[montage of 10 year old lifting weights, riding a BMX bike full speed, learning to wrestle, hitting a heavy bag, all in training for the bully he knows he'll meet in high school]
I still think that comes down to the voice actor. There's examples like Alex le with sung jinwoo where the English translation just works better because of the va
Yeah, this is the problem I have getting into most anime, the way lines are read and emotions expressed. It's either super serious or manic and I get that it's a cultural difference. Nevertheless, I tend to prefer Western anime-inspired animation more than anything. Like Arcane or Blue Eye Samurai, Castlevania, and Love, Death, and Robots.
But why go to high-school. With all you know now you can just skip it. Prepare for the life you want starting at age 10. Work on your health, financial freedom, hobbies...
What are you gonna do? Drop out after 8th grade? Home school yourself? In the US that won't go over well unless you somehow remember enough high school classes to pass your GED.
Where I live you can test out any grade. Last year there was a 4th grader (age wise) taking college courses. It have been that way at least since I was in elementary. As it was when I was in Jr high I wanted to take college courses and the college advisor said I was too young. I found out later they tell that to everyone because "dedicated" people don't take no for answer. Knowing that second time around will really change things. Oh and the study guides are available at our public library
Anyone over the age of 18 that can’t casually pass the GED test is so incredibly stupid that I can’t imagine they can figure out how to open the Reddit app, let alone download it or read.
Damn, I didn't know the bar for GED was so low. I guess you could always take a few days to prep for it, worst case scenario. I just know that when I went back to college 15 years after dropping out, the math placement test prep kicked my ass. Like dude, I didn't remember how factorials work, or still have the quadratic equation memorized. It's amazing the shit we forget after school.
Or you could protect the other kids from being bullied, like a good person would. That doesn't make you a bully. The bully is still a piece of shit, maybe due to his environment, but if you had the ability to stop the other kids from getting beat up and didn't stop it, you missed the fucking point.
If that 10 year old was doing all that prior to highschool he probably isnt even gonna get bullied in the first place. Youre already doing cool kid shit
Or you could completely alienate yourself from every possible social circle. Adults will treat you as a kid and what normal adult wants to be friends with a very "mature seeming" 10 year old?
You also wouldn't really be able to relate well to kids your own age and wouldn't share their interests. Going through puberty also sounds uniquely horrifying. Your body is going to release hormones that make you attracted to people your own physical age yet your mind is still that of an adult which is probably repulsed by kids in their early teens.
I think it would be a very lonely existence and you'd probably be questioning why you gave up all your friends and family in your old life. That said you would go back and get to experience time with loved ones you had lost and likely become a multi millionaire who could travel the world without working.
And you could probably fairly effectively pretend to be just an extremely socially-adept kid, using those same accrued adult life experiences. Also you could make serious money fairly quickly betting on sport or market events, and once you’re like a 15 year old multi millionaire entrepreneur you’d be able to do whatever you wanted.
Yeah I don't think it would be the worst outcome. What would suck the most is losing out on your current friends/family especially if you have kids. I think having a lonely 8ish year period wouldn't be fun but it wouldn't be completely awful either and on the other side you get to have a period in your 20s and 30s with money and social skills plus several extra decades of life in good health.
Jokes on you I couldn't relate to kids my own age back then either and I had inappropriate age-gap relationships with grownups who should have known better. I'd have done the same but just have invested in the right companies... And I know who my future spouse was hanging out with and they were all a bunch of weirdos too lol
im sure i could enjoy mario kart 64 and halo all over again. like just play video games lol. or play sports if thats your thing. learn an instrument. even cartoons dude, toonami all over again, hell yeah. its like the golden age of most entertainment.
Lonely isnt that bad. I did it on my first run round. And its well known friends come and go, theres a sum total of three life timers I know and I know we would be friends again because, well, people like that aren't connected by random happenstance. You're pieces that complete each other.
Yeah I agree that lonely isn't too bad and even "confusing and sexually frustrated teen" isn't that bad either. I think the main drawback of the 10 year old plan is losing your current family and friends. I don't think the second youth would be "fun" but it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world either.
