WHY is Denji 16? It makes zero sense. Shouldn't he be in school instead of having a job? I figured he was in his early 20s.
Why do anime creators do this? It literally makes the story worse and introduces nonce shit into an otherwise good show.
WHY is Denji 16? It makes zero sense. Shouldn’t he be in school instead of having a job? I figured he was in his early 20s.
It's literally a plot point in a later arc that Denji should be in school. And in the previous episode he can barely read Kanji. One of Fujimoto's big thematic points in Chainsawman and Firepunch IS education and how it changes a person's life.
The fact that the society in Chainsaw man had an orphaned boy and instead of placing them far away from the criminals or relocating them to a family member he ends up working for the yakuza is part of his origin story.
Yeah, he could be in COLLEGE instead.
It's really obvious just how little Japan cares about protecting children when this shit is constant but any reference to drinking and all of a sudden it's "whoa we better make sure this kid is old enough to drink". I love anime but goddamn is the nonce shit infuriating.
normally i assume characters in shonen jump stuff are 16 because of editorial mandates from shonen jump, but denji being 16 feels right. at the bar when he announces his age everyone is visibly taken aback by how young he is. this isn't like giorno giovanna where it never comes up and the story makes more sense with an older character. denji is a child who should be in grade school, and the manga is aware of that
and i can tell you right now, the nonce stuff is on purpose creepy. or at least it was in the manga, the animes framing is a little different and a little more straightforwardly horny. even so, the actual plot is very much against the idea that it's cool and good for adults to fuck 16 year olds, unless they make some MAJOR changes for the anime
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