Was about to say the exact same, heh. It's one of the things that weirded me out the most, because it's one aspect of anime that until now didn't seem to spill so much into anime-inspired western drawings.
My two cents on the design.
- She looks 14. In no universe is that a drawing of an adult character. Period.
- She looks as if someone tried to draw the human version of an inkling.
There's nothing inherently wrong with either of the above depending on what you want to do; I just really hope your game / comic / whatever doesn't have any suggestive content involving that character, because otherwise yikes.
Other than that, I honestly don't see the point in coming into a thread, presenting a design for criticism, having like five different people tell you "that's a kid", then shrugging, going "I'm not seeing it" and going on your merry way. Did you really seek opinions, or validation?
Edit: Also what the fuck is that gangpile on molnizzle for wrongly assuming Kokonoe's gender, and painting it as if it was some nefarious and intentional slight on his part? Seriously, what the everliving fuck? This is not someone willfully misgendering someone in front of them in real life: assuming ill will and then obsessively banging on that drum over and over goes far beyond uncharitable assumptions, past ad-hominem territory, and straight into "I don't have any legitimate argument so I'm going to paint the other guy as a monster".
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