How do you feel about the age difference between Maika and Dino?
I particularly like that aspect
6.4%
77
I'm fine with the age difference
42.4%
511
I don't like it but it's tolerable
34.1%
411
It's actively hard to watch these parts
17.2%
207
1,206 votes
| Doesn't that make it more enjoyable ? I'm sick of having to see only 15 years old couples , this one is nice and unique |
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| This thread is EXTREMELY weeby. National age of consent in Japan: 13. Effective age of consent in Japan: 18 given laws in the prefectures. However, the relationship in the anime is socially acceptable. Need I point out that anime routinely makes characters aged 13-17 sexually attractive. That's because girls aged 13-17 aren't children, but adolescents, and have developed feminine features that are sexually attractive to males. The Japanese have no qualms pointing out what is actually attractive much to the chagrin of overly self-conscious westerners who get offended about everything and shout pedophilia and rape accusations at every opportunity. Pedophilia is sexual attraction to prepubescent children. Hence anyone finding a teenager sexually attractive is not a pedophile. Rather, they are just being affected by their hormones and their instincts. EXCLUSIVE attraction to early pubescence is hebephilia, to late adolescence is ephebophilia. So seriously, if you have ever seen some girl in the mall and thought "dat ass", but been uncertain about their age, you have nothing to worry about. Thank you and please stop being a mass of pathetic uneducated westerners. EDIT: Also, seriously. There's a loli in the show who is in her 20s, the big breasted character is below 18, and there's a trap character ffs. But this relationship is what people are complaining about? smh |
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| looks ugly. nevermind. |
| It's a bit creepy, to be honest. Ironically, it wouldn't be if Maika was at least 17 like Kaho (though it might just be my personal opinion). What makes this coupling the most cringey is the fact that not only is Maika 16 and has a 10-year difference with Dino, HE'S ALSO HER BOSS. It's still a fun series to watch (esp. Kaho x Akizuki moments) but imagining this scenario IRL creeps me out. |
| I thought it was just me but I’m happy others think it as well. I almost dropped the anime seeing that. But they didn’t get together so I’m ok |
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| nooooooo, maika is one for all |
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| Before you ask these kinds of questions, you have to ask yourself, what has made you consider it creepy and/or uncomfortable. How were those preconceived biases formed and do they have any rational basis or is it all irrational? I find that constantly questioning yourself will allow you to realize that many things we were brought up to believe in, culture, ethics, traditions, morals, etc... are nothing but one of the myriad ways in which we humans can conduct ourselves. Besides, I've always found age limits and age restrictions to be absolutely inane. Different people mature at different speeds and there are as many mature 16-year-olds as there are immature 26-year-olds. Generalizations do nothing but constrain our thinking and allow us to superimpose our own biases and assumptions onto others, resulting in stereotyping and in worst cases leading to stigmatization and discrimination. People become way too obsessed with numbers and statistics, generalizing to the point that we forget that there are real people who do not fit neatly into those categories. ...besides, how on Earth is 20+ too old to date teenagers? I mean... 30+/40+, you may have a point. But 20+? |
| >implying the age difference doesn't make it BETTER my fetish is blessed season 2 when |
| Having this whole anime revolving around their 'romance' honestly ruined it for me. Not to mention in one of the episodes, the kitchen dude calls the manager out for 'hitting on high-school girls in broad daylight', although Maika is still in high-school? What sort of twisted logic is that. sofabulous said: >implying the age difference doesn't make it BETTER my fetish is blessed season 2 when Weird fetish, but I ain't judging. |
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| Nope, I'm okay with it. Probably because my parents are 10 years apart. Yes, 10 years is a big difference. But, if that "10 years gap" is the problem, people just complaining because she's 16. Like someone already said, if she was 26 and Dino 36, people wouldn't have a single problem with it. So imo, it's not really the age difference, but the fact that she's still a teenager. and the fact that their difference in height is just hilarious. |
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| I am fine with them being together |
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| And then they still wonder why do feminist exists. |
| The older a couple gets, the less weird it becomes. |
| The reason why it's weird is that Dino would have so much more life experience. Dino has started a business overseas from his home country and maika is just entering high school. Anything that would be important to maika would seem pedantic to Dino. Thier relationship is only built on sexual attraction and that' fine I guess but it's not the kind of tender relationship that makes shows like this appealing to me. It's also weird that they fetishize each others race. |
Tapertrain said: The reason why it's weird is that Dino would have so much more life experience. Dino has started a business overseas from his home country and maika is just entering high school. Anything that would be important to maika would seem pedantic to Dino. Thier relationship is only built on sexual attraction and that' fine I guess but it's not the kind of tender relationship that makes shows like this appealing to me. It's also weird that they fetishize each others race. Sexual attraction? Have you watched the show? There's basically none of that. |
