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Jun 5, 2024 5:46 PM
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Instead of them being 16 all the time in the back of the class next to the window ,having a crush on the guy/girl that we all know they're gonna end up with and.......
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Jun 5, 2024 6:04 PM
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Not particularly. New Adult fiction is still written the same as YA fiction. At best, college settings give you more narrative freedom than having it set in a HS, granted I think your average rom com writer likes the fact the characters are clustered forcibly together, so they interact.

Sure though, more age variety would be nice, just for the sake of narrative variety. And I mean actual age variety, not just appealing to angry mid 20 year olds, upset that they aren't the age of the MC anymore. Someone in their early/mid 20s largely still don't feel that distinct from someone in their late teens. Seeing stories about more weathered characters in their 40s or even older would be interesting though.
Jun 5, 2024 6:08 PM
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No. More diverse characters, settings and stories are good but not just shifting things around
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Jun 5, 2024 6:28 PM
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I don't really care if they're adult or underage, I just don't care about that, I think.
Jun 5, 2024 6:36 PM
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No. It would be better if they started making better anime, and it would be worse if they started making worse anime. The age of the characters has nothing to do with it. There's good anime with teenage characters and good anime with adult characters. There's also bad anime with teenage characters and bad anime with adult characters.

If quality increased as a function of character age, Komatta Jiisan would be the best anime ever.

. . .

Oh wait, Komatta Jiisan IS the best anime ever. You were right OP after all. You've converted me.


Jun 5, 2024 7:40 PM
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No. While I don't mind adult characters or adult cast in general, its better if characters are teenagers. You have the school genre which its relatable since everyone went to school and its mandatory by law unlike college or working. I can't relate to boring adult shows like Cowboy Bebop or My Senpai is Annoying since they either try to be very depressive or romanticize the slave work culture. I'm a teetotaler adult so it doesn't help such literally all adult characters consume alcoholic beverages a lot besides my generation drink less alcohol. I can't find an Anime with a teetotaler adult MC or even a side adult character so I can't relate to almost all adult MCs. I also have another reason I don't want college or working setting being popular, some adults fans are going to complain how "those characters behave/look like high schoolers" even if the cast is barely 18-early 20s thanks to a distorted view of adult characters from old Anime (curse you Cowboy Bebop!). Seriously, I'm not a fan of people saying how an adult character should behave. And no way they are going to stop questioning about the sexualization of characters if adult casts are more prominent, they are going to complain anyways, remember uzaki chan controversy? even if she's an adult lol. Such people are just noisy.

ToumaTachibanaJun 5, 2024 7:45 PM
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Jun 5, 2024 8:24 PM
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Not necessarily, but it surely would be a breath of fresh air.
Jun 5, 2024 10:41 PM
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"Would anime be better if they started to use more adult casts?"

Not really.
Jun 5, 2024 11:09 PM
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It'll still follow the same concepts anyways so no
Jun 6, 2024 12:17 AM

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"Would anime be better if they started to use more adult casts?"

1. Having more teens as protagonists stems from two factors: most of the anime is dedicated to teens and a lot of adults search escapism in the idealized version of their youth (thus titles like K-On and Hyouka).
2. Sadly what the japanese writers will do if you are a producer and tell them "Make this show more adult!" is to make it more soap operatic, since that's the standard for the japanese live-action (just look at the stupidity which was My Home Hero).

Thus for better manga/anime you need to recruit more talented authors with fresher ideas...and of course those are hard to find. You can't improve stuff just by pushing certain themes.
Jun 6, 2024 12:35 AM

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Well if they just chuck them in where they don't fit then of course it won't work. But if they do it right then sure, it'll make Anime better in some areas.
Jun 6, 2024 1:34 AM

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Some shounen anime, yes, including some of my favorite shounen. Being published in a shounen magazine implies some constraints like absolutely needing teenagers in the main cast. It is a limitation.

Having adult characters is not enough though, you also have to make them act like adults and not just making it a reskin of high school anime (because they're way more common so people are copying their tropes).
Jun 6, 2024 1:41 AM

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Not necessarily but I'd be more inclined to watch because they're more relatable to me.
Jun 6, 2024 1:46 AM

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If it was better then it would have happened already.
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Jun 6, 2024 1:48 AM

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I like age variety, but it depends on how the adult characters behave, because if they are adults and behave like teenagers it's just annoying.
Jun 6, 2024 2:02 AM
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Definitely adult cast is far better than teenagers or kids cast. But the most important of an good anime is to have a great story, also well written characters.
With adult cast we don't have to endure some of childish and foolish behaviors also some characters with 10 years old who fall in love with another 10 years old, I mean that ridiculous.
With adult cast we sure get to see more realistic content and scenes

Those who saying that we don't care about adult cast, aware that they're kids himself.

