Manga Heads!

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Sorry for being so long between posts. There’s a good reason, as Justine explains here, we’ve been hiding out at an undisclosed location to finish our next books. In fact, the only reason I’m taking a break is because Leviathan just crossed the 75K word mark!

Pause for woot.

And no sooner do I turn to the internets for relaxation, and what do I see on BoingBoing but manga contact lenses! They’re so totally like the manga heads in Extras that I had to interrupt my fierce writing schedule to show you:

Ahhh!

Okay, my manga heads probably aren’t that scary. But still, I’m glad someone’s trying already. And yes, these are a real product:

Read more about them here at Inventor Spot.

I will be posting more soon . . . promise

124 thoughts on “Manga Heads!”

  1. I’m kind of worried that everyone else finds them alarming and I don’t. I don’t even read manga.

    I actually imagine all pretty eyes looking like that…

  2. I imagine the pretties eyes like that too!
    I think they are really cool!! :S. They are a little freaky though. I would get a fright if I saw someone looking like that walking down the street!
    How happy-making, second comment! 🙂

  3. Wow the close-ups are actually very pretty. They look a bit computerized, but who knows maybe they can look that dazzling in real life too! Thanks for the info, Scott, you always come through with interesting things. 😉

  4. “Manga contacts” have been quite popular in Asia lately… Just walk down a street in Singapore/Taiwan/Japan, you’d see many of us wearing those… But still, these are the better ads I’ve seen…

  5. *woot* for Leviathan!
    There are all kinds of contact lenses these days… and guys wear them also, apparently… As San-san said, it’s quite popular these days in Asia (though I wouldn’t wear them myself XD)

    Although, I think they are usually more subtle than the ones in that pic ha…

  6. Woot indeed. Hooray for Levithan! Nearly done!

    Those contact lenses scare me. Really, they do. Some things shouldn’t exist. Especially not things that, when used in real life and not cartoons, make you look like A) You have a concussion or B) You’re on drugs. Or perhaps both.
    I must say that the Hello Kitty contacts frighten me more, but it’s a thin margin.

  8. And, see, I think they’re pretty. Go figure – then again, I’m pretty darned close to being a manga head myself, so my opinion probably isn’t the most unbiased thing out there, =S.

    *adds her w00t to the growing pile*

  11. lol, wouldn’t they have to keep their eyes wide open all day?
    i think it’s pretty, but woOow.
    the things people buy.

  13. Hey Scott, you never explained your first lines! I have to admit I’m disappointed about that.

    But these awesome contact things… well, I guess they sort of make up for it. But only SORT OF!

  14. I like the contacts but would they look good on a typical blonde hair blue hair american girl?

    Pisssh posssh.

  16. theyre really cool, but theyre freaky cause they remind me of like living dolls. there gorgeous in a creeeppyyy way.

    then again, twenty years from now everyone will probably be wearing them. haha. scott, u r soo physic…

  18. ha! that’s really cool! I would totally get green ones. but the closeups are kinof creepy. . . .
    WOOT! for leviathan

  19. Creepy, but what’s so different from ordinary contact lenses? I wear uncolored ones but I have seen people with colored lense and they looked pretty much just like that. They said something about an extra wide darker color around the iris, but my eyes are like that so I thought everyone’s was…. Frankly it just looks like their eyes are open super wide, are wearing some odd fake contacts and the nose isn’t so prominate, normal colored lenses alone couldn’t make someone look that freaky…

  20. they’re creepy, but i might want some one of these days, so….w/e. depends on how much $………….

  21. woah, totally weird but cool in a way. i want some just to have some but i’d probably never where them in public

  23. dude those are frickin awesome!!! i don’t think they would look good on me *shudders at the thought* but the ads look cool. The contacts seem like they would be kind of painful, or at least not as comfortable as regular contacts.

    oh, and as soon as you have infra-red vision installed in your eyes, i’m creating a new religion called Westerfiedism. no joke. if scientology is considered a valid religion, i’ll totally be able to pull this one off. our church services will be held on mondays (and they’ll be long and mandatory, so no school that day) and we’ll spend each service writing an email asking scott-sama for the latest prediction about the future.

    ok, maybe not. but still… that’s kinda freaky…

    Because I’ll totally make the Top 100 😉

  24. they do look kind of creepy close up but they are cool, i have violet contacts but they don’t make my eyes look anything like that

  25. they are awesome, I’ll join that religion when eyescreens and/or hoverboards are invented (whatever comes first) and what is Leviathan?

