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A teen detective? Is he some kind of child prodigy to have already started working? That being said, I always wonder why animes always have the main characters being in their teens or early twenty's. They depict those who are in their late twenty's as being ancient and near their twilight. Granted I don't watch many animes unlike many people here, but the ones I've seen have the main characters being really young and already doing adult stuff like Evangelion and Attack om Titan. People in their 30s and middle age people are sidelined as if they are pensioners. There are only few fully grown and mature adults who gets the spotlight.
The fanbase includes enough adults to make you forget that the target demographic for most anime is kids/teens.
I don't mean that negatively. Don't hate me, ani.social!
The target audience is children.
twenties ? Like, regular pluralization?
Most of the really big anime are shonen[1], meaning the target audience are boys. So the protagonists are also usually boys for relatability. One Piece is the most obvious example. The other demographic groups are shoujo (aimed at girls, e.g. Sailor Moon, The Rose of Versailles) and seinen (men, e.g. Ghost in the Shell, Kingdom, K-On!). There's also the mythic rare josei (women, e.g. Chihayafuru). Also Evangelion is a deconstruction of the whole mecha / kid superhero genre, and is probably not suitable for children.
[1] Technically these categories apply to the manga they're adapted from. Evangelion is classless since it was not adapted from a manga.
Aside from the obvious "the audience we're targeting will attach more to a 15 year old detective or 13 year old world saving hero"
Things like school settings mean an easy way to introduce as many characters you want to come up with, and at the same time, force them to socialize, so that's an infinite pool of plotlines to throw in, for starters. For another, this age range also means you're dealing with a population that is likely to stir up drama because they don't have the tools to handle various issues, they're more vulnerable to new emotions - this one is still valid outside of the school setting for fantasy or mystery settings. In your late 20s and your 30s, you're expected to be more set in your ways, not learn new things, be less of a social disaster, and also not have any way to meet new people outside of the company you work at (which is why that's the other popular slice of life setting). Don't worry about how adults can still be plenty of a mess either way, but the target audience doesn't care about that either.
why? wide demo: young people can identify, older can be nostalgic.
aaaand look at young, often sexualised characters
Couldn't get into Full Metal Alchemist for the same reason tbh