History Main / ArtisticAge

** The Gold Saints all looked to be in their Mid 20s at least, yet when their ages were revealed only a few of them are past 20, with the oldest among them (Saga) being 28, in particular Aiolia who looks to be in his 30s, and has one of the [[BadassBaritone deepest voices]] you'll hear was only 14 [[spoiler:when he died]], and [[BigGuy Big Guy]] Aldebaran being only 20, despite looking to be in his Late 30s-40s. This was most likely due to the author [[DidntThinkThisThrough not thinking that much]] about it given the discrepancies caused to certain plot points.

* Almost everyone in ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', a show where middleschoolers look like highschoolers while the highschoolers look like they're in their twenties. Considering what kind of messed-up stuff goes on later in the series, this may actually be a good thing. The only exception is that elementary schoolers look like elementary schoolers, which makes Nanami look like one hell of a paedophile for liking Tsuwabuki, despite the fact that she's only thirteen herself. In fact, the only teenagers that do look their age are thirteen-year-old Miki (who's voiced by [[Creator/AyaHisakawa a woman]] in the Japanese version and is given a more [[Creator/JimmyZoppi boyish voice]] for English) and Shiori, who seems to be the same grade level as Juri (first year of high school).

* Show of hands: who here thinks Masaru and Toma from ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' look fourteen (especially considering that nineteen-year-old Masaru looks ''exactly the same'' in the DistantFinale)?
* In the classic mecha series ''[[Anime/{{Daitarn 3}} Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3]]''. Banjo, the main character, is 18 years old, but looks, acts, and is treated as a man at least in his late-20s, possibly even early 30s. More of one of the early-bloomer types.
* In ''Manga/BlackCat'', Woodney, Train's imposter, is revealed to only be 20 years old. [[http://onemanga.com/Black_Cat/44/10/ He doesn't look 20]].
* Jin from ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' has a face that looks more like someone in his early thirties, but he's actually only 20. Him complaining about his back hurting in one episode doesn't help either.
* Lucia, from ''Manga/VenusVersusVirus'' is only fifteen years old, though she looks like she is at best eighteen. The fact that she {{smok|ingIsCool}}es doesn't make it any better. She looks more her age in the manga, [[ArtEvolution beginning at]] volume 4, though.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Zoro and Sanji are a lot younger than they look, sound and act. Neither of them were 20 before the TimeSkip, but looking at them, you'd expect them to be in their mid-20s at least, hilariously Zoro and Sanji in RealLife wouldn't have been allowed to [[TheAlcoholic drink]] and [[SmokingIsCool smoke]] like they do at that age. There's some justification in that both characters went through TrainingFromHell and experienced events (especially Sanji) that have likely matured them greatly.
** Oda has a habit of doing this with certain female characters: Vivi was 16 in her debut, but being in disguise as Miss Wednesday she appeared to be in her 20s. After she was revealed to be GoodAllAlong, however, she started looking a lot closer to her actual age. Ditto for Rebecca who looks as visually mature as most of the grown women in the series despite being only 16. Pudding is implied to be even younger and yet she looks the same age as Nami who is currently 20.
* ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' has this (especially with 13-year-old heroine Lucia), mainly because Hanamori Pink can't seem to draw any female character (besides [[EnfanteTerrible Yuuri]] and [[KidAppealCharacter Seira]], both very young girls) flatter than a D-cup. And that's why [[ShesAManInJapan changing Lady Bat to a girl]] instead of a WholesomeCrossdresser doesn't work.
* ''Manga/PsychicSquad''. Before the TimeSkip, the main heroines are 10 and look 10, but afterwards, they're 12 and look more 15-16.

* In ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'', Zakuro is canonically 9, when physically she looks about 18, due to her... features.

* The main human (or equivalent) cast of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' look at least nineteen but are actually in the 15-17 range. Ironically, Rukia looks the most like that age, but is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld. What makes this even more bizarre is that Chad is ''explicitly'' [[YoungerThanTheyLook Younger than He Looks]] on top of that. The 15-year-old Orihime from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' is famous for her rather large breasts. Likewise Ichigo and most of the other male teenage protagonists have exceptionally mature, chiseled bodies. When a TimeSkip happens, this is naturally reflected by the now 17-year-old Orihime having [[GagBoobs even bigger breasts]] and Ichigo having an even more chiseled body. Since they already looked practically like adults before the time skip, there was little else to do.

