Favourite TV shows and how they've influenced you~

I don't watch TV as much as I used to, and even then it wasn't a whole lot, but I do have two favorites.

Roseanne - You may or may not have heard of it, but a quick summary of it is its a 1980s-1990s ish sitcom about a poor family and common struggles ish. My mom was the one who showed it to me at some point when I was younger, and I ended up liking it a lot, so... :>

Boku No Hero Academia - Blame my friends for getting me into this. It's basically an anime about these kids with superpowers attending school so they can can become heroes. My sister actually has a cosplay or two of some of the characters in it.

I do have a bunch of animes my friends want me to watch though, so no promises on wether it not this list will get longer

Edit: oh hey page topper hello

brooklyn nine-nine reignited my love for tv, it’s so unique and makes me so happy.

What influenced me was my first Anime, and its Yuri On Ice. Basically it was my first touch-down on anime and later i started watching more anime. And also it introduced me to the world of LGBT community, as previous of that i thought same sex relationships were weird and unnatural, obviously now i thing its really normal and support anyone who likes the same sex!

My favorite TV series is Law & Order, plus I like lots of other police and true-crime programming...I write about a lot of police characters, so that's probably influenced it, though I had police characters long before I became a fan of the series.

I can't really pin-point one exact favourite show, tho for most of my life My Little Pony:FIM has been my favourite, but now I really don't have just one, but in a way it made me really love writting female characters, maybe too much hahaha!

I'm very into characters like ghost, angels, demons, etc. So much so that I have an entire story where mostly all characters are dead, I'm sure I got this from a lot of other franchises and all but I think most of it came from how intrigued I was when I first watched Noragami, one of my first animes ever watched. Other than that most of it comes from how much I love to get creppy things and make something not horror-related out of it!

I could probably say a lot more but my inspirations are all over the place! Hahaha!

Gravity Falls, Star vs the Forces of Evil, My Little Pony (don't judge me please), Hilda, and Trollhunters. There are various parts of these shows I've tried to integrate into my art style

I guess I'll be mentioning the ones that inspire my story for now...I would mention series that influence my general OCs, but they're quite all over the place plus these ones left a bigger impression to not only my OCs, but my overall interest and artstyle, hahah. 

Also, it's good to see Digimon being mentioned and praised here. I agree that it's really surprising that an anime targetted for kids deals with issues like child facing difficulties such as harsh expectations, being forced to deal with deaths and family divorce, etc. It shows that no kids' life are entirely perfect, and they can deal with these issues even at a young age... Which is well, as you can see, its a recurring theme among my OCs and story that they're facing their first "misfortunes" and will have to survive hardships that early of an age with little choices and assistance to rely on. While my story is not entirely kids-demographic targetted, the main cast consists of that because I believe the concept of misfortunes turning someone's life upside down impacts the youngers more compared to...well...can you imagine a middle-aged salarymen, with so many stuff to worry on their hands, having to care about a magical sports? Hahah.

Aside from Digimon, my other favourite series of all time is...well, called Crash B-Daman. I won't lie that its THE biggest influence in my art, designs and many other things. If you look hard enough into my old works of my OCs there's clearly a lot of inspirations being drawn from the series despite how much I'm trying to lessen the obvious inspiration now fgsgdgdhasgdgd- Crash B-Daman is...not perfect, and considered the worst post-2000's B-Daman series by fandom, but people fail to acknowledge that Crash B-Daman exist because they want to target to larger demographic including mature audience, which is why some themes is considered "darker" compared to other B-Daman series... (especially the manga, its barely about the toys and more nightmare fuel tbh) plus its mangaka is one of my biggest inspiration as a creator...

Idk, as I mentioned in another thread, I like those kiddy sports/tournaments based animes despite how predictable or long they are is because I adore the concept of "the power of friendship", no matter how cheesy it is? Plus a lot of stuff for general audiences sometimes deals with depressing themes really good because you want audiences of all age to be able to relate to the characters' POV and all, which is a thing I'm aiming in my characters ( regardless of audience type) hahah.

