For comparing children’s cartoons.. I don’t understand the point. They are for kids, are you saying you’re a kid?

For adult cartoons there’s not too much in US outside of fox sundays/adult swim. So when you compare to anime of course it will crush it. It’s invested way more in anime.

Hard to make comparison with movies since ton of $$ goes into hollywood makings. It would be interesting to see what kind anime would get out with that kind of money though.

Also to see a US cgi movie that’s more serious and not from pixar/disney type. That would be nice.

And some movies are worthless visually compared Final Fantasy: Advent Children. That movie was eye candy and was made about *four* years ago. The music was fantastic, too. Goodness, can the American artists please get together and make something as sweet as that?

I’m beginning to lose interest in American movies and televisions and I’m diving deeper into animes. Some television shows can’t hold a candle to some animes. But believe me, I’ve seen my fair share of crappy animes, too. We don’t see all the anime Japan sees.

The points about liking different genres for taste and Americans having little to no taste are the keys to this article. Anime hasn’t produced much Sci-Fi recently at least none that is coming to the States. The closest that approaches Sci-Fi are mecha shows and some action there isn’t anything like Stargate in Anime. American shows can have character driven comedies and sometimes they’re watched. Chuck is a great show that is funny because of the characters and understanding them. Pysch which only warrants airing on USA is one of my favorite comedies if a little dark (someone probably dies every episode) and also sort of detective show.

In the end be thankful there are good American shows even if you have to wade through the crap to get to them. And be thankful that you see less of the Japanese crap and don’t have to wade through it.

It seems like as long as some kid has super powers in a cartoon all the kiddies in the world will be totally satisfied. Is that what animation is for these days? Just to satisfy childeren so that their parent will finally get a smoking brake?

What about showing childeren that you should follow your dream? Protect people important to you? And to be yourself? These are one of the many things that anime actually taught me.
I use to be a really big bitch before I got into anime…I disrespected my mother, I wanted to be in the popular croud, I teased people who were different, and many more awful things.

I’m glad that they ARE showing anime in America, but the censorship is extremely irritating with One Piece, Naruto, etc. For example with Naruto: the whole battle between him and Sasuke aired on American TV completely UNcensored even though the scenes contain Sasuke stabbing Naruto through the shoulder, throwing Naruto off a cliff causing him to break his neck, and Naruto throwing Sasuke and dragging him against the rocky wall. So they can show all that……..but not two boys accidentally kissing? Well that just goes to show how great Americans are.

Granted, there are some fantastic anime shows and movies out there – Cowboy Bebop, Gurren Lagann, Millennium Actress, and Spirited Away, just to name a few. (That is, after all, why we love this stuff so much) Still, these are the upper echelon, not the norm. American TV has its own mature, smart productions as well, in the TV, movie, AND cartoon realms: Lost, Heroes, House, Babel, Crash, Wall-E, The Incredibles, and Spongebob are some good examples from my personal viewing experience.

You’ve got to give your own country’s entertainment a chance. Japan’s sensibilities are different and sometimes better, but American can hold it’s own in the entertainment business any day.

(Yeah, I definitely want to try an article on this)