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* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has Pride, {{spoiler|a.k.a. Selim Bradley}} who has the appearance of {{spoiler|an eight-year old}} but is {{spoiler|[[Really 700 Years Old|over 300 years old]]}}, and posesses {{spoiler|living shadow that will cut you to pieces and eat your soul}}.

* ''[[Bleach]]'' has many of the [[Shinigami]] show up at Ichigo's high school to check up on him, much to his horror. Their bizarre physical appearances (notably Ikkaku, who's bald and carries a ''bokken'' around with him because he can't have a regular katana), combined with their school uniforms, causes everyone to automatically assume that they're delinquents.

** Earlier in the series, Rukia starts attending Ichigo's school after he takes her shinigami powers. It's somewhat justified though, as A) she's living in his closet and can't exactly hide in there all day, and B) she needs to keep an eye on him and instruct him how to fight hollows.

** Also [[Cute Ghost Girl|Sayo]], although it's kind of justified as she's bound to the school until Evangeline and Asakura give her a doll to possess that allows her to leave the campus.

* [[Astro Boy (manga)|Astro Boy]] is sent to grade school with human children of his apparent age despite being a robot with a super-advanced AI. Sometimes this is explicitly said to be for the purpose of socialization, sometimes not. Subverted with Astro's robot "parents", who are also sent to school in a lower grade because they're actually younger than him.

* Subverted in ''[[xxxHolic]]'' with {{spoiler|Watanuki. Doumeki tries telling him he can't just stay in the shop, he has to go to school. Actually, no Doumeki. Cause I've made an agreement to run this shop and live without aging until Yuuko returns, and I can't leave until that happens.}}

* In ''[[Space Pirate Mito]]'', the titular character is an alien who is [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Twelve Thousand Years Old]], but looks like a third grader. While spying on her half-human son in high school, she's caught by a teacher and sent to elementary school, and she continues to attend, as seen in later episodes.

* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As]]'': Averted in the first [[Audio Adaptation|Sound Stage]], where Hayate asks [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Vita]] if she would like to go to school, but Vita says she's not interested.

* Shin'ichi Kudo from ''[[Detective Conan]]'' is already a teenager. Then he gets turned into a little kid and ends up having to go back to ''elementary school''.

* Averted in the manga ''[[Black Jack]]'' with Black Jack's assistant/adopted daughter Pinoko, who is [[Older Than They Look|technically eighteen, but has the body of a girl no older than five or six]]. In the chapter "Pinoko's Challenge", her attempts to get into high school (she suffers nasty psychosomatic illness from the stress of entrance exams) and kindergarten (she gets kicked out after throwing a violent tantrum) both end in disaster.

* Elsie from ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'' goes to school with Keima despite being a demon girl who's over 100 years old.

 

* Raven from ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' got placed in the body of a teenager. Back to high school you go!

** Miss Martian also from ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' inverts this in that she wanted to go to high school to learn how to fit in, but couldn't until she had forged the documentation.

* [[Superboy]] was removed from the accelerated growth chamber he was grown in at the apparent age of 16. He had to take a test to see if he needed education or could just rely on his implanted knowledge, and then skipped it to save Hawaii from the Silicon Dragons. High school it is.