Seinen > shounen
Jun 6, 2024 2:26 AM
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Nobody wants to buy figurines of old hags, so no. Anime will stay with its teenage girl meta.
Jun 6, 2024 2:28 AM
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OP, I will leave you with one word that will invalidate all past, present and future complaints about anime characters being teenagers:

Jun 6, 2024 2:41 AM
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Nah, For me I don't really mind. but I think generally it would decrease the current appeal of anime, one of the reason why its always set in a perfect highschool is because escapism
Jun 6, 2024 11:39 AM

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depends of the type of story/and characters.
Jun 6, 2024 11:46 AM

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It would be great if we've more romance/slice of life anime about young adults. College life, fitting in the world of adults, starting family etc.
Jun 6, 2024 12:03 PM

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More variety is always welcome. Would it make it better? Depends how entertaining, engaging and enjoyable it is. Sometimes even with adult characters, they feel the same as the school romance teenage characters or even worse. But it surely would be welcome as a change of pace from time to time.
Jun 6, 2024 3:11 PM
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More variety is always welcome. Would it make it better? Depends how entertaining, engaging and enjoyable it is. Sometimes even with adult characters, they feel the same as the school romance teenage characters or even worse. But it surely would be welcome as a change of pace from time to time.
@Zakception @pk8list I don't see the issue. Every adult behaves differently. What's the problem if they act funny and vibrant? I can't even relate to most adult characters in the first place and I honestly wouldn't like to watch an adult cast being depressed about life. Also, some teenager characters act older than their age and they are popular meanwhile if an adult character act younger than their age, he or she sometimes are seen as "immature". It's a false belief an adult must be serious or depressed and a teenager must be funny or easy-going. Anime isn't about stereotypes.
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Jun 6, 2024 3:53 PM

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Yes. We absolutely need more grown up perspectives in anime, older characters can convey way more types of stories that kids.
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@Zakception @pk8list I don't see the issue. Every adult behaves differently. What's the problem if they act funny and vibrant? I can't even relate to most adult characters in the first place and I honestly wouldn't like to watch an adult cast being depressed about life. Also, some teenager characters act older than their age and they are popular meanwhile if an adult character act younger than their age, he or she sometimes are seen as "immature". It's a false belief an adult must be serious or depressed and a teenager must be funny or easy-going. Anime isn't about stereotypes.
@Nurguburu Of course, not all people behave the same way. I don't mind an adult who is more goofy, and I don't think a character who is 100% serious or depressed all the time is entertaining or cool either. My issue is when a character is too one-sided. For example, I don't like Kafka from Kaiju no8 because he is just a comic relief to the point he feels forced at times and I don't mind a character like Issac from Baccano because the goofiness is part of the character.Also, I agree for the teenagers part I never really got the appeal of that lol.
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No. While I don't mind adult characters or adult cast in general, its better if characters are teenagers. You have the school genre which its relatable since everyone went to school and its mandatory by law unlike college or working. I can't relate to boring adult shows like Cowboy Bebop or My Senpai is Annoying since they either try to be very depressive or romanticize the slave work culture. I'm a teetotaler adult so it doesn't help such literally all adult characters consume alcoholic beverages a lot besides my generation drink less alcohol. I can't find an Anime with a teetotaler adult MC or even a side adult character so I can't relate to almost all adult MCs. I also have another reason I don't want college or working setting being popular, some adults fans are going to complain how "those characters behave/look like high schoolers" even if the cast is barely 18-early 20s thanks to a distorted view of adult characters from old Anime (curse you Cowboy Bebop!). Seriously, I'm not a fan of people saying how an adult character should behave. And no way they are going to stop questioning about the sexualization of characters if adult casts are more prominent, they are going to complain anyways, remember uzaki chan controversy? even if she's an adult lol. Such people are just noisy.

@Nurguburu Did everyone else have a very different school experience than me that you guys find that relatable or what's going on here?

And while I don't even particularly like Monster, what it did do well is have a mostly middle aged male cast. Could use more of that dad energy, just without all the pretentious main plot.
Jun 6, 2024 4:36 PM

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There are plenty of adult casts if you just move to media targeted towards adults, like Seinen or Josei series. Just expand your horizons.

