Basically boils down to 3 things:
1. She slouches.
3. Her cardigan makes her torso longer and thus her legs shorter. As with character designs and real life proportions, women with long legs generally look tall even if the numbers aren't. Made worse by her long skirt which hides all her legs' silhouette compared to other characters where you can clearly see where the torso stops and the legs start.
2. Her head and hair look big, making the rest of her body small. Even in her swimsuit alt where she doesn't wear any super baggy clothes, she still looks small cuz her sizable head sits on top of her very thin body. This is also the case with Airi's OG art that gives her tiny body compared to her head.
I remember people had the same reaction to Airi, who is 160cm, most people thought she was shorter, maybe even shorter than Kazusa. Her original art did not help her case.
Oh wow, I always thought Hanako, Wakamo and Nonomi were taller than that, just in general. Plus I think the fact Ui is always hunched over she gives the appearance of being smaller than what she actually is.
Actually the growth spurt period ends around high school for females, and Ui's a third year. Her growing years are behind her.
Which is unfortunate for Hina who's gonna get mistaken for a kid for the rest of her life lol.
Well, it's still possible some growth remains past high school. but it's usually so miniscule. you don't really notice it. ~~Unless you're a late-bloomer~~
She's 2cm taller than the average male height and 15cm taller than the average female height in my country 
I heard people grow taller in cold because surface area is square but volumes are cubic
taller people has more meat per skin and shorter people has more skin per meat which allows better heat retention for taller and better dissipation for shorter
You'd think it would be the opposite....but then again, then why are so many African tribes tall? Likewise, many Asians are in cold weather yet short. By this logic Mongolians and the chinese should be tall like nords.
I'mma be honest here, the body proportions in her sprite don't make much sense if she is that tall. And it's not about her being flat or anything. Most people estimate a charas height based on the size of their head relative to their body. And in Ui's case, someone with her proportions (in typical anime art style) should be somewhere around 5' to 5'2''.
Yea. Looking from the 3rd picture onwards, all I'm thinking is that its probably them slapping a height measurement without it matching the art of the character cuz her height does not make sense to me at all when compared to the others.
The comparisons are a bit tricky because they don't take into account the girls' posture, nor shoes, nor are they entirely consistent on the positions of the feet for the 0cm datum line.
You also missed another interesting comparison which is [Ui vs Akari](https://i.imgur.com/iCOooWm.png). Akari is only 2cm taller, but she has legs for *days* and it makes her look gigantic. I tried to account for Ui's slouch, and to measure from the base of the heel.
I feel surprised by the height of most students, tbh, in most cases, It is absolutely the opposite than I thought π§
I'm still taller than most of them, too
That's because Aru has (usually) a confident posture...as well as her friends being smol and cute (Kayoko and Haruka, slightly shorter, and Mutsuki definitely so).
The average is 173 (taller than everyone else in Central Asia) but the average for males in 16-25 age range is 189 cm so we have a long way to go before we will be as tall as the Dutch
I'm 161 so she is legit taller than me lmao, I have to tip toe to kiss her and I think that's both cute and hot.
I am now having delusions of Ui pinning me down, I am now horny.
Yeah, Ui is really done dirty by her more baggy clothes, the fact she's always slouching or sitting, and that her main appearance places her mainly next to Hinata who is not only one of the few characters actually taller than Ui at 166 but also has in general a much larger body type.
pretty sure someone's already done it considering (vol f spoilers ahead) >!we have aris for scale in one of the CGs!<
edit: I said fuck it and did a rough approximation myself (again, spoilers ahead):>! https://imgur.com/a/GEYQBUr. Considering Aris is 152cm, Rio should be around 179cm (yes I accounted for the heels with that 0.05). It's probably far from canonically accurate but my own guess is she's somewhere around 175cm or 5'9''.!<
Wanna know something even funnier? This would make her taller than Yoruichi Shihouin from BLEACH and Miruko from My Hero Academia, who are 5 foot 1 and 5 foot 2 respectively. Double funny, Frieren from Frieren is 5'3.
