Animation

Animation is not just for kids. Regardless of how moronic americans are about the subject, animation should not by any means be restricted to either child friendly productions nor to ridiculously childish "adult" comedy. Anime has long broken off this ridiculous ghetto, but the west is still deep down in this pathetic stereotype.

First of all, serious animated movies and series have been made. In most cases, they are child friendly, but stuff like Watership Down, The Secret of NIMH, Plague Dogs, even a few Pixar movies can be serious and enjoyable for older audiences (and in WD's and PD's case, they are even child friendly). Moral Orel is a perfect example of a good, adult series, while some series aimed at children like Avatar: The Last Aibender and Gargoyles can be entertaining to adults and have much darker themes than most animation you see on Saturday mornings.

Second, its a medium. Every medium can be either childish or serious, and as mentioned before well done animation can appeal to people who can actually think.

Thus, the restrictions that animation has in the west is the result of incredible stupidity, most from conservative christian groups that mess up with media. No wonder I don't see Christianity as nothing but a stupid way of restricting freedom. Moral Guardians should die indeed.

Comic books still have the same cultural restrictions, but there is a wide variety of mature comics. Hopefully animation will free itself from its bonds. If not, it gives me more reasons to hate.

Therefore, what I'm trying to say is that moral guardians that mess up with animation are retarded and should stop restricting animation. Japan, and to a lesser extent France, don't have this kind of restrictions. So why should the rest of the world see animation in such a low point? Just to please the pathetic rules imposed by a useless religion?

If so, fuck God and his conservative followers.