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-->''During the development phase, it was said that "Caster turns into a loli with hyper power", but we only need one loli!''
-->--Taiga, ''FateStayNight'' (game): [[{{Omake}} Taiga dojo #22]]

The TokenLoli is an aged-twelve-and-under ([[OlderThanTheyLook at least in appearance]]) female character in an anime cast that is otherwise made up of adults, or at least teenagers. Her presence is often [[HandWave hand-waved]] in some manner to explain why someone that looks twelve is hanging out with a group of people old enough to be her parents: a younger sibling, {{Phlebotinum}} genetics , inherited a PlotCoupon like everybody else, a ChildProdigy who got her position early on the basis thereof, etc. Maybe she just [[MustHaveLotsOfFreeTime has lots of free time]]. Again, note that the Token Loli doesn't have to ''actually'' be underage. She may be ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, or a RobotGirl, or some other variant of the MagicalGirlfriend, as long as she's [[OlderThanTheyLook still loli in appearance]].

The Token Loli shows up in darn near every series, to the point that if she's not there at the start, it's more a matter of waiting until she does show up than a matter of ''if''. Her purpose is to appeal to one of two warring fandoms. Those with a BigBrotherInstinct find the TokenLoli endearing and feel an [[MoeMoe emotional response]] of wanting to protect her from the evil {{Lolicon}}s. Lolicons... [[FetishFuel well]], [[{{Squick}} yeah]].

This might be highlighted by having a DirtyOldMan or CovertPervert around to lampshade the TokenLoli. Or maybe the token loli is [[FilleFatale sexually precocious]] and curious (usually an innocent curiosity) about ThisAndThat. Perhaps she's only interested in kissing, or doesn't ''really'' understand what [[FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother love and marriage]] are about. More often it's done more subtly. For example in a [[UnwantedHarem harem]] show have the little girl of the group be jealous of all the attention the older girls are getting and insist on getting her own ''date''. Of course most people see this as cute innocence, but it can appeal to a PeripheryDemographic.

This means that a TokenLoli can become a CousinOliver or TheScrappy without proper care. '''Little girls who aren't treated in this {{Fanservice}} style should be put in TagAlongKid.''' Sometimes mixed with LittleMissSnarker, although those little girls are intellectually precocious.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''[[MabuRaho Maburaho]]'' [[spoiler:almost made it to the end of the show without a token loli]] (there's one in the manga), but [[spoiler:she shows up in the last half-minute of the last episode.]]
* Sasami, from ''TenchiMuyo''.
** In ''{{Magical Project S}}'', the villain team (known variously as the Lovely Madams, Team Sexy Mrs, or Hitozuma-tai [Married Woman Squad]) has one member, Chisato or Mrs. Roku (literally "Mrs. Sixth", as the sixth member recruited), who is somewhere between kindergarten and junior high - in any case, definitely in Loli territory. She is the only unmarried member of the villain team, although she has an arranged marriage. One of the soldiers confronting the villains was heard to exclaim "''She's'' supposed to be a ''wife''?!"
* ''DivergenceEve'' has Kotoko-01, a support android that looks like a little girl for no appreciable reason.
* ''OnegaiTeacher'' has Ichigo Morino, although the fact she actually looks like one and is probably a draw to someone is only pointed out in the second season.
* ''LoveHina'' had two: Shinobu and Kaolla. Interestingly, Sara is usually not considered one because of her personality, despite being younger than both.
** Similarly expanded, [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters like much was]], in one of the creator's next series, ''MahouSenseiNegima'', where there were at least five (one of whom doubles as the OldMaster just for giggles).
** To further abuse this, the Age Changing Pills used to let Negi and Kotaro become 15 year old hunks for the girls to properly drool over ([[{{Shotacon}} as opposed to]]) also is used to do the reverse to the schoolgirls. Chisame (Chiu) seems to perfer the cute 10 year old form to being herself.
** And it's not limited to the heroes: A group of bounty hunters have a TokenLoli of their own, but she's quite difficult to spot if you don't [[SamusIsAGirl know what to look for]].
