dad is much stronger, Purple always ran to Pink for comfort. When Purple grew older, the training only continued with Purple getting beaten up. At one point, after a brutal training session, Pink tries to protect Purple from Dark Blue, believing that the training was too harsh. It was the last straw; Dark Blue raises his fist at Pink, who cowered in fear, and gestures that he's done living with them; it was clear Dark Blue has become abusive and fights with Pink. Their relationship had nearly no love left. Dark Blue started walking away when Purple begged him to stay, but Dark Blue deemed Purple to be too weak and incompetent, so he left him and Pink to fend for themselves. As Purple grew older, Pink eventually died, but we do not know how, leaving Purple all alone to grieve over and mourn over his loss.
Despite the abuse Purple endured by Dark Blue's hand, the latter was still the only family the former had left, and Purple vowed to do whatever it took to make his father proud. We then see a 3D sequence of Purple climbing and jumping over blocks, symbolizing Purple's journey. It shows Purple attempting to gain his father's approval by becoming powerful and successful, like being the king of a town of Villagers in Episode 9 back on June 19th, 2018. But Purple also did terrible deeds, some including trampling the Villagers for his gain and betraying Blue and Green for the Dragon Egg. He almost makes it, but Dark Blue turns his back on Purple, the egg vanishes into thin air, and Purple loses his crown like he did in Episode 10 back on June 19th, 2018, and falls to the ground again. He ends up on a parkour course that leads to a tower, which is the Episode 22 back on June 12th, 2021. The Second Coming and company run past Purple. Green stops and looks at Purple concerningly for a moment before progressing with his friends. Purple sees King Orange at the top and wanted to impress him to impress his father, and so Purple climbs over and attacks everyone, takes the Minecraft Game Icon from Red, and has them and the others imprisoned in the process. He flew with the Block in his hand while Green was anchoring him down. When he was on the edge at the top, King Orange offered a hand, and Purple felt accepted again, only for King Orange to betray Purple, take the Minecraft Game Icon instead of helping him up, leaving Purple to fall down alone.
As Purple explained his backstory, he broke into sadness. He admits that he always lets himself become evil. In a turn of events, Green offers Purple's Elytra back to him. Green explains to Purple that "good and evil" are simplistic, dated terms, and that Purple just needs friends like them who can embrace and accept them. Green helps Purple up, and hugs them. Now having a feeling a true feeling of acceptance, Purple resolves to change for better and summons a halo on himself, but Green brushes it off to emphasize he should not define himself with basic "good and evil" terms.[1] Purple sings a vision of King Orange. He and Green nod at each other, and they fly out, destroying the vision of King Orange. Green holds on to Purple as he flies to the Nether Portal.
Back in the Nether, all of the other stick figures and mobs were defeated, King Orange gained the two Minecraft Game Icons and merged them together. He puts the Minecraft Game Icon into his staff and unleashed a beam of energy far bigger and more destructive than before into the Nether ceiling. Purple dropped Green on the bastion, then flew to King Orange and punched him in the face. All the stick figures, including Skellington, were surprised, and Purple had taken hold of the staff with the Minecraft Game Icon.
Credits[]
Animators
- terkoiz
- Fordz
- Ellis02
- Shuriken255
- AJAnims
- Able Rai
- Simple Fox
- SmollySheep
- Oxob3000
- Hexal
- Nemo
- Kayal
Sound Effects
- Pepper
- Alexander Samarov
- Egor
Music
- AaronGrooves (first half)
- Scott Buckley (second half)
Minecraft Backgrounds
- TheKaemble
- Avenoire
- Brian Nguyen
Characters[]
Protagonists[]
Antagonists[]
- Dark Blue (debut)
- King Orange
Other characters[]
- The Second Coming
- Red
- Yellow
- Blue
- Pink † (debut/only appearance)
- Warden
- Skellington
- Medium-sized Titan Ravager
- Dark Mobs
- Music Mobs (debut/only appearance)
Trivia[]
- Different mob types use different tunes.
- This is Alan's third ever video to use a 3D view.
- This is also the first AVM short to use 3D.
- At some point, the thumbnail for the original video was changed to be the same as the reaction video. This was later reverted.
- In the second teaser of this video on Alan's community post, when Green talks via by note block to the baby zombie, he asks about Purple by making a note version of Purple and a question mark with the notes. But in the release, it was changed into regular notes.
Errors[]
- When Green creates more organized notes to talk with the undead, and asks them about Purple's whereabouts, Purple has a hollow head.
- Also, when the normal zombie creates a vision of Purple with music notes, he still has a hollow head.
All versions - Character errors: Purple has a hollow head in both shots: When Green asks the zombies where he was, and when the normal zombie creates a vision of him with music notes.
- When Green is in the village at timestamp 3:14, a village appears on the right, then starts running forward instead of running from the beginning. The same can be said about 3 villagers at 3:29 also on the right side.
- Skellington is missing from Blue's side in the split screen view after Purple punches King Orange.
- This error is fixed in the full Season 3 release.
Original episode - Split screen view errors: Skellington is missing from Blue's side in the split screen view.
- In the full Season 3 release, when Green and Purple fly through the nether portal, they begin to disappear by being sliced.
- They also disappear by being gone for one frame, before the camera moves to King Orange.
Full series - Flying errors 2: Both Green and Purple disappear for one frame, before the camera moves to King Orange.
- The black hole that King Orange had created looked different in The King, but had an older appearance in Note Block Universe.
- This error is fixed in the full Season 3 release.
Original episode - Black hole errors: The black hole that King Orange had created looked different in The King, but had an older appearance in Note Block Universe.
- King Orange's crown doesn't match his head movement when he falls off from Purple punching him.
- This error is fixed in the full Season 3 release the first time Purple's punch is shown, though the second time (in the next episode, The King) still has the error.
Original episode - Purple punching King Orange shot errors: King Orange's crown doesn't match his head movement when falling off from Purple punching him.
- In the AVG Reacts video, Dark Blue's neck is showing during the scene when Purple shares his emotional journey.
- This error is fixed in the full Season 3 reaction video.
Original AVG reaction episode - Neck errors: Dark Blue's neck is showing during the scene when Purple shares his emotional journey.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ "I love the little detail where Purple resolves to change for the better and gives himself a little halo, but Green brushes it off, because he shouldn't define himself by terms like good or evil. Instead, he is just human, and humans make mistakes." - Comment by D7Flare84 on this video, which Alan responded to with "Haven't seen anyone else notice this"