Would you stop watching anime if character designs stopped being appealing?

Oh absolutely, if anime weren't so beautiful to look at anymore i would drop it immediately, it's the main reason i don't watch and hate American cartoons.

@tchitchouan Early KoTH has a very distinct and great visual style.

@Toadfan64 I disagree american adult animated cartoons like KoTH, Simpsons, Beavis and Butthead, Family Guy, American Dad never had a "great visual style" but this is subjective and depends how much you like or can tolerate that "distinctive art style" but it's certainly better than the 2010's Calarts face.

@tchitchouan Personally, I'm a fan of that older kinda ugly distinctive style of shows like KoTH, Beavis and Butthead, and especially the Klasky Csupo cartoons like Rugrats or Ahh Real Monsters.

I'll agree on Calarts though. That shit is trash and ugly in a bad way.

Obviously.

Same reason I stopped playing western games.

If anime went down that path it'd have 2 choices

1) Change back to making visually appealing characters

2) Ceace to exist

As much as some people want to pretend that looks don't matter because it's somehow "progressive", it is part of human nature to seek out what is visually appealing, sure looks alone aren't enough to keep that interest going and there is also a subjective element to it, but it still plays an important role, take beauty away from humans, and they'll just start finding ways to create it themselves

@DigiCat honestly that claim is sad because the claim the designs shouldn't be appealing is actually the opposite of what the goal is! It all started with people saying people can look beautiful without looking conventionally attractive, defending ugly and bad designs sends the opposite message that people are ugly if they aren't conventionally attractive
Look at gundam G-witch, many different body shapes and sizes, every character looks pretty, it sends such a better message than defending bland design with representation and realism

@Guilmon1 Body positivity really quickly turned into glorifying obesity, you expect people to believe anything you just said?

@JaniSIr people can have different body shapes and sizes without being obese, I wasn't talking about obesity

@Guilmon1 In a different context I might have even agreed with you, but no, we gotta protect the fictional beauty standard.

Oh absolutely, if anime weren't so beautiful to look at anymore i would drop it immediately, it's the main reason i don't watch and hate American cartoons.