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| It's not the age difference for me, the guy's just fking annoying. |
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| If anything it made me enjoy the show more. It took me out of their romance, so I didn't really care that it was the same old will they won't they (but they never will) nonsense that essentially every anime like this does so I wasn't invested in that pairing and focused on the charm of the show more. |
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Kittens-kun said: Tapertrain said: The reason why it's weird is that Dino would have so much more life experience. Dino has started a business overseas from his home country and maika is just entering high school. Anything that would be important to maika would seem pedantic to Dino. Thier relationship is only built on sexual attraction and that' fine I guess but it's not the kind of tender relationship that makes shows like this appealing to me. It's also weird that they fetishize each others race. Sexual attraction? Have you watched the show? There's basically none of that. I've watched more of the show and now i agree with you. There were just one or two episodes that got a little weird. |
| Honestly I'm not THAT bothered since 16 is commonly a legal age, in Japan too, and they aren't in a serious relationship? To me, he likes Maika like a person likes a cute dog and not in a sexual way so it doesn't really freak me out. If they did go onto have a series relationship though, I would be a bit iffy on it. |
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Magito said: That's okay. I mean Its normal to date at her age. She and Dino aren't too far apart. They are 26 and 16. Dino also has so much more life experience than her. |
Tapertrain said: Magito said: That's okay. I mean Its normal to date at her age. She and Dino aren't too far apart. They are 26 and 16. Dino also has so much more life experience than her. In love, it doesn't matter. |
peh-soh-nah said: This kind of has to do with both the show and my own personal issues. I think the show is good and all the aspects of it are enjoyable except for one. The Dino and Maika subplot and more significantly the age difference between them. Maika is 16 and Dino is 26. I don't know about you guys but this kind of takes me out of the show. When I should be enjoying the characters, that are fun, whenever Dino is doing something somewhat romantic with Maika, I can only think of how creepy it is and it is really hard to enjoy that specific subplot. The way the show handles it is especially weird because Maika's high school friends and family aren't only ok with it but kinda support it, and the other cafe workers sometimes wingman for Dino. So, for a while I thought this was some weird version of the world where teenagers dating people in their 20's was just a normal thing. But at the same time, Dino gets arrested one episode for being creepy with a minor or something which leads me to believe that this is illegal in this world, which makes it worse. I know people are gonna say "who cares if its fictional" but its hard for me not to get "older superior tries to get with a high school worker" vibes even if they make Dino out to be kind of pathetic. Anyone else feel the same or have differing thoughts about this. peh-soh-nah said: I was thinking the same thing, although Dino is a fun character but I don't approve of him constantly drooling over Maika.This kind of has to do with both the show and my own personal issues. I think the show is good and all the aspects of it are enjoyable except for one. The Dino and Maika subplot and more significantly the age difference between them. Maika is 16 and Dino is 26. I don't know about you guys but this kind of takes me out of the show. When I should be enjoying the characters, that are fun, whenever Dino is doing something somewhat romantic with Maika, I can only think of how creepy it is and it is really hard to enjoy that specific subplot. The way the show handles it is especially weird because Maika's high school friends and family aren't only ok with it but kinda support it, and the other cafe workers sometimes wingman for Dino. So, for a while I thought this was some weird version of the world where teenagers dating people in their 20's was just a normal thing. But at the same time, Dino gets arrested one episode for being creepy with a minor or something which leads me to believe that this is illegal in this world, which makes it worse. I know people are gonna say "who cares if its fictional" but its hard for me not to get "older superior tries to get with a high school worker" vibes even if they make Dino out to be kind of pathetic. Anyone else feel the same or have differing thoughts about this. I think it is wrong for old guys like him to get it on with a girl 10 years younger than him ( I hate anime like these, reason I don't watch them). |
