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Originally Posted by mols
Oh, really? i haven't read the manga.
But that is kind of worse! Smiling without emotion is something even more complex. It means you are trying to force a smile to hide something, for example. Or, you don't feel like smiling but you feel that you should, to show a sign of appreciation, etc.
Smiling and other facial expressions are important social behaviors.
In the anime kyubee never smiles because he has no emotions and also he never feels he is doing something wrong or that he is deceiving... so why even smile? in the anime he even tells some outrageous things with the same tone and facial expression. Smiling, even without being happy, implies complex emotional processes...
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Well in the scene totoum and I linked, emotion was necessary. In the anime you have the benefit of being able to tell that, even with his mostly emotionless voice, he was utterly flippant and uncaring. The manga has a tougher time showing that, so a wider range of emotions is needed to compensate. In the same chapter (chapter 8, if you feel like hunting it down for self-reference) you'll notice Sayaka looks noticeably darker, likely for much the same reason--you can't show her empty, emotionless voice in the manga.