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100% of the fan service containing shows could just be adult cast. I don't understand why that's so hard. More adult cast shows in general would be nice. Why's everyone gotta be a highschooler, man?
Culturally high school is like this wonderful time of freedom before working age begins.
A lot of these high school shows were watched by me as a high school kid. And living my shit life, they taught me emotional and social things I wasn't gonna learn otherwise. And I finished shows back then knowing even at 18 or 19 they would be obsolete and childish in my life. I was wrong, but I did grow out of anime by about age 22.
But as an adult now? Please make some adult shows. Some of the most intellectually challenging and creative works are centered around 16 year olds. UGH.
I think the idea is that the majority of the consumers and viewers of anime and manga are teenagers. To pull in that audience, the characters would have to be relatively the same age for the audience to relate to those characters.
And for the older audience, it is a form of escapism back to the days of their youth where all they had to worry about was their love life and school exams instead of taxes and toxic work culture and societal norms and their love life.
Teenagers have emotional growth that up the tension/perceived stakes
I guess that does make sense. A lot of dramatic behaviour doesn't fit what how most established adults behave
At the same time, I don't want to see a lot of teen drama. Gimme some more Mushishi, gimme some more ACCA