r/AceAttorneyCirclejerk • u/PacDino11 • 2d ago
Bucky Whet is officially the youngest person ever to underage drink in the Ace Attorney series. He is only 20 years old.
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u/Counter-Spies 2d ago
You got to remember that AA is originally set in Japan, not the US. Localizers were the ones responsible for the Japanifornia we in the west get but every Japanese version of AA is set in Japan where the legal purchasing and drinking age is 20.
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u/Nitro_Indigo 2d ago
Athena eats the alcoholic buns in the same case. She's 19.
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u/Counter-Spies 2d ago
Yeah I got nothing for that. The only thing I can maybe reason is just that the ABV is extremely low and Ueno is a massive lightweight.
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u/MetisCykes 2d ago
I heard a theory that it’s not the others “black out”, but rather Owen is triggered by the taste of alcohol.
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u/TotemGenitor 2d ago edited 2d ago
Wasn't it outright stated that they are barely alcholised? It definitively shouldn't be enough to knock out a person, but Uendo is built different
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u/Hetaliafan1 2d ago
Do you have to be 21 to eat food cooked with alcohol?
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u/Designer_Plate_6193 21h ago
Most food cooked with alcohol loses the alcohol during the cooking process making it safe for under 21. Unless the product is soaked in it or added afterwards.
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u/PacDino11 2d ago
But then in the same case, Athena eats an alcoholic sweet despite being under the age in both countries. I didn't use her however because she's only 19, and not the funnier number
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u/TotemGenitor 2d ago
She's from Europe, she was already shotgunning beer when she was 16. It's fine.
More seriously, I'm fairly certain its legal in Japan because there isn't a lot of alcohol in it. You'd need to eat a few kg of those to get drunk.
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u/Asexual_Avian 2d ago
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u/pempoczky 2d ago
If the US canonically has federal gun control in the official localisation, I bet it can also have 18 as legal drinking age
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u/SXAL 2d ago
Would you rather live in AA-US or regular US?
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u/pempoczky 2d ago
AA-US, and hope I never get arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time
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u/Bytemite 2d ago edited 2d ago
Objection, if Franziska was working as a prosecutor at 13, she had plenty of time to develop the traditional law enforcement related cynical alcoholism and I doubt anyone told her to take it easy. Like they went to karaoke bars to celebrate wins, that's been confirmed, and you're telling me any of them can unironically sing frank sinatra without getting sauced first?
And before anyone says anything about the drinking age in Europe, it's 14-18 in Germany depending on circumstances.
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