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[Encu (#21574)]

 How old is Takuto? (Major Spoilers inside)

[Stick (#5576)]

*cough* change spoiler text color to white *cough*



actually you don't have to. putting the spoiler warning on the title thread was good enough.


i'm sorry to say i don't know the answer, but i'll look it up for you and hopefully i'll have an answer.

[Encu (#21574)]

I didn't even think of doing that, thanks!
(highlight the spoiler parts if you've seen the anime, if you haven't it might just spoil a thing or two)

And thanks in advance, if you have some secret source or something :p
(you know Arina Tanemura, perhaps?)

[GlitterKat (#32377)]

Takuto was probably in his late 20s, because he was only 13 or 14 when Mitsuki was born I think. Takuto doesn't meet Mitsuki till she is 12...

[Encu (#21574)]

[The_Lurker (#34177)]

From what I can research, in the manga Takuto was 24 when he died. If you figure turning into a Shinigami 'froze' him at that age, then he was 24 when meeting Mitsuki. http://twilight-key.net/mangetsu-test/info_timeline.php I couldn't find anything on the anime yet, but I like to think he died younger than that.... 16ish. Just because he looked younger, and 24 is really too old for him to be crushing on Mitsuki.

[Encu (#21574)]

:shock: 'wow' is all I can think to type... :shock: ... but thanks...

[Encu (#21574)]

I just rewatched episodes 44-46 in attempt to figure something else out, and it sort of cleared up this issue for me.

ULTRA spoiler, highlight if you've seen through the end already:

Takuto remembers Hazuki talking to Aoi about their unborn child, if you remember the scene where Hazuki pulls out a piece of paper with "Mangetsu", which character can also translate to "Mitsuki". This means that Mitsuki was born when Takuto was in Route L. So Takuto is 12 years older than Mitsuki.

GlitterKat obviously already recognized this from the anime.

From the final words by the florist in the final episode, I think it's safe to understand that Takuto has only been dead for 2 years.

This makes Takuto at minimum 22 when he meets Mitsuki!

So, semi-pedophilic relationship indeed, though I suppose it's proper to keep in mind that he made Mitsuki a 16 year old, she is much more mature for her age, and in later life 10 years is not such an important difference.

Still...

[Kiseki (#38680)]

I think we're all missing the point here.

SPOILER HEREWhen Takuto died and became a Shinigami, he was the same age as when he died and since Mitsuki is currently 12 years old, if Takuto died at the age of 14(I think), that means their not very far apart in terms of age, their four years apart just like Mitsuki and Echi. In terms of Takuto's age "spiratually" I guess you can say that he would be considered a pedophile. However, I think we all can agree that Mitsuki is quite mature for her age to love Takuto and Takuto to love her.

[Encu (#21574)]

[anime_is_the_best (#41920)]

heh who cares when he came back alive i think he was at the age or when he died so around like 14-16ish its not pedofile cuz he still acts like a kid and when u die ur kinda like stop getting older cuz if i asked u how old george washinginton is you would not say 300 yrs old.... and it makes me a lil suspisious y you would be so interested in finding out how old takuto is y u jealosu? heh

[Encu (#21574)]

Actually, he was 22 when he died.

And I cared because I was trying to write a fanfiction.

[anime_is_the_best (#41920)]

thats great but i was talkin to the writer of this post

[Encu (#21574)]

I see.

I think his name is Encu, too...

[anime_is_the_best (#41920)]

wow wut irony, sup lol
well u gotta think about how its kinda of okay for her to fall in love wit eichi considering she was all alone in the orphange and he was the first one the care for her

[Encu (#21574)]

Yeah. I just found it awkward and less appealing as a romance story to have Takuto so much older. Eichi and Mitsuki made more sense, I still found it odd that they were in 'love', but I take it more of to mean that Mitsuki only began thinking of it like that after they parted, and only recognized that she loved him two or three years later.

This last part is my own thoughts, I don't think the anime really indicates it in any way... but it helps me see it as more possible.

Her feelings to Eichi are also why she understood her feelings for Takuto so quickly.

It makes sense, sure, and for her maturity after being a pop singer and a 16 year old, I can understand it all... but when I began writing my fanfiction and really began trying to figure out Takuto's age, I was sort of turned off by his being so much older.

[anime_is_the_best (#41920)]

well just use the age when he died he was 12 when he joined? and then like 2 yrs later mistki born and then he died?

[Encu (#21574)]

He was 12 when Mitsuki was born, indeed. He then died ten years later, so would have been 22 at that time. He was only dead for two years before he met her again.

[anime_is_the_best (#41920)]

lol then my bad i thought he was 22 cuz u were counting the yrs he died

[Pantha (#38360)]

It doesn't matter how old he is. No matter how you look at it, he's still breaking the law.

[Encu (#21574)]

[Jez (#85355)]

After the first time I watched, I decided that he was probably 22 (if he didn't change age after death) or 24 (if he did). The age difference is a bit scary, yes, but this is what I've decided: He forgot all of his memories when he died, so he didn't know how old he was when he fell in love with Mitsuki. It's not his fault :3

[Pochacco Paws (#107797)]

LOLz wow i never really thought about this at all...

[saph (#140420)]

yep

[Ken Hayashi (#52012)]

This thread is 3 years dead. Probably nobody cares to discuss about the ages of anime characters anymore. But yeah, age probably shouldn't matter.Horo is 600 years old. Lawrence is 25.

Anyway, end of story. I'm locking this thread. I don't think there'll be any new discussion in here anyway. BTW, don't revive long dead threads. It's rather pointless.