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the simpson's has the privilege of having the demand to use as many resources as it needs.

The Simpsons and Bob's Burgers I believe are both hand drawn.

Japanese anime are on the other side of the coin, although in the recent years their graphical technology has greatly improved, their primary target is to generate emotions and the pictures are just a way for the viewer to get inside the artist's mind. The so called "big eyes" are the perfect example of that, the eyes are the mirror of the soul and making them bigger allows them to express emotions much easier. Usually kids have larger eyes than adults to express their emotional sensibility.
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Anime is much more than simple animated cartoons, it's a form of art and therefore it can be much harder to digest and you need to be open to the story, egocentric and biased people will find hard to understand what the artist is trying to communicate and they will judge everything by their own understanding, ruining the big picture for themselves (same thing as putting ketchup in everything they eat).[/quote]


It's got nothing to do with being 'biased or egocentric' - now you're simply insulting anyone who disagrees with you.

It's a cultural thing - different cultures have different approaches to storytelling. Superficially at least, Japanese storytelling doesn't seem all that different from the western style, but it IS subtly different. And to be honest, I have never really GOT it. While I can usually appreciate the message, and to some extent enjoy the story, there is that subtle weirdness - which typically manifests itself in the form of seemingly nonsensical/irrelevant plot twists - which prevents me from really enjoying them fully. However, all that is irrelevant, since we're talking about the style of the artwork itself, not the quality of the stories.

The first thing that amazed me when I discovered anime is the absence of rules, the freedom of art, you can find many anime that will probably never be allowed to be aired in some western countries.
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Care to give any examples? The only examples I can think of are the sort of things that quite frankly, make me glad those rules exist.

I really don't agree with this at all. Manga artists are no better at portraying emotion than any other artist - arguably, they are worse, since they have to resort to distorting the character's features beyond recognition and/or adding external icons to portray them. WTF does that 'tear' thing even mean? [/quote]

I'm not too sure why this is even a problem on either hemisphere.

Looney Toons portrayed lust as some guy howling like a wolf, stomping the ground with one foot while wearing a grimace, letting his eyes pop clean out of his skull and having his heart try to escape his chest cavity.

Both eastern and western style toons can resort to beating you over the head with the character's mood via exaggeration. Cartoon characters can express themselves in more "human" ways too if so desired, but they do not have to.

Now, if you do not relate to how a show tries to behave, that's totally fine. No argument there.

Anime is much more than simple animated cartoons, it's a form of art and therefore it can be much harder to digest and you need to be open to the story, egocentric and biased people will find hard to understand what the artist is trying to communicate and they will judge everything by their own understanding, ruining the big picture for themselves (same thing as putting ketchup in everything they eat).[/quote]

Er, I'm with Sandman on this one. These are words of bias that remind me of this.

As for judging by one's own understanding: That is a human trait. We learn by experience, and tend to distort new knowledge to conform to our previous understandings. I highly recommend reading up on metacognition. Start with this, as it's a really interesting read.

Care to give any examples?[/quote]

Now you've done it.

Care to give any examples? The only examples I can think of are the sort of things that quite frankly, make me glad those rules exist.

[color="#1C2837"]Well then what is the point of discussing art in general?[/quote]

To exchange experiences related to a work for mutual benefit.

[color="#1C2837"]One thing that did always bug me about a lot of anime is how muddled the colors are. It's almost all single value with a pretty small range of color contrast. IT SHOULD BE NOTED that a lot of looney toons episodes are worse than others by the creators' own admission. They would create some episodes in just a couple weeks in order to spend longer periods of time on their good ideas such as

[color="#1c2837"]Also bare in mind that this is a 50 year old cartoon and this:
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[color="#1c2837"]is 10 years old. [/quote]

"This cartoon is older and has more color, therefore it is better!"

The attitude in your posts suggest an objective criteria of "better" or "worse". If "to each his own" is wrong, then let others be wrong and happy about it.