Nintendo Reveals the Ages of Pearl and Marina

They don't look thier age. That said, neither really appeal to me more than they other much.

sounds about right. i'da guessed marina 19 and pearl 24

And with that, many gamers took a collective sigh of relief.

Great, Nintendo. You just revealed to all of DeviantArt that they're both "legal." Now you only have yourselves to blame for the resulting, er, artwork.

Man that is really surprising actually. I figured they were more along the lines of teenagers. (I guess Marina still is a teenager somewhat but still...)

cool

more devianart to look forward to

This must be news not only to the internet but the Treehouse localization team as well.

@WreckItRyan Why?

My reaction in a nutshell

@Ardisan Oh, as others have alluded to here, there is a lot of promiscuous artwork of these two out on the interwebs, as per ol' reliable rule 34. It would generally be considered inappropriate if these depictions had been of characters considered underage.

SHE 21???
WHAT!

Pearl can buy booze.

#TeamSquidSisters

I personally am not sexually attracted to anything half-squid, but for those who lust after Marina, it must be a relief to not be technically a pedophile and instead simply into demi-bestiality.

@thesilverbrick
It's only natural to be attracted to the opposite sex. I don't think people are attracted to tentacles but rather the human face. And I don't think it's a relief for anyone because of cartoons age can be whatever you say it is. Just because they say a cartoon is 12 doesn't mean it's 12. Say a cartoon is 106 that doesn't mean it's 106. Cartoons have no age- there is no such thing.

Just really offends me when I read people who go out of their way to insult and demean people for something that is just an involuntary reaction- attraction to the opposite sex. I don't understand why people get so much pleasure out of putting others down for something that's not even wrong.

And attraction =/= lust.

I mean, I was gonna look at their art anywhom.

Is deviantart still a thing though? Like, do people use it? I figured it went the way of myspace.

Don't judge their age by their looking.
There are some Young looking people with age than older than their looking.
Face = 40 years old but age = 60 years old for example.

Wow. I thought Marina would be in her twenties and Pearl would be like 15.

@JaxonH I was perhaps too confident that my comment would be readily recognized as a joke. I am sorry if I offended anyone.

@serendipitiful I got a friend who's working on his own RPG-maker game, and he posts his progress to DA, so I know it has a userbase still.

Alright, they're legal ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Lol.....

"Pearl is the older one"

Wait whaaaaat

They were probably gonna make them younger to deter a certain demographic of artists and such but then realized it wouldn't stop them.

Nothing will.

THEY'RE BOTH LEGAL!!!!!! QUICK, MAKE HASTE TO RULE 34!!!! WE SHALL HAVE A FEAST OF KINGS TONIGHT!!!

Marina is hot as hell so...

Legal then

@patbacknitro i genuinely never thought I'd see a reference to rule34 here lol

@serendipitiful Definitely still a thing,a lot of people use it.
I was using it myself just before coming here.

Mario’s 25, all bets are off when it comes to the age of Nintendo’s characters

"What are you going to do with this information?"

That doesn't sound like a loaded question at all...

Maybe these in squid's age. It may translate differently to human's age.

For example, penguins live from 18-20 years, but that doesn't mean that they are like teenagers.

@SCAssassin you can buy booze at 16.

There. Now those damn SJWs can shut up about them being underage.

Huh... Pearl's hair has gone white and I was sure she'd just shrunk with age. Figured she was in her late 60s at least.

Pretty much in line with what I had figured.

I’m always weirded out by the people who seem to have a crush on these fictional, half squid, cartoon characters. At least their 18 and 21 and not like 13 I guess... trying to make a positive here.

@Whopper744 I mean, the only part of that that's remotely wrong is that they're fictional and people are obsessing over someone that isn't real and can't love them back. Beyond that, being attracted to a different species isn't really any more "weird" than being attracted to another gender or race, it's just a preference like anything else related to attraction.

They're almost as old as Mario.

Convenient.

Some surprisingly tolerant and even open-minded folks here. I honestly expected most to react much more negatively about this kind of thing. Maybe the Internet is actually getting more tolerant...?!

(Just to clarify, I'm GLAD to see those being open and considerate. I always try to be.)

R34 officially kosher

I really don't know how meaningful this is. Within the context of the squid culture what are the norms? Do inklings consider an 18 year old to be an adult? We keep misrepresenting our cultural norms as theirs. How long do Inklings live? I don't even want to go into questions of how they reproduce. National Geographic may have some answers for those of you who are interested in squid lifestyles.

@Haru17 @Abes3 That article was from 2006, exactly 25 years from 1981, when Mario was created. He's now 36.

I dont get it. Why does pedophilia apply to fictional characters. I get it when its applied to the creators world but why should it apply to 2d/3d images of characters that dont exist? This seems to be a constant argument in the explicit artwork realm where people are attracted to furries, monsters, scalies, and literally every anime character. Such a controversial and hypocritical topic, man.

