They watched cartoons? I do. Non Bugs Bunny, I'm talking about anime. Do you know what that is? Anime is, simply put, animation, made in Japan. I'll give you some examples of anime, you know. Speed Racer, Hello Kitty, Pokemon qualify RoboTech, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, and many of the cartoons you see on Cartoon Network and Adult Swim in particular. Fortunately, our country has got the rights to the stories from Japanese into English, as the storylines in anime are really good. Often they are better than what Hollywood blades in your brain. That is basically what is anime. Let us talk now about what is not. Anime is not a genre, it is an art form, a medium. From now on, I would think the same set to the anime as with movies, books, music, etc, all entertainment media. Like you, movies for children, movies for teens, adults, so it is with anime. All your entertainment comes in 31 flavors, right? Comedy, horror, drama, suspense, action, etc. File similar films on the same shelf in the store, right? But you should not implement all the anime on the same shelf, because anime is not a genre. It is a medium, such as movies are a medium such as books are a medium. A medium can be in any genre of entertainment in it, so good anime. Anime is not all sex and violence, as some people will tell you. If I hear someone say that anime is sex and violence that immediately tells me that they looked likely to show a certain anime that and then they go "Oh, that's how everything is." Had Now granted, has some Anime, dass Just as some films have exactly know that how some books have know that the power of all the books bad? No. So why should it for anime? Again is an art form anime, not a genre. Anime is comedy, it can Horror, drama, suspense, action, hey, it can also have sex or blood-and-good, but that does not mean everything has it! I will not lie and say that is happy anime goodness and no one has it all what you do not want to see. There are good things, and there are bad things, and there is everything in between, just like any other form of entertainment. If someone came to you and says "Hey man, we really should censor these" movies ", people talking. They are all sex and violence. I have every movie that in it, and I do not think we should our children be my films. "Would you believe it? No, you'd go, "Excuse me, but that does not apply all the movies you leave me alone." They have a rating system in the movies, right? G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17. Anyway, think of the films. Just because Lord of the Rings has been PG-13, that meant it was observed to be bad for children? It is dogmatic. Okay, a movie you like, but your children do not like it because they understand the question. The subjects are over their heads and they do not go for all the characterization. In our movie rating system, what would we rate a movie like this? It does not have everything that the children should not see, it's just that they do not understand. What do you think MPAA So it would? Now with anime, it is the companies that distribute the anime, the rate of anime. Your rating system is a little different films: they are taken into account all factors, not just sex, violence, nudity, language, etc., but also factor in understanding a younger audience in the position it. So on the back of an anime rating OT could be for older teens, but really all they did is because the story was hard to understand. Now granted OT may be for the other stuff, but you must realize that they think of everything when they vote. You could be a G movie for small children, and a PG film that they do not understand fully. The rating system does not help in this case, you must read on the film, so that you can understand what's in it, and that's really all about entertainment, including anime. You must read, read to something that you want to see, hear,. It may be okay, it can not. You can not expect that the rating system to do it all for you, since it does not. Another reason why people can be against anime is only anime that certain companies that many of us do not want to see, then, when people introduced anime, they see it, unfortunately for these companies, under an IS Amish person for a shoot-em-up movie. The Amish guy is not too good, think of movies for it! Be understood that only certain publishers to publish certain books, and allow certain film companies, some films are so certain companies in certain anime. So now, unfortunately, all anime is together, as a genre, and it is not grouped. They had a porn next to Hello Kitty, and who knows the difference because "Oh, it's all the same." Watch Watch Hello Kitty and that porn! You'll see a difference! These are two extremes that way. As I said before is not, nor anything anime porn, in fact, most do not, just like movies. And not all anime is for little children, but I would expect more of it for them than it is for porn seekers. So this is an extremist view of the anime: all that sex and violence. Another view that people accept the fact that anime is like cartoons: It's for little kids, and it has nothing bad in it. Do not take this approach does not. I just went about anime, so you know now that it's just like movies, books and music: it can be good or bad for small children, teenagers, adults, could contain this or that. Just as we would not believe the stereotype that all blondes are stupid, that bodybuilders have no feelings, and life is always a happy ending, so we should not as a casting anime cartoons gone bad. But I do not want you in thinking that an anime, something that nudity has lead necessarily to see a bad show. You must consider that anime comes from Japan, and like other countries that come in contact with each other, you'll find that Japan has to think differently than we do. Is to say that nudity does not affect them? No. Something can complain with, they can not. For example, Japan has public bathrooms, so their stories. You can see an anime in a public bathroom scene, in which the characters speak as they are in the bathroom. Public bathrooms are part of Japanese culture, nudity is related in any way sexual, but some people find offensive. Anime often mentioned and sexual humor. Non-anime for young children, elderly people just for us. You may also see a person naked or partly so, but it must not be sexual. What I am making is that the Japanese are willing to talk much more in their cartoons are, as we are ever in our. They are much freer depends to decide whether this is a good or a bad thing. So when people say, "Oh this anime has nudity in it," you have to ask them, "What?" Then you get a glimpse. (Imagine a look) "What do you mean 'What?'?" Now there are several ways! There is the kind of copy, there is the public bath type, then - and I do not even know I put it here - the short skirt Art Japanese girls wear short skirts to school, and since many of the anime stories to the center to go to Japan, because that is where it out, you'll probably see, short skirts came. The kind when a large gust of wind - you could get a big gust of view. And some people might find this offensive. You know, you're watching the show, and there is a gust of wind, and you get a panty shot. Now granted, you could take this as sexual, but the wind was to blame, not someone else! But maybe see a rock that you think is too short, and oh! That's bad! It depends on you. It's what you're comfortable with. Just like movies, you see what you're comfortable with, but again, many people think of anime as cartoons, so they are for small children. Not always the case. You have to understand that we as a culture different culture have accepted things such as languages, customs ... we are truly the melting pot, and you can not think of cartoons as a child for more. To summarize, there are anime, porn is. There are anime that is suitable for small children. There are wonderful stories, the anime and has to think really hard, all free of questionable content. And there's more between them. And the reason that anime can be varied such as the Japanese view anime as an art form, a medium. You've found it, think a lot of people here in America that cartoons are for little children, and anime, as some screwed up cartoon. But this is not the case. Anime can be and often is deeper, richer and more food for thought in his stories, but what I really would like to stress is that anime, and all other types of cartoons are a form of entertainment, not a genre.