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NEWS: Nao Maita's Shōjo Manga 'Age 12' Gets Anime on DVD




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Faiga_Raisa



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 5:23 pm Reply with quote
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deals with issues such as accidentally witnessing her homeroom teacher kissing


Wait what's the issue? Adults kiss their significant other all the time.

Or did this adult homeroom teacher kiss a 12 year old student? Then that would be an issue.

Too bad there aren't any scanlations yet.
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Cecilthedarkknight_234



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:28 pm Reply with quote
Faiga_Raisa wrote:
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deals with issues such as accidentally witnessing her homeroom teacher kissing


Wait what's the issue? Adults kiss their significant other all the time.

Or did this adult homeroom teacher kiss a 12 year old student? Then that would be an issue.

Too bad there aren't any scanlations yet.


That's what I'm wanting to know as well and maybe some kids in japan are sheltered off seeing their parents kiss. Still this is just a manga not a actual representation of real-life so who knows.
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gilg4mesh



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 11:22 pm Reply with quote
Cecilthedarkknight_234 wrote:
Faiga_Raisa wrote:
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deals with issues such as accidentally witnessing her homeroom teacher kissing


Wait what's the issue? Adults kiss their significant other all the time.

Or did this adult homeroom teacher kiss a 12 year old student? Then that would be an issue.

Too bad there aren't any scanlations yet.


That's what I'm wanting to know as well and maybe some kids in japan are sheltered off seeing their parents kiss. Still this is just a manga not a actual representation of real-life so who knows.


Not in every country kissing (especially between female and male, or lip-to-lip) is a usual thing to be seen in daily life. Well, it's in movie and anything else, but still real event in real life is different.
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jymmy



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 11:25 pm Reply with quote
Faiga_Raisa wrote:
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deals with issues such as accidentally witnessing her homeroom teacher kissing


Wait what's the issue? Adults kiss their significant other all the time.

I'm going to guess it's a deeper, more adult kiss than she'd be used to seeing outside of movies. Probably reveals a side of the teacher she wasn't aware of and uncomfortably expanded her view of them, too.
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 8:15 am Reply with quote
Murder, She wrote:

She deals with issues such as accidentally witnessing her homeroom teacher kissing


I saw sensei kissing sempai-san
Underneath the stairs last period
She didn't see me creep
Down the stairs to peep
Oh what a laugh it would have been
If my classmates had only seen



Cecilthedarkknight_234 wrote:

That's what I'm wanting to know as well and maybe some kids in japan are sheltered off seeing their parents kiss. Still this is just a manga not a actual representation of real-life so who knows.


Japanese spouses don't typically outwardly show affection. Very Happy


jymmy wrote:
Faiga_Raisa wrote:
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deals with issues such as accidentally witnessing her homeroom teacher kissing

Wait what's the issue? Adults kiss their significant other all the time.

I'm going to guess it's a deeper, more adult kiss than she'd be used to seeing outside of movies. Probably reveals a side of the teacher she wasn't aware of and uncomfortably expanded her view of them, too.


Did she use her tongue? Razz
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dtm42



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 8:24 am Reply with quote
Well as long as the kiss was between consenting adults and mouth-to-mouth then I don't see what the big deal is.
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Altorrin



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 6:23 pm Reply with quote
My problem was more with this:
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Hanahi, a sixth-grade girl who is neither an adult nor a child

No, I'm pretty sure that's just a child. Twelve years old, you said? Yup, that's a child.
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HitokiriShadow



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 6:47 pm Reply with quote
Altorrin wrote:
My problem was more with this:
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Hanahi, a sixth-grade girl who is neither an adult nor a child

No, I'm pretty sure that's just a child. Twelve years old, you said? Yup, that's a child.


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence
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TheFullmetalOne



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 11:19 am Reply with quote
Japanese spouses don't typically outwardly show affection. Very Happy
True, however given the number of couples in manga and anime that openly display affection (often in a public setting), I'm kind of suspicious that many Japanese couples (particularly the women), wish this wasn't the case (at least on some level). While anime and manga are fictional portrayals, fiction often reflects the desires and wishes of the authors as well as the readers, much like the dreams we have when we sleep can occasionally be seen as the subconscious mind's way of fulfilling a desire or wish we can't achieve in real life. For example, I often dream of flying under my own power, totally unachievable in real life. That's my take, at least.
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