Canonical character ages being a decade less than their appearance, behaviour or environment suggests.
If you wrote a story for adults, with characters that behave like adults, in environments and situations that require experience and maturity to navigate… Let alone understand as the viewer.
Anime always skip over the therapy arc that must come after every show in this mold. A 16 year old high school student faces endless life or death battles and kills people/creatures to survive some contrived plot? Yeah, that is going to take years to live normally again afterwards.
Canonical character ages being a decade less than their appearance, behaviour or environment suggests.
If you wrote a story for adults, with characters that behave like adults, in environments and situations that require experience and maturity to navigate… Let alone understand as the viewer.
Why the fuck are they always 12-17 regardless?
Anime always skip over the therapy arc that must come after every show in this mold. A 16 year old high school student faces endless life or death battles and kills people/creatures to survive some contrived plot? Yeah, that is going to take years to live normally again afterwards.
Except when they include the when-the-trauma-goes-untreated-arc.
Get in the robot shinji.
GET IN YOUR FUCKING MOMMY ROBOT, YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHINJI.