[ SECRET POST #6571 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6571 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

True, but 17 and 28 (IIRC) is still an iffy age gap in hindsight when you realize the mangaka was a nonce.

[(Anonymous)]

Same age as my parents when they got married.

[(Anonymous)]

The age gap is iffy, but the manga does take place during the 1800s. IIRC None of his other manga had age gaps like that.

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

I was mainly being glib and gallows humor-y with that comment, but in seriousness: Call it iffy if you like, but that's honestly such a standard age gap in manga, and even Western literature, that you really can't use it as a sign of anything.

Hell, in Sailor Moon Usagi's 14 at the beginning and Mamoru is in college. That's way iffier realistically even if the age gap is somewhat smaller. 17 makes you legally an adult in many countries, 14 is still too immature to date at all in some cases.

Re: AYRT

[ariakas]

Sailor Moon's an interesting one because in the original manga, Mamoru's 16 and still in high school. A two year age-gap in junior high/high school wasn't all that weird in my experience; if anything a lot of younger teenage girls would have been proud to date a Cool, Mature high school boy.

The anime aged him up to 18 because of the things he does in the story, especially in the first season (his degree of independence, constantly staying out at night, disappearing for weeks with no adult supervision/nobody looking for him/not doing his homework) and how that would be construed as a bad morals/a bad influence for a minor. Which is funny, because now, as a dude in college dating a girl in junior high, he comes of as waaaaaay skeezier/morally questionable to much of the international audience. I was a tween myself when I first got really into Sailor Moon and my parents were so disturbed by this that my otherwise extremely emotionally distant father sat me down to have a talk about "what it means" if an adult man takes an interest in me and how dangerous they are, and far from the Cool, Mature high school boy reaction, any college dude hitting on our group of friends came off as Yikes Tell The Teacher creepy as all get-out, not a dreamy prince lmao. I remember thinking Mamoru was emotionally stunted or a weirdo or maybe kind of regrets the whole reincarnation/destined love thing and would rather be with a girl his own age, hence the bad attitude. Usagi's his ticket to be king of the earth though, so he holds his nose and waits until she grows up.

[(Anonymous)]

da

I am so over the idea that we need to nanny fictional 17 year olds and refrain from shipping them if their equally fictional partner has gone around the sun too many additional times, according to ... somebody. Regardless of "what the mangaka was."

[(Anonymous)]

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I'm not an antishipper, i just expressed discomfort in a "hindsight is 20/20" way. As a fictional ship it's fine because it isn't real.

[(Anonymous)]

It really wasn't an unusual age gap at all when it comes to actual historical accuracy, though.