High-school heroines getting less appealing as you get older?

[Stormwolf]

It's not a BIG problem that they are, i guess if anything, the problem is that every fucking title has the same setup of characters and setting. That's the problem. Not to be mean, but i do pity the souls who still finds high school settings with it's average kun protagonist and a host of heroine personalities with looks you've seen a million and three times before, fun and interesting.

Everything can and usually is good in moderate doses as long as the production quality and writing is good, but this lowbudget/quality highschool shit has gone out of hand for a long time, and i'm utterly astonished they're so targeted for translation in a market so filled with them when there are so much better titles to aim for. I suspect lots of these writers and CG drawers just write/draw some nonsense trash copy pasta with some minor changes to make it seem like they're giving a shit while they're just rushing to get on to the next project of trash and copy pasta.

[supercar]

On 24/01/2020 at 4:50 AM, adamstan said:

I often thought about it. I feel like in many aspects (relationships included) I haven't grown up, whatever that means.

I haven't either. I will be 22 this year - but I have lived a very sheltered life due to many reasons, three of them being:

1. My Asperger's, which leads me to being awful at socialisation, having niche hobbies that nobody cares about, etc (I am getting slightly better but not much).

2. My overprotective family

3. Improper education - left school early... long story.

So for me, teen/coming-of-age stories in general offer some kind of comfort. It's not as if I was living life vicariously through the characters but close to it.

I don't know how to explain, but I see the characters as almost being real. I don't self-insert, so I know I am just an observer.

But I relate to their woes, personality, etc. In fact, it infuriates me with some TV shows for example where they change a character too much, and they seem like a whole different person.

A weird paradox: I kind of feel bad when consuming this kind of media sometimes. It makes me feel even more like a failure when I compare my life to what's going on screen.

I have very few friends and I have issues communicating with them, and I've had trouble with relationships, yada, yada, yada...

I tried to go out more, do things that I wasn't used to and even appeal to a more hedonistic side, but it's not my thing.

What happens in a film or book might not be so cool in real life.

 

Answering OP's question:

I'm a young adult so this hasn't hit me yet. If it changes things, I am mostly attracted to guys.

And I gotta say, there are some handsome guys in VNs... one of them being Aoi from Konosora.

I do find him cute and he's supposed to be a high schooler. He looks about 17-18.

Am I a pervert for thinking that? I don't know. It is a bit weird sometimes, if you think about it.

Someone said that students in VNs often act more mature and Aoi is a prime example of that. It's nice.

With the waifus, my interest in them comes from their personalities and behaviour more than appearance.

I tend to dislike heavy moe art styles too.

I've had friends thinking that I'm strange for finding fictional, drawn characters attractive, but it's always been this way for me.

When I was a kid, I was attracted to Lion-O from Thundercats lol.

Edited April 18, 2020 by supercar