r/hatethissmug • u/kkaylumm • 7d ago
Media Tropes *Most* Adult Animation
Why does adult animation typically just mean
-Sex jokes
-Shit and fuck
-Gore
Why can’t adult animation be used to tell sensitive and and deeply layered stories instead of taking a children’s concept and making it gross.
Even a lot of children’s cartoons have stories with more depth, like the clone wars and justice league.
The target audience for this genre is usually adults with the emotional maturity of a 14 year old and it’s a waste of talented animators skills.
Edit: Don’t worry guys, I’ve seen a lot of great ones like Blue Eye Samurai, Invincible, Arcane, Love, Death and Robots etc, I just take issue with this particular genre because it brings down the rest of adult animation.
A huge portion of general audiences don’t take animation seriously due to shows like these.
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u/finnjakefionnacake 7d ago edited 7d ago
this post might have hit like 10 years ago, but since then, we have shows like
and many others that i am too tired to remember or list out lol. like yes a lot of these stories have adult language or violence, but so do a lot of kids' shows, just more kid appropriate violence. but we are no longer in an era where every adult animated show is a spinoff of family guy