Also why Avatar was so popular, because it took the same approach.

The issue here is entirely related to funding. Most animation in the West is seen as a vehicle for merchandising. When western studios are given adequate budgets and are allowed to cook you do see things like orchestral OSTs to score climactic moments.

It doesn't have these orchestral OSTs to score climactic moments, it doesn't have 'sakuga'. Of course everyone's lining up to go watch Infinity Castle and Chainsaw Man instead.

US animation, for lack of a better word, does not have the 'cool factor'. It doesn't have reasonably human-proportioned characters with detailed expressions doing things, it has instead designs that look like childish caricatures.

We had a chance to destroy that evil ideology once and for all and instead we invited them in! And continued to support it for the next 50 years! We fucked the entire world to beat the Soviets, and what did we get for winning? Al-qaeda in Afghanistan and the modern State of Russia.

I feel like I don't have anything new to contribute to this tag that I didn't already post as part of a meme a month ago 😓