How do storytelling techniques in traditional comic strips differ from those in anime, and how would a character designed for both navigate these differences?

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How do storytelling techniques in traditional comic strips differ from those in anime, and how would a character designed for both navigate these differences?
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Traditional comic strips often employ concise panel-to-panel storytelling, using visual gags, quick dialogue, or cliffhangers for daily/weekly serialization, focusing on impact per strip. Anime, especially TV series, uses longer arcs, more extensive dialogue, detailed scene setting, and relies heavily on music and voice acting to build mood and elaborate narratives over many episodes. A character designed for both would need to be adaptable: their design should be expressive enough for both quick, iconic poses in comic panels and fluid, detailed animation. Their personality would need to have both instantly recognizable, stable traits for comic strip gags and sufficient depth for long-term emotional development in an anime saga, allowing writers to switch between episodic gags and overarching plots.