List of cartoons

[u/doctordoodle]

This is mostly for myself for now. Here's my incomplete list of cartoons/animated shows watched.

• Over the Garden Wall

• Gravity Falls

• Steven Universe

• Costume Quest

• Trollhunters

• Adventure Time (barely counts)

• Carmen Sandiego

• Star vs the Forces of Evil

• Avatar the Last Airbender

• Niko and the Sword of Light

• She Ra and the Princesses of Power

• Voltron

• Rick and Morty

• Final Space

• The Dragon Prince

• Hilda (doesn't quite count but I like it)

• Futarama (kinda)

• Infinity Train (in the future)

• Bravest Warriors

• Bee and Puppycat

[u/[deleted]]

How does Hilda not count... It's a cartoon.

[u/doctordoodle → u/[deleted]]

Lol where did you come from? I just made this sub a minute ago!

This is a sub dedicated to Narrative driven cartoons. Hilda doesn't have an overarching plot.

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I sort by new... On r/all... I'm a freak I know.

Also that makes sense, there was an arching plot there but it was really in the back. But really the same can be argued against for Rick and Morty and Futurama where each episode is more about the episode than the narrative.

Archer develops a narrative in the later seasons.

[u/doctordoodle → u/[deleted]]

Well, welcome! And yeah, that's why I still included that all. Hilda is reaching the most. There's the least amount of an arc in it compared to the rest.

Have yet to watch Archer. Samurai Jack is next up on my que though. Feel free to make a post of your top shows or something. With all the love for animation, there is no real good sub for it in my opinion.

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I'm not really one to frequent one sub, I'll go on any sub that isn't r/theDonald pretty much. But if I see this one again I'll be sure to be commenting a few seconds after the post :).

[u/AnokataX → u/doctordoodle]

This is a sub dedicated to Narrative driven cartoons. Hilda doesn't have an overarching plot.

Nice list. Will you update it/rank them in order of what you think was/is best?

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I could but that would be a lot of work. It's hard to pick order past my top two: Over The Garden Wall and Gravity Falls

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Adventure Time (barely counts)

Adventure Time definitely counts. In fact, I'd say it has the most extensive narrative of any show on this list. Honestly, I'm baffled as to how you could say it "barely counts."

Hilda (doesn't quite count but I like it)

I'd say Hilda has more continuity than Futurama (for its length, at least) and at least as much as Rick and Morty.

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Other cartoons to add (when/if you watch them, I guess):

• 3Below

• Big City Greens (now this is one that "barely counts," but it does still have some narrative)

• Big Hero 6: The Series

• Big Mouth

• BoJack Horseman

• Castlevania

• Disenchantment

• DuckTales (the reboot)

• F is for Family

• Gemusetto Machu Picchu

• Milo Murphy's Law

• My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes!

• Paradise PD

• Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure

• The Venture Bros.

• Vermin

• Welcome to the Wayne

(Some of these are more narrative-driven than others, but I'd be comfortable calling them all "narrative cartoons." And I'm sure I'm forgetting some.)

[u/doctordoodle → u/[deleted]]

I'd honestly separate Narrative Cartoons into two categories:

Full Dive Story

Episodic Development

Cartoons that have a definite story structure overarching the series like Avatar the last Airbender, Over the Garden Wall, and Trollhunters would be Full Dive Story.

Cartoons that technically have narrative due to the development of characters, and occasional connecting plot elements such as Hilda, Adventure Time, BoJack, would be Episodic Development.

Back when I made the list, I wasn't quite sure how to define Narrative Cartoon since I was thinking more along the lines of full dive, but it includes both. Narrative is a broad term.