>>148982660 Still doing better than calarts shit which is what western animation is. Cartoons have been both in a stylistic rut and storytelling rut for decades.
>>148982631 (OP) Anime faggots are so poisoned by their moe/loli garbage that they think every cartoon needs to have characters that they can masturbate to or else they're "ugly".
>>148982683 90% of /co/threads are image dumps where people jerk off to off-model images of cartoon characters. You don't have the right to complain about anything when your board is so garbage,
>>148982715 Not a weeb but I remember stuff like Nichijou, Eizouken or Bocchi The Rock more recently having a distinctive style that stood out above the rest, Kill La Kill too.
east vs west troll threads are cancer and against >>>/global/rules/3 and >>>/co/rules/1 OP is a faggot. Fulfill your civic duty to help purge this board of anarchistic, sociopathic, intellectually regressive youtube/reddit/twitter immigrant subhumans like him who are under the delusion that all of 4chan (instead of just the designated shitposting playpens like /b/, /trash/, /bant/, etc.) is a toilet by reporting this thread en masse. Here's a link so you don't have to scroll up to the top of the page. https://sys.4chan.org/co/imgboard.php?mode=report&no=148982631
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 6:31:00 PM No.148982772
>>148982749 >Yet you are on the board that encourages that So are you. YOU get some self awareness, retard. My identity isn't defined by imageboards like yours is, shit layer.
>>148982772 >So are you. But I don't act all high and mighty about it. Kek, you got so mad, I guess calling you a faggot hurt hard. Don't throw rocks in a glass castle :)
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 6:34:25 PM No.148982814
>>148982795 >you were bringing up nu /co/ I brought up this board(that's what I meant by nu-/co/) because it fit the context. What's so hard to grasp?
>>148982815 90sfags hated that decade because it wasn't exactly the same as the stuff they grew up with. They didn't care that they were growing up and 2000s kids liked different things than them so they seethed over it constantly, first on forums and then on youtube when that got big. It's the same reason why 2000sfags hate 2010s cartoons so much, and why 2010sfags seethe over skibidi toilet, hazbin hotel, and post-owl house DTVA sloppa.
>>148983043 Teen Titans and Avatar are the only cartoons people like BECAUSE it looks like anime. Unless you think that they were liked because of the writing.
>>148982660 If this is what being in a rut looks like, then maybe being distinctive isn't all its cracked up to be. Is Steven Universe "better" because its people look like deformed blobs? Is Smiling Friends improved by being intentionally ugly?
>>148983233 Same with Phineas and Ferb, Ed Edd n Eddy, and Powerpuff Girls. They're all distinctive but look like shit even compared to anime back then.
>>148983262 >>148983233 >They're all distinctive but look like shit even compared to anime back then. Question, what are your thoughts on Crayon Shin-Chan? Does that get a pass because it's anime?
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 7:19:41 PM No.148983307
Reminder that it's mostly /v/ fags, not /a/ fags pushing these east vs west threads.
>>148982631 (OP) I don't understand why they can't coexist, nothing in this picture even looks bad
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 7:22:44 PM No.148983341
>>148983286 Anon, how many of the threads about Ed, Edd, And Eddy on /co/ are about the Eds and their adventures, or jokes from the show? Now, how many Ed,Edd, and Eddy threads about about the Kanker sisters? You have your answer.
>>148982631 (OP) Fire all the immature faggot millienals and hire talented people. We need more unique artists in the industry and not the same beanmouth fake anime styles.
>>148982660 Yea, that's why anime is a dead industry with nothing being made and cartoons are thriving more than ever with lots of new fresh stuff being made and definitely not a bunch of reboots, remakes, revivals, and "projects" made by [guy who worked on a show a decade ago back when we still had some relevance]. Unique and shit is still just shit.
>>148983809 It is sadly a fact that there are more anime shows in a single season than american companies as a whole put out in a year. Even if most of them are slop, the sheer volume of new material ensures that there are 1-3 new shows every season worth watching and thats more than can be said for cartoons. Like, whats the last recent cartoon people actually considered good? Some indie youtube project like Digital Circus? Because most of what /co/ talks about on a regular basis is ANCIENT.
I blame Jamie Hewlett but I'll always value a distinct "ugly" style over a safe cute one. When done right it's insanely charming and sticks in your mind. No, that doesn't mean ugly = good and cute = bad 100% of the time. It's not so black and white. By the way, the "safe cute" label can apply to beanmouth shit too, not just moeslop anime.
>>148983861 >safe cute What kind of gen alpha slang is this? What does it mean?
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 8:16:30 PM No.148983910
>>148983881 >Quantity = quality So I guess the mountains of beanmouth shows mog your favorite niche anime as well?
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 8:16:39 PM No.148983913
>>148983850 It was like this in the 2000s too even when it wasn't ancient. Anime always produces way more shit than cartoons ever will and you can at least find 1-3 good shows.
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 8:18:18 PM No.148983935
>>148983341 >Anon, how many of the threads about Ed, Edd, And Eddy on /co/ are about the Eds and their adventures, or jokes from the show? Plenty of threads of this exists, mora than Kanker threads actually. What kind of question is this?
In the example image: The Western examples are all made for small children, the characters are designed to be funny. The Japanese examples are all made for adult otaku, the characters are designed to be attractive.
>>148984493 The point is that both Western and Eastern artists can draw ugly things and cute things if they wish. This thread is "otaku culture vs. Western animation" more so than it is "Eastern animation vs. Western animation". I wanted to leave at least one good intentioned post in an ill intentioned thread.