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'''''Big Eyes, Small Mouth''''' (aka ''BESM'') is a multi-genre roleplaying game created by the now-defunct [[Guardians of Order.]] Conceived as a system to allow people to play out games in the style of anime series, it was first released at [[Gen Con]] in 1997. The name comes from a common generalization of the typical anime and manga character designs, which have proportionately large eyes and small mouths.
A number of supplemental rule books have been released, with additional rules and character creation options to provide specific advice for running games in a certain genre. For instance, the supplement ''Hot Rods and Gun Bunnies'' contains information on running a ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'' or ''[[Riding Bean]]''-style game, while ''Big Robots, Cool Starships'' has rules for designing [[Humongous Mecha|Mecha]] running [[Space Opera]]-style games. Most of the extras in the supplements were folded into the second edition of ''BESM''.
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''BESM'' uses ''Guardians of Order's'' Tri-Stat system, and was their flagship product for that system. Characters are defined by three statistics: Body, Mind and Soul, as well as a number of Attributes and Defects. Tri-stat is a [[Point Buy System]]. A [[D20 System]] version of the game has also been released.
See also ''[[Silver Age Sentinels]]'', GOO's superhero RPG that used a similar rules system.
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* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: the amount of art that exhibits this would be surprising were it dealing with any other genre. Even hardcore mercenaries show up with their midriffs bared.
* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: The Dimensional Portal attribute uses this trope by name.
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