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* The three-issue series ''Even If You Avoid the Slit'' focuses on Miroku, an unaging {{yokai}} known for her GlasgowGrin, who develops a friendship with Koichi, a 13-year-old boy who isn't afriad of her. Koichi harbors a PrecociousCrush on Miroku and addresses her as "Miroku-chan", while Miroku's internal narration notes that she also finds him cute. They eventually reunite fifteen years later, and the now-adult Koichi reveals that he still loves Miroku.
** The [[Manga/EvenIfYouSlitMyMouth serialized adaptation]] ages Koichi up to seventeen and he is now planned to have an ArrangedMarriage with Miroku after he turns eighteen.

* ''Manga/TheAncientMagusBride'': Chise is fifteen at the start of the story while Elias is hundreds of years old or more. However, while Chise is technically his betrothed, Elias does not appear to engage in sexual activity with her.

* A declared example from ''Manga/{{Gals}}'' are Yamato Kotobuki and Miyu Yamazaki: they have been together since Miyu was 14, but, with Yamato already being a cop at the time, they decided to wait until marriage, and are still of this opinion when they get officially engaged (Miyu is 16, by then). [[spoiler: The manga ends with Yamato's family springing a surprise marriage on them.]]
* Sort of alluded to in ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', where Hisoka's impatient waiting for Gon and Killua is made out to be a parallel to a hebephile waiting for his target to become legal. His wording of how he can't wait to "pluck the fruit that hasn't ripened yet" doesn't help his case. At first, he was very definitely just looking for good fights and they had potential, but after Greed Island where he unabashedly got a (speech-bubble-covered) erection after they found him bathing and ogled their butts, he's apparently equal-op. Especially remarkable in that Gon was probably aware of this (and Killua definitely was) when Gon produced a plan to win at [[MundaneMadeAwesome extreme dodgeball]] that involved Killua being driven face-first into Hisoka's crotch. (By Gon and a super-sonic dodgeball, so mostly it's just a matter of ''owch'', but still.) [[RefugeInAudacity Hisoka cackled about it.]]
* In ''Manga/{{FAKE}}'', Carol promises to go on a date with Dee in five years (when she turns 18). However, she later cancels because she's going out with Bikky. (The whole thing was a joke meant to tease Bikky in the first place since Dee only has eyes for Ryo.)
* In ''Manga/MyWifeIsAHighSchoolGirl,'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin High-schooler]] Asami marries her physics teacher Kyosuke, but Asami's father forces them to sign a contract that forbids them from having sex until Asami graduates high school or else the marriage is null-and-void. Incidentally, most of the UnresolvedSexualTension that results is on ''Asami'''s side.

* Happens twice in ''Manga/HisAndHerCircumstances''. The first is comparatively normal, between Maho and Takashi. But the second, between [[spoiler:Asaba and his "soul mate"]] Sakura, is extremely {{Squick}}y due to the fact he's been one of her father figures since birth. Made hilarious [[spoiler:since he wants to back out because her confession creeped him out and is convincing himself he loves her like a "Father". Unfortunately for him, she's having none of that.]]
* Occurs in ''{{Manga/Loveless}}''. College-age Soubi engages in an (as of yet) unconsummated relationship with twelve-year-old Ritsuka. Dialogue suggests that Soubi intends to wait until Ritsuka is of age. Still kinda {{Squick}}y, since that doesn't stop Soubi being ''extremely'' physically affectionate with the kid. There's also a degree of FridgeBrilliance as to ''why'' Soubi's decided to wait (besides the obvious): [[spoiler:His teacher Ritsu ''did not'' wait the wait, and the resulting sexual abuse left Soubi a very disturbed adult, so Soubi doesn't want to inflict that on Ritsuka, who already has enough problems]].
%% * From ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'', "Would you go out with me in about 5 years?"

* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Subverted in the case of Vander Decken IX and Princess Shirahoshi in ''Manga/OnePiece''. The StalkerWithACrush first noticed Shirahoshi when she was six years old, but Decken had no interest in marrying a six-year-old. One of his crew suggested that if [[spoiler: he got a certain magical artifact held by the royal family, he could magically age Shirahoshi to his preferred age]] and it would be a better, if weird, sort of sped-up of WifeHusbandry. [[note]]It isn't specified if the magic gadget speeds up mental aging well.[[/note]] Interestingly, he doesn't want to marry her for love, but because Shirahoshi has the power to [[spoiler:control Sea Kings (basically sea monsters like giant sharks)]]. Though he does go through the Jail Bait Wait simply because she's kept away from him for all that time.
** Humorously invoked in the twelfth movie, where Nami is [[FountainOfYouth transformed into a child]] by Ain. Sanji being a ChivalrousPervert, he is delighted at the idea that he'll get to see her blossom into a young lady again. Zoro is quick to call him gross over that.
* In ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', EthicalSlut Himeno ends up doing this for both [[TheHero Denji]] and [[BigBrotherMentor Aki]], coming onto them but pulling back after finding out they're minors. In Denji's case she gets herself drunk enough to stop caring and [[MrsRobinson basically kidnaps him]], but he [[ChivalrousPervert doesn't go through with it]] because of his feelings for [[TheVamp Makima]].

* In ''Literature/TheCircumstancesLeadingToWaltrautesMarriage'', the Valkyrie Waltraute and the human Jack Elvan are married when he completes her EngagementChallenge. As Jack is a little boy who doesn't even know about sex, Waltraute tells the others she will wait until he comes of age to consummate their marriage. Freyja snarks that such a wait is boring.
* The various {{SexBot}}s in ''Manga/Yuria100Shiki'' are programmed not to have sex with anyone under the age of 18 (although they have a pretty strict idea about ''what'' counts as sex). Since they become "imprinted" on the first man they have sex with, Julia decides to wait for her chosen "owner" to come of age.
* Interestingly {{invoked|Trope}} in ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'', where Issei instates this for Koneko. While Koneko's exact age isn't known and it's quite possible she's many times Issei's age, she still has an underdeveloped, immature body, meaning a pregnancy would be disastrous for her and the child at her current size, and [[ChivalrousPervert Issei]] doesn't want to risk it any more than she does.
* ''Manga/JunsuiAdolescence'' is about a TeacherStudentRomance involving a SchoolNurse and a high school girl. It's clear at the end Matsumoto wants to have sex with Nanao but she decides to wait longer.
* Used sinisterly in ''Manga/{{Yuureitou}}''. Marube makes it clear he is waiting for his eighteen-year-old [[ParentalIncest daughter]] to turn twenty so he can rape her.

* The marriage between 50-year-old Steven Steel and 14-year-old Lucy Pendleton in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun'' is treated as {{Squick}} by most characters, until it's revealed that Steven only married her that early to save her from being sold into prostitution, and they're [[IntergenerationalFriendship just friends]].
* ''Manga/CityHunter'':
** Inverted: Ryo doesn't have the patience for it (he admitted it the one time he tried to raise a girl to fall in love with him), but there are a few little girls waiting for their eighteenth birthday before trying and jumping him...
** Subverted by Umibozu: upon learning of Miki, Ryo accused him of both this and WifeHusbandry, but he didn't do it. At least not on purpose.
* Twenty-year-old Amira of the historical manga ''Manga/ABridesStory'' is [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage very fond of her husband]], the twelve-year-old Karluk. While they share hugs and sleep in the same bed and generally spend quality time together, she's clearly anxious for him to grow quite a bit older before they move on to certain marital duties.

* In ''Puppy Lovers'', 20-year-old Eri initially tries to discourage her 13-year-old cousin Souta's PrecociousCrush on her, but ends up falling for him too. When they finally decide to stay together no matter what happens, Eri's mom makes them agree not to have sex until Souta turns 18.
* ''29 to JK'' has this with the main couple, a 29-year-old salaryman and a high school girl who happens to be his boss's granddaughter. Deconstructed as [[spoiler:even when he does have sex with her, he acknowledges that their relationship doesn't look anything outside of sketchy no matter how he explains the situation, and he loses his job for it in the end.]]