*** Oddly enough, while there are about half a dozen loli-like characters in the series, only [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Anya]] is young enough to actually ''be'' a loli, and she's not properly introduced until about 170 chapters in. All the others are OlderThanTheyLook.
* ''SailorMoon'' had Chibiusa, and, to a lesser extent, Hotaru. In one season, the QuirkyMinibossSquad was made up of lolis.
* Merrill in RuneSoldierLouie is not actually appreciably younger than the other females in the cast. But she is shorter, less developed, and acts younger, making her the Token Loli. She also qualifies as a {{Shorttank}}.
* Seira from ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' takes this to its logical extreme: the second arc is dedicated to helping her be born. Even though this means she should be a baby at the end of the series, she looks and acts like a kid both as a SpiritAdvisor and when she is finally born.
* Pudding from ''TokyoMewMew'', beginning the series at eight, is the only elementary school student in a team of twelve-to-fifteen-year-old girls. The [=PlayStation=] game added Ringo, of about the same age.
* Mikan in ''RentalMagica''
* Pia in ''DragonHalf''.
* Yachiru and Ururu from ''{{Bleach}}''.
** Also Nel. [[spoiler: At least initially...]]
*** [[HotLibrarian Nanao Ise]] ''used'' to be the TokenLoli of the [=8th=] Squad, having been there since she was a child.
**** Amongst the Zanpakutou Spirits in the recent filler arc: Momo Hinamori's Zanpakutou Tobiume is the only loli amongst the spirits.
* Amy from ''BurstAngel''.
* Tianzi in ''CodeGeass''
* Caro in ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha [=StrikerS=]''. Kind of odd, as the first two seasons were full of lolis.
** On the villain side was Cinque, ironically one of the [[OlderThanTheyLook oldest]] members of the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Numbers]] group.
** Nanoha herself was the TokenLoli of ''TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever''.
* Anita in ''[[ReadOrDie Read or Dream]]'' and ''[[ReadOrDie R.O.D the TV]]''.
* Sendou Yukari in ''RosarioToVampire'', of the kid genius type.
* Rimone in ''{{Simoun}}'', who is also not exempt from performing the kissing ritual to start the titular aircraft.
** Although she does it in a subdued way that fits her age.
* ''{{Vandread}}'''s team nurse Paiway Underberg. Why an eleven-year-old works as a ship's nurse is ''completely'' ignored.
* Chika from ''DigimonSavers''
* Chika from ''AiYoriAoshi''. She's had more exposure (IfYouKnowWhatIMean) to the male lead than any other character, who is thankfully disinterested and thus is played for comedy. She's still nonetheless ''very'' popular despite having the fewest appearances...
* Kusano from ''{{Sekirei}}''
* Tiki from ''{{Geneshaft}}''
* Hani from ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' is a male example. He is actually senior to most of the club, including his tall, silent friend Mori. Loves cakes and cute things, [[IKnowKungFu kicks some serious ass if provoked]]; dives fully into this persona in order to attract the (apparently) innocent affections of schoolgirls.
* It seems like the mangaka of ''ChronoCrusade'' was trying to appeal to pretty much any demographic he could, so of course the show has a TokenLoli in Azmaria. A joke in one of the Omakes actually shows what ''Chrono'' would have been like if he'd been one of these, as well.
* Athena from ''CosplayComplex'', who seems to function mostly as a device to let {{lolicon}} Jenny have massive {{nosebleed}}s over her.
* Sora from ''DoujinWork''.
* Chiyo-chan from ''AzumangaDaioh'' is a [[TeenGenius Preteen Genius]] who starts 10th grade at 10 years old while all her classmates are 15 or 16.
** Really more of a parodic deconstruction -- the series is all too quick to point out the problems with such a small girl in a much older group, and then plays it up for laughs.
* Klan Klein from ''MacrossFrontier''. Actually she's a Metrandi, so in her normal form is [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever anything but little]] -- But a quirk in her [[SleepModeSize miclonization]] process means when she shrinks down to human size, she looks like a little girl.
* Hinako Ninomiya from ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'' should be in her twenties at ''least'', but a severe illness when she was four (and an unorthodox "treatment" from Happosai) has slowed her aging to the point where she has the body of a ten year-old girl. She can only regain her ([[HelloNurse extremely buxom]]) adult form by absorbing the BattleAura of people and animals, but it goes away after a while.
