DragonSJG

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We know in anime ages can be absurd but Saint Seiya is the worst offender of this trope.
First, Athena, Saori Kido is 13 but she looks like a grown woman, acts and sounds like one and is the head of her own corporation,

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Now the Bronze Saints, are 13-15 but also look sound and act like grown men. Seiya is 13 and lives alone in a house and Hyoga is 14 and was driving despite Japan's driving age being 18 and in the Next Dimension, Shiryu is raising and adopting a baby at 14

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For Gold Saints, Aiolos is 14 but sounds and looks the same as his 20 year old brother and they were going to make him, a 14 year old, the head of the sanctuary

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The ages of the Silver Saints, who all look sound act like full blown at adults range from 16-19

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Like does kurumada know ages or like what teens look and act like or what?
 

Sargerus

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Counter point: Ryu and Ken in Street Fighter II V

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Find me two 15 years old teenagers that are as ripped as these two
 

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Yep, Aldebaran is 20 and looks 42. current Gold Saints have been in their positions for 10 or more years which is ridiculous to have a 10 year old Gold Saint that looked the same as they are now in their 20s.
All Saint Seiya's age inconsistencies could have been fixed by adding 10 years to every character which is what I do in my head canon, but shonen gonna shonen.
 

Einchy

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Middle school kids in real life:
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Middle school kids in anime right before a battle to the death with a rival middle school:

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Sakaki and Kumamaru from Honou Tokyuji Dodgetanbei. This is a manga about...elementary school kid playing dodge ball. Yes, the 2 guys on top are elementary school kids according to the manga.
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DiipuSurotu

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We know in anime ages can be absurd but Saint Seiya is the worst offender of this trope.
First, Athena, Saori Kido is 13 but she looks like a grown woman, acts and sounds like one and is the head of her own corporation,

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Now the Bronze Saints, are 13-15 but also look sound and act like grown men. Seiya is 13 and lives alone in a house and Hyoga is 14 and was driving despite Japan's driving age being 18 and in the Next Dimension, Shiryu is raising and adopting a baby at 14

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For Gold Saints, Aiolos is 14 but sounds and looks the same as his 20 year old brother and they were going to make him, a 14 year old, the head of the sanctuary

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The ages of the Silver Saints, who all look sound act like full blown at adults range from 16-19

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Like does kurumada know ages or like what teens look and act like or what?
Those are their ages in the manga. The anime visually aged them up and didn't specify any exact age if I recall correctly.
 

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13 year old Baki looks a little silly.

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His 15 year old frenemy Kaoru Hanayama is a little sillier.
 

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I get that they do this to appeal to Japanese teenagers, but is that an assumption on their part? Will teens in Japan really not touch something if the cast is say in their 20s?
 

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I mean yeah, it's way out of reality and crazy age up, but I will take it over when anime and manga go the other way, and it's usually sexualized women, you know the whole "she may look like a 9 year old but it's okay she's really 100 in the lore". I'll take this threads examples over that any day.
 

Curler

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All 14 in middle school when the series starts. Feels like it was the norm then to animate teens to look more like adults. "They are younger, but I want them to look more mature". The opposite is done in recent years...

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Mewzard

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We know in anime ages can be absurd but Saint Seiya is the worst offender of this trope.
First, Athena, Saori Kido is 13 but she looks like a grown woman, acts and sounds like one and is the head of her own corporation,



Now the Bronze Saints, are 13-15 but also look sound and act like grown men. Seiya is 13 and lives alone in a house and Hyoga is 14 and was driving despite Japan's driving age being 18 and in the Next Dimension, Shiryu is raising and adopting a baby at 14



For Gold Saints, Aiolos is 14 but sounds and looks the same as his 20 year old brother and they were going to make him, a 14 year old, the head of the sanctuary



The ages of the Silver Saints, who all look sound act like full blown at adults range from 16-19



Like does kurumada know ages or like what teens look and act like or what?

To be fair, Sagittarius Aiolos looks way younger in the manga:

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I have no idea why he looks so old in the anime.

We did get to see what the Gold Saints looked like 13 years ago (Most of them being between the ages of 7-10):

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As for the driving bit, I'm pretty sure that's an anime only thing. The Bronze Saints ran pretty much everywhere, outside of that time they hopped on Saori's private jet to Greece.

As for Aiolos being planned to be the Pope at 14, keep in mind he was the second oldest Gold Saint that wasn't 200+ years old. You don't have the old Pope retire and get replaced by another guy whose also 200+ years old.

13 years later, the oldest Saints are the Gold Saints in their 20s. The Pope really took his sweet time refilling their ranks.
 
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I would say these two can pass off as 13 year-olds. Rebecca Black was 13 in her infamous "Friday" music video.
Nah man, they look like adults, especially in Omega when her design is the same and she's a mother
Eri from the first movie too, Eris host,
Freya too from Asgard arc and Frey from the second movie
Kurumuda can't draw ages to save his life
All 14 in middle school when the series starts. Feels like it was the norm then to animate teens to look more like adults. "They are younger, but I want them to look more mature". The opposite is done in recent years...

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Apparently she based their designs off runway models
Crystal is worse

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Glad you bring up Sailor Moon because it needs a crossover with Saint Seiya
 
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I mean yeah, it's way out of reality and crazy age up, but I will take it over when anime and manga go the other way, and it's usually sexualized women, you know the whole "she may look like a 9 year old but it's okay she's really 100 in the lore". I'll take this threads examples over that any day.
Same here, I hate that trope so damn much and its pandering pedos
 

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All this could be explained by having Mitsumasa Kido be Zeus in disguise, I believe at least in the manga he is the father of all these kids, which would be on brand for the head of Olympus
 

Mewzard

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All this could be explained by having Mitsumasa Kido be Zeus in disguise, I believe at least in the manga he is the father of all these kids, which would be on brand for the head of Olympus

Oh, it's even worse.

He fathered 100 kids, grabbed them all as orphans that were treated like crap, and sent them off at the age of 7 to train to be Saints, warriors of Athena...only 10 of them made it to being Saints. The other 90...not so much.

Yeah, I'd buy it if he was Zeus taking a human form.
 

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Always add 5-10 years to every anime age

Always add 2-5 years to every western cartoon age
 

Woozies

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Eh, I dunno
Giorno is 15 anyway
My guy, you dob't shoot up like 3 feet with those age gaps.

If Giorno was 12 or even 14, sure. There are a lot of 15 year olds who look older than some 21 year olds. Is it a perfect science? No

Jotaro is an issue cause he looks like a GREEK GOD, but most people in jojo look like that before the significant art change.
 

Curler

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Apparently she based their designs off runway models
Crystal is worse

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Glad you bring up Sailor Moon because it needs a crossover with Saint Seiya

Makes sense why the designs were skinny and lanky, and Crystal being based off the manga art.

I would also like a Seiya x Moon crossover in some form :x
 

DiipuSurotu

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I just realized Seiya and Athena being that young makes the end of the Heaven Chapter Overture movie kind of... ehhh awkward
 
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