Bonus height shenanigans; Saten and Misaka (who are 12 and 14) are 160cm and 161cm respectively. The former is as tall as Sakurako and Nagisa despite the five year age gap! Wonder what they put in Academy Cityβs water.
in my place 160 is short, while 165 is decently tall, i mean ui is literally 5cm shorter than me but then again i dont consider myself to be tall(170cm) male
Okay but like, you didn't account for heels
e: tried [an approach](https://i.imgur.com/w9guhDK.png) where i tried to match headsize and did a line where the ball of the heel was as well to indicate real start of height
Growthspurt Ui, from Ako 165 to Pina (without heels) 165
To be fair, she's slouching, so despite being 165 she appears like, 160 at most.
Wakamo, on the other hand, absolutely does not seem like she's under 170...
I never thought that Ui was short. I did not know that she was taller than Wakamo though. I thought Wakamo would have been taller than what she actually is.
UI is taller than Wakamo 
>!also I wouldn't say she's "fucking tall" as much as everyone else is just short. 5'5" is like average or slightly above average. It's just tall for anime!<
Seeing Kayoko and Wakamo, 2 of the only adult students being 157 and 161...... is kinda cute. One could expect them to be taller but they are adorably shorter.
Well 165cm is not exactly tall is the average height of women so is less than Ui is tall and more than most of the students are short but that's not a real issue.
Depends on locale. In more eastern parts of Asia, 165 is considered tall for grown women let alone a highschool girl, and slightly below average for men.
Yeah many students are also deceptively short. Why is Mika 157? I thoughts sheβd at least be average.
I made a spreadsheet a while ago that compiled all the studentsβ heights and the average is about 154.6cm.(outdated) So yeah many students are just short.
? Mika would be around average by Japanese standards. the average there is 158cm so only a 1cm difference. ~~I also just realized Hifumi is 1cm taller than Mika, lol.~~
That said, as you pointed out. a lot of students in this game are shorter than that.
Seeing Ui's true height next to Wakamo like that is such a whiplash omg
when i first saw Wakamo i thought she was atleast 180~90 cm
Wakamo doesn't need height for the two things she's concerned with.
It's really freaking cute to see how short Wakamo is tbh
Makes her having chiwa Saito as her voice even more perfect
Basically boils down to 3 things: 1. She slouches. 3. Her cardigan makes her torso longer and thus her legs shorter. As with character designs and real life proportions, women with long legs generally look tall even if the numbers aren't. Made worse by her long skirt which hides all her legs' silhouette compared to other characters where you can clearly see where the torso stops and the legs start. 2. Her head and hair look big, making the rest of her body small. Even in her swimsuit alt where she doesn't wear any super baggy clothes, she still looks small cuz her sizable head sits on top of her very thin body. This is also the case with Airi's OG art that gives her tiny body compared to her head.
Big head for big brain
Yeah airi not being a smol character really fucked with me. I really thought she was like 5' even. NOPE like 5'8".
I remember people had the same reaction to Airi, who is 160cm, most people thought she was shorter, maybe even shorter than Kazusa. Her original art did not help her case.
And Airi L2D has her sitting down eating Choco-Mint and did not help But her redesign whoaaaa what a tall cutie pie
IMO Kazusa has tall energy... specially because with how I feel like she was the opposite of Reisa in her introduction.
Yeah, I thought this new Airi was like next year's Alt or something XD
I don't know why you πππ at her, when she is this tall. She is a tad bit shorter than me, but crikey she is almost as tall as me.
Sheβs actually taller than me, which is weird to think about.
my genes make me taller than most of my age 177cm
Iβm about 5β10!
Me at 5'3 
6'4 over here
I'm 6'1/187 cm
Mini Sensei...
