Hi!
How is it like that at all? What's controversial about the fact that anime as a whole sucks, with relatively few exceptions?
Well, for one thing, how do you define anime as a whole? The things that run on tv at your locale? The things you can buy in your local stores? The entire anime production in Japan?
As I already pointed out, there is no single "anime style" or "anime in general". There are many different genres and many different styles. Of course, if you want to debate on the same level as "What's controversial about the fact that novels as a whole suck, with relatively few exceptions?", I guess you are at least coherent but in my opinion oversimplifying the world.
In response to Realmfighter and Mr Wiggles. You can use whatever you want within the terms of agreement, but we still want to know why other than "We can." Toony does what he does out of fond appreciation of the character, so that would be something I would accept.
There are a few reasons for my using this avatar:
1. It was a very good drawing I made (one of my best), so it qualified as far as quality is concerned (as I don't like avatars to be changed, I needed an avatar I can keep and be happy with.
2. Tama and Miki are two of my original characters I love and the scene in the avatar is from a little story which reminds me of a lot of the things I like about them (and which also has additional meanings for me better not discussed here :) :) :) ).
3. Since I do some drawing (although not as much lately), I figured it would be reasonable to use a drawing of my own for an avatar. And I don't draw guys if I can help it (since I can freely choose my subjects, I prefer to draw the things I like to look at).
Truth be told, I am sometimes a bit worried/distressed when I notice that someone thought because of my avatar and maybe my style of posting that I was female. It is definitely not my intention to pretend thus, and while I actually don't care about the sex of people on the internet (I usually don't do sexual RPs or anything like that), misleading people like that is not really something I feel comfortable about.
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