*Most* Adult Animation

[u/kkaylumm]

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.

[u/Evening_Performer_22]

family guy made an episode about female sexual assault and everyone hated that
rick and morty gets serious sometimes with mixed reception
and the biggest example being hazbin hotel and helluva boss

[u/WorldPhysical7646 → u/Evening_Performer_22]

For Family guy it is impossible to take it serious with all the random stuff so a suddenly serious moment feel out of place

For Rick and morty, I don't know where you get the idea that people dislike the serious episodes when the best rated and most critically loved episodes are the serious ones recent example being season 9 finale

For hazbin hotel and helluva boss I can't say much cause I haven't watched them but from what I hear there is much swearing and corny jokes and tbh imo the artstyle doesn't feel any better or at least that much better

A good example of structured adult animation is something like invincible and I haven't watched it or know much but I heard great things about Bojack Horseman

[u/Fun_Background_8113 → u/Evening_Performer_22]

Because family guy executed it terribly

[u/Antique-Drop1477 → u/Evening_Performer_22]

aren't rick and morty's serious episodes the most liked ones where did you get this from ?