>>7941699
i mean it just looks good

>>7941699
looks good, are you asking for anonymous validation to hate Katsuhiro otomo because he draws for Japanese manga industry?

>>7941699
nose is well defined and humans look like humans instead of owl eyed, pointy chin, shovel faced homunculi

>>7941699
Maybe because it's actually good?
Older manga tends to be better than newer manga just like older comics are better than newer comics.
Everything has gone to shit in the past 40 years or so.

just making things up now are we

>>7941699
Because he draws noses.

>>7941699
it doesn't have any of the divisive aspects of weebshit, you dumb nigger
nobody "hates anime" because it's anime, they hate it because of elements they don't like, which most boomer anime and manga don't share

>>7941699
Same reason Cowboy Bebop or Trigun broke into the west so well - they just have more appealing setting and plots to westerners than the usual anime fair.
Likewise, Akira is basically a cyberpunk story about some biker gangsters going up against government conspiracies and, and it cuts out a lot of the elements that the Japanese love, but seems to turn off westerners.

I can't say this is definitely true, because we're talking about subjective tastes here, but I do see something of a through-line with the aforementioned shows and Akira. Rule of Cool overrules cultural boundaries, I suppose.

>>7941787
This wouldn't surprise me either. The Japanese artstyle used to be a lot more derided in the west, and the lack of noses was one of the reasons (as well as the dinnerplate eyes with over-detailed irises, chins sharp enough to cut, and men drawn so effeminately that you couldn't tell they were men.
Hell, I was far more accepting of anime's look than others, but even I would notice and be repulsed by the choppy animation and mouth flaps - these days I don't notice them at all, if they're even still there.

>>7941802
You don't notice the choppy animation anymore because that's how all non-3D western shows are now too
Only eastern movies have smooth 2D nowadays
And one day we won't even have those anymore.

>>7941699
because it’s just that good.
it’s the same with cowboy bebop and trigun, as -1802 mentioned. i was a kid in the west when anime and manga were first being added to local libraries, and watched/read these with my siblings and most of my peers. i even had a trigun shirt that meant a lot to me. we grew up on series like these, so they carry a great deal nostalgic value to us oldies. other stories that were made well were things like the miyazaki films, evangelion, flcl, ghost in the shell, and a lot more that were so compelling to viewers on every level that they transcended borders at the beginning. an example of anime aesthetics being accepted without ripples in the west for their quality could be the beautiful work done for the original bambi film.

>>7941699
he draws good tubes

>>7941699
Akira had a giga expensive movie that was easily available in all the usual US video rental places. Same with Ghost in the Shell.

>>7941699
How come Berserk never managed to hit with the kind of westernfags into Cowboy Bebop or Akira despite being praised endlessly alongside Vagabond and Vinland Saga by a lot of average pseudo-intellectuals who hate anime otherwise?

>>7941864
>because that's how all non-3D western shows are now too
Nah, it's infected 3D too now as well. Think about all the praise for Enter the Spiderverse's "stylistic" choppy animation moments - I could swear it's astroturfing so that they can lower the quality and amount of work required for animation.

>>7942222
>>7941899
here. berserk, vinland saga and vagabond were huge here to everyone who was into anime/manga, but they probably were less publicly known generally because they were a bigger commitment in a form the younger generation being targeted weren’t used to reaching for or seeking out (comics/manga.) while things like cowboy bebop and akira were very easily accessible because they were in movie form, and kids were used to watching things like saturday morning cartoons and films like disney was releasing, so it felt natural to try them. everyone i knew in my generation had read all those titles, but we liked similar things. just to throw a personal experience in there.
also the first anime that got sent to my area was spirited away, and this started out in the theaters, then moved to video rental places, and was very family friendly, so this got the most traction for its accessibility. akira was a bit darker, so a narrower age group watched it, but it too showed in theatres, so it got the next most traction. cowboy bebop was a serial dvd set only for a long while, so got the third most viewers of your list, etc.
but all the kids whose imaginations were caught by any of these pretty much went on to watch and read most things available as they were released.

>>7942222
early berserk had too much rape for normalfags on top of not having a decent anime and normalfags not reading comics
the old anime was basically akira tier bad as an adaptation but without the top tier animation, and then there was that garbage that looked like a console game cinematic, not sure if anything came out later

>>7942222
Many guys that are into weebshit are underachievers. Normalfags like Berserk because they see themselves in Guts: doing everything they can to be the best in their sport or career, having people depend on you, experiencing catastrophic failure/betrayal and learning to keep pushing until you win. These are things the weaboo mind can't comprehend because they spent their entire life being a covert narcissist that believes they're somehow better than normalfags, and by extension deserve respect and admiration automatically, despite being measurably worse in every metric.