  30. Wow, that picture’s really weird. They shouldn’t have airbrushed her so much!
    Those lenses would be cool for cosplay. Anything else, a little odd.

  32. Holy shiz. The manga-eyes are so huge that it’s actually kind of creepy. I wouldn’t want eyes like those staring at me all day.

  34. Hm. I have mixed thoughts. I know they probably don’t look that good on the normal person, though.

    My dad told me about these…

  36. Well, that was just…really weird.

    They actually look kind of cool, but to actually have? No. I don’t think they’d look very good on anyone in real life. Although I am tempted to order a pair just for fun…though for $50 I’d be better off messing around with Photoshop.

    But, hey, to each her own, right?

  37. They do look a little alien-ish.
    And the people on the inventors site
    think that they are completely wrong.
    Its cool that they come in prescription though.
    Ha.
    I can’t spell.

  40. Woot for Leviathan!

    Wow, those are awesome. I’d love to get some. I’m such a manga head 🙂

  41. wow. these are interesting. kinda fawesome. very interesting though. it would be fool to have them to like freak people out though. that would be fun.

  44. I agree with San-san and dessemerald….it’s common to see people wearing those contacts in Singapore/Taiwan/Japan…well, since I live in Singapore… >.< I would wish to own a pair but I had seen several ads and they don’t seemed to come with powered lenses….I am almost blind without my glasses. T.T

    Oh, and it’s not totally safe for some as I heard on the news that some dyes can actually trigger some allergic reaction or something. So not bubbly making.

    So to those who are buying, check that it’s safe first!~

    =D

  47. Wow thats pretty fawesome!

    I was wondering why you were gone so long, and I wooted before I even read “pause for woot”! That’s fawesome you got past the 75K mark.

    To Nikki-wa: What’s Leviathan?! It’s the book he’s been writing!

  48. okay, so i was just on BoingBoing and guess what they had there? an article about how they invented a robot. with a brain! yes, it’s true! they gave it a brain so it can move and do stuff without a human or a computer controlling it! (and it knows not to bump into things) how sick is that?

    bow all they need to do is attach a camera to it and make it fly…

    Because I’ll totally make the Top 100 😉

  52. Oh my gosh those are amazing.
    Sign me up for them, please! I could get a legal name change to Frizz or even Eden.

    It’s possible.

  53. @ nikki-wa

    check the older posts; Leviathan is Scott-sama’s new book that he’s writing. Its set in an alternate-reality World War I about the Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s teen son and romance. 😀

  54. omg thats so tight!!!!! i love it when the world gets closer to the uglie world!!! it’s so happy-making!!

  56. Ah, Japanese people have too much time on their hands. They have some of the coolest/weirdest inventions ever. A many sided-eraser? O.o Some gadget that translates what your cat is saying? O.O They are the M in Modern and probably the O-D too, just cuz.

    I would want to try those eyes probably, just to see. I always liked big eyes.

    And Scott, you totally pawn pawn-ness. If that is possible. You seem incredibly intelligent and one-of-a-kind. Instead of just posing the existence of “vampires” in Peeps, you explain their being, and not just how they came to be. You went into ripping down the myths, and used enough big words to make it believable! Yay, big words. I think you have mastered the English language. XP

    -Aki

  57. These aren’t nearly as strange as the contacts with the little butterflies and stars all over them that were pictured further down the website…

  58. Holy crow, those things are freakin’ fawesome!!!
    I think I want a pair in green…
    Ha. They do look a bit creepy, though…Oh well.

  59. those are cool…i wonder how they’d look on me…pretty creepy, probably. i have a feeling they’re not made for someone who fits Jessica Day’s appearance description…

  60. I want to try a pair my self….. I could not Imagen myself wearing those things, Haley~Hyperness is Icy your so right. And i also hope that the movie is like the book. I hate it when they change the it.

    love the Books!!! Cant wait for the next one!!!!! ; )

  62. I think they airbrushed that picture a lot. There’s only so much that contacts can change your looks. And although I don’t want to actually have a pair for everyday (I’m big on the natural look. I don’t even bother with contacts–I’d be too afraid to poke my eye out. I only need them for reading anyway so I just use glasses.), I was thinking of being a Cutter for Halloween, and the black-eyes would definatley do it. But I don’t want to buy them ($50’s a lot for the eyes of a costume), and besides, my eyes aren’t black but are dark. Not going to lie, though–I’d love to try them on, just to see how it looked, and probably crack up laughing.

