I can pull the same thing with anime - the vast majority pumped out are either:
- slice of life
- isekai
- shonen
Here's a few more: (not super hero, not necessarily geared towards children, and not comedy)
- Owl House
- Pantheon
- Infinity Train
- Final Space
- Castlevania
I think you're simply less well versed in the variety of western animation. There's also not nearly as much MONEY in western animation, so of course there's less of it.
> The owl house literally won an award for best childrens tv (albeit it does look deep enough to be enjoyed by adults)
Yes, but it also has a large adult following. It is not TARGETING children unlike a show like Blue's Clues. Therefore I don't think you can classify it as you put "pixar level children shows" (which I don't even know what that means).
> Wikipedia describes Final Space as a comedy
Maybe... personally while I think Final Space does have comedic elements - it also has an overarching storyline and is more of an epic adventure dealing with tragedy, death, and loss at a pretty adult level.
> Infinity Train can't be legally purchased
Literally this has nothing to do with the main point which was that western animation does not have variety
> Sure, but that is both a cause and effect of it failing to capture audiences the way anime has.
We weren't discussing whether or not something appeals to an audience. We were discussing whether or not there was sufficient variety. I think the root of our disagreement is in "volume" and I would argue that there is plenty unless you absolutely need to be consuming media every day.
There might be significantly LESS from a quantity perspective, but the DIVERSITY in shows is 100% available if you know where to look.
And in fact the actual OP post that I was addressing (because I think we're getting a bit off track) was that "cartoons in the USA fall under the rough set of same humor or writers" which is, assuming one possesses even a modest amount of experience with western animation, patently false.
Western animation is varied, but I think anime overall still has an upper hand.
In anime not too unusual to see shows like Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju which is a historical drama that follows the apprentice of a master stage entertainer in the Showa era. Very niche, but also quite interesting. Stuff like that almost never gets animated TV shows in the US.
I think the traditional outlet for that stuff is like Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.
USA certainly produces a lot of entertainment and celebrates niches.
What's weird and interesting though is that Japanese Anime covers just so many genres (including edutainment. I'd add Ninja Girl and Samurai Master as a very educational plot about the Warring States period of Japan). Maybe even Kenshin as a more mainstream historical fiction about Mejia Era / dawn of industrial Japan as the perspective of an old Samurai assassin.
--------
USA has assassins creed for example (or Canada does at least??) but that's a video game. Shogun and Game of Thrones has fantasy + history in them.
I guess general USA entertainment certainly covers all the genres. But anime alone attempts to cover all the bases. That's quite unique for a medium IMO.
- slice of life
- isekai
- shonen
Here's a few more: (not super hero, not necessarily geared towards children, and not comedy)
- Owl House
- Pantheon
- Infinity Train
- Final Space
- Castlevania
I think you're simply less well versed in the variety of western animation. There's also not nearly as much MONEY in western animation, so of course there's less of it.