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Anyone feel like the Dino x Maika age difference makes it hard for you to enjoy the show?

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How do you feel about the age difference between Maika and Dino?
I particularly like that aspect
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I'm fine with the age difference
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I don't like it but it's tolerable
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It's actively hard to watch these parts
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Aug 24, 2020 8:36 AM
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Y’all realize the age of consent is different in Japan right? Westerners really need to stop pushing their biased morality on something culturally different than they were brainwashed to believe. Just because today’s western social media is obsessed with deeming anyone a millisecond under 18 a helpless little baby and anyone remotely attracted to those mentioned a pedo, doesn’t mean the rest of the world sees it that way.
Sep 7, 2020 1:56 AM
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I’m not saying i’m against it or anything but i just think it’s a bit weird that dino is 26 and is interested in a highschool student, maika. the 10 year age gap is pretty big honestly.
Sep 7, 2020 2:02 AM

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I really don't really care all that much about age differences in fiction tbh, so Maika x Dino and Kaho x Akizuki are both fine with me.
Sep 12, 2020 12:30 PM
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mounferno said:
Kagami said:


Why are we bringing up America in an anime not set in America, but Japan?
in Japan its ilegal Have i crushed your dreams


It might be ilegal for them to have sex, but honestly, this is not taking very seriously in Japan. This kind of relationship would not be uncommon or condemned. I am not saying I agree, but that is the reality of the situation.
Sep 19, 2020 9:25 AM
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I don't have a problem since it focuses on comedy and isn't serious at all
Oct 18, 2020 1:14 AM
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I had shipped both of them before finding out their age gap. After searching their ages, I felt a bit guilty that I shipped them. Age of consent in Japan though was 16 for females so that made me a bit relieved. Still a bit weirded out by it though.
Jan 26, 2021 9:27 PM
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In Japan the age of consent is 13 so I have nothing wrong with it but I cant say I exactly like it.
Jan 28, 2021 2:55 PM

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personally I don't care about the age difference. Mainly because it isn't portrayed in a malicious or predatory way.
For example, if Dino was using his superior social standing and status as the manager to try force a relationship, then it would be weird. But it's pretty much entirely comedic and wholesome, so who cares?
there's also the fact that he doesn't act like a 26 year old at all, most age in anime is bs as the characters 80% of the time don't even act the age they're meant to be.
Jan 29, 2021 7:12 PM
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It super makes me uncomfortable! What is wrong with the majority of these commenters?? A 16 yr old who basically *just* got out of middle school dating a 26 yr old is fine for you guys??
I know a lot of you Americans are used to seeing teenage girls dating older men, but just because it's become somewhat normalized doesn't mean it's right. And this is not a "let people love who they love" sort of deal, this is giving big pedo-in-denial vibes. A teenager is on a completely different stage than an adult, obviously. Teens, for the most part, are still developing not only physically, but emotionally too.
Even as a 19 yr old I'd feel weird about dating a 26 yr old, JEEZ!!
And I know this is mostly a comedy, but depictions of relationships like these shouldn't be allowed, let alone normalized.
And just because it's legal in Japan doesn't make it any less revolting. Like I want you to really think about a 13 yr old (basically a child) dating a grown ass adult, a kid dating someone that pays their own bills, someone that is well past puberty, it's gross.
Shame on all of you that think this is okay, you're gross and you need to really take a look at yourself and contemplate on why you think the way you do.
A child/teenager cannot consent to being with an adult, fuck you.
Jul 2, 2021 10:23 PM

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Op here is a piece of life advice, step away from mal, go outside and touch some grass. While you are at it you might also realise reality and fiction aren't the same.

And then touch some more grass.

All weebs creatures of the galaxy, hear this message. Those of you who listen will not be struck by western animation. You will no longer know hunger, nor pain. Your Anime have come to lead you now. Our strength shall serve as a luminous sun toward which all intelligence may blossom. And the impervious shelter beneath which you will prosper. However, for those who refuse our offer and cling to their western animation ways… For you, there will be great wrath.
Jul 4, 2021 7:35 PM
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Paul said:
The age of consent in Japan is 16 as far as I remember.
*looks at Maika's page*
16.

Funny too since I started reading Takane to Hana which has the exact same ages for the male and female leads.

It’s not 16, it’s 18. This would indeed be illegal in Japan.
It’s only below 18 in one place, which has a population of 0.
Jul 10, 2021 4:50 PM

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Irish_Chick said:
I just... ugh, its really taken the shine off this series for me, and now everything is just smeared with an extra thick layer of paedophile creepiness.


I know this is like 4 years old at this point but paedophilia is specifically an attraction to prepubescent children. At most he'd be an ephebophile.
Jul 14, 2021 12:43 PM
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To be honest, for me it doesn’t really matter if she is okay with that since love has no age. I agree with the fact that some people may find that weird and hard to accept because of the very big age gap but I honestly love the comic romantic interaction between them, I found that really cute >3<
Aug 9, 2021 12:26 PM
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dino x maika honestly makes it hard for me to enjoy the show, no matter what the age of consent is in japan it’s still hella weird for me.
Sep 19, 2021 8:50 PM

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Real life have more age gap than Dino and Maika, wtf
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Sep 30, 2021 11:41 PM
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Girls can marry at age 16 in japan if the family gives there approval. Guys have to wait till 18. Which is pretty confusing but that's how it is over there.
Oct 1, 2021 12:03 AM

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Delgear said:
Girls can marry at age 16 in japan if the family gives there approval. Guys have to wait till 18. Which is pretty confusing but that's how it is over there.


