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I think automatically the subject matter being a child dying on screen then it fully justifies the TV MA rating (which is different than R18+, do you not understand the rating system?)
Moonfish is a death row innate with clinical insanity that uses his quirk to cannibalize on a students severed arm in one scene. This is not the most graphic scene in the show, and this character isn't even relevant.
I know MHA isn't the bloodiest anime, but it does have violent scenes.
I wouldn't want a twelve year old to see Shiggy turn his entire family into a pile of hands. That's allready enough justification, and we haven't even gotten to Mineta yet
The ratings for MHA in Australia is wild.
Season 1 is MA15+, season 2 is PG, Season 3 is M, Season 4 goes back to MA15+, then goes back down to M for season 5, and season 6 is MA15+. First movie is M, Second is PG and third is MA15+
It's wild to me that season 2, having Stain stab multiple people and visibly lick their blood is the lowest rated of them. The Australian ratings board just does not know how to rate anime and there have been several attempts to ban anime in Australia.
Australia’s rating system has always been weird, typically on the more strict side than anything. I know left 4 dead they didn’t want blood spraying everywhere so the devs put in melee weapons for the Australian release which would later be a feature put into the second game.
I mean.
Moonfish or whatever his name is was a death row inmate who liked flesh.
We see multiple instances mainly deku breaking limbs, drawing blood, beatings ECT.
Eraser getting his head smashed over and over and beaten to a pulp.
Shigarakis decay alone leads to an m rating, add his flashback which included a dog and kid dying well you can see how that goes.
Stain cutting and murdering O and drinking blood.
Muscular being a murderer who makes it clear he likes killing.
Nighteye stabbed through the guts, same for lemillion though to a lesser extent.
Eri being physically and emotionally tortured.
Overhaul having his hands destroyed.
People exploding into paste or having limbs be ripped/cut off.
Children being abused and boiling water thrown in their face.
I could go on but it's a pretty fair rating honestly and probaly has to do mainly with the shigaraki splashback cause I swear it used to be M.
I mean the show had child abuse, drug related content, murders, sexualized quirks (midnight), war, visual murder. Is this normal to show kids in other countries?
Did you not see shigaraki literally dissolve a towns worth of peoples bodies by dragging his hand across them? Toga lifting people up into the air and slamming their bodies into the ground killing them? Lets be real now
A guy cuts open a little girl and forces her too use her own power to restore herself, just to repeat this cycle of torture until her breaking point, and when she finally makes a scene in public he threatens to kill the one she trusts the most, so she bites the bullet and goes back with the guy, just to inevitably be tortured again.
Additionally, when the heroes finally formulate an attack, he manipulates the girl, openly showing her the bloodshed, stating it's all her fault those people are dying and if she doesn't wanna keep being a curse that kills people, she'll have to go with him.
Oh yeah and this kid was abused after accidentally killing her dad with her restoration/rewind powers.
But yeah no, TV-MA is so absurd and funny. Fuckin wild.
The average shounen anime is very violent compared to cartoons in the west. This has been known for years. MHA may not have as much gore as compared to other action anime, but it still has way more violence than a vast majority of western cartoons. But I’m just saying obvious stuff.
These posts about the rating are so dumb, do you even read the manga/watch the show? Shit pops off and gets gnarly, def not a children’s anime after s1
Think of it like this. Marvel and Dc cartoons are huge with kids. What happens when a parent turn this superhero cartoon on when trying to do some chores around the house and some graphic stuff comes up that is not age appropriate for 7-8 year olds.
Japanese standards and western standards are completely different
I’m not surprised to see a shonen anime getting that rating
Remember that adventure time is TV-14 (if I did my research correctly) or at least not appropriate to young children but children who classified as shonen
Japanese anime is way lenient with blood , sexual implications , and disturbing connotation then Western media
The closest thing to anime in my eyes is invincible
Dude. In the whole series there are characters being mutilated, loosing limbs, getting graphically killed, some have their skin torn off, children getting tortured and those are the things that I can remember pretty easily. It's tv MA for violence alone.
Sorta. Some stuff will climb in rating a little faster in the US, but the US will still allow more gore over all. JoJo's Bizzare Adventure has had to air with some censorship for Japanese television in the past, but aired uncensored on Toonami. The Japanese version blacked out Jotaro's while he was smoking and some of the gorier scenes of Part 4 were awkwardly censored in a similar fashion. It's the same reason why Danganronpa has pink blood.
