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To my eyes, izutsumi's arm covers look like kote ("han kote", specifically) in many pictures (e.g. post #7562346, post #7441693, post #7055640). However, they are not tagged like that on a single post right now. Could any Japanese armor experts here give their opinion on whether she wears kote in the linked posts? (Sometimes her arm covers are drawn as bracers or generic arm_guards (e.g. post #7571809, post #5507556), so even if I get a thumbs up here, I'll be applying kote case-by-case.)

WeakestResUser said:

Bishounen?

Hmmm… By "cute" I mean literally cute, not "good-looking" cute, those big eyes and baby face are very young-looking even for a good-looking boy. "Bishounen" needs a bit more matured "handsome". "Shota" would be the appropriate term if it wasn't already used for something else.

magcolo said:

"Bishounen" needs a bit more matured "handsome".

This is what ikemen describes (handsome/matured beauty). Bishounen falls closer to beautiful/cute/pretty (cute is typically not used to describe this appearance). If you take a look through some of the pages of bishounen you'll find that they're a bit closer to what you want. There's no real other term besides the last one you mentioned though that would also be incorrect to use for the post you linked.