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According to some people's sense, if it's a character with a child's proportions, a child's mannerisms and a child's face... but with tits tacked on - it's a child with tits, not an adult.
Fair enough. I find it hard to judge proportions, faces and mannerisms from pictures of anime girls (maybe it's easier to tell in motion), but the tits seemed like a tell-tale sign of clearly-not-a-child-anymore. But I grant your point.
Anime includes features like large eyes and a large head proportional to the body that make people think child anyway just by the style, so that shouldn't count.
Either that, or it all counts, and as such all fans of sexualized anime are actually pedophiles.
Of course, vanishingly few sex-negative folks or "wokes" believe this, but, like basically all "woke" criticism of any media, it's a convenient tool to reach for when one wants to criticize some piece of media that they dislike in a way that appears to be based on anything other than arbitrary personal preference.
Arguably, this is the very phenomenon happening with Blood Rain, as Stellar Blade, like other East Asian semi-realistic video games such as Capcom's Resident Evil or Square Enix's Final Fantasy, uses a stylized anime-inspired visual style in terms of character design, rather than going for actual human-like realism. The first game actually featured a support character named Lily who actually looks very similar to Evie in terms of hair and facial features (some have speculated that Evie is the child of Eve and Lily, which wouldn't be impossible given the technology of the setting, but also, seems both way too on the nose in name and out of left field in the relationships) and was also commented on as appearing younger-looking in part due to the anime-inspired style.
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