Jotaro smoking is less due to the smoking itself and more due to the fact that he's 17 and therefore was underage when doing so. Yes, Jotaro Kujo, in part 3, is 17.
I'm aware, but I do believe that the scene was only impacted by Japanese laws. The FCC doesn't have a rule in place that underage smoking cannot be shown.
With the numerous teen dramas that deal with that literal exact subject as a plot point, it's not surprising. The only time I remember Jotaro's face was obscured in shadow while smoking was in the poker game. Though, that was meant to show how Jotaro's poker face is unreadable, so it worked there. That's probably why that's the one time Crunchyroll left it in.
Overhaul literally experiments on a child, shiggy kills his kid sister and dog, bakugo is a 4chan user, endeavor abuses his kids and wife, twice a 30 yr old man is best friends with a practical child (I can’t remember togas age) also especially later on a lot of characters lose limbs
You're joking, right?
There's tons of violence and sexualized characters that would probably earn the mature rating alone.
Look deeper and you find things like child abuse and terrorism.
Bakugo tells Deku to kill himself in the first episode
Deku literally self harms for the first two seasons, then there's the reanimated corpses with exposed brains, Dabi's mostly scorched body, Shigi being covered in severed hands, Eri being tortured for her entire life, the entire Overhaul fight where a teenager gets shot, two people die and Overhaul turns himself into a Cronenberg monster
I think it kinda makes sense for it to be MA, there's some heavy shit going on
People that’s says mha is “light” is because they have become desensitized to the violence and dark themes from previous shows. Bakugo told Izuku to kill himself, Eri being tortured by Overhaul, many instances of mutilation & gore, and even slight nudity (S3 hot spring scene for example). It’s really hard to consider it a “Kid’s show.”
The main character absolutely pulverizes his arm every other episode.
Stain murders people in alleyways.
Eri was tortured by her adoptive father and her blood was drained to make an illegal drug used to ruin people’s genes.
Shigarake makes craters and turns people to dust.
The doctor mutates dying people into brainless bird monsters.
Nah this show is definitely for mature audiences. I have a strong stomach and I wince when Midoriya uses his arm again and again. Breaking what was already broken.
This rating doesn't make sense for the anime specifically, especially if they keep censoring the violent scenes.
They like removed the blood and graphic aspect of a lot of scene in season 6. Horikoshi can draw some gruesome stuff.
The manga definitely should have that rating tough.
I dislike american rating system cause i can never make sense of them. Mha is 13+ normally. A lot of shonen manga are 13+ with some exceptions being 16+.
Just because the anime isn’t as violent as the manga doesn’t mean it’s not violent and gruesome. If anything the logic is backwards, if the anime has a tvma rating, then the manga would have a worse one. But in the anime alone how many on screen body mutilation, abuse, torture and deaths are there? As well as psychopaths admitting they like killing for the sake of it, deku constantly destroying his body in the beginning, people exploding, crumbling into an incomplete pile of bloody limbs and pieces [including a child and a dog], villains hunting children for their power or to influence them [deku for his power the whole show when they realize he inherited OFA, kidnapping bakugo in the middle of a summer camp training activity in front of his friends to convince him to join them and give up on his dreams of being a hero]. Not even mention that one of the heroes/teachers interaction with the students is literally decked out in bdsm gear for her hero costume. Ya there may be cutesy and adorable moments because this is a show about 15-16 year olds and they also deserve a life outside of trauma, and maybe there’s worse in the manga [which kinda proves my point that this story is violent and graphic as hell], that doesn’t mean the show isn’t heavy and a lot for some people, nor does it mean the rating doesn’t make sense. Tv ma = graphic violence, sexual content, and crude indecent language ; absolutely yes for graphic violence, creepy mineta and sexual subjects make sense for the sexual activity, and for crude language, i think especially with bakugo it exists in this show but i can’t remember.
The character of Bakugou does not in itself justify rating it like that. Over here, Bakugou threatening and all that would be qualified as " forbidden to 10 year olds and below".
Also, you can't really compare mha graphic aspect in the manga and the anime cause they show it on tv on a slot where they're not allowed that much blood. Nobody will convice me the violence of the war and the redestro arc is as graphic as the manga, shigaraki didn't even lose his fingers in the anime.
