Personally, I find this style of drawing rather annoying when people don't do it right... and anyway, the style just isn't complex enough for my liking.
What does everyone else think?

Ehh.. I don't see the purpose of this poll or whatever. In general I don't really like it but it's people choice if that's what they wanna do n makes em happy then WOO!! for them lol.

Right now I'm playing an anime game on xbox360 called eternal sonata - it rocks - and my fav. Jap animation is Fist of the North - u should look it up - but that's about it.

The big eyes thing.. ehh.. if someone would pay me to draw it that'd probably be the only instance, but most of time I wouldn't do it - the blk n white kind tho (manga) is the most boring one in my opinion.

I seen these debates before and they kinda stupid .. younger artists usually like drawing the stuff so that's where it's hot lol.

Voted Yes. I like anime style
For sure if it's drawn wrong it's annoying. But in the right way it could be very beautiful. Even in some anime there is a very good quality of rendering. And concept art or fanart about anime could be especially awesome

Yes, it deff. depends on the artist - sorry I overlooked that.

I think well done anime, like Studio Ghibli's films and Cowboy Bebop, are fantastic. But the stereotypical style isn't something I'm a fan of. Maybe because I like noses too much.

Also, I think the cartoony/realistic mix of anime can hold people back when they're learning to draw. The problem is that it looks so easy to do and people latch onto that. I know some people who drew in the anime style growing up and find it difficult to switch to a more realistic way of drawing. They have to unlearn a lot.

I like to draw it

sure i like anime - manga !!

Anime, if done well, requires all the technical knowledge that any other subject does. Unfortunately, there is a lot of bad anime or manga art out there. Because most anime figures are appealing, many people feel attracted to them and want to recreate them. That's not a bad thing, but to draw them well you do need some knowledge and technical skills of drawing and shading.

People often think that cartooning is simple, and true, the figures are stylistic with simple lines, but you need to know about anatomy, backgrounds, colour, shading, etc etc. to make viewers take a second look.

I completely agree with this. I attempted to draw anime and manga a few years ago thinking that it would be relatively easy and oh was I wrong. (As clubs mentioned; I latched onto the 'easy to do' stigma). Anatomy knowledge, I have learnt, is vital for drawing/painting anything remotely humanoid including furries, anthro, manga, anime etc.

The thing is with anime/manga is that it is so ridiculously beautiful in it's simplicity, although it sounds rather hypocritical, it's also so precise and measured and as a result rather complicated. There is also that there are a lot of people that draw/paint in anime/anime-esque style now that you really have to make your particular anime style really strike out to gain that second look that Islander mentioned as well as all the other fundamentals.

But really that's merely my opinion

Hi:

Sure, I love both anime and manga.
Well...I love drawing anime on my sketchbook, I've been doing it for a few years.
Actually, I want to become a manga/anime artist !!!!
To excel and make anime !!!

I love manga !!!

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hahahaha I dont see y not many ppl like it Im a huge anime/manga fan but personally Id rather read it then draw it lol but thats my opinion:ninja: love ta chat with ya bout anime and manga 0w0 030 :3

Oh yes, but only the ones with good art and/or epic story telling. I am extremely picky about Anime and Manga styles. For instance I love the One Piece style ,but loathe the Shin-chan style with passion. Fairytail has really nice art aswell. Monster was a story of epic proportions.

I don't like the really big eyes though, and I don't like it if all the characters have the same facial shape, making hair the only difference. Which happens allot in Shoujo form. Shounen or Seinen are more my cup of tea.

This is why I love One Piece, all the characters are very different and go beyond cartoony at times (at least the male characters). Female characters tend to have the same Top model figure, excluding only a few of them (who simply look freaky)

Monster was extremely close to "realistic" characters, in which I mean : no silly hair colors, no weird looking characters, just humans with different shaped faces and body's. Like real people. With actual noses.

Noses give character to a face