You'll have elitists everywhere. If you play D&D, a lot of people complained that Paizo's Pathfinder art were too anime looking, which I found absurd.
One of the animation schools near me ― iirc they're one of the top 10 in the world ― will look down at you if you draw anime-style characters, so a lot of the students do this stuff in secret. However, one or two art teachers at a college near me actually work for
UDON. While they don't care if you do anime looking stuff, they want your drawings to look damn good because like Onion Knight said, majority of anime-style stuff is just the simplified version of the human body.
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The West's take on caricatures is different than Japan. If you think about the usual JRPG vs WRPG debate, the West tends to be more expressive while the East focuses a lot on narrative.
Caricatures tend to go farther when exaggerating the human body language. Look at The Incredibles.
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