Well, allowing for the anti-agathics detailed in the stories...
But I digress. Mang-style illustration tends to simultaneously youthen older women and age young girls. {Reference the figures possessed by nominally 14-year-old Asuka Sohryu Langley and Rei Ayanami, and the surprisingly youthful 28-year-old Misato Katsuragi or 36+ Nodoka Saotome}
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
But I digress. Mang-style illustration tends to simultaneously youthen older women and age young girls. {Reference the figures possessed by nominally 14-year-old Asuka Sohryu Langley and Rei Ayanami, and the surprisingly youthful 28-year-old Misato Katsuragi or 36+ Nodoka Saotome}
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll