Please post anime protagonists in their 30s

I can no longer self insert as teenagers

>>280522898 (OP)
Kys

Gonna be a short thread

>>280522978
What

Because of the amount of time he's spent being dead, Goku should be biologically in his 30s throughout Super

>>280522898 (OP)
The main trio in Getter Robo Armageddon all looked and acted like they're in their 30s or even early 40s.

Yeah you're gonna have a rough time finding some since the average anime protag is in his mid to late teens, and those who are actually adults usually tends to be in their 20s instead. Kenshin Himura is in his 30s during the Hokkaido arc

>>280522898 (OP)
Is 27 still ok with you?

I can only self insert as teenagers because I have arrested development

>>280523225
I want actual 30+ year olds, no time travel bs

>>280523409
No

>>280523522
Damn ok so you're actually O L D

>>280522898 (OP)
While his age is not actually stated, Chuuzenji is supposed to be in his early to mid 30s (and so are his 3 buddies).
Mouryou no Hako has anime adaptation, but I'd sooner recommend manga.

surprised nobody has posted him yet

>>280523506
He is actually 30+.

>>280523471
>tfw your actual teen years never had the atmosphere of a A*Teens tier pop sensation music video

why would you want to self insert as someone like yourself? the entire appeal of self inserting is you can mentally be someone other than yourself for a while

>self insert
No, I insert into the setting as a character I make up

>self inserting at all
Why

Age: 36

>>280522898 (OP)
This is the male equivalent of old hags on twitter whinning about JK fanservice.

>>280523321
There's probably a few /m/ protags that also fit, though my knowledge fails me.
Chirico from VOTOMS ws only 18!?

Tetsuya Tsuruge from Great Mazinger comes to mind. Guy has only two things in life; being a combat pro and loving his wife. But I can't find an age listed anywhere and thats not getting into the clusterfuck that was Shin Mazinger Zero where he was a series of clones, all with tweaked ages, memories, fears and traumas to try and find the perfect combination for the ultimate combat pro. I think the youngest being 19

>>280524712
based

Taichi Keaton is in his 40s and he is a gigachad who has comfy globetrotting adventures.

Tiger&Bunny

>>280524755
he is also a pro at combating his wife.
canon wife beater. that flashback during the latest mazinger movie really took me off guard

>chalia

>>280522898 (OP)

>>280524755
In Zero Tetsuya is a clone of Kenzo, so I guess he does count lol.

>>280525058
wtf I love Tetsuya Tsurugi now

>>280525058
Well thats disappointing. Not seen that movie yet (just checking Mazinkaiser first) so I only know him from Great Mazinger and Shin Mazinger Zero and SRW30 (still getting through that)

Balsa might just be one of the few anime hag protags.

>>280525091
He's not the protag, he's the guy who would have been the protag if anyone competent had written the anime

>>280522898 (OP)
ossan protagonist shows are pretty common now

Lupin is somewhere in the 20-30s region I think

>>280523225
Closer to 50

If you're still self inserting you haven't really moved on from being a teenager.

Daizaburou is likely in his 20s but John 'Mad Bull' Estes is probably in his 30s

36 (out of ten)

>>280525129
Chiyoko also counts.

>>280523329
Why does he still sound like a child?

>>280525332
Self inserting is natural. It is literally impossible to not self insert when watching a tv show.

>>280523321
Ryoma should be late 30s, Benkei and Hayato early 40s, but Ryoma never aged physically in Armageddon

>>280522898 (OP)
>>280523225
Neither can I self insert in to chads. Make them losers just like teenage self inserts.

>>280522898 (OP)
One more year and I will finally attain wizardhood :)

>>280529167
Michael Jackson Syndrome

>>280523321
in the manga they are all teenagers

>>280522898 (OP)
>wanting to selfinsert as the protag
You are mentally a preschooler, watch kodomo.

Solo Raping protag is in his 40s

I'm having trouble finding the clip where Dusty turns 30 and Poplin makes fun of him for being old and Dusty goes "I didn't ask to turn 30".

Started in his mid 20's and is now on his 30's I think

>>280522898 (OP)
How about you add another 20 years.

>>280524903
This seems like a pretty cool story.
Picked the fuck up.

>>280522898 (OP)
A lack of those is why i prefer manga these days.
(there are some)

32 years old

>>280524903
>gigachad
his wife left him and hes still simping for her.

>>280525989

>>280524599
Is this any good?

