| Apparently there's a moral panic in Japan because parents think it's inappropriate for children to watch a show that features in the story a red light district and brothels. https://aramajapan.com/news/demon-slayer-announces-second-season-parents-worry-about-what-to-tell-their-children/111972/ What set parents off in Japan this week especially was having to explain to their young children exactly what a “red light district” is. Season 2 starts off with the main characters infiltrating several brothels in search of demons. The term used by the creators in Japanese — Yukaku — prompted many people to turn to Twitter and online messaging boards on how best to explain this to a child audience. I don't get it, Demon Slayer is very violent compared to the average shonen. The show features violence and people being murdered in brutal ways. I guess it's fine for kids to watch people get decapitated and burned to death, but my god somebody think of the children and don't explain to them what's a brothel. |
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| what about all the shounen animes where they peep girls in bathtubs, lmao. |
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| Parents need to stop letting television raise their children. |
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| so what? not like they show anything explicit except people killing mutated creatures |
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| I haven't read the manga, don't plan on it, but if the whole concern is purely because there is a red-light district that the arc takes place in, that's pretty baseless. Many anime I've seen use red light districts as a setting that adds to the mood and social state of the story. There's lots of good stories that take place in them. Gintama, Rakugo Shinjuu, etc. I find that usually the shows that actually feature proper red-light districts handle them maturely and use them as a way of telling an emotional story, even in Gintama, where the red-light district arc was one of the more powerful ones. Usually the shows that are aiming for fan-service and sexual content won't use a red-light district, they will just use a bath house or the beach. It's surprising to hear about it in a shounen manga aimed at younger audiences, but kids aren't stupid. They know what red light districts are. If anything, I think this is a chance for the series to tell a mature story. But I could be entirely wrong. Again, I've never read the manga, so I don't know what the story content actually is. |
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| Then maybe those stupid parents shouldn't let their children watch it. I hate morons who can't control their children and blame TV/games for showing them stuff they didn't want them to see. You're a parent? Then PARENT. |
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| An arc that takes place in a red light district and brothels? Japanese: 😡😡😡😡 An isekai which its main character is 40 y.o (mentally) and touches a 9 y.o kid? Japanese: 😁😁😁😁 |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Perhaps, this is hell. |
| No, it's the same old moral panic nonsense that I dealt with growing up in the early 90s. |
DrSexy said: Apparently there's a moral panic in Japan because parents think it's inappropriate for children to watch a show that features in the story a red light district and brothels. https://aramajapan.com/news/demon-slayer-announces-second-season-parents-worry-about-what-to-tell-their-children/111972/ What set parents off in Japan this week especially was having to explain to their young children exactly what a “red light district” is. Season 2 starts off with the main characters infiltrating several brothels in search of demons. The term used by the creators in Japanese — Yukaku — prompted many people to turn to Twitter and online messaging boards on how best to explain this to a child audience. I don't get it, Demon Slayer is very violent compared to the average shonen. The show features violence and people being murdered in brutal ways. I guess it's fine for kids to watch people get decapitated and burned to death, but my god somebody think of the children and don't explain to them what's a brothel. what is a demon slayer wtffffffffff |
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| They are idiots lmao.As long as they're innocent it won't bother them.They shouldn't even have let them watch Demon slayer in the first place. Nefelupitou said: An arc that takes place in a red light district and brothels? Japanese: 😡😡😡😡 An isekai which its main character is 40 y.o (mentally) and touches a 9 y.o kid? Japanese: 😁😁😁😁 Also this. |
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| Meanwhile, explaining Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi seems ok. |
| Imagine how boring this world would be without Japan - a comment at youtube |
| It's not everyday you hear this happening from Japan instead of the west. AcD4c said: Meanwhile, explaining Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi seems ok. While I understand your point, you do know that it is a false equivalency right? Most likely no kid is going to watch Redo of Healer, it's not an issue. Meanwhile Demon Slayer is literally the most popular thing in Japan right now. |
