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Originally Posted by zodia
besides theres no way that the American made stuff can even compare to the Japanese animation ... I mean come on.
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Not flaming you or anything, but that's exactly the sort of thinking that keeps it from being done.
These series take huge budgets and lots of work to create, and in the US they're no reason to make our own when no one would be interested and we can just distribute Japanese series.
On the other hand I don't think American artists should be trying to carbon copy anime either. I think we should do things our own style and not somebody else's, but we could still expand the target audience and thematic elements of animated series and movies to include teenage and adult viewers and have aspects of drama, action, suspense, ect. We probably would to if the idea wasn;t constantly shot down in such a manner.
I think a good example of what I'm talking about is the Spawn animated series. There was nothing "anime" about it, but it was unquestionably targeted at adult viewers and was really actually quite good. More things along these lines that break out of the super hero mould would actually prompt me to watch television in this country again.
Also think about this, take some American series and imagine them as anime. On another forum we were discussing how epically awesome a Battlestar Galactica animated series would be. Think about it: Massive arcing military sci-fi plotline chronicalling the the ultimate exodus of the human race through space against a massive enemy force. Does that sound anime or what? That's what I'm talking about.
Americans could easily make their own mature animated series, we just don't and as a long as everyone is fine with that we won't.