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Откопал сайт Neil Cohn по визуальным языкам. Пасусь потихоньку. Пара цитат из Japanese Visual Language

Indeed, Japanese children imitate Standard JVL [Japanese Visual Language] in their figures in extremely high proportions (and increasingly outside of Japan), often leading to higher proficiency in graphic creation than children from other parts of the world (Wilson 2000; Cox et al. 2001)
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copying from manga may actually prevent a drop-off in drawing ability that seems to occur during puberty for children in most cultures except Japan (Toku 2001)

Кто пробовал копировать Дональда или Астерикса, не говоря уже об американских суперменов, фишку поймут.

Wilson, Brent. 2000. Becoming Japanese: Manga, Children’s Drawings, and the Construction of National Character. Visual Arts Research 25 (2):48-60. (только платный доступ)
Cox, Maureen V., Masuo Koyasu, Hiromasa Hiranuma, and Julian Perara. 2001. Children’s human figure drawings in the UK and Japan: The effects of age, sex, and culture. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 19:275-292. (только платный доступ)
Toku, Masami. 2001. What is Manga?: The Influence of Pop-culture in Adolescent Art