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Overseas 'CLANNAD Looks Like an Ant' Mockery Reignites Japan's Anime-Decline Debate
An overseas female streamer mocked CLANNAD's character art (the 'Itaru' style) as having eyes 'so big it looks like an ant,' triggering both pushback from longtime fans and quiet agreement from former fans who now find the style dated. The episode rides alongside a separate 'Japanese anime is in decline' debate seeded on Chinese SNS, which Japanese forum users partially agree with — mostly to point out that overseas success is overwhelmingly Shonen Jump titles, not the industry as a whole.