Hell yeah I do. In fact, I prefer them to live action. You can do more, and it looks nicer. Real life is fucking ugly and full of limitations. Cartoons are not.
Absolutely! I'm currently working my way through the absolutely bonkers Transformers Super-God Masterforce for the first time right now.
A lot of the stuff from the 80s is pretty hit-and-miss on revisiting, but some of it is still gold. In general, anything produced since 2000 is much higher quality.
I like the scope for world-building and story-telling possible in animation that isn't really feasible otherwise.
I like animation for both kids and adults. I like western stuff and animé. But mostly I just love the medium - I even collected animation cels!
Ha, it's, er, complicated. It kind of follows on from Headmasters, but is set in a world where people don't know about transformers. Optimus Prime seems to have never existed - there's a robot that looks exactly like Optimus Prime, but isn't, and nobody even bats an eyelid.
The Deceptions/Destrons are led by two powerful human sorcerers following commands from a weird glowing alien blob with tentacles called Devil Z.
The Cybertronians spend most of their time disguised as humans or monsters, and it's the humans that become the heads for giant robots.
Masterforce really feels like it's its own thing. I just think of it as an alternative universe, like TFA. Trying to make it fit in causes too many headaches!
I rewatch adventure time all the time. Also the future episodes are good but too short. I also watch Fionna and Cake but that is basically made for the fans of the og show not really kids.
Almost never… animated stuff doesn’t draw me in the way it used to. I kinda wish it did. But it also feels like it isn’t for me. Oddly, I did watch fluffy paradise from beginning to end in a single sitting. But that was the first in a few years.
Excluding anime (which I watch regularly) the newest cartoon I watched was Star vs. the Forces of Evil. I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone looking to get back into cartoons.
But the best cartoon I’ve ever watched was avatar the last airbender. Not many rise to that level of quality so its unfair to set the bar there.
I only ever eatch cartoons, everything sucks so cartoons make everything better. So much so that I even want my own cartoon. I've been developing a pitch document that I'd like to pitch to a company that I've been talking to.
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As an adult, it's only sad dramas and dreary procedurals for me. No time for fun what with taxes, job, and housework. I'm afraid it's all very serious, adulting. I'm gonna sing the doom song.
I have VLC streaming Toonami Aftermath on my second monitor at work, pretty much 24/7. It’s always fun to look over and see the weird shit that is playing. I’ve seen commercials for PS1 games, toys that don’t exist anymore, etc… And if I work late, they usually play DBZ Abridged on Wednesday evenings. That was a particularly funny discovery, because my coworker saw DBZ on my monitor, and mentioned that they never got into it. I turned the volume up just in time for us to hear Vegeta complain about getting hit in the dick.
don’t watch some cartoons if you want to preserve the memory of how fond of the cartoon you were as a kid
I think the best shows are the ones that are just as good as an adult. Avatar the Last Airbender, Gravity Falls, Spongebob before the first movie, Owl House, Phineas and Ferb, and plenty others. If anything, rewatching them as an adult helps you get jokes that went over your head as a kid. Some of those I only watched as an adult, and they were still good.
I definitely watch some content meant for children, because much of that content works with multiple age ranges. For example, Ponyo. That shit makes me cry like a bitch. Fantastic film.
The vast majority of things I watch are intended for mature audiences, yes. Movies and series created for kids specifically just don't entertain me, with a handful of exceptions. Shrek is love, Shrek is life, of course. I also really enjoyed a cartoon called Final Space, which I suspect is targeted for young teens but it's pretty good! Despite being canceled 🙁. If anything has a Disney/Pixar label on it I avoid it like the plague though, it's usually a cringefest for me.
I dont watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of the stuff taking itself seriously tends to suck. There are a few absolute gems, but most of everything else is like, petty, or bullshit, or garbage in some other way. There was this wave of reality-show fever when it feels like every damned TV show had to shoehorn some contrived petty drama that sidetracked from the interesting stuff and i got so fed up and checked out of the medium. It absolutely felt like every channel was doing it, inescapable.
Except for stupid cartoons. There's something about a show not taking itself seriously that makes it perfect. And the serious kids media wasn't made to cash in petty, mean spirited bullshit, its made as a reminder of some important lesson that we should not forget to pass on to the next generation. Yeah i prefer cartoons.
Like Saturday morning cartoons then no, I tried watching some old cartoons I grew up on like chip and dales recently on Disney+ and it made me realize how much they simplified the plots and dialogues for the kids, it was too boring for me. I do watch adult animation though and sadly so many people still think anything animated is just cartons for kids because of companies like Disney and Hana Barbera pushing that dynamic for all these years
Yes, I just finished watching all of Phineas and Ferb with my 32-yo daughter. Also Hey Arnold until it got taken off whatever we were watching it on. But of course nothing beats SpongeBob.
As spawners of demons, me and my wife have frequently discussed how people not watching shows and movies targeted at children are missing a whole genre of awesome stuff!
