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Originally Posted by AvatarST
I also wonder what's with the generation in the middle. Maybe it's one of those convenient "no parents are ever around" again? And to keep the characters from the past generation they had to make them grandpas and grandmas.  |
Well, actually, I asked someone about that a little while ago, and he proposed that kids actually identify more with grandparents than with their parents. As you pointed out, the first game was also like that - no parents in sight (even Koyomi, who became a mother and was almost a "parental figure" in a sense, was Kotori's much-older sister). Maybe the two generation gap gives enough distance from the last cast (you don't want them to overshadow the new crew) while still having a strong possibility of connection in the timeline. If they talk about the "middle generation" at all, I'm guessing it'll only be by proxy. It is an interesting question, though... we'll see how they handle it.