Starblazers
As a kid in the '70s, all the cartoons on Wednesday afternoons kids matinee…Vicky the Viking, Maya the Bee, Heidi, Remi, Pink Panther & Hong Kong Phooey.
Europe I suppose?
Hong Kong Phooey holds a weird place in my brain. Like, I love it, but not for any good reason.
SpongeBob
Justice League and Justice League Unlimited
The Tick.
I really enjoyed the comic book hero shows, and The Tick and Freakazoid were great fun to watch as parodies of the genre.
I was so happy to see The Tick get a couple of seasons as an Amazon show.
I’ll throw in EEK! The Cat in with the hilarious and witty parodies
Doraemon
This is a very big franchise in Asia but rarely mentioned in the west, so let me introduce it to (most of) you :>
Doraemon is a robot cat from the 22nd century who has gone back in time to help a kid named Nobita. He has a lot of wacky gadgets to offer. Each episode is basically a story about one of these gadgets. They also pump out a new movie every year.
Ninja Hattori is big in Asia but unknown in the rest of the world as well right?
I don’t know about that. The authors of Ninja Hattori and Doraemon shared the same pen name though
Doraemon is incredibly popular in Spain, to the point that basically everyone no matter the age knows at least the premise and the main characters. It baffled me when I found out that it was largely unknown in other western countries.
Edit: I just remembered Shinchan, another anime that is huge in Spain but not very popular elsewhere.
I used to be scared of Tintin for some reason, but loved to sit around watching it.
Reboot
It may not be the answer I gave at the time, but it’s the best balance now of “liked it as a kid” and “like it as an adult”
Alphanumeric!
I’m terrified of rewatching it and it not living up to my nostalgia.
A documentary was released on the show last month. During production they were given the original master tapes for the show and have been slowly releasing all of the episodes in glorious 4k for free on YouTube. Check them out - they hold up to nostalgia better than you’d expect.
Make sure you check out the documentary that was released last month on YouTube! It’s called ReBoot Rewind.
Speed Racer
Wtf no one said TOM&JERRY??
I had a love/hate relationship with that show because I felt so sorry for Tom. Kept watching it though so clearly it did something right.
The background art in the early ones was beautiful.
I was about to type about tom and jerry lmao
ah, but only some of it was good. i disliked the czech ones or the ones by chuck jones.
I used to watch a lot of Boomerang in Latin America, they aired either OG Looney Tunes or Tom and Jerry for 1 hour daily
Blues clues
Invader zim
Robotech
Johnny Bravo
Professor Kitzel.
Tiny Toon Adventures, then Animaniacs.
Kinda giving away my age, but Animaniacs was right around the time I just started appreciating characters such as Minerva Mink and Hello Nurse.
