I love animation, both American and Japanese. I love a lot of anime, and I loved animated shows like Avatar and Spectacular Spider-man.
I feel like most of modern anime is shit, but that there has been a recent deluge of good american cartoons.
Unfortunately, most american cartoons suffer (sometimes more, sometimes less) from having to pander to a very young audience and so are limited in scope or hurt by it. Even Avatar/Korra had to avoid some themes and have a stupid comic-relief character.
Is there a very good reason why there can't be more american cartoons (comedy not withstanding) that are directed at a more adult audience (or at least not at "kids")? Have there been any recent attempts or promises?
I know there's some stuff like the DC Universe (which I personally don't like), but those are often one-time things rather than actual shows.
I feel like most of modern anime is shit, but that there has been a recent deluge of good american cartoons.
Unfortunately, most american cartoons suffer (sometimes more, sometimes less) from having to pander to a very young audience and so are limited in scope or hurt by it. Even Avatar/Korra had to avoid some themes and have a stupid comic-relief character.
Is there a very good reason why there can't be more american cartoons (comedy not withstanding) that are directed at a more adult audience (or at least not at "kids")? Have there been any recent attempts or promises?
I know there's some stuff like the DC Universe (which I personally don't like), but those are often one-time things rather than actual shows.