Now this is surprising, while i prefer young mc ranging from 14- 25 at most. I usually don't care the age of mc, if the story is interesting i'll read it. If one of you find the manga with older people(i mean very old) as mc and is interesting please do tell, i'll check it out.

Although, I will add that they make middle-schoolers look like adults and vice versa. When I was is middle school, there were like 4-6 girls with tits, all others were flat, and all the guys were skinny, few were built (I'm leaving out all the fat people lol). Apparently, girls in Japan are born with massive tits that only get bigger :lol: If you strictly follow manga, that is. I just think that if they're going to throw in an age variable, at least make them look their age. A 13-year-old is either built like a brick house or has massive tits (DD breasts and higher is fucking sick in RL, with all the veins and shit... gross). When they pop in the self-conscious girl who has small breasts, that is the encapsulation of every Japanese girl that I've seen; I live in Cali, so I see a lot, but some do get implants :lol:

As I said, as long as it fits with their role and level of maturity and such I really don't mind their age.
Something like Mahou Sensei Negima is a bit of a special case, though. I still feel weird that he's only 10 years old but I really don't mind. I mean he's still pretty childlike in some aspects despite being quite mature
I do like it if the character is around my age though (as long as they're awesome, at least)

I don't care how old the protagonist is in comparison to my age. I just want to see more protagonists in their twenties or older, since there are more teenage protagonists in manga than I care to count.

Seriously, age rarely comes up as an issue or pivotal detail in the manga I read. Though sometimes I raise an eyebrow at supposedly "middle schoolers" fighting crime organizations and the such. But I suppose theyy do it in order to cater towards younger readers. Also, similar to That3rdGuy, I absolutely dislike when the girls have massive breasts. I don't understand why publishers and authors think that the big breasts are a "good" reason for an MC or someone to like someone else. Seriously, it's a lot more attractive when the girl is ("realistically") pretty rather than a walking impossibility.

Nope, no preference.

Although this poll made me wonder who was the youngest and oldest mc on the manga I've read, heh.

I'm more surprised that there weren't more quiting votes... probably because those that have don't come here.

I've been reading manga since I was younger than Nobita, now I'm older than most of protagonists. I'm very perplexed as to how I'm gonna answer the poll.

It's hard to really make a connection with a character that is in middle school. Especially when said character acts like they're a teenager, or older. I don't like 12 year olds professing undying love to each other in shoujo, and I don't like them being some super mature fighter either like in shounen.

well yes i agree that its annoying when people act out of their age, worst example of this is really gakuen alice where it annoyed me to a point i could not read it. nura is atleast readable if yet annoying.

looking out of their age its easily "Wolf Guy - Ookami no Monshou" that takes both gold and silver its so missmatched its funny.

i prefer reading about characters portraid as realistically younger then me just because i can get the feeling "been there done that" that adds to the reading value but its a really minor part compared to the massive weight of a good story.

its harder to relate to a character older then me but they are so rare that when i find them they are instressting only because of that.