Anime Overprotective Parents and Anime *gags*

[CharmedImmortal]

[size=1]Well, I started watching anime when I was about 3 or 4 years old, and my parents didn't care whether it is violent or not.
But I guess it is correct that parents should not let their children alone, watch violent animes because of what I know of, little kids mostly often get their bad behaviors in any violent tv shows that they watch. And if they just leave their kids behind, their kids might sneak and watch any shows they want, like this kid i know of does. e.e
So I think kids should be not let alone to watch tv shows because they might learn something bad in tv.[/size]

[XxmagentaxX]

This is pissing me off. People need to understand that 'cartoons' arent just aimed at little kids anymore. So yea their kid shouldnt be watching it. They should stop complaining about it and just not watch it. No one is forcing them to watch anything. I swear people today are so bloody stupid. Some woman was complaing about FLCL on Cartoon Network, something about the violence, HELLO! Its on at midnight! what kid is up at midnight anyway? Dont they have bed times?


how can a one year old pay attention to TV ?

[RioLaskand]

Does anyone else remember long ago with the "Big O" Incident? Some lady from Florida wrote this huge letter to either cartoon network, or to a news station about how "bad" Big O is. She put forth all these reasons, and basically bashed it for being like Batman! She said things like "Shady characters, guns blazing, tortured heroes," hmmm Bruce Wayne anyone? I think it's a bias towards Anime in general. My dad didn't like me watching anime when I was a kid because it was weird, and he still doesn't like it, refusing to even see it? He just takes a glance at FLCL, and walks away, scoffing that I would stay up late to watch this "trash" That is bias, and I believe it is unfair.

[IloveBebop]

Big O is closely related to Batman. It's just that the main character has a Megaduese instead of the Batmobile. Once again, that's nowhere near my point.

How stupid can this woman be if she lets her 1 year-old child even hold the remote. This kid won't have an idea what its about, and probably won't care. Anyways, I don't think that children under the age of 5 should watch anime, but it's not my decision on who and who can't watch anime.

[Gentle]

Anyone who thinks something like that is mental. You shouldn't leave a one-year-old by themselves anyway. If they could just turn on the t.v. and start watching anime, then couldn't they just turn on porno or something. Nothing's stopping them. If every show on t.v. was like Rolie Polie Olie or Dora, everyone over the age of 5 would crack. I LIKED TELETUBBIES FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!! That little baby in the sun was so cute. Anyway, back to the point, it's not like the kids are going to grow into little super saiyans or start training all their life to become the greatest Pokemon master when they're not even real.

Adults grew up on shows like Road Runner, Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry, and Daffy. Everyone either blew up or tried to kill each other in all of those. Kids could grab a knife and try to stab someone like they see Tom do. Anime, they all have powers and little animals helping them. Your son's going to train the dog to breath fire and headbutt you. Wow, won't that be fun to watch. The shows they watched were more violent than ours.

On the other hand, Olie and Dora are educational I guess but making a 8 year old watch that isn't going to make them smarter. Why don't they just throw out the t.v. and teach their kids themselves instead of always saying "I'm too tired. Let me go to sleep for a few minutes." The next thing they smell smoke because the kid got hungry and you wouldn't feed them. Trifling.

[Guest InuyashasLover]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Katana [/i]
[B]On one of my daily trips to this anime website called Lelola, I saw this in an update. Here's a part of the article. The full one made me gag so badly.

[i]I found an article discussing the "best" and "worst" TV shows (Because, you know, what's the point of quality time and literature when there's TV "Books"? What are these "books" you speak of?") for little children. Here's an excerpt from "The Worst":
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Pamela Odom's rule of thumb: If a children's show is violent in any way, it's not something she's going to let her 1-year-old son, Kaeleb, watch. At the top of her list of bad kids' shows is the animated adventure series "Pokemon."

"As if children don't see enough of that (violence)," the Lakeland mother said. "They certainly don't need to see it in their favorite cartoons."

She's hardly alone. Advocates for quality TV also deplore "Pokemon," along with similar action cartoons. Other offenders include "The Powerpuff Girls," "Yu-Gi-Oh" "X-Men" and "Dragon Ball Z," all on the Cartoon Network; and "Shaman King," on Fox.
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This article reminds me of an article I have somewhere in my collection of junk from 1996 that listed TV Guide's most violent shows. The top ones were all exports from Japan (At the time, Power Rangers was at the top of the list). Meh. I grew up on "violent" shows and I turned out fine. *nervous laugh*

Seriously though, I understand not wanting to allow a really young child to watch such shows, but compared to most of the stuff on TV, the anime mentioned wasn't that violent. I do think that parents have a responsibility controlling what their children watch, however, there is such a thing as sheltering children a little too much.

Yes, the happy happy joy joy "perfect world" moral-of-the-day TV shows aren't violent, but they also are a bit of a dilution at times. Fairytale endings rarely happen in real life. I think that children should be exposed to a wide range of programming. I've found that anime works wonders in opening children's imaginations.

That said and done, I'm off to watch the ever-violent Pokemon so that I can even more become corrupted and evil, so that I may find a way to overthrow the current governments and take over the world.[/i]

Am I the only one who sees the first obvious sign? [i]Pamela Odom's rule of thumb: If a children's show is violent in any way, it's not something she's going to let her 1-year-old son, Kaeleb, watch.[/i] My God, the kids 1 YEARS OLD! Of course he's not gonna watch DBZ.
But seriously, am I the only (besides Pan-Chan, who did the update) who thinks that the parent's over-protective?
Okay, well, wha'cha all think?

