Why do Japanese games demand their protagonists to be so young?

Why do Japanese games demand their protagonists to be so young?

Take dagger for instance. She's only 16, but she has the features and maturity of someone at minimum 18-20. Yes it's only 2 or so years but 16 is when a person starts going through puberty, there is a major change in how a person behaves and looks from 16 to even 18.

Are we supposed to believe Zidane is as popular with women as he claims he is, he's still a fucking child. Give him four more years and we can realistically see him being much more mature.

Fuck even Vivi is originally stated to be 9, that's a fucking baby he acts like a teenager, he should be closer to 16.

Why can't Japs bump the ages up a couple numbers? Would pedos really get that triggered?

the game you are complaining about is very old and times have changed with there being quite a large age range of protagonists today

you're stupid
your thread is stupid

Play games made by leaves. Those are made for your kind.

Look at this young girl

The optimal age for self-insert characters in nipland is 15, so they make that the baseline then everything else a similar age while their actual physiology and mental acuity can be whatever the fuck they need

Most women begin puberty at 13.
Characters are young because the demographic is children and manchilds who yearn for childhood.

>16 is when you start puberty
>t. low test late bloomer

nigga what the fuck took ya so long?

Japs lose all hope when they get older and ends up stuck in one company for the rest of their lives.
Youth is idolized.

Fucking retard murricans.

Hey, some games have grown women in them!

At least Zidane is a great protagonist. Niggers like Squall are the real problem. Then there's the fucking retarded case of Vaan. I think either Balthier or Basch were supposed to be the protagonists but Squeenix forced a random androgynous boy on the role, that might as well have been a paperweight for story-related purposes. The original director for the game even got the fuck out of the project because of that faggotry.

For Square-Enix specifically, it is partially due to Vagrant Story. It had an older protagonist and didn't sell well, so they decided that must be the reason.
That's the reason they replaced the original FFXII protag with Vaan.

Are we supposed to believe Zidane is as popular with women as he claims he is, he's still a fucking child.
No you're not supposed to believe that, that's the whole point, its just something he claims because that's just who he is.
>Vivi is originally stated to be 9, that's a fucking baby he acts like a teenager
Vivi is a doll that was built for destruction, you can't apply the same logic to him, that's like saying a 12 year old dog hasn't hit puberty yet and is still a child.

This has to be bait, who the fuck goes through puberty at 16 you retard? Women start puberty as early as 11.

>16 is puberty
what the FUCK am I reading

Because they want to pretend that they're young again and all that shit. I've seen it explained here a hundred times.
Also girls go through puberty at like 11

>16 is when a person starts going through puberty
Were you homeschooled, OP?

YOU RETARD

People get sexually mature at 16, that's why you fucking inbred American. You can make it illegal for them to have sex until 18, but we reach sexual prowness MANY YEARS before that.

Did some of you faggots not gain boners in the middle of class as early as fucking 14? Well guess what, girls start at that age too. Some even earlier. It's human by human basis.

I was fucking fully erect at age 12 as a kid because I accidentally rubbed one off in the sheets and this triggered an early puberty for me. I was a fully hair legged at 14 and yes, it was embarassing because everyone else in my class were all literal babies still. My voice was deeper and I was also taller, but man did it happen fast.

So don't give me any of this "18" shit. Most of the developed world agree 16 is when it's fine to give goddamn consent. 18 is cruel because by that time most will have sticked their dicks in every thing they can find.

tl;dr - There is LITERALLY NOTHING WRONG with what the Japanese are doing

>16 is when a person starts going through puberty
American education, everybody!

Retarded americans don't like Women in their golden age, 14~17

>tfw started puberty at 11
>looked 25 by the time I was 16

I legit always thought this character was a loli Tifa.
Only played FF3 and 7.

The Japanese word for "teacher" is "sensei">

先 = sen, which means past. 生 = sei, which means life.

The Japanese believe you live your life throughout your youth, and when you are older, your role becomes more of a teacher than anything else.

a numer in character profile is making me nervous i'm triggered the memories of being raped by a pastor are coming back please help

Did someone bully you lad?

Americans have to understand that if she bleeds, she is a woman and is ready to take cocks right in the pussy.

>16 is when a person starts going through puberty

Stop breathing anytime.

At least you look like a man is supposed to be

>Tfw 25 and look 16

Many ancient legends did this too, although there was a more even split between teens and adults and the life expectancy was shit, so there's that.

do you have something you want to share?

I don't think numbers mean shit to Japs. Look at fighting games and height/weight.

not interested in discussing how realistic things are in an fantasy game w/ talking moogles and chocobos

Damn, you really are just stuck on us. Cute.

>16 is when a person starts going through puberty
No it isn't

it's because videogames are meant for children you fucking retard, I think it's time for you to grow up

Tell me who bullies you, ill fight them

>16 is when a person starts going through puberty

How old are you, that this is what you think?

I really like that character

>Questions the age of characters
>In the pedo resort island japan

Isnt age of consent like 12 there

No that's Thailand

13

Some people speed through puberty right at 13. Zidane growing up with a filthy scoundrel group was probably making all sorts of connections in the city it's not really suprising. Even playing it at 8 years old I could relate to it.

Legit question, how old are americans by average when you lose your virginity (>implying)? Most of Europe it's like 16. Also is it a crime if two minors have sex over there?

12

yes

28

Age of consent is set by each prefecture independently, 13 is just the legal federal minimum. That is, no prefecture can set the age of consent lower than 13. But as it happens, every prefecture sets it at at least 16.

On paper its 13 but most of the prefectural laws make it 18. I think the only places still using the 13 laws is Tokyo. They're set up like the US states though, so every prefecture is different about what is the age of consent and all the strings attached.