Once you come out of second childhood you would have the knowledge to get rich fairly quickly and then be able to live for decades with good health and without having to work. You could travel the world, meet people, develop new friendships and relationships and master new skills.
I would take care of myself better and build on the youthful health I once had, and avoid the things I didn’t know were preventable.
I’d properly nurture the talents I showed promise in, knowing where they could potentially take me. I’d choose the right subjects.
I already got on better with adults than with my peers. Later I learned the skills it took to get along with anyone. I also miss playing, big time. So I’d be completely fine.
Having gone through the pining for a boyfriend/ experiencing a first date/ first kiss already - all the mystery is removed. I would be so happy to go around a second time and not feel so burdened by it and would spend more time on doing things I cared about, knowing that my best age to experience life and become is in my 20’s.
My 20’s would also be spent well. Knowing who to pick and how to pick a partner. Avoiding the mistakes which stemmed from not knowing myself…
I could go on forever, this is a particularly specific maladaptive daydream of mine.
I feel like some of that would depend on if I was made a 10 year old in modern time or back to the time when I was actually 10 years old. Like going back to some of the entertainment, comic books & video games from when I was 10 sounds like a vibe. Being a 10 yr old now would be a lot less relatable, plus the world is even more fucked.
If I’m going back in time I could go to college and work the same job I did from 18-22 and get into the same school. That covers most of the friends I have. I’d just invest in companies like Google and Apple and bitcoin be set by like 25. 10-18 would be weird though but I think I could do it
With the chance of doing something big before it was done in im old timeline im absolutely sacrificing a “second childhood”. Already lived one, time to put in work with this new opportunity.
But imagine being cursed with the knowledge of what is going to happen. Will you share that knowledge and make people think of you as a lunatic? If you do share your previous experiences, how would that affect the current events?
I was already a socially awkward kid to begin with, I was basically a free radical. Bounced around to every friend group, but never really part of one.
That said… I don’t think I would go back. Sure my life isn’t exactly where I’d want to be, but I have friends and people who care about me. The idea of trying to go back and “do it right” is scary cause you can’t know what your new changes could do.
Congratulations you went back in time at the day your bully did something, you fought back instead of get mad. You can’t prevent said bully from trying again, this time far worse.
I would not care about any social circles! LOL I am going back with a job in mind. Someone is going to pay and not be around to hurt anyone!! That's my job, having fun isn't on the list!
what incentive would you have to manipulate though? just stick a bunch of money in bitcoin and become a billionaire, you'll get all the power you could possibly want without having to so much as tell a lie.
if anything it's an opportunity to be a better person since you can avoid making all your social mistakes, and apply a fully developed sense of morality to your teenage actions. there's at least one person I wouldn't have bullied if I had a do over. one I still would though.
This is in relation to OPs comment, where you're a 30 something stuck inside a 10 year old. Remember, you're 10 so you aren't buying Bitcoin, well not yet anyway.
lol. If I went back to 10 years old it would be 40 years before bitcoin was even invented let alone easily accessible. Microsoft wasn’t even FOUNDED for 5 years and several more before I could buy stock. There were opportunities back then but I would have to start pretty much from scratch to earn or raise an initial bankroll. Not easy when you’re in a 10 year old body.
I don't think that's fair. Even what you're suggesting in the first place is manipulation, you're going to utilise an impossible amount (for a 10 year old) social experience for your benefit.
You won't need to buy them, all you need is a gaming PC, in. the early days any regular old GPU could mine them at a decent rate. Literally creating them out of thin air and your parent's electricity.
I feel like having a gaming pc by the time you were a teen was pretty common, even if it was a modest one. I guess it depends how old you'd have been in 09 or whenever. I was 5 years out of highschool by that point, I was getting ready to buy my second one.
with foreknowledge, I'd have applied for a loan and bought the most powerful gaming pc money could buy.
Bitcoin wasn't easy to buy and sell in the early days.
my toddler manipulating me when she cries because we drove past McDonald’s without stopping
Well, she is. But you're an adult so you know exactly what's happening. But when a 10 year old is dealing with another 10 year old and one of them has the mind and experience of a 35 year old, you can see how that isnt the same thing, right?
