Is anime weird?

If I could get my hair like one of those anime characters, I'd be set. I've never particularly watched anime at any point. Maybe one or two episodes of a show.

The big eyes are meant to make the characters look cartoony.

The characters look weird.
They're nominally human, but don't look the part at all.

Every genre or subgenere has its own weirdnesses or logic-fails.

For example, every major Sci-Fi show that has spacecrafts has one common fail: bad electronic design. Every time a ship gets hit, the consoles in the cockpit/bridge sends out showers of spark at the human occupant no matter how unrelated the damaged area is to the bridge.

It's a custom set by the oldie Star Trek TOS and every regular viewer of that genre understand that the sparks gives the audience a visual reminder of the life-threatening dangers of spaceship combat, and it helps to have a wounded crew member to facilitate the emotional response from the audience.

Or how in my fantasies I have friends but thats not true so its weird but I made it so I'm weird and *cries*

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English dictionaries describe finger as meaning either one of the five digits including the thumb, or one of the four excluding the thumb (in which case they are numbered from 1 to 4 starting with the index finger closest to the thumb).[1][2][17] Linguistically, it appears that the original sense was to include the thumb as a finger: the word is derived from *penkwe-ros (also rendered as *penqrós) which was, in the Proto-Indo-European language, a suffixed form of *penkwe (or *penqe), "five".[18] In English only the digits on the hand are known as fingers. However, in some languages the translated version of fingers can mean either the digits on the hand or feet. In English a digit on a foot has the distinct name of toe.

Yes, I just read that wikipedia article. I was tempted to quote the etymology, as its interesting how in our primitive youth, the digits were combined. The original meaning, no doubt before any modern culture, was perfect in its simplicity. 

Note that the dictionaries often do not include the thumb as a "Finger" I imagine its easier to cater to the rebels than demand they count 4+1. 

Free Dictionary: One of the five digits of the hand, especially one other than the thumb. This is true of most dictionaries I looked at. 

Wiktionary: A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (usually) exclusive of the thumb.


The wikipedia article claims its oldest meaning was five (fifth digit, perhaps meaning fifth finger) but the other sources I look at disagree. Also Online etymology dictionary says:

Compare Greek megas daktylos "thumb," but Greek also had antikheir, literally "what is opposite the fingers."


In conclusion, the majority consensus is its not a finger, provided that some will count it as one regardless. I think from actually looking at what they do, its clear that everybody should be refraining from calling it a finger. It has a much more extreme bending motion, is set away and below the other digits, and most animals have not evolved a thumb, even though you could probably call their other digits fingers and toes. 


BTW, I'm no big anime fan, but I've watched a few, read a bunch of the book versions, so its not super comfortable saying its weird, though many anime are weird, I suppose. I think its obvious that in this poll saying its weird is taking an anti-anime stance, however moderate. 

Edit: Perhaps I shouldn't be so authortarian on this subject. BTW, when I searched about thumb, most definitions did define it as a finger, though more than one said it was not a finger. I guess they are quite accepting of the finger belief, though that does not mean that its not divided. Nobody says its not a thumb, but a small minority of jerks refuse it finger status 


I still think 100% that it is different in function and form from a finger. Apparently it also has a total of one less bone than the fingers, though that is not conclusive evidence. Wikipedia lists a couple more major differences, despite still referring to it as a finger. 

Look up Hetalia...