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> Half the time when people say "I wanna make my cartoon more anime" they just mean "I wanna make my cartoon gayer, but without any interesting elements besides gayness."

If we want to be charitable, what they mean is that they want to ape the directing stylistic flourishes of anime that make scenes impactful, and have the ability to tackle topics with an emotional seriousness that anime allows for but cartoons reject. Its just that the topics that these want to tackle are, themselves, gay. But they feel a need to steal the visual language for tackling such things, because the west has LOST its visual language for anything other than comedy.