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_FRB_ said: It's not everyday you hear this happening from Japan instead of the west. AcD4c said: Meanwhile, explaining Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi seems ok. While I understand your point, you do know that it is a false equivalency right? Most likely no kid is going to watch Redo of Healer, it's not an issue. Meanwhile Demon Slayer is literally the most popular thing in Japan right now. I mean... popular or not, Kaifuku is airing at TV, right? One or other kid will watch a hentai revenge story. |
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| Bruh Isn't Demon Slayer like R rated? S1 already featured some pretty violent and rather disturbing scenes(from the perspective of children) |
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AcD4c said: _FRB_ said: It's not everyday you hear this happening from Japan instead of the west. While I understand your point, you do know that it is a false equivalency right? Most likely no kid is going to watch Redo of Healer, it's not an issue. Meanwhile Demon Slayer is literally the most popular thing in Japan right now. I mean... popular or not, Kaifuku is airing at TV, right? One or other kid will watch a hentai revenge story. First it would be worth noting that the Redo of Healer you've (probably) watched is not the one that's airing on normal Japanese broadcast TV. Yes, popularity makes all the difference, especially in the backlash (your implication that Redo of Healer is "ok" because of the lack of parental backlash). The most popular series in Japan, that everyone and their mother knows of, is not in any way the same as an fairly underground light novel adaptation that is regurgitated every 3 months. Demon Slayer has mainstream popularity, people outside of anime circles will watch it. If I had to guess I bet season 2 will be a primetime (Golden Hour in Japan) slot. No matter how hard you try, the comparison to Redo of Healer just doesn't work, other than them "both being anime". I agree with the sentiment of "it's a parent's responsibility to parent their kids", but lets not delude ourselves into thinking it would be a concern for a vast majority of other shows by making comparisons to shows that are way less popular and mainstream compared to the overwhelmingly popularity and mainstream-ness of Demon Slayer. |
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aiyaiyai said: Either way, no sex happens so the innocent kids can sleep well. People dying in the most gruesome way? A-OK. People having sex? OMG WILL SOME ONE PLEASE! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!? |
| no, the ones who use that word ARE though. |
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| First of all, why are children watching Demon Slayer, its clearly stated that the show is R rated. No matter whether its a cartoon or an anime if its R rated that means its for people of age 17 or more. Then why are those parents letting their kids watch the show, they gotta do some research. Second, what rest of you said, Children can watch people getting murdered brutally but sex is way too wrong. |
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| Anyway Tanjiro is virgin after the redlight arc so it doesn't matter |
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| do those people know about yoshiwara arc from gintama? they even have raunchy sex jokes |
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V1D1T said: First of all, why are children watching Demon Slayer, its clearly stated that the show is R rated. No matter whether its a cartoon or an anime if its R rated that means its for people of age 17 or more. Then why are those parents letting their kids watch the show, they gotta do some research. Second, what rest of you said, Children can watch people getting murdered brutally but sex is way too wrong. Maybe in America it is R rated but when I searched for the age rating of Demon Slayer in Japan, the show is rated as +12 ( 12 years old and up). The article I posted only talks about the people in Japan having a problem with the content. |
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Nefelupitou said: I think a lot has to do with the fact that the isekai that you're talking about did not become nearly as big of a phenomenon as KnYAn arc that takes place in a red light district and brothels? Japanese: 😡😡😡😡 An isekai which its main character is 40 y.o (mentally) and touches a 9 y.o kid? Japanese: 😁😁😁😁 But I guess boomers are a global problem |
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| As much as I don't like the anime, it's stupid for parents to let their children watch a R-17 show (edit: it seems the rating in Japan is 12+. But still, don't let your child watch something without your knowledge). Do your job as a parent and keep an eye out on what your child is watching. |
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Nefelupitou said: An arc that takes place in a red light district and brothels? Japanese: 😡😡😡😡 An isekai which its main character is 40 y.o (mentally) and touches a 9 y.o kid? Japanese: 😁😁😁😁 Nicely played. Pity I can't upvote posts. |
Kenzolo-folk said: what about all the shounen animes where they peep girls in bathtubs, lmao. Naruto's own master peeps on girls in order to get "writing material for books he publishes" I guess its different since demon slayer is really popular series set in a post industrial japan but the arc isn't lewd or anything in the slightest kind of weird since the whole of Demon Slayer is very shonen and kid friendly minus the demons |
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