[ SECRET POST #6028 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6028 ⌋

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[Kill la Kill]



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[Back From the Brink]



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[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

That's fair. And no, I didn't mean it like that, exactly. But I really wasn't happy as a kid taking stock of what was considered "appropriate for children" in the US. Moralizing and black-and-white thinking were very prevalent and it made me feel like the people telling these stories thought I was too stupid to know that characters did things for reasons and made sense to themselves and often seemed sympathetic to me even if they managed to antagonize everyone else in the story. And anime did the work with long-term alignment shifts and character development and "people can change as they learn things and feel different" that I never saw American cartoons bother with. And yeah, bloody violence was there and death was there, but the American notion that I didn't already KNOW about these things, or needed to have them hidden from me for some reason, was just obnoxious. I felt very disrespected by American media. Very talked-down-to. And a lot of the storytelling wasn't storytelling. It was preaching. I knew the difference and it mattered to me.

It's not that I think anime will look "better" if I criticize American media. It's just that I have very little tolerance for hearing people complain that the ways anime differs from American cartoons are bad.

I've got no quarrel with anyone for liking both or preferring what I don't like. I do have a problem with the argument that American cartoons are more virtuous, and especially with the argument that people (of any age) ought to be limited to them, for their own good.