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| I knew people was going to be bothered by it. But it's irrational. There's no logic behind two people not being able to be together because of age. Many people at her age goes on dates. What's wrong with loving someone of a different age? It's just a stupid number. Furthermore they aren't even doing anything particularly sexual and it's more comedy than romance. The anime is also self-aware of the legal implications anyways. The only reason I would oppose of someone's romance(assuming its mutual) is if they are old enough to make decisions. Depending on how mature they are, I'm plenty fine with it. 16 imo is a bit young, but age doesn't necessarily determine mental maturity. Ideally 25 is when your brain fully develops, though we all know you don't need to be 25 years of age to make good decisions. I know plenty of people that married with 10 year age difference. In fact these 10 year difference relationships seems to work better than the ones where both are of similar age. none of the people I knew with large age gap ever had relationship issues. Meanwhile those of similar age seem to have drama after drama. A little side note. Societal views are retarded anyways. A 16 and 22 year old is already considered 'big difference' by many. Yet that difference is apparently 'normal' when you are 32 and 38. You people only think it's weird because society split age groups a lot more when you are young. 1-4 as babies. 5-6 are preschoolers. 6-12 are kids. 13-15 are pubescent preteens. 15-18 as teenagers, and 18-21 as young adults. Then you have 22-50 as adults. Older becomes elders. The problem you all have is that you judge based on the social/age groups and not the actual number. If I were to say a highschooler dated a middleschoolers, I'm confident many would crap their pants until I reveal that it is a middleschool senior and a highschool freshmen. But we can tell people don't think that way anyways. Evidently most romance you ever see are two people of similar "age' or more correctly "age group." Highschoolers date highschoolers. Middleschoolers date middleschoolers. Adults date adults, despite the latter having a much larger age range than any of the former two. Yet no one complain that two adults could potentially have as much as 20 year age difference. Anyways, in this case she is 16, she's actually legal in some prefecture. If not, she can wait 2 more years and pretty much all prefecture is legal. Tokyo have age of consent at 17. Seriously, they aren't even doing anything, if they plan to, they can just wait a year. But they don't need to since he have a purely romantic and not sexual interest in her. Also, ignore sex, she is legally capable of marriage as long she have parental consent. Which I don't see a huge problem since they guy is obviously nice and caring. He also is capable of taking care of her. |
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| Not really. It's only ten years. In real life, I know couples with an even bigger age gap of 20 to 30 or even more years. I ship them, they're cute. It's better than Akira (16 to 17) from Koi wa Ameagari no You ni and her crush on her 45-year-old manager and the fucking mess that was Usagi Drop where he basically married a child he raised. |
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| It feels weird but yeah animes maker can still say "hmhm yeah she's 18.." with a loli chara design (which is f*cking pityful) and then saying dino is 18 as well when he looks like 25 |
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| I wouldn't say I found it creepy per se since nothing happened, but it was unnerving to watch a 26-year-old man trip over himself trying to flirt with a 16-year-old girl. |
| The most amusing part was reading all those comments from people who; a) have absolutely no clue about the law, neither specifically japan related nor otherwise. b) clearly never encountered real and healthy relationships when they were in their teen years. Otherwise those comments couldn't be explained. I remember back in secondary school, a girl in my class around the age of 15y dating a guy in his late 20s - and for what I've seen about it, it was a rather 'healthy' relationship and her parents knew about it. I started dating one of my girlfriends when she still was 14y/o while I was 20 and she was dating a guy before me who was a few years older. And 2-3 years later - after a breakup - we got together again and were so for ~10 years. To be honest; she basically always was more mature than I was - at least in some regard - and that was true from the beginning. ^^ 16 & 26 might seem a bit much ON PAPER - but the reality of things simply is, that it doesn't matter AND is a rather common occurence in most regions of the world. And it was even more 'common' just a few decades ago - so you people should pick up a bit from 'real life' and especially stop judging things from a puritan point of view based on US laws. You might ask yourself why it is that 'teens' in the US are treated like kids until they're 18 or even 21 - while young people around the world get released into adulthood 4-6 years earlier without much of a problem. But if you rather don't want to make up your mind and ignore reality - please feel free to post your unreflected opinion to 'age of consent' and similar here - because there is quite something funny in watching you - it's somewhat like following those self-proclaimed 'lawyers' that are on the 'kick vic' case - they also like talking like they're specialists... ^^ ...a kid... ...which she is Well apparently not. You might consider opening a certain book and do your research on what the word 'kid' ACTUALLY describes - because it seems like it isn't describing what you think it is. |
| The age things isn't an unusual thing in Japan. Also everyone saying She's underage has to remember, the USA is not everywhere. In Japan I'm not sure of the rules, I think there are specific rules for if they are in a commited relationship etc. But in the UK the age of consent is 16, so she's fair game and he's not that old. Plus all of the activity in the show amounts to courting. Hideri is best girl anyway. |
| Wow, I wasn't even aware of this. Thought he was 18-20. |
| In real life, i kinda meh with that shitty relations. It felt wrong at any place, especially by moral aspect. However, since this is Anime about the cute thing, that bait was an understandable. It quite tolerable too when they made the twos part dumb af not knowing the continuity of their romantic relations. I guessed this show had a nice direction to put that as a bait. Only salty people take that shit into a serious manner. Lol |
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