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Originally Posted by ShiShiLeo

I always find it funny that people can declare that a show is too violent when said violence pales in comparison to violence that happens in the actual real world.

The violence in Black Sun is necessary to depict the atrocity and severity of the historical events it is invoking.

All sorts of action movies depict horrendous violence but people are desensitized to gun violence, off-screen violence, or violence against "others" (think about all the fodder aliens in Avengers, henchmen in John Wick, etc). The end result is the same in all these cases: loss of life.

I think people tend to conflate edgey nihilism with the repudiation of tragedy especially when we seek escapism from entertainment. Black Sun took nothing away from the mainline Kamen Rider series, heck we even got a full fledged big budget Kamen Rider movie within a year of its release. Kamen Rider proves to be a diverse property and it's impossible for all of it to land for everyone. I'm glad they tried something different and I think the show adds a richness to the IP.

There is a difference between showing violence in a way that is repulsive and enjoying it. The Amazons and the Black Sun try to do the former, but often slip into the latter. In addition to the overtly bloody, violence can also be ridiculous, nondescript or large-scale. Sometimes the unseen scares and impresses much more. Drone operators take far more lives than special forces. More people die from road accidents than in any war. Just compare the death of the Wasp-Aug from Anno's movie to how Darom and Baraom's murders were savored. The viewer does not feel sympathy for these characters, so what is the point of dragging out their demise so much? Or the massacre of Bilgenia with the police.
As for the fact that they kill everywhere and a lot, then yes. And in children's shows, including. In Geats, for example, for some reason, killing a Jamato with the personality of a dead person is normal, but killing a person turned into a brainless Jamato is bad. But just because a problem is widespread doesn't mean it's no longer a problem.