Not Allowed to Grow Old: Difference between revisions

Whoever suggested comparing this trope to SORAS should be spanked. (Pun intended.) Spell out your acronyms, people!
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(Whoever suggested comparing this trope to SORAS should be spanked. (Pun intended.) Spell out your acronyms, people!)
 
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Ah the [[Time Skip]]. Some fans' favorite moment of the series. Everyone is [[Took a Level in Badass|stronger]], [[Older and Wiser|smarter]], [[She's All Grown Up|more attractive]]. The kids are teens, the teens are adults and the adults are... um, still adults.
 
This is somewhat [[Truth in Television]]; if only a few years have gone by, the difference between how much an adult changes and how much an adolescent does can be drastic. There's a much more visible difference aging from 10 to 15 than there is aging from 35 to 40.
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However, this gets particularly noticeable when after reaching a certain age, adults in a series stop showing signs of aging at all. No wrinkles, no gray hairs, no change in build, and often no costume changes or new hairstyles, either.
 
Not to be confused with [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]; may overlap with [[SORASSoap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome]].
 
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== Anime/ and Manga ==
* Acknowledged and lampshaded in ''[[Naruto Shippuden]]'': All the kids are older but most of the adults don't even get new costumes. In one post-show explanation, they note how Kakashi's only difference between then and now is that he's reading a different book.
* In ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'', none of the characters seems to age after the [[Time Skip]]. Nagisa's [[Absurdly Youthful Mother]] ''still looks as young as she was back when was able to pass as a Highschool girl''<ref>her daughter was [[Up to Eleven|also at high school at that time]].</ref>.
* After the {{spoiler|two}} [[Time Skip]]{{spoiler|s}} in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', [[Camp Gay|Leeron]] still looks the way he was in early episodes., even when the other older characters during the early episodes are ''[[Beyond the Impossible|already geezers and grandmas]]''.
 
== Western Animation ==