User blog comment:Inept Wiki User/Question: What you seek from a Fairy Tail movie/@comment-26399354-20130515140711/@comment-7418318-20130516094314

"Burning people alive isn't that gruesome if it happens off-screen and there is no screaming or burnt flesh involved."

But in the Pheonix Priestess it was on screen and while her screams were tuned out, Eclair was clearly screaming and writhing in pain, even though her flesh didn't blacken (most likely because of her immortallity).

If a person dies from "playing Naruto" how does censoring the blood out of an act of stabbing help? That makes it even worse, because the lack of blood makes the scene seem a little more harmless.

I think for such incidents Fairy Tail in it's current (anime) state is more dangerous than Naruto.

In Naruto people bleed when characters are stabbed. Afterwards they are bandaged (or healed magically) and often have to go to the hospital.

In the Fairy Tail anime people are completely pierced through with magic, slashed by swords, ect. and they don't bleed and barely show any signs of being hurt (most of the time). That suggests to small kids that making a hole into someone's body is not that bad a thing.

Furthermore a series were people bleed from being stabbed is rated higher, thus the danger of too young children seeing it is lowered (I wish I could say eliminated, but between "accidents", negligent parents and the very existance of the internet that's beyond naive).

As I said before, the act of violence should be the criteria for the age rating, not wether there is any blood on screen.

Also the actual story should be taken into consideration. A story about torture and rape doesn't become suited for children just because the actuals acts of torture and rape aren't shown on screen.