XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc, rec.arts.comics.misc
From: a_nospam.b_nospam@sym_nos_p_am_atico.ca
"The Eternal Lost Lurker" wrote
in message news:29qyi.6610$4w7.4589@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net...
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> "Liam" wrote in message
> news:1187626744.322816.61800@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>> I have an 8 year-old daughter (tested to read at a 12-13 year old
>> level) who has shown interest in manga, but I don't know what to
>> encourage. I discovered you can't go by appearance! "Sgt. Frog" looked
>> real cute and exciting and good for grade-schoolers, until I got about
>> 10 pages in and came across a lot of sexual humor. One Piece looks
>> safe, and I'm familiar with the anime.
>
> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAnoyou'renot. Not if you think it's "safe" for an
> 8-year-old. You're familiar with *THE DUB*, which is EXCESSIVELY watered
> down and edited and censored. One Piece is an EXTREMELY violent series,
> with
> lots of blood and guns and death. Oh, and a lot of sexual humor too.
>
>> What other titles can be
>> recommended that are interesting and fun, but not too violent and
>> racy?
>
> For a child THAT young? Uh...nothing, basically. MAYBE Sailormoon, but
> even
> that is a bit violent and mature.
Maybe we need to come up with a list of non-H manga that are likely to be
inappropriate for parents of pre-teens to find out that their kids are
reading...
(Remembering the efforts that I used to go through as a pre-teen to find
used bookstores where any paperback could be bought by anyone, and also
which librarians didn't care if I checked books out of the non-kid sections
of the Public Library...)
Dave Baranyi
(Why do I always want to maliciously recommend the "Yume Tsukai" manga to
that sort of request?
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