| Some anime are aimed at certain demographics (e.g a lot of shounen anime is mainly targeted towards teenage boys) but that doesn't mean anyone outside those demographics can't enjoy them. And ofc there's also anime that is specifically aimed at older audiences. Look for seinen & josei anime if you want something like that. |
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| I think a lot of them are made for teenagers, Shounen Jump magazine is target towards teenagers and so is most of the anime adaptations of those mangas. Most light novel are targeted towards teenagers and this is kinda obvious since only regular novels would be targeted toward adults. Overall I think that even though some of them have blood and violence I think the majority of seasonal anime that come out each season is targeted towards teenagers. Just looking at the first 16 shows of this season, I can't see any which would be targeted to adults over teenagers. |
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| When I was a teenager, I was insecure about that kind of stuff, but I gradually stopped caring about it as I got older. It's exactly like any other medium, some are more family oriented, while others are more graphic, and adult oriented. |
 This ground is soiled by those before me and their lies. I dare not look up for on me I feel their eyes |
| anime is made for all ages. the content itself determines what age group. for example, i dont think claymore, freezing, tokyo ghoul, devils line or other violent and gruesome shows with nudity and sexual suggestions are at all made for children. Just like books and movies and Tv shows can be made for children, adults and teens ...so can anime, hence the rating system . this isnt to say a 40 year old cant enjoy naruto or one peice which is aimed at mostly teenagers but there are definately alot of anime that a teenager should never watch |
   💀🖤🥀˜”*°•.˜”*°•𝓘𝓯 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓪 𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓶𝓮 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓻𝓸𝓵𝓮, 𝓲𝓽 𝔀𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓬𝓮𝓻𝓽𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓵𝔂 𝓫𝓮... 𝓪 𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓰𝓮𝓭𝔂.•°*”˜•°*”˜💀🖤🥀 |
| I think everyone can enjoy anime regardless of their age. |
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| There are SOME animes for adults. Annoyingly few though... Also gore doesn't make anime adult, when I was in first grade kids used to watch Happy Tree Friends, to look edgy, which they confused with mature... What differentiates a real mature anime from something made for kids, is the emotional subtlety, and the life experience invoked in the show. |
| Anime as a madium is for both sexes and all age groups. Kids anime=kids Shoujo=Teenage girls Josei=Women Shounen=teen boys Seinen=Men |
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| The anime aimed at adults is popularly known as hentai |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Perhaps, this is hell. |
| I'd say the brunt of anime is aimed at teenagers and young adults, with a sizeable minority of children's anime and a few outlier for older people. Of course that doesn't mean there's a time where you're too old for anime. Miss me with that Twitter garbage |
| Stuff in the streets, Stuff with drip in the sheets |
| Basically it is made for teenager especially around high schooler but some of adult like us, still were enjoying the stuff until now even so on lol |
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| Anime is for whoever the hell wants to watch it, just like animation as a whole. Even trying to push anime away from other animation in an attempt to prove its more mature is ultimately stupid. There are plenty of shows that shouldnt be seen by really young children, and plenty of adult jokes in shows that are mostly aimed at kids. Putting a cap on how old you can be to enjoy these shows is absurd. I mean, yeah, it might be weird for an adult to watch some Dora level preschool shit, but in the end, what does it really matter? I fully believe once you're no longer a kid, you should have free range to watch whatever the hell you want. Then again, I watched adultswim shows and ecchi and a few kinda gory anime before I probably should have, and I turned out relatively fine....I think...At the very least it taught me the difference between reality and fiction early. But its probably not a good idea to use myself as the baseline for what kids should watch... |
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| Movies are for kids. Then you realize how ridiculous that sounds when you apply that to anything else like TV shows, anime, etc. I used to have someone tell me video games are for kids. But there's video games you can't even buy unless you have your parents permission or over 18 y/o. |
chronofantasy said: I used to have someone tell me video games are for kids. But there's video games you can't even buy unless you have your parents permission or over 18 y/o. But it's kind of an open secret that those age restrictions never made any sense... |
JaniSIr said: chronofantasy said: I used to have someone tell me video games are for kids. But there's video games you can't even buy unless you have your parents permission or over 18 y/o. But it's kind of an open secret that those age restrictions never made any sense... Right? Who cares if I'm playing GTA at 10 years old. |
| Is watching cartoons taboo for adults? I like watching cartoons at my 31. There are even older guys who share my hobby. Should we feel ashamed or what? Nobody cares about age restrictions (shounen, seinen whatever), sex restrictions (shoujo, shounen, whatever) or sexuality restrictions (yaoi, yuri, whatever). You are free to like anything. |
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Yes, exactly. Uhm, what else is there to say, I know you were trying to be sarcastic, but agreeing with something doesn't take 30 characters. |
| Anime target various audiences from different ages, but if you mean generally, then I think anime is targeted toward teens. |
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| sometimes MAL forums are used to ask the silliest questions. Anime are not for kids, they're for gods. |
