Quote:(BTW: she's one helluva late bloomer if she hasn't hit puberty by fourteen)She doesn't have to be a late bloomer nor does she not have to have hit puberty yet. One of my best friends in college, and my roommate for a year after college, was an exquisitely tiny, lovely girl of Italian descent named Gabriela who has looked no older than 13 or 14 in all the decades I've known her. Her first job out of college was as a schoolteacher, and the kids wouldn't believe she was a teacher. When she joined Peggy and me on a trip to Disneyworld in 1996 -- when she was thirty-four -- she got carded when she ordered alcohol in a restaurant. And not just, "look at the ID, okay you can drink" carded -- she got the manager coming out and staring at her license and at her, trying to figure out if it were a fake. She was (and still is) about 5' even and about 80 pounds -- and the only hint these days that she's not still in her teens is that she's ever so slightly going grey.
Now according to the book, Yukari is 154 cm (a hair over 5'1") and 37 kg (81.4 lbs), which is almost exactly the same size as Gabriela. Text in the book (along with the cover illustration, which is of course less trustworthy, but hey) make it clear that she's definitely pubescent, so it's a non-issue.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.