Fun software at http://www.faceresearch.com/ allows you to age or youth-ify your face, turn it into an El Greco painting, or morph it into a Manga hero.
Here is me: 
And me as a Manga hero: 
The site has fun quizzes on face preferences, intelligence gathering for some academic study it seems. Their results tell me that apparantly I find male faces attractive that are either hyper-feminine or hyper-masculine, more than the average Joe does. Guilty!
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Actually, the face transformer is on Bernie Tiddeman's website. He is the computer scientist who makes all of our work at faceresearch.org possible.
wow
sorry, that doesn't look like manga at all.
Well, see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Manga.png
Super deformation: big eyes, small mouth and chin, like a baby or doll. But not all mangas use super deformation, sure.
Very nice!!!!!!! Mangaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
WTF ?
it's great! :) 2 bad it isn't manga! :( but other than that, it's good!
That does not look like manga lol
what!!!! it looks freaky, but cool i guess FREAK!!!!
pretty cool, i wish i could draw like that, it looks like anime more than manga, but he doesnt look much like a hero huh... but still it looks good.
Obviously there are many styles of Manga drawing (and having lived in Japan, I would not make such a sharp distinction between anime styles and manga styles, especially pre-computerization, though of course the story telling and technology has different requirements.)
For what the face research people were getting at, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_deformed
Heii, did you make the mange face? It is kinda mangaish, but it doesn't really lookl like any of the ones in the books
Heii, did you make the mange face? It is kinda mangaish, but it doesn't really lookl like any of the ones in the books