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Originally Posted by Fredbob392

Man, considering Evolt's pretty much guaranteed to die, and Sento and Ryuga are pretty much guaranteed to live given Zi-O, that'll be only a third of the show's Riders surviving. Haven't watched too many other series, so I was wondering, assuming the death's stick and it doesn't go for a Ryuki style ending, when was the last time a Rider series had that much of it's cast dead?

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Gaim. Even with a couple of resurrections its later episodes were a bloodbath.

Yup.
It's really not that uncommon.


If you're comparing it to American standards for children's shows, then it's a bit different, but for any place not America, it's not that uncommon at all. UK, Australia, China, Japan, etc. all have different things it considers acceptable or not for kids shows.

Really even in America it varies more than people realize when you look at details of shows. Americans tend to get too distracted by aesthetics to really notice details.

Take for example how many people keep trying to ship Cheetara from Thundercats to Lion-O (per classic series). That's literally pedophilia if you really think about it. Lion-O is under 13 years old. He's actually younger than Kit and Kat. That's an 80s example. There are more recent examples of really dark material that's considered "kids show fluff" but it's ignored because of various visual reasons.

Build and Gaim and others have that same aspect. How silly and outlandish aspects are allows it more freedom to move. Because of that visual aspect and atmosphere. There's more involved in that too from a psychological standpoint in artistic choices etc. But it is a really interesting topic itself about perceptions and how much goes unnoticed because of various factors.