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Originally Posted by warita
Comparing the two series Onegai sensei and sempai.... I cant help but observe a certain shift in the japanese culture in what is considered sexualy attractive.
In older series it was often stressed how sexy adult women look and not teenage girls. When thinking of this, I have to always think about a scene from great teacher Onizuka, where he and some of his male students entered the house of a female teacher and snoop in her drawers and the boys are a bit taken aback by Onizukas antics and he says with a knowing tone in his voice: "Arent you guys interested what the apartment of a mature woman looks like?", of course implying with it that its adult women who are really sexy.
There are a few similar examples in different anime oldies..... but that has disappeared completely now. And sensei was replaced by sempai.... she is still older, hence sempai, but not an adult woman anymore.
Now, dont get me wrong, of course young girls are sexy.... but I still cant help but feel sligthly upset by this change. Its like once you are past your teen years, you are just second best.
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Yeah, as someone that hates youth-obsessed culture I definitely agree with this. The attitude shown in so many RPGs and anime series where you're washed up by the time you reach your 30s (Or even younger, as evidenced by the 'Christmas Cake' crap) gets on my nerves to no end. I remember the episode of Dragon Ball Z towards the very end where Chi-chi dances for a few moments before hurting her hip or something, at which point everyone laughs and calls her old... yeah, because an extremely fit 34 year old martial artist clearly can't dance for ten seconds without breaking something. Or all the sigh-worthy series where the resident 'old man' of the group is someone in his 30s or later 20s. I have pretty generous views on aging (I think of the 20s, 30s, and 40s as the youthful decades, and think of everything under the 80s in mostly positive terms), so it does annoy me how many people seem to think you're bad off unless you're 20 years old.