But for the upcoming American-made Alita: Battle Angel (adapted from 1990s manga anime Battle Angel Alita, also known as Gunnm), the producers have decided to keep one very characteristic anime aesthetic for the titular heroine: giant eyes.
As a series with its roots in the early ‘90s, when the trend was for even bigger eyes in anime than what’s seen in series today, the cast of Battle Angel Alita has big peepers in both Yukita Kishiro’s original manga and its two-volume anime.
Follow Casey on Twitter, where now that the Battle Angel movie is finally happening, he wonders if we might really see the live-action Mai, the Psychic Girl.
Alita asks, but it’s really just how huge her eyes are that’s freaking people out.