>>280533268
It re-aired on Netflix in Japan.

>>280522978
Why yo mad

>>280522898 (OP)
You clearly should be able to.

Kaiju n°8
Solo camping for 2

pole dancer in her 30s

>>280529167
dubgods won.
Even before the modern arc he was still like 28 during the main series but only late teens in the popular OVA

>>280525221
I think definitely 30s since they do so many flashback to his "younger days" episodes
I also think him always saying Fujicakes is a gag for Fujiko being over 25 and unmarried

I'm 38 and can only self-insert as teen girls.

>>280539453
how is your HRT going, trannon?

>>280522898 (OP)
You're not old enough yet

>>280522898 (OP)
>dude mokkori
He behaves like a teenager though?

>>280522898 (OP)
too much of a slobbering casual to look through the seinen and josei tags on any logging sites lmao

>>280540726
Just like many 30 somethings.

>it's an adult protagonist but he looks so young for his age he gets mistaken for a teenager
hate when they do this shit

In Japan you're either a child/teenager or a decrepit old shit.

There's no inbetween.

Is Sakamoto a protagonist?

>>280544448
>it's an adult protagonist but he acts so young for his age he gets dabbed on by teenagers
Brutal

>>280523409
>Spike is 27
what the fuck

>>280522898 (OP)
>self inserting

Black jack

>>280544621
So is this fat fuck
Wtf indeed

>>280544785
no idea who that is but he looks 50

ill become 30 in exactly 2 weeks.
Should i genuinely kill myself?

>>280545546
How about now?

>>280522898 (OP)
>>280544558

>>280545695
Uhhh. No?

29! Out of 11?

>>280522898 (OP)
>I need to self insert for everything I watch or I can't enjoy it
This has to be some form of mental illness.

>>280545695
>He wants to kill himself right before he gains his wizard powers
Bozo

Is 39 pushing it?

>>280522898 (OP)
>I can no longer self insert as teenagers
I self insert as Jahy from Jahy Won't Be Defeated. I am a 40 year old white man.

>>280523409
>spike is 27
jesus christ im OLD.

>>280522898 (OP)
you're probably stuck to 1990s anime with that criteria

>>280523225
>dbz was many people first introduction to series
>MC starts out as literally grown man with family and 4 year old son
>is many peoples childhood favourite anime
What happened? Authors were not so afraid to age their character up in the 80-90s.
>inb4 higschool MC anime used to exist back then
It wasnt anything near as domineering as it is now.

>>280530342
The Armageddon OVA's timeline is completely different to the manga's. It might even be an entirely different universe. That's why you get a Go who's basically a clone of both Professor Saotome and his daughter, and a Kei who turned out to be a fully grown-up Genki Saotome in her mid-20s. The latter alone indicates that the primary events in the OVA happened more than a decade after the death of its incarnation of Michiru.

>>280522898 (OP)
just enjoy anime without self inserting. use your empathy instead

>>280552211
I honestly dont care about self inserting in anime but most of these animes are boring as fuck. Everything has to revolve around MC who never does anything interesting and has to react to anything in meaningful way. Im down for watching trashy anime as long as it has some entertainment factor.

Can't for younger characters as I'm too old, can't for my age and older since I'm still a khv. Fully on the outside.

>>280547121

We will not be ready for the anime.

Big D is here

>>280522898 (OP)
Too many Ossan MC in manga nowadays

>>280522898 (OP)
>30s
Damn kids. How am I supposed to self-insert as someone so young?

>>280524755
How about an even stranger case of Uncle Tetsuya

Slime-san is an old af virgin

>>280553340
He's just like me.

>>280525388
>New York is inching towards to Mad Bull New York
NY is going full circle.

>>280553340
literally me, finally I can self insert.

>>280522898 (OP)
>I can no longer self insert as teenagers
Imagine self inserting at all to begin with. Are you incapable of watching any anime/live action movie or reading any manga/western comic when the hero isn't 100% like you? Are you incapable of watching something like pic related because the hero isn't a morbidly obese jobless human virgin loser American like you?

>>280555087
Even though I basically agree with you, self-inserting does not require the self-insert character to be identical to the reader/viewer or even have any similar characteristics, that was a misconception which somehow spread far and wide

>>280553340
fr fr just like me

>>280555087
>>280555168
There's being able to imagine yourself in a character's shoes, which is basically just empathy, and then there's self inserting, which from what I can gather, is just a weird narcissistic quirk where some people can only relate to a character if the character is similar enough to them to begin with. Most people say "self insert" when they really just mean experiencing empathy and relatability, but OP seems to really mean he only enjoys watching things if he can mentally insert himself in place of the MC, which is strange.

