Forum - View topicCrunchyroll series and age ratings
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Unicorn_Blade
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So for another year in a row I will be running a Japanese Culture/anime club in my school. After 3 years of watching various films I was thinking I might venture and show my pupils bits of different series. Crunchyroll looks like a good option since I would not have to rent a bunch of DVDs and if they like series, they can watch them later at home legally and for free.
I have only seen a handful of them, and as most of them have not been licenced in the UK, I do not know the rating they might have. Anyone can help with series available on crunchyroll suitable for kids 11 yo and older that would be worth watching? I will be looking through them anyway before showing anything, but there seems to be a lot of stuff out there. |
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yuna49
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Kemono no Sou-ja Erin might be a good choice, but it is fifty episodes long. It's a fantasy story about a girl who wants to become a veterinarian to sacred beasts like her mother. I presume you will pre-screen anything you choose, but make sure to watch this show through episode seven, which has some difficult emotional material.
Chi's New Address is the sequel to Chi's Sweet Home, two series about a Japanese family that adopts a lost kitten. Each episode is only three minutes long, and many are quite hilarious. They aired in Japan during breakfast time. Chihayafuru might be another good option. It's about some high-school kids who become infatuated with a Japanese card game called karuta. Karuta is played competitively in Japan; the main character wants to become the top female player in the country. This would be a great show if you are interested in showing the kids Japanese culture. The game is played by reading famous poems, and the players have to find a matching card among those they hold. The game is often played in Japanese schools. Perhaps your kids might like to give it a try. Two seasons of twenty-five episodes. Another excellent show with strong cultural references is Natsume Yuujinchou. A teen-aged boy inherits a book with the names of demons inscribed therein. The demons had been conquered by his grandmother and now begin harassing the boy to get their names back and be released. A quiet, slow-moving, but lovely show. Next I'll suggest Silver Spoon, two eleven-episode seasons about a boy who attends an agricultural high school in rural Japan. The first season focuses on the relationship between humans and the animals they eat. For a bit more zany offering, try Tsuritama by top-tier director Nakamura Kenji. It follows four high-school boys as they bond over ocean fishing but is a lot more captivating than that description might suggest. This is a sci-fi comedy with appealing aliens. Nakamura's Gatchaman Crowds is also a good show, but it doesn't have much in the way of cultural references. Finally I'll recommend the ninety-nine episodes of Space Brothers. Set in the near future, it follows two brothers who aspired to become astronauts. One of them has already reached his dream and is headed for the moon, while the other enters astronaut training at JAXA and NASA. These are all shows without any "questionable" material; no harems, panties, falling into the chests of big-boobed girls, etc. Older kids might get the subtle erection joke at the beginning of episode three of Space Brothers; that's about as racy as any of these shows get. |
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Unicorn_Blade
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Thank you for that.
I will most likely be playing one or two episodes each max to look at different styles rather than to watch the whole series (would not have time for that even if I wanted). Might start with Chihayafuru, it looks very promising and if it has references to the culture, the better. I have seen Beast Player a long time ago, I completely forgot it was on crunchyroll, I wonder how students would like it... Depending on a lot I get each term, they might find it all right or quite slow. Will have a look at Chi's New Address too, might be good if we run out of activities. 
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Dessa
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I don't know if laws are the same in the UK as the US, but you should make sure you check for the legality of playing these, even at a school club. In the US, you have to have permissions for any and all public performances, even if it's not really "public" at a club.
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Unicorn_Blade
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Good point. It is a common practice to play movies sometimes right before Christmas and before summer holidays, never thought whether there are any legal regulations. Just checked and funnily enough, if I play a film during a normal lesson, I do not need any permission, if however it is a club, there is a licence to be purchased by the school, and I would assume the school running various film clubs would have already purchased one. Since it is more and more common in the UK to have clubs being timetabled like normal lessons, maybe the first scenario applies in my case though. Who knows...
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