I respectfully disagree, I think only 55-65% of everything is sh!t

Highschooler gets sent to a magical world full of big tittied horny anime women

I'd argue that Japan is only so popular because of anime+manga.

Everything is 95% shit, but it does seem like some people get turned on to a couple animes they like and don't understand that the same good/shit ratio that applies to everything else also applies to anime. I think at least some of these people make "liking anime" part of their personality before they figure this out and then become defensive, like they're being personally attacked, when it's pointed out.

Most of it is shit, but I think your reasoning is backwards. I don't think people (At least Americans/Westerners) like anime because it's Japanese, they like Japanese stuff through exposure to it in anime.

When we were kids and watching stuff like Pokemon and Yugioh, none of us knew wtf anime was or where it came from. They were just some more cartoons. In fact the localizers like 4Kids actively tried to scrub "foreignness" from the shows because they thought it would ick American audiences.

And this pop cultural dominance has been very successful at rehabilitating Japan's image, both erasing the past and glazing over some of the uncomfortable parts of the present.

As for actual show quality, I'd say all mediums have mostly bad art with a few gems, but I do think anime is exceptional in two ways: First, it seems like the barrier to turning some random author's bad ideas into a commercial product are much lower, I'm not really sure what the exact economic or cultural reasons are for that though. Second, most anime ends up being kind of bad in the same way. It's a medium that's practically defined by it's tropes and they are shared amongst the good and bad shows alike. The difference is usually that the good ones have something else worthwhile going on and the bad ones are almost nothing but a reheated remix of these tropes.

You sound like my mom who attributes anything cartoon-like and from Japan as anime, while knowing basically nothing about a single show.

why would being form japan make it popular ?

So 5% is not shit, that’s still thousands of shows. It’s the same with western media though.

To be honest i like anime because how comfortable it is with being shit and outrageous and i love to hate watch stuff like kingdoms of ruin simply to marvel at how bad it can get. Also i feel stuff like Baki loops back into being so bad it's good. I can't get over the fact that the last season finale was a feud with his martial art master dad about being served imaginary dinner that escalated to Baki being used as a human nunchuck in a public brawl.

No western writer would commit to that kind of madness.

Ok, you have a point there. I like anime and I think only 55% of it is bad

I disagree with you but I also don't know why there are so many people who's interest is "japanese culture", start of the semester is coming up and every so often you will get some guy's interest as this

I agree with you. I also don't like anime and can't understand why people are excited with it.

My theory is that they align themselves with eastern culture, where naive look at the world and the same naive jokes are cool and funny.

Or maybe I'm just the evil person.

Anyway, not upvoting because we're supposed to upvote unpopular opinions in such topics.