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Crossing Over

Eyes

           Japanese animators seem to really like purple eyes.  Yugi and Yami have purple eyes, Mai has purple eyes, Tsukasa has purple eyes.  It looks cool, but I wonder why they like it so much.  I mean, real people don’t have purple eyes.

          And another thing, you ever notice how some anime show everyone with the same shape eyes, and others don’t?  Like in Pokemon, guys have one style eyes, girls another, and Team Rocket members (girl or boy) have another style all their own.  And in Yu-Gi-Oh!  Yami, Marik, Ishizu, Dark Bakura, and Shadi all have one shape eyes, while the rest of the guys have another, and I think Tea’s might be different from theirs.  And then there are Yugi’s eyes, and his grandpa’s.  So what, we have Egyptian eyes, other people eyes, and… Moto eyes?  Whatever.  Then, in Digimon, and .Hack//sign, everyone’s eyes look the same (except Crim on .Hack, why is he different?  I think Sora might be too.)  Weird.