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Cid from Final Fantasy 9 was 35?! THIS GUY, with the steely grey beard and glorious regal moustache?! He's clearly 20 years older than that!

As an adult I thought it was kind of funny that Steiner, at 33, is the designated doddering fussy comic relief old man of the party but this is just nuts.

I keep being confounded by the way Japanese media treats age. 6-21 is prime adventuring age, you're practically done at 25 and afterwards you should just shuffle off to a retirement home

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[โ€“] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Guile in the original Street Fighter II, according to early promo materials, was canonically supposed to be like 34 (born 1960), and was in the Vietnam War. I think all that glorious Nippon steel must just warp the flow of time over there or something.

[โ€“] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

Guile was just one of those child soldiers that are also a common trope in anime and manga think-about-it