movies/tv What TV show/Movie needs more fans?

[Sanic Screwdriver 345]

What TV show or movie have you watched (or currently watching if it's a TV show) doesn't have as big of a fanbase as it deserves? What is it? Why do you like it? Why does it need a bigger fanbase? Convince us to watch it! Feel free to add onto others' opinions and let us know if you choose to watch what we reccomend! Also feel free to reccomend something even if someone else already has, reinforce it!

 

Mine: My personal choice is Littlest Pet Shop, the new series. My friend recently got me into it and I was apprehensive at first and the first few episodes aren't the strongest, but now its one of my favorite shows. Its one of if not the funniest child friendly shows I've ever seen. There are also a lot of hilarious and cool references that it makes. There was a song that was basically an homage to Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, a song reference to "Thriller,"an entire episode about a character becoming a meme with a song parody of "Hot Problems" and the music is very good as well. Daniel Ingram who makes the music for MLP makes the music for Littlest Pet Shop as well. I highly reccomend watching the show. Try a handful of episodes before making an opinion as the first few episodes are a bit slow it soon picks up and becomes an amazing show! It has a decent amount of canary and stuff but its still a somewhat small fanbase so go on and make it bigger! What is/are your recommendations?

(Sorry for spelling errors and grammar mistakes on mobile)

[Alex Z 848]

Dan Vs. Seriously, that show is really underrated.

[Moonlight 7,287]

Dan Vs for me. It's honestly a really great show with relatable characters, it's funny, sometimes mean, and has great animation. It's definitely funnier than MLP that's for absolutely sure. 

[Frostgage 7,976]

The Legend of Korra needs more fans overall since Nick doesn't advertise it at all, and it also needs more fans from the original series. I can't stand the nostalgia snobs who refuse to watch it. I think it's just as good, if not better than the original series.

[Sanic Screwdriver 345]

Dan Vs for me. It's honestly a really great show with relatable characters, it's funny, sometimes mean, and has great animation. It's definitely funnier than MLP that's for absolutely sure.

 

Dan Vs for me. It's honestly a really great show with relatable characters, it's funny, sometimes mean, and has great animation. It's definitely funnier than MLP that's for absolutely sure.

 

I've only seen a handful of episodes but it IS really good The comedy is usually very strong!

[EpitomeOfTruth 243]

Any DC animated show, more specifically the fairly recent Green Lantern: The Animated Series. Due to Cartoon Network's stupidity, it only lasted one season, but what a fine season it was.

[GuillermoGage 246]

You also mentioned movie, so:

The anime movie known simply as AKIRA.

Yes, I know that it is well-known in the anime/manga otaku community, but you'd be amazed how many of your typical Naruto or One Piece-loving teenagers these days have no idea what AKIRA is.

 

AKIRA is a 1988 Japanese animated science fiction film about a group of biker gang boys living in the bustling-but-corrupt mega-city that is Neo-Tokyo in the year 2019, thirty years after the original Tokyo was suddenly destroyed in a mysterious explosion. Impressively, this expressive film gives almost no explanation for what actually happened until the very end, and simply opens with a silent birds-eye view of the city of Tokyo on July 16, 1988, high above the top of the highest skyscraper. and then a tiny black dot from the center of the city expands into a greenish-black orb and envelops the whole area.

 

The rest of the movie is basically about a Neo-Tokyo adolescent bike gang trying to rescue one of their injured members, an inferior boy named Tetsuo, from a mysterious military that is busy experimenting on humans to unlock the full telekinetic powers of the human brain. It is a gorgeous work of art. Both the action scenes and the simple-quiet scenes have awe-inspiring amounts of hand-drawn detail, and nuances in the way characters move, the way their cel-animated clothes and hair ruffle, their faces, to scenes that are full of billowing smoke, concrete, metal, and glass rubble. It is a very artistic film that is full of interesting, thought-provoking moments, told from the perspective of way more than just one protagonist-ic group's side.

 

The music is gorgeous. It is both futuristic and ancient at the same time.

 

I would strongly recommend seeing the 2001 Pioneer English dub. I guess if you think that this story set in a futuristic Japanese place would benefit from hearing the characters speak the original Japanese dialogue, I guess you can do that, but the movie still very much feels culturally strong in English with the 2001 Pioneer dub.

 

There are actually a number of interesting and funny lines in it.

 

Even tho this movie is, again, technically very well-known, it is absurd and unjust that everyone and your mom is not familiar with it. in the same sense that your mom is not an anime fan, but knows what Dragonball Z is. It is a 2-hour traditionally-animated film with 2D production values equal to the 1990s Disney Renaissance. Even if it is an R-rated film, that level of production values should make it more famous. Plenty of live-action movies have become well-known through word of mouth over the years with help from the Internet. It seems like AKIRA should have a much larger reputation. But alas, apparently animated films without little kid-friendly subject matter just have to be geek-ish and inherently like PG-13 direct-to-video superhero movies that are targeted towards a demographic that are already fans of anime-type culture or geek/nerd superhero-ish culture.

