Is anime only for children ?

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

There used to be a lot of R rated Anime back in my day that was direct to video. Anime that had violence, more grown up themes, and nudity, but wasn't hentai. Things like Akira, Ghost in a Shell, Battle Angel Alita, stuff like that. I'm not sure they still those type of movies. It seems like it is all shonen stuff nowadays. I miss that era.

 

[Yankee]

It's an easy misconception to have when you don't know anything about it.
The easiest way to explain is that anime is just animation and there's kid stuff and adult stuff like Spongebob and South Park.

 

[pingugaming]

you go ahead and try to show stuff like akira, m.d. geist, mad bull 34 or wicked city to a kid
see what happens

 

[Scotty]

This has gotta be bait. First off, anime isn't exclusively for children; the mere existence of ecchi anime, straight up hentai or gory anime like "Goblin Slayer" and a handful of shounen anime can can easily debunk that claim.

Plus, I've seen plenty of anime that are targeted towards kids and even they have more adult themes in them from time to time.

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examples of anime that is not for kids:

devilman
angel cop
redo of healer
gushing over magical girls
hellsing
hell girl

[Sees "Gushing Over Magical Girls"]

PEAK MENTIONED!!

 

[RepoOnly]

No.

 

[Graw]

Anime isn't for children but the writing and story quality in 99% of anime is basically at a child level. The amount of suspension of disbelief needed to enjoy even the most grounded anime story is pretty staggering.

 

[popckorn]

LOL I would say most anime is not for children at all, lol.. at least not under our western sexual mores...
Innuendo and fan service is DELI for me, but I kids can be too tantalized by it.

 

[vulonkaaz's iconvulonkaaz]

examples of anime that is not for kids:

devilman
angel cop
redo of healer
gushing over magical girls
hellsing
hell girl

I know two titles from that list, it seem like a good list, imma watch the rest of them

 

[Spyrone]

Shounen and shoujo are. Seinen most definitely isn't- Ghost In The Shell, Hellsing, Terminator: Zero, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, MFKZ, Dorohedoro, Vampire Hunter D, Akira, Tokyo Ghoul, etc are very much intended for adults. All have massive amounts of gore and often touch on some very mature subjects, such as the the brutal killing of a loved one or the nature of consciousness and or the existence of a soul. Your coworkers are weird, and seem like they haven't consumed any form of anime since Pokemon was a saturday morning cartoon.

 

[Sfjeov]

I don't even think certain cartoons are for children especially with Bakshi's works and Aeon Flux.

 

[Spyrone]

Honestly, it's weird that that there's still the perception of an Animation Age Ghetto anywhere at all- from around the time I was in middle school most cartoons and anime I remember being exposed to had a lot of crossover demographic appeal and were slipping things in under the radar all the time. Cartoon Network in particular was really good at doing that, as were a lot of Nickelodeon's earlier stuff like Ren & Stimpy and pretty much every episode of SpongeBob prior to the release of the movie. Even most western kid-oriented shows did that a lot.

For instance, I remember watching an episode of Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends around 2006 where Blu started fast-talking about his nonsensical, rambling idea for the best movie ever or something, and there is one point during the rant where I'm pretty sure he says "shit" but the rant is so fast-paced it literally went over my head, and I didn't discover that was what he likely said until rewatching the thing on YouTube a decade later.