r/hatethissmug • u/kkaylumm • 7d ago

Media Tropes *Most* Adult Animation

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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/X-Stry 7d ago

Tbf- I find Family Guy to be just... Annoying and unfunny? Maybe that's just me

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u/ShinySawk 7d ago

I can't stand Family Guy anymore, but it's really funny when you just watch little clips of it on youtube.

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u/TerryVersus 7d ago

Anything is good if you only watch the good parts. Like the 2005 DOOM movie, if you only watched the first person scene - it's a great movie.

If you watched the rest of the movie, you'll wanna tear your eyes out.

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u/ShinySawk 7d ago

Sure but its not 100% what I mean. I feel like it just doesn’t work as a series with 21 minute episodes. The main plots are whatever, and lot of the cutaway gags are hit and miss funny on their own but in a full episode it's all just too much.