Talk:Mayu Arita/@comment-95.91.209.4-20170305164650/@comment-138.130.132.2-20181229010407

this show isnt supposed to be a guide book on morality or how to be a good person. thats the difference between the west and the east. i noticed that eastern shows are mostly there to entertain (which is why even their traditional stories have questionable morality and endings to them) but westerners seem to want to shove moral messages in to their stories or shows all the time.(hence why all the traditional fairy tales always have a "moral of the story" in them)

so obviously a westerner like you wouldnt be used to eastern stories or entertainment that dont do that. eastern shows/stories can have extremely unfair and savage endings that end up punishing good people and rewarding bad people. not because  they think its right and not because they endorse  it, but rather its because they realize that life is often unfair and many a times bad things happen to good people and vice versa. their shows are more nihalistic than idealistic and they tend to reflect what reality actually is rather than what they want reality to be.

also they realize that a show/story is fictional and meant to be entertainment/art. you shouldnt be trying to get life lessons from them in the first place.

if kids are so easily influenced by stories, then they would be pretty two dimensional, and dont have critical thinking skills or personal judgement and their parents are failing them. normal people (INCLUDING KIDS) can just use logic and natural inborn human empathy to realize that what happened to Mayu was  extremely unfair.

if there is any lesson to take away from this anime it isnt that you should be bad, or that you should not care for others, but rather its that life is unfair and sometimes bad things happen to you even if you are good. that is realistic instead of idealistic.

which is why asians are famous for being pragamatic realists and their works reflect that. just because you might not agree with them, doesnt mean  that you should shut them out completely or avoid their works. if you avoid everything you dont like to see or hear you will end up living in an echo chamber. . . Diversity of concepts and ideas is still important after all even if you dont agree with them. Especially when it comes to fictional works. .