Why do some people get the idea that all Anime is for kids?

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I think there are some gory animes like corpse party,attack on titan and such. and i doublt that Hetalia is intended for kids.
 
All anime should be for kids. I watched anime come to the US. Those in charge here obviously thought it was and they selected, anime for kids.

I’m aware of the other types.
 
That’s why I said “should”.
I’m saying that anime should be just made for kids.
 
Why should animation be restricted to children? It’s an art form like any other.
 
No I’m not saying it should be restricted.
But I’m saying that adults who watch it are like kids.
So in the perfect world where adults behave like adults then adult anime won’t exist. But I’m not asking for utopia to happen by restricting adult anime.
 
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In what way are they like kids? What is it about anime that makes it inherently kid-like?
 
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I had to lol
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Proof that Pikachu cannot help but be completely adorable in every context. 😁
 
One thing that anime fans shouldn’t call themselves is Otaku. In Japan,it means a basement dweller.
 
I wouldn’t call movies such as Only Yesterday or Grave of the Fireflies as intended for kids, and not because they’re “too mature,” lacking any type of sexual or violent content (well, GotF follows two siblings during WWII and one of the opening scenes is the firebombing of Kyoto, so it can be heavy, and Only Yesterday is a rather mundane tale about an adult woman reflecting on her youth in the 60s and getting out of the city, something kids would find dull, and it was targeted at adults in the 80s who grew up in the 60s).

Western animation tends to be targeted exclusively on pre-teens, except some rather intentionally “stupid” material.

A lot of anime is targeted at teens and young adults (say, Princess Mononoke) and I don’t even mean there’s inappropriate violent or sexual content, either, but it’s simply not something that would interest a pre-teen. And there is anime legitimately targeted at adults, too, which again, isn’t inappropriate. Though there is a lot of disturbing content out there.
 
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