Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-32659985-20170917135131/@comment-26374068-20171104194029

ShadowKaras wrote: Anime is infinitely better than western cartoons when it comes to serious shows That last part... I can't agree.

Gravity Falls has an extremely serious setting, talking of conspiracies, aliens, and everyone banding together to take on a psychopathic, higher dimensional being that threatens the entire multiverse. Rick & Morty features the smartest alcoholic on Earth and his grandson getting into dozens of life-threatening situations, and the second episode made me tear up, when not even any Anime protagonists' backstories have accomplished such.

Heck, most Anime doesn't have any serious tone at all, but something like Courage the Cowardly Dog features a stray being picked up by an older couple and fighting against ghosts, aliens and literal demons just to protect them. When DiC went with the Mario and Sonic cartoons, stuff for kids, Bowser literally tried to crush Mario and Luigi between two walls and transform all the people in the kingdom into rocks, forcing Peach to marry him so he can become the king of the kingdom, and one episode features him trying to be a Republican nominee against Peach's democratic campaign. One of the episodes literally touched on racism, and all the issues with it.

The most serious and mature tone I've ever gotten from Anime was with Dragon Ball Super, in the Future Trunks Arc and Universe Survival Arc. And even then, Gravity Falls and Rick & Morty have that beat.

Not trying to slander your opinion or anything, just sharing my own. :)