They can only marry boys around their own age, same with boys, but they can't marry legal adults who are 21+.
Oct 1, 2021 12:32 AM
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MoonStar9 said:
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Girls can marry at age 16 in japan if the family gives there approval. Guys have to wait till 18. Which is pretty confusing but that's how it is over there.


They can only marry boys around their own age, same with boys, but they can't marry legal adults who are 21+.



Who Can Get Married in Japan? Article 731 to 737 of the Japanese Civil Code stipulates the following requirements: The male partner must be 18 years of age or older and the female partner must be 16 years of age or older. A person who is under 20 years of age cannot get married in Japan without a parent's approval.
Oct 1, 2021 12:40 AM
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You want to talk gross my cousin married a 45 year old man with no money or job and she was 18 with no money or job. Then had a baby.
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Delgear said:
MoonStar9 said:


They can only marry boys around their own age, same with boys, but they can't marry legal adults who are 21+.



Who Can Get Married in Japan? Article 731 to 737 of the Japanese Civil Code stipulates the following requirements: The male partner must be 18 years of age or older and the female partner must be 16 years of age or older. A person who is under 20 years of age cannot get married in Japan without a parent's approval.


This is all true, however, they cannot marry people over the age of 20 because of age of consent laws. I shouldn't have said 21 in my earlier post. I meant 20. The legal age of an adult in Japan is 20-years-old. Anybody under the age of 20 needs parental approval and can legally only marry people under the age of 20 and over the age of 16 - 18 depending on the prefecture.

Delgear said:
You want to talk gross my cousin married a 45 year old man with no money or job and she was 18 with no money or job. Then had a baby.


There isn't a limit to the number of things that can be gross.
Nov 29, 2021 7:41 PM
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Dino x Maika is more like a comedic couple than romantic, the gap age only make better because of jokes.
Dec 2, 2021 4:04 AM
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Dino did not act entirely like a 26 year old though
thought the two were at a similar level of maturity
Jan 9, 2022 5:21 PM

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It annoys me only because scenes with him and her and his dumb flirting is by fair the most boring part of the already average show Dino is not funny or interesting and none of the jokes land and it just takes time away from better characters.
Jan 17, 2022 10:24 AM
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TheDoggoneGirl said:
I'm fine with the age difference. I think I just found out last week that Dino is 26 and Maika is 16, and me shipping them two didn't change one bit. 10-year gap ain't a big deal in the West, tbh, and even in Asia. Jesus. It's 2017, people. Let people love who they love.

*waits for someone to call me a pedophilia advocate* Fuck off.
that is literally pedophilia
Jan 27, 2022 9:42 PM
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Intolerable and awkward.

I barely managed to finish the anime--utterly disgusting.

Jan 28, 2022 3:57 AM
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I don't like it but I don't really care.
Jan 28, 2022 8:07 PM

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These replies are really creepy tf thinking its perfectly fine for grown ass adults to be dating underage teenagers
Mar 14, 2022 7:55 PM

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its literal pedophilia. it makes me rlly uncomfortable to watch but i want to stick around for the other parts..i cannot stand dino.
Mar 15, 2022 7:19 AM

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I like this show even less now. if you guys think it's okay for a twenty-something year old guy to date a sixteen year old because the 'Japanese law' says so (not really) then you're really messed up. in my shithole of a country, gown up men are marrying 12-13 year olds because the law doesn't have a problem with it, this is what you're defending if you're going with the "law" argument, so congratulations.
Mar 15, 2022 2:25 PM

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Yep.. It partially ruined the whole show. This could have been easy 9/10 without Dino.
Oct 31, 2022 1:28 AM
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If it would show her going off to study in another country and then coming back being 19 or 20 then starting a relationship with him, it would probably have less people bitching about age. But as it stands it's fucked up. They should of made him 19 or 20 to make it less Epstienish
Nov 16, 2022 8:50 PM
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Back when I was 30 I was dating a 17 year old so it doesn't bother me at all. I think people are stupid who get offended by it, lol
Nov 16, 2022 9:26 PM
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xtachis said:
TheDoggoneGirl said:
I'm fine with the age difference. I think I just found out last week that Dino is 26 and Maika is 16, and me shipping them two didn't change one bit. 10-year gap ain't a big deal in the West, tbh, and even in Asia. Jesus. It's 2017, people. Let people love who they love.

*waits for someone to call me a pedophilia advocate* Fuck off.
that is literally pedophilia


Pedophilia is attraction to someone who hasn't started puberty, dumb ass
Dec 4, 2022 4:04 AM
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That age is very discomforting. The fact that he is 26 and she 16. This is like an adult and an underage woman being ship
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