@OneHappyDay @MelloYello
Obviously you didn't read my post if that's what you pulled from it.
Because I didn't say anything on beauty.
I spoke about artistic style.
Because art is subjective, you can't use words like "ugly" or "good-looking" as fact like you can with mathematics.
BUT -- and this was in my post -- you can objectively tell why something appeals to someone else. You objectively see if their story makes sense or if the art is off-model.
You are confusing style (how things are drawn) to social beauty, and that was NOT what I did. I talked about not making style the reason something is 100% popular or unpopular.
You say "handsome characters", but you refer to anime characters like Sasuke, so what you really mean to say "if it's in an ANIME STYLE, then in the current mainstream popularity, that character is viewed as handsome."
Moreover, on your note about Homer, you pulled a StrawMan fallacy. You compared Homer, who is supposed to be designed as ugly, to Sasuke, a character designed to be socially handsome. Of COURSE Sasuke would be more handsome because the style in which he is drawn in appeals more to viewers than the Simpson's style.
If you compared Sasuke to the character Bruce Wayne from The Batman 1990s animation series, who is designed to be handsome in western STYLE, then I would see what you're talking about. But you're trying to connect style as a reason something could be "ugly", and you're trying to make that a fact.
Moreover, on THAT note, you've referred only to The Simpsions, Spongebob, and King of the Hill...as if western style is dumbed that to only that. That's like saying all Japanese anime looks like Naruto.
What about Winx Club, Totally Spies, Scooby Dio, Josie and the Pussycats, Amazing Spiderman?
Style. Not beauty. I talked about style. Read and reread.
I prefer Japanese anime style myself. But I'm not so one-sided that I cant see why someone draws in or likes western style material.