Currently middle aged and extremely frustrated that there's very little anime explicitly for adults. I just want characters in their thirties doing stuff ffs. Like half the genres in anime and manga, especially some of the romance and slice of life stuff, just doesn't exist in western shows and movies. I love stories where people just kind of live their lives and there's no plot and you just get to go along with them for a little while and that's almost unheard of in western movies, shows, or literature. Like there are legit maybe half a dozen genuine low stakes slice of life sci fi books in English and three of them are by the same author.
The closest you can get, for the most part, are sitcoms and rom coms, both of which tend to be absolutely gross in how they depict relationships and sexuality. Like seriously just give me one Hayao Miyazaki movie about divorcees in their 40s meeting and falling in love and I'll shut up.
I actually feel similarly (though not slice of life stuff; I'm really not into those); it's getting kind of annoying that most characters are teenagers. I'm not saying I need to see a character pay his taxes or go to his office job, but adults don't think or act like teenagers, and you can have characters who are married with kids (I don't think I know of any anime with a protagonist who's an adult, married and has kids). The story dynamic is just different.
Currently middle aged and extremely frustrated that there's very little anime explicitly for adults. I just want characters in their thirties doing stuff ffs. Like half the genres in anime and manga, especially some of the romance and slice of life stuff, just doesn't exist in western shows and movies. I love stories where people just kind of live their lives and there's no plot and you just get to go along with them for a little while and that's almost unheard of in western movies, shows, or literature. Like there are legit maybe half a dozen genuine low stakes slice of life sci fi books in English and three of them are by the same author.
The closest you can get, for the most part, are sitcoms and rom coms, both of which tend to be absolutely gross in how they depict relationships and sexuality. Like seriously just give me one Hayao Miyazaki movie about divorcees in their 40s meeting and falling in love and I'll shut up.
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I actually feel similarly (though not slice of life stuff; I'm really not into those); it's getting kind of annoying that most characters are teenagers. I'm not saying I need to see a character pay his taxes or go to his office job, but adults don't think or act like teenagers, and you can have characters who are married with kids (I don't think I know of any anime with a protagonist who's an adult, married and has kids). The story dynamic is just different.