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First: When you call a young boy ぼく, is it LH or HL?

Second: When do boys saying 僕 move from LH to HL?

Third: When voice actors voice young characters, do they use HL or LH?
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Questions regarding the pitch accent of 僕
I hear both ぼく{HL} and ぼく{LH} for a first personal pronoun even only in Tokyo,
so you can use either one you like. I actually use ぼく{HL} more frequently than
ぼく{LH}, but I DO pronounce ぼく{LH} occasionally.  
  
As I feel both of them are pronounced regardless of age, I cannot declare
which a voice actor voices.  
  
ぼく{HL} seems to be used more often than ぼく{LH} when you call a young boy.  

Furthermore, I looked up 僕 in accent dictionaries which tell us the pitch
accent of many words in or around Tokyo. Each dictionary indicates two ways of
accent, the left ones are considered to be more general than the right ones
below.  
I will omit the names and the authors of dictionaries, if you want to know I
will add them as a comment.

>   * ぼく{HL}; ぼく{LH} (1932)
>   * ぼく{LH}; ぼく{HL} (1951)
>   * ぼく{HL}; ぼく{LH} (1960)
>   * ぼく{HL}; ぼく{LH} (1966)
>   * ぼく{HL}; 《新》ぼく{LH} (1981)
>

The dictionaries say there have been two ways of _僕_ for at least 80 years.
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