[KaiserBlue]

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Originally Posted by Guyver Spawn

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.

Yeah, but the show itself was quite bloody and macabre to begin with. You literally had Tanjiro at multiple points behead horrific monsters, in the most elaborate animated scenes, and then a rainfall of blood in a few of them. But the movie, which I've seen online, pretty much carries over everything from the show and just adds that extra dash of dynamic angles and framing, is scary to these kids and parents want to complain.

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.