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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Again, irrational prejudices aside, they are mainly aimed at kids (from young young to high school age). The stories are aimed at kids, the writing is at a level that doesn't go over a kid's head, the characters are almost always kids, etc. At least as far as anime goes there are plenty of movies that break the mold, but as far as TV series goes, anime seems to be just one big cliche at this point. Not to sound condescending but it may just be that you're still in the target audience so you just don't notice.
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The majority of music is hypermarketed ****. Does that mean music isn't taken seriously outside of those demographics?
I think you're really stretching here. There's tons of adult oriented animation out there that is very good, to reduce "animation" down to "mostly for kids" and then use that to try and discredit people who think otherwise.
Most TV is ****. How much reality TV crap is there out there that isn't interesting? Actually tons. Doesn't mean we don't have series like breaking bad or Dexter.
On the same token, Anime has plenty of complete **** too, and a lot of it is very popular - So popular in fact that it seems to be all people talk about at times - The X Factor, or Big Brother of anime, hugely popular, utterly dreadful, say for example bleach or naruto, which are **** compared to plenty of other stuff.
That said, there's tons of TV that isn't **** and tons of animation that isn't either.