Prefer the western ones. There's no logic in flying snakes without wings.

>>274
>There's no logic
That's a pretty reasonable complaint. The eastern style dragons were revered and treated like gods which probably is why they are shown to fly and defy logic, in comparison to western dragons which were used as a warm up to make the princess wet herself when her knight in shining armor comes to the rescue.

I think most westerners are going to be partial to the western one, as that's what we were raised to identify as dragons. Whereas the eastern one we tend to identify as a "Chinese dragon" and associate it with Chinese New Year parades and other things we have nothing directly to do with.

>>276
>I think most westerners are going to be partial to the western one as that's what we were raised to identify as dragons. Whereas the eastern one we tend to identify as a "Chinese dragon" and associate it with Chinese New Year parades and other things we have nothing directly to do with.
Yeah dragons from the east have a lot less influence in western media. Which I honestly think is a shame. Don't get me wrong I do prefer the western style dragon. However serpentine dragons, especially ones that can't fly have a unique charm to them. Then again I basically never watch western media because I simply prefer anime so I doubt it would make much of a difference to me.

>>281
For me it was always the non-reptilian facial hair that turned me off from the chinese dragons, compared with the western ones. Then, you have the in-between: the Persian dragons that were like spiky Brontosaurs with serpent tongues that didn't fly at all.

>>287
Nothing takes the realistic sense out of something like fucking facial hair on a reptile I guess. Do you think western dragons look more intimidating than eastern dragons?

>>288
I think the mystical nature of eastern dragons makes them more intimidating, especially since fantasy literature usually portrays western dragons as intelligent and empathetic.

>>293
I think that's mainly because western folk stories have dragons as either guardians or kidnappers or as a test for the hero to overcome. I mean the personality question is kind of an odd one. Since we're talking about giant lizards here.

>>294
Birds. Dragons are the ancestors of birds.