| naznatips said: Oh Boondocks is hilarious. That show is great. The other show that I love is Futurama, and I was really happy to hear that Comedy Central is renewing it for one more season. As far as most animes being made for kids, that's really not true at all. Unless you only watch mainstream animes (ones that have come to America) you would know that animes vary in target audience as much as The Little Mermaid and 300. There are comedies, action, romance, and kids shows in animes. Some animes are so popular in Japan that they are the highest rated TV shows and mangas can be the best selling books. The best selling volume of the One Piece manga has only been outsold by Harry Potter. There are shows for all audiences, shows for mature audiences, shows for kids, and shows for adults. It's sort of hard for westerners to understand what animes are to Japan because all of our cartoons are directed at kids (with a couple small exceptions). |
No doubt the target audience for anime varies across the board, but that doesn't except the fact that most of it is targeted to a younger, less-discerning audience. For every Death Note or Cowboy Bebop, you have seemingly 10 shows about magical girls, 50 shows about giant humanoid robots, and about 10,000 shows like DBZ where the producers introduce two new characters every episode so that they can make more merchandising money.
Believe me, there's a ton of horrible anime out there - much, much more than the good, by orders of magnitude.
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