What Do You Mean It's Not for Little Girls?: Difference between revisions

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Lucky Star]]'': A show with lots of pretty colors, [[Image Song|cute songs]], and a [[Shoujo|mostly female cast]]. Except that it's a show about a [[Otaku Surrogate|girl]] who plays [[Eroge]] and [[Wrong Genre Savvy|sees her life as if she was playing one]].

* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' is about the lives of a bunch of high school girls. The manga is serialized in Dengeki Daioh, a [[Shonen]] magazine.

** Also serialized in Dengeki Daioh is ''[[Yotsuba&!]]'' and ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]''. Both are about cute little girls; both are also [[Shonen]] series.

** While the manga has its fair share if [[Les Yay]]/[[Ship Teasing]], [[Kyoto Animation]] toned it down for the anime and [[Adaptation Expansion|added more character focus]] (Except for Ritsu), presumably in trying to expand the audience. And based on its [[Cash Cow Franchise|huge success]], it seems to have worked, although it's not that girls dislike [[Yuri]] ''per se''—especially not in Japan.

* ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]''

* ''[[Chobits]]''

* ''[[Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai!|Oreimo]]''-Oh look, a cute anime about a brother and sister! Too bad that the sister plays [[Eroge]]!

* ''[[Sasami: Magical Girls Club]]'' is a [[Cute Witch]] anime that superficially looks a lot like ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]].'' It aired at 1:30 am.

* You might think ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' is another kid-friendly [[Magical Girl]] series. Wrong! It's actually [[Seinen]], and ''extremely disturbing''.

* ''[[A Little Snow Fairy Sugar]]'' is an extremely cutesy show about a young girl who hangs out with cute little fairies who create the weather. It aired at [[Otaku O'Clock]] and the manga adaptation was [[Shonen]].

 

* Barbara Slate's ''Angel Love'' comic book series of the 1980s, having rather cute cartoonish artwork, yet dealing with serious topics such as drug abuse, abortion, critical illnesses, and incest.

 

* TLC's ''[[Toddlers and Tiaras]]'', about toddlers in beauty pageants. Mostly a [[Point and Laugh Show]], though.

 

== Music ==

* There's a video of a five-year-old girl singing the "voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?" line from Labelle's "Lady Marmalade." Presumably the train of thought was "It's about dancing, right? Girls love dancing!" Too bad it's not about dancing, it's about a prostitute, and the line translates to "do you want to sleep with me tonight?"

* The [[Spice Girls]]. It's hard to tell exactly how much of their "Girl Power" theme was serious, and how much was self-parody, but it their lyrics make it clear that it was at least about sexual liberation... to the dismay of the parents of the 8 year olds who would parrot the lyrics.

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Touhou]]''. A cast of characters that's [[Fundamentally Female Cast|almost entirely female]], lots of fun songs (like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUBbigtfCWs this one]), and lots of pretty colors. The games also have violence that's on the same level as ''[[Super Mario Brothers]]'', and a cast consisting of various [[Youkai]] with some rather frightening powers, as well as claims of [[I'm a Humanitarian|eating humans]]. And since the majority of the game's popularity comes from [[Fan Work|fan works]] on the Internet, unsuspecting girls are that much more likely to run into [[Rule 34]]. (They could just play the games, but then again, there's a reason they're called [[Bullet Hell]]...)

* ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]'' features a mainly [[Fundamentally Female Cast]], lots of cheerful colors, and mild cartoon violence that's on the same level as that of [[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]], with player characters and many enemies and bosses exploding in [[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]-style upon defeat. Now, if you can just look past the blood in Sepperin Stage 2 as well as Grolla's Freudenstachel stage as well as the blood stains on Freudia's dress and Grolla's bandaged wrist and the blood on the sprite of a dead priest in the beginning of Rosenkreuzstilette Grollschwert, the wars that take place within said franchise, images on the internet that fall into [[Rule 34]], and {{spoiler|Iris' [[Complete Monster|complete monsterhood]]}}, and only look to other parts than all of the already mentioned, then you might be able to find it okay for little girls.

 

* ''[[Last Res0rt]]''. Bright, Cartoony, [[Cyberpunk]]... [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|wait, what?]]

** [[Word of God]] claims it's meant to be more Feminist vs. meant for little girls... But, [[Furry Fandom]] being what it is, it's no shock that the majority of the audience is still teen-to-college-age guys.

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' was not originally intended for little girls. [[Craig McCracken]] created it as a parody of the [[Magical Girl]] genre, as he was getting sick of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' [[Adored by the Network|playing on Cartoon Network every day]]. As a [[Take That]], he set the girls' ages very low, had them do very inelegant things, and made the villains cheesier than Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinners. The intended audience for it was the same as ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]''—animation fans in their teens, 20s, and 30s—but it [[Animation Age Ghetto|had to be child-appropriate]] (This was in the days before [[Adult Swim]]). A show like this naturally attracted little girls anyway.

** McCracken's college assignment that spawned the series, Whoopass Stew (the title alone should make it clear which demographic he ''wasn't'' shooting for), went as follows. Girls beat the crap out of the Ganggreen Gang. Amoeba Boys rob a bank. Girls try to stop them but get stuck in their bodies. Girls prevail by flying to the sun, which kills the Amoeba Boys in seconds. Yeah. Not exactly tote bag-friendly icons, huh?

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