Other than these two, highlights to other favs of mine that includes Metal Fight Beyblade, Angelic Layer and Cardfight!! Vanguard...And few others outside of similar genre like Angel Beats, M.A.R and Black Rock Shooter. Clearly these series have contributed at least one thing into my OCs :^D A bit of a shame that despite all I list are just animes, I barely watch them anymore because none of the newer stuff will ever give me the same feeling as my favourites that I used to watch.

I had no TV growing up (and still don't sjfkgk) so my list of shows I know that could be considered "TV" are very small oof. But oh boy is this topic interesting!

I talk a lot, just a warning :'D

For an old childhood favorite, the most notable is Avatar: The Last Airbender. That show is like one of the ones that almost everybody has seen but never talks about somehow? Though I'd love to talk about it more because of how darn amazing it was and still is. I've never thought about it before, but tbh that half cartoon-half anime style really shows through when it comes to my style in drawing humans. Also it spoiled young me with the beauty of anime art style and I later refused to watch other American cartoons because the art styles were so "weird looking" and I couldn't tolerate it sjdmgm

I really loved Gravity Falls! It was the only non-anime style cartoon that ever properly caught my attention. It was probably the thing that got me into mysteries tbh and it made up a lot of my childhood.

Black Butler.. oh boy. Heck while I genuinely dislike the main characters and their storyline now, I really owe it to that show for helping me find my love for Victorian era style and stories and just generally historical stuff. The art style was something I borrowed off of for a while when I was trying to improve my human-drawing skills and that probably still shows a bit too. I owe that a lot. I also fell in love with the grim reaper characters and got so obsessed with them I forgot the main storyline existed, I just loved the reapers and I still do? There's one particular reaper (precious son.. adorable.. science boi.. hasn't even appeared in the anime yet) who I just sorta took in as my son and for 3 or 4 years now I've been obsessing over him and made him the subject of all my AUs. Heck, like half my main characters spawned from AUs I made of this guy. (if you by some miracle happen to know who im talking about I love you a lot thank you and also pls talk to me I need more people to scream to ;v;)

For most recent and current fandom? Kimetsu no yaiba/Demon Slayer!! Oh my god I could go on and on about this show, it's just so good!! I've somehow never found anything wrong with it. The characters' personalities and actions are genuinely realistic for their age, everyone has such well-balanced power and limits (the main three characters are such a balanced group xD), even every villian and every little side character are given some form of backstory which is amazing! Any show that can manage to make me sympathize with the villains gets an A+ from me (/Continues screaming)

Anyways, these are the ones I can think of at the moment that really have shaped me, my art, and my interests in characters/stories a lot. 

Hmmm if I think too hard it appears that my main main oc (Katsu) is like some strange reflection of all the above fandoms. ... /*squints* Oh heck wow okay he definitely is whoops andmgk

There's a lot...

Unikitty, MLP, We Bare Bears, Steven Universe, Ducktales 2017, Shaun The Sheep, Infinity Train, OK KO, Astra Lost In Space, Space Patrol Luluco, and that's only some the shows I enjoy now. There's too many others to list that I like now. 

Then there's the shows I watched as a young kiddo that I feel a bit nostalgic over. Mostly late 2000s/early 2010s PBS Kids because I was a poor folk, but there's a few shows that I watched on the saturday morning blocks on TV like Sonic X and Yu-gi-oh, but there was also the educational shows. Busytown Mysteries, Danger Rangers, Floogals, etc. This was before Litton Entertainment took over all the Saturday blocks btw. There was also the Chica show, which was a spin off of one of Sprout's morning blocks, and I loved it. I know it's not FULLY animated, but still. Missed the first NBC Kids airing because a blizzard hit the same day though (I lived in Maine at the time, and Winter there is BRUTAL every year. BRUTAL with all capital letters).

There was also Wow Wow Wubbzy which I had a few DVDs of. Same with a couple of the peanuts specials

I'm probably gonna go on a tangent if I keep typing so Imma stop