Talk:Hatsune Miku V3 English/@comment-99.21.3.195-20130810221025/@comment-53539-20130811065843

Note; the reason for bigger facial features is to give the character more expressive capabilities so you read their emotions more. This is why cartoon characters even in the west have bigger features at times.

Western styles tended to be more focused on other elements, which is why for a good number of decades they focused on building body language rather then facial ones. Characters were more "technically" drawn rather then expressive.

It has nothing to do with masculinity or femininity.

Incident, in all this do not forget it was the likes of Disney and other around the mid 20th century that inspired Japanese comics and animation to go the way they are in modern times. :-/