Several with blue eyes? Like who? Naruto, Minato, Ino... Those are the only ones I can remember off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure it's not that overplayed... And couldn't Gaara's eyes be counted as sort of green, or are they more teal-y? Seafoam? Ino's dad seems to have green-ish eyes too. Pretty sure Sakura isn't the only one,
Inoichi's eyes are dark blue, Kishimoto does Gaara's eyes as a pastel blue and the animators as a teal blue,
More blue eyed charaters: Deidara, Temari, Dan, Yahiko (when he was alive), so including Naruto and Minato that's eight blue eyed people. I didn't say "overplayed" just that there were several. Green is far unrepresented in comparison.
Terumi Mei's eyes look aquamarine- maybe favoring green slightly, that's the closest to green besides Sakura.
...where are you seeing color for her eyes in the cover? Her eyes are downcast, heavy-lidded, and in shadow--at most they look like a mid-grey which could be the actual color or just the shading alone. As for Naruto and Minato's blue eyes matching, it makes sense that they'd match but I wouldn't count out the blue coming from Kushina until we get a much clearer picture with Kushina's colors *shrug*
You see mid grey I see deep blue (Insurrection saw deep blue too, so I'm not the only one
. Which I'm hoping it is, as it's an aesthetically pleasing balance. But if you would have me make a more definite guess (since her eyes are downcast, thus shadowed as you said) I'd still say blue, and darker than Minato and Naruto's but not a sapphire, more a medium blue. That guess comes from the sepia toned image Kishimoto did for the new Naruto tie-in novel Dokonjo Ninden (it's Jiraiya's Legend of a Gutsy Ninja) the book has only three illustrations- a pseudo autograph and sketch of Jiraiya, a map of the fictional world of Legend of a Gutsy Ninja, and most excitingly, a sepia toned image (so you get a better hint of colors than plain black and white illustrations), made to look very like a slightly faded late 19th century photographs of that type. Kushina's eyes look almost exactly the same shade as Minato, just slightly darker, so most likely a medium blue to Naruto and Minato's light blue.
You like mid-grey, but I just don't find that a visually appealing combination with Kushina's habanero red hair (that's the Rinnegan's color with an even brighter red than Nagato's hair- ugh), with that bright a red a sapphire blue would be the most visually pleasing balance (like Naruto and Minato's light blue with their bright blonde hair, Sakura's peridot eyes with pale pink hair.) So I'm still holding out hope that her eyes are sapphire blue.
It's Mito Uzumaki that I'm hoping has emerald green eyes, as her hair looked darker than Kushina's, perhaps more a copper red or chestnut (like Terumi Mei's hair), so emerald green would be really pretty with that hair color.
Edited by ciardha, 28 October 2010 - 09:10 AM.
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