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Even One Punch Man, a pretty benign series that avoids sexual topics, has Tatsumaki who looks like a pre-teen. I know she's supposed to be older, but when I first saw get I thought she was supposed to be 8 or something.
8? Where did you get that from?
Okay, I'm usually very bothered with female characters looking ultra-young, but Tatsumaki never registered as that young to me. I might have thought late teens at the earliest.
One punch man is a parody in it's core though, I don't know why people seem to take it so seriously. Even Tatsumaki can be read as making fun of the usual shounen loli character tropes, looking like how she does and being about thirty
There's making fun of the trope, and then there's actually leaning into it. I've seen the series and I've read the manga. It's certainly getting leaned into.
That's actually a pretty good take on it, yeah. I certainly don't want to defend any loli coded characters further than noting the original parody intend there.
Seeing her for the first time had me thinking "what is with this sassy lost child?"