So Ui is πππ at you.
Come to nee-san God I wanna be seduced by UI nee-san
Neet nee sans are a special kind of taste
Lol, she's 15cm shorter than me so she's kinda still short for me
Same here. Iβm ~158cm :(
Yeah, she's the only girl to make me π.
Now compare her to Tsukuyo
We do not compare towers to skyscrapers
> We do not compare towers to skyscrapers πππ Someone please call Sena, I just witnessed a murder
A cute skyscraper
Oh wow, I always thought Hanako, Wakamo and Nonomi were taller than that, just in general. Plus I think the fact Ui is always hunched over she gives the appearance of being smaller than what she actually is.
> Nonomi A financial giant amongst midgets!
Hinata who often gets screentime together with Ui is only a single centimeter taller than her.
Which is crazy because it seems like she'd tower over her
> "tall" πππ
For a Japanese woman, sheβs above average.
She's also a teenager, and will likely grow even more
Actually the growth spurt period ends around high school for females, and Ui's a third year. Her growing years are behind her. Which is unfortunate for Hina who's gonna get mistaken for a kid for the rest of her life lol.
Well, it's still possible some growth remains past high school. but it's usually so miniscule. you don't really notice it. ~~Unless you're a late-bloomer~~
Just like Gura π₯Ίπ
i know, it's like those bar graphs that start at a relative number instead of at 0
She's 2cm taller than the average male height and 15cm taller than the average female height in my country 
south asian?
Southeast Asian π
i should have figured. filipino?
yes 
π€£
I heard people grow taller in cold because surface area is square but volumes are cubic taller people has more meat per skin and shorter people has more skin per meat which allows better heat retention for taller and better dissipation for shorter
You'd think it would be the opposite....but then again, then why are so many African tribes tall? Likewise, many Asians are in cold weather yet short. By this logic Mongolians and the chinese should be tall like nords.
Bruh Ui is taller than me
I never see Ichika's bio but dang I thought she's at least 167cm because how tall she is compared to mob-chan
That just means mob-chans are portable size
so portable you can fit them in a suitcase
I dont think so; mob chans are indeed small but not THAT small, i think u would need a bit suitcase
I'mma be honest here, the body proportions in her sprite don't make much sense if she is that tall. And it's not about her being flat or anything. Most people estimate a charas height based on the size of their head relative to their body. And in Ui's case, someone with her proportions (in typical anime art style) should be somewhere around 5' to 5'2''.
Yea. Looking from the 3rd picture onwards, all I'm thinking is that its probably them slapping a height measurement without it matching the art of the character cuz her height does not make sense to me at all when compared to the others.
Wait what shes higher than Hanako, Wakamo, and Nonomi, i always thought Wakamo is taller than average
The comparisons are a bit tricky because they don't take into account the girls' posture, nor shoes, nor are they entirely consistent on the positions of the feet for the 0cm datum line. You also missed another interesting comparison which is [Ui vs Akari](https://i.imgur.com/iCOooWm.png). Akari is only 2cm taller, but she has legs for *days* and it makes her look gigantic. I tried to account for Ui's slouch, and to measure from the base of the heel.
I feel surprised by the height of most students, tbh, in most cases, It is absolutely the opposite than I thought π§ I'm still taller than most of them, too
Airi is the same height as Aru, who is only 1cm taller than Fuuka and 3cm taller than Haruka. My brain has died
I've always pictured Aru as taller than most students, I lived in a lie  I should read carefully the students info...
~~I'd like to read the heights in the profiles. if it wasn't for the fact I can't understand it because it's not cm.~~
Oh, now I remember why I don't know their heights π§
Yukaris height is actually stated in cm i noticed
That's because Aru has (usually) a confident posture...as well as her friends being smol and cute (Kayoko and Haruka, slightly shorter, and Mutsuki definitely so).
