

For a healthy normal average human, it's common that their jaws are almost on
the same vertical line as their foreheads. The jaws in this picture are more
similar to jaws in real life:

(from _Seraph of the End: Battle in Nagoya_ ) [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/g6ytI.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/g6ytI.png)

However, I have noticed a recent change in art style in the anime industry,
that is, characters' jaws tend to be very forward, as is drawn in the
following pictures:

(from _The Quintessential Quintuplets 2_ ) [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tA3lj.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tA3lj.png)

(from _Kanojo mo Kanojo_ ) [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/We1rm.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/We1rm.png)

(from _Mysteria Friends_ ) [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/69LoU.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/69LoU.png)

(from _Detective Conan_ ) [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/J5Rg0.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/J5Rg0.png)

A very good witness lies in the anime _Detective Conan_ , whose early art
style years ago didn't draw its characters' jaws so forward as today.

Why do anime characters nowadays tend to have very forward jaws? What causes
this trend?


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Why do anime characters nowadays tend to have very forward jaws?