User blog comment:Genista882/Mitsuru and Kokoro/@comment-26567684-20190504060810

Considering Kokoro was 14 and Mitsuru was 15 when she got pregnant and they were 15 and 16 when Ai was born, imagine what would have happened if they lived in modern times as junior high school students like depicted in the end credits. Would they have received the same support they did? Without the memory erasure, would they have made the same decision to keep their baby (I believe so)?

Both gave up being franxx pilots in exchange for parenthood, similar to giving up school to work and prepare for a baby. Plus, in today’s Japanese legal standards (not considering the world they live in in the series), they would be underage to get married (as there are no laws of consent in their dystopian world, whereas a girl can married at 16 and boy can get married at 18 without consent but they can also get married at 13 with consent which rarely if ever happens in Japan).