I don’t hate teen superheroes. I grew up loving Spider-Man and Teen Titans, but I’m just tired of them. Comic characters never age, and every reboot resets them back to high school. Spider-Man’s been rebooted over a dozen times, yet he’s only been an adult in two animated shows. His best stories are when he’s in college or older, but studios keep him a teen to appeal to kids.

It’s not even just him — Ms. Marvel should be 28 by now, but she’s still 16. There’s no middle ground anymore. You’re either a teenage hero or in your 30s. What happened to heroes in their 20s?

  • Grimreaper@sopuli.xyzOP
    71·
    1 day ago

    Back in the 90’s anime had men and women doing awesome shit. There was sex and violence. There were characters I could relate to.

    Can you suggest some 90s anime with sex and violence?

    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 day ago

      Cowboy Bebop and the Ghost in the Shell movies are great places to start.

      Anyway, it’s not so much a change in what’s being produced as what’s being imported to the US. There was a good mix of shonen and seinen at first, but shonen sells more merch so we get a lot of it now. Just watch stuff tagged as seinen if you want more mature themes or more sex and gore.

        • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          13 hours ago

          I thought I was responding to a comment about comics lol

          Yeah anime Wolverine was not very grusome. Even popular American anime like the Simpsons, and Loonytoons were strictly cartoonist violence.