Adventurer Time, Ducktales (new version), Avatar the last airbender, Kipo, She-Ra and the list goes on and on…
Edit: Lego movies, arguably Lego Batman is the best batman movie.
There is a ton of stuff and a lot of it has been made so that it is enjoyable for kids but all the subtle adult stuff snuck in is just chefs kiss 😅
yes. i watched 4 or 5 episodes of Earthworm Jim yesterday. i rewatch Gravity Falls once a year or so. spongebob, pinky and the brain, and many others are all in my lineup
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in reply to Vader • •it's all we really watch... life is real enough....
there is a sprinkling in some cheap reality tv like chopped or bar rescue... oh and some comedies... but nothing super serious.
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Saturday mornings have been clutch now
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in reply to Vader • • •I have kids, so yes, I watch kids' cartoons. Today it was DuckTales.
Without kids, I probably wouldn't watch any tv except what my wife wants to watch. I'd always rather be playing a video game.
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in reply to Vader • • •Absolutely! I'm currently working my way through the absolutely bonkers Transformers Super-God Masterforce for the first time right now.
A lot of the stuff from the 80s is pretty hit-and-miss on revisiting, but some of it is still gold. In general, anything produced since 2000 is much higher quality.
I like the scope for world-building and story-telling possible in animation that isn't really feasible otherwise.
I like animation for both kids and adults. I like western stuff and animé. But mostly I just love the medium - I even collected animation cels!
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in reply to Endymion_Mallorn • • •Ha, it's, er, complicated. It kind of follows on from Headmasters, but is set in a world where people don't know about transformers. Optimus Prime seems to have never existed - there's a robot that looks exactly like Optimus Prime, but isn't, and nobody even bats an eyelid.
The Deceptions/Destrons are led by two powerful human sorcerers following commands from a weird glowing alien blob with tentacles called Devil Z.
The Cybertronians spend most of their time disguised as humans or monsters, and it's the humans that become the heads for giant robots.
Masterforce really feels like it's its own thing. I just think of it as an alternative universe, like TFA. Trying to make it fit in causes too many headaches!
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in reply to Vader • • •I watch plenty of animated stuff but not specifically kids stuff. Movies I would, shows not so much.
Books, though? Some of the best written and most interesting books I've read as an adult were labeled as YA books.
Never mind - looking through the comments at what is called kid cartoons, yes I do watch them.
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in reply to Apytele • • •I also watch Fionna and Cake but that is basically made for the fans of the og show not really kids.
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in reply to Vader • • •I still watch/watched a few as an adult and really enjoyed them.
Avatar: The Last Airbender
The Legend of Korra
The Dragon Prince
She-Ra (the new one)
Tron: Identity
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in reply to Vader • • •I've tried but they* don't hit the way they used to. And they're a bit louder than I remember.
* The Real Ghostbusters & TMNT. Both from the 80s/90s.
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in reply to Vader • • •Excluding anime (which I watch regularly) the newest cartoon I watched was Star vs. the Forces of Evil. I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone looking to get back into cartoons.
But the best cartoon I’ve ever watched was avatar the last airbender. Not many rise to that level of quality so its unfair to set the bar there.
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in reply to Toes♀ • • •If you haven't already I would also recommend the other kids shows in the same demographic as Star.
Gravity falls, Amphibia and the Owl House
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in reply to 48954246 • • •I've seen some gravity falls, really liked the characters.
Haven't watched the other two, how are they?
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in reply to Toes♀ • • •Both great stories told in cartoon form.
Owl house is my favourite of them, but Amphibia has a really good arc with great humour as well
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When I now see something I really enjoyed as a child, I cry.
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Unknown parent • • •I think the best shows are the ones that are just as good as an adult. Avatar the Last Airbender, Gravity Falls, Spongebob before the first movie, Owl House, Phineas and Ferb, and plenty others. If anything, rewatching them as an adult helps you get jokes that went over your head as a kid. Some of those I only watched as an adult, and they were still good.
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in reply to Vader • • •I dont watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of the stuff taking itself seriously tends to suck. There are a few absolute gems, but most of everything else is like, petty, or bullshit, or garbage in some other way. There was this wave of reality-show fever when it feels like every damned TV show had to shoehorn some contrived petty drama that sidetracked from the interesting stuff and i got so fed up and checked out of the medium. It absolutely felt like every channel was doing it, inescapable.
Except for stupid cartoons. There's something about a show not taking itself seriously that makes it perfect. And the serious kids media wasn't made to cash in petty, mean spirited bullshit, its made as a reminder of some important lesson that we should not forget to pass on to the next generation. Yeah i prefer cartoons.
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in reply to Vader • • •I've stopped for a while, like ten years at least, but picked them up again since covid.
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in reply to Vader • • •As spawners of demons, me and my wife have frequently discussed how people not watching shows and movies targeted at children are missing a whole genre of awesome stuff!
Adventurer Time, Ducktales (new version), Avatar the last airbender, Kipo, She-Ra and the list goes on and on…
Edit: Lego movies, arguably Lego Batman is the best batman movie.
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