I’m getting into archiving animated media from all countries from my lifetime and a decent bit before (70s-today, animated includes claymation/stop motion/puppetry i suppose through cgi)

Like I’m currently watching lavender castle. Very enjoyable old thing.

I’m looking for weird shit you grew up on. Bonus if it’s dubbed in English but i’m willing to do subtitles to experience the weirdest shit aimed at your youth.

Video links appreciated, if available.

  • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Here in Canada we had a couple shows that stood out.

    First wasn’t Canadian but a British Import but they still showed it a lot here. Count Duckula. Basically this duck is a vampire except he doesn’t drink blood, he’s a vegetarian. And it was kinda like Doctor Who as there were several different “generations” of Count Duckula would would die and come back and each one had it’s own personality with the most recent one, the one the show is about, being a vegetarian vampire.

    Next would be held near and dear to many Canadians my age, The Raccoons. A small group of Raccoons that try to save their forest from deforestation by an evil guy. The thing about the Raccoons was while it was a kids show it had plot points that were very mature and sophisticated that honestly anyone of any age could enjoy it. romance, action, humour, etc were all quite mature. Also the ending theme “Run with us” was a hell of a damn banger. But some of the stories did get quite dark. I remember as a kid honestly being scared of a couple Raccoons episodes. also it’d be a crime for me not to post the awesome ending theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEkSzcGIfW0

    But for whatever reason a lot of Canadian cartoons, like The Raccoons, were quite mature. Reboot and Beasties comes to mind (Transformers: Beast Wars for those in the US). Reboot started out fairly light hearted but the story quickly went to a more mature and dark setting. Same with Beasties. Beasties was interesting because in later seasons they had way more callbacks and plot points from the original G1 Transformers 80s cartoon where the show kinda transitioned from being a kids show to one where Teenagers could enjoy it because they watched the original 80s Transformers. Like it took what happened to the original Transformers and matured the story to the point that the show is so incredibly influential to the overall Transformers lore today that most of the plot and story elements still exist.

    finally you have Totally Spies which while likely isn’t a hidden gem it is Canadian. It started out as a joint French/Canadian project but the later seasons were done entirely in Canada. a psychologist could have a field day with that show.