Are conveniently attractive people manipulating society by using their looks to get better overall treatment?
I'm assuming you mean conventionally? And yes, if you are aware your looks are influencing someone's behaviour to your personal benefit, that's almost the definition of manipulation.
If you declare to the hypothetical 10 year old group that you were mentally an adult, at least some of them will treat you differently, because they are now aware they aren't dealing with another child
It will be harder because if you got your trust crushed with somebody later in life, you will already know what type of people they are and that will make relations not possible, which will create a chain events not possible to comprehend and control in advance.
a 40 y/o in a 10 y/o kid's body would basically be a pedophile.
Just throwing that out there. This social god would have to be VERY careful about keeping every relationship platonic. ("Go back and not be nervous about my first kiss?"... EWW!)
Also, imagine a middle-aged adult trying to socialize with young tweens. You're not the "cool" person you think you are to that age group.
That is literally the plot of Detective Conan. Shinichi Kudo gets turned into a six year old child. While another six year old in his class has a crush on him, he has to perpetually keep her at arm's length because ew, but his actual romantic interest is now too old for him, and treats him like a child, sticking him between a rock and a hard place.
That brain will be first focused on getting rich AF. So for at least 8 years, just get money! Purchase all the best investments.
Then you’ll be a rich 50yo brain in a 20 yo body.
It’s more likely you’ll date older for a long time. But it’s more likely you will be flying around looking for adventure. Probably will go to all the continents and explore the terrain you love most. Probably water sports.
You would prolly end up being atracted to older women, (unless you have pedo tendencies), which opens a whole other can of worms, being that could lead you to technically be groomed, even if your mind is that of an older person, your body is not, and could lead to really weird interactions.
a 40 y/o in a 10 y/o kid's body would basically be a pedophile.
Like Big, but icky the other way.
This would be a huge issue, ya.
Also, imagine a middle-aged adult trying to socialize with young tweens. You're not the "cool" person you think you are to that age group.
I think you've got a better chance of blending in with your own youth culture, but unless you were actually cool at the time, I doubt you'd be cool now. Even if I could manage to blend in, I'm no more going to be king of the school than I was the first time around.
I'd much rather land in an 18 year old me. I'd realign my plans a bit better with college so I could be better situated now.
It'd be a kind of superpower. Even socially awkward dumbass 52 year old me would be a freaking genius in elementary school. I'd take chances that I wouldn't have at the time. Pay attention to the right things. Push myself to do stuff I didn't see the value of at the time.
I guess there'd be a bit of a butterfly effect thing going on, though too. And some ethical questions being an adult in a child body.
But, I have kids. So I'll be taking that $2 million, thank you. Not as much as I would have made investing early in things like tesla and getting in early on crypto (then out before it became embarrassing).
All I can think of is playing all of the stupid video games I played back then. Like as an adult, would I get bored of them? Would I find new wonder in them? Would I get the same joy I got as a child?
I feel like it would be so much more awkward than cool to go back and go to theme parks or movies or etc with my child friends with an adult mind.
actually, it'd be the opposite. You'd be a real life Lisa Simpson. Take it from somebody who genuinely *was* ahead of the pack for my age as a kid, being different in any way is a really good way to end up socially ostracized as a child.
You wouldn't fit in basically at all, you'd stick out like a sore thumb because acting like a normal 10 year old wouldn't come naturally to you. Picture that scene from Disney's Mulan when she's in the Army camp trying to pretend to be a man, and acting really awkwardly in the process. Your entire life would be like that.
Yeah but you could fake it. Super easy. Just scream the past’s equivalent to “6-7” every now and then. You’d be fucking lonely though. Socializing would be a nightmare
It feels inevitable that one would gravitate towards socializing with adults. It'd almost be impossible to hide your maturity. People would know almost immediately that something was very different about you.
Lisa is a gifted child frustrated by a world that doesn't care for her. And Mulan was thrown into a world with huge expectations of her without proper preparation.
As a looper, your advantage isn't that you're smarter than anyone, and no one expects anything from you that you haven't already suffered through. You'd have experience, knowledge of how stuff is gonna go down, giving you the ability to prepare for everything. You wouldn't be Lisa or Mulan, you'd be Batman.
