History Main / PuniPlush

%% * ''LightNovel/{{Kanokon}}''
%% * ''LightNovel/KyouranKazokuNikki'', with humans but especially with animal characters.
%% * ''LightNovel/LadiesVersusButlers''
%% * ''LightNovel/MagiciansAcademy''

%% * All the child characters in the ''Literature/{{Madeline}}'' AnimatedAdaptation.

* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': The player doesn't even look pubescent but can move out, drink coffee, pay taxes, and is heavily implied to be an adult. {{Averted}} in ''New Leaf'', where everyone more resembles NoodlePeople, but due to their face stays the same as ever, so to some this isn't [[UncannyValley totally a good thing.]]

%% * ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts''

%% * ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'''s AnimatedAdaptation drifts a little bit into this around the second season as well as in TheMovie, no thanks to being produced after ''Manga/LuckyStar'' (see below).

%% * ''LightNovel/{{Kanokon}}''

%% * ''LightNovel/KyouranKazokuNikki'', with humans but especially with animal characters.
%% * ''LightNovel/LadiesVersusButlers''

%% * ''LightNovel/MagiciansAcademy''

* In the original ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' (and sister-series ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'') sound novels, all the characters are drawn like this, full with FourFingeredHands (though this is more due to [=Ryukishi07's=] limited drawing skills than anything intentional). It can be a bit jarring [[ArtStyleDissonance when the murders and paranoia start to kick in.]] The console remakes and Steam rerelease use more slender art styles.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' uses this for many of its characters, including Link and Tetra[[spoiler:/Zelda]], who have proportionally large, oblong, rounded heads, and smaller bodies with shorter limbs, with their hands and feet being small or almost non-existent.

* Creator/RumikoTakahashi (''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', ''Manga/Ranma12'', ''Manga/InuYasha'') tends to draw plenty of soft characters, with plenty of {{bishonen}} males to boot, often resulting in ArtStyleDissonance.

* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': One of the defining characteristics of Creator/MaryCagle's art for the series is the cute and rounded character designs. It serves to reinforce how young many of these characters really are... and [[ArtStyleDissonance juxtaposes]] that with the series' themes of [[MagicalGirlGenreDeconstruction loss, depression, and dealing with trauma]].

* ''Anime/MonColleKnights'': While most of the more mature characters [[{{NoodlePeople}} aren't this trope]] [[{{Bishounen}} at all]], the child characters' designs are a lot less angular than those from any season of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''.

%% * Creator/RumikoTakahashi's character designs are this to a T.

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* ''Anime/MonColleKnights''. While most of the more mature characters [[{{NoodlePeople}} aren't this trope]] [[{{Bishounen}} at all]], the child characters' designs are a lot less angular than those from any season of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''.

%% * ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' for ArtStyleDissonance.

[[folder:Film]]

* ''Manga/ToHeart'': The manga has a particularly plush-like style compared to the anime and original visual novel.

* Most of the heroes of the ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' series are 12 to 13 years old, but it's very hard to notice. There's a reason why the likes of [[Videogame/EarthBound Ness]] and Lucas may be classified as [[AdorablyPrecociousChild adorable children.]] (Lucas's [[TheWoobie woobiness]] doesn't quite help either.) The American version of the figurines has them aged up physically. This is especially visible on the Ness figurine (''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' uses the original Japanese version worldwide).

* ''[[Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Kanna's Daily Life]]'' uses a very rounded art style due to it being from the perspective of [[TokenMiniMoe Kanna]]. It's even lampshaded in the afterword of volume 7, which says that the two most importing things to drawing her are making her look squishy and soft. The other works in the series do something similar, but not to the same extent.

* ''Anime/MonColleKnights''. While most of the more mature characters [[{{NoodlePeople}} aren't this trope]] [[{{Bishounen}} at all]], the child characters' designs are a lot less angular than those from any season of Franchise/{{Digimon}}.

%% * ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'': All of the main characters, with the exception of some of the White Whistles (whose full outfits are high-tech exoskeletons). [[ArtStyleDissonance This is intended to clash dramatically with the dark themes of the series]].

* In the original ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' (and sister-series ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'') sound novels, all the characters are drawn like this, full with FourFingeredHands (though this is more due to Ryukishi07's limited drawing skills than anything intentional). It can be a bit jarring [[ArtStyleDissonance when the murders and paranoia start to kick in.]] The console remakes and Steam rerelease use more slender art styles.

%% * In ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'', at least 90% of the countries are this.

%% * All ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' characters, at least in the official art. Fanart depictions vary considerably.

* ''Manga/SchoolLive'' uses this in a ZombieApocalypse setting thanks to being a faux SchoolgirlSeries. It also zigzags this trope. The main girls and SenseiChan Megu-nee are drawn this way, but later in the manga we meet university students and they mostly don't. The zombies are also drawn in a realistic style post-ArtEvolution. Over time the manga began to loose some of its Puni Plush design and make the characters look more slender, but the anime adaptation uses the original style

%% * ''Manga/NininGaShinobuden''