Monster High cartoon adaption?

Kinda an odd coincidence, but I was looking through some back issue boxes at a comic book store today and came across an old black and white comic by a company named Sirius with a similar concept. It even had a similar name, Monster Highschool. It's such an obvious idea that I'm surprised it hasn't been done more often, though.

Check it out, they even used similar characters, like the girl Frankenstein, Dracula and Mummy and tried to go for a "hip" look.

http://www.comicvine.com/monster-highschool/49-28458/
 
Apparently, it's a big enough cliche to warrant having it's own trope: The All Ghoul's School.
I wasn't aware it's been done often in anime, as well. You really can't do much with this kind of setting anymore, except to keep it up with the times of modern teenage life.
 
The thing I find interesting is that one of the parties involved is Universal Pictures. I wonder if they'll cross-promote with their own monster properties.



The whole "unusual high school" thing is a trope in itself. There are monster schools, superhero schools, wizard schools, ninja schools, alien schools, Greek hero schools, etc. Cartoon Network even had that show set at a middle school for zoo animals.

I wonder if there are any genres that would work with the trope that haven't been done yet.
 
I still think whoever the creator was influenced by Scooby Doo And The Ghoul School, that is just my opinion.

It is a shame they don't have the ambition to have an action plot and actual villains. You could have both human and monster villains. I know they would not do something so inter spective but a human villain that is really evil wants to get rid of these monsters, only for the lession to be learned that that human is the real monster. But the monsters difinition that say Naoki Urasawa's Monster.

But getting my head back from the clowds, it is okay for a cartoon to be just fun and not much learning, deep and interspective. My Gym Is A Monkey never thought of that comparision. In terms of demographic and style it is more closer to MGIAM than Rosario + Vampire even though they have actual have monsters.

If they made a cartoon series, what network would air it. I could see FOX if they still have their girl saturday morning lineup, do they? I really don't know. Maybe CBS. As far as cable maybe Disney XD or Cartoon Network, or even Nicktoons. One channel I cross off the list is the Hub for obvious reasons, they are owned by Mattel's rivals, but than again you had WB series like Pinky and the Brain airing on Disney XD for a while.
 
FOX stopped their Saturday morning line-up for quite some time now, so CBS is the only hope for a Monster High series coming out on Saturday morning TV. Unless some block like "Toonzai!" decides to pick it up. (fat chance)

I think a Monster High series would fit good on Nickelodeon, since that's where the promos for the Monster High website were first shown...right?
 
They could have gone that way, but I think that Mattel was mainly trying to appeal to preteen girls. Anyway, every series doesn't have to be action oriented and be an epic struggle between good and evil. Just because Monster High School isn't action oriented doesn't mean that it can't be entertaining.




Toonzai wouldn't take Monster High School, since it's not an anime, nor is it action oriented. CBS has Cookie Jar TV, formerly KEWLopolis, so if that block still airs girl-centric programming, that's a possibility.

I 1st saw the ad for MHS on Cartoon Network during their comedy block, but I can't speak for everyone.
 
Kewlopolis was laser targeted at young girls. Cookie Jar TV seems to skew a even younger, though, and probably younger than this show. Seems like Monster High would appeal more to pre-teens who are experiencing middle school and dreaming about high school. Of course, very little kids like Miley Cyrus so a high-school setting apparently isn't a turnoff for elementary school children.
 
If this got animated, and was mostly set at the school, I could see this as very similar to the 80's series Beverly Hills Teens (with a monster spin), while if it varies in its settings (school, students homes, places around the area where the kids hang out, etc.), it would seem to be like the Trollz series from a few years back, rather than the Bratz series that some have compared it to. In either case, it would mostly be comedic but could have some serious plotlines that could run a few eps at a time (like the aforementioned Trollz show). If it's animated in a similar fashion as the commercials, I'd definately check it out.
 
That's actually kind of a neat little twist, actually. Usually, when they include Medusa in with the gothic monsters for a kids' property, it's because they need a female character to round out the cast. Here, they turned that on its head by making the token male character a Gorgon instead.
 
I bumped this thread up because it is October when Halloween specials come on.

I wonder if they will do a Monster High Halloween special. Weather or not they ever do a series, they have to do a Halloween special? And do this year, it could be a unoffical pilot.
 
I think they will, and I hope they do. I was going to make a webcomic poking fun at it (and monster themed schools in general) and it'd be a nice tie-in.
I was actually going to make it back when the franchise started advertising, but I wanted to wait for October since it seemed appropriate.

Still I like the idea of Monster High. Finally, a franchise young girls won't be tempted to imitate.
God willing.
 
Well if they have a Hallowen party would they dress up as humans? Do humans excist in their reality?

Maybe their version of beauty and ugliness is reversed. Like if somoene dressed up as a model that is a monster costume, and if you dress up like a old lady hag, that is a glamous costume, etc.

If it airs on television, Cartoon Network should air it. They really love to play up the Halloween specials in October (as well as Christmas specials in December) it would fit right in with the billionth airing of Scarry Godmother.
 
In one of the online shorts, I saw a seemingly human female in the background. Kind of freaky, actually. When I saw her I was like, "Who let the normie in?"

When it comes to who's airing it, I think if anyone, it'll be Nick. CN doesn't really like girly shows.
 
I just watched a couple of those shorts on their YouTube account.

It wasn't all that bad. It's pretty run-of-the-mill high school antics, but they were clearly having fun with the monster stuff. Fun stuff for 2 minute shorts, but can it be stretched out for 30 minutes without growing thin?

It does seem like sooner or later it'll get a special/TV pilot. I just hope it goes with the traditional animation seen in the commercials rather than the flash used in the shorts.
 
I bought this comic book, by the way. I haven't read it but the art is disappointing. I was expecting more of a clean iconic look but it's definitely got a scratchy, dark Jhonen Vasquez thing going on, although the linework does get cleaner in later issues.
 
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