Mecha pilots keep getting younger. We need to talk.
From '79 to now: tracking the pilot-age curve across forty mecha series and what it says about how we're letting kids fight our wars.
Long-form essay. This is placeholder copy in the export bundle — production pages will fetch from the CMS. The structure, typography, and reading width are the design contract; the words will change.
Paragraph two demonstrates the prose-width container, the body line-height (1.7), the body type size (1.125rem), and the comfortable spacing between paragraphs that reading-heavy pages need.
The shounen-pacing default is breaking — and the audience that grew up on Naruto cliffhangers is, against all expectations, letting it.
Paragraph three introduces a longer thought. Maybe a digression. Maybe a list, maybe a pull-quote — the editor decides. The page will support both; for now, the rhythm of the column is the point.
Paragraph four wraps up. The reader has scrolled this far. They'll either follow the related links, share the piece, or scroll back up. That's the contract.