Even if they were revealed to be 'underage' it wouldn't stop those people from rule 34ing them and lusting after them. Sorry but if you are attracted to the 'human face' that clearly looks young that tells me something about you.

@Ardisan Then dont talk about this on a gaming website you dweeb.

Came for the comments. Was not disappointed.

@AlexOlney In-game text in the Japanese version of the game reveals that Pearl is older than Marina. We’ve known since launch.

Pearl confirmed womanlet

I'm honestly concerned by their height, surprised noone has mentioned it here... So, if Pearl is 33cm shorter, then the illustrator (or character designer?) did a horrible job at showing that, as they seem to be almost equal height in game and every single artwork

@Philo Silly goose, The internet does not simply become "tolerant".

@Bolt_Strike I think we have a slightly different way of looking at that, but alright. I’ll just leave it there.

Probably due to a lot of buzz going on with a certain big time anime creator being arrested in Japan recently. Won’t name drop here though.

What?! That makes no sense. I would've thought Pearl is about 10 and Marina about 16.

I don´t mind the age but i´m most confused about their height, because the drawer has no idea of proportions. If one is 1.78cm, then the other girl, if she is 1.45cm, then this girl must be a lot smaller than we can see in the picture.

Really? Does it matter? Is there any way to skip the cut scene every time I play Splatoon 2?

Oh good, then my love for Marina is totally legal 😂

They've still got nothing on the squid sisters.

I say it's okay to have feelings, because if that is being yourself, BY ALL MEANS JUST BE YOURSELF. I am deep in love with (you can see her on my prof. pic), and I have no problem with me or anyone else having a form of waifu or husbando. Besides, I did not see anything in the bible that says I can't be in love with a fictional character. And yes, I am Catholic. What I don't agree with is people doing.... I don't want to say because it cringes me every time I say it, and it is not the most appropriate to say in this site.

@TheLobster i don't think the artists were waiting for confiirmation heh.

@Andrew_R_2000 Do you love this character that you never met? Or you lust for her? Lust and love are two different things. You can't love something that you never met in person,especially something that's not even real.

I don't play Splatoon, but I wanted to see what all the hubbub was about lol. These squid-girls really have a cult following I see.

I LOVE HER, NOT LUST. I WOULD NEVER LUST FOR A FICTIONAL CHARACTER. And I don't care. AND I AM NOT DELUSIONAL. I'm just saying it's okay to love. LOVE HAS NO LABEL.

If it helps simplify this debate, I am half-squid and everyone is attracted to me.

Make of that what you will.

Only on the internet can a story about a video game company revealing the imaginary ages of two imaginary cartoon characters can we end up with pages of discussion of love, lust, bestiality, and religion.

@AlexOlney Same!

@jaxonh " I don't think people are attracted to tentacles but rather the human face."

Meanwhile in Japan......

People Rule 34 or age up the Pokemon protagonists in artwork despite them being WAY WAY WAAAAAAAAAAY below legal age. They don't care about the canon age if it fits their needs.

@Tarvaax @JaxonH @GC-161 @clvr ok that's enough of that.

Please, stop the religious (and now racial...?) debate.

This is why we can't have nice things.

This is the current era folks, when most people are affected by chronological snobbery :/

In any case, could Marina look older due to being an octoling? Haven't spoiled the story mode of 2, so wondering what has happened since the first game 👀

I will delete any comments that desire to continue the religious debate starting from this point on.

There's places for everything. This is not it.

@Meowpheel sorry I hadn’t seen it before my last comment.
I’m not gonna add anything more.

@Meowpheel ...As well as delete posts pointing out that JonTron is an unrepentant bigot. By posting his very own words to prove it.

Got it.

Wow, thank goodness the quasi-congenial debate between Christians and Antitheists on the site is over and we can get back to the topic at hand:

Which perfectly consenting age half-mollusk y'all wanna' bed?

@AlternateButtons posting any examples of it will simply get you banned.

@GC-161 Your post was just uncalled for. We'll appreciate if you don't try to bring up racial discussions next time someone posts a reaction gif of that jontron guy.

@AlternateButtons Thanks~

I always show up late to the debates.

I love you @JaxonH 😍 😚

@KirbyTheVampire Ditto

@Arcamenel

"Sorry but if you are attracted to the 'human face' that clearly looks young that tells me something about you"

I think all other arguments aside, this comment cuts to the point.

An artist/designer clearly has design choices (which, most likely are constrained to a client brief), in this case producing a set of characters which will perhaps resonate/appeal to a target/key demographic. By doing that the characters have a clear young/child like appearance, by virtue of anthropomorphic (human like) exaggerated features of a child); read - large head, small body combination. Kind of a creepy vibe when you hear adults are 'drawn' to these images.

