[Guyver Spawn]

What I feel like what makes something like Kamen Rider stand out from most kids stuff is the aesthetics of rubber suits and the fight cinematography. Seeing rubber suits and miniatures really make these shows feel authentic in my opinion. Not to mention, Kamen Rider always deals with some type of losing your humanity and evil vs. evil.

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Originally Posted by Genocyber

I do like how Japan is not scared to tell more darker and serious themes to their kids shows compare to America. Batman: TAS, Steven Universe and a couple other shows are the only American cartoons that reach the same level of storytelling and content as Japanese kids stuff for the most part.

I somewhat agree and disagree with that. I do think both Japan and America have their fair share of garbage for kids. Mind you, I think there is a lot of trash for adults too. I do hate to sound like a weeaboo, sometimes I do think Japan does have better shows, comics and movies for kids than the west.

Back in the day, you had shows and manga aim for kids in Japan that would never work in America for kids like Fist of the North, Devilman, Area 88, Barefoot Gen, and even Toku like the Metal Heroes and Kamen Rider Black. Japan's standers have changed over the years and American cartoons have gotten better with content (That's not saying a whole lot compared to most Western kids shows). So current anime and Toku shows aim for kids don't feel a whole lot different than most American cartoons now except for a few in my opinion.