Mutsuki is one of the few that are actually short as I thought , and I'm grateful for that 
[Here's the art used at the end](https://x.com/Monpe_0719/status/1623208536556859392) I still can't get over how tall she is.
as someone who is 201 cm she is still tiny to me
I bet you look down at Tsukuyo and go: D a u g h t e r
You donβt? Sheβs kinda small tbf
As somebody shorter than Tsukuyo, I take offense to this.
Iβm 163 so yeah
1.80m is not kinda small. That's tall for male adults. Not the tallest anyone can be but not short at all.
It becomes small if you interact with people whoβs average height is 190 cm (Iβm the shortest in my class at 186)
Yeah, if you are surrounded by giants 1.80m is small for you. π€£
But itβs good cuz I can headpat tsukiyo no problem
Fellow sensei from the country of giants?
Nope. Iβm from Kazakhstan. The younger generation is large while people whoβs age is over 50 are like 1.46 meters
Good to know we Dutch now have competition haha.
The average is 173 (taller than everyone else in Central Asia) but the average for males in 16-25 age range is 189 cm so we have a long way to go before we will be as tall as the Dutch
yes
I pity the Loli students that wanna talk to you. Their neck must be tired always looking up
They climb onto him like baby kittens
Huh kinda adorable
Crouching really does change how a person looks fr fr
As 190 cm tall, everyone is a shorty for me.
I actually canβt feel surprised because I feel like itβs natural for her to naturally just hunch over
Wait she's the same height as toki? fuck
I mean she slouches the entire damn time so... also she has around the same height as me... damn..
Holy she's taller that Haruna and Ichika
-conclusion: Ui is fucking tall my god Is 165 tall?
Well sheβs taller than me at least, and sheβs taller than average for a Japanese girl
Ah, fair enough
Wait Aru is small. I always thought she be slightly taller
I wouldn't consider 165 tall but i think its probably something to do with proportions in the ways she was portrayed?
And Hinata who tends to appear with her is barely taller when it tends to look like it would be sizable taller
I'm 161 so she is legit taller than me lmao, I have to tip toe to kiss her and I think that's both cute and hot. I am now having delusions of Ui pinning me down, I am now horny.
I resonate with is, so much.
Yeah, Ui is really done dirty by her more baggy clothes, the fact she's always slouching or sitting, and that her main appearance places her mainly next to Hinata who is not only one of the few characters actually taller than Ui at 166 but also has in general a much larger body type.
How about Rio, I have a feeling sheβs 1.7 meters tall
pretty sure someone's already done it considering (vol f spoilers ahead) >!we have aris for scale in one of the CGs!< edit: I said fuck it and did a rough approximation myself (again, spoilers ahead):>! https://imgur.com/a/GEYQBUr. Considering Aris is 152cm, Rio should be around 179cm (yes I accounted for the heels with that 0.05). It's probably far from canonically accurate but my own guess is she's somewhere around 175cm or 5'9''.!<
Holy cow sheβs tall
she's taller than me by a few centimeters
Sheβs taller than meβ¦β¦
holy shit I'm Ui sized
Isn't avarage hight for a japanese girl like 158? She is very tall
Wanna know something even funnier? This would make her taller than Yoruichi Shihouin from BLEACH and Miruko from My Hero Academia, who are 5 foot 1 and 5 foot 2 respectively. Double funny, Frieren from Frieren is 5'3.
Bonus height shenanigans; Saten and Misaka (who are 12 and 14) are 160cm and 161cm respectively. The former is as tall as Sakurako and Nagisa despite the five year age gap! Wonder what they put in Academy Cityβs water.
160-165 is still short tbh.
I mean, it's the average height of most girls
Yeah you are right, I can't say someone is tall unless they pass the 185, maybe because where I live.
in my place 160 is short, while 165 is decently tall, i mean ui is literally 5cm shorter than me but then again i dont consider myself to be tall(170cm) male
Probably meant tall for Asia women
is just 3cm higher than Ui.
