And you make that claim by what logic? You may have been too immature for the show and it might have scared you, but I guess I was more mature than you, if you wouldn't have been ready for it at age 13.
You said this of Eva:
Eva is about depression and other contents that can go over kids' head and also upset them.
Well, gee, I suffered from depression since I was 6. Evangelion was a huge help for me in being able to understand and deal with it. Your idea of children as perfect little angels is warped and wildly inaccurate. Kids are human beings, too. They can understand complex stories, they can understand the context when you compare mindless violence with violence that has a point -- in fact a lot of the books you're taught in 7th and 8th grade are very dark and include sexuality or violence. Not to mention they watch R-rated horror movies and look at porn, as often as not. Some of them can't handle a show like Eva. I could, and I did. In fact, it was a huge help to me.
In the internet age it's become even less of an issue, most children by age 12 are watching the most hardcore forms of sex and violence available to mankind. They can go on google and find ISIS beheading videos or any sex fetish in the world. A 13 year old watching a show like Evangelion or Game of Thrones which actually gives proper context to their sex & violence, and has intelligent themes behind their stories, I 100% support that. That's material that's going to elevate them more than it's going to harm them. It's better than them seeing that same content in The Human Centipede or an S&M orgy video. Which is exactly what lots of kids are watching instead.
There's such a thing as sheltering kids too much. By age 13 you're supposed to be discovering the world. Some of my best friends come from hardcore Christian homes where they lived in proverbial lockdown. They're in their mid-20s now and they still never really developed the way kids are supposed to. They don't know how to interact with this big wide world that doesn't conform to the sensibilities of a G-rated Disney film. They flinch when someone says a minor swearword, they can't stomach TV & movies that are for adults, and they can't speak up for themselves when someone's being mean or going past their boundaries.
Inundating kids with sex & violence to inoculate them isn't the answer, either. The answer is a reasonable middle ground: trying to keep them away from
mindless sex & violence but allowing them to grow and learn by seeing intelligent uses of those concepts such as in Evangelion.
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pinkarray
9 years ago
I said that wasn't appropiate! I was 16 when I watched the show you stupid *beep*
I hope that there is an Evangelion video game where you can beat Asuka up!
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DeusExKatrina
9 years ago
I said that wasn't appropiate!
You said what was inappropriate? If it's Eva for a 13 year old, then in that case you would be wrong.
I was 16 when I watched the show you stupid *beep*
Yes, I know, which is why I said
"if you wouldn't have been ready for it at age 13." If you weren't ready for it at 16 then it stands to reason that you weren't ready at 13. If I thought you were 13 when you watched it, obviously I would have said "if you WEREN'T ready" not "if you
wouldn't have been ready."
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pinkarray
9 years ago
Eva wasn't appropiate for a 12 year old.
I hope that there is an Evangelion video game where you can beat Asuka up!
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DeusExKatrina
9 years ago
It was appropriate for me at that age, I was very close to age 13. That's the age-range that the main characters are in, it helps you to relate to them. And it's a lot less creepy being attracted to them when I was watching the show compared to all the adults who watch it! ;)
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