So, in order to prompt myself to post actual, like, content more often, I'm inaugurating a new series of anime/manga reviews, with a particular analytical viewpoint
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It's probably just laziness, or expediency. If you eliminate mom and dad, the story can leap straight to the adventure. If parents are in the picture, the author will need to explain why/how they're allowing protagonist to adventure before the adventure can happen. It becomes about the relationships rather than the adventure, which may be what women want to see, but not kids, in my experience.
The Spy Kids protagonists have both parents, but they're both spies themselves, which explains why the children have access to the toys and problems they face in the movies.
In one of my fav books as a child, My Side of the Mountain, the protagonist is allowed to go out on his own by his parents--I can't remember exactly how it's explained away--but his adventures come to an end when a reporter writes a story about the "boy living alone off the land" and his mother is criticized by friends and relations for allowing him to do it. She pulls the plug on his experiment because others feel she's being a bad mother. There you have the problems of parents (and mothers in particular) in a nutshell.
It's not something that I noticed as a child, the lack of parents, so perhaps you're right that it's to skip the complicated set-up and get to the adventure more quickly. Guess "what would the neighbors think" is the final nail in the coffin, yeah? Even if Mom is willing to let it happen on her own, she can't escape the wider consequences...
The Spy Kids protagonists have both parents, but they're both spies themselves, which explains why the children have access to the toys and problems they face in the movies.
In one of my fav books as a child, My Side of the Mountain, the protagonist is allowed to go out on his own by his parents--I can't remember exactly how it's explained away--but his adventures come to an end when a reporter writes a story about the "boy living alone off the land" and his mother is criticized by friends and relations for allowing him to do it. She pulls the plug on his experiment because others feel she's being a bad mother. There you have the problems of parents (and mothers in particular) in a nutshell.
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