* The main human (or equivalent) cast of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' look at least nineteen but are actually in the 15-17 range. Ironically, Rukia looks the most like that age, but is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld. What makes this even more bizarre is that Chad is ''explicitly'' [[YoungerThanTheyLook Younger than He Looks]] on top of that. The 15 year old Orihime from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' is famous for her rather large breasts. Likewise Ichigo and most of the other male teenage protagonists have exceptionally mature, chiseled bodies. When a TimeSkip happens, this is naturally reflected by the now 17 year old Orihime having [[GagBoobs even bigger breasts]] and Ichigo having an even more chiseled body. Since they already looked practically like adults before the time skip, there was little else to do.

* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has flashbacks in which characters look far younger then their actual age. When Akane is thinking about her past with Dr. Tofu, she resembles 6 year old while her elder sister towers over Akane and wears a high school uniform. There is actually only a three year difference between them, meaning Akane was actually 12 or 13 around that time. Similarly a flashback to Tatewaki Kuno's HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood depicted the very tall LordErrorProne as an extremely short kid who looked around 6. Kuno is 17 and the flashback was 4 years ago, making him 13 in the flashback.

** The protagonists are all depicted as young men in their late teens/early twenties, but are actually ''13-15''. Considering the violence in the series, this may be to avoid the connotations of violence against children. Considering they all underwent TrainingFromHell around when they were ten years old, there are fans who [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation consider their adopted father]] to be an inordinately cruel man rather than a WellIntentionedExtremist. Case in point, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Athena-manga22.jpg this]] is officially a 13 year old girl.

* Most of the characters in ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' actually look their proper age (fifteen-year old Lina, twenty-two year old Gourry, and fourteen/fifteen year old Amelia, who, despite her [[{{Moe}} roundish face and large bustline,]] is mid-height), Zelgadis definitely ''doesn't'' look like he's the sixteen years of age he is in the anime. It isn't just his [[CursedWithAwesome chimeric]] appearance either; his voice is deeper than Gourry's is. In the original novels, he's a far more plausible twenty.

* ''Manga/WanderingSon'' has a few characters, mostly Doi and Chiba (especially Chiba). The latter did look like a ten to eleven year old at first, but starting around volume 4 her appearance became more of a mid-aged teenager. It matches her personality change.

** The most blatant example of this trope in fiction is Jotaro Kujo, [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080110031930/jjba/images/2/29/Jotaro_Kujo_Part_VI.jpg who looks younger in Part 6 as a man in his 40s]] than he did as [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/jjba/images/0/01/JotaroProfile.png/revision/latest?cb=20190117103858 a 17 year old high school student in Part 3]]. Much of this is due to the extremely heavy ArtEvolution.

* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': Integra Hellsing is a young woman in her early twenties, but due to the way she's drawn, how tough she looks thanks to the CrapsackWorld she's in, and her no-nonsense personality, you'd be forgiven for believing she's in her late twenties to early thirties. Poked fun at in the AbridgedSeries, where she insults the band of Nazi vampires chasing her by proclaiming how it took a whole squad of them to capture a twenty two year old woman and their response is "She's TWENTY TWO?"
* The students of class 3-4 in ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' are in their final year of junior high, making them approximately 14 years old; this isn't too unrealistic in the early manga, which draws them with the mature-yet-still-scrawny builds you'd expect from teenagers in the later stages of puberty. The anime and later portions of the manga, however, depict them as looking akin to 16/17 year old high school students, which is jarring given Onizuka's early annoyances of teaching a class that's younger than he expected.

* Teegra in ''WesternAnimation/FireAndIce'' is rather tall, busty and curvy giving the impression she is her late-teens/early-twenties, but she is supposed to be 15-years old.

*** Tifa was only 15 as appears in Niblehiem but her [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/7/7b/FFCCVII-Tifa.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/150?cb=20080411084830 physique and attire]] makes her look like usual 20 year-old buxom self seen in the original game.

** Several of the protagonists look at least three or four years older than their supposed age (usually assumed to be eleven without confirmation, though after generation 5 they have been leaning more towards their mid-to-late teens). This is especially noticeable when it comes to the female characters, who tend to be more... developed than an average 11-year old (and sometimes more so than half the adult female cast). A common complaint with Red and his rival Blue in the remakes is that they no longer look eleven, with their slender, somewhat adult-like proportions and less childish facial structures. So much so, in fact, [[VocalDissonance they sound at least 13]] in the English dub of ''Pokemon Origins''. In the [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver timeskip]], where they're fourteen now, they look around sixteen or seventeen (or at least Blue does; it's difficult to see if Red has changed much at all).

