The Best New Adult Animated Shows of the Last Few Years

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Vote for the best adult animation TV shows from the last few years.

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The past few years have been rich with great new adult animated shows, with a veritable buffet of styles and stories made for a grown-up palate. This list of the newest and most popular adult animation of the past few years is ranked from best to worst thanks to your votes. From gritty superheroes and relatable animated sitcoms to the surreal, what are the best new adult animated TV shows?

From Adventure Time creator Pendelton Ward and comedian Duncan Trussell, The Midnight Gospel is a surreal animated series created around actual podcast interviews between Trussell and a wide assortment of guests. Another seres that packs a lot of visuals and emotions into each episode is the animated sitcom Tuca and Bertie, which follows familiar ups and downs of adulthood but in a wide and weird world populated by birds, plants and other creatures big and small. Niether of these adult animated shows have the hallmarks of raunchy and gritty adult animation, they're just stories for grownups that just happen to not be live action. But, that doesn't mean rowdy adult animation has gone by the wayside. If you're looking for gritty superheroes or scandalous stories, or just a grown-up level of gore, shows like The Boys: Diabolical, Harley Quinn, and The Legend of Vox Machina deliver. From spies to devils, curse words to grandiose gross-out moments - or just heavy topics handled with humor, the new adult animated series of the past few years have something for everybody.

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