I think they should do more adult cartoons.

Not inserting content for the sole sake of edginess would be one. Most adult cartoons are the equivalent of a teenager who inserts profanity into his/her sentences to sound mature. Profanity use doesn't make one a horrible person, but using it for the sake of sounding mature makes one immature.

In short, we need more adult cartoons like:
- Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law
- The Brak Show
- The early Aqua Teen Hungerforce episodes
- Mission Hill
- Oblongs (I'm refering to the early episodes as we don't know the nature of the post revival show)
- King of the Hill
- Futurama
- Venture Bros
- To some degree, even American Dad
- The early Family Guy

Some of these cartoons are more subtle with their adult tones, while others are higher, but have a good emphasize on writing.

To look at the subject of maturity another way, are adults who are well behaved and able to deal with problems in a clam manner less mature because their sentences aren't heavy on profanity? Don't get me wrong. I don't think poorly of people who use profanity, but the excessive use of it doesn't make one mature.
 
Also, I'd like to point out that the statement "Anyone who dislikes hentai dislikes anime" doesn't hold water, because anime is more, so much more than just hentai. Anime is a genre that covers a great deal of interests to many different age groups. Generalizing anime as simply appealing to only 1 type of interest is absurd. Again, It doesn't matter to me what you happen to be into, but don't try to convince me that your liking something contreversial is a sign of maturity because that's simply not the case. Adult and mature are not always synonymous.

Everything that's rated R or TV-MA isn't automatically mature, the same way that being gratuitously shocking and sleazy isn't a sign of maturity. If anything, that signifies the reverse. Before one can accurately define what makes something mature, it's necessary to understand the difference between being mature and dealing with mature themes.
 
To reiterate:

Gunplay and violence don't make a cartoon mature.
Swearing doesn't make a cartoon mature.
Stereotypes of various ethnic and social groups don't make a cartoon mature.
Blood and gore don't make a cartoon mature.
Nudity doesn't make a cartoon mature.
Sex doesn't make a cartoon mature.
Fetishist material doesn't make a cartoon mature.

Presenting such material in an intelligent, reasonable and artistically valid manner and not just dropping these elements into your project simply for the sake of doing so does make a cartoon mature.

Simply incorporating any of these things into a cartoon alone doesn't equate maturity; in fact it usually signifies the opposite. Like a child or a frat-boy who makes lewd remarks, tells dirty jokes and swears like a sailor on shore leave just because he can.

Maturity is the difference between presenting adult material in a well-thought out, well-written and legitimate manner as opposed to using it purely as an attention getting device.
 
What about Transformers The Movie?

Lets see, that movie had:

Graphic Violence
Optimus Prime and Starscreams Death
& Spike and Ultra Magnus Swearing

So I feel that right there at least qualifies the film as a PG-13 film. The second live action film though should have been rated R.
 
They know how to make cartoons its just some fans who believe 90s and 80s shows are the best just because they grew up in that period .I have enjoyed the cartoons this decade more than the 90s toons
 
If you want more adult cartoons, why don't you go to Newgrounds? They're not adult, but it has all the "mature" content people want.
 
... What was the point in adding El Superbeasto into that mix? Yes, it's an adult cartoon, but not a successful one. (Especially not critically.) No seriously, just the way you started out with putting a pro and then just going off listing randomly doesn't do well. Yeah sorry, English Nazi ahoy, I be grading ye posts like they be essays. *shot*

But seriously, I'm mixed. Yes and no I suppose, I mean, I like adult cartoons... when done right. But that's the thing, only a small amount can do it correctly. The only way it works is if it isn't forced and in-your-face about everything. If it's obscene BUT necessary, that helps especially.

Yeah R... for Repulsive, amirite? *brick'd*


Agreed most definitely. I like anime... but I'm not so keen on most hentai, and with good reason... hentai is usually so over-the-top it's just way too much for me. And in general, that's like saying that anyone who doesn't like cartoon rule 34 doesn't like cartoons, which is crap since most cartoon fans don't even like rule 34 lol. I rest my case.
 
I would like it if we had more cartoons like Justice League, but with a Mask of the Phantasm level of censorship. Seriously, that wouldn't be too much for the kiddies, and it would make the action more realistic.
 
Mcready, not sounding rude or anything but beasto shouldnt be added to the list. Not that its an adult toon but it got released onto Direct-to video. But most of the cartoons I remember growing up with where mostly 90's cartoons, but hence I didnt get introduced to bakshi's works till 2006. When I saw cool world.

Anime I'm 50/50 on...Some of its good while other times its bad.
 
I've just gotta say it... I think it's about time for a revival of the Sam and Max cartoon series. But this time, for a network like Adult Swim. I think it would be a better fit for the network than many of the "immature" adult series on there.

In my opinion, it wouldn't be too much to ask.
 
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