What Are Your Favorite Cartoons , Cartoon Characters and Animated TV Series ?

[Mon0Zer0]

Yes I think at the time there was a bit of a furore with violence on kid's tv , and I also think that nunchucks and their depiction on all tv had been banned, so they even had to edit it to remove the weapons. Think they even banned showing nunchucks in the Bruce Lee movies of the time.

Remember it very well. I stumbled on some production art on ebay earlier this year. I use to love the funky background music to the Centurions, generally reminded me of Filmation's Flash Gordon, too. I don't think it holds up today though.

I'll try and avoid the obvious Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Vampire Hunter D, Cybercity Oedo 808, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Jack or I'd be here all day - but favourite cartoons?

The Simpsons and early Futurama. South Park. Bugs Bunny. Daffy Duck. Tom & Jerry. natch.

Bakshi's Lord of the Rings > Peter Jackson's, flawed though it is. In my ideal world Bakshi would have secured the budget to produce three fully animated movies without rotoscoping. Love the voice acting performances from Gielgud, Hurt and Holm. The music is also far better than Howard Shore's, imho.

I have a soft spot for fire and ice as it's the nearest we'll get to a Frazetta animation. I'm not as keen on Wizards, but I adore Ian Miller's production art (and his work on Fighting Fantasy).

The Rescuers - check out Milt Kahl's incredible line work - an absolute masterclass in animation. This was in that strange late 70's early 80's when Disney produced some strange and dark films - The Black Hole (incredible Barry score and ship design), The Watcher in the Woods, Tron, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Escape to Witch Mountain.

The Secret Of Nimh

Another Dark, Disneyesque tale from Don Bluth.

A Scanner Darkly

Pretty much every Ghibli film.

Aku no hana (Flowers of evil)

Amongst Anime fans this was widely hated for not being the generic big eyed, cute "moe" style, but I absolutely loved it. A story that exposes the hypocrisies of female representation, teenage angst, idealised love and strict Japanese social codes, all in a dirty, go-nowhere rust belt Japanese town.

Long, stretches of meditative moments - including ten minutes of just walking in silence in one notorious episode (taking up 1/2 the run time) accompanied by droning, hypnotic music, peppered with sudden frenetic outbursts. I adored the animation, the beautifully painted backgrounds, the direction. A brave direction for the director and mangaka to take the series. In parts it's almost like some weird art cinema. It's grubby, sexually charged, transgressive and sly in its humour. Far superior to the awful live action movie they made a few years later.

Berserk: The Golden Age Arc

Following the 90's tv series, they remade a small section of the late, great Kentaro Miura's epic Berserk as three movies following the fates of giant sword wielding tough guy Guts and his frenemy Griffith. If you've never heard or read any Berserk its a bit like the game Dark Souls (influenced by Berserk), Hellraiser, Robin Hood, Baba Yaga and the Baghavad Gita, Game of Thrones and Bible all rolled into one. The scope of the (sadly, unfinished now) epic manga really is breath-taking. Guts is the trope-maker for pretty much every giant sword wielding character in Japanese media.

Bloody, horrific, disturbing, beautiful - Probably the most powerful manga I've read. Even more fascinating is seeing Miura develop as a writer and artist as the story progressed.

In animated form the 90's series is better than the movies, but they're still pretty darn good!

I always thought that the Star Wars prequels should have been the golden age arc of Berserk with Anakin as Griffith.

Have A Nice Day (好极了)

Award winning Chinese animation, kind of reminds me of 90's indie cinema but dealing with Chinese social issues.

The Fake

From the director of Train to Busan, a very cynical and brutal animation set in the seedier parts of Korea.

 

[BAYLOR]

Remember it very well. I stumbled on some production art on ebay earlier this year. I use to love the funky background music to the Centurions, generally reminded me of Filmation's Flash Gordon, too. I don't think it holds up today though.

I'll try and avoid the obvious Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Vampire Hunter D, Cybercity Oedo 808, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Jack or I'd be here all day - but favourite cartoons?

The Simpsons and early Futurama. South Park. Bugs Bunny. Daffy Duck. Tom & Jerry. natch.

Bakshi's Lord of the Rings > Peter Jackson's, flawed though it is. In my ideal world Bakshi would have secured the budget to produce three fully animated movies without rotoscoping. Love the voice acting performances from Gielgud, Hurt and Holm. The music is also far better than Howard Shore's, imho.

I have a soft spot for fire and ice as it's the nearest we'll get to a Frazetta animation. I'm not as keen on Wizards, but I adore Ian Miller's production art (and his work on Fighting Fantasy).

The Rescuers - check out Milt Kahl's incredible line work - an absolute masterclass in animation. This was in that strange late 70's early 80's when Disney produced some strange and dark films - The Black Hole (incredible Barry score and ship design), The Watcher in the Woods, Tron, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Escape to Witch Mountain.

The Secret Of Nimh

Another Dark, Disneyesque tale from Don Bluth.

A Scanner Darkly

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Pretty much every Ghibli film.

Aku no hana (Flowers of evil)

Amongst Anime fans this was widely hated for not being the generic big eyed, cute "moe" style, but I absolutely loved it. A story that exposes the hypocrisies of female representation, teenage angst, idealised love and strict Japanese social codes, all in a dirty, go-nowhere rust belt Japanese town.

