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Considering he's a teacher, he'd have to be at least 5 years older than the girls and that's being really generous, but I'm guessing they avoided giving him an official age specifically to avoid that issue.

I don't think there's much of a disconnect between the civilian and hero sides, but there's definitely a huge problem just keeping the characters personalities straight. Coco (and Nuts to a lesser degree) are completely different people when they're in fairy form. Rin changes from being the typical sporty tomboy to being mushy-mushy over boys and wanting to make jewellery. There's even an episode where the characters worry about Nozomi (the lazy, scatterbrained, klutz) because "she's never late!".

And Milk is a terrible, terrible person who isn't remotely endearing. She does nothing but cause trouble for Nozomi, blame her for things that go wrong, she steals from her, insults her, refuses to apologise, all while the other characters are just like "don't be so hard on Milk!".

I'd always heard that this was one of the more popular seasons and I'm really struggling to see why. Perhaps it's just more well regarded in Japan.