While Manga is, I'm sure, a valid art form the reason I think it rubs so many Westerners up the wrong way is that it is iconic and repetative. Its formulaic, all the girls look the same, all the guys look pretty similar. In western comic art we try for atmosphere with stuff like dark back dropsand big set pieces and we like our characters to be realistic and gritty. Not idialistic and clean.

When you translate Manga into Animae it quite often has shoddy backgrounds and shoddier animation, not to mention the trahsy quality a lot of the girls can have.

On this last point you get the same thing with a Tomb Raider comic, about halfway through there are usually six plates of her and Witchblade in bed together with just a sheet for covering. Even that is a bit more subtle than some Manga though.

Thats not saying that some Manga and Animae isn't high art, what was that thing with the bikers in the 80s?

Personnally though I hate most of it.