  64. Asians are cool… what isn’t cool is the fact that eyes are said to be the “windows to the soul”. If we can change the way our eyes look, then that’s kind of creepy. I mean, if your eyes are fake, what does that say about you?

    Because I’ll totally make the Top 100 😉

  73. Coooool! I was picturing those big old manga eyes you sometimes see in manga. Those are aaawwesome!

  74. They look like dolls’ eyes. And that looks like a doll’s face. Those might look creepy on a Mexican’s face. I can’t see myself with those dolls’ eyes but they’re cool all the same.

  75. Oh MY GOSH!
    I SOOO WANT SOME!
    I wonder if they are available in the USA….Or if they’ll ever be…..

  76. CRAZINESS~ I couldn’t imagine walking around like that…how about a picture of Frizz, though? That might change my mind…

  78. hiya rex-la!

    hehe, i want some too. but then, this is from the girl that wants the contacts that make your eyes look like cat’s eyes. i am not, however, allowed to get them because “they are bad for your eyes”. sigh…

  79. I want those contacts….

    ON THE OTHER NOTE, when Uglies casts for Tally, I’m SO auditioning.
    I’ve wanted to be her in Uglies forever. I wanna meet the dude who ever is going to play David, David is the best character (in Uglies)

  80. you know who I wanna meet? the director and script-writer, seeing as they don’t exactly exist yet either…

    Because I’ll totally make the Top 100 😉

  82. That’s fool! I CLAIM THE BLACK ONES!!!! The picture is really creepy though. And I can tell it’s photoshopped. Her complexion is WAY too perfect! And how come the girl in the picture has green contacts, but there isn’t any green. Only blue, gray, black, and brown! It’s totally weird. It makes no sense!!!! But I seriously want some. I want to scare everyone who doesn’t read Scott-la’s books! They shall read them all!!!!

  83. The star contacts are beyond amazing.
    Seriously.
    I think a movie would be great-unless its nothing like the books.
    ‘Cause then I’d totally throw popcorn at the screen.
    I don’t think Twilight is going to be like the book.
    But if they do make an Uglies movie-
    Some one has to supervise [I can’t spell] so it doesn’t turn into a mess!

  84. those contacts would be perfect in the Extras movie (i agree if the movie wasn’t like the book I would throw popcorn at the screen too)

  86. Nikki-la, i can totally imagine you sitting there in a movie theater with Jay-la throwing popcorn at the screen every time something isn’t right and everyone in the theater giving you weird looks, haha….

    you know what would be hella sick? if all the hard-core Uglies fans bought these contacts and wore them to the theater instead of dressing up…

    Because I’ll totally make the Top 100 😉

  87. must. have.

    so. weird. but still so unbelievably awesome.

    perfect if they ever make a pretties movie :]

  89. Huh, that is really creepy….very very creepy! Although kinda cool. Huh. Tu-da-lu <3 Nicole-la

  90. they couldn’t make a movie for the series.
    I don’t think any directer or anyone would put in the amount of effort necessary on effects for it to be worthwhile.
    To make the pretties, specials, and extras truly represent the characters in the books, it would take so much cgi and special effects that i really don’t think anyone would do it.
    not to mention the buildings and such, while easier, would still be a ton of work.

    it would be sweet though.
    midnighters movies would be more likely. i mean, they were considered for a TV show, right?

    I actually like those contacts. like, they are a bit out there, but i would get them. i just wish they came in more colors, because i want bright green, purple, and gold contacts.

  92. WOWS!

    Completely love them. But yeah, i’d like more colours. Purple would be yummy, but i want some blue ones anyway =]
    Pity i don’t have £20 to spend on one pair of lenses =P
    Still, Awesomness.

    Lishy-la xx

  93. I have a question,
    I want to send a message to Scott Westerfield but when I go on”contact” it doesn’t work….. 🙁

    I like the colors of the lenses! I want the green ones! 🙂

  94. Does Scott respond to these comments and questions? — – Wait is ” Tally and Zane” the person that responds aka. Scott? someone Please tell me Scott responds to this !

