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Traditionally, cartoons, comics and other stories featuring animals as major characters are treated as light, whimsical, funny entertainment for small children, not serious works for their elders. While adults may enjoy such works, they are primarily marketed toward children, and are careful to avoid material considered either too explicit for children or too serious and sophisticated for children to understand. While such works still might contain some conflict adversity, or even [[Disney Death]], it is always at a level considered "Family Friendly" and "Safe for Kids".
Also, until recent advances in CGI, anthropomorphized animimals in visual mediums were mostly confined to rather silly looking costumes, cartoons and comics. These features were generally associated with less serious children's stories, and therefore weren't going to be all that big on more "mature" topics like violence. [[Talking Animal
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These stories involve animal characters ranging from [[Largely Normal Animal]] to [[Petting Zoo Person]] on the [[Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism]]. They frequently take place in a [[World of Funny Animals]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Cat Shit One]]'' involves cute rabbits as killing machines fighting in the Vietnam War.
* ''[[Ginga Densetsu Weed]]'' is about talking dogs. Kid-friendly, right? ''Hardly''
* ''[[Oruchuban Ebichu]]'' is a comedy about a cute little hamster and her unmarried owner. Almost every joke is about sex.
* ''[[Cat Soup]]'' is an abstract, existential short film based on the extremely dark comics of artist Nekojiru. But hey, all the characters are cats!
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* ''[[Usagi Yojimbo]]'' involves adorable anthropomorphic animals, the main character being a ''rabbit''. The setting, however, is feudal Japan with all of the cultural baggage thereof, including ''kirisute'', the traditional right of the samurai to kill any commoner who offends him. There is exploration of death, relationships (including forbidden relationships, illegitimate offspring, widowhood, etc.), various ''extremely'' nasty monsters from folklore, political intrigue, crime and punishment, and a very messed up judicial system.
* ''[[Maus]]'' is a retelling of the author's father's experiences during the Holocaust, including his stay at Auschwitz. Jews are mice, Germans are cats, Americans are dogs (African-Americans are black dogs), Poles are pigs, French are frogs, Norwegians are reindeer, and Gypsies are moths.
* ''[[Fritz the Cat (comics)|Fritz the Cat]]'' and its two [[Animated Adaptation
* ''[[Omaha the Cat Dancer]]'' is [[Porn with Plot]], and includes plenty of melodrama (and occasional violence) to go along with the explicit sex.
* While later iterations of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' were relatively kid-friendly, [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage|the original comic]] was rather gritty and featured plenty of violence and death.
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