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NEWS: Indonesian Child Dies After Reportedly Imitating Anime

MrVince wrote:

I would go on to argue he is pushing the same agenda as to why most anime is heavily regulated, if not banned, in most of the Islamic world.

Says who?

The huge anime collection of anime fans in the islamic world, or the airing of anime (mostly unedited) here since the 80s?

HAHAHA!!! take that narutard!

cartoons shouldn't be blamed for the actions of children, but rather the parents! i parent should be able to tell their child what is real and what isn't. they should also be watching their kids, what exactly were this kid's parents doing while he strangled himself?

A parent can't be expected to be watching their kids 24/7.

Aromatic Grass wrote:

A parent can't be expected to be watching their kids 24/7.

Even so - the notion of not copying anything from TV should at least been placed into the kid's head -- to reduce the risk of this kind of incident.

And you should know that kids don't generally listen to their parents at that age; they just want [to do] what they want [to do].

My guess is, he saw Naruto getting hung by his belt from a tree, or something. Maybe he was saying something "cool" while he was struggling to get out, so the boy wanted to replicate the situation. When he did so, he probably affixed one end of the "belt" to something to simulate the tree. He slipped and either broke his neck or strangled himself because he couldn't regain his footing. Or it is a problem of the asphyxiation game like bonbonsrus said. Which is also becoming a problem in the US by the way.

Something new to spice up the night I see. I am amazed at the posters who are saying that Naruto is a kids show. If you were to actually look at the content that the show really contains, it is not a little kids' show, hence why we probably see it on Adult Swim in the United States.

it is not a little kids' show, hence why we probably see it on Adult Swim in the United States.

fightncomet wrote:

Many people try to blame so much on Movies, TV, Books, etc for people and children doing things that are dangerous. But isn't it really more a problem of raising your children and teaching them to use good judgment? This doesn't mean that censorship or banning books is the answer, either. It means that you should teach your kids not to imitate actions you see in fictional shows or movies.

Let me give you a big "heck yeah!" for these words of wisdom.

When I was a kid, I grew up surrounded by firearms. Guns. Big, shiny, deadly weapons. With ammunition that I could easily get, load the weapons, and accidentally kill myself. Oddly, I'm still here. Want to know why?

Instead of making a big deal about staying away from the guns without explaining why (thus creating an irresistible mystery) my parents sat me down and explained everything to me about firearms, including the fact that they could render me dead. I never played with a gun in my whole life and still haven't. I never point them at others, I always treat them as if they are loaded, etc. Knowledge not mystery saves kids lives.

Years ago I saw a documentary on TV. Part of it was video from an experiment about different ways of raising children. Two kids were put into a room with a closet that had a gun in it on the top shelf. (Unloaded of course.) One child had been raised with a strict "never touch guns" approach and the other had been raised with a "here's how to safely handle guns but remember that they aren't toys" approach.

Guess which kid, with his mother watching the hidden camera feed, went and got a step ladder, got the gun, and started playing with it while the other sat playing with actual toys. Can you guess?

Now, this news story sounds more like a stupid accident than anything else. (I'm actually having trouble figuring out what part of Naruto could lead to self-strangulation.) But the fact is accidents are a hell of a lot less likely to happen when parents educate their children about the realities of life and death. If you know doing something might kill you, you're a lot less likely to do it. (And don't give me the "kids don't understand" bull. If they really didn't understand, every child under a certain age would try to fly, stop cars with their bear hands, etc. like characters in fictional stories.)

Also, I really hate politicians with their "this isn't necessary and look, someone died because of it!" mentality. A lot of kids die due to the stress of the public and private education system, probably a lot more than from comics, so why haven't you hypocrites shut down the schools? How many people die in traffic accidents, you don't see anyone outlawing cars. The real problem is that comics and other imaginative works get children to THINK and that scares politicians. People who think change the world.

The real story here is a child is dead because of bad luck or their own stupidity and a self-serving politican is trying to use that death to further his own agenda. It's sad and stupid and completely business as usual. Video games get it in the neck here most of the time.

Actually, it is a children's shonen series, thus its appropriate airing on TOONAMI, not Adult Swim, in the United States. Frankly, it bewilders me why Bleach airs on AS.