I really think her age (10) was a mistake from 4kids because they didn't think that May looked way older than she was regarding her chest size. She was supposed to be 12 just like in the game but for some reason in the dub, she said "Hi I'm May and I'm 10 years old" That's where the controversy started. Is all about "her chest is too big for 10 years old" and "no early bloomers have that size"The incompetent from 4kids dubs created chaos and almost ruined May's character as a whole, most fans see her as fan service character which is sad.
>>55797616What did she say in the Japanese?
>>55797616>12 just like in the gameShow me where in RuSa her age was confirmed to be 12. No, that one line in ORAS doesn't count, it didn't exist in the original.
>>55797616her age simply doesn't matter for any reason
>>55797639https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/May_(game)
>>55797650>literally says Age Unknown for RSEare you retarded, ESL, or both?
>>55797650That's from a line in ORAS. You need to have evidence from BEFORE the anime, not after. Ruby & Sapphire are the only viable sources.
>>55797641What Op meant is that ppl made a fuss after when she said she was 10 in the anime, everyone (including me) thought she was a teenager but was shocked at first. I think they shouldn't put that line in the first place because Ash didn't mention his age at all so why they did that? Who knows
>>55797688Come on, pedo. What a poor argument, what makes me a pedo? I don't give a fuck if May has a big chest for her age. A pedo hated children with such features
this reminds me. ash is 10 at the beginning of the series and at the end of the series. was there ever a birthday mention throughout the entire show/movies? does his entire pokemon career take place within less than a single year?
>>55797735There are like two of three mentions of years passing, but only in the dub. The Japanese version almost never specifies when any amount of time has passed.
how the fuck is this an actual frame
>>55797616honest my thoughts are, where did the "Age of 10" thing in pokemon even come from if not the anime?Never once in a single game was it established that pokemon trainers start at 10, in the entire manga there are pokemon trainers younger all the time in the Adventures manga that the pokemon creator said painted the world much better for the games, and in the games themselves we deal with toddler trainers (kindergardeners) and again 0 mention of this age of 10 rule.It's never, ever, ever been a thing until the anime. So to me the anime takes these female protagonist designs and just glues on the age of 10 thing to stick with their dumbass rule
>>55797750sorry to double post, but also:In the 3rd movie's spinoff, it was called like Pikachu's vacation or something? Ash is celebrating 1 year since he got pikachu with a party.Ash got pikachu on his 10th birthday lmao
>>55797867She has a woman's body, and it's not just the tits. Ten year olds don't have that type of hip:waist ratio.
>>55797616OUT OF TEN!
Age is bullshit in Pokemon, may it be May, Dawn, Lillie, Liko. I'm not a pedo for being sexually attracted to them.
>>55797938Yeah, no, that's mid to late teens. They know how to draw actual ten year olds, and none of the anime kids have ever been that. The series is meant to appeal to ten year olds, but the characters are teenagers.
>>55797900I blame 4kids, they were the ones who put the line on her dub "I'm 10 years old" and it changed everything.
>>55797616>>55797685>>55797867>>55797903>>55797938>>55797984Can't ignore the allegation that "she stuffed under her shirt", faggots, she's not. She is really that busty, look at her in a white shirt.
>>55798007No stuff, not fake, naturally big
>>55798007I'm gunna need some examples, maybe her in a wet shirt to really expose the curves?
>>55797616>>55797987>says she’s 10 in Japanese as well retard
May is busty in Colosseum as well.
>>55797987Trainers having to be 10 years old was already a thing long before RS were even a thought on GF's mind. No clue where it comes from.
>>55797616https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVcNA4S5HWk私、ハルカ。十歳(Watashi, Haruka. Juusai)I am May. 10 years old.The Japanese dub literally says that she's 10 years old
>>55797616It's already dumb that 10yo kids leave their home alone to explore a world full of monsters and criminals wanting to destroy the world.
>>55798810Survival of the fittestWeak people are not worth maintaining in a world that dangerous.
>>55797735Has anyone made a timeline of the anime? I remember that it was mentioned that a train in BW would be ready within a year and at the end of said series the train is ready to use.
>>55798823This. More adult bodies are more resilient, so this would tend to select for earlier puberty.
There was no plan. Sugimori was just drawing a cute anime girl and the people running the cartoon made her 10 to be the same age as Ash.
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>>55797639>RuSa>>>/r/eddit
>>55797631"Watashi Haruka 10sai"You don't need a doctorate in nip to understand that dialogue.
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Too bad they nerfed her. Now she's kinda flat and Mallow and Serena are the "biggest"
>>55798010Is this enough for you?
>>55801484So fvcking zased (the gif)
>hey kid, want me to asphyxiate you with my boobs?
>>55801845why did 4kids retroactively change the jap script
>>55797748based dub
>>55802021When did the anime nerf May's boobs? Which episode?
