>>6 Truth
>>9 not always.
I have seen many Disney (supposedly the best full frame animation in the world) shit and I have never felt some empathy for any of the characters they have made. I have felt even more empathy with the Japanese charas and even if the animation is more limited, many times is the character's profile and background story that makes you feel more identifyed with it.
OFF TOPIC- I could say that also depends too much on the type of personality of each person. If you are the kind of person that feel something for issues like social justice or just hate to see weakest people being bullyed by the stronger ones, maybe you could feel yourself identifyed with some characters like Kato of Gantz or Kenshin and Sano in Rurouni Kenshin or if you had a big loose at some time in your life you could identify your self with moments like that of serena's friends dying and then she cries cuz she feels that now she will be all alone forever in sailor moon or Remi, whose beloved ones die one after another.