I've followed the Ghostbusters from the very first day they started and kept myself on par with developments throughout the decades. The movies and the 1986 cartoon always had something special and were always charming. But it also fell short just a slight bit when it came to realism and emotion. These missing elements have successfully been implemented in this new series titled XGB, which takes the franchise to a whole new level and introduces a magnificent bunch of new characters who are truly amazing and unrivaled. As expected, the production levels are extremely high, with matchless animation and atmosphere. As I've mentioned, the characters are also very profound, likable and realistic.Combine that with very scary and realistic villains and threats plus august writing and brilliant screenplay and you end up with something truly out of this world. I would call it the best animated series ever made if it weren't for other development houses who have done fantasy epics whose base content is slightly more difficult to come up with creatively. Even so, watching this is utter rapture.It also very strange that this series is the Sony production house's only good one, with MiB perhaps being passable. The rest of the cartoons produced by Sony have been extremely bad, especially low in production values, in my humble opinion, despite their popularity. Ironically, this one, XGB in contrast, is world beating.

What a rarity indeed. You don't see developers taking so many unusual and questionable approaches towards making a show like this and yet coming out with such a winner and ground breaker. While the characters in the inferior RGB series of 1986 presented a good standard which was difficult to meet, the creators of XGB have not only met but also beaten those standards in every way. They have truly achieved new standards when it comes to characters, episode writing and animation. Weighing strengths against weaknesses, this is not just the best cartoon of the 1990s but also easily the best cartoon ever made. One of the best things about it is that it can be both utter fun and so extremely mature at the same time. Problem is that you have to be pretty fortunate to come across it today. I hope that they'll release the DVD soon. This one is a real treat for Ghostbuster fans too.

With Extreme Ghostbusters, the Ghostbusters franchise scores its fourth smash hit success and is quite likely the best venture of the entire franchise, although perhaps the most different. This series introduces superb new characters and some modernized weaponry (proton packs and traps). Its very sad that it lasted only for 1 season but that seems to be the idea from the beginning. During the 80s times, one had to watch 20-30 episodes of a cartoon (the good or top ones) simply in order to "digest" the concept and progress of the series. Occasionally, they'd thrown in a few good ideas, stories and action sequences and your brain is expected to put that all together over a large time frame with the bunch of viewed episodes before you can judge if what you saw or are seeing is actually good? This is not the case with XGB where each stand alone episode is a masterpiece and can be appreciated individually. The only nitpick I can think of is that like everything else, XGB is sometimes guilty of not living up to its own standards when it came to a few episodes.

Extreme Ghostbusters is and was an instant classic. I waited years for it after so many recommendations and finally it proved to be even better than expected despite my obnoxiously high standards partly fueled by dissatisfaction from second rate programming that flooded TV in those days and continues to do so these days. They don't make stuff like this anymore and they probably can't which is why ceasing the show after a single season was a very sad thing to do. Perhaps it was just packaged that way. The only time they made stuff that could vaguely compare was during the 80s golden era, but obviously no where as good as XGB. Unfortunately it does not come on any channel on TV these days, at least none that I know of.