Why is it such a common trope in Japanese animation for sweet,

Sweet, normal kids because awful adults in real life too.

it's just how life is

I hate kids.
They're all terrible.

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>>151833968
I was actually pretty great as a kid.

>Awful people
They're not awful people. That's just how you're appraising them.
When you don't have any pressure, and when you don't feel like your horizons are narrowed before you've even begun to live, it's easy to be "sweet and normal."
Salt in particular would have never let Mimi go, had he known she was pregnant. Salt, Papika, and Mimi were all practically born into a shitty situation. How the fuck would you have dealt with it?

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>>151834551
Sorry anon, I'm not actually judging him (or most characters like him) even if it sounded like that. I was just describing the character trajectory/pattern.

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>>151834666
Well, it's accurate. It also gives them a reason to have a shaggy-looking character in shades to sit in the background and look baller.

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>>151833823
The more idealistic people get crushed harder when they get slapped with the salaryman "life".

Seems pretty reasonable that an idealist would be a bit bitter when their worldview goes from "We can make the worldview better!" to "70 hour weeks with unpaid overtime are normal and will be for the next ten years."

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>>151833823
>This goes all the way back to Gundam AGE.

>>151833823
Because that's what happens irl. Especially with boys.

>>151835164
>"70 hour weeks with unpaid overtime are normal and will be for the next ten years."
Isn't that illegal?

>>151835214
What's wrong with saying that? Flit went from a nice boy to a half crazy genocider.

>>151833823
>This goes all the way back to Flit Asuno in Gundam AGE.
Gundam AGE came out less than a decade ago.

>>151837599
do you know what a salary is?

>normal kids become awful people as adults
>normal kids become awful people as adults

>>151833823
>about to watch Flip Flappers
>see this

There's boys in this anime? Fucking dropped.

>>151839935
W-what are you getting at?

>>151839961
Tbh they are side characters and don't have much dialogue. It's almost entirely girls

>>151833823
> all the way back to Flit Asuno in Gundam AGE
>all the way back to a show from five years ago
I sure hope you wrote this ironically.