At 12, she is her own best media critic. We rent whatever else she views, having much less trouble screening out questionable content than recent alarmist news stories would have you believe. We read packages and warning labels or ask store clerks. We check reviews and recommendations on web sites. Anime is Japanese animation, not limited to toy-driven TV cartoons.
Animation is sound and moving drawings.
You can tell any kind of story, to any age audience, using sound and moving pictures. We do so with film, but comics and cartoons have been psychoanalyzed and found subversive or pornographic since HUAC days. There are differences. And no, there aren't. Yankee cartoon characters fart, but they fart differently than the Japanese.