To be clear, I do think it’s a) on the oldest end of the demo and b) pretty edgy even for that, but again, see the content that I described before, which is variously for kids from about 8 - 14. I can see my claim about chainsaw man being regarded as a little controversial and honestly I myself don’t really understand how it gets published in Jump when compared to all the other series there, but even if we just assume that I’m wrong, I think you’re taking a very narrow view of what children’s media is. Even so-called YA is still intended to be pretty accessible to tweens and agreeable to their parents, which is a more restrictive in America than in some other places (including Japan). Chainsaw Man is I think a more reasonable depiction of what it looks like to make media aimed firmly at brainrotten teenage boys specifically.
Come to think of it, it was pretty clever to make the Reze arc a movie since that’s the one arc that has a substantial degree of romance, so it could help them get a broader audience.
i think maybe i just have a very very different idea of a children’s movie in my head then if you can call chainsaw man a children’s movie
To be clear, I do think it’s a) on the oldest end of the demo and b) pretty edgy even for that, but again, see the content that I described before, which is variously for kids from about 8 - 14. I can see my claim about chainsaw man being regarded as a little controversial and honestly I myself don’t really understand how it gets published in Jump when compared to all the other series there, but even if we just assume that I’m wrong, I think you’re taking a very narrow view of what children’s media is. Even so-called YA is still intended to be pretty accessible to tweens and agreeable to their parents, which is a more restrictive in America than in some other places (including Japan). Chainsaw Man is I think a more reasonable depiction of what it looks like to make media aimed firmly at brainrotten teenage boys specifically.
Come to think of it, it was pretty clever to make the Reze arc a movie since that’s the one arc that has a substantial degree of romance, so it could help them get a broader audience.