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** There are more conventional examples throughout the series: Stu and May in ''Back to Nature'' and ''Friends of Mineral Town'', Hugh and Katie in ''A Wonderful Life'' and ''HM DS'', Charlie and Eliza in ''Island Of Happiness'', Rahi and Ying in ''The Tale of Two Towns'' and Candy and Marco in ''RuneFactoryFrontier''.

* ''Game/MegaMan'' The original series. Forte (Bass) and Roll are a rather popular ship as well- being robots (and thus making the trope somewhat literal), she's eternally 10 and he's eternally 13ish. This ship also pretty much comes from the fact that Roll is the [[TheSmurfettePrinciple only female main character]] and Bass is the pretty much the only male main character that isn't related to her.

** As long as we're putting Mega Man ships here, at least one comic shipped Megaman/[[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Splash Woman]]. He's canonically several years her senior, though.
* ''MegaManBattleNetwork'' Lan and Mayl. Also, one could make a case for [[TheRival Chaud]] and [[TheOjou Yai]], at least going by the anime...

* Herve and Cecilia in ''{{Folklore}}'' are a particularly sad and sweet case. Even though both of them were only children, [[spoiler: she risked her life and soul to save him, and in the end he gave his life willingly to save hers.]] If that's not love, I don't know what it is.

* ''{{House}}'' The episode "Two Stories" subverted its usual formula of opening with a scene of someone doing something and then someone (sometimes the same person, sometimes someone else) falling extremely sick, instead focusing on a pair of kids about to make out behind the school at recess when a teacher catches them...and then when they get taken to the principal's office, Dr. House is there as well and is in trouble for some shenanigans at Career Day. Most of the episode is then told in flashbacks, and upon seeing the class that House was talking to, it becomes quite obvious that this is an ''elementary school''. (It eventually comes to light that these characters-of-the-day are fifth graders, which is actually about the right time for kids to begin putting aside their "girls/boys are yucky" feelings from when they're younger.) The kids then manage to show that they're much more mature than [[AdultChild House]] when it comes to handling relationships.

* ''[[TheAddamsFamily Addams Family Values]]'' Wednesday and Joel

* The ''EncyclopediaBrown'' series has Encyclopedia and Sally Kimbal. Additionally, there are canon examples. Several cases that Encyclopedia solves involve friends of his or other kids around the same age as him and their love interests.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill'', there's Blinky X Nutsy.

This trope is OlderThanTelevision. It can also be TrithInTelevision as many people get their first PrecociousCrush sometime during Elementary School.

This trope is OlderThanTelevision.

** In ''RuneFactory 2'', you can invoke this for your own character - the game's second half has the progatonist's child as the player character. He or she can "get married"[[hottip:*:explicitly referred to as "playing married", however]] to one of their friends. One of your options is a pair of CloudCuckooLander twin sisters who don't really get the whole thing and thinnk "marriage" [[MakesSenseInContext has something to do with toast.]]

* The Mexican SoapOpera ''{{Carrusel}}'' has several, seeing that around 80% of the cast was formed by kids no older than 10[[DawsonCasting -12]]. The most notorious ones are [[DoggedNiceGuy Cirilo]]'s onesided crush on [[{{Tsundere}} Maria Joaquina]] as well as [[NiceGuy David]] and [[{{Meganekko}} Valeria]] (and the brief love triangle with [[NewTransferStudent Margarita]].

* Yugo and Amalia from ''{{Wakfu}}''.

* ''HarvestMoon''/''RuneFactory'' In some of the games, you essentially take part in this yourself if you decide to ship your first character's child with another child. In at least once instance, you can have a LesYay {{Twincest}} Toy Ship...
** There are more conventional examples throughout the series: Stu and May in ''Back to Nature'' and ''Friends of Mineral Town'', Hugh and Katie in ''A Wonderful Life'' and ''HM DS'', Charlie and Eliza in ''Island Of Happiness'', and Candy and Marco in ''RuneFactoryFrontier''.

* Herve and Cecilia in {{Folklore}} are a particularly sad and sweet case. Even though both of them were only children, [[spoiler: she risked her life and soul to save him, and in the end he gave his life willingly to save hers.]] If that's not love, I don't know what it is.

** ''TalesOfSymphonia'' Genis and Presea. Although, [[spoiler: Presea is actually 28 (30 in the sequel). However, she's still got the body of a 12/14 year old. [[PrecociousCrush This really didn't stop Genis too much after he found out]].]]
** ''TalesOfTheAbyss'' On a similar note, Arietta and Ion (Or Anise and Ion).

** ''TalesOfInnocence'', conveniently named, has Hermana and Chien .
* ''{{Touhou}}'': While it's debatable how old they actually are, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI3RkRuXJuU Cirno and Daiyousei are often shipped together]] and both are portrayed as very young in either canon or fanon.

Awww! [[{{Shipping}} Don't they make a cute couple?]] C'mon! You know they were totally [[RedStringOfFate made for each other!]] They're [[{{OTP}} the best couple in this show by far!]] Don't you think so?

Sometimes it happens that two characters display a [[FanPreferredCouple startling amount of chemistry]], even though they're both barely old enough to be interested in the opposite sex -- heck, they might even still be in the "[[GirlsHaveCooties Boys/girls have cooties!]]" stage. This results in the occasionally {{squick}}y practice of {{Shipping}} two characters who are barely old enough to be in a relationship, but in fairness this isn't as {{squick}}y as [[{{Lolicon}} pairing]] [[{{Shotacon}} them]] [[PrecociousCrush off with adults]]. May be attempted by the authors if the show deals with characters of that age group, but still wants to add in a romantic subplot.

Please note that this does not automatically qualify as {{squick}} since usually people only support innocent childhood crushes between the two. Most writers and fanfic authors let these characters age a bit before making moves. Some... don't.

*** This is actually {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by John during a meeting between him, Dave, and Karkat.

* ''WebComic/OzyAndMillie'': Creator D.C. Simpson, while in the process of bringing the strip to a close, attempted to thwart the Toy Ship crowd by providing the title characters with a more satisfying and appropriate relationship: brother and sister, as their single parents have casually decided to get married.

*** If we take the LiveAction TimeSkip TV movie ''[[AFairlyOddMovieGrowUpTimmyTurner Grow Up Timmy Turner]]'' as canon, then [[spoiler: they're most likely Tootie's kids.]]

Compare/Contrast: {{Lolicon}} and {{Shotacon}}. May be due to a RelationshipWritingFumble or the fact that MostWritersAreAdults. See also FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother. ABSOLUTELY NOT to be confused with [[CargoShip the other kind of toy]].

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