Does anybody else find it disturbing just how many series there are where kids take part in exams organized by the "good guys" where not only could they easily die, but other examinees could easily kill them without consequence?
Can you imagine if real world militaries worked this way?
Does anybody else find it disturbing just how many series there are where kids take part in exams organized by the...
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Adrian Parker
Those series are written for literal children. You really aren't supposed to analyze it so hard.
Brandon Russell
they're magic wizards that shoot lightning balls at each other and summon godzillas
you are retarded
Tyler Butler
They're still kids, they shouldn't have their exam in a place literally called the Forest of Death, where Ninja of other villages who for some fucking reason are taking the exam with them are encouraged to murder the competition.
Brody Rodriguez
You are retarded, no matter how you rewrite your idiocy. The same fact remains. This shit is written with the rule of cool in mind. It's a fantasy story. Why do you apply real world shit to it? That's the most redditor garbage I have heard. Closing this thread, your wacky le random idiocy disgusts me.
Wyatt Peterson
Up until fairly recently, kids dying was a natural thing. In a world where every mother has to pump out 6 kids just to offset child mortality (and mothers dying while giving birth), the value of a kid's life is low.
After almost eliminating mortality before the age of 60, we have switched reproduction strategies, from quantity to quality.
This means that every kid is an investment, and a kid's life matters.
But to interpret the past from this point of view is going to give you skewed results. It doesn't work.
What's strange about anime and manga is that they take both approaches. Naruto's world has modern reproduction levels, and everybody goes to school, and at the same time they have an approach to death that is absolutely not modern.
THAT's fucked up.
Luke Lopez
This. Otherwise you'd realize most shonen characters are basically child soldiers.
Luke Cox
>with the rule of cool in mind
You say this, but it is not a cool series.
Adrian Thompson
Demon Slayer is probably the worst offender. They set up the exam in such a way where 90% of the applicants are guaranteed to die. And after they're graduated they're sent off on their merry way and told to kill demons without any senior members accompanying them to show them the ropes. I guess this is what happens when you set up a vigilante organization with no government regulations.
Daniel Williams
To be fair if they survived a battle royale with a bunch of other demon slayers they're probably good enough to hunt demons on their own. Maybe the organization doesn't think it's a good idea to force the kids into a single fighting style and instead forces them to create their own unique style superior to any generic one.
Yes it's a terribly inefficient method but there are some positives. I'm probably over thinking it though and the author didn't mean to portray it like that, he just didn't care about consistency and making sense.
Josiah Jenkins
>one person has a opinion
>some other person who also much cooler and badass has a different opinion
>this is some sort of plot hole to narutards
Ian Hill
Killing is forbidden in Harry Potter where everyone is also a magic wizard
Connor Fisher
At least the demon slayer corps isn’t a public institution. Chuunin exams seem to be like the real world’s equivalent of middle school or high school.
Juan Howard
>Chuunin exams seem to be like the real world’s equivalent of middle school or high school.
for ninjas.
Tyler Phillips
>I guess this is what happens when you set up a vigilante organization with no government regulations.
Which I still don't understand, how the fuck are demons not common knowledge when they kill a lot of people and don't bother staying hidden?
Michael Sanchez
>Can you imagine if real world militaries worked this way?
This is something that actually does happen though, just not in big numbers, people really do die on military training
Jeremiah Taylor
Majority of the time that's accidents though.
Not because they're intentionally going into a forest to kill each other for a promotion
Carson Wright
Except when people die in military training, the instructors and supervisors get investigated to hell and back, people get fired, and procedures and tactics are rewritten to prevent it from happening again.
It happens as a failure of the system. Not as a necessary cost.
Cameron Williams
Because they just wrote off all those demon killings like that time a train got hijacked by demons and everyone died or that time Yoshiwara was destroyed by demons as mass hysteria due to a gas leak.
Easton Mitchell
That's what you'd expect in a world where the government knows about demons but covers it up, not in a world where the government somehow doesn't know demons exist.
Landon Miller
>It happens as a failure of the system. Not as a necessary cost.
Maybe in some armies. The weak armies.
Gabriel Jenkins
They're shinobi. no one forces kids to become ninja and kill each other. That's what hashirama meant. His brother was killed because he was forced to fight so that influenced him. In the chunin exams the kids know what they sign up for. There were students who dropped out in the first stage
Austin Johnson
>students who dropped out in the first stage
These are all ninja villages. What would they even do if they can't become ninjas? Be exiled to die in woods? Or are there some cities of normal, non-ninja people?
Chase Sanchez
One of those "weak armies" is currently the most powerful Mitiltary force on the planet. Training that kills "on purpose" is a meme.
Adam Long
It's a continuation of the Ninja Wars. They can kill each other to their hearts content and prove who has the biggest ninja nuts without burning their villages to the ground.
James Robinson
You do realize that non-ninja live in these villages right? Just like there can be civilians living in a mitiltary base.
Is letting a few children kill each other better than having more adults kill each other?
Parker Perez
>currently the most powerful Mitiltary force on the planet
Not on the strengths of it's soldiers. Not on their fighting spirit. And technical superiority crumbles very fast when you can't continue to rob weak countries of their resources, and your own production is outsourced and relies on ephemeral "profit" to keep going.
Blake Clark
Well, no shit. They're a PMC at best.
Justin Cook
>Is letting a few children kill each other better than having more adults kill each other?
If they fight (and die) young, then you haven't spent as much money on them as if you wait for them to come of age first.
Colton Turner
What like objectively?
Austin Campbell
Yes countries in narutoverse employees ninja from ninja villages as mercenaries. Most of ninja villages in naruto era are hidden, that's what the "hidden" in The Hidden Leaf village literally means.
Juan Sanders
OK, name these "strong" armies where soldiers are deliberately trained in such a way that a bunch of them die before seeing any real combat or kill each other.
Logan Mitchell
Retard
Ryder Robinson
Wyatt Powell
Kishimoto wants to kill many children
Parker Perez
The gimmick in Kimetsu is supposed to be that they are all weak demons who are more manageable. But the one Tanjirou fought had been getting stronger off killing contestants and hiding. It was more poor oversight than anything else.
Jayden Martin
Name a modern country called Sparta. I'll wait.
Asher Martinez
>He bought the Sparta meme
Read a damn history book and you'll see that not only did Sparta not train their soldiers that way, but that their reputation as the strongest Greek city ever was way overblown by propaganda and historical revisionism.
Also, the fact that you have to go back thousands of years to think of an example doesn't really help your case.
Mason Morales
You are really fucking dumb
Hunter Hughes
Spartans weren't actually that great at war, they had good soldiers but they got bullied by the other greek city states constantly.
Matthew Cooper
>literally had to backpedal on that practice because they were running out of men
Nice mitiltary training you got there.