>>55802440After she got her Emerald clothes. Compare to any other image in this thread.
>>55802538She got nerfed by the time Battle Frontier started
>>55802550I seem to recall her having a somewhat notable bust there too. Guess they realized their mistake with her size and told the animators to tone it down?
You have to understand and put into perspective just how huge May would get by her 20's if this is the starting point
Show accurate AI models?
>>55802650Boobie expert here. No that's not how it works, if her breasts are already this fully developed at this age, which means in her 20's the breasts size retain the same size. Common sense, when you start earlier then you stop earlier as well.
>>55802874t. envious 3dpd
>>55802550>>55802640Battle Frontier started at AG146. The episode is called Fear Factor Phony.This is also the beginning of 4Kids not doing the English dub anymore.
>>55802874>when you start earlier then you stop earlierthat's not how puberty works, which is part of why environmental exposure to endocrine disruptors is a health concern in children especially for girls who already start sooner than boysYou start earlier, but the complete process continues until the same age as anyone else. Your body doesn't have a "final shape" pre-programmed, it keeps developing according to your genes until the hormones level out
>>55802849Based oppai loli
>>55802538Clearly the shirt and clothes are pushing her down.
No matter her age, the first time she put on a bikini in the anime awakened something in me
>>55797616>Retarded coomer can't understand that horny animators randomly make characters bustier than they are because it's their thingHappens frequently in anime and it was clearly just them being horny because she gained a consistent, smaller bust size in the later portions of AG and by DP she was a flattie. Furthermore, busty 10 year olds exist. Not in a sexy way, it's just how genes end up expressing themselves. In any class with kids around that age you'll have some kids that look 10 and then you'll have a couple where one looks like they skipped a year or two and another looks like they were held back from secondary school. There are children who are already 6 foot or who are already the subject of breast envy. It's uncommon, but not impossible. It all just depends on how your hormone RNG and mama and papa's genes decide to play out.
>>55803787>Happens frequently in anime and it was clearly just them being horny because she gained a consistent, smaller bust size in the later portions of AG and by DP she was a flattie.And then they brought them back again in recent times.
>>55802874>No that's not how it works, if her breasts are already this fully developed at this age>10 year old>fully developed. Are you retarded? She has at least 3 more years before her height even stops increasing. Tall people were also tall kids. It doesn't mean they 'started' earlier. They just... were. Only a minority of them weren't until a massive growth spurt. Growth stopping at 10 years old like you described happens extremely rarely and is due to a pituitary gland problem not being treated.
>>55797616>Draw 21-26 year old>Use Photoshop to scale down her height>Claim she’s a 10 year old
>>55797616When people will realize that for fictional characters age is literally just a number tacked on to drawings?5, 10, 15, fucking 2000 - It's all the same, a meaningless trivia.
>>55804095https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIzwu-6POWUVery few people realize this but the Pokegirls act (and physically look) more like 15 year old girls if anything
>>55804191That's also the fact - In Pokemon media the mythical 10yos not only act but look much older. There's no reason to overthink this detail when it's so inconsequential and just exist as blurb made to help target audience identity with the product.
>>55804052>Growth stopping at 10 years old like you described happens extremely rarely and is due to a pituitary gland problem not being treated.Thats what i meant. May is a special case, she is not a normal 10yo girl nor an early bloomer. Her breasts are fully developed, just take a look in her bikini, a clear cleavage, reason because she has medical implications like Gigantomastia.
>>5580378710 year olds don't have hourglass figures.
>>55801845Where you can see the episodes subtitled in japanese?
>>55804863> Her breasts are fully developed, just take a look in her bikini, a clear cleavage, reason because she has medical implications like Gigantomastia.Gigantomastia causes breasts to NEVER stop growing, let alone stop growing at 10 years old.Now you are making scientifically incorrect arguments on purpose.
>>55804191There's this whole Asian thing about ancient times when people grew faster and behaved like adults earlier. It's now that we have a longer adolescence compared to one or two thousand years ago.
>>55804095This anon is right, age is incredibly arbitrary in pokemon and most anime adjacent properties:Red is 31 in USUM, Melony is 30, Lusamine is over 40, one of these rising stars in ORAS is 39, one of the beauties in Kalos says she's 7 and one of the fairy tale girls says she's old enough to be your mom.It's not real life.
>>55797735The uhh second or third movie I think had a little cartoon addition before the show and it ended with Pikachu returning to Ash to have their one year anniversary/birthday party together.
>>55805999>Gigantomastia causes breasts to NEVER stop growing, let alone stop growing at 10 years old.My bad, you're right, what she has is precocious puberty.
>>55807354third movie, Pikachu's Vacation, they celebrate their one year anniversary (not once mentioning ash's birthday, but he got pikachu on his 10th birthday so..)
>>55803787My head cannon is that she wears a sports bra or a compression bra to keep the girls in place since she’s so developed that her athletic hobbies make the jiggling uncomfortable. Idk how else to rationalize it :/Thoughts?
