This World Can't Tear Me Down (Season 1)

This World Can't Tear Me Down (Questo mondo non mi renderà cattivo, 2023) — watch online the second Netflix animated series from Italian cartoonist Zerocalcare, set once again in his home neighbourhood of Rebibbia, Rome. A follow-up to Tear Along the Dotted Line, it arrives with the same self-deprecating voice and the same knack for turning anxiety into something both funny and sharp.

An old friend reappears after years off the grid, clearly in trouble. Zerocalcare wants to help, but the question of what "helping" actually means — and whether doing nothing is a kind of complicity — turns out to have no clean answer. The inner conflict lands harder than any external plot twist.

Zerocalcare writes, draws, and voices himself throughout; Valerio Mastandrea returns as the voice of his conscience. Short episodes, no filler. If anime about real moral discomfort (not just melodrama) is your thing, this one delivers. Stream This World Can't Tear Me Down (2023) online on iFILM.