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Hey, Santaman! [2006-12-08]

I think some people are under the impression that 4Kids ceasing production on the dub somehow means now we'll get uncut subtitled boxsets with 50 episodes included in each for $10 from Funimation or something but that isn't the case at all; the show didn't catch on here, and neither did the videogames, so after this I'm not sure if any company - especially in a few years when the license runs out and the heat is completely gone from the show - will want to invest in a 300+ episode expensive juggernaut of a series that already proved it has limited appeal in the American market.

How about Trinity Blood for the atheist relative/friend for a future Gfts for people you Hate column/section?

Third is Cardcaptor Sakura... or "Cardcaptors." Unlike with DBZ and Pokemon, this show's story was actually changed to make suitable for young audiences. I don't know how popular this incarnation of the show was, but it apparently had enough of a fanbase to warrant a subtitled, uncut version.

As I grow older, I have more and more difficulty watching anime.

...but as the years go by, I find it harder and harder to watch anime in general.

I'm deeply saddened every time I see a news story with a picture of a child carrying an AK-47 and instructed to kill. What are we doing to the innocence of these children? Do we want our children to be like the hardened Kirika from Noir, or the cold-blooded killers in Gunslinger Girl?

I wouldn't use this forum as an indicator whether if giving your son a laptop since I believe most people on this board is usually of age to view sexually explicit stuff.

Even so, I doubt everyone on this board even watch hentai or anything of the sort.

If you truly feel that you can't trust your son with a personal laptop, it should be because of his actions, not of others.

I applaud if you monitor on what your son is watching. It IS the parent's fault if they found a certain title they brought that they heavily disagree with without at least looking at the back of the DVD/manga/whatever where it clearly states what is their intended audience. It is not the government's responsiblity to babysit anyone's kid, so it's super annoying to us fans when parents try to get the goverment to censor stuff that weren't made for young kids anyway. It makes parenting a less active role than it should be.

I never claim to be the prefect parent nor anyone does on this thread.

Shoot, I know I will screw up my kids in one form or another. That's a fact. But I will try not to screw them up to the point it negatively affect their lives.

Speaking of Shonen Jump shows, whatever became of Shaman King?

Anime_Freak wrote:

How about Trinity Blood for the atheist relative/friend for a future Gfts for people you Hate column/section?

How about Trinity Blood, period?

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Speaking of Shonen Jump shows, whatever became of Shaman King?

Shaman King ran its full 64 episode series on 4kidsTV. There were only 2 DVD releases of the show (both uncut) which essentially went hand in hand with the Yu-Gi-Oh uncuts.

Shaman King wasn't really that popular to begin with though, not even in Japan.

I'm sure there are parents in the world who are as you have described, but I fail to see how any parent who would go through the hugh bother of petitioning their local, or national government over something they perceive as, whether rightly, or wrongly in someone elses eyes, harmful to their child, is somehow "making parenting a less active roll". That is a complete irony. They may be barking up the wrong tree, but at least they cared enough to bark. It's the parents who couldn't give a toss just what their offspring are up to that has made the streets a less safer place for the rest.

I wouldn't want the government babysitting my children, but I do expect the government to provide information that will help me to be a responsible parent and to keep my child from harm's way, and that is completely different. There is nothing wrong with allowing a child to watch Sesame St., or Telly Tubbys. as long as it is of a restricted amount and followed up with active playtime and a storybook read by that parent sometime later. One of us always read to our two when they were infants and toddlers and I still read to my children at 12 and 14, because they still ask me to.

I said that because it comes to the expectation that the government will fix it when the parent can do it on their own. There is no excuse to not research what your kid is watching/reading these days when you can do a quick research on the internet. Like the parents who protested against Grand Theft Auto, they should've known that GTA wasn't for kids, yet they still buy them and complained to the government about it even after the law that prohibited stores to sell them to underage people and clear warnings on the product. If a parent can't do that, they don't have a right to complain to the government do something about it.

And I agree on the negectful parents.

But it's always the PERSON not the images that's the problem.

A lot of people say, 'Anime is exploiting little girls with panyshots and half-nude/nude scenes...' Sure, I twitch sometimes when I see something that I would consider over-the-top. I have friends who go on and on about the 'evil' of Pikachu (peek-at-you) and 'Pocket Monsters' being something about 'masturbating to indecent images of children'.

I'd rather that pedophiles were jerking off to cartoons than trading child exploitation pictures or abusing children.

In a society that accepts that there will be violence (fact of life) and sex (essential to continued life) why should we be so scared that our children will come to understand these things happen? They will need that understanding in life. ( Sadly, We are not in a society that accepts 'sex and violence')

So my point is: If we don't indulge in our fantasies, we might just make them unforgivable realities.