weird age gaps in romance anime

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Yanderemenhera

ik for monster high age gaps are weird and insane like, draculara is 1600 and her bf, clawd, is 17 but draculara is presented as very much a naive, bubbly high schooler and i'd assume the intention was to make her age almost like a joke, and Frankie Stine is 15 days old but she is obviously intended to be a teen girl who's like, 15 and not a new born baby.

I think occasionally the "agegap" trope could be done in a "ok" way or it's there in a piece of media technically (like monster high, and i'd just say the ghools are all teens and not like, a newborn baby and someone who's technically like, over the age of 65 by a lot T-T)

or it's used to make the viewer uncomfortable almost like a call-out to the trope in general, like in happy sugar life where a character's entire goal in the series is to stop the "relationship" (the dude also want's revenge because the b!tch with his elementary school-aged sister also killed his gf but that's a topic for another day)

but most of the time, it's gross, exploitive slop that's weird and gross.

i'll hear you out if you do like something that has it in there because maybe it's a critic or like, something the people making the show didn't consider how it might come across to the viewer, like with monster high and nothing weird or messed up is going on with the media, but uhh if it's the way it usually is, i'm not gonna be a big fan of you as a person.

Yanderemenhera

@_Izzy_ yeah, this reminds me a lot of draculara and clawd from monster high ngl, I think draculara is from a vampire race that physically and mentally matures extremely slowly or it's just a throw away gag she's 1600 and we as an audience aren't meant to look into it so hard as monster high was intended for children

(idfk what's going on in the new monster high, i'm going off of what I remember from gen 1, back in the 2010's when I was younger)

Forsaknbe

how does he have the mins of a teen if hes lived 600 years? ordoes his like species develop slower, or is it something like dog years or some sht?

Starry_Gaze

@Forsaknbe dogs develop faster 😭

_Izzy_

@Yanderemenhera w monster high ref^^

anyways feel like its plain silly to consider it problematic bc irl we know that shes a teen girl (as i touched on in my original post)
even if shes been around to see earth orbit around the sun 1600 times, shes very much still a child

this is also why i hate the trope of 'i look like a little girl but im actually 500-' bc its always used as a excuse for creepy pdf goon slop:/
obviously when its done to be comedic or maybe even tragic (aging slower then your peers could be devastating for someone whos mentally a child) its cool, it could be used as a good tool for a story, unfortunately its mainly used as a way to justify being a creep

Forsaknbe

@Starry_Gaze i dont think you under standwhat i said or something like dog years meaning like 100 years is equal to like six mb for not clarifying, not saying they develop slower

_Izzy_

@Forsaknbe because hes a kitsune
like a year for a human your a baby but for a year as a fish or smth your a old man

if you watch it hes clearly not a old man lol nor does he act like one, which is why its silly when ppl take the 600 years literally bc fictional species dont age the way humans do

Forsaknbe

@_Izzy_ ty for answering my question, i was jst qurious bc ve never watched inuyasha, also sorry for all my typos its hard to type fastly and acurately on this damn switch keyboard.

_Izzy_

@Forsaknbe im on switch too so i feel you lol

Yanderemenhera

@_Izzy_ goated post right here^^^
exactly why you're on my list of goated bns users