It's time for another new blog post! Today's blog post will be about age gaps in anime. It's a commonly seen thing; there's a character who's 15 or 16 years old and they end up with someone who's hundreds to thousands of years old. This is excused by saying the character is technically still a teenager. To that I say, ha! And no. A lot of the characters this applies to aren't teenagers. They're just a creature that looks young but isn't. This can often be seen with vampires, demons, or things like that. There are characters that are much older that are still teenagers, but that's different. What's the difference? Well, it more or less boils down to mental age. Things like vampires stop aging physically, but not mentally. They have tons of experience being an adult, and they should see teenagers as children. A good example of this is Lilia Vanrouge. He's a fae, and is much older than he looks. However, he acts his age; and often calls the people around him children. Another good example is Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. The dragons may be hundreds of years old, but not all of them are adults. The ones that are young are paired with other young characters because they're still young. They just age slower than humans. A bad example of this is Diabolik Lovers. As much as I like the anime, it bothers me how young the main character is. The brothers are all vampires, and are much older than they look. Even if they act young, they aren't young. They have a lot of experience being adults, and the power dynamic all of them have is uncomfortable to watch. But, those are mostly just my thoughts on this topic. I wanted to talk about this because a lot of people have a hard time understanding what the problem is with these things in anime. They think a young looking character is automatically a bad thing, even if that's not the case. It depends on the context, because sometimes characters really do just age slowly, and other times they've just stopped aging altogether. Regardless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!