Do you think kids in anime grow up fast?

DarkAngel

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like they act older than their age and sometimes the story gets fast-paced too.
do you think they should slow down?
 
The thing is, many children in anime series have adult-like responsibilities dumped on them. Even more so, in fact. Stuff like saving the world from an alien civilization hellbent on destroying humanity (Gunbuster) would cause any child to rapidly mature. Also, let's consider that most characters are created by adults, and from my observations, most adults have lost their inner child's voice, so the characters are actually behaving more like adults than children.
 
But I see the point that @DarkAngel is saying. Anime children have those responsibilities thrust upon them. I mean, it does make an interesting story, the characters need conflict, and sudden responsibility is an easy internal conflict to build characters with.
 
Because.. it's battle shonen lol
Let's be honest, japanese shonen thingy (anime, manga, video game) is still trapped by the idea of 'oh let's make the main protagonist relatable with the audiences' and let's be real majority of shonen thingy is kids, teens, and young adults. So.. yea it was to be expected the main proragonist would be kids or teenager, MEANWHILE.. they develop a story that supposed to be applied to an adults, and what happened next is.. they just didnt care, just put the kids or teenager main protagonist into a plot that supposed to be for adults, no one would care anyway

This is where japanese anime/manga lost to western comic. Western comic have characters like Batman, Wolverine, Iron Man, Hulk.. they are not kids or teenagers but kids and teenagers still love them, they didnt have to relatable by age with their audiences and it works perfectly. I think japanese author should learn about this and not repeating the same formula for decades
 
True. But let's also look at the flip side.
I enjoy anime more than I enjoy comic's made into movies/shows, because of the absurdity that anime embraces. Western comic-book superheroes are fairly serious-- sure there's humor, but it's different, it's not as... immature. And I think it's that immatureness that attracts a lot of people to the medium of anime. One of the core philosophies of anime is it's an art form of exaggeration. And having children behaving with the moral compass of adults, is quite exaggerated, if you ask me. Perhaps this borders on being a trope in and of itself?
 
MoonlightShadow said:
Because.. it's battle shonen lol
Let's be honest, japanese shonen thingy (anime, manga, video game) is still trapped by the idea of 'oh let's make the main protagonist relatable with the audiences' and let's be real majority of shonen thingy is kids, teens, and young adults. So.. yea it was to be expected the main proragonist would be kids or teenager, MEANWHILE.. they develop a story that supposed to be applied to an adults, and what happened next is.. they just didnt care, just put the kids or teenager main protagonist into a plot that supposed to be for adults, no one would care anyway

This is where japanese anime/manga lost to western comic. Western comic have characters like Batman, Wolverine, Iron Man, Hulk.. they are not kids or teenagers but kids and teenagers still love them, they didnt have to relatable by age with their audiences and it works perfectly. I think japanese author should learn about this and not repeating the same formula for decades
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this makes a lot of sense. why should they have such heavy responsibilities? they are kids and they are volatile and fragile lol. why would anyone would think at a complicated age, teenagers would step up to save the world?
 
Senkusha said:
True. But let's also look at the flip side.
I enjoy anime more than I enjoy comic's made into movies/shows, because of the absurdity that anime embraces. Western comic-book superheroes are fairly serious-- sure there's humor, but it's different, it's not as... immature. And I think it's that immatureness that attracts a lot of people to the medium of anime. One of the core philosophies of anime is it's an art form of exaggeration. And having children behaving with the moral compass of adults, is quite exaggerated, if you ask me. Perhaps this borders on being a trope in and of itself?
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Well.. i actually enjoy anime and manga more than western comic. I just kinda tired of the concept that the main protagonist must relatable by age with the audiences
 
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