On lessons for the kiddies.
I've been watching fansubs of Shugo Chara!, which is the series that Buono! does theme songs for. I originally started watching it because of the Buono! connection, but it is a pretty well done, fun kids anime and I think it is worth watching on its own merit. The basic premise is that children's hopes and dreams for the future manifest themselves in the form of an egg within the heart.
If the child's desire to change into someone different is strong enough they lay their "Heart's Egg" and out of it comes small spirit called a "shugo chara" or guardian character. Shugo charas represent that person's wished for self and can help their child by giving encouragement and bestowing special powers through character changes or magical girl style transformations. The show's protagonist, Hinamori Amu, is a girl who has all kinds of unreasonable rumors about her "Cool and Spicy" character but wants to be seen as a normal person and make friends. Amu's desire gives birth to three shugo charas (most people have one at most) and she joins the school's elite "Guardians", a group of special students with shugo charas who protect the school. The Guardians are led by a pretty boy named Tadase who is seeking the legendary "Embryo"; a magical egg that supposedly can make any dream come true. Opposing them is the evil Easter Corporation which tries to obtain the Embryo by convincing children their dreams are impossible and turning their eggs in to destructive X eggs. One of Easter's main henchmen is Tsukiyomi Ikuto, a young man who transforms into a cat-boy.Shugo Chara! is all about believing in yourself and following your dreams but there should be a limit to the things you're willing to do to achieve those ends. If we completely abandon the instruction of ethics we will end up in the horrible amoral madhouse that cable news would have us believe we live in now.
Well, to look at it another way, I suppose the main lessons of the show could be: "if you're pretty enough you can get away with anything", and "life isn't fair". Two things kids would do well to learn early.
[*](Oh shit! I Godwin'd my own post. Well, at least I didn't try to make some link between the disregard of Ikuto's acts and Japan's view of its own atrocities in WWII. *cough*)