Anime 101-What it does anime do that's better than it's Western Counterparts in the modern animation industry?

Anime. We hear that many times.

It's a medium to describe animation made domestically in Japan.

It's known for several things:

-Choppy but effective keyframe animation(Best animation is reserved for fights)

-Interesting Designs that vary from artist to artist(Think Akira Toriyama)

-The insane fandoms generated by it......

-It's laxer censorship policies(Meaning that anime can go unaltered and uncensored)

etc.

I recently changed the chassis in my Custom Built PC so I don't have any rants, tidbits, tools and tricks, or others on my plate so instead, i want to veer into the topic of anime.

I've have a deep fascination with the medium due to my ever-growing disenchantment with modern western animation.

Sure, modern anime still suffers the same stagnation of it's western sibling but I'll take it over the puppet rig and calarts style mandate nonsense thank you very much.

But, just to simplify things a bit due to PC Case swap, I'd figure I'll get into the bells and whistles of the medium.

-Keyframe Animation.

There's nothing wrong with your internet connection or your monitor refresh. The above gif from Cagliostro is the actual framerate from the movie.

And most anime movies have a higher budget than their television counterparts.

As choppy as most anime frames can be(it's often animated on twos or fours), I feel the choppiness has the advantage of much better handling of timing the keyframes than most western animation does.

For example, compare the timing from the above GIF from Castle of Cagliostro vs that of a scene from Season 1 of Nickelodeon's DOUG.

-Interesting Designs

In the past, Western Animation dominated interesting designs because characters differed from artist to artist.

Nowadays, it's the Japanese that excels at interesting art. Sure, it's mostly copying styles dissimilar to works from KyoAni or Love Live, but then you have artists like Akira Toriyama, Eichiro Oda, Rumiko Takahashi, and my personal favorite:

YOSHIYUKI SADAMOTO.

Sure, the rules are the same, you have to draw like that artist who created the characters but it's much better than having your own art get discredited by CN showrunners and being forced into the template driven CALARTS style you see so many times in todays western shows. 

But anime keeps everything linked to creator no matter the art style.

Of all the modern anime I see advertised on Facebook, HIDIVE, Crunchyroll, etc, they all maintain that hand-drawn, frame-by-frame style of animation.

Maybe that's one of the reasons I can't watch todays western animated shows due to things like puppet rigged and calarts style mandates forced upon by showrunners.

Every artist deserves to have their own style, not be forced to use an industry standard style.

Ok, so not all modern western shows are bad because I know two shows that are U.S made but follow the Japanese logic of animation, keyframes, poses, writing etc.

And those two shows are THE OWL HOUSE, and MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN.

I currently don't have any screenshots of those two shows but I do plan on updating this blogpost in the future.