Anyone remember a short-lived show called "Kappa Mikey?" It was about a North American cartoon boy trying to fit into the Japanese anime he was somehow cast into as the protagonist. Of course, it was short-lived because, at least in the U.S., it had the misfortune of being on Nickelodeon, and we all know what Nickelodeon does with any show that DARES to co-exist on the same channel as SpongeBob.
Not to say it was a "classic" cartoon, unfortunately. It seemed to miss every single opportunity to make any notable insights about the western industry and its values vs. Japan and its own cultural values, or even make an actual joke about the "fish-out-of-water" nature of its plots. Also, the anime character designs were made by a lot of the infamous people that made "My Life Me" and various poorly-drawn "How to Draw Manga" books that I would always see at Scholastic book fairs in grade school, so of course they never seemed to be designed by anyone that has actually seen a Japanese production outside of maybe watching a snippet of a Pokémon episode with their children on occasion--resulting in the characters being dumbed-down stereotypes (especially Yes Man--seriously, even 15+ years ago it was shocking they got away with Yes Man's character design). Naturally, besides SpongeBob it got overshadowed by a far more genuine attempt at North American "anime," Avatar: The Last Airbender. Talk about a tough act to follow. At the time, though, it was just cool to see a show even attempt to mix the typical western cartoon art style with standard anime designs.
That is the long way of saying that mixing cartoon designs with anime in my own sketches is also fun. Also, the original "fat" Pikachu with a decidedly-more-American diet, because why not?
Unsurprisingly, my default anime design tropes are trapped in the 1990's, just like my western cartoon design tropes.
KhaosKitsune617
jeffrey~san :3
jthrash
Playing Persona 3 FES was an interesting experience for me partly because I used my regular name for the character I was playing as and, as a result, my party members kept calling me "Jeffrey-kun" and "Jeffrey-senpai." No "Jeffrey-san" or "Jeffrey-sensei," sadly, because the P3 protagonist was just some punk kid, not an adult.