'This is soabsurd! If the children were watching Tom and Jerry and imitated those scenes, would the father sue the overseas cartoon studio?' another netizen posted.

If everyone shirks responsibility in this way, who would dare make a cartoon in the future? This is a big problem for the development of Chinese animation,' one netizen complained on Sina Weibo. 'It is nonsense that the parents did not carry out introspection themselves, but blamed the cartoon's producer.

Many Chinese netizens expressed their disagreement with the verdict, saying that they think the studio is both innocent and a victim. The hashtag about the case has earned 410 million views on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo as of Thursday. The court finally ruled that the father was 80 percent responsible for his daughter's death, while the boy's parents and the cartoon studio were 10 percent responsible each. The girl's father later sued the cartoon's production company and the boy's parents. Additionally, the two were unattended as the girl's father was busy taking care of his mentally disabled wife. She died from injuries a few days later.Īlthough a warning appeared during the show, the two children were too young to read it. While they played, the girl accidentally fell from the window of her sixth-storied building home. The two watched the cartoon Boonie Bears and decided to imitate a scene from the show by tying a rope to the girl and playing a rock climbing game. In 2018, a 6-year-old boy went to the 8-year-old girl's house to play. Promotional material for Boonie Bears Photo: ICĪ court's ruling that the studio behind popular Chinese cartoon Boonie Bears is 10 percent responsible for the death of an 8-year-old girl evoked dissatisfaction among Chinese netizens on Wednesday.Ĭhina's News site The Paper reported on Wednesday that a court in Southwest China's Sichuan Province recently upheld a previous verdict that the studio of Boonie Bears must pay over 60,000 yuan ($9,284) in compensation for the death of an 8-year-old girl in 2018.

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