>>23066099I don't think they're comparable. The inmates are running the asylum in both sides of the world, but the way they go about it is very different. Western animation is often pure propaganda, with the vast majority of smaller works being funded completely at a loss by interest groups who want to push a message - an interesting symptom of this is the complete absence of animation from big cinema works, which are all done in cheaper 3D. Animation in the West exists only because children still expect cartoons, and cartoons have been turned into a tool of propaganda to funnel young people into other, more lucrative enterprises when they grow up.
In the East animated entertainment has become solely extractive. As opposed to pushing a message at what might well be a loss, animated works in Japan try to turn as big a profit a possible by cutting corners absolutely everywhere (outsourcing, shoestring budgets, awful working conditions) and blatantly pandering to specific demographics with disposable income, often at the expense of the product itself being palatable to anybody whose brain isn't completely fried.
Both approaches have produced a constant avalanche of unwatchable crap, but one is political, the other is commercial. You can't conflate the two.
