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Here is the actual study, and the questionnaire they used can be found attached as Supplement 1

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2846565

I would respond to that also with "I have never found this to be true" (or at least the vast majority of subtitles I have read I would not characterize that way). But of course there's no real way for me to deny your own experience, unless you want to give specific examples.

(Also, l am talking about anime and typical anime subtitles. I just noticed that you mentioned Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; I think it's very possible live-action subtitles are done in a categorically different way from anime subtitles.)

They usually condense the thought into a shorter sentence and you lose a lot of flavor in the dialogue.

I have never found this to be true (as someone who knows some Japanese). If you're just comparing sentence lengths, that's a broken comparison: it's been shown that Japanese is less information dense per-syllable than English, so an English translation of Japanese will tend to have a shorter length. (And to compensate, Japanese is spoken faster than English on average.)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594

In many programming languages, phrases are shortened to reduce the time taken to write programs.

I really do not think this is why; the amount of time saved is miniscule, especially with autocomplete. It's so that more can fit on the screen at one time so you can better comprehend chunks/lines of code. There is also probably a historical aspect where the size of code on disk (or paper!) used to matter more.

I think one of the main points of this study is exactly to show that studying such smaller quantities would be worthwhile and could have tangible health implications

The very first sentence is

A new study examined the impact of alcohol consumption in healthy adults who did not report drinking more than the accepted ‘low-risk’ alcohol limits.

Which makes it very clear that by "little" in the title (they do not say "little" in the article) they mean "below the low-risk limit", and that "low-risk" is a technically defined term. Here is also the very first sentence of the abstract of the paper which the article is about, which they link to and is free to read:

Low-level alcohol consumption at or below current guidelines (≤1 standard drink equivalent/day for females, ≤2 standard drink equivalents/day for males)

What more do you want?

That is literally the entire point of the study. How is that misleading?

The title is really missing a keyword from the actual quote... (emphasis mine)

Not only that, but it's possible to kill almost any NPC in the game...

I think there's just miscommunication about numbers here... if there are thousands if not tens of thousands of shows, I don't consider 100 to be more than a drop in the bucket, let alone 20, and I don't really care how "big name" a show is.

And again, I was saying all this is the context of OP's "greatest sin in of anime". Do I expect there to be more shows in the future that use this technique? Sure, but barring an art style fad for a year or two, I expect them to be few and far between. It just is not a technique that is at all indicative of what "anime" is or has been.

The TV Tropes page is about this technique is animation in general (and just because it exists does not mean it's prevalent). They list at most 20 anime examples. That's probably at most the number of shows I've seen with any kind of plaid at all.

I am not saying this technique does not exist in anime, or that Gankustuou is unique. I'm saying that this is not even close to "the greatest sin in anime", and the VAST majority of shows use flatter color textures where this technique would not even be applicable.

"Many" meaning how many though? I think there's no way I (personally) could come up with 100 shows that have this aesthetic, and I wouldn't consider 100 "many" in this context.

The OP (Opening) is supposed to represent the best of the show

Why would you think this? Commercially, the opening is pure advertisement for the show and for the music in the opening. Artistically, they can do whatever the hell they want.

The greatest sin in anime is the texture of clothing. This is most obvious in the Count of Monte Cristo anime due to the art style. Basically if a character is wearing a robe or some other clothing that has patterns on it, the patterns do not move with the person. The pattern is fixed, almost like there's a layer of nothing but the pattern across the entire frame, and the outfit is just "transparent.

Almost no anime do this, what are you on about? It's a deliberate choice of art style, nothing more. And either way, why would this be a "sin"?