Animation For Grown Folks

{This is a little bit different from the social stuff I sometimes write about, which makes me wonder if I should set up another account, just for talking about movies and TV series.}

One of my personal bugs, ( I have several), is people who think all animation is for children, and judge adults for watching it. These people also make the classic mistake of thinking that any genre is a monolith, (animation is not a genre), and that if they sampled a bit of it then that’s all they need to know about it.

Just like with different groups of human beings, there is no genre of anything, from movies, to music, to art, that is all the same. Just because you were exposed to some bad Rap songs 20 years ago, or watched a couple of Slasher films in the 90s, does not mean you know all there is to know about Rap music or Horror movies.

Well, some animation is definitely not for kids, and quite frankly, if you sat your five year old, (or even your ten year old) down in front of any of the “cartoons” that I’m about to mention, I would question your parenting skills. These look cute and harmless on the surface but they are not Disney and Pixar films. They contain mature adult themes and subject matter that kids simply won’t get, or maybe they will get it on a certain level, but aren’t mature enough to understand it, and in at least a couple of cases some of these are actually traumatizing nightmare fuel!

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