And right off the pass, I'm not talking about hentai when I say "grown-up." I would've said "adult" but that's just asking for it.
When I try and think of a series that is in a modern day setting, maybe with a more dramatic/romantic/realistic feel to it, 95% of the time it's gonna be set in high school. The only series that I could think of that have adult characters (or at least college age) were Nana, Honey & Clover, REC, and Nodame Cantabile (I could maybe throw Paradise Kiss in there, since most of the characters are college age if I'm not mistaken). If I'm missing some, please feel free to chime in because that's what I'm looking for.
In the case of all 4, they're all shows that I really ended up loving, because I could actually relate to them on certain levels. Like, Nana for example is one of the only shows in recent memory that actually deals with complex, realistic, grown-up relationships. The characters deal with the complications of bringing sex into the relationship and things like that.
So what do you guys think? Why do we have a serious shortage of these types of shows? There seems to be plenty of this material in their live-action dramas. Just seems weird that we rarely see the subject matter crossover into animation.







