What's funny is that the conversation below is slowly convincing me that there is no such thing as Manga, style or no.
Weird, huh. I'd argue my original point further, but my changing view of the subject mater won't do much good, but there are some things I must comment on.
Again - none of them are restricted to manga, even in combination. DISNEY is manga by your definition.
So, Disney employs the transitions describe? It's been a while since I've read any Disney comics but I don't recall any. Example's would be nice.
Good thing that's exactly the opposite of what I said then, isn't it?
What you said was this:
I am perfectly aware of Tezuka's influence, and the influences he drew from - neither suggests that everyone who came after him is the same style
Methinks you have trouble understanding your own words. Specifically: Influence.
Meriam Webster: Influence2 (Transaitve Verb), Definition 2: to have an effect on the condition or development of.
Also from, Meriam Webster: Style (Noun), Definition 2 c: a particular manner or technique by which something is done, created, or performed [a unique style of horseback riding] [the classical style of dance]
If something has an effect on the condition or development of something else, then that can be held under Style. Specifically when it is a particular manner or technique by which something is done, created or performed.
That does NOT make everyone that came after him working in the same style, any more than it makes the Beatles, Ramones, the Stray Cats, and everyone else influenced by Elvis, and those influenced by him, all working in the same style - the umbrella classification of 'rock', which contains all of them isn't a single style, it's an umbrella classification for a very broad group of styles.
Really? Because I've seen several Music Historians and, indeed, a giant flow chart in the Rock'n Roll Hall of Fame and Museum up round the great lakes area do exactly that.
Though it's been 6 years since I saw it last, so I could be wrong.
But, in my experience, calling anime or manga a 'style' or 'genre' is nothing but an attempt to dismiss it all, by claiming it's all the same.
I've done that myself with Country Music before I got a wider exposure to it. That sort of generalization is common to everything because people make snap judgments about everything they encounter.
While your experience may be more common, it's so generic that it barely applies.