Comment on As adults, do you still watch kids’ cartoons, either old or new?
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Absolutely! I’m currently working my way through the absolutely bonkers Transformers Super-God Masterforce for the first time right now.
A lot of the stuff from the 80s is pretty hit-and-miss on revisiting, but some of it is still gold. In general, anything produced since 2000 is much higher quality.
I like the scope for world-building and story-telling possible in animation that isn’t really feasible on other mediums.
But I like animation for both kids and adults. I like western stuff and animé. I’ve been collecting animation cels for twenty something years!
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 days ago
That's the Headmasters one between S2, the movie, and S3, right?
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ha, it’s, er, complicated. It kind of follows on from Headmasters, but is set in a world where people don’t know about transformers. Optimus Prime seems to have never existed - there’s a robot that looks exactly like Optimus Prime, but isn’t, and nobody even bats an eyelid.
The Deceptions/Destrons are led by two powerful human sorcerers following commands from a weird glowing alien blob with tentacles called Devil Z.
The Cybertronians spend most of their time disguised as humans or monsters, and it’s the humans that become the heads for giant robots.
Masterforce really feels like it’s its own thing. I just think of it as an alternative universe, like TFA. Trying to make it fit in causes too many headaches!
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 days ago
Oh, the Pretender season!