I retract my statement. She's short. She's got short legs. Now she's normally five heads tall (which is a cartooning convention -- the average human adult for both sexes is about 7.5 heads tall), and she has been since DQ8, so she'd naturally be on the short side (nevermind -- many DQ characters are five heads tall, and have been at least since DQ8's official art), but her legs are only two heads long, so they only take up 40% of her height, where the real life average is about 46.67%. The usual convention that I've encountered is to balance it the anime figure so that the legs take up about 5