* [[MoeAnthropomorphism Liechtenstein]] from ''AxisPowersHetalia''.
* Kyon's Sister in ''HaruhiSuzumiya''.
* Murasaki in ''{{Kure-nai}}'' is a seven year old girl who is being body-guarded by the title character.
* Tsugumi in the first season of ''JigokuShoujo'', and Kikuri thereafter. Enma Ai is bigger than loli, but not by much.
* Minawa in ''{{Mahoromatic}}'' is borderline.
* Asami in ''Mezzo DSA''. Being specialists in ''danger'', the DSA don't actually encourage her to hang around, but they can't shake her.
* Becky from PaniPoniDash is both the show's main character and Token Loli.
* Yutaka in ''LuckyStar''. She's 15, but her extreme case of OlderThanTheyLook and her CheerfulChild demeanor would cause views to accept she's more or less like a loli.
* Ar from ''IonoTheFanatics'', who also happens to be one of [[LittleMissBadass Iono's bodyguards]].
* {{Grenadier}} has Mikan.
* {{Gundam ZZ}} had Elpeo Puru, whose name was even a play on words based on the Lolicon magazine Lemon People.
* Lola and Laila from ''VenusVersusVirus''.
* Ai from ''{{ARIA}}'', who very typically was [[CanonImmigrant introduced in the anime before the manga]].
* Yuki from ''{{Saki}}'', despite being the same age as the main characters, around 15 or 16.
**Not to be outdone, Koromo is a year older than Yuki and out-lollis ''her''.
* Kokoro from ''{{School Days}}'' is Katsura Kotonoha's younger sister that hangs out with Kotonoha and Makoto, and is the only person in the show under a certain age.
* Misaki from ''{{Welcome to the NHK}}'', despite being around high school age, is much younger than the other characters in the show, who are all in their early/mid twenties.
* Despite the [[FanDumb ill suited]] nickname, there are only two, [[spoiler:three later on]], lolis in ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi''. Rika, and Satoko, both who are approximately nine, while everyone else is fifteen and up.
* [[spoiler: Asuna]] is the token loli of Ala Rubra as seen in the numerous flashbacks in ''MahouSenseiNegima''.
* Shizuku from ''OmamoriHimari''-the only Loli in the UnwantedHarem. There are two others, but neither is actually a major character as of yet.
* ''ToLoveRu'' has Rito's little sister Mikan. Disturbingly enough, she is used for FanService as much as any of the other girls, and seems to subsist on nothing but [[YumYum popsicles]].
** Then Lala's younger twin sisters, Nana and Momo, appeared. One's a {{Tsundere}} and the other is [[TheTease a tease]] who constantly gets close to Rito and sneaks into his bed at night.
* ''SomedaysDreamers'' has Runa, who for some unexplained reason like to hang out in the salsa club owned by Yume's magic instructor.
* Lirio from ''ElCazadorDeLaBruja'', who is also a {{cute mute}}.
* Tomoka in ''Girls Bravo''.
* Mei Sunohara in ''{{Clannad}}'', who is actually GenreSavvy enough to use this to her advantage.
* Yukari and Kokoa in ''RosarioToVampire''.
* Asami-chan from ''{{Mahoraba}}''.
* Lampshaded endlessly in SeitokaiNoIchizon with Kurimu.
* KamenNoMaidGuy has Liz.
* ''MartianSuccessorNadesico'' has one of anime's most beloved DeadpanSnarker characters as its TokenLoli, [[LittleMissSnarker Ruri Hoshino]].
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* The observational Realians and Kirschwassers in ''Xenosaga'', which like DivergenceEve, are androids that look like little girls (with MOMO being the actual Token Loli since she's a regular castmember).
* Eiko from ''FinalFantasyIX''. Even younger than the usual TokenLoli age, but maybe that's to make up for the chibi style making ''everyone'' look like they're kids.
* Iris from ''SakuraTaisen''.
** Not to mention Coquelicot in the third and fourth games and Rikaritta in the fifth.
* Primula from ''{{SHUFFLE}}!''
