Nia'Tona wrote:I recognise anime by the way in which unrealistic events can happen seemlessly in a realistic environment, as an artistic way to represent something. For example, in the anime universe a character can fall flat on their back in an instant to convey to the viewer that they're frustrated, but if the same thing happened in a cartoon (one bound by reality anyway), characters would probably say "jeez, didn't that hurt?". Code Lyoko seems to go to great lengths to keep things realistic, like they way they eat for instance, the fact that Odd has a large appetite is displayed mostly through dialogue, but in anime they could convey the same message by doing the whole mouth-bigger-than-head eating thing. I'm not saying anime is 'unrealistic', just that it has the ability to sidetrack from realism where need be, and has less to do with the way it's drawn or animated.
The only anime like instance in Code Lyoko I can think of is the skateboard launch sequences, but otherwise they have very little to do with each other, in my opinion.
Yes, that's stylized.
It all realy depends on the animation teams, producer, and director and a those people.
It also helps that the plotlines are ery serious, so it fits well with tha animation style.
Now compare it to somethug from, say, Marathon, and they always do tat stuff. but it's not really too serious. But take a look at MoonScoop's The Fantastic Four Animated Seriese, and it's very similar, serious drawing for a serious plot.
BY JERFIED
We won't go there though 
