So that Japanese children can be traumatized by the Fukushima in a more appropriately Freudian way and never really learn to love properly:
Personally, I think this would be more accurate if Nuclear Boy was sitting next to three or four Diaper Genies on fire.
See also this post at Class:M ... "At first glance, the cartoon does an exemplary job explaining the situation to Japanese schoolchildren too young to understand half-lives and the role of water as a coolant and moderator in boiling-water reactors. But there's a gaping omission right at the beginning...."
Hat Tip Ana and The Intersection.
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Let's hope not too many people ask about that other Japanese childrens' classic cartoon ... "Everyone Poops"
It's a kind of a rite of passage in Japan - ever since the original A Dog of Flanders incident, the generation of survivors made sure that every succeeding generation is also traumatized by anime at least once during their childhood.
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