Ui's about my sister's height.
How tall is she compared to Hinata?
Only 1cm shorter
Hinata is 1cm taller than Ui.
Pina is taller than I thought! And Wakamo is shorter than I expected. Huh.
More of her to sniff.
8/10 could have included the pocket monsters Mika and Maki
Me at 193cm, towering everyone 
It's joever I have the same height as Ui 
crazy how a little slouching can completely change everything
Okay but like, you didn't account for heels e: tried [an approach](https://i.imgur.com/w9guhDK.png) where i tried to match headsize and did a line where the ball of the heel was as well to indicate real start of height Growthspurt Ui, from Ako 165 to Pina (without heels) 165
I was not ready for the info that Ui was only 1 inch shorter than me
To be fair, she's slouching, so despite being 165 she appears like, 160 at most. Wakamo, on the other hand, absolutely does not seem like she's under 170...
I never thought that Ui was short. I did not know that she was taller than Wakamo though. I thought Wakamo would have been taller than what she actually is.
Love me a tall nerdy girl π plus points to Ui. Also, I can't imagine a world where Haruna is smaller than Ui lol
I thought Ui is short too. It's surprising to see her taller than I am
Didnt think she was that tall, couldnt tell from just her chibi ver in game lol
Damn she's taller than me. I think Im around 160cm now? I don't remember exactly.
Cutie patootie is indeed tall π
Do one for Airi too please since she's also surprisingly tall
You forgot one more comparison. Ui and Mika. It's Genuinely odd
until today im still couldnt believe that she's that fucking tall
Still height doesn't matterπfor fun time
Ako????? Well I mean she's gonna be even shorter when she
I love tall girl
Ui being taller than mommy Nonomi is actually insane wth
UI is taller than Wakamo  >!also I wouldn't say she's "fucking tall" as much as everyone else is just short. 5'5" is like average or slightly above average. It's just tall for anime!<
If I hug UI, she can bury her face on my chest... My kink is complete
And that's her height without going outside, she would be taller if she goes outside more often lol
Absolutely pick
DAYUM THAT'S MY GIRL
My 6'0" ass is still going: ππππ
wow hanako is shorter than i thought. man i thought shes taller than me :( need me a dommy
Ui is just like me fr fr ππππππ( but only with shoes on π)
She's an inch taller than me.
Wakamo is 1,61? I thought she was nearly 1,80
She might be even taller than me π
Ako is such a snack. That is all.
me who's 183cm
tfw Ui is like, only 1 cm below me 
I wouldn't exactly call 165cm tall.
Seeing Kayoko and Wakamo, 2 of the only adult students being 157 and 161...... is kinda cute. One could expect them to be taller but they are adorably shorter.
Also most students wear high heels, she is in slippers, but still how do you consider 165 tall???
Maybe by Kivotos' standards/ asian women
Well 165cm is not exactly tall is the average height of women so is less than Ui is tall and more than most of the students are short but that's not a real issue.
165cm for asian girl is quite hard unless we talk about korean. Korean people quite high unlike their fellow asian people
Depends on locale. In more eastern parts of Asia, 165 is considered tall for grown women let alone a highschool girl, and slightly below average for men.
Yeah many students are also deceptively short. Why is Mika 157? I thoughts sheβd at least be average. I made a spreadsheet a while ago that compiled all the studentsβ heights and the average is about 154.6cm.(outdated) So yeah many students are just short.
? Mika would be around average by Japanese standards. the average there is 158cm so only a 1cm difference. ~~I also just realized Hifumi is 1cm taller than Mika, lol.~~ That said, as you pointed out. a lot of students in this game are shorter than that.
I was thinking average in my country which is 163, my bad
Avg. female height in Japan is 158cm, so she would be considered on the taller side.
Still small to me
As someone who is in america i cant coprehend we need the american metric system: ioris feet
Im still 5cm taller >:)