Why Do Japanese Cartoons Have Big Eyes. The eyes are the mirror of the soul so manga characters have big eyes that help to better communicate those emotions. Barbie doll is a perfect reflection of what girls want to look like.
There have been controversial debates going on about why characters in japanese manga have huge eyes. Just think back to the famous bamby eyes. Many japanese women are slightly over weight.
Japanese classic cartoon 1933 even before the first disney movie in 1938.
Osamu tezuka may have been personally influenced by disney but big eyes weren t new at all. In japan cartoons are like barbie dolls. But that seems unlikely to me given that they made most of that stuff especially back in the early days for a strictly japanese audience with western fans being something of an afterthought to most. In japanese culture big round eyes are meant to be pretty and if anyone s got that they are meant to be extremely pretty.
