Hot take: Why do black people need to forced in to every space?
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It's because Astro Boy was more or less traced piracy of Disney cartoons, and since it was successful, the tracing and copying-but-changing-a-few-things continued of both western AND their own works, until it became its own beast of an art trend.
that may be first but why do you think it was popular in japan? Maybe like 5% cuz of a good storyline or whatever but mainly the asthetics. That astro boy doesn't look like a typical japanese person does he?
You're gonna hate the answer:
Cal Arts.
Disney's cartoon drawings were meant to be easy to draw, draw over, edit, and re-use. And be made cheaply and quickly. Just like Cal Arts is today.
All good traits for a burgeoning entertainment industry, too. If you look at old anime like Record Of Lodoss War (example close-up of a character's face), before the art style was "cemented", you see the sheer amount of effort involved in animation and drawing, but that ain't cheap, it ain't easy. Sure it's got the relatively right eye shape, but drawing that would take several times longer than "circle. circle. done.". The cheap Cal Arts Of The Era style got it done, and got it out the door. Evangelion was infamous for the animators often finishing episodes day-before or even day-of their airing, but it could do such timetables because the circles minimalist art style was faster to draw.
doesn't matter fact remains they like it cuz they wish they had big eyes