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TsubomiKoneko
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Magical Girl Raising Project is another anime to add to the list. I know the majority of the deaths were when they were transformed, but there was at least one that wasn't.
Most of the American movies that I can think of that had terrible things happen to children, or children die in any manner that wasn't completely offscreen (only symbolized by a funeral or something), were produced before the mid 1990s. So it kind of seems like a thing that changed standards wise in the past 20 or so years. I know there's probably still some recent ones here or there, but it was definitely more common to see in horror movies when I was younger. |
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relyat08
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A lot of people coming up with interesting examples, but Inuyashiki is one from literally just last season. And it's framed so lovingly, you'd think the creator was smiling the whole time. Who doesn't want to spend 2 minutes watching spoiler[a child drown under the weight of their recently murdered father in a bloody bathtub] though, right?
[Edit]: added spoiler tags. Errinundra Last edited by relyat08 on Sat Jan 27, 2018 3:27 am; edited 1 time in total |
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TheAnimeRevolutionizer
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Blink and you might miss it...
Take a look at the episode of Yu Yu Hakusho where spoiler[they look at Younger Toguro's backstory and how he came to be the monster he was today. The animators for Yu Yu Hakusho were some hellraisers, I'll give them that.] |
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Dragonsandphoenix
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Caster's introduction in Fate/Zero. It's off-screen but... you can still hear the screams and everything. Yeah I was watching that scene in the dark and I'll be honest I had never seen a scene like that involving a child so that messed me up a bit.
So that was the worst thing I've seen involving a human child until Made in Abyss came along. Like, oh God why. In western media, I think the one that messed me up the most is in Game of Thrones involving the massacre of babies in season... 2 maybe? Yeah, babies is where I draw the line on that. |
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unready
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Just another example of anime child murders to add to the list:
You may not remember it, because it's not congruent with the romance impression that the show leaves after you've seen it, but ... Angel Beats where Yuri flashes back to when she was a small child and spoiler[home invaders killed her 3 younger siblings.] Granted that it happens off-screen and all you see is a lot of blood-splatter afterward. |
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Angel Investor
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Another example that hasn't been brought up yet is Black Bullet. That series also has a lot of young kids getting killed. One particularly messed up scene is about spoiler[a whole classroom of orphaned elementary school girls getting murdered by terrorists.]
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MarshalBanana
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Mhora
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Oh, wow. A very American question xD
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How is it "a very American question" exactly? |
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TheAnimeRevolutionizer
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Funny that I talk about Yu Yu Hakusho, and let this slip my mind. spoiler[Amanuma's death was actually one of the more moving, more softer, yet cleanly depicted deaths of a child I've ever seen. It was painful to see him get thrown into some serious mental derailing about how his powers would see him die if he up and lost the games he manifested. And damn did that send Kurama into a fit too.]
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Furuzaki
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I submitted the question, and no I'm not american. I thought my question was a bit anti-american since I said I'm annoyed about their movies never killing kids. When They Cry is so brutal it makes Saw, Final Destination, Paranormal Activity etc movies look kind of silly. |
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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So 3 examples compared to how many titles in a year? A small select few compared to dozens each year? Yea, that's still seldom. |
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0nsen
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Updated:
War related
Murder
Natural death
Unknown (haven't seen or don't remember)
Edit: updated again Last edited by 0nsen on Fri Mar 02, 2018 2:41 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Blanchimont
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Add the Utawarerumono adaptations to the list as well, child deaths do happen in them, one especially gruesome scene in the second...
Also, Daybreak Illusion. |
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relyat08
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Thanks for the list Onsen! Genuinely quite helpful. I guess it seems there are a good number of such cases within anime. This question definitely immediately made me think of Made in Abyss and Inuyashiki since those two are recent memories. Now that I think about it, Devilman Crybaby kind of does as well. spoiler[Poor Taro turns into a devil and then gets killed.]
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Love that scene, a modern 
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