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Would Friren count? Romance of the two teens are age appropriate for them. And two dudes that are enamoured with older women, but I think that’s it.
I'm waiting for the canonical reason why the female elves look like children while the one male elf we've met is drawn like a grown man. And I really hope it's not that their brain outpaces their body because then we're in the "5000 year old witch in a child's body" trope.
If this is addressed in the manga, no spoilers plz beyond a simple "Yes, it is."
The issue is we've encountered so few elves that it's impossible to say really anything about them as a whole. Maybe that is just how female elves look, maybe frieren and serie are just weird, or something else. But either way, we're basically just going on what little we've been shown which could change later.
Personally though, I don't actually mind the 1000 years old but looks like a child trope if it's not using it as an excuse to sexualuzed the character. Which they really aren't doing here.
And on the other hand, I also don't think Frieren looks like a kid. This is pretty common, I'll see people point out a character who's a bit short and sometimes flat (though that's not always the case even) and say that they look like a kid while I don't see it. So I don't know if it's me or what. Serie does look more like a kid to me though.
But we get back to the fact that she's not being sexualuzed anyway, so again, I don't personally take issue with it.