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hey death, japanese version of Metropolis does have Ray Charles's song in it; part & parcel of the film. i have the japanese version (with english sub).

& as for your reasons of dislike;

[color:"pink"] often it's exaggeration (giant mounths/breasts/swords/eyes, for example, or the 'speed-lines' shown when someone runs at high speed) [/color]

it's mostly style carried from the legendary Osamu Tezuka (japanese equivalent of Disney) & the 'speedlines' are translated right from manga.

[color:"pink"] very crude animation and repeating frames. [/color]

this i find common for anime series, especially budget-constrained ones. frame repetition is an animation technique or rather trick cleverly employed by japanese back in the early days as they couldn't afford to draw multiple frames which are closely similar as how Disney did (which Disney had to finance out of his own pocket most of the time). another biggest trick done by japanese animators is camera panning; they painted only one cel & then using camera to pan and/or zoom for animation effect. that way they saved both time & effort to paint as well as money.