• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    as media for kids and teenagers

    You clearly have never seen Animes from the “Seinen” genre.
    Usually pretty dark or adult topics. You will notice it at some points in the story.
    My current favorite is Oshi no ko which goes a bit behind the media industry and actually does show a fair bit of young adult topics (e.g. murder, intent to murder/revenge, child PTSD among other more lighthearted topics to keep it from being a depression show), Tokyo Ghoul would also fall into the seinen category.
    For movies I liked Akira (an older movie) with the cyberpunk theme, Your Name,

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      Thanks for ignoring the mostly in my original comment and implying I was talking about all anime

      Japan still mostly treats and creates anime as media for kids and teenagers