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But in being drawn like that normally, it makes it to where when the character's pupils shrink due to being shocked/scared/etc, it makes the expression feel more noticeable without doing too much. Maybe that's an obvious detail, but I feel like I'm someone who draws characters with tiny little dot pupils most of the time and can't take advantage of that.

It also has the effect of whenever a character loses that little eye shine in the middle of their eye, it makes them look very dead-eyed and lifeless, and they do that intentionally to pretty good effect in this show. I think I'm just impressed by how you can alter the whole vibe of a character with one tiny change, it's honestly a pretty cool subtlety.

They also do this expression for when they're very shocked or freaked out by something, where they have tiny dot pupils and this outer ring. Somehow, it makes their eyes look big and small at the same time. I'm not sure how to articulate it, but it adds something to the expression that makes it feel sort of more impactful than if it was just tiny dot pupils alone... it's a fun style choice. I'm taking notes.

The other main thing I oddly enjoy about the way they draw eyes is the way they do that "blinking pupils" trope. You know, where they treat the whites of the eyes like just the canvas the "real" eyes- the pupils- are sitting on (I draw like that very often myself)... this kind of thing makes sense for characters with glasses (where the only part of their "eyes" you CAN see are just the pupils) and for cartoonish characters like Korosuke (he is a robot, so like Doraemon it makes sense with it being like an LCD screen type of thing... though I think Korosuke's eyes are less technological than that. But that doesn't even matter here anyways).

However, they are dedicated to even making characters with "normal" eyes do this sort of thing as well (there are a couple of exceptions in early episodes, but I just tally that up to being the show not having found it's footing all the way yet). It's not really something I'd given thought into with other shows, but it genuinely makes the world feel more cohesive to have everyone follow the same artistic restraints within the show without exception, even if it might look a little strange at first. I've grown very attached to the way they draw these kinds of expressions on all of the characters by this point, it's a fun stylistic choice you can do a surprising amount with.