Especially considering how in Japan SpongeBob and Tom and Jerry were very popular for a long time, and neither one EVER had their hands edited with a fifth digit. Both shows have animal characters, so it's perfectly acceptable. Contrast this with Bob the Builder, who is a human. Real humans have five digits, not four.
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They exist. I'm not kidding. I have seen Western-made cartoons and games sold in Japan, as well as anime and Japanese-made video games, that have four-fingered characters, and only a few of them are discussed in Japan if ever. It irks me when the Western press claims that there are no four-fingered characters in…