Anime for Kids

How do you think these animes are rated? How do you judge if an Anime is appropriate for your kids or not and a very important question is, How is an Anime different than a cartoon?

These are worthless questions, isn’t it? The main reason is that, when I was categorizing those Animes that I have seen until now, this question popped up in my mind. I mean, I could categorize them by their default genre taken from Wikipedia, but once this question hit my mind, I could not just walk away from it.

Well, you do know some default genre or categories, like romantic comedy, mecha, super natural, slice of life, science-fiction, comedy, adventure, etc. However, I didn’t know how to categorize them further. I am not sure if my friends will be fine with watching Naruto Shippuden with me or not, or if I can watch Ah! My Goddess with my little sister comfortably or not.

Anyway, I came to conclude this with just one plain sentence; I can’t definitely watch any of these with my parents! If you are wondering why, then I have to tell you that, parents think these anime (and cartoons) as kids stuff.

Seriously think about this, kids don’t make these things and if nobody will watch those (even kids) then who on earth is going to watch these animes that are clearly not nice and cozy. You have to agree me on this one, anime do have a tint of adulthood in their episodes (every single one of them).

Personally, I like to watch Romantic Comedy Anime and I do have a justification for that:

• I love to watch comedy animes because I like to get rid of this routine of my life once in a while.
• Then, with a slice of ‘romance’ in ‘comedy’, everything just feels so darn perfect that it gives me a perfect cool down when I feel upset about something.
• Of course, I am not suggesting that watching anime is a very great get away, but they do come as an option.

If you ask me about my favorite romantic comedy anime then, I would happily say ‘Ouran High School Host Club’ and I just can’t get over it. I have to be honest with you on this; I once toppled off the couch while watching it.

Now, let me say something about Cartoons! Watching cartoons was fun when I was little and I must say, they were (and are) for kids, however, I got never connected with them. There was no story and any serious plot or if there ever was one, it did not enter my heart right away and I couldn’t wait for that to happen.

Now, there was this one cartoon that appealed to me for the very first time. I loved it so much that I used to wait for its episode to come. I used to hurry up from my coaching (tuition) and things like that.

After coming off my shell, growing up, I came to know what the case was for real! It was an anime, my very first one, Dragon Ball Z.

I agree that it was for kids but a different one as well. It had a goal, something to thrive for, teenage jokes like nose bleeds (and the reason for that to happen *wink*), a perverted old man (with guts to hit on young girls and body to recover from terrible beatings), etc.

It was not some silly bugs laughing around, kids in sand, cat chasing a mouse, a sailor who can become a superman with spinach, etc. I don’t know, why that cartoon had such a theme, but it could not make ‘me’ eat spinach!

There is a better and advanced side to cartoons (it opened to me just few years ago and I really regret it, because I lost so much) and that’s is what I think Anime is all about and not just Japanese Cartoons, which would be the technical explanation to the word “Anime”.

A boy who wants to gain respect from his village, a wimpy and weak boy who wants to learn martial arts so that he can protect those who are close to him, a girl who loves darkness and fights the flashing world of flashing creatures, a boy who wants to have a girlfriend in his life and ends up having a really awesome Goddess…. (this can go on and on)

However, this is why I love anime so much and I call them cartoon for adults. They somehow relax me in a different manner and to tell you the truth, I connect myself to those stories in one way or another. You won’t believe me, but when I got sick of watching Ranma and Akane (from Ranma 1/2) fight all the time and not saying ‘I love you’ to each other. I actually thought of writing a story about two of them getting married together.

So, I am pretty sure that I have not answered the question, but I did fill some gaps. Rest is yours to decide and fill out other gaps in the comment section below.