Western Animation - Discuss American, Canadian, and European cartoons here (or just bitch about wokeshit, I guess)

[Castoreum]

Are there any good cartoons anymore? The /co/nsensus seems to be that there's no good shows anymore and people are just worshipping mediocrity because it never has the chance of falling as far as Adventure Time or Steven Universe did and people feel safe in that reassuring nothing.

To be fair, /co/ and the scope of entertainment boards on 4chan in general is to hate everything. /co/ is also full of coom-brained degenerates. I wouldn't rely on them for an honest consensus about anything.

 

[starborn427614]

To be fair, /co/ and the scope of entertainment boards on 4chan in general is to hate everything. /co/ is also full of coom-brained degenerates. I wouldn't rely on them for an honest consensus about anything.

If anything, consensus on both those shows is all over the place on /co/. This is going back years when I last went on there though.

 

[Trollblade69]

To be fair, /co/ and the scope of entertainment boards on 4chan in general is to hate everything. /co/ is also full of coom-brained degenerates. I wouldn't rely on them for an honest consensus about anything.

Then who am I supposed to rely on for anime/cartoon recommendations? Obviously I'm not gonna be asking Reddit for their opinions.

 

[starborn427614]

Then who am I supposed to rely on for anime/cartoon recommendations? Obviously I'm not gonna be asking Reddit for their opinions.

You could just pick something at random, but that's not really very efficient. Here's my recommendations: if you want something light, try Hilda on Netflix. If you want something more action-based and recent, try X-Men '97 on Disney Plus.

Pirating is, of course, morally acceptable.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Then who am I supposed to rely on for anime/cartoon recommendations? Obviously I'm not gonna be asking Reddit for their opinions.

At this point, stick to friend circle recommendations. If you don't have a friend circle into anime/animation, find a local club/convention and try that.

We broke the stigma so hard we've gone back to high school years in a span of a decade. It's astounding.

 

[Castoreum]

Then who am I supposed to rely on for anime/cartoon recommendations? Obviously I'm not gonna be asking Reddit for their opinions.

You look at what's coming out, find what you're interested in, and watch a couple of episodes before deciding to drop a show or not. And when you get bored waiting for new episodes, you try watching something you normally wouldn't. That's what I do.

 

[starborn427614]

You look at what's coming out, find what you're interested in, and watch a couple of episodes before deciding to drop a show or not. And when you get bored waiting for new episodes, you try watching something you normally wouldn't. That's what I do.

The rule of three (episodes), never fails. Anime or western animation and everything in between.

 

[Trollblade69]

You could just pick something at random, but that's not really very efficient. Here's my recommendations: if you want something light, try Hilda on Netflix. If you want something more action-based and recent, try X-Men '97 on Disney Plus.

Pirating is, of course, morally acceptable.

Watched Hilda, thought it was okay to good but it wasn't using any of its characters enough to my liking so I'm frustrated with the amount of praise it gets on /co/, and how much attention their girls get despite how unused they went.
Never watched the original X-Men show.

And no shit I'm pirating, paying money for entertainment is a sucker's game.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

I'm frustrated with the amount of praise it gets on /co/,

Man, stop seeing /co/.
I left that place somewhat in 2019 before founding my way here.
That board is full of coomers and azulafags. Believe me.

 

[Trollblade69]

That board is full of coomers and azulafags. Believe me.

Waifuing Azula is tolerable. Shipping Zucest and Zuki is where it becomes irredeemable.

 

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

Watched Hilda, thought it was okay to good but it wasn't using any of its characters enough to my liking so I'm frustrated with the amount of praise it gets on /co/, and how much attention their girls get despite how unused they went.
Never watched the original X-Men show.

And no shit I'm pirating, paying money for entertainment is a sucker's game.

