Cid from Final Fantasy 9 was 35?! THIS GUY, with the steely grey beard and glorious regal moustache?! He’s clearly 20 years older than that!
As an adult I thought it was kind of funny that Steiner, at 33, is the designated doddering fussy comic relief old man of the party but this is just nuts.
I keep being confounded by the way Japanese media treats age. 6-21 is prime adventuring age, you’re practically done at 25 and afterwards you should just shuffle off to a retirement home
Yeah as I mentioned in the mega I’m real fuckin’ tired of this bizarre mentality that you get out of high school, you get to be young for like 7 to 12 years, then the remaining 50ish years of your lifespan you’re “old” and you have to feel bad about it. Like what happened to just being a grown-ass adult?
It ain’t just Japan, it’s a brainworm across the whole goddamn internet. It’s sickening; it makes me sad for the people who genuinely feel this way about their own lives and it aggravates me when they spout this mentality because it feels like it’s an assault on my own mindset (and what I thought was the normal, practical and healthy mindset) that aging is part of the experience of being alive, and that there are many benefits to becoming a more mature and enriched person as you encounter more that life has to offer. Personally I have become much more calm, much more capable of focusing, and much more willing to learn things as I have grown.
A) Getting older is the goal, it is (generally) something to be celebrated, not lamented.
B) When you’re not even fucking 50 yet, and you’re crying about being “old”, people in their 60s/70s/80s/etc. will just straight up laugh in your face, because that shit is embarrassing. Cut it the fuck out.
Japanese society is a form of modern slavery. Once you are out of university and a “salaryman”, all your hopes and dreams are crushed. You’re the feodal slave of someone who inherited his wealth and is using the ultra-conservative system to keep you in the same position all of your life.
This is why most Japanese media are all about the power of youth and such…