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{{trope}}
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{{quote|'''[[Our Vampires Are Different|Evangeline]]:''' Why don't you like me?
'''[[World's Strongest Man|Nagi]]:''' Eh, I'm not into little girls.
'''Evangeline:''' What?? [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|I'm over a hundred years old, you know]]!
'''Nagi:''' [[Failure Is the Only Option|Well, then it's because you're an old hag]].
|''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''}}
There are [[Moe]] characters whose youth and innocence attract a fanbase of sexual lust [[Misaimed Fandom|in spite of an author's intentions]] and then there's these characters who are meant to appeal to [[Lolicon]] tastes.
Girls (and occasionally boys) who ascribe to this trope are invariably [[Older Than They Look]] adults, or supernatural beings that are [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]. The narrative takes great pains to remind the audience that they are adults, thereby (poorly) attempting to justify the [[Fan Service|sexualization]] of their [[Squick|apparent innocence and youth]] because they are ''technically'' adults, and therefore that (supposedly) alleviates the reader of possible guilt. It can also reduce the disgust of those that aren't into kids, and thus drive fewer people away.
It's not just the guilt or disgust of the
Finally, this trope is also more often than not [[Not Growing Up Sucks|played for ''drama'' as well]]; the stigma of being a "forbidden object of lust" trapped in a "child's" body when one is an adult with sexual desires is a veritable ''goldmine'' of [[Angst]] driven drama and plot.
A combined trope of [[
{{noreallife|this trope is ''full'' of [[Unfortunate Implications]]. Also, this is a trope about how characters are depicted in media.}}
{{examples}}
* 900-year-old ChibiUsa<ref>She's insistent that she's 90'''2''' years old, as of the manga story that was used as the basis for the ''Sailor Moon S'' movie.</ref> of the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' manga is technically an example, but she's a lot more childlike a lot more often than she is mature and adult. However, Naoko does sometimes write her as acting more adult/mature than Usagi, so it varies. Not that being more mature than [[Idiot Hero|
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* 900-year-old ChibiUsa of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' is technically an example, but she's a lot more childlike a lot more often than she is mature and adult. However, Naoko does sometimes write her as acting more adult/mature than Usagi, so it varies. Not that being more mature than [[Idiot Hero|Usa]][[Dumb Is Good|gi]] takes very much; there are probably several ''genuine'' ten-year-olds who do it on a daily basis.
* By far the most extreme example of this trope is Al Azif, the lead heroine of ''[[Demonbane]]''. Despite taking the appearance of a young girl, Al Azif is in fact the avatar of the Necronomicon (yes, ''[[Cthulhu Mythos|that]]'' Necronomicon); she's stated to be several thousand years old, but given the history of the Necronomicon, may actually be many times that age.
* Evangeline A.K. McDowell of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is a '''500+''' year old vampire with the body of a 10 year old girl, dressing in [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] style. But boy is she
** There's also the magic age changing pills, which change the pubescent (though still young) students into younger girls (or vice versa, for Negi and Kotarou).
** Inverted by the third princess of the Hellas Empire. She's 30, but Hellans live longer than humans, so claims to be closer to 10 so Rakan will spoil her. Backfires on her when Rakan says little kids aren't allowed to drink alcohol and orders fruit juice for her.
* Mina Tepes of ''[[Dance in the Vampire Bund]]'' has the appearance of a nine year old child. Although her age hasn't been confirmed neither in manga, nor in anime, she seems to continually beat the watcher around the head that she's much older. How much -- [[Epileptic Trees|is a viewer's guess]].
** The manga eventually shows that it's not her true form but a pretense she uses to avoid arranged marriage.
*
** Constantly lampshaded throughout the anime. Notable examples include: Asking her friends to pretend they're her sisters so she can get the children's discount, not having grown an inch (up or [[A-Cup Angst|out]]) on [[Measuring Day]], and wearing a [[School Swimsuit]] that was apparently issued
* Hagumi Hanamoto from ''[[Honey and Clover]]''.
* Fuko Ibuki from ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' {{spoiler|after being awaken from the coma. She has a childish mind, understandably}}.
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* Centuries-old tree Goddess Nagi of ''[[Kannagi]]'' appears as a perky, [[A-Cup Angst|flat-chested]], 15-year-old schoolgirl.
* Mimi of ''[[Mnemosyne]]'' looks like a child but is really [[Older Than They Look|much older]] {{spoiler|thanks to her immortality.}}
* In a similar vein, Minnie May Hopkins of ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'', who took anti-aging drugs so that the man she loved would recognize her the next time he saw her.
* Morino Ichigo of ''[[
* An in-universe example of ''[[A Certain Magical Index]]'': while the audience is never meant to find Komoe-sensei sexy, she is lusted after by several members of the detention
* Konjiki No Yami (aka Golden Darkness) of ''[[To LOVE-Ru]]'' is the most feared shapeshifting assassin in the galaxy, with the appearance of an adorable 14 year old blonde. In one of the episodes, she claims her age to be "24 years old by Earth reckoning".
* The [[Yaoi]] manga ''[[Okane ga Nai]]'' barely avoids being
* Shizuku the Mizuchi of ''[[Omamori Himari]]''. Her exact age isn't specified, but she is at least 100 years old and looks about ten, gets just as many [[NSFW]] [[Fan Service]] shots as the more mature-looking girls, and has spent most of the series blatantly and obviously trying to get the teenage male lead into bed.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' has Vita, a [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|Ridiculously-Human Program]] who has the body of an eight-year old despite being a few centuries old. Her appearance is a bit of a sore spot for her and she gets annoyed whenever someone refers to her as a kid. This isn't helped at all by the fact that her "sisters", who are roughly the same age, both have permanent large-breasted 20-something bodies. There's also the combat [[Cyborg]] Cinque, who happens to be one of the oldest members of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Numbers]] despite having the body of a child.
