A poster claiming to be 58 years old appeared on 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyo G” (nanG) board, prompting replies like “That’s the same age as my son!” and “Grandpa!” The thread then went off on a tangent, evolving into a debate about age demographics — with users speculating that nanG, once thought to be dominated by people in their 20s and 30s, might actually have people in their 50s and 60s as its “core demographic” now. The discussion expanded to cover where the generation that remembers nanJ’s 2000s heyday has ended up, and even veered into retirement talk about what age to start collecting a pension — turning a throwaway joke thread into residents self-deprecatingly mocking their own aging population.
What people said
1AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:35
The animation in Macross: Do You Remember Love? was insanely good
4AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:36
That's the same age as my son
21AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:46
Re: #4
Grandpa!
72AnonymousSep 9, 2026 11:16
Re: #4
Live a long life, old man
5AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:37
The fact that this thread isn't even interesting is what makes it great
6AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:38
This board is hell — people in their 30s-40s calling people in their 50s-60s old geezers
8AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:39
Re: #6
Is it really that weird for a 30-something to call a 60-year-old a geezer? I mean, 60-year-olds ARE geezers
7AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:38
Are there any people in their 60s here???????
https://nova.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/livegalileo/1788810330/
1 Anonymous Who Still Moves Along (the board's default poster name) 2026/09/08 (Tue) 04:45:30.75 ID:8QzEG6fC0
I'll be joining your ranks the year after next
This thread got a ton of traction the other day, is this actually for real?
9AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:41
Re: #7
That's nanG's core demographic right there
11AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:43
The place is full of people in their 60s, what are you even talking about
12AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:43
Try heading over to Ōkami (a Morning Musume fan board nicknamed "Wolf")? People in their 60s are the core demographic there
22AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:46
Re: #12
What's Ōkami?
13AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:43
Good for them, staying healthy and living long. Doubt I'll make it that far myself
14AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:44
People in their 30s barely have any life experience to begin with — they shouldn't even be on 5ch
15AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:44
I'm 36 and my parents are 65, and my own kid calls them "Grandpa, Grandpa" — by any measure, self-proclaimed or otherwise, they're a proper old man
17AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:45
You're supposedly part of the social media generation and you're on nanG? 🤔
Oh 😳
18AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:45
Honestly, if there are teenagers or 20-somethings on 5ch these days, I'd be more worried about THEM
19AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:45
Something about "Yuyu" or whatever
You know, the type who's freakishly obsessed with idols from way back when
20AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:45
The population of people in their 60s must be about 3 times that of people in their 20s
23AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:46
The only people allowed to spout trivia on 5ch are those 50 and up who've actually earned real life experience
24AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:47
No way this place is full of 60-somethings
That's older than my own dad
29AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:49
Re: #24
Nice lie
Being in your 30s on 5ch makes you basically an endangered species
25AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:47
Hearing stories from people in their 50s and 60s is genuinely interesting. Honestly don't want to see posts from 30-something brats — they're just in the way
27AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:47
Back during the Karasawa-Hasse scandal (a mid-2000s plagiarism controversy involving writer Shunichi Karasawa that blew up huge on nanJ) — nanJ's absolute peak — pretty much everyone was just a bit older than Hasse. Going by that era's core demographic, they'd be in their late 30s by now, I'd guess.
Back then you basically never saw anyone a full decade older than Karasawa, or the same age as Iwama — so are people lying about their age these days?
32AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:50
Re: #27
The core group is probably people who graduated high school between 2004 and 2006
33AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:51
Re: #27
They already split off when nanG broke away from nanJ
So those guys probably went to Edge (another spin-off board)
That place is full of young people
31AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:50
Isn't the average age in Japan like 48 or something?
35AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:51
Re: #31
It's 51
Anyone younger than that is a kid
45AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:57
Can someone do something about the guys who scream "geezer, geezer" every time a thread pops up that they don't understand? It's obnoxious
47AnonymousSep 9, 2026 10:58
Re: #45
Just look at them with a warm, indulgent smile — it's kind of endearing really
53AnonymousSep 9, 2026 11:01
Were people in their 30s even using 2ch back then?
57AnonymousSep 9, 2026 11:03
Re: #53
They were the main demographic
68AnonymousSep 9, 2026 11:13
I'm 55 and literally shaking
70AnonymousSep 9, 2026 11:14
Re: #68
Classic age-related nerve symptoms
88AnonymousSep 9, 2026 11:50
Hey fellow nanG geezers ("nanji" — a pun on nanG + geezer), what age are you all planning to start collecting your pension?
98AnonymousSep 9, 2026 12:03
Re: #88
Planning to start at 60
89AnonymousSep 9, 2026 11:52
Planning to start collecting at 60
92AnonymousSep 9, 2026 11:54
Re: #89
It's basically guaranteed the system gets worse from here, so taking it early is definitely the right call
100AnonymousSep 9, 2026 12:06
Every so often nanG produces an absolute unit — a 50-something with literally zero work history
101AnonymousSep 9, 2026 12:07
Re: #100
That guy's suspicious though
He always shows up right around 6pm, like right after work lets out
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Nandemo Jikkyo G (nanG) is a board that split off from Nandemo Jikkyo J (nanJ) in the 2010s. NanJ itself is known for its mid-2000s golden age, marked by major flame wars like the Shunichi Karasawa scandal. If the core users from that era are now roughly in their 40s, the claim floated in this thread — that nanG’s core demographic is now people in their 50s and 60s — sounds exaggerated at first glance, but it’s entirely plausible that longtime users simply stuck around and aged along with the board. That said, the age makeup of an anonymous message board is really just self-reported impressions, not hard data. Figures tossed around in the thread — like “there are three times as many 60-somethings as 20-somethings” or “Japan’s average age is 51” — are unsourced, off-the-cuff numbers, not actual demographic evidence. Readers should enjoy this as self-deprecating humor about an old-school anonymous board’s aging user base, rather than take it as a verified breakdown of who’s actually posting there.
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