Quote Originally Posted by Fynn View Post
I find this hard because I often feel like children are super idealized in media and it looks like the people who write them have never really interacted with children and seen how rude, weird, and random they all actually are, not to mention emotionally unstable and trigger-happy.

I mean, I liked Nanako fine, but she was still kind of too perfect, being nice to everyone, and doing the frickin' laundry at age six. She's still probably one of the best portrayals of a kid in Japanese popular media.
This.

I mean I loved Nanako, but one of the main reasons for that was "holy cow, she is the sweetest most well-behaved kid ever. I wish my future kid would be as well mannered as her". She just seemed way too mature for her age. She is 6 - 7 years old. I have never seen a 7yo cook, clean, garden and be happily contented with a trip to the local mall on rare occasions and a T-shirt gift on even rarer occasions, especially considering she has no mum and her father isn't around much. The most bratty thing she's ever done was give her dad a lil smack on the backside, and that wasn't even bratty.