>>149539207
Which is exactly my point. Most western influences on anime are mostly surface level fluff, a bike slide here or a Ghibli refenence there, maybe dig deep for a more obscure anime from the 80s to be quirky, but it's all surface level. Most western modern "magical girl" shows have a transformation sequence, a cute mascot, and call it a day. When the original Sailor Moon manga is very surreal and dreamlike, the anime is lighter but more playful with how it presents itself, Cardcaptor Sakura is whimisical but also slightly melancholic, PreCure is bombastic and showy not unlike Sentai or western cape stuff, Madoka is grim in contrast with its cute designs but has that that same sense of whimsy CCS had

Not a single western magical girl show is able to capture what made those series great or even how to stand out. I think the only western "magical girl" show that was able to stand of its own two legs, and understood what it was, was the original PPG.

If you are a fan of something, and inspired by it, it should be evident through your work and not be pointed at. I'm not denying there's western work that understands anime, but that's becoming more of the exception rather than the rule the more its done, and it becomes more soulless mush

For the life of me I couldn't tell what inspired Skull Island or that Tomb Raider show besides "anime" as a vague concept