Talk:Stiyl Magnus/@comment-164.90.39.172-20191227082325/@comment-3969505-20200302200413

Japanese fiction is notorious for Psuedo-Dawson Casting, characters that are supposed to be teenagers in numbers (to keep up the appeal to core reader base) yet are visually designed look a good 5-10+ years older, even sometimes act much older then they should be to help to them blend in with the adult-level surroundings of the ongoing story.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DawsonCasting

look in the anime tab

one of my favorite examples are the Sound-4/5 from Naruto, when you look at their ages in the databooks, they were 15/16 max yet looked like well in their 20s, this was done so we the audience will have an easier time accepting the violence they do and the violence being done to them.

Bleach also comes to mind, did Ichigo and his friends really looked 14/15 when they first appeared ? (especially Chad), i thought they were in their early 20s at least.