>>280553340
well that's not really relevant after the first episode

>>280529245
based autist

>>280539876
That's the stuff.

>>280522978
THIS
>LOOK AT ME EVERYONE I'M A 30 YEAR OLD LOSER MANCHILD PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO MY MISERABLE WASTED EXISTENCE

>>280559003
>Yes.jpg

>noooo you MUST love teenage characters
>everything sucks about adulthood
pathetic faggots

>>280559510
>coping this badly
you know its true and the default and you want to be contrarian because you're old now when that doesn't necessarily have to mean you should stick up for adulthood when we all know it's a living hell and life is over after you graduate high school

>>280544448
This happens to me in real life.

>>280523225
>>280551649
Goku being a dad makes him really awesome

>>280522898 (OP)

>>280559510
It apparently does suck pretty hard for adult Japanese men in particular

>>280560239
that's why there are so many of those "kicked out of the party" fantasies

>>280523321
Men used to have more testosterone and looked older, younger, as a result.

>>280525129
>droopy tits

Nice.

>>280560063
True

How about the opposite? Kids acting like adults

>>280539876
>>280557786
Be like Ootsuki

>>280560527
Dragon Ball wouldn't mean as much for me without that if I'm honest, the sense of growth and family adds a lot to it

>>280523321
>that protag hairstyle

Back when MC’s fucked.

>>280555087
Nta but I used to self insert as Wall-E

>>280555087
Imagine NOT self-inserting. Like watching a show about rocks. Not sexy humanoid space rocks, or cute cartoon rocks with googly eyes, or a documentary where some guy explains rock lore. I'm talking unedited footage of actual dumb rocks that just sit there and do nothing. Impossible, huh? That's because rocks are impossible to empathize with, or in other words, self-insert as. Humans tend to empathize with creatures that are the most similar to them. Everybody has a range, so there are people who refuse to watch shows where the protagonist is different gender than them, or different age, race, or much older or younger than them. Other people might have more subtle preferences, like focusing on the protagonist's personality and interests. Or only watching stuff with hot characters. Some others have seemingly no standards and will watch just about anything. And yet there are still limits to this stuff because everybody self-inserts to some extent.

>>280525712
unexpected lol, based.

>>280560936
Depends on what you mean by "self inserting", some people would disagree that "relating" is the same, I think when reasonable people say they don't "self-insert" they mean they might relate but not past a certain level.

>>280560664
Disgusting. MCs should be a better influence.

>>280561993
having a healthy sex life IS a good influence

>>280562072
Only if the couple is already married.

>>280561140
Yeah, but where to draw the line? An adult disinterested in shows about kids and their kid problems is perfectly reasonable imo. If anything, self-inserting as things you are not, such as men with trannoid tendencies who only watch yuri and cgdct, or furfags who only watch funny animal cartoons, or straight shota fags and manchildren who can't self-insert as an adult are more autistic. Also most anime (and I guess most shows and movies in general) are escapist fantasy. You are MEANT TO self-insert as the protagonist, that's what they were made for. So saying "don't self-insert, self-inserters are lame" is tantamount to saying "stop watching anime, anime is lame." Quite a thing to say on anime board.

>>280522898 (OP)
in one episode of city hunter he thinks about little girl and how she attractive she will be when she grows up

>>280559003
you seem way more miserable desu

>>280522898 (OP)
Did you forget what it was like to be a boy?

>>280563127
It's called an investment. Like stocks.

>>280563127
>in one episode of city hunter he thinks about little girl and how she attractive she is
We all think that.

>>280522898 (OP)
Kenshiro's probably in his 30s in HNK part 2

>>280544558
Sakamoto is definitely a protagonist. The story is fucking named after him.

>>280560612
I'm trying.

>>280524755
Tetsuya is so lucky...

>>280569681
Dayum.

>>280545695
Hang in there, my dude
You might find some things are even easier now, or worry you less.
30 is still young, peak vigor

>>280545751
Much better. Fat fucks don't sell.

>>280564716
Good reminder.

gesicht from pluto counts?

>>280522898 (OP)
He's probably bably closer to 40

>>280522898 (OP)
He's probably closer to 40

33

>>280575677
He's a great MC.

