What's wrong with older main protagonist?

Silver_Fox

Silver_Fox

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Do you realized that most of mainstream anime/manga main protagonist is kid or teen or young man? yeah.. they usually not older than 30

I wonder why is this happened? What's wrong with older main protagonist? Even main protagonist that supposed to be old given childish trait (Goku) to make them uh.. like a kid/teen. Is younger main protagonist really that appealing? Is older main protagonist really that boring?

To be honest i found it bit difficult to answer this to myself, but somehow i feel that this has something to do with the audiences demographic which is directly affected taste and image of 'ideal hero' but i could be wrong. I need to give this topic more thought
 
you will change that opinion if you watch inuyashiki.
but i understand why you think old people aren't featured in many anime
 
Blackangel said:
you will change that opinion if you watch inuyashiki.
but i understand why you think old people aren't featured in many anime
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I know Inuyashiki. That's the only series with old main protagonist i know so far, well.. bit too old to be honest haha..
 
Silver_Fox said:
I know Inuyashiki. That's the only series with old main protagonist i know so far, well.. bit too old to be honest haha..
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not too old
not too young
you have too many things to say but i understand. i think you will find more manga with old protagonists
 
Blackangel said:
not too old
not too young
you have too many things to say but i understand. i think you will find more manga with old protagonists
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I mean.. i'm okay with main protagonist at their 30's or 40's but that's rare
 
Dragon Ball changed it. In the 80's you had stuff like JoJo and Hokuto no Ken with Kenshiro and Jonathan being these big muscular men and with DB being so popular everything changed basically and you had shonen manga focusing so much on teenagers. I mean look at its contemporaries, YYH and Slam Dunk. Or the ones that followed it: HxH, Naruto, One Piece and Bleach. 
Besides teens are the market for these things so it makes sense.
 
Rurouni Kenshin and Gintama are the only ones I can think of when it comes to shounen. But lots of other anime have adult protagonists, anime that are legitimately popular.
 
MadaraUchiha said:
Rurouni Kenshin and Gintama are the only ones I can think of when it comes to shounen. But lots of other anime have adult protagonists, anime that are legitimately popular.
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Oh yea right.. Kenshin, i don't know Gintama. Well if we talk about protagonists then there's a lot of them, but as main protagonist it's rare
 
Silver_Fox said:
Oh yea right.. Kenshin, i don't know Gintama. Well if we talk about protagonists then there's a lot of them, but as main protagonist it's rare
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It's about what kind of anime you are tackling. Yes the majority have teens as protagonists but even among the ones I've watched there are lots with adults.
 
MadaraUchiha said:
It's about what kind of anime you are tackling. Yes the majority have teens as protagonists but even among the ones I've watched there are lots with adults.
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i forgot about kenshin
call me crazy but i think all the shounen anime got teens and seinen anime got adults as main protagonists
 
Blackangel said:
i forgot about kenshin
call me crazy but i think all the shounen anime got teens and seinen anime got adults as main protagonists
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Yes because that's the demographic they are appealing.

Although lots of seinen have teen protagonists as well, but they are usually 16 or 17 and not 12 or 13.
 
MadaraUchiha said:
Yes because that's the demographic they are appealing.

Although lots of seinen have teen protagonists as well, but they are usually 16 or 17 and not 12 or 13.
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despite being shounen one piece main protagonist got 16 age main protagonist.
luffy is not 12 or 13. i think naruto got bigger at the end.
 
Blackangel said:
despite being shounen one piece main protagonist got 16 age main protagonist.
luffy is not 12 or 13. i think naruto got bigger at the end.
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And Kenshin and Gintoki are adults like I said above. I was giving typical examples, not generalizing for every shonen anime.
 
MadaraUchiha said:
And Kenshin and Gintoki are adults like I said above. I was giving typical examples, not generalizing for every shonen anime.
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i understand.
i just thought most of the main protagonists are 15-18 years of age
 
Blackangel said:
i understand.
i just thought most of the main protagonists are 15-18 years of age
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It really is, only one or two title of mainstream anime had adult main protagonist, the rest is just teen
 
Well, adult life can be mechanical.
I don't think it's very interesting and it's always about people working hard for their careers
 
Star_Of_Hope said:
Well, adult life can be mechanical.
I don't think it's very interesting and it's always about people working hard for their careers
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I mean.. why the author not making Naruto or Luffy adult right from the start? and this is anime, it doesn't have to copy the pattern of actual daily life, they can make lazy or adventurous adult too if they really want
 
Silver_Fox said:
I mean.. why the author not making Naruto or Luffy adult right from the start? and this is anime, it doesn't have to copy the pattern of actual daily life, they can make lazy or adventurous adult too if they really want
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Well, adults have more responsibilities.
Kids are usually energetic and often hyped up for an adventure.
 
Star_Of_Hope said:
Well, adults have more responsibilities.
Kids are usually energetic and often hyped up for an adventure.
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Hm.. age shape personality, interesting, this could be one of the reasons too
 
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