* Michiru from ''{{AIR}}'' [[spoiler:is a spirit, but still]] doesn't have her own route in the VisualNovel, probably for squick reasons.
* Pearl Fey in the ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' saga.
* Of course, there's Mint from ''GalaxyAngel'', who is supposed to be a teen but [[OlderThanTheyLook looks younger than ten.]] She does have her own route in the [[GalaxyAngelGameverse game]], but it's not [[{{Eroge}} that kind of game]].
* ''YoakeMaeYoriRuriiroNa'', with a route for the ReallySevenHundredYearsOld alien Wreathlit and the "she's fourteen, [[NotBloodSiblings and not your blood sister]], honest!" Mai, ''is'' that kind of game.
* Carol in ''{{Wild ARMs 5}}''.
* Sakura in ''DaCapo''. She's [[OlderThanTheyLook really the same age]] as the main character, though.
* Ilya in ''FateStayNight''. She doesn't get her own path even though it ''is'' that kind of game, (it was cut out before the game was released, though some of its backstory was eventually adapted into ''FateZero'') and she's revealed to be [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld slightly older than Shiro]]. One [[HaveANiceDeath Tiger Dojo]] has Ilya mention that ([[RapeAsDrama horrible bad end HCGs where she rapes Shiro]] were also left on the cutting room floor.
** Len, from "{{Tsukihime}}." Unlike Ilya though, Len does get her own [=HCGs=]. If Shiki and Akiha is considered incest than Shiro and Ilya would be incest AND lolicon; maybe that's why she doesn't get her own path. (Before anyone ask [[spoiler: Ilya is the biological daughter of Shiro's foster father]]
* Sunny in MetalGearSolid 4, [[spoiler:who was rescued and taken in by the heroes after her mother died in the second game]].
* Momo from ''[[RivalSchools Project Justice]]''. She's well aware of her size and uses it to get under the skin of her HugeSchoolgirl classmate Natsu for the affections of Shoma.
* Mei from ''{{CLANNAD}}''. She's even GenreSavvy enough to mercilessly [[PlayingWithATrope play with her role]].
* The ''{{Tales series}}'' seems to love these things a bit too much. It seems like whenever there isn't one of these, it's a CuteShotaroBoy instead.
** Suzu, ''TalesOfPhantasia''
** Chelsea, ''TalesOfDestiny''
** Chat, ''TalesOfEternia''
** Presea, ''TalesOfSymphonia''
** Anise, ''TalesOfTheAbyss''
** Hermana, ''TalesOfInnocence''
** Beryl, ''TalesOfHearts''
** Gauche and Droite, ''TalesOfVesperia''
*** And with the PS3 port, the player-character {{pirate}}-loli Patty Fleur.
* Similarly, the StarOcean games (except the second, which substitutes a CuteShotaroBoy) have one as well: Perisie in the first, and Peppita in the third.
** The remakes add Erys to the original ''[[StarOcean1 Star Ocean]]'', and Welch to both the original and [[StarOcean2 second]]. Officially, Erys and Perisie are 17 and 16 respectively, but [[OlderThanTheyLook don't really look it]].
** ''[=~Star Ocean: The Last Hope~=]'' proudly continues the token loli tradition with Lymle Lemuri Phi, who [[OlderThanTheyLook is actually around 15, but appears and generally acts about 6.]] Lymle's actual age is only mentioned in the [[AllThereInTheManual manual and in-game dictionary]], and why she looks so young only in the latter.. If you haven't happened to read that, the UST between her and Faize looks a hell of a lot creepier.
* Kooh from ''Pangya''. She's a ten-year-old captain of a pirate ship.
* May from {{GuiltyGear}}, also the (junior) captain of a pirate ship, with a crew comprised of almost all girls to boot.
* ChronoCross is most blatant about Marcy, but one can safely include Mel and Leah. And if you include non-humans, Pip, NeoFio, Draggy, and Starky.
* Maria in the ''{{Castlevania}}'' series. For some reason, her chibi version has appeared far more often than the grown-up incarnation in ''Symphony of the Night''.
* Carrie from the N64 ''Castlevania''/''Legacy of Darkness'' games.
