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(Tried to search about this, seems like "Age" is too small of a word to be searched?)

Is there any "Official" Age for him "now"? Do any of Ash's friends age at all or is everyone always the same age since the begging of the Anime?
 
Search better. There's a REALLY long topic about that already.

brb, going to rub my forehead against an asphalt road. It'd hurt less than dealing with this.
 
I only wanted to know really, I searched but the words "Ash" & "Age" is too small to be searched in these forums so yeah. =/
 
Even if there are hypothetically 365 generations. With 365 gen girls whose birthday starts on the exact day they first show in the anime. Ash will always be 10. And this is only assuming Ash is even the main character by then. Oh dear lord that would suck. Hopefully you can watch these in the afterlife. 365 gens wouldn't be probable anyway considering it would take at least 3650 years to get that far.

Okay I'm done.
 
Ash is 10 forever, and yes its a time warp.

Deal with it, accept it, live with it.
 
People in the pokemon world for anime, don't age. If they did, there probably be more drastic changes in anime and the show would probably fissle out and ended before now. Think about it, Ash was 10 when he statrted. If people aged, 10 years on, he'd be 20. Brock would be 25 and so on. Would those older Ash and Brock still have appeal, especially when they go to each region and pair up with the new female trainer who is just starting out (10 years old). Wouldn't it feel somehow wrong if a 20 year old Ash joined up with a 10 year old girl trainer?

Plus Professor Oak would be getting on in years and he would start losing appeal and plus, what about the actual pokemon themselves? Would they go more the way of (can't remember who) Scizor and be lose to the end of its life? Who would really want that?.
 
In my opinion, Ash as well as the other characters age, because time passes in the anime. I mean, it's only logical to assume the characters age, since time passes.

That's what I think anyway, because it makes more sense and it's more realistic (than saying the characters don't age).

And as for Ash's current age, in my opinin, he is either 14 or 15 (at the most).
 
Shinx3000 said:
People in the pokemon world for anime, don't age. If they did, there probably be more drastic changes in anime and the show would probably fissle out and ended before now. Think about it, Ash was 10 when he statrted. If people aged, 10 years on, he'd be 20. Brock would be 25 and so on. Would those older Ash and Brock still have appeal, especially when they go to each region and pair up with the new female trainer who is just starting out (10 years old). Wouldn't it feel somehow wrong if a 20 year old Ash joined up with a 10 year old girl trainer?

Plus Professor Oak would be getting on in years and he would start losing appeal and plus, what about the actual pokemon themselves? Would they go more the way of (can't remember who) Scizor and be lose to the end of its life? Who would really want that?.
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Good points. :)
(Though one thing is they don't really need to meet up with a 10 year old trainer now every time do they?)

Though if they did Age doesn't necessarily need to be same to real life time, maybe alot slower I was thinking.

PokemonTrainerLisa said:
In my opinion, Ash as well as the other characters age, because time passes in the anime. I mean, it's only logical to assume the characters age, since time passes.

That's what I think anyway, because it makes more sense and it's more realistic (than saying the characters don't age).

And as for Ash's current age, in my opinin, he is either 14 or 15 (at the most).
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Well looking at the Wiki posted above they made a point that I thought about before;

It is even more questionable that the anime has directly pointed out years of time passing. One of the most common supports for this theory is that Ash and May are supposedly the same age when May begins her journey, even though Ash has traveled through three regions and competed in their leagues before she received her first Pokémon.
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So yeah, guess time is used in the Anime but to what the Developers want it to be used for.
 
Considering a 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy are developmentally similar, I don't see that as that creepy. Likewise, Brock flirting with 20-something women is not nearly as creepy as them flirting back, and even besides that, in most ways Brock is mature enough to be an adult, except for in his "official" age. On the other hand, a 20-year-old man traveling with 10-year-old girls is very high on the creepiness scale, and it's grounds for suspicion of the police, if they were half-competent in the Pokémon world.

Ash is not nearly mature enough to be a teenager. If time passes at all, it's too slow to matter; there has been no age-related character development across the board.
 
Yeah, and Brock, at the slowest aging I can imagine, must be about 17 or 18 now, traveling with Dawn, a ten-year-old. If the Pokeworld is anything like ours, I think only Brock's position as a member of a well-known Gym Leader family, and the fact that all the Jennies and Joys are (painfully) aware of his "older women" thing, keeps people from getting suspicious of him.

Then again, I don't think the Pokeworld IS like ours. I think that "type of thing" happens a lot less there...which is why most people seem so...nice. But think about it: kids as young as ten are licensed to control monsters of amazing power...and younger kids can befriend them. What molester could possibly get away victimizing a child for long when they have such powerful potential guardians (who often seem to have better people instincts than humans) roaming about all over the place?

I think that particular sickness has been weeded out of the human race by the present time.
 
Brock traveling with a younger girl like Dawn doesn't mean much, he's really just traveling with Ash since he's his friend, and Brock doesn't flirt with her and only older girls.

If you recall when DP started, Brock and Ash thought they would be traveling themselves without any girl by their side. Brock actually says a line like that, they weren't expecting Dawn or anyone else to come along with them.
 
I've been thinking about Ash's age as well. I've been trying to figure out what the average number of days between each episode (in the anime, not real life) would be. A one day=one episode idea doesn't seem very plausible. At least in the Indigo League season, that would mean that Ash would have gone from being a rookie trainer to having eight badges in a little over two months. Three days=one episode? Maybe. That would put Ash at a little under 15 years old. Sounds reasonable to me.

Scott85 said:
If you recall when DP started, Brock and Ash thought they would be traveling themselves without any girl by their side. Brock actually says a line like that, they weren't expecting Dawn or anyone else to come along with them.
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"Okay Ash, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, and these two men are gonna do it with or without a good woman at their sides!"

I love how on the Bouldershipping page, it says that this exchange is 'open to interpretation'. I certainly had a giggle at it (especially after having read the Bouldershipping page).
 
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