WaterTypeStarter
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Do they behave like believable preteens? In games, anime, or manga? Aside from the journeying in a world of monsters and crime groups?
How about in the various anime and manga?Hard to say about the player characters as they are voiceless but some of the others like Hau, Wally and Lillie sound about right for their ages.
I'd say it really depends on the character.
Given how they can survive electrical shocks of several thousand voltages and getting burned with Flamethrowers and still come out with that cartoonish blackened look, and can take down entire criminal organizations all on their own, I'd probably say not very.
I've often wondered why high budget films often use child actors to voice children where as lower-budget media such as in the case of anime will often have females portray younger characters. It is because it naturally tends to feel more believable for the audience and it's something that they can afford, the sounds that they produce are authentic and unique to that age.
There's also how Pikachu can sit on Ash's head without electrocuting him considering the amount of electrical energy Pikachu contains within his body. Humans are full of water with particles within that conduct electricity, and they make a better conduit to the ground than air.
It's not just budget, but laws, which in turn translates to time. Both in Japan and in North America (and in Europe), child actors are required to attend school as well. Due to voice acting schedules, big studios typically set up their own fully functioning schools for child actors, complete with certified teachers and a full education schedule as a regular school. After class ends, they act. Unsurprisingly, this is a colossal expense, one that only the big Hollywood studios can afford (as are a few really big non-Hollywood studios, like FUNimation and Aardman). It's also eats into production schedules in a colossal way, since the kids are spending the majority of their days in these classes, even within the studios, and only get a few hours to play their roles, whereas adults can have the whole day. The result is that it takes much longer for voice actors who are minor to complete their lines, while for live-action, scenes involving child characters have to be crammed tight into whatever time they have available. This is the real reason why young adults are typically cast to play high schoolers in live action and why soap operas have almost no children (except babies).
There's also the fact that child actors are, well, children. They don't have the many years of voice training adults have, and they don't have the sense of awareness or narrative tropes that adults have. They also might not understand stage direction quite as well. The result is that there are very few children who can act well enough to be used in a professional capacity. This was an issue Pixar ran into when casting for Finding Nemo: Nemo had to be voiced by a child, but they spent much longer auditioning for Nemo than any other character because they couldn't find a kid who would sound convincing and believable. Otherwise, you get the weird stilted voice acting like in the Peanuts specials (the pauses in their dialogue was because they were fed fragments of sentences to say, which was discovered to be faster than letting them read the script and rehearse), Tails in Sonic Heroes (voiced by Michael Corkery before he was old enough to know what he was doing), or the kindergerteners in South Park (who were intended to sound random and incomprehensible, particularly Ike).
Well, they aren't exactly 10 canonically. The only time where we know any character's age is at the very beginning of the Original Series (Ash is 10, Misty is 10, Brock is 15) and at the very beginning of BW (Ash is 10). Any other time, you may want to go by how they act. So it isn't exactly 10 year olds with romantic feelings unless you're talking about pokeshipping or even negaishipping.A lot of them have relatable personalities but one thing that I hate is shipping when it comes to really young characters being paired up with others. Like I know that kids in the Pokemon world are meant to be more mature than in real life but still the idea of 10 year olds having romantic feelings for each other bugs me.
To be fair, back when we were 10 year olds, didn't we think it was possible? That's why the games just try to fulfill their imaginations. Now we think it's impossible because as adults we can think logically and rationally.How many 10-year-olds do you know that could travel hundreds of miles through wilderness either on foot or by bike catching dangerous wild creatures with no adult supervision or aid? I'm an adult and I couldn't do that now let alone when I was 10.
To be fair, back when we were 10 year olds, didn't we think it was possible? That's why the games just try to fulfill their imaginations. Now we think it's impossible because as adults we can think logically and rationally.