Why is Japanese animation so much better than American animation?

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Most Of The US Talent Is Funneled Through The Same Art Institutes Where They're Taught To Be Simple As Possible.
 

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Japanese and american animation is equal.
What a lot of people do is try to compare high end theatrical japanese animation to US tv animation and not like for like, but across all different price ranges they are equal to me.
 

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japanese people just put more effort into it. they dont mind working long ass hours. plus art is infused into their culture. they dont view animation/cartoons as little kid entertainment. america stopped wanting to pay animators here a lot of money. they outsource a lot of shyt cuz korea/japan = cheap labor.

animating an object is difficult shyt. these fukkin studios dont wanna pay an american 125k a year to animate when they can outsource and pay some no ass getting, octopus eating, teddy bear cuddling japanese dude 30k to do the same shyt and work long hours.
 

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American animation like most western animation tries making their characters abstract as hell
In anime for the most part the actually draw the humans in a more realistic way and setting. But to me quality wise they equal out cause it’s a lot of anime with super shytty stories and development and American cartoons tend to be way funnier

Also anime seasons have been getting over saturated lately,
 
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Japanese and american animation is equal.
What a lot of people do is try to compare high end theatrical japanese animation to US tv animation and not like for like, but across all different price ranges they are equal to me.


This give some examples OP cause I'd put justice league, batman TAS and the og x-Men and spiderman up against Naruto, bleach and one piece.

Or are you wanting to compare something like Akira with ed edd and eddy

As the poster said at the same product level it's about the same.
 
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This give some examples OP cause I'd put justice league, batman TAS and the og x-Men and spiderman up against Naruto, bleach and one piece.

Or are you wanting to compare something like Akira with ed edd and eddy

As the poster said at the same product level it's about the same.
This is the most ridiculous plot point. Pull out an anime today and compare it to adventure time or Steven universe and it shyt on them. The point is while Japan kept up their animation Americancwent cheap. On average when it comes to animation in the past decade Japan has been shutting on the U.S.
 
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