Why most manga's treat late 20's and 30 as old

I think it probably has to do with a large portion of the popular manga that we read here is Shounen and Shoujo. Those genres are meant for young teenagers, thats why the characters are teenagers themselves. To a teenager, a person in the 20's and 30's is old.   2 reply

I don't even find 40 old, so I don't understand what they're trying to do with that "ooooh 30? are you a fosil?" logic either.   1 reply

My friend lived in Tokyo for two years, she always says that the last japaneses generations are very fixated in appearance and age. Though they usually marry late, they want to be fit and young as much as they can. I don't know about other places, but South Korea is even more fixated on that - as you can see for their actors and actresses always lo......   1 reply

Well i can't tell you something very in depth that goes into culture differences, but i can tell you that as someone in their early 20's with sisters starting/in high school, they call me old and i see how their friends see me as someone who is "old" LOL. Not only them, but to others that i mention friends that are in their late 20's, they also con......   1 reply

i think its because of demographics on who mostly reads manga. i feel like its seen as a teen/young adult thing so all of the characters are teens to young adults and anyone older takes a guardian role. also from my experience a lot of younger people consider late 20's older, anything over 35 is middle age, and over 50 is ancient senior citizen lol   reply