 

AKIRA transcends that. I don't even like calling it "anime", that implies connotations of otaku-ness. It is simply an excellent movie that happens to be a work of animation (by necessity for the time it was made at the very least) from the vaguely foreign nation of Japan.

[CC_Maud_Pie 6,431]

I would say Antiques Roadshow needs more fans. Who doesn't appreciate antique items?

Edited November 30, 2014 by CC_Maud_Pie

[Blue Moon 6,341]

Littlest Pet Shop is pretty good; not as good as My Little Pony, but the music is really diverse and good, and the characters are likable (Pepper Clark :3). It's also pretty funny. I thought the first season was really good, but felt the second season was a step down in quality. I have yet to see the third season.

 

Amagami SS is an anime I recently started watching, and it's pretty entertaining. The characters are all well-written and likable (at least, I think so). It's great if you want a lighthearted romance anime, though it's not perfect (can be really cheesy at points, and the pacing can be a little fast at points). Still, I think it deserves more fans.

 

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes was really good too. Well, the first season, at least; I have yet to see the second season or Avengers Assemble. It was really well-written, had an interesting plot, and had good characters. The opening was pretty good too, and the animation was nice.

[~Silver Essence~ 2,625]

Wander over Yonder, a wonderful fun little series that needs more love, especially since it's made by the same guy who's the husband towards Lauren Faust, Craig McCracken, reaching it's first season finale, I hope to see that series rise more with recognition soon

 

As well as littlest pet shop, not as great or amazing as most would say when comparing to MLP, but it also has a unique feel and humor that makes it stand out as a great little underrated series

[Pon3 76]

naruto and of coarse mlp

[Alex Z 848]

naruto and of coarse mlp

But, they already have a lot of fans. And both of their fanbases keep growing.

[TheMisterManGuy 344]

The Weekenders - In a time when live action, toyetic cartoons, kid friendly anime dubs, and super hero adaptations were taking over saturday morning cartoons. Disney was doing something different. Applying the creator driven approach to animation that the cable networks pioneered, to their One Saturday Morning block on ABC. Amoung these, was a 1999 gem called The Weekenders. 

 

What's it about? well it stars 4 adolescent 7th graders as they spend time doing fun things on the weekend, hence the name. If that sounds boring... it does, at least on paper. But the amount of millage they get out of this concept is amazing. 

 

First, the animation was really, really good. The ammount of fluidity and detail put in to it was impressive for a Saturday morning cartoon. Second, the characters. This is by far the shows strongest point. This show reminds me of Friendship is Magic and Gravity Falls in the sense that each of the main characters are normal, 3 dimensional people, with strengths, weakneses, quirks, likes, and dislikes. Not to mention, the kids actually act like kids, they hang out, they socialize, they ask parents for advice, they sometimes do the wrong thing. These aren't the fashion obsessed, 1-dimensional, teenie bopers Disney likes to shove down our throats these days, they're believably young.

 

Third, the world building and continuity is supprisingly impressive. Characters from previous episodes are often recycled for later, traits intact, and so are the locations. Not to mention, more and more locations are introduced, some are one-shot, others are permanent. It really makes this a diverse and believable town.

 

Lastly, the Voice acting and writing are awesome. While Tino & Carver don't necessarily sound like 12 year olds, their voice fit their characters so well, you won't care. The other performances are great as well. The writing and the style of humor however, is what really brings the characters to life. Rather than relying on slapstick, pop culture references, or sneaky adult humor, The Weekenders instead relies on character interactions and running gags. The dialogue is snappy, and the creativity put into these gags can be hillarious. One of my favorites is the Pizza place gags, where the Pizza restaurant changes it's theme, and name every week. The chemistry between the 4 main characters is also great. The dynamics of how they react to each ones actions and interests is always fun to watch. 

 

My only real complaint with the show is the 4th wall breaking. Every episode, one of the characters (usually Tino) will tell the auidience what plans they have for the weekend at the beginning, and give you a recap on what they learned at the end. This kind of breaks the flow of the show, and can really hamper pacing. 

 

Overall, The Weekenders is a fun, upbeat cartoon that was fresh, and original at the time. Where as Kids' WB and Fox Kids were trying to be edgy, cool, and action packed, Disney was offering more down to earth alternatives on ABC, and showed that you didn't need super punches, violence, or Pokéballs to create cartoons on par with those on cable.