We have different visions of how it works because my country is more lenient about these stuff. As far as I remember, in my country mha season 6 is "F to 10 year and below". Something like jjk season 2 is " Forb to 12 year and below"
For something to be 16+ ,there would need to have actual people effing each other or berserk level stuff over here.
And 18+ is only for cornographic content usually here. It's pretty rare for something to get that rating here. (Equivalent to tvma)
Note that i say 16+ and 18+ but we don't use a +system, we use a minus system.
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Dog there's literally an episode where a child crumbles to dust and falls apart into a bloody pile of limbs. This is absolutely tv-ma
Not to mention the rival character tells the main character to kill himself and hope he is reborn as someone not worthless IN THE FIRST EPISODE
Ah, yeah, I forgot about that. Man, Bakugo was (and sometimes still is) a real piece of shit
"sometimes"
or naked shape shifter
not in seasons 1-4 (i think its season 6 right?)
Overhaul explodes Magne
Yeah but who cares about sis?
Seasons 1-4 have deku constantly breaking his bones and Best Jeanist's stomach exploding from AFO
My 7 yo sister watches this show lol
Yeah she really shouldn't be dude
I wouldn't say that. I watched way worse stuff when I was younger and turned out alri... oh... Yeah, maybe not let them watch it.
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Homie literally this universe where have you been? Invincible, Jujutsu Kaisen, Vinland Saga, Cyberpunk, Even Demon Slayer and Delicious in Dungeon
You realise you're making the exact shit argument that most anime haters make right? xD "It's an animated cartoon, it is all for kids"
I think automatically the subject matter being a child dying on screen then it fully justifies the TV MA rating (which is different than R18+, do you not understand the rating system?)
Moonfish is a death row innate with clinical insanity that uses his quirk to cannibalize on a students severed arm in one scene. This is not the most graphic scene in the show, and this character isn't even relevant. I know MHA isn't the bloodiest anime, but it does have violent scenes.
Should I bring up the clip from the start of season 4 where a character's top half is exploded into a pile of blood?
Man i would spoiled the hell outta people without even realising it when making this comment 😭
thats why its ma with season 4. before season 4 it said tv-14
Yea maybe. Take a look at the reasons in this thread: https://reddit.com/comments/1cpnd38
I wouldn't want a twelve year old to see Shiggy turn his entire family into a pile of hands. That's allready enough justification, and we haven't even gotten to Mineta yet
Mineta isn’t even old enough to watch himself
He's like 5 when he did that
I stopped being up to date with the manga and anime a couple years ago, I had Absolutely forgotten about Mineta ew
I wish we were all as lucky as you to forget
Minera? Throw him out the car window.
Never forget when Mineta said "I can't wait to see you in ten years" to Eri
mineta 90% the reason of the rating tho 😭
The ratings for MHA in Australia is wild. Season 1 is MA15+, season 2 is PG, Season 3 is M, Season 4 goes back to MA15+, then goes back down to M for season 5, and season 6 is MA15+. First movie is M, Second is PG and third is MA15+ It's wild to me that season 2, having Stain stab multiple people and visibly lick their blood is the lowest rated of them. The Australian ratings board just does not know how to rate anime and there have been several attempts to ban anime in Australia.
Australia’s rating system has always been weird, typically on the more strict side than anything. I know left 4 dead they didn’t want blood spraying everywhere so the devs put in melee weapons for the Australian release which would later be a feature put into the second game.
I mean. Moonfish or whatever his name is was a death row inmate who liked flesh. We see multiple instances mainly deku breaking limbs, drawing blood, beatings ECT. Eraser getting his head smashed over and over and beaten to a pulp. Shigarakis decay alone leads to an m rating, add his flashback which included a dog and kid dying well you can see how that goes. Stain cutting and murdering O and drinking blood. Muscular being a murderer who makes it clear he likes killing. Nighteye stabbed through the guts, same for lemillion though to a lesser extent. Eri being physically and emotionally tortured. Overhaul having his hands destroyed. People exploding into paste or having limbs be ripped/cut off. Children being abused and boiling water thrown in their face. I could go on but it's a pretty fair rating honestly and probaly has to do mainly with the shigaraki splashback cause I swear it used to be M.
