why is anime so much better than anything western animation has produced?
>>18788391Wrong board, retard
>>18788391>message The Power of Friendship (tm) except with sex themes and blood and gore and 14 year old tier edginess and poorly understood philosophy decorated with teenager humor it really is not
>>18788391>why is anime so much better than anything western animation has produced?Japan has always been interested in cartoons, comic books, and animation. They've always had a healthy independent market for the industry dating as far back to the Edo Period with the massive expansion of the paper industry, and paper products, and that "picture show theater" proto-cartoon thing called Kamishibai.The animation industry in Japan was independently plugging a long perfectly fine, but I think it really exploded after ww2 when Japan was exposed to large quantities of American media (and a fair share of Chinese and Russian Communist animated films), which included comic books and Disney films, and they began emulating more modern practices (as well as being the "export labor market" for cheap sweatshop 2d animation for large studios like Disney & Warner Bros).Tldr; they like it and have been at it for a while. Like every "art" related thing in life it's a mixture of personal enclination and practice, practice, practice.
>>18788509>MessageNonody cares about this, the story is entertainimg and good.The artstyle is nice unlike western cartoon slopAnd you actualy grow to care for the character.
