Girl cartoons

[NeonTurtledude]

Whether it's shows like She-ra,Jem, Totally Spies, Miraculous Ladybug, Rainbow Brite and Winx or Japanese shows like 90s Sailor Moon, Tokyo Mew Mew or Cardcaptor Sakura

what "girl cartoons" have you seen or which girl cartoons did you enjoy at the time?

(this includes both shows that were aimed at girls and shows that have characters who are mostly girls or women)

did you like the original She-Ra? I did, despite the dated animation, I thought her powers were cool

I'm not that into Ladybug, it's too repetitive

I love Sailor Moon though, I just adore the art style, the characters, the lore, the music, everything about it really, can't wait for the next film coming out

what I've seen of Revolutionary Girl Utena is really good

I watched some of the 2000s Strawberry Shortcake cartoon when I was a kid, it was entertaining

90s Sabrina was also good

if you can remember any other girl cartoons or shows I haven't mentioned like Moondreamers or Powerpuff girls, feel free to discuss them in this thread

[Allio]

There was a series that Mattel made called Ever After High. It is definitely my MLP:G4 replacement. Despite it’s “girly” appearance it had a wonderfully sinister bite to it. To get into what makes the series really good is long winded and I know none of you have the time for it. Just a shame that the combination of Disney killing the franchise with the much pathetic “Descendants” and Mattel’s incompetence on how to deal with the franchise led the series to a cancellation without majority of it’s stories to be incomplete. And I just have no Confidence that even if Mattel would reboot it, that they would do it Justice.

But remembering it now, there is just so much I loved about it:

The Existential dread
The generational trauma
Apple’s decapitation scene
Ginger coming to terms with her cannibal heritage
Cedar Wood’s existential crisis about her becoming human despite her blue fairy being dead
Cerise dealing with being the daughter of both Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf
Duchess Swan being a little Sh1t

Man. There was just so much good stuff in the franchise. I can’t help but think of a better universe where it was handled much better than the way it was treated.

Embarrassingly enough. This is the franchise that inspired me to become a writer. I got so enthralled when writing stories for this story and it’s characters that I came to realize that this is just what I want to do.

[ZariusTwo]

For the 80s, it was She-Ra and Jem.

I loved Maxie's World and Jewel Riders in the mid 1990s, and Little Rosie, there was also Sky Dancers.

Original Dub of Sailor Moon with all the catchy and incredibly cheesy songs, Princess Tenko and Princess Sissi were also shows I watched regularly in the 2000s on Fox Kids UK

[NeonTurtledude]

Originally Posted by Allio

There was a series that Mattel made called Ever After High. It is definitely my MLP:G4 replacement. Despite it’s “girly” appearance it had a wonderfully sinister bite to it. To get into what makes the series really good is long winded and I know none of you have the time for it. Just a shame that the combination of Disney killing the franchise with the much pathetic “Descendants” and Mattel’s incompetence on how to deal with the franchise led the series to a cancellation without majority of it’s stories to be incomplete. And I just have no Confidence that even if Mattel would reboot it, that they would do it Justice.

But remembering it now, there is just so much I loved about it:

The Existential dread
The generational trauma
Apple’s decapitation scene
Ginger coming to terms with her cannibal heritage
Cedar Wood’s existential crisis about her becoming human despite her blue fairy being dead
Cerise dealing with being the daughter of both Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf
Duchess Swan being a little Sh1t

Man. There was just so much good stuff in the franchise. I can’t help but think of a better universe where it was handled much better than the way it was treated.

Embarrassingly enough. This is the franchise that inspired me to become a writer. I got so enthralled when writing stories for this story and it’s characters that I came to realize that this is just what I want to do.

that's amazing, I know of Ever After High, I had a Raven Queen doll and watched the webisodes sometimes, I haven't caught up with it though but I have been marathoning some monster high films I have on dvd

[NeonTurtledude]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

For the 80s, it was She-Ra and Jem.

I loved Maxie's World and Jewel Riders in the mid-1990s, and Little Rosie, there was also Sky Dancers.

Original Dub of Sailor Moon with all the catchy and incredibly cheesy songs, Princess Tenko and Princess Sissi were also shows I watched regularly in the 2000s on Fox Kids UK

I also loved Maxie's world, I remember watching a few episodes of that when I was 11

I didn't catch sailor moon's uk run on fox kids, I watched it on youtube when I was 11 (before the days of Crunchyroll and netflix streaming),

I watched Jem on there aswell, I still love it for the music,characters and drama, I have one of the idw comics but it's not as good

[Allio]

Originally Posted by NeonTurtledude

that's amazing, I know of Ever After High, I had a Raven Queen doll and watched the webisodes sometimes, I haven't caught up with it though but I have been marathoning some monster high films I have on dvd

Don’t get me wrong, I have no issues with Monster High but outside of character designs, nothing really captivated me about it like it’s sister series did. I did watch everything up to 13 wishes though (which had an Ever After High tie-in.)

Though I did learn that Lagoona got in trouble for calling someone a c*nt not just once but twice. So that’s the extent of my “Monster High lore” knowledge.

[Cowabung-Gal]

Sailor Moon was my childhood, so was the original PowerPuff Girls (that show rocked).

