>>1374503Asserting that putting mature themes in a children's story is wrong or misguided is basically at odds with most storytelling throughout human culture in almost any other time period and is probably the perspective of a sanitized person brought up on junk television and media, or whatever their excuse might be. Kids are human beings not some other creature, they've been able to experience and appreciate fairy tales with so-called "mature" themes for centuries in cultures all over the world. Coddled westerners raised on corporation-created dopamine-delivery-vehicles are the anomaly here.
One of the most violent fantasy book series I've read with graphic descriptions of death, injury, mutilation, routine cannibalism that is just barely kept off-page, routine light torture, and permeating belief that the proper way of dealing with bad guys is to kill them stone dead is a fantasy book series for kids. It is also about cute fuzzy animals. It is also pretty popular, so your appeal to popularity is invalid. (I'm talking about Redwall books, just in case you try to pull the disbelief card.)
So because you're incapable of parsing artistic qualities that aren't photorealistic/live action humans engaging with humans, no media should ever attempt any deviation of style? You realize this is quite literally what you're arguing at this point, right?
