BatoKusanagi said: Yoko is like 20 or 21 after the time-skip.  She's over 18. She's 500 years old. Yeah, found that a little odd when I saw Index. I thought the teacher was a very smart 6 year old. |
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Age, does it matters in anime? |
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azzuRe said: Age, does it matters in anime? You forgot Jewelery Bonney from One Piece. Not only can she change her own age at will, she can the age of others as well. |
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yhunata said: azzuRe said: Age, does it matters in anime? You forgot Jewelery Bonney from One Piece. Not only can she change her own age at will, she can the age of others as well. Completely forgot about her. Probably because we haven't seen too much of her in OP yet. |
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Yunase said: Best loli ever Scheherazade - Magi  She hasn't shown up in the anime yet, so if you're an anime-only watcher, you might not want to click the spoiler tag. You just reminded me of someone.  Asahina Tomiko from Shinsekai Yori. Guess her age. |
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TakeshiKun said: Also, I haven't really thought about this until now but, is lolicon age, or body type? It's honestly hard to believe that Yoko and others like her could be loli. It's entirely debatable and is properly used to refer to either and/or both, anyone who says one or the other is "right" is simply voicing opinion. TsukiKarui said: Loli would be body type. Age would be pedophilia. Loli in this context is not referring to the idea of being a "lolicon" - but to the girl as a "loli". In the context, you'd be saying "a little girl is called a pedophilia", and that's hilariously wrong. Also, whether or not loli counts as pedophilia is entirely up to debate, given hentai of underage girls is considered child pornography in many areas of the world and is increasingly being accepted as such. |
TallonKarrde23Mar 9, 2013 1:35 AM
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| It really creeps me out when a girl look like she's nine and yet her "official" age is 16. Especially in shows with fanservice. I know I'm hardly the target audience for them but I just don't get the appeal of someone that looks like a child as a romantic interest. One reason I refuse to watch Honey and Clover is the character design of Hagumi Hanamoto. Yeah, I totally believe she's 18 yo. |
Shinimiras said: One reason I refuse to watch Honey and Clover is the character design of Hagumi Hanamoto. Yeah, I totally believe she's 18 yo. She's drawn that way purposefully to symbolize her weak demeanor and child like mental state. Not "she's so pure" but literally, she's clearly got some kind of mental issues given she's a world renowned prodigy at such a young age and yet can't handle being away from Hanamoto (the teacher, not herself) for more than 10 seconds, nor interact with other human beings without becoming physically ill, and so on. Hell, her closest friend outside of the group is an actual little girl - this is because she doesn't understand how to relate to anyone but children, as her mind never developed past that outside of in the arts. She's drawn small to further exaggerate this by making it so she even looks as weak and young as she is emotionally and mentally. It's not "lol here's a little girl we claim is older!" - it's just symbolism, or rather an exaggeration so that it's constantly in your face that she's basically a child in every way but age. Like how Punpun isn't actually a fucking bird boy. She's not the main character anyway, just one of them. What I mean is, it has a point there - unlike usual. |
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| I personally find a lot of shonen heroes don't look their ages. Like Ichigo from Bleach, he's supposed to be 15, right? Perhaps not as extreme an example as others, but I think he looks way off. Also, Yusuke in YYH as 14, he looks a might older to me. I think most of the Steins;Gate cast is supposed to be in high school or something, but they look like college age at least to me. Okarin in particular looks like a grad student. It doesn't help that they never appear to go to school or anything. All look like 20 somethings to me (except Suzu, who looks younger than her listed age of 18 to me, and Feyris who does look 17 to me) Cromartie High School clearly does this on purpose, though it's exaggerated with Masked Takenouchi, a character the series itself determined was in his 30s yet he passes as a high schooler and as the real Takenouchi to everyone (including the real Takenouchi's parents) despite looking absolutely nothing alike. Of course, everyone in this series looks like they're in their 30s, so an actual 30 something is hardly out of place. No clue on the age of Mechazawa or the Gorillas. There's also an inexplicable mute Freddie Mercury expy who is clearly much older yet still attending high school. Oh and I'm not counting time abyss characters (like Washu from Tenchi Muyo) or really 700 years old (Aang is technically 112 due to the freeze) tropes in this because that's clearly done for story/character reasons usually and isn't some character designer sucking at their job. Or things like Sora from .hack//SIGN (almost certainly an elementary school child) because that's an online avatar for him, so no one's age in that series is likely accurate to the character designs. |
Hagu from Honey and Clover. She was like... 18 years old I believe? Might've been older, forgot. |
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FallnKnightFakir said: I think most of the Steins;Gate cast is supposed to be in high school or something, but they look like college age at least to me. Okarin in particular looks like a grad student. It doesn't help that they never appear to go to school or anything. All look like 20 somethings to me. They are college students aside Mayuri and Rukako. Though, only first years. |
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FallnKnightFakir said: I personally find a lot of shonen heroes don't look their ages. Like Ichigo from Bleach, he's supposed to be 15 Pretty sure he's 17 or 18 post time skip. Could be wrong though. |
