>>7634294
This board has a very narrow definition of "anime," a word that, in Japan, encompasses all animated works. Even if you take the international definition of "animation originating from Japan," there is tremendous variety in style (see picrel, all anime). Still, I don't understand this board's obsession with "westoid" and "faux-anime." The shows on the right of OP's pic aren't meant to fool anyone into believing they come from Japan. Avatar looks nothing like Japanese animation; it just has an Asian-inspired setting. Vox Machina is an LGBTQ diversity brigade production with a style that is partly inspired by anime (trannies love anime). The best animation from both Japan and America is all in the past. Cost-cutting measures such as widespread adoption of CGI have ensured that nothing on the achievement scale of Akira (1988) will ever again come out of Japan, nor will the early masterpieces of Disney ever be matched. If you're talking about lower-tier entertainment — Saturday morning cartoon fare — some of the American productions of the 1980s and early '90s were actually pretty good. The Rambo animated series (1986) had such comic book talents as Alfredo Alcala and Jack Kirby working on it. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), X-Men and Batman the Animated Series (both 1992) were all fun and engaging to watch. Still, Japan clearly places a higher value than America on drawn works — comics and animation, which, in Japan, are closely interrelated as many anime productions are adaptations of manga and vice-versa.