Proud Member of Nōnamé

In our Research group, there was a team of us who wanted to focus on 2D animation and two people who wanted to focus on anime, thus the two groups were fused and then split into Disney and Non-Disney as a way of making numbers even. Myself, Asch, Matt, Jordan and Peter became the Non-Disney group and named ourselves "Nōnamé" for lack of a better name. See Jordan's blog for the anecdote. What anecdote? Why, the anecdote for the poison you just drank. Muwahahaha! So we'll be focusing on a broad range of traditionally animated anthropormorphic characters for our group presentation. We're not sure what our actual subject should be, though. We've thought up a handful of questions to address, though.

• Is the response of the viewer affected by whether the character is organic or mechanical?
• How does an anthropomorphic character interact within a human society?
• Does the emotional depth of the character affect our connection to it?
• Does the morality of the character affect our relationship to it? (In both the morals of the characters, and the morality involved in its existence as a manufactured creature or animal in a human-based society, etc.)
• How are anthropomorphic characters viewed by different age groups? (For example, how would a child see Minerva Mink compared to an adult's view of her?)
• How is anthropomorphism handled in different cultures? (For example, how would a Japanese audience expect an anthropomorphic cat to look?)