Long, stretches of meditative moments - including ten minutes of just walking in silence in one notorious episode (taking up 1/2 the run time) accompanied by droning, hypnotic music, peppered with sudden frenetic outbursts. I adored the animation, the beautifully painted backgrounds, the direction. A brave direction for the director and mangaka to take the series. In parts it's almost like some weird art cinema. It's grubby, sexually charged, transgressive and sly in its humour. Far superior to the awful live action movie they made a few years later.

Berserk: The Golden Age Arc

Following the 90's tv series, they remade a small section of the late, great Kentaro Miura's epic Berserk as three movies following the fates of giant sword wielding tough guy Guts and his frenemy Griffith. If you've never heard or read any Berserk its a bit like the game Dark Souls (influenced by Berserk), Hellraiser, Robin Hood, Baba Yaga and the Baghavad Gita, Game of Thrones and Bible all rolled into one. The scope of the (sadly, unfinished now) epic manga really is breath-taking. Guts is the trope-maker for pretty much every giant sword wielding character in Japanese media.

Bloody, horrific, disturbing, beautiful - Probably the most powerful manga I've read. Even more fascinating is seeing Miura develop as a writer and artist as the story progressed.

In animated form the 90's series is better than the movies, but they're still pretty darn good!

I always thought that the Star Wars prequels should have been the golden age arc of Berserk with Anakin as Griffith.

Have A Nice Day (好极了)

Award winning Chinese animation, kind of reminds me of 90's indie cinema but dealing with Chinese social issues.

The Fake

From the director of Train to Busan, a very cynical and brutal animation set in the seedier parts of Korea.

Impressive.

 

[BAYLOR]

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Marvin the Martian ? What not to like?

A few years back they actually did a comic crossover where Marvin the Martian meets DC comic's Martian Manhunter.

 

[New]

Pinky and the Brain - even now I love watch it

 

[BAYLOR]

Pinky and the Brain - even now I love watch it

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It was my favorite segment of Animaniacs. Goodfeathers came in a very close second.

 

[BAYLOR]

StarBlazers. A K A Space Battleship Yamato

 

[Lafayette]

The early Poppye cartoons. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Snuffles the Mouse, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Fractured Fairy Tales, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Sleeping Beauty, Johnny Quest, the Jetsons, and Roger Ramjet.

 

[BAYLOR]

Heavy Metal 1981 when I saw this on the big screen in 1981 it looked amazing , but some of the animation really aged all that well . The Taarna sequence still look s amazing . She's my favorite character in that film ,

 

[BAYLOR]

I remember that when the Flintstones was announced it sounded intriguing , when it appeared with its juvenile broad humor I was sore disappointed.
However , in 1960, I discovered The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends and that was a godsend!
I loved the puns and off the wall humor.
I thought the best part of those show was Fractured Fairy Tales narrated by Edward Everett Horton. These were really Monty Python-ish , I loved how they took some of the weird fairy tales were taken to logical conclusions in contra-balance to their wacko old-European content.
"Why do frogs have no tales .
Because they croak every night."

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I have the Rocky and Bullwinkle show on dvd. I love this segment in particular . In Sleeping Beauty , they spoofed Disney .

 

[Rodders]

I recently saw the live action version of Cowboy Bebop and really enjoyed it. I then went on to watch the cartoon, and I found it to be a genuinely excellent series, well recommended.

I need to get around to watching Akira now.

 

[BAYLOR]

I recently saw the live action version of Cowboy Bebop and really enjoyed it. I then went on to watch the cartoon, and I found it to be a genuinely excellent series, well recommended.

I need to get around to watching Akira now.

Ive seen the anime series , excellent . It s pity the Live action series didn't catch on.

 

[BAYLOR]

Blackstar by Filmation it's one part LOTR and one part Flash Gordon . Ran for one season , which is sad because it was pretty good.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Pirates of Dark Waters , stated as 5 part miniseries ans the it ran for 13 episodes in 1991. It was poradced by Hanna Barbara and it was oe the best series they ever did. The Animation was amazing for it time and the problem for her series was that it was expanse to make and it did really find an audience .

 

[thaddeus6th]

The Pirates of Dark Waters , stated as 5 part miniseries ans the it ran for 13 episodes in 1991. It was poradced by Hanna Barbara and it was oe the best series they ever did. The Animation was amazing for it time and the problem for her series was that it was expanse to make and it did really find an audience .

I think I remember that. It was a world of islands and seafarers but the water was turning black and unnavigable... was a lot of fun, if I remember rightly.

 

[Vladd67]

Pinky and the Brain was a favourite, with the ever popular Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Are you pondering what I’m pondering?”I think so, Brain, but then it’d be Snow White and the Seven Samurai…”I
And the lines that showed it wasn't always written for children.
"We need to go somewhere where we can find lots of models,"
" Rob Lowe's bedroom? "
And not forgetting the amazing theme tune.

 

[BAYLOR]

I think I remember that. It was a world of islands and seafarers but the water was turning black and unnavigable... was a lot of fun, if I remember rightly.

They could reboot this show as a live action series , Perhaps Netflix ?

 

[BAYLOR]

Beast Machines and Beast Wars