You just watched that bullshyt clip from Bill Maher?
you're insulting me.
nah, it's just the western mindset. We're barely moving past the point where any animated/sci-fi series/movie doesn't have to have the goofy childish "amusing" jar jar binks character in it.
All the stuff america praises long term mediawise going back to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the east has been churning that stuff out since before AstroBoy.
Comics and video games are semi-mainstream now, but even france still reads more (than wany other country) comics, and prolly always has.
We crying for more and better Star Wars/Game of Thrones/Breaking Bad/Buffy/Angel/Firefly, but if it was animated, America would prolly shun it.
But it's all already out there. And animated. Or drawn.
Cause that stuff is for kids.