* Played with in ''Anime/ZombielandSaga: Revenge''. Saki confesses her crush on radio host White Ryu, who gently turns her down but tells her to come back once she has grown into a young woman. The twist is that Saki is secretly a zombie, who died as a teenager but is actually closer to forty. Being a zombie, she will remain physically a teenager forever, a fact that [[NotGrowingUpSucks briefly drives her to despair]].

* ''Literature/RebuildWorld'': The slumlord Sebia is stated to have been keeping Sheryl [[RoyalFavorite as his favorite]] while he waited for her charms to grow with age before making her his mistress. Akira kills Sebia in self-defense before that could happen, but Sheryl's close ties to Sebia result in nobody being willing to associate with her in case it'd make them a target of Akira's revenge, causing Sheryl to turn to Akira himself for safety.
* This is alluded to with one couple that appears in ''Manga/FlyMeToTheMoon''. [[spoiler:The main couple, actually. They agree to get married when he is sixteen but then she disappears until his eighteenth birthday. It's explained that that's when they can get legally married, but considering TheReveal that [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld she's over a hundred]] there may have been a second reason...]]
* Used as a BrickJoke by ''Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5''. When trying to brush off a job to protect the young Patty Lowell, Dante sarcastically mentions he might be interested in her in 10 years time, though this is simply him trying to get her to go away and when he takes her in he acts as her ParentalSubstitute. Unfortunately for Dante, Patty remembers this comment and upon turning 18 tries to get Dante to come to her party, noting that she's "not a little kid" to which Dante slams his phone down, unplugs it when she tries to call again, and agrees to take a new job on the singular condition that his information broker can get him out of going to her party.

Examples often overlap with AgeGapRomance (two characters in different stages of life, such as adolescence and adulthood), OldManMarryingAChild (marriage between an elderly man and a very young girl) and WifeHusbandry (an older character is a guardian or parental figure who explicitly grooms the younger character for a later romantic relationship). Contrast {{Ephebophile}} (someone who doesn't necessarily wait for legal age) and PrecociousCrush (a younger character is sexually/romantically attracted to an older character -- usually a one-sided attraction). May relate to Bittersweet17.

* Discussed in ''Film/HardCandy'', where 32-year-old Jeff hits on allegedly 14-year-old Hayley.
--> '''Jeff:''' I'm gonna have to wait four years for you.

* ''Film/RealGenius'':
-->'''Sherry:''' Mitch Taylor?\\
'''Mitch:''' Who?\\
'''Sherry:''' I'm Sherry Nugil. And I've been waiting three years for this.\\
'''Mitch:''' For what?\\
'''Sherry:''' For you to be old enough.\\
'''Mitch:''' For what?\\
'''Sherry:''' For this. ''[kisses him]''

* Mentioned, if not seen directly, in the first ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' movie. When Mia is telling Brian about the ins and outs of the relationships among her friends and family, she summarizes her brother and his girlfriend's relationship thusly:
-->'''Mia:''' Letty grew up just down the street. She was into cars since she was like ten years old. Dom always had her attention. [[SheIsAllGrownUp Then she turned sixteen]]...\\
'''Brian:''' And she had Dom's attention.\\
'''Mia:''' Yeah, it's funny how that works out.

* Played with in ''Film/{{Waiting}}'', which has nothing to do with this trope otherwise. Ryan Reynolds' character has a thing for underage girls and spends most of the movie flirting hard with the seventeen-year-old hostess of the restaurant. In the end, as part of general CharacterDevelopment for all the cast, Reynolds' character insists on waiting until the hostess' eighteenth birthday for them to do the deed.

* This was a long-running plot in the Emily books by Lucy Maud Montgomery (of ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' fame). In the first book, ''Literature/EmilyOfNewMoon'', Emily Starr first meets Dean Priest, a distant relative who went to school with her father, when he is 36 and she 12. On that first meeting, he explicitly tells her, "I think I'll wait for you," though Emily doesn't understand what he means. In the second book, Emily Climbs, in which Emily is an adolescent, a local man tells Emily that Dean is "just biding his time till ye get old enough for coorting," an idea Emily finds ridiculous with someone old enough to be her father. In the final book, ''Emily's Quest'', they are engaged when Emily is about 20 or so, though she breaks it up when she realizes her feelings for her childhood friend Teddy.

