What are your favorite cartoons of the 2010s?

[Egon1982]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

The 2010’s were a low point for cartoons and animation in general, this is when Cartoon Network went to hell and most shows had the same god awful flash animation look. DC animation went to crap besides Young Justice and everything went comedy.

However we had some good shows elsewhere:

TMNT 2012 (of course)
Young Justice
Justice League Action
Avengers: EMH
Legend of Korra
Star Wars Clone Wars and Rebels has great eps in this era

You into action cartoons and not comedy? what about adult animation like Castlevania?

Animation looks should not matter compared to good storytelling

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Yeah, I agree. (Although I know you didn't like TMNT 2012, I loved it)

But the 2010 decade in general is probably the worst decade for cartoons since uh...I guess the 70's? Far less shows that are memorable, way too much focus on comedy shows, less action, animation looks cheaper and more like flash animation than ever before, etc.

There were a few gems here and there, but overall this was probably the low point of western animation.

You can't be about how an animated show looks vs good storytelling.

One of my heroes Osamu Tezuka did said "A good story can save poor animation where good animation can't save a bad story".

Originally Posted by AquaParade

Damn. I'm struggling to think of a cartoon I love from this period of time. It's a mix of me not seeing much and what I do see not appealing to me at all.

Really brainstorming here....

Idk. The cartoons that come to mind are The Simpsons, Batman: TAS, Batman Beyond, King of the Hill, South Park.
None of them come from 2010 onward.

Oh. TMNT 2012, I guess. I don't love it to the point of having finished watching it yet, but I do think the first few seasons are pretty good.

And you don't think they compare to the 90s?

Originally Posted by PApagreg

Yeah no this is far from the low point of western animation, don't get me wrong action cartoons are pretty much gone but there are a lot of experimental and unorthodox series, Adventure Time has one of the best character writing I seen in a kids animation, we got two miniseries like Over the Garden Wall and Infinity Train both delve into mature topics like death and change, Amazing World of Gumball showed how well multimedia can be in animation, Gravity Falls and Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated showed that animation can delve into mysteries and Regular Show has one of the best character development in CN history.

And that's not counting adult animation where its really diversed in genres in the past years, there are dramedies like Bojack Horseman and F is for Family, Action(Seis Manos Castlevania and Lastman), Sci Fi(Rick and Morty and Final), hell Love Death and Robots is probably the most recent anthology I can think of.

And thats not mentioning Spider-verse that is pretty much revolutionizing the way people are going to use 3-D animation.

That's correct! i mean we have stuff like My Little Pony FIM which is this generation's Tiny Toon Adventures/Animaniacs, Bojack Horseman is this generation's The Simpsons (Back when Simpsons was worth watching as in 1989 to Behind the Laughter and Bojack is better than Zombie Simpsons)/The Critic/Duckman (remember that?), Regular Show is this generation's Rocko's Modern Life/Beavis and Butthead/The Head (as the creator of Regular Show is now 37 and grew up with 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s and 90s cartoons and knows his stuff), Love Death and Robots is this generation's Heavy Metal/Robot Carnival/Liquid TV, Primal is this generation's Fire and Ice, Adventure Time is this generation's Wizards, Castlevania is this generation's Spawn TAS/Ninja Scroll, Avatar is this generation's Gargoyles, Gravity Falls is this generation's Scooby Doo, F is for Family is this generation's King of the Hill, Rick and Morty is this generation's Futurama etc.

And some shows ended with grace like King of the Hill, Futurama, Regular Show, My Little Pony FIM, Gravity Falls and more while The Simpsons remains like a dying old man who's been on life support for a long time as i've come to accept it's gone and waiting for someone to pull the plug and turn off the machine as it should had ended with Behind the Laughter instead of becoming a rotting corpse.

And we have excellent animated movies like Spider-Man into the Spiderverse, Dark Knight Returns, Batman Under the Red Hood, Planet Hulk, Wolf Children, Tangled, Toy Story 3, Wreck it Ralph, Zootopia, How to Train your Dragon, Secret of Arriety, Kung Fu Panda 3, Secret of Kellis, and some other gems.