These differences are what makes kemono art more appealing at first glance than furry art. Western furry artists like to take a more 'realistic' approach when designing a character, and draw faces, paws and genitals with proportions more akin of the animal they are using as reference (similarly to how Disney and Warner designed their anthro cartoons, although more exaggerated), while Asian kemono artists prefer to follow the anime style that is so popular in the region and minimize the animal features until they barely resemble the original animal and blend with the 'ayy lmao' proportions of anime. This implied difference in their 'origins' seems to be produced by the art styles preferred by both demographics. The average furry/cub character looks and feels like it originally was an animal who then developed human traits, while with the average kemono character feels like the opposite happened and a human developed animal characteristics. I always have treated kemono/kemoshota and furry/cub as separate fetishes due to how different are their art styles in average.
