>mc is a high school student >he's in charge of saving

Most anime target the teen market as well as the otaku market that eats up the same stuff as the teen market.

It's the same reason young adult fiction in the west often features a teen saving the world or being important. They want their audience to relate to the main character, so they make it a teen.

>Not being deployed to fight ISIS at 16

In Japan your life ends after highschool. It becomes an endless chain of overtime, forced socialisation with co-workers, a wife who fucks the neighbor's alligator, and kids you never see since you're either working or being forced to go drinking with co-workers you don't like.

Not much room for adventure there.

>>150328308
Because anime is for children you fucking clown. You watch a medium for children.

>>150328471
Speak for yourself, I only watch mature anime for mature people such at myself.

>>150328464
>implying fucking an alligator isn't an adventure on its own

>>150328497
There's no such thing. There are only anime aimed at literal children, anime aimed at moepig manchildren, and anime aimed at edgy children going through their 2deep4u phase.

>>150328367
Most western teen fiction anymore features either males in their 20s or women in there mid-late teens. Male protagonists always tend to be older than the age-group they're targeted at, while female ones tend to be the same age or younger. Stuff that actually uses male teenager characters it's typically targeted at preteens.

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>>150328308
>Japan

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>>150328532
Can confirm, I exclusively read stuff about teenage boys when I was a preeteen, and exclusively consumed media about adult males when I was a teen. Now that I'm an adult, I only watch stuff about little girls.

What kind of jewery is this? Is this only in the West?

>>150328308
that's usually the plot of a good chunk of hollywood movies

>>150328628
It's about masculinity. As a male growing up, you're made to constantly feel that you're lower on the pecking order because you're not old enough yet. Preteens glorify teen agency because teens have access to all the masculine freedoms and powers that their mom won't let them have. Teens glorify adults because adults have access to all the masculine powers and freedoms afforded by money, a driver's license, a marketable skill and the social affluence of being an adult.

Similarly, girls tend to prefer fiction where the male love interest is older than them.

These aren't universals, mind you, but publishers tend to pander exclusively to a perceived majority, so the overwhelming amount of fiction follows this paradigm. You probably found yourself reading a lot of stuff about teens when you were a preteen just because all of the books within your reading level at the time were about teens. That's just how things are marketed. Preteens themselves almost never appear in western fiction except to be victimfodder for stories about the evil of sexual predators aimed at middle-aged housewives.

>>150328367
this, the western audience for anime is manchildes who can't move on. The Japanese audience is kids and teens.

Why can't it be a cute big tittied mom who gets to save the world?

And every episode she gives the badguy a handjob before they die.

Why can't they pander to exactly what I want?

In japan you have no free time after high school.
Either you become a robot that works or a total fucking loser no one wants to be near to.
All the adventuring has to happen before uni, theres literally no media about jap uni life because its just reading and study groups.

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>>150329770
>theres literally no media about jap uni life
Why should anyone listen to your when you are clearly very ignorant about the subject?

ITT: Japan experts who have never lived in Japan