Update: A History of Adult Animation & Anime
Added 2024-06-21 00:09:20 +0000 UTCHey everyone. This last video actually had a guest editor, so I've been working on a new video for a bit here. It's covering adult animation in the West versus adult anime in Japan!
I had the idea after talking to someone about all the Big Mouth style adult animated sitcoms coming out that just look terrible, and I wanted to look into why that is. And at the same time, there was an announcement for a new Tomb Raider show that called it an anime, even though as far as I can tell it was made entirely in Texas. So I thought it would be a good idea to look at why adult anime and adult cartoons are so different. And what better way to do that than go through their histories and see how they developed.
The video is gonna be a longer one, but I'm aiming for the first week of July for it to come out. In the meantime, let me know if there's any adult animated shows you want me to cover, or interesting parts of the history you think I should talk about. Honestly, just give me your thoughts on the video in general, I'd love to hear em!
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ToryPurpleChanel
2024-07-14 02:29:02 +0000 UTCIs 6
ToryPurpleChanel
2024-07-14 02:24:16 +0000 UTCSameeeeee
ToryPurpleChanel
2024-07-14 02:23:14 +0000 UTCHello
ToryPurpleChanel
2024-07-14 02:23:06 +0000 UTCAnime and Cartoons are all the same to me, each of them has inspired one another plus there is no difference between them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Neongamerex
2024-07-06 18:40:10 +0000 UTCI hope to see some acknowledgement of 90s cartoons, bc even though some were technically for kids, were so viscerally upsetting or raunchy that they definitely shaped adult cartoons today: Beavis and Butthead, Daria, Ren and Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, SpongeBob, Celebrity Deathmatch, etc etc
Surina Slack
2024-06-24 12:56:07 +0000 UTCSalad fingers
Elmubarak
2024-06-24 05:54:09 +0000 UTCI would like to see how an animation style from individuals like Hazbin Hotel compared to netflix level animations. I feel like indie animators explore more with their styles, themes and storylines because they dont have to hit the mass market. Arcane is also a good one to mention when looking at art styles
Ted
2024-06-21 08:16:17 +0000 UTCI know it’s technically “all ages” not “adult”, and probably obvious, but I feel like Avatar: The Last Airbender has to be mentioned for opening the eyes of many animators and consumers alike in the ability of western animation as a medium to tell long, complex, and compelling stories. And that there is a large market of people who desire that kind of content. Looking forward to the video!
Steven
2024-06-21 03:37:01 +0000 UTCI think you'll likely hit on this in your research at some point, but the transition from theatrical shorts (Looney Tunes, Fleischer, Disney, etc.) being intended for general audiences and the subsequent evolution of animation into a commercialized merchandise driven vehicle is an important contextual note for why animation devolved into "just for kids " and why "adult animation" felt the need to so strenuously differ itself from it.
Grant Playter
2024-06-21 02:30:51 +0000 UTCI feel like a major difference between western television and "anime" is that most western episodic shows are... Well episodic. They're usually 20 minutes of one main idea that's only loosely connected to the wider story if at all. While in most anime there are definite plot lines that surpass the 24 minutes of runtime
Wowdude87
2024-06-21 01:53:40 +0000 UTCThere are adult cartoons that have a cool visual identity and are great like Metalocalypse and Archer. Then there are others that have a more flat look but are still great like Gary and His Demons and King of the Hill. And then there're shows that look terrible and are terrible like Big Mouth and Beavis and Butthead. We even have the legitimately bizarre Aeon Flux. We got the full spectrum! South Park, Central Park, Inside Job, Futurama, Disenchantment, Bob's Burgers, The Boys: Diabolical, Invincible, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Regular Show, Close Enough, Superjail, China Illinois, Drawn Together.... so many more to talk about, not enough time.
Matias
2024-06-21 00:46:23 +0000 UTCI am interested in the online/indie animation side of things, with how internet allowed people to make their own animation/shows.
DanganMachin
2024-06-21 00:43:27 +0000 UTCI don't necessarily know how "important" to adult cartoon history it is, but I would love to see Futurama. Just a personal favorite of mine. Also, curious if there's more history to Simpsons and Family Guy clones than just "those shows were massively successful so we're gonna do that too"
Zeldasavvy
2024-06-21 00:33:51 +0000 UTCI would love to see King of The Hill and other older adult cartoons included rather than just the newer iterations of the genre.
Emily Lindahl
2024-06-21 00:12:34 +0000 UTC
