Comment on [Rec] Seeking recommendations for kid friendly anime
NineSwords@ani.social 2 days agoIt’s a 6-year-old kid for God’s sake.
Apothecary Diaries -> solving murders is the main theme. Plus prostitution, harems, blackmail, slavery, etc…
Frieren -> slow burn for adults that understand the concept of missed time and looking back. Not to speak about all the atocities done by the demons
The Way of The Househusband -> haven’t seen it but a Yakuza themed show …
Delicious In Dungeon -> sister dies gruesomely and gets turned from a bloody flesh mob into a monster that hunts her own brother and friends.
Sakamoto Days -> I think this one was assassin themed? Not sure.
Romantic Killer -> another assassin-themed show IIRC
Violet Evergarden -> lots and lots of very dark themes, including the war orphan origin of MC.
'Tis Time For Torture, Princess -> nothing wrong with this one, but I don’t know how entertaining it would be without knowing what it parodies (torture)
Solo Camping for Two -> adult drama/romance? Why not suggest Yuru Camp instead?
Sugar Apple Fairy Tale -> okay now I know that you are trolling.
Usagi Drop -> aimed at adults. Utterly boring for kids.
Secrets of the Silent Witch -> sure OPs daughter will enjoy MC losing her father due to being burned alive and all the assassination attempts.
With You and the Rain -> another show aimed at adults. The only thing that a 6-year-old would find interesting is that the “dog” is cute.
The Devil is a Part-Timer -> is it really funny to someone who hasn’t worked a day in their lives? Plus, again, the theme of dying parents in FMC.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Anything worth watching is going to have some dark themes, and don’t ask me why I haven’t recomended shows I’ve never watched.
There’s nothing on my list my own daughter hasn’t been able to watch if/when she wanted, as I was watching them. She loved The Devil is a Part-timer her first few years of grade-school. Same for Buddy-daddies, Usagi Drop, With You and the Rain. Have your kids never met a homeschooler, stay-at-home parent or adult who never moved out of their parents house?
I’ll admit I haven’t been able to get her watching Solo Camping for Two, largely because I’m waiting for it to be dubbed so we can watch it with my her mom, and we camp a lot, so there’s not-so-much novelty for her there.
Apothecary Diaries has murders? Well, I guess that would be its single biggest difference versus Disney’s Aladdin, what with its Brothel scene and … oh wait, no, Gazeem dies in the openning scene.
Frieren? Sure, every death is shocking, corpses too. The alternative is comfort with things, just because you don’t see that they’ve happened.
The Way of The Househusband has Yakuza characters doing every-day things. The fact they can’t even dress normally and don’t know how to act non-threatening is part of the humor. Meanwhile, the MC bakes cookies and takes the lunch he made to his wife at her job.
Sakomoto Days? The protagonists don’t kill, and the protag-faction grows by way of people they’ve spared realizing that killing is always optional, never mandatory(honestly, one of the more fantastical elements, considering the extreme situations portrayed).
Romantic Killer? What, your google-fu abandon you? No one dies or kills for a living in this one.
Lots of lazy counter-arguments and shows you-haven’t-even-watched in your comment, nevermind fully half of what you poo-poo’ed is on the, granted, hillariously-bad Bored Panda list linked by another commenter here.
Just about the only thing you’ve pointed out that isn’t covered by the Ghibli movies OP’s child has already watched is death, although one wonders if they watched the whole of Howl’s Moving Castle or any of Grave of The Fireflies.
Pretending grade-schoolers and Stay At Home Moms should never have to see or hear about death or naked people(my list could be over twice as long, but I read the room and chose my battle) has done such wonders for society. If OP is trying to raise one of the 53% of White Women who voted for Trump, they can’t go wrong with your voluminous advice.
Burbour@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Interesting thread and thanks for the suggestions. My daughter is pretty “adult” for being 6 years old. That being said violence, sexism and too dark themes is of course a no go. When we watched spirited away a year ago I was a bit hesitant it being to scary, but she enjoyed it and had some good insights. But I’ll have to do some vetting to find some good gems out there
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 55 minutes ago
NineSwords@ani.social 24 minutes ago
Yeah, I’m not going to take the time again to go item by item through that list, so just a quick heads-up for @Burbour@sh.itjust.works: the guy is trolling, and none of those titles are appropriate for a 6-year-old.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
You’re welcome. I’m amazed how-much backlash my list got with that last paragraph, what with being callod a troll right out of the gate, but how dare I suggest you ultimately make your own judgement calls as a parent, right?
Vetting and limited, almost-entirely supervised, screen-time in general are the way to go. Most of the rest of what I’ve seen from others here would look like gibberish versus books, ie “that one has too many big, made-up words!” Not that anime doesn’t have so-much else in-common with manga or comics, but if you’re present for anime, there’s always the fast-forward button or just " … let’s take a break, then watch another show".
If you want a laugh at my expense, sample Kamferer in-private. Yes, I have a line, and episode one(or two?) of that show was my single-biggest failure at pre-screening. Accidentally stumbled-upon something I wasn’t even comfortable re-visitting on my own time with that one, nevermind how shocked my daughter was to hear me say “hey, listen, I know you were laughing you’re ass-off for the last 30 minutes straight, but none of that stuff on-screen was cool for you to see/hear at your age. Now I’ve got to explain this to your mother. Don’t try to watch this show again, with or without us, and don’t suggest it to your friends or teachers.”
(I learned the hard way that day, at 10 years old, she no longer has a line where she openly-expresses discomfort with animation. Also, school has apparently exposed her to casual cruelty on a great many topics in ways I was not prepared to learn of. I pity her classmates that were blind-sided by topics which they still only know-of from schoolyard bullying, or thinking they are missing-out instead of just being normal 4th-graders)
Endmaker@ani.social 1 day ago
Y’know, your counterarguments do make sense. However, the ad hominem at the end is uncalled for IMO.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Versus accusing me of trolling? I didn’t even look to see if they gave any actual advice to OP; I was honestly somewhere between not caring and hoping to be wrong.
Oh wait, do you think I called them a SAHM, a Trump voter, a white woman, or even a USian? Like, between you and me, who here is confused here, and about what?
Other than the “voluminous advice” thing and shows they flat-out stated they hadn’t watched, I’m not seeing anything a reasonable person would remotely expect has a real chance of applying to @NineSwords@ani.social in my last few paragraphs…
NineSwords@ani.social 1 day ago
Okay, I’ll bite ;) Please go on and elaborate.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
The last two paragraphs you pulled that out of spelled out plenty. I’m not here to de-rail the whole post or call people names.