The Best Animation/Cartoon Series from 1996


Below is our top ten list of the best Animation/Cartoon Series which first started broadcasting in 1996.

10. Dragon Ball GT: Doragon bôru jîtî


Dragon%20Ball%20GT%3A%20Doragon%20b%C3%B4ru%20j%C3%AEt%C3%AEFirst Aired: 07 February, 1996

Dragon Ball GT: Doragon bôru jîtî is a TV series starring Elise Baughman, Andrew Chandler, and Masako Nozawa. After Goku is made a kid again by the Black Star Dragon Balls, he goes on a journey to get back to his old self.


9. Blue’s Clues


Blue%27s%20CluesFirst Aired: 08 September, 1996

Blue’s Clues is a TV series starring Steve Burns, Traci Paige Johnson, and Michael Rubin. Blue is a puppy who puts her paw prints on three clues. Steve or Joe has to deduce the clues (with the help of off-screen children) to figure…


8. Hey Arnold!


Hey%20Arnold%21First Aired: 09 September, 1996

Hey Arnold! is a TV series starring Francesca Marie Smith, Jamil Walker Smith, and Dan Castellaneta. The everyday life of Arnold, a fourth-grader in a nameless city that resembles Brooklyn, New York, who lives in a multi-racial…


7. Dexter’s Laboratory


Dexter%27s%20LaboratoryFirst Aired: 24 March, 1996

Dexter’s Laboratory is a TV series starring Kath Soucie, Jeff Bennett, and Christine Cavanaugh. The misadventures of a boy genius and his annoying sister.


6. Arthur


ArthurFirst Aired: 07 October, 1996

Arthur is a TV series starring J.T. Turner, Daniel Brochu, and Melissa Altro. Based on the books by Marc Brown, these are the adventures of Arthur, an 8-year-old aardvark, and his family and friends as they grow up and learn how to…


5. Dragon Ball Z


Dragon%20Ball%20ZFirst Aired: 13 September, 1996

Dragon Ball Z is a TV series starring Doc Harris, Christopher Sabat, and Scott McNeil. After learning that he is from another planet, a warrior named Goku and his friends are prompted to defend it from an onslaught of…



4. Superman


SupermanFirst Aired: 06 September, 1996

Superman is a TV series starring Tim Daly, Joseph Bologna, and Dana Delany. The last son of the planet Krypton protects his adoptive home of Earth as the greatest of the superheroes.


3. Beast Wars: Transformers


Beast%20Wars%3A%20TransformersFirst Aired: 06 August, 1996

Beast Wars: Transformers is a TV series starring Scott McNeil, Garry Chalk, and Ian James Corlett. The Transformers’ war continues in an older time, through a new generation. On pliocenic Earth, the heroic Maximals and the evil…


2. Rurôni Kenshin – Meiji kenkaku romantan


Rur%C3%B4ni%20Kenshin%20-%20Meiji%20kenkaku%20romantanFirst Aired: 10 January, 1996

Rurôni Kenshin – Meiji kenkaku romantan is a TV series starring Mayo Suzukaze, Richard Cansino, and Dorothy Elias-Fahn. The adventures of a young wandering swordsman who stumbles upon a struggling martial arts school in Meiji era…


1. Meitantei Conan


Meitantei%20ConanFirst Aired: 08 January, 1996

Meitantei Conan is a TV series starring Minami Takayama, Wakana Yamazaki, and Hoang Khuyet. The cases of a detective whose physical age was chemically reversed to that of a prepubescent boy but must hide his true mental development.