I miss the days when anime protagonists were adults with jobs and who probably paid taxes, rather than 16 year olds with jobs.
Seriously, the trope of a child who's either so powerful and/or so wise that they're working for a governmental institution, or some kind of secret service is tired and not special anymore. I'm in my 30's, it's getting hard to talk about anime without feeling embarrassed and like I'm trying to upsell a child's cartoon, or some child's cartoon that's trying to be edgy by having the main character or people in it in general suffering or dying violently.
I miss the days when anime protagonists were adults with jobs and who probably paid taxes, rather than 16 year olds with jobs.
Seriously, the trope of a child who's either so powerful and/or so wise that they're working for a governmental institution, or some kind of secret service is tired and not special anymore. I'm in my 30's, it's getting hard to talk about anime without feeling embarrassed and like I'm trying to upsell a child's cartoon, or some child's cartoon that's trying to be edgy by having the main character or people in it in general suffering or dying violently.