I can only imagine how tumblr was up in arms about it.
how we wish that things would be judged as good on the basis of.....WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE GOOD
YES YES YES.
Like, oops, it doesn't matter how well-written or well-acted or well-crafted something is; if its target audience is under eighteen, it's automatically "mindless" and not of any serious value whatsoever.
Because kids are a different species, of course, and it's not like the things we go through as children affect us later and reading about people going through similar things might have EMOTIONAL RESONANCE for us or something.
ANIMATION IS.........JUST ANOTHER MEDIUM, FOLKS.............)
I 100% agree! As with comics, I have a harder time investing in it, but that is totally my issue and does not reflect on the medium at all.
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how we wish that things would be judged as good on the basis of.....WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE GOOD
YES YES YES.
Like, oops, it doesn't matter how well-written or well-acted or well-crafted something is; if its target audience is under eighteen, it's automatically "mindless" and not of any serious value whatsoever.
Because kids are a different species, of course, and it's not like the things we go through as children affect us later and reading about people going through similar things might have EMOTIONAL RESONANCE for us or something.
ANIMATION IS.........JUST ANOTHER MEDIUM, FOLKS.............)
I 100% agree! As with comics, I have a harder time investing in it, but that is totally my issue and does not reflect on the medium at all.