Not sure if anyone was on the fence about the remake because they liked the original, if so you can skip it. I thought maybe there was a slim bit of hope it would be decent but it manages to be worse in every single way.
I did a double take at the list of new 'clones' in the school, and got rid of one of the best characters / changed the voice actor for another simply to avoid any criticism. Seriously though here is who they add:
Among the new names are Confucius (Kelvin Yu), Harriet Tubman (Ayo Edebiri), Christopher Columbus (Neil Casey), and Frida Kahlo (Vicci Martinez),
They also replace the Principal with a woman, all the 'shadowy military figures' are now women and black people (literally all of them)...the writing was awful, late night show bullshit.
I'd say it is worse than Velma but I could only stomach half of the first episode so who knows it might get worse. Still stay far, far away from this shit.
Wasn't there a manga with cloned historical figures in high school thing, where Hitler was having an existential crisis because everyone hated him despite the fact that he, quite literally since he was an adolescent clone and not the original, did nothing wrong? And then he questioned why he was even made, cloned, and it turned out someone paid to have him cloned and educated simply so they could purchase and torture him afterwards?
Man, late 90s/early 2000s had some whack plotlines.