It's an old argument, whiny parents complaining to business about their kids playing video games and watching TV shows that are rated above their ages. Instead of parents doing their jobs and make sure their kids aren't seeing things they shouldn't, they complain to the developers and tell them to not make them at all. Let that one sink in. These people exist, and they have reproduced. 

Now let me introduce the BPO. Japan’s Broadcasting Ethics and Program Improvement Organization, also known as the BPO, is a non-government media consumer advocacy group. On its website, the BPO describes its mission as to “protect viewers’ fundamental human rights while also ensuring broadcasters’ freedom of speech and expression." This is a noble endeavour. However, parents have made it a tricky business to take part in. You see, people can send off messages, either mail, email, or even faxes, to the BPO with their concerns. 

Now let's take a look at trends. It's only a recent development that anime series with boobs and blood have hit regular airwaves. In days gone by, they would be straight to DVD series. Nowadays, they're on TVs. However, series like that don't start airing until 11 P.M., with most not showing until past midnight. If children too young to see boobs and blood are watching anime series that show it, they should be in bed. If parents are letting them stay up late enough to see them, the problem lies solely with the parents. 

BPO releases the complaints it receives on a monthly basis. The last one to be released reads as such:

“Too many people are complaining about late-night anime. Late-night anime is broadcast in those time slots so that young kids won’t stumble upon it by accident when flipping through the channels, so it’s ridiculous for parents to worry about ‘What if my kid sees this?’ If your kids are still awake when late-night anime is being broadcast, that’s because you’re not fulfilling your responsibilities as a parent and making your kids go to bed. It’s not the anime’s responsibility to do that for you.”

Well, we couldn't have put it any better. 

The counter argument is that, in this day and age, time slots don't matter much anymore. People can record shows, or view them online, legally or otherwise. However, this means parents have to get better. There's child-locks and rating filters, preventing younger viewers from seeing things beyond a certain point. If that's too much work, then why did they become parents? Being a parent is a tough job, and great parents are unsung heroes.

YouTube user Chaos55t made a couple of videos, part 1 and part 2, reading off and replying to a letter that an angry parent sent her, that really sums up this whole situation in an entertaining matter. To sum her videos up, a parent was angry when he discovered his very young child was watching a YouTube channel run by a Wiccan. It was pointed out that YouTube is not meant for children, but for teens and above. Instead of making sure said very young child stayed off YouTube, this idiotic parent demanded Chaos55t change how she runs her channel, or even shut down her channel, or she would suffer.

So, what do you think of parents who wish to censor things do they don't have to do too much parenting? Sound off in the comments below!