Whose eyes are those eyes?

“Whose eyes are those eyes?” (その目、だれの目？; Sono me, dare no me?) is a phrase that was made up by Takumi Nishijou, and something he would mutter to himself whenever he felt “the gaze”. He wrote an essay on the subject when he was in fourth grade, and drew a picture with the Ir2 equation on the back of it.
"Whose eyes are those eyes?" is the translation used by the Committee of Zero fan translation of ChäoS;HEAd NoAH and official ChäoS;Child translation. The ChäoS;HEAd anime translated the line as “Those eyes, whose are they?”, and the official translation of ChäoS;HEAd NoAH uses "Whose eyes are those?"
==The Original Essay==
This is Takumi Nishijou’s original essay from fourth grade, translated by the translation group Committee of Zero.
==Vampbuyer==
The phrase was first introduced to the media in the fourth New Gen case, Vampbuyer, where the message was written on the wall in the victim’s blood in the photo uploaded to Taboo! Auctions. By the next day, it had already become a popular new meme online and people even started saying “Whose eyes are those eyes?” in real life.
==The Group Dive==
When the MewTube video of the Group Dive was released, the media was sent reeling when one of the victims clearly murmured the sentence “Whose eyes are those eyes?” before they all fell to their deaths. It was thought by the public that the phrase had started in the Vampbuyer case, but now that it had appeared in an incident before that, the police were no longer able to call it mass suicide and gave into public pressure to investigate it as a serial murder and part of the New Gen killings.
==Gaining Popularity==
After the Vampbuyer case, the words “Whose eyes are those eyes?” quickly became popular with the inhabitants of Shibuya. After it also appeared in the Group Dive case, it became even more wildly popular. People started to tack the phrase onto ends of @channel and chatroom posts in nonsensical ways, and large crowds would chant the phrase for no apparent reason. T-shirts and merchandise were produced, it was put on the popsicle sticks of Crunchy-kuns, and the slogan was blazed around the jumbotrons in Shibuya Crossing.
==Trivia==
* The Science Adventure Series fan translation group Committee of Zero has the website address sonome.dareno.me, the Romaji spelling of “Whose eyes are those eyes?”.
* The opening song for the first half of the Robotics;Notes anime, Junjou Spectra, has the line “Sono me, dare no me?” (“Whose eyes are those eyes?”) in it.
* The unofficial patch of the fan translation group Committee of Zero (link) sometimes shortens the phrase to WEATE.
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