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Fwind4:
I really hope this isn't the wrong section for this, if it is I apologize.

A while ago I saw this film called One Hour Photo, a pretty disturbing movie, but that's not what this topic is about.
In this movie there is a scene with the main character and a 9 year old boy holding an Evangelion action figure. The main character asks the boy if he likes that toy, and he offers to buy it for him (to clarify: this takes place in a store, and the boy took the item from a shelf), the boy didn't accept it.(If you wanna know why go watch the movie that's not the point of this topic)

Ever since then that scene is lingering in my mind, I didn't even pay much attention to the rest of the film, it left me puzzled.
It's clear that the boy had to have watched the anime to be wanting that action figure, it's also clear that the old main character had no idea wtf that is.
Now granted NG Evangelion isn't the most disturbing anime out there, not until the last 2 episodes at least, and children won't understand what's going on in it anyway, but the last 2 eps... man that's some heavy shit right there, it could scar a grown man even(I like the anime a lot btw).
I understand that children can't be sheltered from heavy material like this all the way, I remember when I was a kid I saw a few nasty horror films and some weird shit even that I couldn't understand at the time like Natural Born Killers, I'm wondering though if anime in some places is still being treated as if it was all child cartoons.
Kids can watch South Park, The Simpsons, Family Guy because they are clever to hide the adult stuff from the kids understanding, anime not always do that, and they can get hardcore, as many of you know.
If you would show people who don't know much about anime some hentai, or even just Elfen Lied or Higurashi, they would be shocked such a thing even existed.

I don't want this to turn into some heated ethical debate, I'm not even a father yet, I'm just merely curios about other people in other countries thoughts on this. (I'm sorry about any grammar mistakes, english is not my first language, sorry for the length aswell)

megido-rev.M:
I assume many adults have a hard time elaborating these kinds of things to children to a sufficient extent, probably as much as to others in any other age group, or even to themselves.
Well, that sounds pretty useless. <_<


--- Quote from: Fwind4 on February 15, 2013, 10:50:36 PM ---I understand that children can't be sheltered from heavy material like this all the way, I remember when I was a kid I saw a few nasty horror films and some weird shit even that I couldn't understand at the time like Natural Born Killers, I'm wondering though if anime in some places is still being treated as if it was all child cartoons.

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Yes.
And I do believe this goes to general discussions.

Tiffanys:
I think you're assuming the movie creators actually knew what it was rather than just picking some cool transformer looking action figure that a little boy would want... Hell, it could have been product placement even, like how 90% of computers in TV shows are all Macs... as if cops have Macs...

And honestly, liking an action figure doesn't imply he knew what it was. He could have just thought it looked cool. A lot of kids are like that...

kurandoinu:
I agree with Tiff. I'm pretty sure he described the figure as "the good guy" when he's actually holding one of the mass produced Evas that's certainly not good.

I think you're reading too far into it :P

joker9316:
That's just too strange
just look into wiki (for NGE) it has a slight mention of your movie
i guess it pretty much explains the use of that figure
and BTW u drifted to something much weirder than the anime itself

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