The Japanese... have issues. I mean, all cultures do, but I can't help but feel that the underlying matter of pressure to behave responsibility and maturely is really exacerbated here when video games are evolving into a continually more sophisticated experience while the perception of them is not.
I'd take a little detour in your paper to talk about the idea of "adult" in Japan in general, and look at other behaviors and such that one is expected to "grow out of" in Japan.
Homosexuality is the first thing that comes to mind for me, (you can have little les crushes and flings as a kid, but you gotta grow up and be a wifie for a man when you're an adult) but I can totally see that being too far off topic for your paper.
I'd take a little detour in your paper to talk about the idea of "adult" in Japan in general, and look at other behaviors and such that one is expected to "grow out of" in Japan.
Homosexuality is the first thing that comes to mind for me, (you can have little les crushes and flings as a kid, but you gotta grow up and be a wifie for a man when you're an adult) but I can totally see that being too far off topic for your paper.