none of the characters look their respected ages in any way

Just stop
the anime age debate is always stupid because the design isn't ment to be realistic

@Mr_Sai its not just about looks, the way they act is way older too, i have no problem with lucky star because atleast they kinda act their age

Then it's realistic. At the time people were considered adults around the age of 12. So the age of 8 at that time is the same as the age of 12 at our time when adulthood is the age of 18.

irrelevant
peter griffin acts like a torddler most of the times even tho hes a grown ass adult
what do you want tokiyuki to shout gen Z crap and watch skibidi toilet all Day?

@ejleon no 8 year old looks remotely like that lol

@Rukasumi so you lack any experience with different sized kids, just say that

Some documents from the time describe tokiyuki's age as 4 years old.
His age varies from document to document.

That's not what fallacy is. Fallacy is a logical error in an argument. So no, this is, in fact, not a fallacy. And actually this is true.
Secondly, kids act as kids today because they don't have responsibilities. At that time an 8 year old, like you've seen in EP1, was trained to be a soldier, because at the age of 12 they could go to war.
Thirdly, the fallacy is when you talk about acting as 18. No one talked about being 18. You shifted the goalpost, because otherwise you couldn't refute me. You said that he acts as 12 in your eyes. Yes, in today's standards that would be 12, when the adulthood starts as 18 ( 12 is 2/3 of 18), but at that time adulthood started as age of 12, that's why kids had to "mature" faster, and that's why he acts as an 8 year old.
Lastly, he is still pretty childish. He doesn't really understand that he could die. The battlefield is just a playground for him and that's why he thinks of it as a game which was also highlighted in the show several times.

You literally didn't say anything that is remotely a plot hole or/and refute any of my statements.
GJ

Re-read my comment and try again.

I cannot for the life of me fathom anybody over the age of 15 seriously caring about the difference between an 8yo and a 12yo. A kid is a kid is a kid. I can barely tell the difference irl much less in anime, appearance and behaviour wise.
Like, unless you're a kid yourself or a parent/teacher of kids in that age group suffering from a terminal case of deformation professionnelle, I really can't see why this is something you'd get hung up on when the story would change in no meaningful way if they looked younger or were actually 14yo.

lol, what is happening lmao.

irs anime bro...they aren't real people. and anyway, I in real life, sometimes people dont look their age. I don't see what would get you so annoyed..
do u get annoyed when you watch Hollywood teen dramas where the teens are played by 30 year Olds??

@elany wtf does my age have anything to do with it, what a stupid comment to make, if anything this shows how immature you are not me

@Rukasumi
To put it simply, as you age yourself, the ages of kids start to sort of run together.
As a preteen, or even a teen, the difference between 8 and 12 seems huge because four years is a third of your entire existence. As you grow old 4 years suddenly becomes a nearly insignificant amount of time, you gain enough perspective to realise that kids of certain ages are not that different in the grand scheme of things, especially if you don't have kids yourself and don't have a reason to compare kids of different ages to one another - which is why i also made an exception for parents and teachers, people who would have that additional frame of reference.

You seem to have taken what i said extremely personally, but all I meant is that with the perspective of age, this is simply not an actual issue. It's not a question of maturity, it's just the natural by product of aging.
The kids in this show are put in situation no human, no matter their age, is really equipped to deal with. Surviving a genocide is simply not what any of us were built for, so splitting hairs over how old these kids are is pointless because in their circumstances it literally would not matter.

@elany has nothing to do with me taking it personally, it was just a really stupid question, dont try and take the moral high ground when you were the one attacking me

@Mr_Sai its not just about looks, the way they act is way older too, i have no problem with lucky star because atleast they kinda act their age

@Rukasumi
if you take somebody pointing out that people at different ages experience time differently as an attack then honestly that is a you problem.
I'm going to remove myself from this conversation now, seeing as you're intent on taking everything I say in bad faith and I don't have the patience to keep hammering home the same points to somebody unwilling to listen.

@Rukasumi tough times makes for tougher people, you can't take into example contemporary children lmao, also cause at the time the average person wouldn't live past their fourties

@nirererin some mofo with woke-issues made a thread. Pay no heed, sir

@BirdyTheMighty Genuinely asking, how is their question any woke related ??

@piroriparopirira read every post that OP made in this thread.

If that doesn't answer your question, then I can't help you (nor can anyone).

@BirdyTheMighty They are complaining about the fact that an 8-yo child is acting like a 12-yo and is correcting people with historical facts (idk if they're true or not but that's what the OP is doing). I'm not siding nor I am against them but as I read they're comments, they're only stating how it's a plothole that Tokiyuki acts that mature and can fight even tho he's a cheltered 8 yo who avoided training. It just seems like "woke" has become the new insult (since a while, I know) that people screams without knowing the meaning; like has been "faschist" too. A person woke is someone who's "alert to and concerned about social injustice and discrimination."(Oxford language)
If I'm missing something and you meant someting else, please tell be because only by their comments I didn't understand how the OP has "woke-issues".

@piroriparopirira sorry mate, seems that I really can't help you. Maybe Jesus can, but certainly not me.

I'll hand you over to someone who wants to lose braincells by engaging you in a philosophical debate.