# Want Eyes like Sailor Moon? Look no further! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081 "2009-08-20T15:25:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/21 "2009-08-20T20:03:25Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Maybe she just had really sensitive eyes. No, she did it on purpose. She told people about it, how they were special lenses. I just mean I don’t know why she had lenses like that. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/22 "2009-08-20T20:09:54Z")
That’s… that’s not cute, it’s **terrifying**. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/23 "2009-08-20T20:17:41Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > That’s… that’s not cute, it’s **terrifying**. You don’t want to [tuck her in](http://www.sympathyrecords.com/keane/graphics/keane5.jpg) and give her a glass of milk? Look how cute! ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/24 "2009-08-20T20:18:15Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > I’m kind of freaked out by guys who like anime. (American guys…or non-Japanese guys, anyway.) Do they find the anime girls sexually attractive? Is it because of the juvenile features? The bodies definitely seem adolescent. I haven’t actually seen much anime, but from the little I’ve seen, it seems like so many of these features connote submissiveness. > > Please don’t flame me. I really do want to know what’s going on with this! Well, I think it’s more of a woobie cute thing than a submissiveness thing (for most people, some are probably really into the submissiveness). But a lot of anime don’t have those features, see [Cowboy Bebop](http://galanime.com/pixposter/1201765524-Cowboy_Bebop_49.jpg), possibly the most popular anime in the west, and the girl looks like she will quite possibly shoot you in the face (which she probably will, to be honest). ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/25 "2009-08-20T20:18:22Z")
Once again I see my typing skills are extraordinaire. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/26 "2009-08-20T20:20:48Z")
> [@badbadrubberpiggy](#): > > I want them, if only to see how people react when I wear them. > > To be fair, I want a pair of [these](http://extremesfx.com/p-84-smiley.aspx) for the same reason. I had [these](http://extremesfx.com/p-55-black-sclera.aspx) for halloween a couple of years ago. More than a few people suddenly developed a keen interest in the floor rather than look me in the eyes. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/27 "2009-08-20T20:23:07Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > You don’t want to [tuck her in](http://www.sympathyrecords.com/keane/graphics/keane5.jpg) and give her a glass of milk? Look how cute! That looks like something out of a _Grudge_-type movie.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/28 "2009-08-20T20:26:35Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > But a lot of anime don’t have those features, see [Cowboy Bebop](http://galanime.com/pixposter/1201765524-Cowboy_Bebop_49.jpg), possibly the most popular anime in the west, and the girl looks like she will quite possibly shoot you in the face (which she probably will, to be honest). There are two females in that picture. The older one is Faye Valentine, who is about 77 years, and so no longer really a girl (though she looks to be in her 20s, since she spent a long time in suspended animation. The younger one is Edward (yes, she has a boy’s name), and is a girl about 13 years old. I assume you mean Faye when you say “she will quite possibly shoot you in the face” – Edward would just use her computer hacking skills to deal with you. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/29 "2009-08-20T20:28:57Z")
I believe I speak for everyone when I say o\_O. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/30 "2009-08-20T20:34:02Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > I’m kind of freaked out by guys who like anime. (American guys…or non-Japanese guys, anyway.) Do they find the anime girls sexually attractive? Is it because of the juvenile features? The bodies definitely seem adolescent. I haven’t actually seen much anime, but from the little I’ve seen, it seems like so many of these features connote submissiveness. > > Please don’t flame me. I really do want to know what’s going on with this! Oh, jeez, I love anime. (Not that I’ve been keeping up much for the past ten years.) It ain’t wank material, if that’s what you’re thinking. Even classic stuff that is pretty puerile and has a lot of emphasis on sex (like [Cutie Honey](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THxOIeT94f4),) - the main attraction is that it’s entertaining and _fun_. I can’t say anything about what motivates people to watch \*hentai \*- I’ve never seen any that came close to being watchable. That being said, the character design is often quite sexy. When I was young enough to go to conventions and stuff without being the creepy old guy, I appreciated it a lot more in the context of cosplay. There’s a young girl here at work that teases the hell out of me by showing off her cosplay pics, and I have to admit they sometimes give me fibrilations. The actual cartoons aren’t something I can imagine deriving much in the way of actual titillation from, though. I wouldn’t worry too much about anime-liking guys being hung up on submissive women or anything. Although my wife _does_ have “anime eyes,” she is pure yang. If she shares any (non-physical) qualities with [Lum](http://www.gsoftnet.us/Anime/LumAtaru2.jpg), it’s the pyrotechnics when her temper is aroused. Yow. