Myself and half the fems in my family are 5'1" or shorter.
If it weren't for my breasts most people would say I was a "child" until probably this year. Instead, I get people asking me what high school I go to even tho I turn 33 in less than 2 months.
Ya'll are just too tied up in this weird fucking "morality OCD" that it's making you look like bigots. Maybe do some introspection on why seeing adults with small builds or petite statures make you immediately think of sexualized children, hm?
Yeah I get it, short people who look kinda young exist and I'm glad that you feel represented by this porn manga or like you can relate or whatever you're getting out of this but I doubt that's what the author was thinking about when they were drawing this. I'm pretty sure they just wanted to draw a shota or whatever it's called and used the cliché "adult with small builds or petite statures" excuse, as you put it.
Also you sometimes being mistaken for a high schooler isn't really the same as some artist intentionally drawing an adult to look like an elementary school kid for porn
But whatever enjoy your shota not like I actually care
Am I crazy? I see MC's face similar to the vampire in this series :
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/i_became_a_civil_servant_in_a_magical_world/uu/br_chapter-368339/pg-1/
I'm more flabbergasted at ML's design, he looks like those edited irl "chad" or whatever when they're having sex and his muscles are suddenly bulging HARD.

I kinda liked this in the beginning but the whole "ml can choose to look like an adult but let's draw him with the face and body of a child during the sex scenes anyway" thing gave me the ick real bad. Like you couldn't make this exact same story but with the ml looking like an adult 100% of the time or at the very least when they're fucking? For a second I thought we were gonna get one with ml in his adult body but nope! scene change as soon as they start, which feels like discrimination against the loli-haters tbh