[newfan]

I don't think I really watched many toons that would be considered for girls when I was a child. All my toys were girly but my shows tended to be those aimed at boys or mixed. I did watch She-Ra though, but I prefered He-Man of the two.

Not sure I'd count shows I've watched with my children, again, not many. I did buy all the Monster High movies when my daughter was into that and watched those a number of times, then they changed it up (light reboot) just before it disapeared, prefered it before they did that.

[Allio]

Yeah, everyone preferred the original over the lighter reboot. Mattel freaked out when they lost the Disney Princess license and decided to reboot Monster High to a younger demographic to make up for the loss. Clearly didn’t work.

There was some nice ideas I liked in the reboot (mainly Frankie was just up and abandoned by her parents) but…yeah.


Another one of Mattel’s shows “Enchantimals” is another that I believe is pretty much dead. Nothing really special about it out of little kids first furry cartoon. But they had two specials a couple of years ago that is just “WTF” funny. Like the two specials had such a startling contrast between them and the rest of the franchise that I can’t tell if I love them or I love the contrast. The second special just has some weirdly horny undertones.

[newfan]

Originally Posted by Allio

Yeah, everyone preferred the original over the lighter reboot. Mattel freaked out when they lost the Disney Princess license and decided to reboot Monster High to a younger demographic to make up for the loss. Clearly didn’t work.
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Ah that's what happened, I'm not sure if it was dying out anyway or if this killed it, or simply made no difference. I thnk they gave them powers here which they didn't have before. The whole look was just not the same, they looked... more clay like 3D than the glossy previous look. (I know that's not a good description)
They also got rid of a number of characters.

[Allio]

There is definitely an aesthetic thing that was missing. The old movies kind of have a dirty/gothic feel to it with Gen 2 looked too clean. On my account I posted about my thoughts of the new Nick version coming out

Original: Looks like the bad girls that your mama don’t want you to date. That parents aren’t about to buy their kid a “Barbie *hore”

Gen 2: gives you that clean older sister type of feeling

Gen 3 looks like when you tell your mom “I’m staying at Jessie’s place with a few friends and no boys tonight” your mom knows that you will be at Jessie’s place with a few friends and no boys.


And that’s of course not going into side stuff like the Monster High YA novels and the short lived anime.

[newfan]

Originally Posted by Allio

There is definitely an aesthetic thing that was missing. The old movies kind of have a dirty/gothic feel to it with Gen 2 looked too clean. On my account I posted about my thoughts of the new Nick version coming out

Original: Looks like the bad girls that your mama don’t want you to date. That parents aren’t about to buy their kid a “Barbie *hore”

Gen 2: gives you that clean older sister type of feeling

Gen 3 looks like when you tell your mom “I’m staying at Jessie’s place with a few friends and no boys tonight” your mom knows that you will be at Jessie’s place with a few friends and no boys.


And that’s of course not going into side stuff like the Monster High YA novels and the short lived anime.

I didn't even know about all of this, I thought there were Gen 1 and 2, then the 2D short cartoons they had.

I bought a number of the dolls (not for myself)

[Allio]

I pretty much hit all the stuff. Only other things is the webisodes.

volume 1/season 1 of the webseries is pretty much it’s own thing. There is a lot of retconning and contradictions in later volumes/seasons that it couldn’t be canon.

Volume 2 on onward is pretty much what “Gen 1” is all about, that’s the same timeline as all the movies and specials.

So assuming that the upcoming cartoon follows the live action movie’s canon, you have about 6 different versions of Monster High,

[newfan]

Originally Posted by Allio

I pretty much hit all the stuff. Only other things is the webisodes.

volume 1/season 1 of the webseries is pretty much it’s own thing. There is a lot of retconning and contradictions in later volumes/seasons that it couldn’t be canon.

Volume 2 on onward is pretty much what “Gen 1” is all about, that’s the same timeline as all the movies and specials.

So assuming that the upcoming cartoon follows the live action movie’s canon, you have about 6 different versions of Monster High,

There's a live action too? I missed quite a bit it seems, but then it's been a few years since I've watched or bothered with it.

[Allio]

It’s a movie that comes out this year

https://youtu.be/LwARA5T-7pU

Current monster high fans don’t like it.

[newfan]

Eh, Kids might like it, kinda gives me vibes of Disney Decendants.
I likely won't watch it or the new series but I did browse that and the new dolls out of curiosity. They really changed Calwdeen a lot.. dolls figures have changed too.

Anyway, I'll leave that there, first time in a long time I've actually talked more than one off posts on here... didn't see it being about Monster High

[NeonTurtledude]

I like some of the new character designs for the new "gen" of monster high, but Lagonna might take some time for me to warm up to, her colour palette doesn't really fit, it looks more like a separate character.

fun fact! cam clarke plays the recurring character Heath Burns in some monster high media

[Icebot]

Does the Legend of Korra count? I love that show!

I also enjoyed Totally Spies.

[Wesley]

I enjoyed Disney cartoons such as The Little Mermaid and Pepper Ann along with 00s shows like Powerpuff Girls and Totally Spies.

I’ve also seen W.i.t.c.h, Braceface and Cardcaptor Sakura.

[CyberCubed]

I've seen all of Sailor Moon but that's all. I considered giving Totally Spies a try but the show is much more of a kids show than I would have liked, so it's a bit difficult to sit through.