PS: If you [i]really[/i] wanna gag, go [URL=http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030917/NEWS/309170301/1021]here[/URL] [/B][/QUOTE]


That is the the biggest load....And as if a 1-yr-old is gonna remember what they saw on Pokemon anyways. DBZ, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Shaman King Are the best shows I've seen. Pretty soon all the mommy's of America are gonna say Barney isn't appropriate for little kids cuz Barney isn't a gentle, leaf eating Dinosaur, he's A T-Rex.....jc...I swear, it's all about "protect the children these days. and partents like that are raising Cry Babies:bawl: and Sissy's:worried: :nervous: who won't see the real world as it is.....That article makes me SICK of all the parents of America that are like that:sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick:

TAKE THIS OVER PROTECTIVE PARENTS OF AMERICA:butthead: :butthead:

[IloveBebop]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by InuyashasLover [/i]
[B]That is the the biggest load....And as if a 1-yr-old is gonna remember what they saw on Pokemon anyways. DBZ, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Shaman King Are the best shows I've seen. Pretty soon all the mommy's of America are gonna say Barney isn't appropriate for little kids cuz Barney isn't a gentle, leaf eating Dinosaur, he's A T-Rex.....jc...I swear, it's all about "protect the children these days. and partents like that are raising Cry Babies:bawl: and Sissy's:worried: :nervous: who won't see the real world as it is.....That article makes me SICK of all the parents of America that are like that:sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick:

TAKE THIS OVER PROTECTIVE PARENTS OF AMERICA:butthead: :butthead: [/B][/QUOTE]

Wow. *claps* That's really good. What about Sesame Street? That's going to get kids to believe that they can find giant talking animals on the street. There are too many unrealistic shows on TV. I know that they're supposed to educate children, but how is giant talking bird, a weird thing with a TV in its stomach, or a gantle talking T-rex going to eduacate children? Dinosaurs are extinct, and the other two don't exist. These parents are turning into :moron:'s.

[Guest The Bouncer]

People are saying pokemon is bad... what about the garbage teletubbies and Barney.. That is some bad stuuf. maybe no violence but its just seems so carefree and fruity.. id rather have my child watch pokemon, DBZ, Yu-Gi-Oh! etc. over some fruity Barny, telletubbies or Mr. Roger any day

[KarmaOfChaos]

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I really don't see how this woman can criticize shows like Pokemon and DBZ. There are many cartoons that are far more violent, and treat violence in a much lighter manner. x.X Like Cow and Chicken. That show still scares me, it's just so...messed up. Yet you don't hear anyone complaining about that. They complain about anime because it takes violence in a more serious manner(like DBZ) rather than light hearted 'oh, I just bashed your skull in, but you can bounce right back up because you're a sweet and innocent cartoon'. Frankly, I'd think parents would want their kids watching DBZ versus bugs bunny or something because it doesn't act like everyone's invincible (although we all know Goku could kick Freiza's butt any day, and twice on Sundays. ^-~) whereas bugs bunny, they just keep ripping eachother apart. And people wonder why I hate Tweety...violence against cats, hello?!

And as sad as that woman is, the woman who sued CN for FLCL is 100 times worse. This generation is going to hell while their mommies whine about violent programming. Parents should be paying attention to what their kids are DOING, not what's on TV that they don't approve of. -.-"

[i]-Karma[/i]

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[Kinoko Shima]

That woman pisses me off! :evil3:
1st off, why would a one year old watch tv? They'd be more happy chewing on the remote than watching it. That's just stupid! Then 2nd, if she don't like what her kids are watching, turn it off! Duh! Then lastly, she's an idiot because there's nothing wrong with Poke'mon, DBZ, Yu-Gi-Oh, or Shaman King! :evil3:
It's not pointless violence really. When they fight, it's for a good cause like to save the universe or their grandpa or little brother, and stuff like that. Besides, I think it's pretty tame compared to the violence on the news and other tv shows nowdays. Like, a plane ramming the twin towers and you can see people jumping out the windows, or a horrible car crash, or a bombing, or a mass murder scene on Law and Order....Nobody complains about THAT being too violent!
I know I'm probably not making any sense at all, but God! :flaming:
I wonder what cartoons that woman watched when she was a kid. I mean Elmer Fudd holds a shotgun in Bugs Bunny's face and Bugs Bunny sticks his finger in the barrell and Elmer Fudd blows up....Uh, does anyone else see violence???
This woman needs to get a grip on reality and understand that this world is violent. She can't keep her kids sheltered from the world! It's not right. They'll grow up to be oversensitive and cry about everything. And when they could be permanently damaged when someone they love dies if they don't ever see death. Ya know? ......This just makes me so mad. She should just keep her trivial little complaints to herself and get a grip. :demon:
*sighs and steps away from the keyboard* there I'm done with my rant now.

[IloveBebop]

Hm. This is another thread where we keep saying the same thing over and over again... I hope that there is another point to make here. I've probably said this before, but these adults are growing up on violence, and now they're suing people for it? Stupid people...