>>149877851
There's nothing wrong with shock content or therapy content, animation can be anything. The problem is that this content comes from the deeply internalized contempt Western artists and corporations have for animation as an art form.
The reason why every adult animation is some sort of grotesque comedy is that the joke at the core is animation as a medium - something childish used to show off something violent, perverted, etc. This goes back to Bakshi and The Simpsons. Animation only exists for kids, can only be used to teach childish life lessons and sell toys. Using it for adults means subverting that with crassness, and nothing more. This happened thanks to Disney's monopoly throughout the 20th century, they were so goddamn dominant that CalArts was founded as a breeding ground for Disney's drawslaves, while the rest of the animation industry was seen as a stepping stone towards Disney.
This is why anime, which developed on its own without these prejudices (Japanese animators successfully fought off this Disney curse early on), shocked Western audiences so much. It was something Western animators couldn't even think of, and they still can't. A generation grew up on anime, but now they're only making obvious facsimiles of anime (see: Steven Universe) while still retaining that contempt that never lets them go beyond the walls of Disney and The Simpsons.