Name mothers who look this way

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"Gourmet Girl Graffiti: Shiina and her mother, pictured above. Their maid Tsuyuko is first thought to be Shiina's mother by Kirin."

"Mentioned in Episode 4 of Ikki Tousen, by Hakufu complaining that this is what people say about her own mother."

"In Daily Life with Monster Girl, Miia, Papi and Centorea's mothers all have this going for them. Especially Papi, as the harpy race as a whole is Older Than They Look."

"A Certain Magical Index has Shina and Misuzu, the mothers of Touma and Mikoto respectively. Misuzu in particular has a 14 year old daughter and looks like she's twenty, which caused both Touma and his father to mistake her for Mikoto's sister when they first met her. She's noted to be a bit jealous of Shina, though, because Misuzu has to go to a great deal of effort to look and act that young, while for Shina it comes naturally."

"In High School D×D, Venelana looks like a brunette version of her redheaded daughter Rias, to the point Issei thinks Venelana is Rias's sister. He doesn't get to say anything out loud, Rias sees Issei staring at Venelana, correctly concludes what he must be thinking, and introduces them before he can embarrass anyone."

"Anastasia: Based on the few short glimpses we see of Anastasia's family in the prologue, flashbacks and portrait, her mother looks like the oldest of her many red-haired older sisters. ( Apparently Truth in Television. )"

"Disney is way too fond of this trope. If a mother can be found in a Disney movie, odds are she'll never look a day over 25, even if her child is in his or her late teens.
•When Aurora reunites with her parents in Sleeping Beauty, she looks to be her mother's only slightly shorter, slightly finer-featured twin.
•The Lion King: When Simba returns to Pride Rock bearing a Strong Family Resemblance to his deceased father, his mother Sarabi doesn't look any different from when he was a cub. (In fact, she shares a similar body model and facial structure to his own childhood sweetheart, Nala.)
•In The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, Ariel looks almost identical to how she looked in the first film—barely a bit older, at most—and could be mistaken as the older sister of her daughter Melody.
•Treasure Planet: Sarah to Jim. One could be forgiven for thinking she's his older sister rather than his mother.
•Tangled: Mother Gothel actively tries to invoke this trope by using Rapunzel's hair to keep herself young while posing as her mother. Rapunzel's real mother has no such access to round-the-clock de-aging hair, yet she hasn't aged a day since Rapunzel's birth 18 years before. She also looks like a twenty-something version of Rapunzel post-Important Haircut.
•Frozen: In life, Elsa's and Anna's mother looked to be a brunette version of their adult selves (21 and 18)... even when they were in their late and mid-teens (18 and 15).
•Averted for Mulan's and Tiana's mothers, who both look to be middle age by the time their daughters reach late teenhood."

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When Yu "Johannes" Chigusa finally appears in Qualidea Code, she barely looked older than her kids Asuha and Kasumi.
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