[ShiShiLeo]

Pontification on the explicit depiction of violence on a show about civil disorder and authoritarian regimes is entirely missing the point. It's like watching a riot and overlooking the cause for the riot because the method makes you uncomfortable. Like, that is the whole point- that violence is ugly, unforgiving, and should not be glossed over. Imagine trying to depict racism without violence; that's a tacit acceptance of being a benefactor of the status quo because they are so innately intertwined.

I would agree that Black Sun tends to heighten violence and gore, but I think it does so commensurate to our levels of desensitization. Take for example the ESRB Game Ratings board and how violent depictions in video games today get much lower T/M ratings than those same games would have gotten in the past.

I would simply ask that you look at why, not how Black Sun chooses the direction it does. Context is extremely important and we often forget that the term edgy used to label media that pushed boundaries.

Here is an article about the hypocrisy in violent entertainment:

https://supreme.findlaw.com/legal-co...hostel-ii.html

It's fairly short and worth a read. I'm not here to say anyone is wrong about their feelings for the show. As someone who abhors violence the more and more I get older, I've had to constantly re-examine my relationship with much of tokusatsu.