Truly "Adult" Animation

Its Kon, also its really sad that Western Animation is looked down upon so much.

Just saw My Life as a Courgette (Zuchinni in the US) and that was pretty damn adult, I highly recommend it.

Generally speaking, I wouldn't exactly call Japan leaders of "adult" animation.

Æon Flux. It's a Base Breaker, but I like it.

Most of those are Shonen adaptations.

You should look at these instead.

edited 21st Jul '17 10:57:45 PM by Demongodofchaos2

x3 In terms of western animation, yeah Japan doesn't count. But animation in general, hell yeah. Historically speaking it is because of anime which helps popularize adult animation here in America. Shows and movies like Ghost in the Shell, Lupin the Third, Serial Experiment Lian, Cowboy Bebop, Akira, and Robotech pretty much helped paved the way for people to see cartoons as not just for children by dealing with more mature subject matter that an older audience can relate to.

I would say it's more accurate that in Japan, adult animation that isn't raunchy comedies gets made a lot more often. There still aren't that many overall, but it does mean you end up with some more notable or interesting stuff.

With all this talk of raunchy comedy, why not a adult cartoon that's comedic aimed for intellectuals? But instead of science jokss, it's deep philosophical you have to analyze to get it. It sounds dumb but xcd was on to something. note: yes it has been done before but i was thinking something else.

edited 22nd Jul '17 3:13:02 PM by ewolf2015

Futurama?

what did i tell ya but different.

Rick and Morty?

you got me.

Rick and Morty is still raunchy but it has an actual story with themes and consequences, creative storylines and jokes, etc. It's probably my favorite western adult cartoon of all time behind Bojack Horseman.

On a related note, why are animated horror movies so rare? I don't mean Defanged Horrors movies like Hotel Transylvania or The Corpse Bride, nor am I talking about the so-called "scary" moments found in some kids' animated movies. I mean real horror. We know horror can be accomplished in animation (the "B-17" segment of Heavy Metal is a good example), so why have studios been so shy about trying?

Does Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island count as straight horror? It was pretty intense despite it having a talking dog.

edited 1st Sep '17 11:22:57 PM by Kartoonkid95

I agree. That was REALLY scary.

Although I'm not a fan horror, horror cartoon sounds amazing. Also,there hasn't been teen/adult animation based on surrealist, advent grade imagery and maybe take place in a future setting. It's been done before but it would be pretty awesome of the two genres collide with each other.

I'd disagree about Rick & Morty having "an actual story with consequences." The show is very decidedly episodic, with most of its episodes being pastiche of popular media. Ongoing storylines are rare, and events rarely have an impact beyond the episode they take place in.

I honestly don't think Rick & Morty is as deep as a lot of viewers say it is. It's just got that trendy pop nihilism thing going.

Home Movies is very tame in terms of mature content, and the story even revolves around kids, but it's improvised conversation-style humor is very much made for adults.

that's why it's always a close second. It does change it's status quo from time to time, just not by much. Rarely does it have something meaningful if you been consuming media for as long as you have. I barely do it but never considered it feel but that's just because I'm a freaking dumbass.

Often the "adult" animated shows are animated only to provide an atmosphere of unreality; frequently the animation is poorly or indifferently done. Most often what you'll have is competent animation done from mediocre character designs.

To get more varied or experimental visuals, you'd actually have to get the producers to shell out money for actually good animation which, oddly, no one seems willing to do unless its animation aimed at kids/general audiences (likely because traditionally, animation for kids/general audiences makes more money that animation for adults).

Y'know, although I rarely want to do stories aimed exclusively for adults, my vocabulary and writing just isn't collage level yet, I think 8ight, another theoretical would do great with a well animated art style. Just have to have a good amount of animation to make it slow with the surreal imagery. Does help that the art style am aiming for is akin to Peter chung and moebius's work.

I kind of disagree about Rick and Morty not having an ongoing storyline because it feels like everyone on the show is reacting (poorly) to the divorce. Then again, I just started watching the show, so I don't know how episodic it was in earlier seasons.

There was no real sense of continuity until the TV episode called back to the Cronenberg episode. Even then, most of season one and two were relatively stand-alone in nature.

Reacting Poorly to Divorces is not a proof of having continuity. I think you probably meant that its a continuing storyline that is recurring in many episodes.