The worst thing about /co/ (besides the gooners) is the fucking spammers that target every thread. God, the moderation there is garbage

 

[A Grey Cat]

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>No Nicktoons shows pre-Loud House
>No DBZ KAI or GT
>No Digimon S1 & S2
>No Three Delivery
>No Making Fiends
>No Kappa Mikey
>No Random Cartoons
>No ATLA
>No MLAATR
and lastly, No FOP
https://twitter.com/MegumiBandicot/status/1772734930163753271

Sooo not only is the name nicktoons meaningless, it's no longer what the network was ser out to be? The network launched on what was the 11th anniversary of its namesake with the idea to provide 24 hours of nonstop animation without commercials and rerun older shows that were no longer being rerun on the main channel or stuff that had never been seen in the US before.


For no reason beyond, "it's been on my mind a lot latley." Let's compare this lineup to what nick did in 1998. We had the premiere of the wild thornberrys, oh yeah cartoons, catdog, cousin skeeter. Anamorphs and Charlie brown began airing on the network, and shows like angry beavers, kablam, kenan and Kel and hey arnold all got new seasons. (It was also sadly the last year Jim Hensons Muppet babies aired on the network)

Ser the difference on variety? Mock 90s kids hitting the big 3 0 all you want as each year of the 2020s ticks by, but never forget they were right to say they were (one of) the last generations who had actual variety in their entertainment.

 

[SpiderBitch]

but never forget they were right to say they were (one of) the last generations who had actual variety in their entertainment.

Genuinely, with most kids ive seen recently (at least male ones), once theyre too old for Paw Patrol their main forms of entertainment become youtube and video games. The past decade or so ive seen more minecraft themed birthday parties than any sort of cartoon excluding toddler stuff and Frozen.

Theres also a decent variety on streaming, I wonder how many kids in 2024 are even watching tv through a channel

 

[starborn427614]

Genuinely, with most kids ive seen recently (at least male ones), once theyre too old for Paw Patrol their main forms of entertainment become youtube and video games. The past decade or so ive seen more minecraft themed birthday parties than any sort of cartoon excluding toddler stuff and Frozen.

Theres also a decent variety on streaming, I wonder how many kids in 2024 are even watching tv through a channel

Ratings basically reflected this change across the board during the late 2010's. In regards to CN, there were only about 3 shows that regularly got near to (or just over) a million views an episode. The rest were embarrassingly low.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

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>No Nicktoons shows pre-Loud House
>No DBZ KAI or GT
>No Digimon S1 & S2
>No Three Delivery
>No Making Fiends
>No Kappa Mikey
>No Random Cartoons
>No ATLA
>No MLAATR
and lastly, No FOP
https://twitter.com/MegumiBandicot/status/1772734930163753271

More than a few days late on this one, but considering Nickelodeon is going through controversy regarding their sex offender situation with Nick producers grooming and sexualizing children on the recent documentary that made Drake Bell came out and say he was was sexually abused, it just shows that putting out nothing but The Loud House as your #2 hit is either tone deaf or just shows that no kid under the age of 17 is watching your network.

How do you not even show The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron or Hey Arnold?

 

[Trilby]

More than a few days late on this one, but considering Nickelodeon is going through controversy regarding their sex offender situation with Nick producers grooming and sexualizing children on the recent documentary that made Drake Bell came out and say he was was sexually abused, it just shows that putting out nothing but The Loud House as your #2 hit is either tone deaf or just shows that no kid under the age of 17 is watching your network.

How do you not even show The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron or Hey Arnold?

Face it, the channel is a shell of its former self.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Face it, the channel is a shell of its former self.
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How does it feel? To watch everything you knew and loved, your cherished childhood memories crumble to dust, turn to ash before your very eyes because the smoke and mirrors have lifted and you see the suffering behind the eyes of all those young stars and actors?

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

How does it feel? To watch everything you knew and loved, your cherished childhood memories crumble to dust, turn to ash before your very eyes because the smoke and mirrors have lifted and you see the suffering behind the eyes of all those young stars and actors?

It's sort of like being British.

 

[starborn427614]

It's sort of like being British.

Hurtful, but not inaccurate.

 

[Trilby]

How does it feel? To watch everything you knew and loved, your cherished childhood memories crumble to dust, turn to ash before your very eyes because the smoke and mirrors have lifted and you see the suffering behind the eyes of all those young stars and actors?

in fairness, I stopped watching Nick in 1990 so none of it's later years is of concern to me.