One thing here is that I find your article a tad bit biased. You mostly say all the good things about the anime, if you are going to write an article like this at least even it out. You seem to side with the anime.

And darling I have seen my daily share of anime and I have to say I used to love it but I hate it now. Too many usually used characteristics, I hate seeing the usual male protaganist 24/7. At least in American cartoon shows there were different characters with personality that people can maybe even relate to.
And the plots! Oh my goodness is all I have to say. Garbage just all thrown up about. You are saying Naruto was good? That was a peice of crap, those same character personalities pit up in a bunch, they were flat characters.
And that plot lost me too after a while. American cartoons shows have their daily share too! Like Ben 10….and Teen Titans.

And there are american anime styles/influences if you guys didn’t notice. Which I’m very dissappointed. The Boondocks, Power Puff Girls, Dexter’s Laboratory, and teen Titens are few of them.
The Boondocks shows great meaning in it and a few unique characters like Huey himself which represents common sense and not everything is going to have that happy ending or not everything is going to be alright. It’s like reality.

This is why I dint like looking and articles such as these….oh yes Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs and District 9 and beat most anime movies is my own opinion.
Just wondering. Why did you say Americans were close-minded and uncreative?
You could have least said some, most, or few. And have you by chance seen District 9 by any chance? That’s something with actual meaning thank you very much.

that episode basically destroys every american show known today and that is just the beginning.

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.