There's a 26 episode anime series called Spiral. It's a mystery series about these blade children who are after a smart teenager named Ayumu. Along with his sidekick Hiyona, they defeat the blade children not through outlandish, overly long fight scenes, but through a series of puzzles and games.
I was thinking, what if there was a western cartoon like that? Something that doesn't involve giant lasers, of swords. Characters don't defeat bad guys by punching them, rather they defeat the villains through various Proffessor Layton-esque logic puzzles. Something like Gravity Falls, but more down to earth and focused on complex puzzle solving rather dropping clues at an overarching story. Do you think kids will like something like that?
I don't think a Kadath Cartoon would be TV-appropriate
Oh, you mean like a mystery sort of story where they slowly solve riddles and stuff? That would be nice, and I'm sure there's an example somewhere outside of Japan (who has quite a few of these stories in one form or another), but it'd be tough to pull off for the trained monkeys they employ as Script writers at most Californian TV production studios, at least long enough to meet the 100+ episode quota that's required for a new series to be greenlit by any Network that isn't HBO. I mean, chances are for a show like that to really work, it'd have to have some sort of ending in mind - absolutely unheard of for TV.
I don't think a Kadath Cartoon would be TV-appropriate
Oh, you mean like a mystery sort of story where they slowly solve riddles and stuff? That would be nice, and I'm sure there's an example somewhere outside of Japan (who has quite a few of these stories in one form or another), but it'd be tough to pull off for the trained monkeys they employ as Script writers at most Californian TV production studios, at least long enough to meet the 100+ episode quota that's required for a new series to be greenlit by any Network that isn't HBO. I mean, chances are for a show like that to really work, it'd have to have some sort of ending in mind - absolutely unheard of for TV.
Sort of. I'm thinking of a puzzle-of-the-week type show where the characters play logic-based puzzle challenges to defeat the villains in each episode. Think Cyberchase, but edgier, and with more complex, and higher stakes problems. Funny enough, I'm actually working on a pitch bible for a cartoon based around this concept I hope to pitch to a network when get older. I even started doing character designs for it.
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