Hello everyone! I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for small dolls that aren't too childlike, or have an ambiguous age (due to stylization or not being human). I've been browsing around and noticed that a lot of BJD brands have their smaller dolls look very babylike (chubby cheeks and all) and I'm not super into that look. I'm not sure if this is something that's genuinely rare or if I'm just not looking in the right places?
Myou has 28cm mature tinies. They would be about the same size a Barbie, not quite as big as you are looking for. They have a nice collection of them if you go to their website. The are mixed in with the 1/6 babies so you have to look around.
The Most mature looking BJD, that I can think off the back of my head are Granado. They have a 30cm line-up, and a 15cm version as well. There's also a company named White, that has a few mature, muscular males called White or 白零. Edit to add: I own a mature tiny MYou male, but I find the faces very child like. I modified mine to look more mature, but I still find his face looking pre-teen-ish. Default, I would say MYou mature tinies look more like ten year olds. Spoiler: MYou mature tiny male Bettina w/smaller eyes I modified his eyes smaller.
Kinoko Juice Luna and Jill both are tinies that don't look like children. I'd argue their Kiki and Shizuku faces don't look like babies either but that's due to more extreme stylization.
Xagadoll had some roughly barbie scale ladies. I have a Sylvia from 2014. Roughly Barbie sized mature female.