this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2024
11 points (100.0% liked)
Anime
1849 readers
118 users here now
This community is the place to discuss and ask questions about anime, anime news, and related topics.
Currently airing show discussion threads are created by our resident bot, [email protected]. If it doesn't make a thread for an episode that you want to discuss, see the user guide on the wiki for instructions on how to request that rikka make a thread for you to use.
Check out our wiki to find:
Rules
- Posts must relate to anime or similar (donghua, etc.)
- Discussion threads for currently airing media must be made by the bot. If there isn't a discussion thread made for a piece of media you want to discuss, then request it via pm.
- Ensure that all series spoilers are tagged. See here for details.
- Memes should be directed toward [email protected] (or similar) instead of this community
- Do not post explicitly NSFW material. Please use your best judgement when marking lewd material as NSFW, unmarked material risks being removed.
- Please redirect discussion of piracy towards a more appropriate community
- Any clips from currently airing shows cannot include content from episodes released within the past 7 days.
- All posts and comments must adhere to the ani.social Terms of Use
- In general, keep things civil and avoid attacking other individuals.
Related General Communities
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I have no knowledge outside what's been shown in the episodes, but I think it's fairly obvious that the age is some specific condition from his curse (or similar thing). At the same time, the age gap is definitely pandering to a specific audience. The author knows exactly what they're doing, it doesn't matter if there is some in-story pretense. For better or worse, this is the story they wanted to tell.
Jill did establish that their relationship should be platonic, which is nice. Hopefully that's not just a front. The fact that the Jill is mentally older does help make it a little less gross (but at the same time, it feels like the author is trying to make an excuse for degeneracy).
It's weird because it seems to me like they're not doing the normal pandering stuff associated with the creepy age gap genre - she seems specifically dressed to make her appear a bit older, she never even attempts to act her age, and while Hadis remarks on her being young, he never treats her like a child. It almost feels to me like the adaptation is aware of how weird it is but for whatever reason are unable or unwilling to change the lore of the source material.
Or maybe that's wishful thinking....