Ok. I agree with you completely that these anime 
guys are very feminine looking. My favorite anime 
guy (hotohori) acted as a woman AND was mistaken 
FOR a woman by a certain desperate bandit. ^^

My adoration for him goes beyond looks as well 
though. ^_^;

Okay - the science part I mentioned. I learned 
this from a discovery channel magazine article. 
It appears that woman in general are attracted to 
more feminine featured guys (or feminine features 
ON guys) when they are not menstrating (sorry i 
had to use that word guys). It is because 
feminine features imply a more caring and 
nurturing (MOTHERLY) type of personality. Woman 
like this because they want their future mate to 
be able to care for the children well. But also - 
feminine type features on a guy are a downfall by 
this aspect: they are not as "potent" as the 
other more masculine guy. Okay, now when/why do 
girls like "masculine" featured guys? It's DURING 
menstration when the female looks for a 
more "potent" type man - with strong genetics - 
to carry on healthy offspring. 

SOOoooOoo.. what do girls like? They like both. 
It's just (in general mind you/scientifically 
speaking) that woman look find feminine type 
features more attractive most of the time. 

I hope THAT makes sense. Because you want to know 
what's up with Nuriko being so popular.. well - 
for me it's his personality. For others it might 
be his looks as well. Either way - a woman wrote 
the story and designed the characters. So what 
SHE think's is attractive in a male will 
definatly carry over into her works. So SHE 
happens to find long purple hair and droopy "come 
hither" eyes attractive. LOL. 

Okay. enough of me. I gotta go to work. XP

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