Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-76.20.152.224-20130826231849/@comment-5051846-20140411184224

Ivy Pendragon wrote: @Angel; Really? I didn't know that... that's really the legal age in Japan? I just... wow. I just think that that is somehow wrong. and I know that Kaito lacks an official age, but he is usually portrayed as being between the ages of 18 and 40. And I don't live in Japan, and a good deal of the people that make these Rin X Kaito songs probably don't live in Japan, so to me it is pedophilia. I expect some countries base it on emotional maturity – so about when you become and adult and others on puberty – so about 13. Both can be rationalised, I supose. It's a tough thing to do though, on something so defined on the indivisual.

It's also influenced a lot, I expect, by culture and religion.