* Many forget Claire Redfield in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' was only a 19 year old college student, yet she [[https://www.xboxachievements.com/images/news/resident-evil-2.jpg looks the same age]] as Leon S. Kennedy who was 21 and even as [[MsFanservice physically mature]] as Ada Wong who was 24. The [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake remake]] of [=RE2=] fixes this up a bit, Claire has got more a baby face and is slightly less mature than Ada or Annette. It also helps remake Claire was modeled after a 18-year old fashion model.

** Amy is only eight in the classic games and is twelve in the post-''Adventure'' games, but some fans mistake her for a teenager like Sonic, and more than a few instances of SelfFanservice art tend to depict her with the shapely figure of a much older girl in her early 20s. Even ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' {{age lift}}ed Amy into a seventeen year old instead of a twelve year old.

** Fans assumed Cinder was in her 30s or 40s until it was shown that [[spoiler:you can't become a maiden over 30]]. She looks older and is treated older as well (to the point where she's a motherly substitute to Emerald and has a skit with Taiyang in ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'', who is old enough to have a 17-year old daughter).

* Most of the main cast of ''Anime/EdenOfTheEast'' don't quite look their listed ages of 22 or 21, but rather more like 15-17 year old teenagers (or, in [[LittleMissSnarker Micchon]]'s case, like a preteen).

** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Bellemere, Nami's foster mom, who vainly claims despite being 30 eating tangerines has given her the smooth skin of an 18-year old. When Nami points out her hands are orange, she grows at her adoptive daughter.

* In ''[[Manga/ThirtyOneAiDream 31 Ai Dream]]'', a shojo manga by Creator/ArinaTanemura, the main character is a 31-year old woman who is [[FountainOfYouth returned to her teenage years]]. However, as her 31-year old self, you'd expect her to be around her early-to-mid twenties, because of her natural beauty, the fact that she's a {{Meganekko}}, and the manga's art style.

* In the flashbacks to ''Manga/YourLieInApril'' the children are usually drawn looking younger than intended. Eleven year old Kousei barely looks like an elementary schooler.

* Most students in the ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' manga look like adults, but there are exceptions. Some of the students (such as Yutaka) look to be about 10 years old and are pretty small for 15-16 year olds. This, however, is TruthInTelevision: there are quite a few people in early high school who look younger than they actually are.

** Rather {{squick}}y in the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 version of ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife'', where the 14 year old girl (Lumina) in the [=GameCube=] version is now apparently 18 and available to marry... without changing her appearance at all, though post-marriage she instantly has her adult design after a small timeskip. In the JPN version she was sixteen in ''SE''. Many fans don't even realize Lumina was 14, thinking she was 10 or 11. ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS'' avoids this by using her adult design from the start.

* Oliver from ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni'' looks and sounds like a nine or ten year old, even though he does act more mature than that. Turns out he's actually 13. Guess puberty just hasn't hit him yet.

* The PuniPlush artstyle of ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'' means that the protagonists look younger than the previous protagonists. They're likely intended to be eleven, just like Red and Blue from the original ''Pokémon Yellow'', but more resemble eight or nine year olds.

* ''Manga/Reborn2004'' have largely avoided this with the main cast (especially the girls) actually looking relatively like 14/15-year olds. Bianchi (18) and Adult Lambo (15) who are Type 1 and the two 5-year olds who are Type 2 are some of the more noticeable exceptions.

* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' it's all over the place. The 104th trainee squad consists of 15-17 year olds, some of whome look their age, and others who don't. This trope come more into play, however, with character's whose ages are never mentioned. Levi, Hanji, and Petra all look like they could be close in age to the protagonists, though they could be anywhere from three to ten years older. Levi is also quite short and much smaller in stature compared to some of the others, making him appear younger. [[spoiler: WordOfGod is that Levi is over 30.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has plenty of characters who fit both Type 1 and Type 2. For example, Red and Blue are canonically eleven but in the remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' they look like teenagers. On the opposite side of the spectrum is Emma from ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', who is said in-game to be sixteen but looks younger and is treated years younger than the [[VagueAge vaguely sixteen to nineteen]] year old protagonist.

* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'':
** The protagonists are all depicted as young men in their late teens/early twenties, but are actually ''13-15''. Considering the violence in the series, this may be to avoid the connotations of violence against children. Considering they all underwent TrainingFromHell around when they were ten years old, there are fans who [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation consider their adopted father]] to be an inordinately cruel man rather than a WellIntentionedExtremist. Case in point, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Athena-manga22.jpg this]] is officially a 13 year old girl.
** Not to mention the Gold Saints, who all looked to be in their Mid 20s at least, yet when their ages were revealed only a few of them are past 20, with the oldest among them (Saga) being 28, in particular Aiolia who looks to be in his 30s, and has one of the [[BadassBaritone deepest voices]] you'll hear was only 14 [[spoiler:when he died]], and [[BigGuy Big Guy]] Aldebaran being only 20, despite looking to be in his Late 30s-40s. This was most likely due to the author [[DidntThinkThisThrough not thinking that much]] about it given the discrepancies caused to certain plot points.
** The SpinOffspring anime ''Anime/SaintSeiyaOmega'' somewhat averts this. The new protagonists are around the same age range as the original ones and actually look like it, except for Haruto, who looks like he's, at most, 16.
** To make the matter worse, the series is very loose with continuity regarding the characters ages:
*** In a flashback set 5 years before the start of the series, Seiya is a young boy training under Marin. However, Marin is 16, which would make her 11 in the flashback, but she doesn't look any different.
*** Ikki has a vision of him as a young boy holding Shun as a baby in two distinct moments: one has a nightmarish vision created by Shaka, another as a recollection of his first meeting with Pandora. While when this happened is not specified, Ikki is 15 and Shun 13, while these scenes makes it very unlikely their age different is only 2.
* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has flashbacks in which characters look far younger then their actual age. When Akane is thinking about her past with Dr. Tofu, she resembles 6 year old while her elder sister towers over Akane and wears a high school uniform. There is actually only a three year difference between them, meaning Akane was actually 12 or 13 around that time. Similarly a flashback to Tatewaki Kuno's HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood depicted the very tall LordErrorProne as an extremely short kid who looked around 6. Kuno is 17 and the flashback was 4 years ago, making him 13 in the flashback.