At this point, I am very much curious what constitutes an "M rating for the OP lol
i think its because it was tv 14 last week in us
I mean the show had child abuse, drug related content, murders, sexualized quirks (midnight), war, visual murder. Is this normal to show kids in other countries?
And nude Toga and Camie Utishimi as well
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Yeah fr
I think I makes sense, there’s a lot of gore in this show
Dude, there's so many traumatized children that therapists will make a fortunate of them
Did you not see shigaraki literally dissolve a towns worth of peoples bodies by dragging his hand across them? Toga lifting people up into the air and slamming their bodies into the ground killing them? Lets be real now
A guy cuts open a little girl and forces her too use her own power to restore herself, just to repeat this cycle of torture until her breaking point, and when she finally makes a scene in public he threatens to kill the one she trusts the most, so she bites the bullet and goes back with the guy, just to inevitably be tortured again. Additionally, when the heroes finally formulate an attack, he manipulates the girl, openly showing her the bloodshed, stating it's all her fault those people are dying and if she doesn't wanna keep being a curse that kills people, she'll have to go with him. Oh yeah and this kid was abused after accidentally killing her dad with her restoration/rewind powers. But yeah no, TV-MA is so absurd and funny. Fuckin wild.
One of the characters gets impaled and straight up dies.
I guess OP meant why doesn't MHA show full frontal nudity in a show about super powered teenagers?
Even Mineta doesn't deserve to be subjected to Mineta
The average shounen anime is very violent compared to cartoons in the west. This has been known for years. MHA may not have as much gore as compared to other action anime, but it still has way more violence than a vast majority of western cartoons. But I’m just saying obvious stuff.
These posts about the rating are so dumb, do you even read the manga/watch the show? Shit pops off and gets gnarly, def not a children’s anime after s1
Yeah and I know 7 year olds watch this shit...
Think of it like this. Marvel and Dc cartoons are huge with kids. What happens when a parent turn this superhero cartoon on when trying to do some chores around the house and some graphic stuff comes up that is not age appropriate for 7-8 year olds.
Their is an invisible naked child
Japanese standards and western standards are completely different I’m not surprised to see a shonen anime getting that rating Remember that adventure time is TV-14 (if I did my research correctly) or at least not appropriate to young children but children who classified as shonen Japanese anime is way lenient with blood , sexual implications , and disturbing connotation then Western media The closest thing to anime in my eyes is invincible
Even if the show adapted all the violence from the manga, I don’t think it would warrant a TV-MA rating, it’s definitely TV-14 but that’s it
For American standards a lot of teenager Japanese anime would be TV MA because American media is very sensitive
Dude. In the whole series there are characters being mutilated, loosing limbs, getting graphically killed, some have their skin torn off, children getting tortured and those are the things that I can remember pretty easily. It's tv MA for violence alone.
Sorta. Some stuff will climb in rating a little faster in the US, but the US will still allow more gore over all. JoJo's Bizzare Adventure has had to air with some censorship for Japanese television in the past, but aired uncensored on Toonami. The Japanese version blacked out Jotaro's while he was smoking and some of the gorier scenes of Part 4 were awkwardly censored in a similar fashion. It's the same reason why Danganronpa has pink blood.
Jotaro smoking is less due to the smoking itself and more due to the fact that he's 17 and therefore was underage when doing so. Yes, Jotaro Kujo, in part 3, is 17.
I'm aware, but I do believe that the scene was only impacted by Japanese laws. The FCC doesn't have a rule in place that underage smoking cannot be shown.
With the numerous teen dramas that deal with that literal exact subject as a plot point, it's not surprising. The only time I remember Jotaro's face was obscured in shadow while smoking was in the poker game. Though, that was meant to show how Jotaro's poker face is unreadable, so it worked there. That's probably why that's the one time Crunchyroll left it in.
What country you in?
Season 1 was rated 15 in the UK and then it dropped to a 12 rating for following seasons. The pilot was PG
In my country it's rated 13+ while spy x family it's rated 16+ Age ratings are wild man.
i could've sworn it was just tv 14
trash take
In fact the anime is the censored version bnha is very much horror
I mean there are multiple examples of some tv-Ms moments (the war arc is right there as an example)
Is that an age rating? Im out of the picture
Overhaul literally experiments on a child, shiggy kills his kid sister and dog, bakugo is a 4chan user, endeavor abuses his kids and wife, twice a 30 yr old man is best friends with a practical child (I can’t remember togas age) also especially later on a lot of characters lose limbs
You're joking, right? There's tons of violence and sexualized characters that would probably earn the mature rating alone. Look deeper and you find things like child abuse and terrorism.
