Name me five series with young role models in cartoons who are put in danger from threats that children should be made aware of at a young age.
Here's the catch... The cartoon has to have been made in the past 10 years.
Can't find them? If so, Well, Join the club.
I know of only a couple of situations myself, where children as young as 10-12 years old are put at risk due to their actions.
A few years back, Sonic X aired a episode where, in Japan, Maria Robotnik is shot dead.
However, to help soften the blow, In America, Maria Robotnik is captured, not shot, and has apparently died due to some other reason.
One Piece was edited for broadcast to children...
Guns, Swords, Knives, cigarettes... all kinds of things, some of them which a child can see just by looking at their parents, were edited out, sometimes poorly.
For some unfathomable reason, automatically, when kids are the target audience -
1. Signs become blank, since children apparently don't need to have literacy skills quite yet at the level where they can read simple signs.
2. Weapons are edited out of existence, since children apparently never will be shot or stabbed or otherwise murdered in cold blood.
3. If possible, character death is removed or the blow softened, since children will never encounter death...
Look, America, Your censorship is getting ridiculous.
In the 80's and early 90's, kids were regularly getting into real trouble, where they could die, where men with guns and knives were out to get them, where bombs did go off in their general vicinity...
In the 00's, apparently, though, those kids no longer appear in cartoons at all, and the guys with guns and knives had their weapons confiscated, and the bombs are all duds.
We have terrorism, child sex crimes, child murder and gun crime committed against children in the real world...
Why must the world of cartoons have a sense of morality where children only learn about it too late?
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