Depends. The only anime I watch religiously is Case Closed/Detective Conan. Anime tends to copy and paste a lot of their themes and characters and have a lot of genre tropes but there are good classics like Samurai/Ronin Kenshin. In terms of western animation, I watch more adult swim cartoons like Aqua teen hunger force. The Western companies still see animation as something only for kids or not deep enough like live action
True. The thing with Western animation is, it's either intended entirely for adults or entirely for kids, there's not much of a balance like with anime or any other style of animation outside the Western world, Western animation also follows its common tropes but it seems like it's just meant to be popular and not as interesting in its characters, stories etc so it follows a formula. And Japanese anime does this more now too, it seems. I could be wrong though because I mainly watch 90s or 80s anime.
There’s always the cute furry creature for comic relief, the stupid character(s) that sometimes is a duo…the character you don’t know if male or female. I’m not a fan of anime outside of Dragon Ball which was my favorite growing up. I always wanted to like Gundam because the Mechs are super cool but I didn’t care about the characters at all.
Japanese animation can be quite convoluted and repetitive, you tend to see that less when it's what you watch the most, I might get into watching more Western animation.
mainly to save money on the animation budget anime cuts a lot of corners when it comes to animation in comparison to western