Treeskyview said: When I was a teen, it was a big thing to say that anime is not just "cartoons". That is to say, it's not for children (due to blood, nudity, etcetera). So it's made for teenagers? What about people in their 30s and 40s? To give you some context about animation in general, In the 70s you would find people in their 40s and 50s watching Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Anime basically stopped being a medium for just a general audience in the 70s when they started creating titles like "Devilman" and "Lupin the 3rd" back in 1972. My parents use to watch Anime when they use to visit Japan frequently as missionaries from Korea. My father told me that the fandom surrounding Anime was quite different and there is an obvious different attitude about the medium today than back then. Although both my parents consumed more Japanese films than anything else, both of them still watch Anime even today even if it's very selective and they are in their late 80s now. My parents would be considered Elitist if they were actually apart of the MAL community, because they think "almost" everything released after the 80s is shit. |
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| Anime is to be enjoyed at any age. It ranges from children's anime like Hamtaro to mature series like Nana. But anime is changing... |
RentNoGirlfriend said: You are right what you say. As they say, Otakus will rule the world. lolsometimes MAL forums are used to ask the silliest questions. Anime are not for kids, they're for gods. |
| What has more is adaptation of manga/novel for the teen audience and little adaptation of manga/novel for the young adult audience. And answering the question would be yes and no, because it is something made for an audience of different ages, so at the same time it can be something for children like Doraemon, or it can be something for teenagers like Naruto and it can also be something for adults like Uchuu Kyoudai, so it's not something for just one audience. |
JaniSIr said: Yes, exactly. Uhm, what else is there to say, I know you were trying to be sarcastic, but agreeing with something doesn't take 30 characters. Sadly when I was a kid and buying video games from gaming stores and physical copies was the norm. You needed parent's permission to buy games that were rated M. But in this digital age, it's so easy for an underage kid to pretend they are over 18 and buy a game online. |
chronofantasy said: JaniSIr said: Yes, exactly. Uhm, what else is there to say, I know you were trying to be sarcastic, but agreeing with something doesn't take 30 characters. Sadly when I was a kid and buying video games from gaming stores and physical copies was the norm. You needed parent's permission to buy games that were rated M. But in this digital age, it's so easy for an underage kid to pretend they are over 18 and buy a game online. Although full disclosure, I didn't actually play GTA when I was 10, only tried it at friends, I was a Star Wars Battlefront connoisseur. I tried GTA5 as an adult, but didn't like it. |
| This question is so dumb, I hate when my dad says anime is for kids as well. It's for everyone, there's anime targeted to all audiences like Western cartoons. |
JaniSIr said: chronofantasy said: Sadly when I was a kid and buying video games from gaming stores and physical copies was the norm. You needed parent's permission to buy games that were rated M. But in this digital age, it's so easy for an underage kid to pretend they are over 18 and buy a game online. Although full disclosure, I didn't actually play GTA when I was 10, only tried it at friends, I was a Star Wars Battlefront connoisseur. I tried GTA5 as an adult, but didn't like it. I was 10 in 1997 so I think only gta1 and 2 were out and they weren't too bad then as they were just top view games and I tried some of them when I was a kid. But I think I recall other M rated games requiring parent's permission. Back then we used to rent a lot of games and movies instead and I was into JRPGs most of the time. |
| Anime like books movies games etc are for everyone. |
| "among monsters and humans, there are only two types. Those who undergo suffering and spread it to others. And those who undergo suffering and avoid giving it to others." -Alice “Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.” David Hume “Evil is created when someone gives up on someone else. It appears when everyone gives up on someone as a lost cause and removes their path to salvation. Once they are cut off from everyone else, they become evil.” -Othinus  |
| I'd watch an anime adaptation of Schindler's List. |
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Treeskyview said: When I was a teen, it was a big thing to say that anime is not just "cartoons". That is to say, it's not for children (due to blood, nudity, etcetera). So it's made for teenagers? What about people in their 30s and 40s? TIL My Neighbor Totoro has blood and nudity. Damn it, Miyazaki... |
| Anime/manga has whole demographics that are made specifically for adults, so yes it is. There is seinen for male adults and josei for female adults. |
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
| Each anime is aimed at a different demographic. |
| Anime is made for everyone, so i believe that no matter how old you are, you can still watch anime. There are a lot of choices anyway. |
  "Curiosity is like a cockroach. It likes to stumble upon secrets that are supposed to stay hidden." ― Hitagi Senjougahara |
| like pokemon game you can still see adults fighting over a pokemon game. if they grow up with pokemon, then who's to say they need to stop playing once they're in adulthood. |
| Anime is for everyone, like movies, games etc. |
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i got into Anime at 14, back in 1995, and here i am, at 40, in 2022, as deeply into the medium as i've ever been. Age be Damned... i'm an OTAKU for life, no two ways about that... |
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| It depends on the anime. I’d say that most anime’s target audience is elementary and middle school aged kids. It doesn’t really matter tho, just watch what you want. |
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| Ultimately, I think it depends on the demographic. |
"Nobody could laugh at someone who's trying their hardest" -Machio- |
| I would say that it is for everybody, or to put it better, anyone can enjoy it. Of course, this doesn't mean that there aren't animes intended for certain audiences by design, but even so, I guess you can say there's enjoyment out of everything no matter the target. I do see myself watching Anime as an "adult" or at least society defines it, so there's that. |
Treeskyview said: When I was a teen, it was a big thing to say that anime is not just "cartoons". That is to say, it's not for children (due to blood, nudity, etcetera). So it's made for teenagers? What about people in their 30s and 40s? Anime like other cartoons around the world are made for different ages. Some of its for little kids,big kids, teenagers, and adults. |
| Though, anyone can enjoy anime. I'm pretty most anime are made for teens for obvious reasons. |
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