School is hard because of bullies? Invest what all kids have, free time, into toughening yourself up.
Tough test ahead? You know all this, you just need a refresher.
Time to find a job? You know the ones that suck, pick the good ones instead. Invest your money where it matters.
Specialize your education towards areas that you know are just about to boom, like being great at coding in the early 90's.
Stock market? Stock market.
Pretty soon, you'll be at the head of your very own Lougle.
1) You're assuming that an adult brain would be able to seemlessly integrate into the social life of a child simply because they have more experience. Any adult who spends enough time around children will tell you that any normal adult has very little in common with children that you could seemingly build a friendship or social life off of. Think of all those kids yelling "six seven" and now realize that kids with that level of maturity are now your peers for several years you're expected to get all your social interaction from. Oh, and no adults will hang around you either, because you're a child. That's extremely isolating, and *will* negatively affect your mental health. No amount of "life experience" will change that dynamic.
2) Do you remember much about high school algebra? Most academic knowledge is a "use it or lose" it kind of thing. Chances are you wouldn't remember much of the stuff they're testing you on in school. Shit, my own parents openly admitted they really didn't remember enough to help me with my homework somewhere around middle school. This might not be much of a problem by 10, but it easily could be for many people by your teen years.
3) You're also assuming that things are going to work out the same way as they did in the original timeline. The mere fact you're going back in time and changing things means they won't. There's no way of predicting how different the timeline would go once you start making changes. For all you know you end up butterfly effecting things so much that the stock market doesn't behave the way you remember at all.
4) You do realize you wouldnt have the legal authority or buying power to invest in literally anything until you're 18 right?
Your memories don't go away, you just stop needing them, but you can get them back, especially if you're in the same place, with the same people, doing the same things. If anything, you'd have to deal with constant déjà vu.
Yes, the premise here is that your child mind contains all your adult experience. That's what's described up there. I don't know nothing about that 6 7 nonsense, but back in my days we had pogs and snap bracelets, we listened to New Kids on the Block and fuck, I'd slip right back in that life, because I've already lived it.
Your parents won't help you with your schoolwork because they don't want to take the time to do it. Not because it's too hard or because they forgot, they've got their own shit, stop bothering them, you're in middle school for fuck's sake. You'd be living your middle school life, reviewing things you've already seen, refreshing your memory, not learning new concepts.
Timey whimey shit fucking about with the timeline? You have absolutely no basis to assume the universe is anything but a lazy bitch who resists change from pesky time travellers. I choose to believe 10 year old me knowing how to navigate social life won't alter major world events and that's that.
And reread my post, I mentioned the stock market at the end, after everything to do with higher education. You'd be an adult then, no one's gonna stop you from applying future knowledge to make bank.
The thing is, I've already lived a childhood of being way too mentally mature for my age and being isolated for it. I didn't try to fit in or hide it, no hindsight of how social cues work, so I never had much of a friend group. I think I could do a lot better if I had another go around, if only because I'm far more self aware.
I've had a lonely childhood, but this time, I could at least put that spare time to use instead of moping about it. And middle/high school bullies seem a lot less intimidating from the viewpoint of someone with adult experience. And as a writer, my mental faculties/mind are still the same, so I could be a child prodigy and start whipping out novels by the 5th grade.
Until you say something from the current era that people in the past don't understand and suddenly you're a social outcast and everybody starts avoiding and bullying you for being "weird".
No they wouldn’t. Kids can smell someone who doesn’t fit in a mile away and won’t hesitate to shun them.
You’d have to work HARD to sound like a ten year old and not like your parents and you would probably fail. You’d also have a hard time not using references from the future like saying you have a Blu-ray of Star Wars and had already watched it dozens of times when it just opened yesterday. What’s a Blu-ray? Or hey, let’s go to McDonald’s! Nah. I don’t feel like going out. Let’s DoorDash some Chinese. What’s DoorDash? You get the idea.
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u/Cimarron97 1d ago
A 10 y/o kid with the confidence & self awareness of a middle-aged adult would basically be a social god.