tsurime
nounEtymology Borrowed from Japanese つりめ.
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Fiction, Literature, Media, Publishing Japanese Eyes slanted upward on the outside.
- tsurime eyes
- Borrowing the language of America's culture wars, online critics condemned the depiction as "politically/racially correct" for reproducing what they deemed racially offensive western orientalist tropes by depicting the character with "tsurime" (slanted eyes) and black hair.[2023 July 28, “The Matter of Hāfu Lives”, in Helaine Selin, Kimiko Tanaka, editors, Sustainability, Diversity, and Equality: Key Challenges for Japan, →ISBN, page 321:
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- A very specific MadoMagi pet peeve of mine is when people draw Madoka with tsurime eyes (sharp eyes). Madoka has super round eyes!!!2025 November 17, @homuffinz, X (post), archived from the original on 16 May 2026:
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Cosmetics, Lifestyle Japan A makeup style, similar to pien and associated with jirai kei, drawn with tsurime.
- I think we should add more makeup styles to jirai kei. Pien and tsurime makeup looks so cute, but I feel like we could have so many more options !!2025 December 29, @kouuzyyy, X (post), archived from the original on 16 May 2026:
- i'm so obsessed with tsurime makeup i want to do more and more but i'm so sleepy eepy2026 January 9, @erohimekaiju, X (post), archived from the original on 16 May 2026:
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- to my jiraitwt oomfs do u do tsurime or pien makeup? i personally do pien (* ´ ▽ ` *)2026 April 15, @idoihrt, X (post), archived from the original on 16 May 2026:
- Related terms
- tareme