  95. Can someone like please help me? i tried to contact Scott Westerfeld but when i clicked “contact me” it didnt work. said it needed some email-.-” Can someone or Scott help me? I have a few questions and comments, i would put it here, but not sure if Scott reads these comments and questions and answers them.. So help me please.

  98. Wow!!!!!
    I would Love some of those lenses if they came in Prescription versions(blind-bat ,speaking).
    The faces of the the people are a bit nightmare-making, though.
    They look as i fthey are wearing A LOT of smart plastic!

  99. XD Secreteyes.org sells them also… They have carnival, black, gold, brown, violet, blue, green, and a bunch of other ones… For $24 or so… Though you need- 1. to use paypal, and 2. to pay for shipping from malaysia…
    I don’t think it would be that bad though… I’m getting some… XD I’m getting contacts anyways, so they might as well freak my teachers out.

  100. Manga heads aren’t so far off, really. Garnier has a line of hair products called MangaHead. I used to use it to spike my hair like Cloud from Final Fantasy lol.

  103. She reminds me of those creepy act-cute *coughbimboscough* I see around town. Totally creepy-making.

  104. Oh my gosh! That is so cool. I love Frizz and Aya together. I could picture specials, pretties, crumblies, and flash tatoos, but I could never picture manga heads. Thanks for the image, scott-la. And I beg of you, WRITE A FIFTH BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am rereading the series for only the second time, but pretty soon it’s going to get boring. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I promise I will never get bored of it, scott-la.

  111. …I actually really like those. Wonder if they come in prescription… *frantic investigation*
    Don’t see why they’re creepy, really. I mean, some of the expressions in the ads are creepy, a little bit (read as: I am going to use them as models for some of my characters, because I can never manage to get them to look insane enough) but the contacts themselves are just insanely cool!

    C

  112. i really actually love the look of those manga contacts, i would deffinitly wear them, all the time. i just read bogus to bubbly yesterday, i kow a little late but whatever, and i didnt really understand what a manga head really was..:x because i alwasy referred to them as like…anime drawings with the big eyes and spiky-floating-ish hair…oh well. i use ‘manga heads’ now. i like it better. but to the contacts i so love them they’re so pretty. &+ so is the model girl above wearing them, i also like her hair (: oops! long comment. but i LOVE THE CONTACTS!

  113. :)) I love these books… i found somehting that looks like what I think the manga heads would look like… it is a picture my fried took… kinda scary to me…

    its not HUGE like those pictures but more normal looking… but i love the eyes… so pretty!!! but i would freak if i saw someone like that at school….

    wish i could show you all the picture of her… she’s a bit weird though… :DDD

  117. I love manga, but the only books i normally read other than them are by scott ^-^, when i first read extras i thought WOOAAH big eyes like in mangas, but some have a bit smaller just big pupils and iris w/e.
    Im a bit reassured now. Thinking of Frizz Mizuno, what a japanese last name (o.O) fufu, but now my hearts all doki doki.
    Seriously Im hooked on Scott’s books.

  118. Why does everyone freak out at these? I think they make her look pretty. Of course sacrificing the ability to blink may be a factor.

  120. Bua ha ha ha !
    I actually OWN a few pairs of these kinds of lenses.
    Started off with celebrities, and then regular peopel started wearing them too.
    I gaurantee you that if you went to a heavily Asian populated area at least 1 out of every 7 girls would be wearing them.
    I try not to wear them more then 3 times a week, since they block some airflow to your eyes.
    and BTW~
    That girl is an Asian net idol, there’s tons in Korea, and Japan.
    Most of them photoshop but fakers get caught easily.

  122. i think this picture pretty scary it looks just like real
    and then see thad face!

    so scary!

    … PS: i am a girl

  124. Try searching “popular ulzzang;” ulzzang means “best face” in Korean. Ulzzangs, in my opinion, personify the manga-head aura… there are both guys and girls who utilize a combination of circle lenses, makeup, some photoshop, and good genes. I think they’re attractive, some don’t. Anyway, please check this out! http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-37NldOe4AdU/UDRnFZVcQHI/AAAAAAAAKs4/i7JasegLsCM/s320/boy-korean-park-hyung-seok-ulzzang-Favim.com-424990.jpg

    http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/33800000/Ulzzang-uzzlang-world-33847828-500-631.jpg

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