* Mii in ''{{Popotan}}''.
* Relm in ''FinalFantasyVI''.
* In LuminousArc (for DS), we've got Mel, the precocious little Witch girl (she's a Water-elemental character). NPC versions are Alice and Therese... I think.
* In LuminousArc2 (also for DS), there's Pop (full name: Potpourri), who fills in for Mel. She's a bratty Nature-elemental Witch, who has a love of crab. Her twin brother, Pip (a.k.a. Phillip) joins the party earlier, as the Token Shota (with an unexplained, totally out of place British accent). Remember Alice and Therese from the first game? They join your party in this one, and they make adorable comments (such as "You're gonna be a pie!" or "You're going to be toast with butter!").
* Tiny Kong in her ''[[DonkeyKongCountry Donkey Kong 64]]'' appearance (SheIsAllGrownUp in later games, rendering her name somewhat meaningless).
** This despite the fact that her older sister, Dixie Kong, remains the same size.
* Nana the Ice Climber in the ''SuperSmashBros'' series, who teams up with an identical ''CuteShotaroBoy''.
** In terms of side characters, there's [[CuteBruiser Kat and Ana]] from the ''{{WarioWare}}'' series and Jill from ''DrillDozer'', all appearing as Assist Trophies.
* Suzushiro in the Ero-game ''Princess Waltz'' is the same age as the main character, but her height and build let her fill out this position, so to speak.
* Misha in ''ArTonelico''. [[spoiler:At least at first.]] Cocona fills this role in the second game.
* Saki from ''The Oneechanbara'' series. She's the little sister implicit in the title (it roughly translates to "The Big Sister Swordsman"). She's 16, but -- like some real-life Asian teens -- has a more childlike appearance. She's also the first of the series' {{Big Bad}}s, before pulling a HeelFaceTurn.
* Maiko is the Token Loli Social Link in ''{{Persona 3}}''. Ken is the Token Shota party member. {{Persona 4}} has Nanako Dojima.
* The Witch mercenary in ''AtlanticaOnline''.
* Luste Teuber and Schwer-Muta Casasola Merkle in ''{{Rosenkreuzstilette}}''. The entire game has a not very subtle {{Moe}} undercurrent to it anyway, but these two are the most obvious loli characters. Luste [[{{Stripperiffic}} wears very little]] and worries about even less. Schwer-Muta wears a full-body catsuit and does double duty as the resident CreepyChild.
* Various OriginalGeneration characters from the ''SuperRobotWars'' series. Classic timeline has Presia Zenosakis and [[GenkiGirl Mio Sasuga]]. Alpha timeline has Irui Guneden. While Compact 2 is lacking of loli, the [[UpdatedRerelease Impact]] add Einst Alfimi. Original Generation timeline has [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Princess Shine Hausen]], [[{{Meganekko}} Latooni Subota]] and [[HenshinHero Shoko]] [[CatGirl Azuma]]; its spin-off EndlessFrontier also has [[CuteWitch Kyon Feulion]]. A stand-alone titles ''W'' has Mihiro Ardygun and ''R'' has [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent Tiz and Despinis]] (no Laria is [[CuteShotaroBoy not]]). Most of them can be consider as LittleMissBadass, for they're pilots of HumongousMecha.
* 12-year-old shocktrooper Aisha in ''ValkyriaChronicles''. Her profile implies that [[ChildSoldiers she's the youngest person ever to enlist]], although she did so voluntarily.
* Sailor outfit-sporting Sherry Birkin in, of all things, ''ResidentEvil''.
* Carlie in ''SeikenDensetsu3'', though she's [[OlderThanTheyLook Older Than She Looks]] due to being a HalfHumanHybrid.
* Mercedes from OdinSphere.
* Aruruw in {{Utawarerumono}}. One of only three girls not to be sexualized in the game, and also one of only two who doesn't love the lead. Romantically, anyway. Yeah.
* Dear lord, Ernula from ''{{Wartech}}: Senko Ronde''. She acts in an exaggerated, hyper-{{moe}} "childish" manner, her mecha actually has bunnies painted on it, and her costumes are split between {{Moe}} appeal and full-out {{Lolicon}} FetishFuel.
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