* ''[[Black Jack]]'' has [[Ship Tease|hints]] of
* In-universe example in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' with Honey, who looks about 6 and actually is the eldest of the Club, at about 18.
* ''[[Detective Conan]]'' gives us Haibara Ai, the biochemist who {{spoiler|is responsible for creating the drug that turned Shinichi into Conan}}, and is a victim of the exact same poison. Her real age, as {{spoiler|Miyano Shiho/Sherry}}, is approximately 18, but due to the effects of APTX-4869, she appears to be no older than eight.
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** There's also {{spoiler|Florette "Fiore" Harvenheit}}, who appears to be fifteen, but when you do the math she's actually about twenty-five. {{spoiler|This is because Florette was killed at the age of fifteen, and Fiore is a "doll" made out of an artificial soul and [[Squick|Florette's reanimated body]]}}.
* Ageha in ''[[Toshiue no Hito]]'' is mistaken for jailbait, but she is {{spoiler|an 26 year old widow who just has an underdeveloped body.}}
* [[Deliberately Cute Child|Amber]] of ''[[Darker than Black]]'' qualifies. Though she's likely at least in her twenties or early thirties, her [[Power At a Price|
* Washu-chan from ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]''.
* Kuonji Miyu from ''[[They Are My Noble Masters]]'' looks like a very young girl, despite being in her early twenties.
* Mimina from ''[[Ladies versus Butlers!]]'' is 19 but looks 8. The main character Akiharu even comments on this, mistaking her for another student's younger sister, accidentally molesting her, then getting accused of being a lolicon.
* ''[[Futari Ecchi]]'' plays with this. A neighbor of the protagonist couple looks really young for her age. Every single panel that features her nude and/or having sex with husband features a little note mentioning her actual age.
* Nagato Yuki from ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' is an interesting straight trope/inversion/aversion ... thing. We see her on the day she's created looking like a 15 year old girl. Kyon meets her [[Younger Than They Look|when she's 3 years old]] but then after the time loop of "Endless Eight"
* This is zigzagged to hell and back in ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]''. [[Tyke Bomb|Cosette]] is, throughout the series, depicted as a normal nine
* At the end of the ''[[Ghost in the Shell (1995 film)
* ''[[Blood Alone]]'': The implied future for female lead Misaki, played for gentle angst. A young girl who has been turned into an unaging vampire, she has a crush on her 20-something protector but knows it will never go anywhere because she'll never become an adult woman.
* [[Adorkable]] supporting character and occassional [[Friendly Enemy]] to the main cast, [https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Mimi_Atachi#cite_note-ep7-2 Mimi Atachi] from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS]]''. She's 37 years old, and even has a 10-year-old son, but looks barely older than 12 herself.
== Comic Books ==
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** Another ''[[Star Trek]]'' inversion: In one episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|TNG]]'', several characters are in a transporter accident which physically regresses them to children, though their minds remain completely intact. When one of them snuggles suggestively up to her husband, he's instantly squicked out, even though she's mentally and emotionally the same person. The philosophical questions behind this [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|really aren't explored any further]].
*** Miles did at least figure out that he can still comfort Keiko and that they would figure out the rest later. Thankfully it wasn't necessary.
** Yet another is the [[Star Trek: The Original Series|TOS]] episode ''"Miri"'', where a [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|long
* Juliet in ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' passed as a high school student, including dating one, despite being a vampire 2,193 years old.
* The producers of ''[[Dateline (TV series)|To Catch a Predator]]'' made increasing use during its run of 18-year-old actors to pose as underage children to meet the alleged predators when they show up at the decoy house for sex. They fooled virtually everyone.
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* [[Bratty Half-Pint|Angelia]] [[Light Is Not Good|Avalon]] from ''[[Arcana Heart]]'' willingly froze her age when she was 10 years old.
* The fifth ''[[Elder Scrolls]]'' game, ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|Skyrim]]'', has Babette, who looks like she's about ten, and is a member of the Dark Brotherhood. She's actually a several centuries old vampire. When you first enter the Sanctuary, she is telling the others about her latest mark, with the implication being that she seduced a pedophile.
* [[Ditzy Genius| Purah]] from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild]]'' is over 120 years old (older than [[Cool Old Lady| her sister Impa]], who is visibly elderly), but a botched experiment has made her physically a child.
** In the sequel, she has managed to perfect the process, and [[She's All Grown Up]], and [[Breakout Character|fans have certainly noticed.]]
* Fans of the [[Dating Sim]] game ''[[HuniePop]]'' have actually debated whether sleeping with Momo is breaking some sort of statutory rape law. Momo claims to be an actual cat who turned out a [[Cat Girl]], and is one year old. [[Word of God]] states that this is a cat's equivalent of 18, meaning she would be considered legal age. however, "cat to human conversion years" is not always agreed on, and it could mean anything from 15 to 24, depending on who is talking. Of course, even ''in game'' there is also some controversy over [[What Measure Is A Non Human| whether or not it's bestiality]]; seriously, players ''actually debate this''.
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', halflings and gnomes. Female adults of these races often look like children, [[Rule 34|does anything more need to be said?]]
== Web Comics ==
* Chibi-Sue in ''[[
* Would [[Rule 34]] fanart of [https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Meloetta_(Pok%C3%A9mon) Meloetta] (an [[Olympus Mons]]) be child porn? [https://www.deviantart.com/rilexlenov/art/Lewd-Idol-740989508 One trainer] (an [[Author Avatar]]) is able to ask Meloetta how old it is, and it replies, "Older than humanity." The artist shrugs and says, "Works for me." (Be warned, the link is SFW, but much of the artist's other work is not.)
== Web Original ==
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