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Recommendations for children.

Did you read this thread before replying? Miyazaki's works are nearly always the first ones mentioned when discussing shows for children. Most of us here are trying to draw attention to much less familiar choices like Kemono no Sou-ja Erin or Dennou Coil.

It seems you posted in about a dozen threads today and, from the comments I saw, you didn't really read any of those threads very carefully if at all.

We can't help but notice your plethora of sudden posting when we have our settings set to notify us via e-mail

What I really liked about it were the games that the spirit possessing Yugi played. Not the card games, but the quirky, interesting ones with the bullies and robbers that put Yugi in danger. The spirit was able to win because of very clever planning and outwitting his opponent.

In the manga, Atem challenges Ushio to a Game of Greed, upping the money at stake by a lot. Enough to coax Ushio into not just beating Atem bloody. Simple game, they use a knife to stab a stack of bills placed on the top of their hand. Get too greedy, you stab yourself. Winner is whoever gets the most money onto the knife. Since its a Dark Game, Ushio's Greed overcomes his sense, and he is unable to prevent himself from thrusting down with all his strength. So instead, he attempts to stab Atem in the face. Since again, this is a Dark Game, Ushio is punished for cheating. The Penalty Game of Avarice causes Ushio to see everything, even trash, as money.

In the Toei anime, we get a much less realistic game played over a giant pit of death (aka the river). Ushio and Atem hang by a rope from a pole at the top of the school clock tower, its kinda trippy. The game is crap, mostly. Basically a deck of playing cards are spread out over the face of the tower. The card they pick each turn allows them to move that many tiles up the wall (i.e. Ace is 1 tile, 6 of Clubs is 6 tiles, and so on). Since its the same rope shared between them, the loser ends up falling into the pit of death while the winner makes it safely to the top. Ushio cheats, obviously, and is Penalty Game'd. However this game has nothing to do the the original moral.

The manga's game was to challenge Ushio's greed. In the Toei game he was just trying not to die. And in the Toei, where he had a more valid reason to cheat, he actually played along until he lost because Atem kept getting all the high-numbered cards because of pure luck. The Toei missed the point of the game entirely. Dark Games were meant to be Trials in the same vein as the Trial of the Heart carried out by Anubis against the dead, in order to determine his or her worthiness to enter the afterlife. Ushio's Greed was on trial and he failed. His Penalty Game was meant to make him realize the folly of that greed. In the Toei, his Penalty Game is being dropped into the illusionary pit where he is eaten alive by monsters at the bottom. Not sure what lesson that was meant to teach. And so, the next day, Ushio is found crying like a baby.

Ditto to "cool it", Ambimunch. yuna49 is a valued contributor to this thread. And there's nothing creepy about the post of hers you refer to either.

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We can't help but notice your plethora of sudden posting when we have our settings set to notify us via e-mail when there is a new post in a thread we are watching. I got about a dozen ANN notification e-mails yesterday from topics you had posted in, so no need to overreact.

It's fine to agree with others and name shows that have already been mentioned, but in this forum listing is not allowed, so at least try to say why you think those movies are good for kids.

[...] though I have to admit to being a guy

Tris8 wrote:

-_- We can't help but notice your plethora of sudden posting when we have our settings set to notify us via e-mail when there is a new post in a thread we are watching. I got about a dozen ANN notification e-mails yesterday from topics you had posted in, so no need to overreact.

Hate to tell you, but it's kinda creepy you're opening them. I just delete 'em.

Anyways --- would Tenchi in Tokyo be out of the question? It's no doubt one of the tamest of the Tenchi saga; comedic violence, very mild language, and for once no nudity.