>>55806701They didn't have to make them that big, it was almost distracting.
some girls are just busty at a young age. even at 10. body matures faster than the mind
>>55808169Well yes. Lillie has a bigger bust than Lusamine.
>>55808087In AG she wear a normal bra until DP she started to wear sports bra, maybe she feeling sensitive there so your right. Notice in Oras (Current May) she started to wear a compression undershirt? and yet her boobs still look big, maybe shes 12 in current one.>>55808164Its a close up shot, the animators want to give more detail if they can
I think May's age and level of development are a central aspect off her character, even in the games. I also think the general high quality of her character (being a much better insert for players than Brendan) is why adding female protags to Pokemon was less controversial than that change in some other franchises. And I know Crystal did it first, but that was a re-release/definitive release. I never played Gen 3 when it came out, didn't play anything between Gen 1 and Gen 5, and going back and replaying all of them, May is tied with Red for me as the best player character in the entire series. She's just the perfect kid for a coming of age story. Her whole design is based around this. She's an elementary school girl because that's the audience they're trying to rope in, having already got the boys with Gen1/2. Compared to other female protags (and Brendan) she's very competent, capable, and non-feminine. Just like you can imagine Red carrying all his items around in his giant pockets, she's got a pack around her waist. She's prepared. Brendan has no such bag and a perpetual stupid look on his face. So May is more like Red than Brendan, but they didn't want her to be a total tomboy, hence the overdeveloped feminine figure. Since there's no character dialogue, most of this is conveyed by things other characters say, but everyone May meets is impressed by her skill as a pokemon trainer. She's constantly prying adults out of horrible jams, and it doesn't feel out of place because, just like Red has that hyper-competent cocky look on his face, May just LOOKS like she's older and more confident than her age would imply, and it just fits the story telling in RSE so well.May is one of the only female characters I have no difficulty self-inserting as. I couldn't self-insert as Brendan if my life depended on it. To me, she's the default RSE protagonist. I wouldn't change anything about her. Perfect execution of what they were trying to do.
>>55808183Kek lusamine is mogged by her prepubescent daughter. This is too much
>>55808401I think she's using cowblowing to increase the speed of her chest growth.
>>55808401All that wall of text to justify being a weirdo who played as the girl. It's fine though, you should just own it
>>55808542She's cute and I like her. That's all the reasoning I need
>>55808819meant for>>55808812 oopsie
May has maycromastia and becomes a titcow in adulthood
>>55808819>>55808823That's honestly much better and I respect it
>>55808819>>55808823That's honestly much worse and I hate it
>>55808834The anon who replied isn't me. I don't usually play as girl characters when given a choice. Sometimes maybe in a second playthrough to see if anythings different. May is just better to me than most female protags. I'm not going to lie and say I don't think she's sexy like some weirdo in denial though. She's cute, she's just also very well designed outside of that, which is why I prefer her to Dawn, who I generally find more attractive.tl;dr both posts, May is one of the only female characters I prefer to play as for non-cute girl reasons. I'm not sure how much of this is my irrational hatred of Brendan, but it's definitely part of it.
>>55808851I may (heh) have been a little too sarcastic.I admit your reasoning was sound and May is one of the best designed girls for the reasons you mentionned. What made me crack up is the whole "to me she is the canon protag and I can't self insert as Brendan' because... every other boy and myself played as Brendan just fine, we didn't even think about this>Are you a boy or a girl>Am boy>pick boysimple as
>>55808855If I'm being honest, Brendan reminds me of my actual self too much. Having played Gen 1 first, I'm super biased towards the view of Red I had as a kid, where he's the ultimate world traveling badass with a super confident smirk on his face. That's who I wanna be when I play Pokemon, Brendan felt more like a normal guy like me. I also never got the whole "pick the character who is the same gender as yourself" thing unless it's some RPG with a character creator. If you give me two separate designs it's not MC Male and MC Female to me, it's Brendan and May, and I just like May much more.
>>55808935>it's Brendan and May, and I just like May much more.Yeah it's fine. I was talking from the average kid's pov.Most people pick the girl nowadays because the male design is usually trash with little customization
>>55808183Maybe she got that from Mohn's side.
>>55808183That’s Masters they’re very generous with boob size lol>>55808277Glad it makes sense it was annoying to me since I’m an on model fag and official media was inconsistent
>>55808855>>55808851>>55808812I play as the boy in the main version and the girl in the “off” version. Except in XY where I played as a girl in X because chromosomes and such
>>55809847I want to chat with the one who design May
>>55797748In the first episodes, Ash stated in the japanese version that he has been traveling for 1 month.
>>55801484Jirachi is SAVAGE
They're just seriously big for her size
>>55809847they weren't generous with May, though
>>55808401>>55808819These renders are the reason I developed a biker shorts fetish
