Anime is for Kids

I've tinked about this, you can see many discussion and articles that point out Anime are not only for kids and those who refuse that the anime they're watching is a childish thing. Just google it.

But I've been thinking about the room for kids in the entertainment world for now. Especially in my country Indonesia where children entertainment such as songs, films, etc are becoming rare, although some pop up, but too many of them are more suitable for teenagers or adults, so it's something that are stuffed to children because there's nothing else.

OK, now back to the original topic. Let's see, if you screen through those anime chart's, what's going on right now and for some years back, we can see that anime for children is becoming more and more rare. Their stories have gone rather complex and too hard to understand for a child, and we get more fanservice and those shot's that kids aren't supposed to see. And it's not just that, some stories that first are targeted to kids get more complex after the beginning and then it isn't for kids anymore.

Why does this happen, are there no more room for kid's in anime, or is money more important. Anime are gonna lose one of their most important audience like this. Not only now, but also for the future. In my opinion, the anime nowadays tend to get more and more faraway from what that "can be accepted by general". Anime nowadays tend to be targeted to more smaller groups and many audience outside these groups tend to dislike it. Take an example of yuri, loli, harem, or those full fanservices anime. Or those with heavy anbd complex stories about conspiracy.

Can Kids Take them? BIg No. The old days anime that used to make kids dream and imagine for a brighter future are now rare. The Kids now can't watch what the kids from a generation behind them can watch. SO what do they watch? Must they watch those anime that aren't suited for them? like here in Indonesia where kids are dtuffed with Music and TV Programs for adult and teenagers. It's bad for their growth.

Once again, let us come back to the beginning, where cartoon and drawings for general were mostly meant to kids. Make the story simple but interesting, and they should have a moral behind the story too. Shield the kids from Fanservice, harem, blood, violence, the complex truth about life, and let them dream for a better future.