Thread:Nanepul/@comment-25515926-20141009020858/@comment-1988716-20141009215803

Either way, Courage is a kids' show. If it's marketed for kids and if it's good for kids to watch, it is a kids' show. I tend to have more trouble believing The Legend of Korra is a kids' show when it deals with suicide, capital punishment, terrorism, political assassinations, and dysfunctional families so bluntly. But the fact that it is makes me very happy.

I'm not Finnish either; I'm British! The Moomins were a children's book series a long time ago that got more and more philosophical and depressing as they went along, culmiating in the last book which was pretty much "The Moomins are never coming back and everyone feels empty without them but life goes on." They got an anime adaptation in the 90s that took out a lot of the philosophy and tragedy but left in a lot of the creepier moments. The Groke is this... big... thing that freezes everything she touches. She never speaks. Everyone fears her. But as the books go on, she turns out to be the loneliest thing in the world and she's always so cold and there's nothing she can ever do about it. Here's an illustration of it from the eighth book. It's the thing on the left; the little hippo thing on the right is a Moomin.