^I was specifically talking about Shuten. Who, again, is literally based on a real life woman. You might see Shuten as looking like a child, but I don't. Different people interpret drawings differently. And besides, you'd be surprised what kind of variety of people there are in this world. There are plenty of adults who get regularly mistaken for children in real life. And, like, there is a limit to that, yes, but while I think the majority of Shuten's fanart goes well past that limit and is clearly drawing her as a child, I don't think her official art does.
And I know petite anime fans who are VERY bitter about every petite adult character getting labelled a "legal loli". Not that "legal loli" is a trope that doesn't exist, because it does, if I hadn't already made that clear, but it just gets misapplied a lot. There are people who see "petite" and think that's enough to call the character a legal loli, and they're annoyingly common.