* According to WordOfGod, [[http://www.quazacolt.com/dmmlq/yoko.jpg Yoko]] from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' is ''[[http://community.livejournal.com/gurren_lagann/517861.html#cutid1 around 14 years old.]]'' The same age as KidHero protagonist Simon, who is quite a tad shorter.
** [[AllThereInTheManual It has been explained]] that living underground for so long (with no visible sun) has messed up the calendar, and Nia is the only human with an accurate age.
** Also, Simon himself falls more towards the opposite extreme (perhaps to emphasize his KidHero aspect) as he's pretty damn short ''for his age'' (he's 14, but most people estimate him to only be about four feet tall).
** Note that Yoko's appearance barely changes after the TimeSkip when she's twenty-one, indicating that she might be older than 14 pre TimeSkip since a 7 year change in your later years is less noticeable.
* Almost everyone in ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', a show where middleschoolers look like highschoolers while the highschoolers look like they're in their twenties. Considering what kind of messed-up stuff goes on later in the series, this may actually be a good thing. The only exception is that elementary schoolers look like elementary schoolers, which makes Nanami look like one hell of a paedophile for liking Tsuwabuki, despite the fact that she's only thirteen herself. In fact, the only teenagers that do look their age are thirteen-year-old Miki (who's voiced by [[Creator/AyaHisakawa a woman]] in the Japanese version and is given a more [[Creator/JimmyZoppi boyish voice]] for English) and Shiori, who seems to be the same grade level as Juri (first year of high school).
* Most of the characters in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' actually look their proper age (fifteen-year old Lina, twenty-two year old Gourry, and fourteen/fifteen year old Amelia, who, despite her [[{{Moe}} roundish face and large bustline,]] is mid-height), Zelgadis definitely ''doesn't'' look like he's the sixteen years of age he is in the anime. It isn't just his [[CursedWithAwesome chimeric]] appearance either; his voice is deeper than Gourry's is. In the original novels, he's a far more plausible twenty.
* Except for Echizen Ryouma and most of the other first-years, none of the players on ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'' look like they're supposed to be in middle school. Of the first-years, Aoi Kentarou and Liliadent Krauser also look much older than they are. In Aoi's case, his wide eyed design and demeanor soften the effect, though he ''still'' looks like he's at least 15.
** Lampshaded when Kawamura's father thinks team captain Tezuka Kunimitsu is the coach, and offers him booze.
** Konomi Takeshi originally intended for the characters to be in high school, but was asked to change the setting to middle school for whatever reason. He agreed, but didn't bother changing the character designs.
* ''Anime/WitchHunterRobin''. Robin is 15. She falls in love with Amon, who's 25. You wouldn't be able to tell they're supposed to be different ages without being told - they both look mid-twenties.
* Show of hands: who here thinks Masaru and Toma from ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' look fourteen (especially considering that nineteen-year-old Masaru looks ''exactly the same'' in the DistantFinale)?
* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' everybody in the central cast looks older than they should. For reference, here are the protagonist [[http://aboutgundamwing.com/GlossaryImages/ep46_Heero.jpg Heero]] (age 15; looks about 18) and TheRival [[http://aboutgundamwing.com/GlossaryImages/ep45_ZechsSm.jpg Zechs]] (age 19; looks about 23), except for Quatre (also 15) who looks ''younger''.
** [[TeensAreShort Until you see one of the Gundam pilots standing next to an adult.]]
** Of course this is just following a long ''Gundam'' tradition: some particularly weird ones are [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Judau]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Judau_Ashta.jpg Ashta]] (age 14; looks at least 17), [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Bright]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/Bright_Noah_%28Gundam%29.jpg Noa]] (age 19; looks at least 22), and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Kacylia]] [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/gundam/images/2/23/Kacylia_Zabi_%28Gundam%29.jpg Zabi]] (age 27; looks at least in her late 30s). Though Heero at least looks closer to his given age without the near-permanent scowl. In nearly every case, [[ImprobableAge it would be more realistic if the characters actually were the age they appeared to be]].
* ''Anime/AfterWarGundamX'' keeps up with the tradition. Garrod and Tiffa do actually look close to 15, though they also have a severe case of TeensAreShort. Roabea and Witz, the series' experienced adult pilots, look like they're in their late twenties. On top of that, their continuous treatment of Garrod as a "kid" and Roabea's world-wise attitude in particular enforce this impression--but they are both just three years older than him at age 18.
* The main characters of the manga version of ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' they are all supposed to be 15 to 16 years old, are all supposed to be 9th graders, ages 14 to 15, (except Shogo, who got held back) but most of them look (and act) like they're in their twenties at least especially Mitsuko. Possibly to make all the [[{{Gorn}} extremely graphic violence]] a little easier to swallow.
** Shogo looks like a 40 to 50-year-old ShellShockedVeteran. He's...oh, sixteen?
* Umi and Fuu from ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' should've looked a bit like 16 or 17. But they're really 14 years old. By contrast, pint-sized Hikaru is a Type 2 --the two others first thought she was in ''grade school'', and she admits she's a little small for her age...

* Yumiko from ''LightNovel/ModernMagicMadeSimple'' is 15 years old, but her body frame is closer to Misa, who's in her 20s.

# Much like a drawn equivalent of DawsonCasting, the character in question looks older than he or she is, often done in order to depict {{Fanservice}}, violence, or other mature behavior involving said character that would otherwise be very problematic if they actually ''looked'' as young as they are. While their age in canon is treated [[BellisariosMaxim as a mere background detail to be glossed over]], some viewers who do examine it closely [[FridgeLogic can't help but find such portrayals of the character to be ridiculous at best, or uncomfortable at worst]].

* Rei and Asuka from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' appear roughly seventeen despite being fourteen, presumably for the sake of TheMerch. Contrast them with their alleged classmate, Hikari. Even Shinji seems younger than he is in comparison.

* The art style to ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'' makes characters like Franchise/WonderWoman and Franchise/{{Batman}} look like teenagers, instead of in their mid 20s to mid 30s.

