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* Creator/KikukoInoue and her daughter [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2016-11-04/17-year-old-voice-actress-kikuko-inoue-daughter-pose-as-schoolgirls/.108470 posed as schoolgirls]] for an ad promoting headphones specifically made to listen to anime songs. Not only Inoue is believable as a classmate of her own daughter, this also goes on to show why she's called the "perpetually 17" voice actress.

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* Creator/KikukoInoue and her daughter [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2016-11-04/17-year-old-voice-actress-kikuko-inoue-daughter-pose-as-schoolgirls/.108470 posed as schoolgirls]] for an ad promoting headphones specifically made to listen to anime songs. Not only is Inoue is believable as a classmate of her own daughter, this also goes on to show why she's called the "perpetually 17" voice actress.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MoonGirlAndDevilDinosaur'': ''Both'' of Lunella Lafayette's parents, Adria and James Jr., are youthful-looking enough to be pass on as her older sister and brother.
* Crystal Zilla from ''WesternAnimation/MyDadTheRockStar'', who looks barely older than her teenager daughter Serenity.
* Reversed in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', where Eda is significantly YoungerThanSheLooks due to a curse that causes her to prematurely age as one of its side effects, and thus appears to be just as old as her 70 something mother Gwendolyn.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MoonGirlAndDevilDinosaur'': ''WesternAnimation/MoonGirlAndDevilDinosaur2023'': ''Both'' of Lunella Lafayette's parents, Adria and James Jr., are youthful-looking enough to be pass on as her older sister and brother.
* Crystal Zilla from ''WesternAnimation/MyDadTheRockStar'', who looks barely older than her teenager teenage daughter Serenity.
* Reversed in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', where Eda is significantly YoungerThanSheLooks due to a curse that causes her to prematurely age as one of its side effects, and thus appears to be just as old as her 70 something 70-something mother Gwendolyn.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MoonGirlAndDevilDinosaur'': ''Both'' of Lunella Lafayette's parents, Adria and James Jr., are youthful-looking enough to be pass on as her older sister and brother.
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* ''Film/BoyEatsGirl'': Nathan's mother Grace was played by actress Deirdre O'Kane, who is only twelve years older than actor David Leon. O'Kane actually had objected to having the role because of this, but was cast as her anyway. They look overly close in age as a result.
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* Late in ''Goldfisch'', it turns out that [[spoiler:Morrey's twin]] brother is actually his father, due to a nasty accident with the local FountainOfYouth. Due to a myriad of reasons, he decided that the best way to remain in his son's life was to [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo live as his brother]].

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* Late in ''Goldfisch'', ''Manga/{{Goldfisch}}'', it turns out that [[spoiler:Morrey's twin]] brother is actually his father, due to a nasty accident with the local FountainOfYouth. Due to a myriad of reasons, he decided that the best way to remain in his son's life was to [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo live as his brother]].
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** Both of these are helped out by the fact that Jotaro himself looks more like a man in his late twenties to early thirties than a high school student.
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* Telne from ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' initially introduces herself as Elma's older sister (and looks younger than her), though she's actually her '' (great-great etc.) grandmother''. This is because a dragon's human form is a very literal interpretation of EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity, so her childish personality causes her to appear very youthful (her true form on the other hand actually does look the part of a powerful dragon matriarch).

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* Telne from ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' initially introduces herself as Elma's older sister (and looks younger than her), though she's actually her '' [[LivingDistantAncestor (great-great etc.) grandmother''. grandmother]]''. This is because a dragon's the spell dragons use to take on human form is a very literal interpretation of EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity, so her childish personality causes her to appear very youthful (her true form on the other hand actually does look the part of a powerful dragon matriarch).

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* ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'' currently has six(!) examples of this trope, though only a few appear to be canonical.
** Nina and Anna Williams are the mother and aunt of [[BoxingBattler Steve Fox]]. While the Williams sisters were placed in cryogenic sleep by the Mishima Zaibatsu for research, Nina's eggs were harvested to create Steve. Thanks to the cryo-sleep, both Nina and Anna look like they are in their 20s despite being in their 40s and could easily pass for Steve's sisters instead of his mother and aunt.
** Jun Kazama doesn't seem to have aged a day in her return in ''[[DreamMatchGame Tekken Tag Tournament 2]]'', aside of some changes to her facial features to [[StrongFamilyResemblance make her better resemble her son Jin]]. A possible explanation is that whatever transformed her into Unknown preserved her youth, but it's just as possible that, due to not having appeared in a canonical installment since ''Tekken 2'' (and the ''Tag'' games existing in their own continuity), Jun's age was frozen at 22 -- which would make her only a year older than Jin (who was 21 in ''T6''). Over a decade later, Jun would make [[TheBusCameBack a canonical reappearance]] in ''VideoGame/Tekken8'', looking as fresh as she did in ''[=TTT2=]'', [[spoiler:with her case being that she was in a coma to recover from her battle with Ogre and that where she fled for her recovery, the Kazama Sanctum, kept her there for seven years]].

