@CSmith327 To be fair, part of that is because of anime/manga's over simple style... but also because if they make the MC look too creepy to readers, they are less marketable.
Plus, in anime/manga, since the art is simpler (just eyes, nose, mouth), the characters that look ordinary can look cool as a drawing.
To us they are drawings, to people in the manga, they look more like real humans...