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Well, most traditional manga editors try to shy their artists away from the "normal" hairstyles. Counting Chinese and Westerners, the typified Japanese haircuts, especially with the school-aged main characters in the stories, (shonen boys) it's basically 75% of the estimated populus therein have the dark hair, each side parted, "cut".
The thing to remember is that around 90% of anime begins as a popular manga serial first ;(weekly/monthly comic) with very few exceptions, these comics are based on simplicity and story. They are nearly always in black and white, save for a special commerative story cover every now and then, they are produced and consumed as an easy-to-digest, easy-to-pick up articles. If even a few characters have the more traditional "neat" haircut, it becomes that much harder to follow who is whom. Maybe it's this new ADHD generation? The hairstyles have definitely gotten wackier over the progression of the past two decades. With the exception of Toriyama and Fujimoto, in the early-to-mid eighties, if you picked up any 10 serials, you might have found what you were looking for, Zeraph, in about 7-8 of them, what with the "normal" hair drawn for the majority of characters.
Not that there's a correlation, but the only time nowadays I see the business/modern haircut in Japanese print, it is either manga for girls, (I forget what this genre is called - bi-j/shou?) or in ecchi-based stories that are inherently weird, involves businessmen, and some sort of demonic hoarde of lusty succubi. (-- to note: "nowadays" for me was back in 2005-07. I haven't onsumed manga in a few years.)
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