# Speaking of kid's cartoon shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** cartoons-animation\ **Created:** [May 19, 2022, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-kids-cartoon-shows/964656 "2022-05-19T01:37:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-kids-cartoon-shows/964656/1 "2022-05-19T01:37:59Z")
I was scrolling idly and came to a visually arresting kids show called [“Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous:_Tales_of_Ladybug_%26_Cat_Noir). It intrigued me just enough that I looked it up on Wiki. I have to say, if kids can follow the story in real time I tip my hat to them and will never joke about kids’ shortened attention spans these days. Does anybody follow this show? ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-kids-cartoon-shows/964656/2 "2022-05-19T02:43:54Z")
I’ve watched enough of it to mostly understand what’s happening. I could explain, but it would have many spoilers. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-kids-cartoon-shows/964656/3 "2022-05-19T03:17:05Z")
My sister was/is real into this Ladybug superhero show from like 2019 to present day, and has watched all the episodes, probably more than once. I sat through part of one and thought it sucked. She’s a freshman in college now. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-kids-cartoon-shows/964656/4 "2022-05-19T05:13:18Z")
I watched a couple of episodes on a trip to Barcelona because it was one of the only English-language shows on the hotel TV. It seemed like pretty standard “villain-of-the-week” magical girl stuff, except her power of MacGyvering together a way to beat the bad guy was a bit unusual. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-kids-cartoon-shows/964656/5 "2022-05-19T15:52:28Z")
this show has hit every major kids network at various points …its ok but I think marathons earlier stuff was better tho ---
**Author:** ![bmoak1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@bmoak1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak1)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2022, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-kids-cartoon-shows/964656/6 "2022-05-22T02:01:45Z")
An interesting show. I’ve seen the three seasons that are on Netflix and the show just finished its 4th season. It skews towards a slightly younger audience than current Marvel or DC animated shows. It’s basically a cross between a magical-girl anime and an old school superhero show, drawing heavily on Silver Age Spider-Man. The catchy opening is [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hT3HTinjI4). It’s a show that seems much more popular in Europe and Latin America than it is in the U.S. IIRC, when it debuted, it had the highest per episode cost ever for a CGI animated kid’s show and it shows. At the start it’s very much a villain-of-the-week show, slowly adding depth and continuing story elements but not well into the second season. I hear the fourth season shakes things up a lot. I like the fact that the show is unabashedly French. You see pretty much every landmark in Paris if you watch enough episodes and I like that the didn’t Anglicize the French names, so the main characters remain Marinette and Adrien and not, say, Mary and Adam.