>>7637393
Anime girls are a unified "type," with almost all the differentiation between them coming from coloring, hairstyle, clothing and accessories. This is analogous to the classical type that you find in ancient Greek art and the later movements that sought to emulate classicism. The classical type was meant to be universal as opposed to individual. The anime type is just economical, a shortcut to an attractive face that can be repeated over and over again. The downside is that very monotony. In real life there are beautiful women with pert noses and aquiline noses and other types; monolid and double lid eyes angled from drooping on the outside to upturned; lips from full to delicate; and so forth. While beauty tends to fall within certain allowable proportions, there is actually a great deal of variety. It's pretty well agreed upon among artists that drawing the face of a pretty woman is more difficult than drawing the face of a handsome man, because one line too many or misplaced can age, masculinize or blemish her. It takes a very good artist to be able to cartoon different types of pretty faces. To be fair, even the great American comic artists tended to have a type, although it was more grounded in realism (John Buscema's woman was said to have been based on Sophia Loren or Virna Lisi).