Nathan W. Pyle’s popular netcomic and bestselling “Strange Planet” books have made the shift to an animated series for Apple TV+, with their blue/pink aesthetic and stylized patter not just intact but brought to engaging life. Like the original comic strips, this 10-episode collection of simple yet often insightful, sometimes subversive and always funny life lessons comes off as both naïve and wise in equal measure.

It even sounds great, too.

That may be unusual praise for a cartoon, but consider that the dominant species on the title world, who call themselves beings but are essentially like us humans, speak as if they were written by an impossibly creative AI program. There’s a clever literalness to the show’s alternative syntax — the “teenage limbshake,” for the beings who attend the local “learnstitution,” is a school dance — that could have had a robotic effect. But an incredible voice cast led by actors Hannah Einbinder (“Hacks”), Danny Pudi (“Community”) and TV on the Radio lead singer Tunde Adebimpe, as well as “Late, Late Show” writer Demi Adejuyigbe, brings conversational naturalism and neurotic heart to the scripts. The thinly drawn characters establish and then expand themselves with each new misadventure.

Set on Orb, a planet much like Earth, if it looked like a 2-D Barbieland with mostly three-eyed animals, the series is philosophical, mainly concerned with work and relationships that are perhaps too polite.

The beings are blue, balloon-headed humanoids with big black irises but few other facial features. Their bodies have wispy torsos, dangling tattooed limbs and resemble upright, walking spermatozoa. That’s not a naughty reference (this is the rare adult cartoon that’s 100% raunch-free), but an apt one. Despite having built a culture at least as advanced as our late 20th century, there’s something nascent and not fully formed about these beings. That’s especially true when it comes to understanding and coping with their emotions, which generates much of the show’s plot drive and comedy. They also aren’t very skilled at lying. Unless they’re organizing a surprise birthday party, these beings can be too honest for their own good.

They take “group rolling machines” (buses) to a precariously positioned, cliffside restaurant called Careful Now, where many enjoy “jitter liquid” (coffee) or “mild poison” (alcohol) with their meals. Those demanding parents? They’re called “lifegivers.” Many beings prefer to get their affection from less complicated “moral creatures” (dogs) or “vibrating creatures” (cats), though most would like very much to “mouth push” (kiss) another being. The blue folk come in male and female flavors, though there’s no difference in how they look and what they choose to wear usually just identifies their job. Pronouns are all they/them, and gender can be fluid depending on who’s doing a particular character’s voice.

Pyle, who co-created the series with cult TV hero Dan Harmon (“Community,” “Rick and Morty”), likes stories about shy people, young adults defying parental expectations and the anxieties and rewards professional changes bring. Episodes take on such subjects as stage fright, malfunctioning technology and the exhilarating idiocy of sports fandom. While some half-hours have standalone plots, the series revolves around the staff and customers of Careful Now, in the week leading up to “Double Shadow Day,” a two-moon solar eclipse most beings feel augurs erratic behavior and profound life influences.

应用程序le TV+ is wisely dropping the first three episodes of “Strange Planet” on Wednesday, Aug. 9, and doling out the rest one per week through the end of September. The show probably works better watched in increments than if binged, as all the language gags and childlike sweetness could lead to whimsy overload in one sitting.

At the same time, the show isn’t at all saccharine. While entirely suitable for kids, the gentle but sharp humor of “Strange Planet” addresses all kinds of issues that make us grownup humans feel like lost little children most of the time — or like the unformed beings that, if you want to be honest, we really are.

Bob Strauss is a freelance writer.