- Zwiebel Force wrote:
- Half of the stuff you listed is probably considered problematic because of the moral values shown i the shows. The list of no-gos you mentioned also contained various synonyms for sexuality. Step out of your comic bubble and consider it from a parent's POV man.
I can think of at least 3 anime that I wouldn't allow my children to watch even though they're free a blood, same goes for video games. I.e. I wouldn't allow them to play CB, a game that essentially turns women into a ware
Tell that to Star Wars Clone Wars!
Also all of these kids shows had stuff like that and were for kids! Such as these!
Adventure Time is a Kids Show, and it had horrible deaths like that too! And it was for kids because it had none of those 5 points I just mentioned, yet Adventure Time had things happening in it like this!
-Such as the scene of Finn getting his arm ripped off on-screen.
-Or the one scene of Ricardio attempting to cut Princess Bubblegum's heart out of her chest with a broken bottle (and then make out with it).
-Or in his second appearance, where he tore out most of Ice King's insides, and used them to build a bulkier set of limbs for himself, with poor Ice King then laying on the ground, writhing in pain, and with arteries hanging out of a big hole in his chest.
-Or the scene where the one Witch turns into an apple, then another Witch bites into her, and you even see a ribcage sticking out of the apple as to show she accidentally killed her colleague.
-Or when The Lich killed Billy The Hero on-screen by blowing a hole through his chest, and then he wore Billy's dead rotting corpse as a costume!
Or that scene where he murdered Prismo and The Citadel Guardians.
-Or the one scene where the Earl of Lemongrab CANNIBALIZED HIS OWN BROTHER!
-And another scene where the Earl is shown cannibalizing a prisoner who tried to escape his dungeon!
And also, that Mushroom War flashback scene, where you see Earth being nuked to oblivion, the apocalypse breaks out, and millions are shown dying! Genocide right there! What do you have to say about that?
-Also don't forget the parts where you see the characters having their souls ripped out and then being sent to hell by Hudson, who is the Adventure Time equivalent of Satan!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a Kids show, and it had deaths that were just as bad as deaths in Maho Shoujo, and it was still for kids! BECAUSE NO BLOOD, SEX, DRUGS, VULGARITY, AND NUDITY! If you don't believe me, I can prove it!
-Like this one scene where Agent Bishop gets skewered by a chain hook (with the stabbing noise effect too), and is then actually seen dangling in the air by the hook like a dead fish.
-The Purple Dragons gang gunning people down with realistic military-grade weaponry. One notable instance was when their muscle-bound leader, Hun, grabs a minigun and shoots the mutated J. Finn with it until part of his body gets visibly torn off from the bullet wounds.
-People being bitten and clawed and mauled by hideous monstrosities.
-And this one part where Master Splinter, the Turtles's beloved mentor and surrogate father, got STABBED TO DEATH by Shredder on-screen, and then Shredder threw him off the side of a building, with all the Turtles watching in horror! (BUT NO BLOOD)!
-A scene where the mutated Super Shredder gets punched in his exposed heart, and then HE COUGHED UP GREEN BLOOD! (but it wasn't red and was stylized, so it was okay there.
-Or Snakeweed getting both frozen and then dismembered!
-Or the part where Rat King got Skeletonized!
-Or how Super Shredder died in it, where you actually see Leonardo DECAPITATE HIM! Oh and they apparently also ripped his heart out too, as shown by how it was missing when the Foot Clan recovers his dead body in a later episode.
-There's also the fact that most of the monsters that the Turtles fight against were once human. The Foot Clan kidnapped various people and subjected them to experiments with the Mutagen to transform them into biologic weapons. And some of them were shown to be children too. So the Ninja Turtles are fighting against innocent people being taken out of their lives and permanently transformed into body horror abominations that later on go berserk and become ravenous killers!
-And plenty more! If all of that was okay in freakin' Ninja Turtles, THEN SO CAN IT BE IN OTHER KIDS SHOWS!!!
Digimon was a Kids Show, and it had horrible deaths like this! And it also dealt with stuff such as Death, Love, Faith, and War! It also had Digimon based on stuff like The Seven Deadly Sins, The 4 horsemen of the Apocaylpse, and more!
-And it had horrible deaths like the scene of Liomon's horrific death
-Or the scene where Wizardmon was brutally killed in front of Kairi! With Kairi and Gatomon crying over his death!
-Or the part where Yukio Oikawa (who was human) died a horrible death on-screen!
-Or the scene where Koiuchi (who was a young human boy) got brutally murdered by the Demonic Digimon, Lucemon! And then Lucemon ate his soul!
-Or all those horrible things that happened during the D-Reaper arc of the show.
And yet despite all of that, Digimon was still a kids show BECAUSE NO BLOOD, SEX, DRUGS, VULGARITY, AND NUDITY!
Avatar Legend of Korra was a kids show, and it had a lot of stuff like that happening in it.
-Like the scene where the Earth Queen is ASPHYXIATED TO DEATH ON-SCREEN by an Assassin!
-Or the part where Ming Hua got ELECTROCUTED TO DEATH!
-Or the part where Tarlok COMMITTED SUICIDE in front of everyone!
-And most of all, P'li's Death. Basically what happened was while she was charging up her Fire Combustion attack, Suyin came and threw a helmet onto her head, which caused the attack to backfire AND THEN HER HEAD EXPLODED!!!
And yet despite all of that, Avatar Legend of Korra, was still a kids show BECAUSE NO BLOOD, SEX, DRUGS, VULGARITY, AND NUDITY!
Kingdom Hearts is a Kids Game, and it had lots of harsh scenes
-Like that part where Vexen was BURNED ALIVE by Axel, with Sora watching it happen in front of him.
-Or that scene where Zexion was STRANGLED TO DEATH by Clone Riku, and then he sucked the life out of her.
-Or that terrible thing that happened with Xion
-Or the fact that the Heartless, the main enemies they fight against, were once people like Sora, until their hearts got corrupted turing them into terrible monsters.
Exosquad was a kids show, and it death with stuff like Warfare, and had loads of on-screen deaths BUT NONE OF THEM BLOODY AND GORE-SPLATTERED. Heck, it's considered one of the kids shows known to have one of the highest body counts.
-In fact, in one of the earliest episodes, in the span of a minute, they introduce a character and kill her soon. Oh yeah, and then her commanding officer spends the next two years mourning her death and blaming himself.
-And it also had these terrible scenes of people in a war hospital, showing amputees and other recovering war victims!
And yet despite all of that, Exosquad was still a kids show BECAUSE NO BLOOD, SEX, DRUGS, VULGARITY, AND NUDITY!
What do you have to say about all those?
If all those kids shows too could have those terrible on-screen deaths and stuff and still be for kids THEN SO CAN OTHER KIDS SHOWS!
I can name dozens more examples too! It really pisses me off when people think that all kids shows can't be more serious than Sesame Street or Care Bears. Kids can handle a lot more than you think, and you shouldn't shield them from it.