Yeah thats the way 90s and 2000s were, it was all "Japan Cartoons" or "Japanimation". Anime was a rare thing to find. I would have to watch some programs on Tech TV (anime unleashed?) or whatever to find some anime shows, you know aside the toonami or adult swim stuff. Everything Japan was generalized or parodied the same way. On the other hand it was good because normal people weren't really into it so it was a bit more pure. I think an entry point for most people would have been like dragonball and pokemon stuff. People did like Japanese things but it was like Ninjas and Samurai, Karate kid, Sushi, stuff like that but anime was still a bit of a geeky niche thing.