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People not calling (all) anime/manga style art "animesque"
The term "animesque" is (or it ought to be, if it isn't already), culture-independent.
Let's take, for example, a pair of games on Steam: Ys Origin and Magical Diary.
Ys Origin has the same general art style as used in anime and manga. So does Magical Diary. Not saying the two are the same--one has better-drawn art than the other, which is no surprise since Ys Origin is a professional rather than indie product--but I'm just saying that the art styles have a baseline level of similarity.
The name of that broa-level art style is "animesque". For lack of a better term, frankly.
So both Ys Origin and Magical Diary feature animesque art.
Some people say that Ys Origin, because it uses its "native" art style, is not "animesque", it just has "anime art". No, the term "animesque" is culture- and nationality-neutral.
Got it?
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IJBM: the notion that anime/manga all has one art style.
It doesn't really have just one style, you're right. It's more of a metastylistic set of common elements.
Maybe to an extent, but...
I'm not seeing much similarity.
And that's before we get into the fact that the style people think of when they hear "anime and manga art" is derived from Disney movies.
^ It's the difference between that and that versus, say, the difference between The Simpsons and Ed Edd n Eddy.
I'm not seeing how that's a significantly bigger difference. They're just four art styles that don't seem to have much in common with any of the others.
It's "not a lot" because the roots of the thing go back a long way. If you trace the line back from what Vinland Saga was inspired by and what Lucky Star was inspired by, you ultimately find one thing that did inspire it.
(which in all cases is Tezuka so whatever)
I would say that the similarities come from a set language and style rather than similarities in character design (Which is the most common difference between various artists)