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/31 "2009-08-20T20:35:02Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > There are two females in that picture. The older one is Faye Valentine, who is about 77 years, and so no longer really a girl (though she looks to be in her 20s, since she spent a long time in suspended animation. The younger one is Edward (yes, she has a boy’s name), and is a girl about 13 years old. I assume you mean Faye when you say “she will quite possibly shoot you in the face” – Edward would just use her computer hacking skills to deal with you. :smack: I haven’t seen Cowboy Bebop in so long I always forget Ed is a girl, yes, I was talking about Faye. Granted, Ed is so WEIRD you can’t really do much with that one either. > [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > Oh, jeez, I love anime. (Not that I’ve been keeping up much for the past ten years.) > > It ain’t wank material, if that’s what you’re thinking. Even classic stuff that is pretty puerile and has a lot of emphasis on sex (like [Cutie Honey](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THxOIeT94f4),) - the main attraction is that it’s entertaining and _fun_. I can’t say anything about what motivates people to watch \*hentai \*- I’ve never seen any that came close to being watchable. Okay, just because it’s funny, I’m going to link one of Yahtzee’s (of “Zero Punctuation” on the Escapist) text review with censored pics of a Hentai movie called Stairs. Broken for obvious reasons. [noparse][http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/reviews/stairs.htm[/noparse]](http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/reviews/stairs.htm%5B/noparse%5D) ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/32 "2009-08-20T20:49:04Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > I had [these](http://extremesfx.com/p-55-black-sclera.aspx) for halloween a couple of years ago. > > More than a few people suddenly developed a keen interest in the floor rather than look me in the eyes. I’m considering those, too! I need to remember to order whatever I want in time for Halloween this year. [These](http://extremesfx.com/p-117-sparkles.aspx) would be fun in a “is there something wrong with that person’s eyes? No…yes…gah!” sort of way. I don’t think they’d show up in my eyes, though. ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/33 "2009-08-20T20:49:20Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > My wife has big-assed irises like that, naturally. Yay! > > Unfortunately, she passed that trait onto our daughter, which is probably going to give me acid reflux and hair loss twelve years from now. 😃 Yeah same with my baby daughter. All I hear when I go out is “look at her eyes”. She has really big eyes that are almond round shape like mine with long lashes. I guess it is unusual for everyone else but us. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/34 "2009-08-20T21:17:20Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > I had [these](http://extremesfx.com/p-55-black-sclera.aspx) for halloween a couple of years ago. > > More than a few people suddenly developed a keen interest in the floor rather than look me in the eyes. Darn, they don’t come in powers. I’d look spooky but be stumbling around the house. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/35 "2009-08-20T21:18:46Z")
Wouldn’t those things _hurt_? Or at least be really uncomfortable? ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/36 "2009-08-20T22:05:20Z")
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**Author:** ![cromulent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b4bc9f/32.png) [@cromulent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cromulent)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/37 "2009-08-20T23:17:25Z")
Not to mention, they probably have to be thicker and therefore provide less oxygen to the cornea. Corneal neovascularization and corneal pannus! How adorable! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/38 "2009-08-21T00:07:39Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > I’m kind of freaked out by guys who like anime. (American guys…or non-Japanese guys, anyway.) Do they find the anime girls sexually attractive? Is it because of the juvenile features? The bodies definitely seem adolescent. I haven’t actually seen much anime, but from the little I’ve seen, it seems like so many of these features connote submissiveness. It creeps me out too, and the more I see of it, the more I become convinced that the entire genre and culture of anime are rooted in frozen adolescence at best, and at worst appeal to latent (if not manifest) pedophilia. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/39 "2009-08-21T00:17:14Z")
Does anybody else think thy look like Bette Davis Eyes? ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081/40 "2009-08-21T01:48:45Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > It creeps me out too, and the more I see of it, the more I become convinced that the entire genre and culture of anime are rooted in frozen adolescence at best, and at worst appeal to latent (if not manifest) pedophilia. The ENTIRE thing? I’ll grant that the main audience in Japan is teenage boys, so a certain amount of fanservice is to be expected, but it’s hardly based on that. You’re talking about a culture that pretty much launched half of all franchises involving giant robots. A lot of anime runs off rule of cool more than any weird sex practices. Some of the stuff for the older crowd especially is almost entirely mild (or rather, nothing you wouldn’t see in your average sitcom or crime drama here), such as Death Note (Misa’s goth fashion taste not withstanding, but she’s supposed to be a popular fashion model), which is more about morality and (supernatural) crime. If you’re getting your information on anime from 4chan that could explain it though… The hentai/ecchi culture I can’t speak for. Believe it or not this is almost on the nose of how otaku (over 20 or so) are viewed in Japan itself as well (judging by the things I’ve been told by many immigrants/exchange students at least), granted it [can be taken to even more asinine generalizations there sometimes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Miyazaki). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-eyes-like-sailor-moon-look-no-further/507081.md?page=3)