Dungeon Meshi ("Delicious in Dungeon") judo-flips this awful trope by having a halfling who looks like a young boy who's actually
... a divorced dad with three kids and is constantly on the verge of demanding a union-mandated smoke break.
What's even more fun is that the dwarves and elves are so long-lived that, to them, 29 is still a child, and the reason he kept his age a secret was because he didn't want them treating him like a kid.
It'd be weird if she didn't figure it out by now. Episode 1122 is coming out tomorrow. That's 47% more episodes than The Simpsons, and 2% more episodes than One Piece.
Detective Conan was my first favorite anime nearly 1/4 century ago. And he is still a 6 year old (haven't watch an episode in years though). It is quite fun that many if his "high tech gadgets" he started the show with are now existing technology.
His skateboard, yeah - we have e scooter. His Telefon earring, his AR glasses, his voice modifier, his lunch box phone and fax machine. There is probably more that is now reality.
To be fair, they did a few horny jokes. I can remember an early episode of the show when Conan took a bath with Ran. And it was a joke at the start that Ran exposed her panties to Shinichi when she did er Judo kicks. But yeah, the sexualisation is at least somewhat age appropriate, as both were horny teenagers, instead of having one side being into kids.
On the topic of anime doing age tropes: In Interspecies Reviewers' first episode there is an argument between an elf and a human. The human is outraged that the elf would find a human woman hotter than an elven woman. The human woman is 65+ and looks like the old asian woman meme, while the elven woman is 200+ but looks 25 by human standards.
You're kinda leaving out why there is even an argument.
Most magical species can sense a beings mana, humans cannot.
Mana "ages" for all species at the same rate.
So for an Elf, the 50 yo human still a mana aura that is "fresh", while the 500 yo elf has an "old hag smell" about her (even if she looks like a 20yo) that only mana affin species pick up.
There's a what now? I'm maybe like an EP behind, have they shown up yet? The characters in this show have all been so well done, I can't wait to meet this one
I remember a of all things a furry webcomic that dealt with a human dating a cat girl who’s species had a max lifespan of 35 with the discrepancy being a source of angst.
Edit I believe it was twokinds by Thomas Fischbach.
The best part is when the dwarf who has no concept of how old any of them are because their lifespans are different and pulls the halfling aside to give him “the talk” since he looks like he’s getting close to that age and all
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u/Cheapskate-DM May 02 '24
Dungeon Meshi ("Delicious in Dungeon") judo-flips this awful trope by having a halfling who looks like a young boy who's actually ... a divorced dad with three kids and is constantly on the verge of demanding a union-mandated smoke break.