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Why’s she dressed like a Japanese schoolgirl?
I guess she's a Japanese schoolgirl.
It's for teenage suicide prevention. Which makes the sex thing worse.
If it makes you feel better, he's also in a Japanese school uniform, so he's probably around the same age.
But not unusual in Japan!
In Japan the age of Consent differs depending on the situation, but 12-14 isn't unusual.
In Persona 5 this is even a plotpoint early on, as your first real story arc is about a guy sexually abusing female students and beating male students. He gets away with it because he's a coach and his physical abuse of male students gets results, and what he does with female students is believed to be both completely normal and consensual. "She's 13, she's old enough, and he's a famous former athlete so the attraction is there."
The idea that the massive age difference could be part of the problem is not brought up a single time nor the fact that the girls are just starting high school. The only part of the game's narrative that sees it as wrong is the fact that they were co-erced into it.
Later on, you can date your homeroom teacher as one of your romantic paths if you so wish. Joker, the player character, is 16. This relationship would actually be legal in the UK, and depending on which state you're in the United States as well (Likely not a Romeo and Juliet state as those require the age gap to be small, whereas there are non-R+J states that say "You're 16/17 you can do who you want.", hey don't shoot the messenger okay),
However while legal in the UK and (parts of) US it would still be heavily socially frowned upon, but I guess in Japan they don't care? I don't know I'm not a Japanese Culture nerd nor am I Japanese.
Very much not legal for teachers in the UK
https://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/24800903.teacher-sexual-relationship-pupil-banned/
Nationally, the Japanese age of consent is 12, but every prefecture has their own limits and they're all 16-18
That changed in 2023 from 13 (not 12) to 16
In Japan, the age of consent changed in 2023 from 13 to 16
Because the comic is inspired by Japanese 4koma comic structure.
The artstyle is also very reminiscent of old manga/asian comic styles (like 1970s 1980s) so it would make sense the boy and the girl are dressed in that fashion
Ahhh okay.
This comic (called Sexy Losers), is where the word "fap" came from, BTW. It was an extremely popular web comic back in the early 2000s, so the word spread like wildfire and eventually became bigger than the comic itself.
Originally called "the thin h line" 🤣