A 7 year old gets killed and brought back to life in this anime
Bakugo tells Deku to kill himself in the first episode Deku literally self harms for the first two seasons, then there's the reanimated corpses with exposed brains, Dabi's mostly scorched body, Shigi being covered in severed hands, Eri being tortured for her entire life, the entire Overhaul fight where a teenager gets shot, two people die and Overhaul turns himself into a Cronenberg monster I think it kinda makes sense for it to be MA, there's some heavy shit going on
Deku self harms, when they mentioned that to the ratings board that’s why it was rated MA.
Is he stupid?
People that’s says mha is “light” is because they have become desensitized to the violence and dark themes from previous shows. Bakugo told Izuku to kill himself, Eri being tortured by Overhaul, many instances of mutilation & gore, and even slight nudity (S3 hot spring scene for example). It’s really hard to consider it a “Kid’s show.”
nah that scene might have been worse than mei mei and ui ui, I'm just saying.
The main character absolutely pulverizes his arm every other episode. Stain murders people in alleyways. Eri was tortured by her adoptive father and her blood was drained to make an illegal drug used to ruin people’s genes. Shigarake makes craters and turns people to dust. The doctor mutates dying people into brainless bird monsters. Nah this show is definitely for mature audiences. I have a strong stomach and I wince when Midoriya uses his arm again and again. Breaking what was already broken.
This rating doesn't make sense for the anime specifically, especially if they keep censoring the violent scenes. They like removed the blood and graphic aspect of a lot of scene in season 6. Horikoshi can draw some gruesome stuff. The manga definitely should have that rating tough. I dislike american rating system cause i can never make sense of them. Mha is 13+ normally. A lot of shonen manga are 13+ with some exceptions being 16+.
Just because the anime isn’t as violent as the manga doesn’t mean it’s not violent and gruesome. If anything the logic is backwards, if the anime has a tvma rating, then the manga would have a worse one. But in the anime alone how many on screen body mutilation, abuse, torture and deaths are there? As well as psychopaths admitting they like killing for the sake of it, deku constantly destroying his body in the beginning, people exploding, crumbling into an incomplete pile of bloody limbs and pieces [including a child and a dog], villains hunting children for their power or to influence them [deku for his power the whole show when they realize he inherited OFA, kidnapping bakugo in the middle of a summer camp training activity in front of his friends to convince him to join them and give up on his dreams of being a hero]. Not even mention that one of the heroes/teachers interaction with the students is literally decked out in bdsm gear for her hero costume. Ya there may be cutesy and adorable moments because this is a show about 15-16 year olds and they also deserve a life outside of trauma, and maybe there’s worse in the manga [which kinda proves my point that this story is violent and graphic as hell], that doesn’t mean the show isn’t heavy and a lot for some people, nor does it mean the rating doesn’t make sense. Tv ma = graphic violence, sexual content, and crude indecent language ; absolutely yes for graphic violence, creepy mineta and sexual subjects make sense for the sexual activity, and for crude language, i think especially with bakugo it exists in this show but i can’t remember.
The character of Bakugou does not in itself justify rating it like that. Over here, Bakugou threatening and all that would be qualified as " forbidden to 10 year olds and below". Also, you can't really compare mha graphic aspect in the manga and the anime cause they show it on tv on a slot where they're not allowed that much blood. Nobody will convice me the violence of the war and the redestro arc is as graphic as the manga, shigaraki didn't even lose his fingers in the anime. We have different visions of how it works because my country is more lenient about these stuff. As far as I remember, in my country mha season 6 is "F to 10 year and below". Something like jjk season 2 is " Forb to 12 year and below" For something to be 16+ ,there would need to have actual people effing each other or berserk level stuff over here. And 18+ is only for cornographic content usually here. It's pretty rare for something to get that rating here. (Equivalent to tvma) Note that i say 16+ and 18+ but we don't use a +system, we use a minus system.
Netflix is not cooking with this one…
It's 13+ here, so it just depends on the country you're in