G-rated anime

Fario-P said:

That's just what MAL decided to rate it. Any reasonable person would consider Cardcaptor Sakura a G-rated anime; hell, I was a child when I first read the manga and checked out the anime, and I was fine with it. There's nothing really objectionable about the anime as far as I can remember.

C-radica said:

On Hulu the sub is TV-14|||||||||||

WatchTillTandava said:
To add on to my autumn of 2019 post from almost a year ago, I was going to suggest Flying Witch as another great candidate when I read the comment above reminding me of the seemingly random and arbitrary nature of the rating system for anime on MAL, went back to Flying Witch's main page, and lo and behold, a PG-13. Why is Flying Witch a PG-13? Who knows? It's not the equivalent of, for example, a U.S. film rated PG-13 by the MPAA. There is zero violence of anything more than minor slapstick resulting in no blood or gore, no nudity or any other form of sexual content depicted or implied, no explicit language in terms of common vulgarities/curses or sexual or racial epithets and slurs, and no other subject manner which, while not graphic in the aforementioned categories, meets some other standard of being too heady and vaguely controversial and dramatic to justify a lower rating. It's a pure feel good sensory experience for anyone of any age with content no reasonable person could deem any more inappropriate for a 6 year-old than a 50 year-old. There is no way "parental guidance should be suggested" for those under 13 (in line with the language governing that rating) as it has nothing in it more violent, crude/vulgar, frightening, or otherwise raw and explicit than any G-rated Disney film or TV Y-7 show on American TV during children-oriented programming bloc hours.

C-radica said:
I mean it dose have drinking. Also it rated TV-PG not TV-Y7. I was wondering the same with After School Dice Club it's TV-PG but the Blu ray is getting a TV-14. MAL rated it PG-13 too but I think it should be PG.And the same can be said about K-on

WatchTillTandava said:


Does drinking, a staple in many countries and feature of daily life, even to excess, really factor into the ratings though? I can think of G-rated Disney films with drinking and even drunkenness and I'm sure there are plenty of other examples in the American ratings system and internationally. It may be different now than 50 years ago though as ratings in several areas have surprisingly gotten more puritanical and restrictive, like including warnings in ratings for depictions of smoking or even extreme weather scenarios.

WatchTillTandava said:


Does drinking, a staple in many countries and feature of daily life, even to excess, really factor into the ratings though? I can think of G-rated Disney films with drinking and even drunkenness and I'm sure there are plenty of other examples in the American ratings system and internationally. It may be different now than 50 years ago though as ratings in several areas have surprisingly gotten more puritanical and restrictive, like including warnings in ratings for depictions of smoking or even extreme weather scenarios.

WatchTillTandava said:
To add on to my autumn of 2019 post from almost a year ago, I was going to suggest Flying Witch as another great candidate when I read the comment above reminding me of the seemingly random and arbitrary nature of the rating system for anime on MAL, went back to Flying Witch's main page, and lo and behold, a PG-13. Why is Flying Witch a PG-13? Who knows? It's not the equivalent of, for example, a U.S. film rated PG-13 by the MPAA. There is zero violence of anything more than minor slapstick resulting in no blood or gore, no nudity or any other form of sexual content depicted or implied, no explicit language in terms of common vulgarities/curses or sexual or racial epithets and slurs, and no other subject manner which, while not graphic in the aforementioned categories, meets some other standard of being too heady and vaguely controversial and dramatic to justify a lower rating. It's a pure feel good sensory experience for anyone of any age with content no reasonable person could deem any more inappropriate for a 6 year-old than a 50 year-old. There is no way "parental guidance should be suggested" for those under 13 (in line with the language governing that rating) as it has nothing in it more violent, crude/vulgar, frightening, or otherwise raw and explicit than any G-rated Disney film or TV Y-7 show on American TV during children-oriented programming bloc hours.