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** In one ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'' episode, Mousse gets smacked when he puts on his glasses to see Cologne, and screams "Ahhhhh! [[http://sabichibi.sakura.ne.jp/karikari/topping/deka/R0029165.jpg Mackerel jerky!]]"

* Child: Short, round, and chubby. No difference between boys and girls except for clothes and hair styles; eyes the size of saucers.

* Middle Age: Adult, except add an age line or two: a small line under the eye and/or at the corner of the mouth ([[CheatedAngle always on the side closest to the camera]]) is about right for the parent of a middle or high schooler. Eyes get smaller again, now pretty close to real world proportions. Male pattern baldness may set in.

* The ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series has the teenage characters subtly but noticeably age a year; at 14, their eyes are larger and their cheeks are chubbier.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' features a seven year time skip, and has several small children who grow up into attractive men and women. Compare [[http://www.zeldawiki.org/images/5/53/Young_Link.png Link at ten]] with his round face and big, innocent eyes and [[http://www.zeldawiki.org/images/d/d6/Adult_Link.png at seventeen]], with narrower eyes and more chiseled features.

* In [[VideoGame/JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy the first]] ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' game, the 15-year-old Jak's eyes take up about a quarter of his face. In [[VideoGame/JakIIRenegade the second game]], his eyes have shrunk enormously--even though there is only two years [[TimeSkip between the games]]. The change shows the [[PlayingWithSyringes torture and experimentation]] has [[YoungerThanTheyLook aged him prematurely]], as well as turning him from a (quite literal) WideEyedIdealist into to a cynic AntiHero. [[http://bobrafei.com/galleries/jak2/characters/source/jak-comparison.htm Compare]].

** Phoenix Wright in the ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' trilogy has somewhat large eyes normally seen in a typical anime, which suits him since he's in his middle to late twenties. In the later games where the timeline skips ahead several years, Phoenix's eyes are smaller to show him aging. Edgeworth, whose eyes were slightly small to begin with and being the same age as Phoenix, manages to get a bit smaller when he returns in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' to show his older look and the glasses he wears also signifies his older age.
* Isaac and Garet in ''VideoGame/GoldenSunThBrokenSeal'' start off as being twelve to thirteen years old in the prologue and have very large eyes. When they age a few years older in the main game, their eyes are a bit smaller. ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'' takes place thirty years later, which shows the two boys being middle aged adults with smaller eyes and pupils.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', when introduced, Ahsoka has eyes disproportionately large with her completely round face, her horns are only stubs, and her headtails barely reach beyond her shoulders. After the Time Skip in "Heroes on Both Sides", her eyes noticeably shrink, her face becomes longer and angled, her horns grow larger and curved, and her headtails reach the middle of her chest. Her adult self as see in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' has almond-shaped eyes, an oval face, very large horns, and headtails reaching to her waist. An alternate design (seen in the Clone Wars episode "Overlords") has the tails reaching to her thighs.

* ''Manga/FairyTail'' plays this trope straight, but the most notable example is [[BigGood Master Makarov]]. At 88 years old, he's about 2' tall, and he shrunk ''a lot''. In a flashback to when he was 40, he's still short, but he's at least 5' tall. This is suggested to be a side-effect of his [[{{Sizeshifter}} Giant Magic]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei's pictures from when she was a toddler show her face was more rounded while that of her teen self is more pear shaped.

* Soseki from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonANewBeginning'' plays with this, mostly mentioning how he is apparently older than the rest of the bachelors. Out of all the bachelors, he ''is'' drawn with a more sharply-angled face and it does make him look older... but not by a whole lot.

* Children [=NPCs=] are obviously smaller than adults in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', but children of some races have other bodily features that start smaller when are children; Elezen, which have pointy ears, possess smaller ears. Au Ra have shorter and almost nub-like horns. Mi'qote and Au Ra children both have short tails. The adult version of these races have their features more developed.

* Maya Fey in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' is twenty eight years old and is shown with slightly large breasts and fuller lips, signifying her aging from her teenage years in the original trilogy where she had larger eyes and had a smaller chest. She is also bit more slim compared to her past self where she was drawn with a slightly rounded out look.

** 4 year old Gumball has a smaller head and squishy cheeks. At his current age of 12, his larger head gives his facial features more space, and his chubby cheeks are gone. Additionally, as a baby he had BlushStickers, which disappeared once he was out of the infant stage.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', the kindergartners' eyes are a good 50% of their face. Older kids have smaller, but round eyes. Adults have eyes a bit smaller than that.
%%* Happens to Candace in the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo".
* In ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'', all the adults in the Henry and June shorts have tiny eyes. The main duo, being somewhere around ten, have pretty big eyes ([[ArtEvolution at least in the later seasons]]).

Many works will also depict teens as being [[TeensAreShort significantly shorter than adults]] even at 17/18.

* ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar'': Particularly apparent with Parn and Deedlit (even though she's an elf!), if you look at the difference in their designs between ''Records'' and ''Chronicles of a Heroic Knight''. In the former, Parn is barely more than a boy, all huge-eyed and smooth-faced. His design has rougher lines and more narrow eyes many years later, and the young-looking design is found in the new generation of heroes, instead, particularly in Spark.

* Happens to Candace in the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo".

* ''Manga/{{Ooku}}'' characters tend to die young or retire, but the shogun Tsunayoshi and her companion Yoshiyasu start showing their age after a while.