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12-09-2020, 03:54 PM | #2461 |
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So apparently parents in Japan are complaining that the new Demon Slayer movie is 'too violent' for children and that their kids can't sleep at night after seeing the movie because they're 'too scared' and stuff. Uh, yeah no dip Sherlock, why on earth would you bring your kids to see that?.
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12-09-2020, 04:07 PM | #2462 |
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You know that Demon Slayer is a Shonen Jump series, right? Shonen Jump stuff is aim towards childern. The series even has toys for childern to play with. Shows like Dragon Ball, One Piece, Naruto, etc in Japan are viewed no differently than how how most people view kids shows such as TMNT, Spongebob, etc in North America.
The movie is an extension of the show, if they think the movie is too scary for kids, their kids either don't watch the show, or they're senile. You can't just watch the show and get scared of the movie following the same format. That's asinine. I feel this is either a PR stunt, or spurred by some alterior motive. To your point of Shonen Jump being aimed towards kids, and these shows being viewed similarly to western children shows. Death Note, Shaman King, Bleach, D-Gray Man, etc.. were all Shonen Jump manga based tv series that were even more bloody and terrifying, on far greater levels, than Demon Slayer. The japanese have far more tolerance and freedom with their childrens televsion, often times showing death, horrific monsters, blood, murder. However, these shows are aimed at older children, the 12+ range. Kimetsu No Yaiba hides a lot of the graphic details well and has a cutesy art style, but its still scary. Its not meant for very young kids like the 3-9 year range. For them there's Dragon Ball, and other light hearted series. Most Shonen Jump series are for older children. Most of them literally have highschool aged characters. It's more than likely the parents and young children never saw the show and just went to watch a movie, saw the cutesy art, and chose that movie, since most animated features are aimed at kids. Boy, they must've been suprised. Last edited by KaiserBlue; 12-09-2020 at 04:32 PM.. |
12-09-2020, 04:29 PM | #2463 |
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From what I've been told, Demon Slayer has a later time slot than shows like Kamen Rider or Dragon Ball do. It is probably why the show is able to get away with bloody content. Quote:
I feel this is either a PR stunt, or spurred by some alterior motive.
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12-09-2020, 04:38 PM | #2464 |
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Sorry, my wifi went out as i posted my previous reponse, so you only saw part of it. Fixed that. |
12-09-2020, 07:26 PM | #2465 |
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Are we allowed to talk about what's going with Nintendo?
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12-09-2020, 07:27 PM | #2466 |
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They're doing a lot of dumb things right now, so I can't really tell what you mean
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12-09-2020, 09:32 PM | #2467 |
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I mean, the whole #save melee is non-political and not against guidlines as far as i know.
I don't get why Nintendo shutdown the tournament. I get they feel threatened because rollback netcode makes their delay based netcode look like garbage. I guess more than anything, they're scared people will learn that they can do better, but don't want to, because they're cheap. Now they'v pretty much become full-blown totalitarian assholes who crackdown on anyone who tries to externally improve the experience or publicly defy them. Even going so far as to silence the splatoon community because their solidarity with the smash community, on a livestream, would make them look pretty shitty. Canceling it made them look even shittier. Besides the netcode, i don't think they were employing any other mods, so it was a quality of experience thing. That makes it even more egregious that they charge so much for online, but deliver a discount store experience. Any other company would recognize their failings, maybe shut down ultimate (but not melee), and then either hire the guys to fix their own online, or improve it themselves. They've done stuff like this plenty of times after their online launch, still no improvements. So pretty much maintain systematic superiority by killing any and all alternatives, while doing nothing yourselves. To kill melee was a step to far, its already legacy software that Nintendo has not done or plans to do anything with. To cancel that, is like a slap in the face to fans of the brand. There was no need, thats like if microsoft shut down OG Doom servers because of IP. Their IP, as well as their profits were unaffected by legacy users of melee, on the contrary, it did a good job boosting smashs' position in the professional fighting community, and thereby the wider gaming community. To kill that is an assault on your customers and the gaming community as a whole. Last edited by KaiserBlue; 12-09-2020 at 09:41 PM.. |
12-09-2020, 10:20 PM | #2468 |
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...okay I'm lost, what's happening with Nintendo? Some context please.
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12-09-2020, 10:51 PM | #2469 |
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The controversy is not on them taking down the smash ultimate tournament, but going a step further and also taking down the smash melee tournament by the same group. This group is highly regarded and their tourneys the highlight of the melee community. That incited rage in the melee community, which was pretty much built on quality of life mods for the game and online tourneys. They started the #freemeleee and then things really hit the fan when Nintendo canceled a splatoon 2 livestream tournament because the teams showed solidarity, through their names, with the smash community. 30% of the names referenced the smash cancellation. And then another incident, which i can't talk about, Nintendo recently caused which put them in even deeper hot water. So they're pretty much being blasted on all cylinder by the gaming community at large atm. |
12-10-2020, 01:15 PM | #2470 |
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I was gonna get Cyberpunk but hearing about how it runs poorly on PS4, I have decided to wait until I get PS5 next year. That is if I can beat cancer first.
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