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@Zakception @pk8list I don't see the issue. Every adult behaves differently. What's the problem if they act funny and vibrant? I can't even relate to most adult characters in the first place and I honestly wouldn't like to watch an adult cast being depressed about life. Also, some teenager characters act older than their age and they are popular meanwhile if an adult character act younger than their age, he or she sometimes are seen as "immature". It's a false belief an adult must be serious or depressed and a teenager must be funny or easy-going. Anime isn't about stereotypes.
Nurguburu said:
I don't see the issue. Every adult behaves differently. What's the problem if they act funny and vibrant? I can't even relate to most adult characters in the first place and I honestly wouldn't like to watch an adult cast being depressed about life. Also, some teenager characters act older than their age and they are popular meanwhile if an adult character act younger than their age, he or she sometimes are seen as "immature". It's a false belief an adult must be serious or depressed and a teenager must be funny or easy-going. Anime isn't about stereotypes.


Hence why i said variety. Acting funny and vibrant, acting depressed or serious is all okay. Comedy is subjective after all. Ultimately, in anime i'm not searching for realism, being immature is okay. What's not okay is only being that throughout the whole season. Lios from dungeon meshi is a good example of a character which carries himself as an adult and yet he acts dumb (for comedy) and is always positive. Gintoki as well etc... But they have other traits to their character which doesn't make them dull to watch. Ryo Saeba from City hunter is a perverted character but have a huge backstory and acts serious when it counts. Overreacting on everything is another trait that i hate with passion in any character, acting your age isn't a stereotype not at all.
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I'd like more anime with different settings. Anime with school aged characters are the go-to even when the show has nothing to do with school, but breaking away from that and having more mature characters would be cool. I'd love to see a Yuru Camp spinoff about their dads going camping together.
Jun 6, 2024 6:27 PM

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Ehhhhh.... right now? probably.

But not because Ault casts are better by default, just because the teenager casts are kinda over saturated.

I kinda want more shows that have either kids, middle aged, or old people as their main characters. Even adult wise, most anime cast have their characters be between, 14-25

A bit more diversity in age, would make anime better as whole.
Jun 6, 2024 10:36 PM

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I do find it weird that anime always mention that the main cast are teenagers but does that change anything ? No. Age of anime characters is, most of the time, just a number. The characters always behave the same regardless of their age.


Jun 6, 2024 11:15 PM

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Most of my favorite stuff have adult casts but we have to realize that the majority or anime are aimed at kids and teens despite what the "See this if you still think anime is for kids" videos are trying to say.
Also Tomino would be pissed.
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Jun 7, 2024 2:13 AM
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@BilboBaggins365 @BilboBaggins365

even so, a mature person could watch a sienen and enjoy it
But if he gonna watch a shounen anime with 15 years old casts he might be saying anime is for kids and even drop it
But with adult or mature cast he wouldn't sey that probably.

For example
If you have watched fate series,
Like fate zero and fate stay night.
You can get what I mean

Fate zero is a sienen anime with heavy content and adult cast
Fate stay night is a shounen anime with teenagers cast

But when kids or teenagers seeing both
They rate fate stay night 9 or 10
And rate fate zero 5-8

And when mature people seeing both
They rate stay night 5-8
And rate fate zero 9 or 10

Because kids don't understand heavy content and called that boring
In other hand mature people say fate zero is masterpiece and stay night is boring and childish anime.

I don't care what is Lewis says
But most sienen anime are for mature people
And for most shounen anime they can barely endure it to watching it.

Most of anime Japan produce is shounen anime
And we haven't alot seinen anime that even has a good adaptaion.
even so, a mature person could watch a sienen and enjoy it
But if he gonna watch a shounen anime with 15 years old casts he might be saying anime is for kids and even drop it
But with adult or mature cast he wouldn't sey that probably.

For example
If you have watched fate series,
Like fate zero and fate stay night.
You can get what I mean

Fate zero is a sienen anime with heavy content and adult cast
Fate stay night is a shounen anime with teenagers cast

But when kids or teenagers seeing both
They rate fate stay night 9 or 10
And rate fate zero 5-8

And when mature people seeing both
They rate stay night 5-8
And rate fate zero 9 or 10

Because kids don't understand heavy content and called that boring
In other hand mature people say fate zero is masterpiece and stay night is boring and childish anime.

I don't care what is Lewis says
But most sienen anime are for mature people
And for most shounen anime they can barely endure it to watching it.

Most of anime Japan produce is shounen anime
And we haven't alot seinen anime that even has a good adaptaion.

I recommend if you haven't seen these anime yet...