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* ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'' currently has six(!) examples of this trope, though only a few appear to be canonical.are non-canonical.
** Nina and Anna Williams are the mother and aunt of [[BoxingBattler Steve Fox]]. While the Williams sisters were placed in cryogenic sleep between the second and third games by the Mishima Zaibatsu for research, Nina's eggs were harvested to create Steve. Thanks to the cryo-sleep, both Nina and Anna look like they are in their 20s despite being in their 40s and could easily pass for Steve's sisters instead of his mother and aunt.
** Jun Kazama doesn't seem to have aged a day in her return in ''[[DreamMatchGame Tekken Tag Tournament 2]]'', aside of some changes to her facial features to [[StrongFamilyResemblance make her better resemble her son Jin]]. A possible explanation is that whatever transformed her into Unknown preserved her youth, but it's just as possible that, due to not having appeared in a canonical installment since ''Tekken 2'' (and the ''Tag'' games existing in their own continuity), Jun's age was frozen at 22 -- which would make her only a year older than Jin (who was 21 in ''T6''). Over a decade later, Jun would make [[TheBusCameBack a canonical reappearance]] in ''VideoGame/Tekken8'', looking as fresh as she did in ''[=TTT2=]'', [[spoiler:with her case being that she was [[ConvenientComa in a coma to recover from her battle with Ogre Ogre]] and that where she fled for her recovery, the Kazama Sanctum, kept her there for seven years]].



** Kazumi Mishima actually appears to be ''younger'' than her middle-aged son Kazuya as of ''VideoGame/Tekken7'', even though Kazumi is at the very least '''70''' years old. [[spoiler:The reason why is that [[DeadAllAlong Kazumi died in her prime]] -- a relatively younger woman killed while Kazuya was still a child, and she's revealed to be a ghost once you take her down at the end of Arcade Mode.]]

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** Kazumi Mishima actually appears to be ''younger'' than her middle-aged son Kazuya as of ''VideoGame/Tekken7'', even though Kazumi is at the very least '''70''' years old. [[spoiler:The reason why is that [[DeadAllAlong Kazumi died in her prime]] -- a relatively younger woman killed while Kazuya was still a child, and she's revealed to be a ghost once you take her down at the end of Arcade Mode. She makes no appearances in the main story [[PosthumousCharacter outside of flashbacks]], suggesting her presence in the present-day events of ''T7'' itself are non-canon.]]
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* On ''Series/{{ER}}'', after Sam drops her son off at school, one of his friends comments to him, "Your sister's hot." This is because she had him at only 15.

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* On In ''Series/{{ER}}'', after Sam drops her son off at school, one of his friends comments to him, "Your sister's hot." This is because she had him at only 15.
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** Jun Kazama doesn't seem to have aged a day in her return in ''[[DreamMatchGame Tekken Tag Tournament 2]]'', aside of some changes to her facial features to [[StrongFamilyResemblance make her better resemble her son Jin]]. A possible explanation is that whatever transformed her into Unknown preserved her youth, but it's just as possible that, due to not having appeared in a canonical installment since ''Tekken 2'' (and the ''Tag'' games existing in their own continuity), Jun's age was frozen at 22 -- which would make her only a year older than Jin (who was 21 in ''T6''). Over a decade later, Jun would make [[TheBusCameBack a canonical reappearance]] in ''VideoGame/Tekken8'', looking as fresh as she did in ''[=TTT2=]'', and it remains to be seen what her case is.

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** Jun Kazama doesn't seem to have aged a day in her return in ''[[DreamMatchGame Tekken Tag Tournament 2]]'', aside of some changes to her facial features to [[StrongFamilyResemblance make her better resemble her son Jin]]. A possible explanation is that whatever transformed her into Unknown preserved her youth, but it's just as possible that, due to not having appeared in a canonical installment since ''Tekken 2'' (and the ''Tag'' games existing in their own continuity), Jun's age was frozen at 22 -- which would make her only a year older than Jin (who was 21 in ''T6''). Over a decade later, Jun would make [[TheBusCameBack a canonical reappearance]] in ''VideoGame/Tekken8'', looking as fresh as she did in ''[=TTT2=]'', and it remains to be seen what [[spoiler:with her case is.being that she was in a coma to recover from her battle with Ogre and that where she fled for her recovery, the Kazama Sanctum, kept her there for seven years]].
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* ''Anime/YuGiOhSevens'' has Mimi Atachi, the "eternal schoolgirl", who despite looking like she belongs in elementary school is mother to a boy in the fourth grade. She's actually ''37''.
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* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Hahari Hanazono gave birth to Hakari at age ''13'' through artificial insemination, and in present-day can still pass as a high-school student simply by letting her hair down and changing out of her usual suit. In fact, in terms of [[WomanChild personality]] she's usually ''[[WackyParentSeriousChild less]]'' mature than Hakari. A later interview with the creators confirmed that she was [[CompositeCharacter composited]] with a character that ''was'' meant to be Hakari's actual sister.

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