@Whatevs
i dunno, i still feel a lot of it is in appearance and behavior moreso than just straight up age
age only doesn’t really matter to me when designating a loli just because Japan just likes to be so fuckity with the topic that it seems asinine at this point to even consider it. it’d have some merit otherwise, but them animus done kind of fucked it up
Like, putting the whole 500 years old loli examples aside because that’d be a cheap example, I would say
the teacher from Toaru is a loli, despite being 29, and
the mother from Masamune-kun no Revenge is also a loli, despite being 42, because they both look and act like really small children. If their ages weren’t outright stated for the sake of the joke, they would probably be assumed to be 10 or 11 instead of adults
on the flipside there’s a 9 year old in dokuro-chan that looks like a straight up adult with height and breasts and all, would not say she is of into loli
nico kind of is into gray area, she looks a lot younger than 17, acts a lot younger than 17 most of the time, but it’s also not like it’s completely unbelievable that she’s in her older teens either, particularly with behavior. if she were a tad more childish and more consistently at that, she’d definitely be one
I wouldn’t call Pachira one at all, though, despite being prime waifu material, doesn’t act traditionally childish and the only really loli feature about her is her deliciously flat chest, she’s clearly not a child other than that, the youngest age that i would think would be believable is 16 or 17 maybe
same with Kirino as an example, is clearly not of the loli species