Fate zero
Garden of sinners
Ergo Proxy
Psycho pass s1
Death parade
Hellsing ultimate
And...
Aratorn5Jun 7, 2024 2:20 AM
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@BilboBaggins365 @BilboBaggins365

even so, a mature person could watch a sienen and enjoy it
But if he gonna watch a shounen anime with 15 years old casts he might be saying anime is for kids and even drop it
But with adult or mature cast he wouldn't sey that probably.

For example
If you have watched fate series,
Like fate zero and fate stay night.
You can get what I mean

Fate zero is a sienen anime with heavy content and adult cast
Fate stay night is a shounen anime with teenagers cast

But when kids or teenagers seeing both
They rate fate stay night 9 or 10
And rate fate zero 5-8

And when mature people seeing both
They rate stay night 5-8
And rate fate zero 9 or 10

Because kids don't understand heavy content and called that boring
In other hand mature people say fate zero is masterpiece and stay night is boring and childish anime.

I don't care what is Lewis says
But most sienen anime are for mature people
And for most shounen anime they can barely endure it to watching it.

Most of anime Japan produce is shounen anime
And we haven't alot seinen anime that even has a good adaptaion.
even so, a mature person could watch a sienen and enjoy it
But if he gonna watch a shounen anime with 15 years old casts he might be saying anime is for kids and even drop it
But with adult or mature cast he wouldn't sey that probably.

For example
If you have watched fate series,
Like fate zero and fate stay night.
You can get what I mean

Fate zero is a sienen anime with heavy content and adult cast
Fate stay night is a shounen anime with teenagers cast

But when kids or teenagers seeing both
They rate fate stay night 9 or 10
And rate fate zero 5-8

And when mature people seeing both
They rate stay night 5-8
And rate fate zero 9 or 10

Because kids don't understand heavy content and called that boring
In other hand mature people say fate zero is masterpiece and stay night is boring and childish anime.

I don't care what is Lewis says
But most sienen anime are for mature people
And for most shounen anime they can barely endure it to watching it.

Most of anime Japan produce is shounen anime
And we haven't alot seinen anime that even has a good adaptaion.

I recommend if you haven't seen these anime yet...

Fate zero
Garden of sinners
Ergo Proxy
Psycho pass s1
Death parade
Hellsing ultimate
And...
@Ain2Zwei That makes no sense. Adults can enjoy shounen and teenagers can enjoy seinen. Many fandoms have people of any age. Many seinen have a teen cast like kaguya-sama or Skip to Loafer and many shounen have an adult cast like Kaiju8 or Rurouni Kenshin.

Edit: I watched F/Z first when I was a teen myself and I rated high. I watched stay night a bit later and my scores didn't change much and I even rated HF the same as F/Z as an adult lol.
ToumaTachibanaJun 7, 2024 9:25 AM
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Jun 7, 2024 9:44 AM

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Really depends on the anime, but it would definitely decrease the ick factor from fanservice should they age characters up more. Plus, it can broaden anime audiences for those outside the traditional teenage-to-young adult age group by including these new perspectives.
Jun 7, 2024 9:57 AM

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It wouldn't automatically be better, but a show that never sees the inside of a school is a rarity and could definitely be a breath of fresh air. It's possible we've got over 1000 shows of 15 year old MCs looking glumly out the school window - how about we get one or two with an adult doing, well, anything?
Jun 7, 2024 10:49 AM

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@LoveYourSmile it's been a long time since I was 17, and a casual extra decade would make a lot of difference. Or two really.
Jun 7, 2024 11:02 AM

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Not particularly. New Adult fiction is still written the same as YA fiction. At best, college settings give you more narrative freedom than having it set in a HS, granted I think your average rom com writer likes the fact the characters are clustered forcibly together, so they interact.

Sure though, more age variety would be nice, just for the sake of narrative variety. And I mean actual age variety, not just appealing to angry mid 20 year olds, upset that they aren't the age of the MC anymore. Someone in their early/mid 20s largely still don't feel that distinct from someone in their late teens. Seeing stories about more weathered characters in their 40s or even older would be interesting though.
@BilboBaggins365 talking about more weathered,
Inuyashiki: Last Hero the MC is a 58 yr old man. Not a romcom though.

Jun 7, 2024 11:07 AM

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@LoveYourSmile School Days is kinda like that. MC is player who sleeps with multiple girls, jealousy and crimes of passion ensue. Last episode is kinda far-fetched but has probably happened before somewhere and the general scenario reminds me of certain people I went to highschool with.

Jun 7, 2024 11:41 AM

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Thy-Veseveia said:
Would anime be better if they started to use more adult casts?


While I definitely wouldn't be against Anime to feature more main characters who aren't just always bunch of teenage brats, the age of the characters are not necessarily something that's too important for me to still enjoy and be entertained when consuming the Anime I tend to watch.

