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>>3601201
In Japan there is literally anime everywhere. Signs, posters, your lunch menus, ads, tv, videogames, it is ingrained in their entertainment. Because of constant exposure, their visual library has tons of info to derive from. In the west this happens too. Most of our cartoon styling was derived from Disney animations, the first animations being in done in France.
Some notable western tropes are:
1. action, movement, simplification ! We don't specialize in complicated still framing with bobing lips because our cartoons are mainly designed for children. Children respond to emotion and action.
2. Anthropomorphic characters. I rarely see this in Japan and for some reason they stylize them more "beast-like" rather than cute or innocent. Probably because anime is more detailed/realistic in general.
3. Realism? Nah, we'll exaggerate the shit out of shapes because we're on a schedule and none of our animators are retarded enough to work themselves to death 6 days a week. The result are characters that are simple and consistent.

So when you have some westerner that grew up with Mickey Mouse and 3 Stooges slapstick comedy and tell them "hey draw this really detailed line drawing of a human being, and make it as realisticy/cartoonish as possible, oh and also make the facial feature completely unrealistic", the westerner doesn't know what to do and makes it up as they goes along. They simply do not have the cultural influence of anime that japan does.
I mean it works the other way around too. Try to find some Japanese artists' western characters tried to be drawn in a western style. It will probably look "obvious" as well.