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Hadley Hadley from Mississippi Since: Jan, 2001
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#1: Oct 24th 2011 at 8:14:32 PM

Am i the only one who's upset that title cards arent as prominent in animation as they once were? About the only current show i see that still has unique title cards is Adventure Time (im not counting regular show and brave and the bolds minimalist excuses for title cards). It was great in the 90s when shows like tiny toons, animaniacs, B:TAS, ren and stimpy, rockos modern life and others had unique title cards for each episode, but it seems that practice has disappeared for some reason.

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asiacatdogblue This Won't End Well... from Chicago, IL Since: Feb, 2010
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#3: Oct 26th 2011 at 12:12:47 PM

Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness use them as well.

All in all, some cartoonists find them irrelevant, or time comsuming or both. As long as viewers see the episode title on the screen(or through Di SH or Direct), the creators have already gotten their point across.

edited 26th Oct '11 12:13:20 PM by asiacatdogblue

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HeavyDDR Who's Vergo-san. from Central Texas Since: Jul, 2009
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#4: Oct 26th 2011 at 1:03:20 PM

Depending on what the animator is looking for, they can be seen as a disruption of flow or theme. Regular Show, despite being really surreal in itself, has the general idea of starting particularly boring/realistic, and slowly becoming more and more irregular. So having a title card that "previews" the episode comes off as uncanny and even as a spoiler.

Adventure Time, on the other hand, is wacky and flips-flops between being crazy and absurd. So having a title card is appropriate in that it's weird in itself, adding to the theme.

Personally I thought title cards were kinda abused back in the 90s, but I always like Ed, Edd, & Eddy's. Really absurd, graphic, and only slightly relevant, and how the text of the credits works around it was creative.

I'm pretty sure the concept of Law having limits was a translation error. -Wanderlustwarrior
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