Because only moralfags won't admit that 16-18 is the peak age of a human being.

Around 16 here too. Also no unless there's enough of an age difference a case for statutory rape/molestation.

>puberty at 16
Maybe years and years ago, but it's around the 9/10-12~ range now, hell I started puberty at 9 myself. I've seen 16 year olds look like 20+ year olds, who would have thought that adding in things to food (and having easier access to food) would do anything to people?
Andt he elevens do it because everyone has been young (well excpet those who are younger, but you get the picture)

I have no idea, people in my country rarely bring up sex in the open.

What a gay

>16 is when a person starts going through puberty
Dumbest post on Sup Forums today

>their most popular game
>protagonist is 21

Real talk Sup Forums.

What did you do when you were 16? Don't tell me you stayed home playing videogames instead of partying, adventuring and enjoying the highpoint of your life?

>She's only 16, but she has the features and maturity of someone at minimum 18-20

OP, I think you need to go out more. High school girls have great bodies, even more so with sports girls.

Was posting on Sup Forums and playing video games

>16 years
>Person starts going through puberty

Americans

>adventuring
How to tell someone is pretending not to be exactly the type of virgin they're describing: the post

>but 16 is when a person starts going through puberty
public education everyone

What a 馬鹿

Maybe you are on to something but FFIX is not a good example of it. I work in the pediatric operating theater and see completely naked girls of all ages daily, and some of the 12 year olds look like 16-18 you would fuck, it's just insane. I can guess their age only after I look into the papers or they start talking.

Also Vivi is a machine set to die early, so we can guess his learning and character maturation is accelerated when you compare it to other humans. And Zidane is not human, so his biochemistry can be off as well.

You keep at it till 18 or so nigger.

>Why would you make the main character the same age as the target demographic

I actually went to parties and shit, but now 7 years later when I should still be doing that I'm not which sometimes hurts desu.

>16 is when a person starts going through puberty

In japan, games are for kids.

What do you mean by life expectancy in ancient times exactly?

Life expectancy after age 5 was actually pretty similar. People just didn't listen to >women and fucked what they wanted.

>I accidentally rubbed one off in the sheets and this triggered an early puberty for me
lol

It's not just a video games thing, it's a Japanese thing. The most popular anime and manga are about people who are high school age. There's a whole genre just about being a kid and going to school.

In the west (the broad, vague west encompassing most of America and Europe) we live in, for lack of a better term, a rather immature world. The biggest political battle of recent years (the American presidency) was defined by internet memes, and people can make a living off of being lazy shits, even those who are working generally don't work particularly hard. I think this directly influences our media and what's popular, older actors are preferred to younger ones and things try to be more serious and mature (try being the operative word). In Japan it's all business all the time, honour and duty and the salaryman working ridiculous hours, so their media, their escapism, has evolved with a larger focus on youth, when they had no such pressures.

No

I live in a shit country. In here you're considered normal only if you're still a kid at 23 but gotten laid at 13.

You're mid-puberty at 16

Embrace it. Become a trap.

At least you look like a young person is supposed to be

>Tfw 23 and balding
It really sucks guys ;_;

Same. I'm almost 30 and I'm "starting to look like a man" I've been told.

And by 25 I had 2 friends freak out about my age not being 18.

>yfw all sjw are this retarded

Would you like to play with hags?

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>tfw started puberty at 10
>was 6'1 and could grow a full beard at 14
>6'5 now and look perpetually 30

tfw you will never look like Garnet

16 is the age of peak fertility for women. After that it's all downwards when at 30 you have a significantly increased risk of birthing Downs retards.

Stop differentiate youth from sexuality. They are closely intertwined. It's more disgusting turning 40+ grannies into sexual characters when their ovaries are just a few years from going completely silent.

>16 is when a person starts going through puberty

>american education

>She's only 16, but she has the features and maturity of someone at minimum 18-20
Wanna know how I know you're a beta virgin with no exposure to girls outside of porn?

What is it that makes Americans such consumer hounds? The star trek battlefront business is the latest in the pattern, but certainly not anything new or unusual. There's the longstanding abusive relationship they have with Comcast. They actually make tv shows about how much they hate comcast, but the notion of not purchasing it is simply not even a concept to them, like a cat trying to read a book.

Right now, there's a huge campaign begging a game company to fix their product so they can give them money. They are so desperate to be parted with their money, they will literally wage war to do it. It's like they aren't just obese in their body from always buying potato chips, but have somehow found a way to become obese in their minds.

Women and men don't really mature much past puberty. I've seen 47 year old women dumber than mice and 17 year olds who are socially and logically skilled. The whole "mature" bs is really just insecure roasties attempting to turn their high age into some advantage when to a man there's no reason at all choosing the older womam.

Always just stayed at home and played vidya
I regret nothing

Cloud and Noctis are in their 20s, Noctis even ages to his 30s during his game.

Nier Had an old, Ugly protag.

>Outfit was essentially underwear
>Her REAL clothes got burned off in an accident
>Continues running around in underwear for rest of the game

What did Square mean by this?

She wanted to flirt with Zidane with her delicious ass.

>Why do Japanese games demand their protagonists to be so young?
Because Japanese gamers are pedophiles.

With this reasoning western gamers are faggots.

Also being a fag makes you exponentially more likely to be a pedo.

Rosa ran around in her underwear too, so it's a reference.

>16 is when a person starts going through puberty

Where do you even get creepshots nowadays?

Because youth is when japs have the biggest amount of personal freedom and individualism, the peak being your rebellious teenage years.

When you become an adult you give up on your hopes and dreams and become a part of the machine.