* This was a long-running plot in the Emily books by Lucy Maud Montgomery (of ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' fame). In the first book, ''Literature/EmilyOfNewMoon'', Emily Starr first meets Dean Priest, a distant relative who went to school with her father, when he is 36 and she 12. On that first meeting, he explicitly tells her, "I think I'll wait for you," though Emily doesn't understand what he means. In the second book, Emily Climbs, in which Emily is an adolescent, a local man tells Emily that Dean is "just biding his time till ye get old enough for coorting," an idea Emily finds ridiculous with someone old enough to be her father. In the final book, Emily's Quest, they are engaged when Emily is about 20 or so, though she breaks it up when she realizes her feelings for her childhood friend Teddy.

* WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory invokes this in "[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] vs Bruce Jenner" in one of their funniest burns ever:
-->'''Hulk''': Best thing you make, Kylie ass. She eighteen? HULK SMASH!

** Upon meeting her for the first time, Mineta claims that he looks forward to meeting Eri in 10 years. Needless to say, [[AmericansHateTingle many fans]] were ''not'' happy with him, as 1) Eri (while adorable) is an abused and traumatized six-year-old, and 2) even in 10 years, Mineta would be 25-26 while Eri would be 16.

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
** In the Japanese version, Brock said this towards Casey, the baseball-obsessed girl from Johto. Brock said she'd be 'fun' in eight years. In the English dub, he wondered if she had an older sister.
** In an early episode, a DirtyOldMan told Misty that she'd be fun in eight years. In the English dub, he says that she reminds him of his granddaughter, which unfortunately just makes it sound worse.

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Castle}},'' the eponymous character makes the paper as one of New York's most eligible bachelors. Not only does basically every woman they meet in the episode feel the need to comment on it, but his teenage daughter comes home with several requests. After she mentions one elderly teacher- "Too old?"- she mentions that one of her classmates is also interested, and ''she'll'' be eighteen in a few months. Castle isn't interested though.

* Scene: a car, parked on a Lover's Lane. A policeman approaches, and shining his light inside, sees a teenaged girl sitting in the backseat filing her nails, and a somewhat older-appearing boy sitting in the front seat reading a magazine. He looks at the girl more closely, then asks her, "How old are you?" She says "17", then looks at her watch and adds, "For 22 more minutes."

* Lord Archive subverts the ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' trope with mentions in his fic ''Becareful What You Wish For.'' with the third-grader aged up considerably, but not enough. She even mentions they have been trying to get pregnant, even though she's only thirteen.

This page mentions HollywoodProvincialism five thousand times, because most things filmed in Hollywood rely on California's age of consent, 18. In other states, let alone other countries, the age of consent can be a year or two younger, or even ''much'' younger.

* "House of Fun" by ''Music/{{Madness}}'' is a comedy number about a boy trying to [[TrojanGauntlet buy condoms]] on his sixteenth birthday (the age of consent in the UK), although it doesn't state whether he has someone specific who's been waiting, or if he's just hopeful.

* The short story ''[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Bombshells]]'' has a protagonist [[note]]Molly Carpenter[[/note]] who invoked this on herself. After the man she confessed to rejected her on the basis that she was underage, she decided to wait. Not give up on the idea- just wait several years.

* A common theme in Laurence/Emily Roland fan-fics for Creator/NaomiNovik's ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'' series. Especially emphasized since Laurence is 31 as of 1805, while Emily is, consequently, only 10 years old as of the same year. Even with aging both characters, that's a massive 21 year age difference...not to mention that Laurence [[spoiler: slept with, and even proposed to, Emily's mother, Jane Roland]], the fact that Laurence [[OedipusComplex is old enough to be Emily's father]], and [[ParentalIncest and other squick factors]].