The otaku passion for data and taxonomy found an interesting outlet this week. @kasumi1973, a veteran fan with a career, family and interest in charting anime stats, took up the challenge of finding anime characters at every age between 0 and 100 years old. Of course, there are plenty of characters in their mid-teens, but things got a bit esoteric as they moved into the later years. Still, they almost succeeded.











0 - Heartcatch Precure's Hanasaki Futaba, Black Jack's Pinoko, Crayon Shinchan's Himawari Nohara

1 - Karlmann Dukartuse

2 - Summer Wars' Kana Jinnouchi

3 - Madoka Magica's Tatsuya Kaname, Sacred Blacksmith's Lisa

4 - Totoro's Mei Kusakabe, Nadia's Marie en Carlsberg

5 - Crayon Shinchan, Ojarumaru

6 - Usagi Drop's Rin Kaga, Yuruyuri'd Kaede Furutani, Witchblade's Rihoko Amaha

7 - Detective Conan, Non Non Biyori's Renge

8 - Heidi: Girl of the Alps, My Ordinary Life's Professor

9 - Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha

10 - Patalliro, Pokemon's Ash/Satoshi, Spirited Away's Chihiro Ogino

11 - Martian Successor Nadesico's Ruri

12 - Totoro's Satsuki Kusakabe

13 - Saint Seiya, Gundam: Char's Counter Attack's Hathaway Noa

14 - Glitter Force's Emily (or Smile Precure's Miyuki if you prefer), Evangelion's Rei, Sailor Moon

15 - Mobile Suite Gundam's Amuro, Macross F's Ranka Lee

16 - Gundam SEED's Lacus Clyne, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Love Live's Honoka Kōsaka

17 - Zeta Gundam's Kamille Bidan

18 - Fist of the North Star's Kenshiro, Space Battleship Yamato's Yuki Mori

19 - Mobile Suit Gundam's Bright Noa, Kenshin's Sagara Sanosuke[edit]

20 - Kinnikuman, Mobile Suit Gundam's Char Aznable, Zeta Gundam's Haman Karn

21 - Gundam 00 - Second Season's Setsuna F. Seiei, Berserk's Guts, Shirobako's Aoi Miyamori

22 - Kenshin's Megumi Takani, Galaxy Angel's Forte Stollen

23 - Gundam UC's Riddhe Marcenas, Macross F's Catherine Glass

24 - Sazae-san, Gundam's Kycilia Zabi

25 - Gundam 0083's Anavel Gato, Nausicaa's Kushana, Hell Teacher Nūbē's Meisuke Nueno

26 - Zeta Gundam's Paptimus Scirocco

27 - Zeta Gundam's Quattro Bajeena, Nausicaa's Kurotowa

28 - Mobile Suit Gundam's Dozle Zabi, Castle in the Sky's Colonel Muska

29 - Gundam: Char's Counter Attack's Amuro, Evangelion's Misato, Crayon Shinchan's Misae Nohara

30 - Gundam SEED's Andrew Waltfeld, Evangelion's Ritsuko Akagi

31 - Gundam 00 - season 2's Sumeragi Lee Noriega, Gundam SEED Destiny's Lord Djibril

32 - Totoro's Tatsuo Kusakabe, Gundam SEED Destiny's Gilbert Durandal, Gundam 00 season 2's Mr. Bushido

33 - Kenshin's Anji, Gundam UC's Gundam Unicorn's Alberto Vist, Dective Conans Reiko Kujo

34 - Kenshin's Saito Hajime, Food Wars' Jun Shiomi, Gundam's Char from Counter Attack

35 - Mobile Suit Gundam's Ramba Ral and Gihren Zabi, Crayon Shinchan's Hiroshi Nohara

36 - Kenshin's Usui, Porco Rosso, Gundam UC's Bright Noa

37 - Zeta Gundam's Bask Om, Gundam 00 Second Season's Kati Mannequin

38 - Detective Conan's Kogoro Mori/Richard Moore,, Gundam Unicorn's Daguza Mackle

