Nightgaunt wrote:Something still somewhat on-topicish (sorry): I bought the first volume DVD of an anime called Elfen Lied. The first episode starts off with this girl escaping a high security military complex. Along the way she kills a whole lot of people with telekenisis in really guesome ways. It has got to be one of the goriest things I've seen. I checked out the Amazon page for that DVD later, and reading the reviews there was someone who was obviously just a kid who saw that and was really disturbed by it, to the extent of having problems sleeping. This in itself I thought was mildly amusing, but then the question arrises, what the hell is wrong with his parents? The picture on the cover itself has blood, and the box states that it is rated Mature for sex, violence and language.
Anyways, just though that was sort of interesting.
I was wondering if that was any good. It's gotten some good reviews, but you can never tell anything from anime reviews.
Yes, this question has come up in both anime and video games. A lot of parents have the preconception that anything animated/video game related are automatically for children...an image that Disney purposfully perpetuated in its early years...and thus they just assume it's ok. Others just don't care. But then the animation/video game industry takes the heat for it. There's a looot of demonizing going on, despite the rating system. Now, true it's easier to get anime/video games that are mature than it is to, say, sneak into an R rated movie...but I probably wouldn't say it's easier than renting an R rated movie. Yet there isn't nearly as much of a burhaha over that. Kind of strange. My personal guess is because there aren't the same kind of assumptions about all movies as there is about all anime or all video games. I remember a gaming place in Iowa City that had a "Video Games 101" presentation geared towards educating parents. It's a brilliant idea, but I wonder how many parents would actually think to go to it?
But yes, I was disturbed when I read a 4th grader's essay about how he played Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.