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>>657388
You're retreading old grounds. The links between neoteny, Japanese manga, evolutionary biology, and artistic fascination have been studied for decades.

The point is that we value neotenic characteristics more as a specie because of our K-selection. Children are incredibly important for us: we are genetically engineered to like, protect, and be fascinated with the well-being of our children, and to like, protect, and be fascinated with the neotenic characteristics of our own children. As an aside, the entire feline specie has co-evolved to acquire many of the neotenic characteristics of our youngs (because we selected the "cutest" cats). They quite literally mind-control us by using our own biology, in a sense, though we selected them to do so.

Same thing for our women. Our women keep far more neotenic characteristics than almost all other mammals.

Anyway, it's a basic fact of life understood by many artists, at least unconsciously, and used by many others. Look at that Ilya art for instance. This artists >>657352 just used it in a 3D model, and quite well I must add.