Also the shorter one, I don't know their names (not played the game, yet) looks kind of like an evil elf.

I may get pulled to shreds for this post, but it's how I see it.

Pearl and Marina! Is this a last of the summer wine thing?
And I expect 90% are thinking what the hell is last of the summer wine?!

@clvr Haha, lightin' 'em up! Gotta let 'em know there's still people battin' for the other team.

Which in itself implies that most/all organized religion (which all tell the same story at the end of the day) is only here to divide and conquer us lowly masses.

Go Team Marina!

@Haru17 Miyamoto said last year (2016) in an interview “Aside from the fact that he’s about 24-25 years old, we didn’t define anything else”. 32 years later he’s still 25!

So I guess that was only to make them "legal"...

@Oat please dont post anymore pics of that racist coward

@thesilverbrick Demi-beastiality is all the rage these days 🤓

@JaxonH We’ve been banned from religious debate in this particular forum (so I will not further that fiery discussion) but I would like to say on a positive note that I admire you for standing up for what you believe in while staying respectful of others. That’s a rare find these days.

The stupid thing about all of the above discussion is that no one really knows all the answers. There's over 2 trillion galaxies in the known universe, and we barely know anything about our Milky Way Galaxy, much less everything there is to know about our solar system and the Earth. We don't know how it all works together, and yet we deign to come to any kind of reliable conclusion on the true nature of the universe? Yeah, right. There's some common patterns to note, like the similarity of dark matter and mycelium when viewed under an electron micrograph:

There are also some interesting things known about dark matter in particular:

https://phys.org/news/2016-08-dark-matterhot.html

But no one really knows yet how things like this are all interconnected. The best one can do right now basically just amounts to guessing from an extremely limited, strictly Earthen point of view. Maybe someday we'll know the answer, but it's too early to say for certain what's behind it all right now.

What can be said for certain is that these two squidchicks have REALLY long fingers. It's kinda creeping me out. But also intriguing me in multiple ways. I'm so conflicted.

@SpeedRunRocks ahahahah thanks mate! Though in all honesty my intent wasn’t to convince people I’m right and they’re wrong on the topic of the existence (or lack therof) of god, it all started because of a comment I perceived as a tad homophobic and narrow-minded. To each their own, I only like debating

And @JaxonH, I wanted to post this yesterday but I didn’t have the time, so I’m pretty late but I hope you don’t mind: I just wanted to clarify (if there ever was the need to) that it’s all cool, I enjoyed debating with you and you proved once again you are a very respectable and polite member of this community.
I probably heated up a bit too much compared to you so I apologize if I ever came across as rude or aggressive.

@clvr
Thank you. I really do appreciate the response.

One time, in the final Turf War aerial picture, I saw Jesus’ face in the paint and he said it’s ok to be straight or gay. So now you now.

@JaxonH you’re welcome
You know, I try to be as polite and respectful as possible (though obviously things slip out of my hands at times), so I’m always in favor of awarding other people’s politeness with more politeness.
And you, sir, as much as I can disagree with you, have always shown to deserve all of it.
I hope I haven’t offended your sensitivity in any way, and with this I conclude this outlandish debate

Man. I missed it all. I was too busy playing games

Maybe next Nintendo will make a Splatoon timeline.........

oh jeez these comments are a disaster. anyone got a fire extinguisher?

@JaxonH Although I don't agree with you, I like the fact that you're not one of those Christians who are disrespectful to whom they don't agree with. I don't see you as the bigoted type, but someone who follows his faith, which you have the right to do. Your calm polite rhetoric is not pretentious nor intolerant, but inviting and acknowledging. In fact I think you made more friends than enemies just from this contentious topic, which is quite welcoming honestly.

"Pearl-senpai!"

@thesilverbrick I haven't laughed out loud because of a comment in many years. "Demi-beastiality"

You get a 10. 😂😂😂😉

I don't care what their ages are I just wish I didn't have to sit through them talking every time I booted the game up. So much for jumping into the online lobby in a flash.

@JaxonH Is there somewhere that I can PM you?

Ok I guess I'll have to delete all the comments related to the debate to keep it from reappearing.

@JaxonH: it's great to practice your faith, but any kind of religious talk will always result in a back and forth argument and this is not the place for it. So please let's try to stay in topic in the future.

The same goes for everyone else. Religious or not.

@KirbyTheVampire
Uh... would be easier if we had PM here. Same username on Reddit, can always PM there. Or I can give my email.

@Meowpheel Yeah, that's how it works. If you think responding to bigotry is inappropriate and off topic and should be removed, then you have to remove the bigotry itself too.

Heh.
Angry forehead child is older than mature DJ octo.

@LemonSlice okay