Originally posted by: alukard
Or they could start 30 years later so that Kira has alzheimers & diarrhea.
I actually believe this is a plausible and incredibly intersting idea!

I wish there were more animes that played out over a long stretch of time... So many, and the Gundams in particular, take place over a one year or shorter time period, not too much time to see long term repurcussions, personal changes etc etc. Aging is virtually invisible in shoujo anime because they need all the characters to be young, cute neon-colored-hair falling in front of their girly faces high school aged kids. Aging makes people ugly. Ugly people shouldn't be allowed on TV. Therefore all story lines set to one year or we'll do a Seinfeld/Simpsons esque 'one episode really never effects the other' kind of outline for the show.