** In the ''Pokémon'' anime itself, Ash, much like the direction Sugimori was taking in the games' artstyle as best seen in remake protagonists, looks ''at least'' 12 in ''XY'' saga, thanks to his more defined features, sideburns, tanned skin, and thinner frame. The lack of an older companion[[note]]Serena is the same age as Ash, Clemont is implied to be around the same age as Ash yet less experienced while Bonnie is too young to be an official trainer[[/note]] and Ash's veteran experience makes him appear the oldest member of the XY gang, and [[TheChick Serena's]] crush on him is treated more maturely and seriously as opposed to a love gag. While it has never been officially stated, it can be safely assumed [[NotAllowedToGrowUp he's still 10 officially]]. The following ''Sun and Moon'' arc reverted back to looking around 10. To a lesser degree, Ash suffered from this in ''Advanced Generation'' and ''Diamond and Pearl''. Many fans swore he looked older than he previously had, made worse by the fact Ash's Sinnoh rival himself seemed teenage, but it was simply his clothes giving off the impression he'd gotten older. Ash has gotten taller since Kanto, but he's not teenage height yet.

* Seto Kaiba in ''Manga/YuGiOh'' is canonically fifteen, as he's in the same grade as Yugi and company. You would probably never guess this if you didn't notice this fact, as not only is he far taller and noticeably more mature-looking than his fellow fifteen-year-olds, but he's also ''ridiculously'' well-accomplished, being the owner of a large corporation, a GadgeteerGenius, and apparently able to drive a car or pilot a helicopter on his own terms--not to mention never being seen in school outside of his first appearance.

* The main protagonist of ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'' looks 40-50 years old sometimes, because of the lines on her face and her homeliness. This is to emphasize her ChristmasCake status. Her actual age? ''[[YoungerThanTheyLook 28 years old]]''.

* Kosuna from ''Manga/DesertPunk'' looks about 10-12, but is supposed to be 14.
* In the splatter-horror manga ''Manga/BioMeatNectar'', Kiryuu Shinpachi is the new character added in the final act. He appears to be six and a half feet tall, looks like any beefy hair metal guy from the late 80's and is 13 years old. He also has a job as a fisherman and can operate a boat expansive enough to house almost 4000 people.

* ''{{VideoGame/Overwatch}}'' tends to be very inconsistent when it comes to making its characters look their age. Sometimes a justification is given, but not always. For example, Mei looks considerably younger than 40 because she's been in cryostasis for almost a decade, but no justification is given for why Ashe looks younger than [=McCree=] despite being two years ''older'' than him.

** The protagonists are all depicted as young men in their late teens/early twenties, but are actually ''13-15''. Considering the violence in the series, this may be to avoid the connotations of violence against children. Considering they all underwent TrainingFromHell around when they were ten years old, there are fans who [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation consider their adopted father]] to be an inordinately cruel man rather than a WellIntentionedExtremist. Case in point, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Athena-manga22.jpg this]] is, at most, a 15 year old girl and that's assuming at least 1-2 years have passed since the beginning of the series to that point.

* Inklings in ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' are at minimum fourteen but their designs and [[TeensAreShort builds]] make them seem younger. However, they all look a fair bit older in official art, suggesting that their in-game depiction is a stylistic choice.

* Show of hands: who here could tell ''Anime/DragonBallZ'''s Son Gohan was no older than eleven/twelve in the Cell Saga, just by looking at him? And who here thought he was ''at the very least'' sixteen? No wonder videogames call this form TEEN Gohan, instead of giving that monicker to...well, teenaged Gohan from the Buu saga (who is just "Gohan"). The manga makes this worse. While he looks relatively shorter, his well defined muscles still makes him look like a teenager, and he's ''nine!''

* Callie and Marie from ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' are implied to be seventeen but they look a few years older. This is more pronounced in ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' where Marie wears a kimono which makes her look even more mature, despite not even being 21 yet.

** Goku's look never changes from the time he turns 18 to the time he gets de-aged by Black Star Shenron in ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' where he's about ''fifty''. This was hand-waved by Vegeta, who states that Saiyans age much slower than humans so that they can fight for longer. Even WordOfGod confirms Goku, Vegeta and Broly are currently ''43 years old'', though all three Saiyans could easily pass for half of that age, averted with Paragus Broly's dad who does looks his age and is by far the oldest Saiyan we've seen.

** Casca looks her age in the Golden Age albeit more mature due to her experiences and personalty, currently she's 24 but played straight as Miura makes her look the same age as Farnese who is just 19 years old. Maybe it's just just due to her [[TheOphelia mental state]] [[spoiler: because once Casca's old personality returns, [[https://i6.imggur.net/berserk/355/berserk-10451521.jpg her face changes]] becoming less child-like and more mature]].
** Princess Charlotte is 20 nowadays, [[https://i6.imggur.net/berserk/358/berserk-12134167.jpg but she still looks a teenage girl]].

