>>51499103Leaving aside the obvious porn content, anthropomorphic characters are more versatile from an advertising or commercial point of view, the manufacture of their merchandise is much easier and allows for countless accessories (Think alternate costumes or models) from the psychological point of view it is easier to empathize with a character that has human characteristics, an exaggerated example, if you see Mickey Mouse hitting his hand it is easy to empathize, because at some point something similar has happened to you, instead If a multicolored horse complains about its horseshoe or its hoof, it is difficult to understand the annoyance since at first that is not a foot or a hand, it is a giant toe with a modified nail to which a metal bar with nails is nailed, no It's not a shoe, not a brace, and the complaint is gas buildup from bad ironwork or a piece of embedded metal so it's hard to understand this concept.
There are better examples, but my point is that the more anthropomorphic a character is, the easier it is to empathize with it and therefore more commercial.