Comments on: anime for kids

By: Kayle

Kayle — Fri, 26 May 2006 04:32:44 +0000

Hmm… there’s a lot of anime for kids, some of it shows up on US TV, but a lot of it is of the fighting variety, “Digimon”, “Pokemon”, “Yu-Gi-Oh”, and whatever is showing in the Fox Box (looks like its Sonic X this month).

But gentler, more charming stuff, doesn’t seem to get licensed in the US much. For fansubs, there’s things like “Pandalian” and “Pretty Cure” (the first season of Pretty Cure is licensed though). Hmm, perhaps poke through this: http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=animelist&genid=27 (genre search for “kids” on anidb).

By: Kamichu Volume 1: Little Deity at Haibane.info

Kamichu Volume 1: Little Deity at Haibane.info — Tue, 23 May 2006 04:21:42 +0000

[...] Don recently had a list of kid-friendly anime titles, to which I added Someday’s Dreamers because of the appeal that the “magical girl” genre has for my four-year old. Along those same lines comes this recommendation from AnimeAICN: Kamichu, Little Deity. [...]

By: fledgling otaku

fledgling otaku — Fri, 19 May 2006 13:17:15 +0000

I guess I can try the scary world of fansub torrents… though mainly for my benefit, since my daughter can’t read yet. While the fansub won’t really be of much help, there’s something appealing about her learning more Japanese

By: Don

Don — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:07:36 +0000

All the titles I discussed in that post are available in the West only as fansubs, and I have no idea when, if ever, any of them will be released as region one DVDs. I hope that Binchou-tan will be licensed soon, but whether that happens depends on the whims of American anime companies, whose priorities I don’t pretend to understand.

It’s frightening sometimes what interests youngsters. Another nephew last year discovered Serial Experiments Lain among my brother’s DVDs and was fascinated by it. He was in kindergarten then.