Thread:Inept Wiki User/@comment-5275759-20200523162949/@comment-25431873-20201004172351

This is my reasoning for the edit of Anna Sprengel, which seems to have generated confusion and disagreement:

“''Does my apparent age bother you? I have not taken this pitiful form of my own free will (emphasis mine), I assure you. Doing that is such a pain, but this is a special day, so perhaps I should make the effort''.” (GT1 Epilogue)

It's not a settled issue until the novels/Kamachi actually clarify, and the NT22R Prologue does seem to hint that Anna's child form is related to Mathers mentioning that the Secret Chiefs had the physical appearance of those who had drunk the Elixir of Life. However, I think Anna's own statement here should be taken into account, if only because I think it shows using the child form as the main profile picture is not really justified, at least to me.

EDIT: unrelated, but one of my questions to Ogino Kentarou ("is Mugino a college student?") was answered (in the form of a question but whatever), and it killed 3 birds with one stone.

First, I did not ask that question because I believe Mugino to be college aged: she always looked at most like a third year highschool girl to me, plus in NT12 she says of Stephanie Gorgeouspalace “''Tch. The adult’s stealing all the good parts!''”, making a clear distinction between them and that she isn't an adult herself. The reason I asked it is because I have seen many on the internet say they believe she was one, so I was hoping this would conclusively prove it one way or the other.

Second, it does confirm what people suspected for years but were never sure of: no adult espers have been shown at all in the series. Which, third, does mean Therestina herself isn't an adult, though she looked like one to me (an important lesson here in how anime design mean nothing in terms of accurate age guessing). That last one was a bitter pill for me to swallow, but hey, progress!

EDIT2: my question about Kuroko's wealth was also answered!