Arvehz
Do you mind if I kindap this short and sweet quote and repost it over and over and over again, whenever some idiot pops up and bawwwws about animes or whenever I feel it's appropriate?
Because ********, this is one awesome quote.
Awesome.
Not at all!
Sekushino
My point apparently went completely over your head.
You can still get a job drawing strictly manga, should you choose to pursue that career. I'm just saying that.
No. Your point is that you can get a well-rounded art education -- the kind needed to draw manga fluently, manga that looks right and is dynamic and that can be consistently drawn at any angle, any pose, from any perspective -- from watching anime. This is not true. You will end up with a derivative style that you can only draw in ways you've already seen it because you don't know how real human bodies work.
Also, I hope you're talking about getting a job drawing "English language manga". Because I hate to tell you this, but
Japan does not want Western people drawing manga in their country. You will not get a job drawing actual manga in Japan if you are not Japanese.