Forum - View topicMushiking: Too dark for the target audience?
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Grimmstone
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The Mushiking game is target towards pre-school childrento around 5th to 6th graders, but if you watch the anime, it's more geared towards junior high to high school ages with the subject matter. It can be extremely dark sometimes with its storylines hovering around hate, betrayal, and death. My 3 year old son loves the Mushiking game and likes looking at bug encyclopedias, but when he watches Mushiking he is either scared or confused by the subject matter and only pays attention when Mushiking comes out to fight (which is about 2 minutes every episode).
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v1cious
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... and this is a show about a fighting bug?
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Grimmstone
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It is indeed, but instead of keeping the storylines simple for small children who get their parents (me included) to spend money hand over fist for Mushiking paraphenalia, they make them too complex and alienate their target audience, IMO.
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outlawwolf
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It's not rare to see a game turned into a show be geared towards a different audience. There are alot of hentai games that suddenly became shows that were geared towards teenagers simply by removing the sex scenes and focusing more on an emotional relationship. Names don't come to mind but I have read about I many times.
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IchigoK90
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Some titles you probably were referring to are titles like: Kanon, To Heart, Air, Wind, Shuffle and Suzuka. I believe they were all based on games and then turned into anime. All of them are pretty enjoyable though the best one has to be Air. "Believe it!" - IchigoK90 |
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outlawwolf
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Yeah, but I was refering to games that were meant for a mature audience get turned into a tv series geared towards a younger audience. Wasn't Air and To Heart always kind of a sappy romance novel style game? |
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IchigoK90
Posts: 1634 Location: Scarborough, Ontario |
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Yeah I guess. Zone of Enders was turned into an anime wasn't it? I don't know if it has any relevance but yeah. It seems video games an anime can go hand in hand ehh?
"Believe it!" - IchigoK90 |
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Llamaentity
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Air and Kanon were both geared toward mature audiences, originally, though "all-ages" versions were released for consoles after the successes of the PC "H games." And, as mentioned by IchigoK90, To Heart, Wind, and Shuffle were all "H games." (Not sure about Suzuka... haven't looked into that one yet.) There are many others—Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, for example.
These titles were geared toward adults in the game counterparts, whereas the anime series are geared to potentially much younger audiences, due to the lack of pornographic content in the anime. As for Mushiking—sorry, I haven't seen any of it, nor played the game. I don't seem to recall any anime series that are aimed at target audiences older than the target audience of the game they were based on, though. :{} |
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v1cious
Posts: 6220 Location: Houston, TX |
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Air was a hentai game, so was Tsukihime and pretty much every other Type-Moon anime. |
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