So seeing chariturs in iconic form helps some of us relate to the characters situation. Anime also shares the bright colors with its American counterpart. Bright colors attract the eye and adds another attractive feature to cartooning. The differences between American animation and anime are quite obvious. Eyes in anime are generally vary large with a thick black line going over the top of the pupil.
Eyes can vary, and become stylized as with any type of art.
American animation generally has no set usage of eye style but tend to give chariturs large oval shaped eyes, though usage of anime style seems non-existent. Hair on characters also is extremely different. Anime characters have a wide range of hairstyles, and colors. American animation tends to be rather conservative in the hairstyles and stay in the realm of realalizm, except for on the occasion that a person has died they're hairs a bazaar color. The mouth shapes of anime characters tend to vary in size according to that characters mood.