It can be jarring at times when there is a cast of characters who go around and act like they got decades of life experiences under their belts when they are still only 15 or 16, but hey Anime is fiction.

I think it would be extremely cringe though if things were to be the other way around in Anime to have a bunch of women in their late 30s or even 40s to act like a bunch of cutesy Moe teenage girls. As well as even more cringe to see the same thing happen if an Anime was to feature of bunch of men in their late 30s or even their 40s acting like a bunch of stereotypical virgin inexperienced teenage brats.
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Jun 7, 2024 11:44 AM
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just to lessen school settings i say yes and that means more MILFs
Jun 7, 2024 12:38 PM
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@Ain2Zwei That makes no sense. Adults can enjoy shounen and teenagers can enjoy seinen. Many fandoms have people of any age. Many seinen have a teen cast like kaguya-sama or Skip to Loafer and many shounen have an adult cast like Kaiju8 or Rurouni Kenshin.

Edit: I watched F/Z first when I was a teen myself and I rated high. I watched stay night a bit later and my scores didn't change much and I even rated HF the same as F/Z as an adult lol.
@Nurguburu yeah we have some people how watch everything that's obvious.
But most of time teenagers can't enjoy mature anime or movie
And adults can't enjoy of teenager anime
Like me
I like some shounen anime but I don't like them as like as i seinen anime.

It's a fact mature people want more and prefer seinen anime

And what are you saying to me bro? You already rated fate stay night low score bro. Why you said you didn't 😅.
And you even rated some awesome anime like attack on titan(I know last part wasn't good) and code geass low score. You're different bro, I like you. 😁
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Jun 7, 2024 12:45 PM

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just to lessen school settings i say yes and that means more MILFs
@deg the only good answer here. Say Yes to MILFS and adult women
Jun 7, 2024 2:16 PM

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@LoveYourSmile Code Geass is sort of a bad example, because even I like that despite it's numerous flaws. And on first viewing I assumed they were in college...
Also anime is cringe across the board, so it's absolutely an acquired taste.

But why we'd need older characters isn't merely representation or whatever, but having more life experience.
Jun 7, 2024 2:45 PM

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Nobody wants to buy figurines of old hags, so no. Anime will stay with its teenage girl meta.
@BigBoyAdvance "Old hags" is a bit much. I think more characters in their 20's or 30's would be fine. These days they wouldn't look that much different than the teen characters anyway. Look at the characters in Bucket List of the Dead. They're all in their 20's, but they look exactly like high school characters would in any other series. As for actual old characters, I'd be ok with seeing another series staring an elderly mc if it's as batshit as Inuyashiki was.
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Here's an idea. You could watch more varied anime instead of highschool stuff. There are all kinds of anime out there and they've been coming out since the 50s, I'm sure you can find at least 50 without kids.
Jun 7, 2024 2:52 PM

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@LoveYourSmile it's anime so it will be cringe
But like for example Witchblade actually had substance under the cringe.
Jun 7, 2024 3:04 PM
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Spring 2024 anime be like
-Kaijuu 8-gou
-Ookami to Koushinryou: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf
-Sentai Daishikkaku
-Maou no Ore ga Dorei Elf wo Yome ni Shitanda ga, Dou Medereba Ii?
-Jiisan Baasan Wakagaeru
-Re:Monster
-Unnamed Memory
-Bartender: Kami no Glass
-The New Gate
-The Fable
-Tadaima, Okaeri
-Astro Note
and plenty more with adults as a main part of the cast after that. Is this thread supposed to be a joke? It seems to me like you are voluntarily making a decision here and complaining about the decision you made.
Jun 7, 2024 4:22 PM

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@LoveYourSmile not really a traditional harem. The girls compete against each other and relationships get destroyed as the MC decides he'd rather get with someone else, also he treats most of the encounters as casual sex. Towards the end it becomes sort of a love triangle as he gets into more serious relationships with two of the girls.

It kinda starts off as a regular hs slice of life before the sex starts happening. The reason for the low score is probably the end. I won't go into detail but when it was originally airing the finale was canceled/wasn't aired on tv as just before it was supposed to air a 16 yr old girl in Japan killed her father with an axe.

I personally like it and would recommend it as a more realistic version of hs slice of life anime, but it's not for everyone. It's not really meant for you to side with the MC. I look at it as a character study of an immature teenager who finds out he's popular with girls and the possible ramifications of ignoring other people's feelings.

Jun 7, 2024 4:28 PM

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Need more variety in that department...
For sure...
" Kindness can sometimes lead you to trouble. "

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