I really think if the Netflix "Cowboy Bebop" had been named anything else and the creators were like "we're taking a ton of inspiration from the anime Cowboy Bebop but this is our own thing with our own characters" it'd have done way better. The fact they tried to shot for shot re-create some scenes and botched as well as TOTALLY botched the characters of Viscious, Julia, and Grim shows the runners didn't know what the fuck they were doing.
Also, I need to stop watching so many damn "slice of life" shows....
Bunny Senpai
Kaguya Sama
Nagatoro
This new Hina doll maker making cosplay costumes for the local school thot show....
I get it she's supposed to be 17 but at the same time, I'm not really surprised about people's reactions about this. Especially those who never read or seen Demon Slayers. I mean in many countries, 14 is considered underage. So, it's understandable to a casual person, this comes across as "icky".
At the same time, I'm not surprised. This isn't the first time Japan did something like this and it will likely not be the last. Hell, this was the entire concept of a manga by the Godfather of Manga himself, Osamu Tezuka, which was used to teach Sex Education. If people are shocked about Nezuko's transformation, just wait until they see about 90% of anime from Naruto, Bleach, Dragonball, Sailor Moon... etc.
That's why when this whole discourse occurred, my first reaction was simply to shrug.
This would have likely ended sooner or later but then geek news sites and online culture war reactionaries (both on the woke and anti-woke) decided to talk about it and that's when this whole discourse blew up.
All I'm going to say about big tiddy Nezuko:
This is a world where people are being CUT IN HALF and being eaten by demons and the biggest issue people have where they pearl clutch "think of the chirren" is a teenage female character having a major glow up and growing tits... them people need to look into the mirror to realize they're focusing on the WRONG thing and this show:
May be a shounen but it's NOT for kids. It'd be like someone seeing Ein in Bebop then seeing the goofier parts of Black Lagoon and noting the similarties in animation and thinking it's for kids then freaking out when this scene happens:
Case in point, Attack on Titan is still considered a shounen series and it gets fucking graphic in 10 minutes. Konosuba is very cutesy designed and animated but the story features/jokes are very obviously intended for at minimum perverted teenagers and adults with gutter senses of humor (like me).
Hell, you could go down the list and a lot of the shounen probably shouldn't be viewed by kids under like 12 anyways. Even the more common ones like Bleach or Naruto.
Think about it. Naruto all the characters are well under 16 and are child soldiers fighting a fucking terrorist in one of the first arcs (Zabuza). Bleach has characters like Kenpachi who's whole existence is as much wanton violence as can be created because he enjoys it. Dragonball Z is tame compared to most modern shows but even that has characters like Broly who are literally walking nuclear bombs.
Shounen Jump also had series like Hellsing in it that are clearly not for children. Basically, people need to realize the demos these shows are for and cartoons aren't just for the kids.
