>a child character is introduced with the sole intent to abuse/torture/kill them off to elicit emotion from the viewer
I hate this dishonest storytelling trope.

>>280757715 (OP)
Maybe you're too retarded to recall what was shown 15 minutes prior, but Grave of the Fireflies begins with the MC dying in the middle of the street and his soul going in the afterlife with his little sister
You start the story knowing that both characters are dead by the end

>>280758121
>you start the story knowing it's bad

>>280758276
>a story about children dying of hunger in postwar Japan
>it's bad 'cause it's sad
What do you want? A wacky comedy?

>>280758354
Yeah a wacky comedy would fit here perfectly.

>>280758454
Retarded nigger

>>280758488
You don't seem to be having fun, I recommend you have a good laugh.

>>280757715 (OP)
All storytelling is introducing things to make you feel things

>>280757715 (OP)
>the sole intent... to elicit emotion from the viewer
That's kinda the point of any artistic work.

>>280758648
>>280758588
doing it with dead children, especially throwaway characters, is incredibly cheap and lazy thoughever

>>280758786
>throwaway characters
Seita & Setsuko are present for 95% of the total screentime
They're the main characters
I don't give a fuck about the other two

>>280759061
why are you focusing on only one movie? there are dozens if not hundreds of series which do this. even if you want to be giga autistic, there are 3 even in just the OP

>>280759147
>why are you focusing on only one movie?
Because this thesis doesn't work with one of the anime he presented in the OP?

>>280759346
It does though because that movie is shit.

>>280759440
Admitted not granted this point for the sake of discussion, his thesis isn't on the quality of the anime, is about how supposedly manipulative the act of introducing a minor child character to then kill it off soon afterward.
And he chose an anime where this doesn't happen.

>>280757715 (OP)
>dishonest storytelling
The girl from Grave of the Fireflies was based on a real girl. IIRC the end of the real girl was even more miserable.

>>280758276
>>280758454
drop it cus you lost

>>280759665
No u

>>280757715 (OP)
You can thank the west for dead little girl kino like the little match girl, the little mermaid, the old curiosity shop, etc. and nips for getting obsessed with it.

>>280759911
Loving little girls and tragic stories are a superior man's traits, subhumans like him wouldn't get it

killing children (especially little girls) is such obvious sympathy/ragebait