re: #206 ProTARDISLiberal

American Anime Fans have some bad taste though.

How do you explain the popularity of Dragonball and Sailor Moon when better mangas/animes like Rurouni Kenshin and Fruits Basket exist? Though, with Sailor Moon, why men like it is usually creepy.

Granted, there is some stuff I think I should see, like Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and maybe FLCL.

Yes, those are two weird things to like. But it is for roughly the same reason I am a fan of Bon Jovi, Nightwish, and Taylor Swift. And why I adore Doctor Who. Because Doctor Who appeals to both sides of that.

this is the same America where Dancing with the Stars and Breaking Bad co-exist semi-peacefully…. no accounting for taste. It’s a big enough market to allow for each entry to find it’s own niche. Remember, in the US, this stuff was primarily marketed as cartoons as a means to peddle merchandise, that’s changing as well, at least for some of the genre.