* The predecessor to ''Wandering Son'', ''Shikii no Junin'', relied heavily on ArtisticAge. The characters can't be older then 11, but they all look like they're at least 16. It doesn't help that with ArtEvolution, whenever Shimura draws the protagonists in her later styles he looks like his actual age (and [[{{Expy}} a lot like Nitori]]).

* ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'': when Cloud first shows up in the game he's only 14 years old...but, Cloud doesn't look any different than usual, and is [[VocalDissonance voiced]] by Creator/TakahiroSakurai and Steve Burton, like always. The only reason you buy that he's a kid is his ''attitude''.
** Looking at Angeal, you'd think he's hitting his mid to late thirties, what with the muscles and the PermaStubble. Turns out he's actually 25 years old, born ''after'' Genesis.
** Tifa was only 15 as appears in Niblehiem but her [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/7/7b/FFCCVII-Tifa.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/150?cb=20080411084830 physique and attire]] makes her look like usual 20 year-old buxom self seen in the original game.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'''s Balthier counts as well. In the English dub, he sounds and acts like he ought to be mid-thirties or so (the age of his voice actor, basically.) The [[AllThereInTheManual manual]] puts him in his early twenties, which rather ruins things. Plenty of stuff that sounds [[DeadpanSnarker pleasantly snarky]] from an older man just sound [[{{Jerkass}} like a young punk talking]] when the character is so young...[[spoiler: Except for the fact that, being trained to become a Judge since early childhood, he can easily back up everything he boasts about...]]
** Same with Larsa. He's keenly intelligent, manipulative, and definitely one of the big movers of the plot, [[spoiler: ascending to the throne of Archadia by the end of the game]]. How old is he? ''Twelve!''

* ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' appears to take place in a strange alternate reality wherein [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/jojo/images/f/f7/Jonathan_e_Dio_primo_incontro.png/revision/latest?cb=20140109163342&path-prefix=it twelve-year-old boys look like they're twenty.]]

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZimEnterTheFlorpus'' where Dib within an ImagineSpot is drawn in a [[Anime/JojosBizarreAdventure Jojo-like]] art style and loudly states that he is 12 years old.

* ''VideoGame/InfiniteSpace'' has ''[[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters many]]'' [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters characters]] who fit in both Type 1 and Type 2. For Type 1 example, there is Terzi, who is 33 yet appears to be somewhere around 50s. As for Type 2, there is Hierarch Myagmar, who is 37 but looks like a man in his late twenties.

* In ''Manga/ThirtyOneAiDream'', a shojo manga by Creator/ArinaTanemura, the main character is a 31-year old woman who is [[FountainOfYouth returned to her teenage years]]. However, as her 31-year old self, you'd expect her to be around her early-to-mid twenties, because of her natural beauty, the fact that she's a {{Meganekko}}, and the manga's art style.

* In ''31 Ai Dream'', a shojo manga by Creator/ArinaTanemura, the main character is a 31-year old woman who is [[FountainOfYouth returned to her teenage years]]. However, as her 31-year old self, you'd expect her to be around her early-to-mid twenties, because of her natural beauty, the fact that she's a {{Meganekko}}, and the manga's art style.

** Rather {{squick}}y in the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 version of ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife'', where the 14 year old girl (Lumina) in the Gamecube version is now apparently 18 and available to marry... without changing her appearance at all, though post-marriage she instantly has her adult design after a small timeskip. In the JPN version she was sixteen in ''SE''. Many fans don't even realize Lumina was 14, thinking she was 10 or 11. ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS'' avoids this by using her adult design from the start.
* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'': Does Ness [[http://starmen.net/mother2/images/official/clay_m2ness.png seriously]] [[WordOfGod look 13]]? Note that those in charge of localizing the American version clearly didn't think so, and made a new clay model that makes him look considerably older, to the point that he could almost pass for 13. [[http://earthboundcentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/claycompare1.jpg Compare the two models for yourself]]. However, the original version stuck, solidified by ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', not being helped by said incarnation of him giving him a very high-pitched voice.

* In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3'' fans have done the math and concluded Dante and Vergil were only 19 at time and Lady was even younger at 17 [[VagueAge or]] 18. None of them look that young, even if it was early in their careers.

See also VagueAge, AgeIsRelative, SelfFanservice.