I don’t know how much of a problem it is nowadays, but I know for a very long time, “westerners” for some reason have a tendency to view anime in a similar way to how racist karens react when they have to walk past an innocent black person while walking at the park. I’ve never understood it but most of the people who don’t like anime, usually act like it’s somehow a threat to society and do everything they can to either slander it or just straight up try to get it banned. It’s insane and until people like this stop existing, anime will never be properly excepted.

Anime has same problem how many taken from another world hero shows are there. And oh they just happen to have a harem.

I used to agree with this, but when anime went from mostly hand drawn to mostly computer animated they really started churning out a bunch of garbage and now everything looks very samey and bubblegum. There were some older styles that made the animation seem more “adult” but those seem to be lost.

I think western animation has started to overtake anime for quality.

Bojack Horseman and The Amazing Digital Circus offer things I could never hope to get from anime short of 3-gatsu no Lion, namely in the writing department. The nuanced characters common in adult animation (meaning “western adult animation” since all anime is “adult”) aren’t common in anime. Probably because I drop any anime that demonstrates any conflict without english-language humour to soften it.

And there’s so much adult animation nowadays and I’ve tried far less of it than I should, since I’m boycotting everything American and not keen on picking up a new American-centered hobby.

I mean really I think a lot of adults have issues with “fan service.” At least it’s been a problem when I try to get into an anime sometimes. Looking at you Fire Force.