39 - Gundam 0083's South Burning, Kenshin's Hōji

40 - Nausicaa's Mito, Kinnikuman's Curry Cook

41 - Summer Was' Wabisuke Jinnouchi, Detective Conan's Joseph Meguire/Juzo Megure

42 - Akira's Colonel, Hunter x Hunter's Kikyo Zoldyck

43 - Gundam 00 First Season's Sergei Smirnov, Kenshin's Hiko Seijūrō XIII

44 - Gundam 0080's Steiner Hardy, Gundam F91's Monica Arno

45 - Gundam F91's Carozzo "Iron Mask" Ronah, Nausicaa's Yupa, Gundam Unicorn's Otto Mitas

46 - Nadia's Captain Nemo, Hunter x Hunter's Silva Zoldyck

47 - Big O's Dan Dastun, Seven Deadly Sins' Dreyfus

48 - Evangelion's Gendo Ikari, Crayon Shinchan's Bunta "Encho" Takakura

49 - G Gundam's Master Asia

50 - Servant x Service's Kenzo Momoi

51 - Naruto's Orochimaru

52 - Gundam Unicorn's Suberoa Zinnerman and Ronan Marcenas, Space Battleship Yamato's Captain Juzo Okita

53 - Kaito Kid's Futoshi Takarada

54 - Yamato's Dr. Sakezo Sado

55 - Gundam Unicorn's Martha Vist Carbine

56 - Yamato 2199's Ryū Hijikata, [email protected]'s Junjirou Takagi

57 - Hunter x Hunter's Biscuit Krueger, Yamato 2199's Captain Okita

58 - Gundam's Blex Forer, Kenshin's Gein

59 - Yamato 2199's Heikuro Todo

60 -Evangelion's Kozo Fuyutsuki, Fullmetal Alchemist King Bradley, Seven Deadly Sins' Bartra Lyonesse

62 - Gundam 08th MS Team's Jidan Nickard

63 - Code Geass' Tatewaki Katase

64 - One Outs' Shirooka Katsurou

65 - Hayate the Combat Butler's Kokonoe Saginomiya

66 - Star Driver's Leon Watanabe

66 - Kinnikuman's Mayumi Kinniku

67 - Hunter x Hunter's Zeno Zoldyck

68 - Kinnikuman's Harabote Muscle, Hanasaku Iroha's Sui Shijima

69 - Haikyu's Ikkei Ukai, Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel's Misae Kannazuki

70 - Heidi, Girl of the Alps'Alm-Onji

71 - Detective Conan's Pisco/Kenzo Masuyama

72 - Yu-Gi-Oh!'s Sugoroku Mutou / Solomon Mut

73 - Gundam 00 first season's Ralph Eifman, Hanasaku Iroha's Denroku Sukegawa

74 - One Piece's Z

75 - Mobile Suit Victory Gundam's Otis Arkins

76 - Overlord's Aura Bella Fiora

77 - Cute High Earth Defense Club Love!'s Mr. Tawarayama

78 - Kenshin's Saizuchi, Gundam Build Fighter's Sir John Ayers Mackenzie

79 - Kiba's Jiko

80 - Magi's Baba

81 - RD- Real Drive's Mari Haru

82 - Kyo Kara Maoh!'s Wolfram von Bielefelt

83 - Beelzebub's Ittōsai Kunieda

84 - MAR's Weasel

85 - V Gundam's Romero Malabar

87 - Roujin Z's Kiyuro Takazawa

88 - Fairy Tail's Makarov Dreyar

89 - Yakitate Japan's Umasaburou Azuma

90 - One Piece's Brook

91 - Hayate The Combat Butler's Ginka Saginomiya

92. Kaiketsu Zorori's Fighter Jiichi

95 - K's Daikaku Kokujōji

97 - Isekai no Sei Kishi Monogatari's Wauanri Shume

98 - Magi's Matal Mogamett, No Game No Life's Hatsuse Ino

99 - Barakamon's Kiyo-ba

100 - Disc

You can also find a more extensive list of characters by age (in Japanese) here.

via GwynCampbell

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.