No way he isn't at least over 30 by the time of the timeskip.

>>280522898 (OP)
Buy Ryo is around 25 yo

>>280522898 (OP)
Pretty sure the protag from Reincarnated as a Slime is in his 40s

>>280530944
Don't have the clip but there

>>280522898 (OP)
Kiritsugu is mainly 29 and later in his thirties during some parts of the story. Does this count?

>>280544785
It's Super Loli Man!

>>280575869
Ah, I forgot he qualified but he does have that air

>>280579271
Even in anime you can't escape it.

>>280522978
/thread

>>280575869
Yeah but when will he breed? we need a next generation Taiwanese singers

>>280545695
You still got some time. By 40 it's literally and figuratively completely over, though.

>>280584049
>>280545695
stack paper, learn to talk to women, then go to eastern europe and find yourself a desperate slav-wife in like Poland or something. All the ukrainian refugees fled to there, and the men are all dead, so you can find a girl ez. If you're white that is, otherwise try el-salvador (you wont get cartel'd there) or the philipines.

>>280522898 (OP)
he's literally me

he's actually an 8 year old girl in a man's body just like me and he's got a cute daughter actually a woman in her late 20s or early 30s in the 8 year old girl's body

30, 40, whatever, he's the GOAT

>>280522898 (OP)
Ossanime is getting pretty common these days, fewer and fewer people being born after all.

>>280523875
Isn't Yang in his 20s?

>>280575869
>puppets
doesn't count

John Carter is the best protagonist

>>280524755
>Chirico from VOTOMS ws only 18!?
He had a hard life.

>>280588106
John Carter?!

>>280588304
This movie was just Miyazaki self inserting himself as a curmudgeonly old man that little girls end up falling in love with.
It's so obvious.

>>280584866
He dies at 32 or 33.

>>280590589
Yes, and we're now just like him. Thanks, Miyazaki.

>>280525102
He is 29.

>>280590589
I didn't realize it but it clicks now. I was wondering why it was such a nothing story (with superb animation) but now it makes sense.

>>280523409
>old man spike is a brat now

>>280535480
Yes.

>>280560645
toriyama was good at making time actually pass. even dr slump, for as nonsensical and episodic as it was showed the characters growing. they would often change class, grow up, get jobs. senbee gets married and has a kid too.
it makes the characters feel so much more real

Golgo 13
Odd Taxi
Usagi Drop
Speed Grapher
Spaceship Sagittarius

>>280598478
Golgo 13 translations never

You guys are just kidding about being virgins in your 30s... right?

>>280522898 (OP)
>nobody posted him yet

>>280522898 (OP)
im 39 and 5'11 and 150 lbs. i was this height and 10 pounds lighter at 19.
i will never look like OP, ill never be manly or bigger/heavier than american women. i see no reason to stop pretending to be a teenager.

>>280600729
there's a reason

>>280588376
He'll survive.

No more?

>>280561993
>Being heterosexual is le bad
Fucking zoomers.

>>280529167
Childhood malnutrition as a child in a poor and civil war-torn Japan.

>>280608964
how much sex have you had today

>>280522898 (OP)
Rimuru was 38 years old just before coming to the world of Tensura. Now he must be well into his 40s.

>>280545695
Why would you kill yourself when you're on the threshold of becoming a wizard?

>>280522898 (OP)
This guy is 35 years old.

Not sure if it was ever confirmed, but Cobra feels like he's at least early 30s

>>280522898 (OP)
Igaiga is in his 40s.

>>280523409


Jet is 35 which is crazy to me.

self inserting into fiction is a female trait.

>>280613055
engaging in fiction is a female trait. men should only work, fight and have sex

>>280613137
this sounds like horseshit, every form of fiction including religion was written by men and spread among other men.

>こちとら中身アラサーの幼女だぞ
an around 30s female protagonist comes

>>280524263
that's only something you want to do if you suck. i'm awesome. it sucks playing dnd and having to put less stat points than i have irl.

>>280613176
"men"

>>280534753
even yandex is failing me, sauce?

>>280576311
Believe it or not the age cap for Ken throughout the series is 25-27. Hokuto Shinken appears to also slow the aging process..Id buy it at least.

>>280613472
Heisei Haizanhei Sumire-chan - Vol.5 Ch.35

>>280614325
bless you, anon

>Chillin' in My 30s After Being Fired From the Demon King's army

There you go, pal.