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Not counting the supernatural (vampires, demons, etc) that I know of.. 17 years old.  over 50. |
Nequam said: First, you have to note that for a fictional medium, characters can possess any chronological age. The chronological age is almost entirely meaningless. We correlate chronological age with cognitive efficiency, cognitive efficacy, the state of neurological growth, or what we summarize to the extent of observable human growth of an individual, mental age. And that's only because real life works on that principle. In the fictional medium, characters can possess varying life experiences, varying levels of maturity, reactive responses for certain circumstances, etc. So in totality, there is no apparent meaning to assign any purposeful chronological age to any individual in an anime, other than to say, to adapt social standards and values to such individuals such as saying that age gap for that relationship is acceptable or that individual is so immature. What you could debate however is this notion of mental age with respect to that individual. X = 500 years would be entirely meaningless in our context as we have no notion of what such an individual could possibly be with regards to their intellect, notion of life, etc. We can extrapolate base on individuals who are 60, 70, 80 or even 113 years old at best. I really hope you're trolling, otherwise you're trying way too hard to sound smarter than you actually are and should know better than to fluff up what you're saying by filling it with saying absolutely nothing. |
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Yunase said: 28? I'm probably way off, but I assume that you want me to guess because her age is either quite high or quite low. lol You got one digit correct. |
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It's hard to come up with examples that aren't "Character is a magical being with a much greater lifespan than humans". This is a 17 year old. I'm surprised I haven't seen Recorder to Randoseru mentioned already. That show is built on not one, but two examples of this. |
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| I guess the first person to come to mind right now would be Leorio from Hunter x Hunter. They even made fun of it in the anime during the hunter exams. I guess Bisuke would count too but its ability related... |
RLinksoul said: This is a 17 year old. I spat my coffee. |
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| I've noticed a lot of 14 year olds in anime look like they're in their 20's. It gets kinda confusing for me when a highschool student looks older than me >.> By the way while were at it does anybody know the age of Joe from Ashita no Joe? |
EmperorDemonGavaMar 26, 2013 12:26 PM
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| Asian people tend to look young, I always thought my asian classmate was like 18 years old when he was actually 30, lol |
| Because anime fans are pedophiles, but they don't like to admit they're pedophiles. |
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Red_Keys said: Because anime fans are pedophiles, but they don't like to admit they're pedophiles. Depends, I don't like Lolis that much unless they was meant to kick the older ones ass... |
LunaMar 27, 2013 3:20 AM
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| It's not just you, they don't look their age. And it's really sad when some people bring the whole DFC thing to the table. News flash, it's not DFC, if it's a fucking child.... |
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BlackSabotage said: I've noticed a lot of 14 year olds in anime look like they're in their 20's. It gets kinda confusing for me when a highschool student looks older than me >.> That just how anime rolls. It's their art style, and they like it the way it is. |
| Yes lot of them do like Jotaro from jojo bizarre adventure |
Yuidark said: Yes lot of them do like Jotaro from jojo bizarre adventure  17 years old yo. Oh wait, even better |
ShockedMar 26, 2013 11:12 AM
| When I first started Accel World it took me awhile to figure out whether they were in middle school or high school. Also, in Little Busters Kud's mom looked like she was someone around 14 or 15 years old |
| You aren't the first one who thinks that, but yes. |
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 Toshiyori Dango looks his age! YOU ARGUMENT IS INVALID! |
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Ghostony said: image IDK, that seems legit to me. |
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pralan said: Ghostony said: image IDK, that seems legit to me. Considering Yoko is 23 in the image and still looks the same as she was when she was before. Very legit. |
| There are some women especially in Asia who are 18+ and look 10-13, there was an article on Sankaku with that vary example. It's just nowhere near as common as it is in anime. Also the girl in my set is 20 but looks 12. |
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Everyone i know that is 200 years old looks like that. Red_Keys said: Because anime fans are pedophiles, but they don't like to admit they're pedophiles.[/quote Red_Keys said it all. |
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012yArthur0 said: That's a subversive power fetish that wants to see someone that looks weaker than you dominate you. Do you BDSM?Red_Keys said: Depends, I don't like Lolis that much unless they was meant to kick the older ones ass...Because anime fans are pedophiles, but they don't like to admit they're pedophiles. |
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Konik said: BlackSabotage said: I've noticed a lot of 14 year olds in anime look like they're in their 20's. It gets kinda confusing for me when a highschool student looks older than me >.> That just how anime rolls. It's their art style, and they like it the way it is. You're kidding me, Okabe is only 18? |
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