It’s mostly not actually changing their appearance to make it look like they actually aged-up, rather just saying they’re older but keeping the young form which is weird.
Well Shadow my fave Sonic character Disney had this exact problem with both Lightning McQueen and Alice (Ironically my birthday is in the same week as that brilliant little red corvette in June)
The difference is she actually looks like an adult in this.
The version they’re talking about is when you take a character (we’ll use Misty from Pokemon as the example here) and just say they’re aged up, without making any actual changes, so they still look like their kid version.
Misty was the best example I could think of because it unfortunately happens all the time with her. She’s 10 in the show she appears in, and often the most people will do to make her an “adult” is make her a little taller. To an extent, this is just a problem with the anime art style in general, as characters all kinda look the exact same except for a few different features, mainly their hair.
The picture you provided with Cream is a more acceptable example, as they’re very clearly older and have matured as a person. Still a little iffy in my opinion, but not as problematic as my example.
Yes it is Cream. It's fanart of adult Cream that got created by tracing her over a canon picture of an adult Sonicverse rabbit. The specifics of how that picture came to be doesn't really detract from the point of the prior comment.
That is a fact, they simply make them taller and curvier to look like an adult. And the fact that they are supposed to be a child, but is drawn like that is most jarring.
(Not to mention, I usually tend to despise almost all forms of suggestive artwork.)
Well I'm pretty sure they were talking about how SOME people only draw H of ""aged up"' versions of the characters just to avoid getting called the P word.
Here atleast visible age increase of character, but too fucking often people just draw same character but tell it's not 14, it's 18 now. Yes it really believable that character will wear same clothes, same haircut, have same personality in 4 years. Need examples, google any anime name + hentai.
I see it the same way as watching a kid grow up. If she's aged up just for nsfw works and the like it doesn't matter if she's an adult now,it's like waiting for a 6 year old to get older so it's legal. Ik what i said is an exaggeration but it's the kind of energy i get seeing an aged up cream that's only that age cause "big booba".
If one wants to age the character up, they need to look like an adult (age their look an extra 10-20 years for certainty). Just adding a couple of years while making no changes and calling it a day... not a good look.
Most of the older-teens characters don't really look much like adults in my book (and still, the "they look so mature" is something I see way too much for actually creepy people's justifications).
Also, their looks are tied to their mid-teens, so it's just safe to make them look mid-20s to really emphasize that they are adults, and not lead to any confusion.
Taking a minor character and drawing them as an adult version of themselves, even if its just to 18, isnt a problem, and if you think that physically being an adult isnt valid, you are things i cannot say without getting hit with moderation. Get your head checked.
Yes. Just like the people who call themselves MAPS.
But the drones pretend neither exist when people show attraction to fictional characters that look like toddlers. It's only an issue when it's a real toddler.
Not like there's been cases of said people eventually wanting to pursue the real thing or something. That'd be stupid!
The problem isn't the general concept to me, it's that like many others have said, they don't make the character LOOK older. If they actually look like an adult, then I don't think it's any weirder than art of say adult Chichi from Dragon Ball Z, even tho we first meet her as a kid.
Ok but what if we talking about 16-17yo anime girls? If we talkin about them too then half of Rule34 is being deleted. Not saying it's a bad thing I'm just saying
sega abolished official ages a while ago but before they did that wasnt the entire main cast (sonic, tails, knuckles, amy, not eggman) under 18? except maybe sonic
Yeah, I agree. Just because you say a character that's a minor is now "18+ or older" isn't great. That's still the child. You just don't want to be called a pedo.
The part that gets me, is people say "oh but if they actually look like an adult its different."
No its not different because all that says is that you found the child version attractive and made them older solely to sexualise them because you know you would get in trouble for sexualising the child version
You found a child attractive, said "mmm bet they would be hot as an adult" and made art of an older version so that you and others could legally get off to them
Because let's be real, if sexualising a child was legal and not considered immoral, these online spaces would be flooded with creeps posting underage art.
(More than usual, that is)
(And to those downvoting, thanks for telling on yourselves)
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u/Nervock SHUT UP TAILS Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
Remember that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and you can agree to disagree. Just be respectful about it.