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* And Kaori Yuki's ''[[Cain Saga]]'' manga series features an extremely sympathetically-presented member of the [[Evil Organization]], Cassian, a middle-aged man in the body of a prepubescent boy, formerly employed as a knife-thrower in a circus. He joined the organization because they have weird, futuristic occult-medical hybrid technology in development which might give him some way to get an adult body. He's assigned to be the primary minion of a high-up member of the organization, Jizabel Disraeli, who's around twenty and {{spoiler|as we get his backstory, increasingly pitiful.}} Dealt with well in that Cassian, even though all visual cues are against it, sees Disraeli as a kid. {{spoiler|Cassian is fatally wounded about as soon as his pseudo-paternal attachment to Disraeli is properly developed, and Jizabel transplants his brain into the head of a fellow villain they both hate who was recently thwarted by hubris and idiocy. And the hero, in one of the hero's few success stories. He goes on the lam, and reappears as a handy plot device toward the end of the series climax. Disraeli eventually dies in his arms, lamenting the fact that he spent all this time trying to please the wrong father, Alexis, the twisted [[Man Behind the Man]], when he should have been looking up to Cassian.}} Cassian has many levels in awesome.

* {{spoiler|Eriol Hiiragizawa}} in ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' is mostly this with a bit of [[Not Growing Up Sucks]]. He specifically chose to halt his aging, but while he looks like a child, he's mentally an adult. He doesn't have any angst over his age dissonance shown, but {{spoiler|since he only stopped his aging so he could blend in with Sakura's classmates better, it would probably make his life after the series more complicated and restricted if he can't restart his aging}}.

 

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