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{{trope}}
[[Suspiciously Vague Age]] is a trope occurring in drawn or animated works where the story contains explicit sexual content clearly intended to depict those beneath the legal age of consent. For example, the story may depict [[Dating Sim|high school students who build a relationship and later have sex]]. In this case, the characters are obviously intended to be somewhere between 15 and 18 years of age, which cannot be legally sold in many areas; the laws of the United States require everyone to be [[Totally Eighteen|over 18]] unless for tasteful artistic reasons, and in Japan it's 20.
In this case, everyone's age is conspicuously never mentioned. In some cases, this can lead to blatant lying where a character ''can't'' be as old as claimed when ages are given. The thing to remember about this trope is that either (A) the age given for the character is highly improbable (normal high school students being over 20) to impossible based on presented facts or (B) strangely never mentioned despite the obvious implications.
Very common in [[Dating Sim
{{noreallife|tell the police, not us.}}
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Hiroe from ''[[F³: Frantic, Frustrated & Female]]'' might -- ''might'' -- be a high-schooler, but we never hear anything solid about her age. Her older (maybe-)sister Mayaka appears to be college-aged, but all we can really be sure of is that she's old enough to drive.
== Comic Books ==
* ''Softpaw''. Dear God, ''Softpaw''. Some of the "18 or older" characters are ''first-graders''.
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* In ''[[Angel]]'', {{spoiler|Connor}} is originally stated to be sixteen after he
* ''[[Dead or Alive (Video Game)|Dead or Alive]]'', the localized versions refuses to give away the ages of the girls who are obviously minors: Kasumi, Ayane, Lei-Fang, Kokoro and etc. This because they're exploited to extreme cases of [[Ms. Fanservice]] byt wearing revealing to downright fetish clothing, due [[Values Dissonance]] in the west it wouldn't stick well for 17 and 16 old girls to be seen this way.▼
== Video Games ==
▲* ''[[
* ''[[Utawarerumono]]'' avoids giving ''anyone's'' age, but little girl Aruru is estimated to be about the same age as busty Kamyu, putting their age at around 14 with Eruruw only slightly older.
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* It's never stated outright, but both ''[[Da Capo]]'' and ''[[Da Capo II]]'' feature as their main character students who are in their last year of middle school, putting the main character at around fifteen and his love interests no more than one year older (''[[Da Capo]]'') or two years (''[[Da Capo II]]'') and both having heroines that are in their ''second'' year.
* The heroines (and hero) of ''[[Fate/stay
* ''[[Yume Miru Kusuri]]'' lampshades it when the main character tells his obviously underage loli sister that she has to be over 20 because otherwise she couldn't appear naked in a game like this. Not that she gets any sexual scenes, but it highlights the tendency to do so.
** For that matter, any cast page for the game will have the characters listed as anywhere from 18-25 years old. Only the upper outlier, the clearly adult (and never sexually portrayed) Tsubaki, could possibly be accurate.
* ''[[
* The localization team for ''[[Family Project]]'' accidentally set off a shitstorm by promising the game would be completely uncensored, which was apparently a promise they couldn't keep when one of the heroines is really young even by the normal standards; Matsuri is probably about 13.
* The main character in ''[[Kanon]]'' is a [[Second Year Protagonist]] with no indication that he's strangely older than he should be, putting the age of the cast between about 15 and 17. Makoto is probably younger, but doesn't really count for story reasons.
* Nearly averted in ''[[Tsukihime]]''. Arcueid is hundreds of years old and looks to be in her early 20s, Ciel really is older than she looks and Hisui and Kohaku have vague ages and could easily be at at least 20. Akiha and Shiki himself, however, have no excuse and are 16 and 17 respectively. Len falls into a [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|related trope]] for Kagetsu Tohya.
* Obliquely referenced in ''[[
▲* In ''[[Angel]]'', {{spoiler|Connor}} is originally stated to be sixteen after he {{spoiler|returns from the hell dimension.}} However, when he needs to have sex with an older (mid-twenties) character, he's suddenly and ''specifically'' stated to be eighteen the episode before. [[Sarcasm Mode|Nice save guys.]] Of course due to the bizarre circumstances of his upbringing none of them, including him, should know how old he really is.
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* In a ''[[Megatokyo]]'' [http://megatokyo.com/strip/328 filler strip], Dom mentions "tiny girls who are only legal [[Older Than They Look|because a writer stuck an 18 by the name]]."
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* Very, very common in the "[[Their First Time|First Time]]" section on [[Literotica]], and frequent in "[[Incest Is Relative|Incest]]" as well.
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[[Category:Suspiciously Vague Age]]
[[Category:Infauxmation Desk]]
[[Category:Aging Tropes]]
[[Category:characterization Tropes]]
[[Category:Sex Tropes]]
[[Category:Turn-On Tropes]]
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