What can be done to improve the status of Animation in the U.S?

The way I figure it, most people who are regular posters on forums and blogs are only a small fraction of people who talk about *insert show name here* and have a general opinion about it, be it good or bad, where as the rest of the world just... watches the show I guess.
 
Shin-Chan originally was meant for adults, or at least much, much older children. Dispite the fact that half the theme songs are very childish (and some are outright out of place). In fact, much like the Simpsons, a lot of kids were watching and the show came heavily under fire from Japanese Parental groups. Again, almost completely mimmicking the Simpsons and the antics of Bart Simpson. Of course, the later series and especially the movies were strictly slanted towards a younger demographic.



Well, 12 year old internet girls are probably talking about the show, but they use so much cyberspeak and abbriviations, it comes out as gibberish. :D Oh man, I'm turning this into a bad observational comedy routine.

HM and all that noise is popular mostly for girls 9-10. There are others to speak of, but that's the target audience. When we're talking about people here who are in their late teens, late 20's and so on, you hear more about shows that are important to them. And Avatar is a pretty popular show in its fanbase. Though the toy line must not have done too well, but that's Mattel for you, messing up licencees.
 
Well, Wiki listed the original run for the first two series being from the 70s. Only the third series is from the 80s. So I guess it depends on which series you're talking about.

True, "The Simpsons" is a lot more kid friendly than Family Guy and American Dad are, That would be an accurate comparison.

Fair enough, I suppose. Family Guy does seem to overshadow it more in both ratings and popularity, though AD still gets pretty decent ratings even if it's not talked about much.

Yeah, I can't say I've seen the earlier episodes of Shin-chan, but all the later ones I've seen subbed seem really childish/tame. The ones I saw feel like they'd be fit for Nick Jr, even. One involved Shin learning how to go down to the post office and mail a letter, like an episode of Max & Ruby or Rugrats.

Hannah Montana does extremely well for boys and girls between the ages of 12 -17, it can even be the #1 show for the teenage demographic when there's a new episode. That's a lot better than Avatar and Naruto do for teenages, but you always see more Naruto and Avatar talk on the net. So I don't think age has anything to do with it.

I'm with the belief that the more a show is popular in IRL, the less it gets talked about on the Net because fans can find people in real life to talk about it with, but for more obscure/geek-oriented shows, like Avatar, Naruto, and other comic-book shows, the Net is probably the only place you'd find people talking about them unless you go to a Con or join a club.
 
Well, that's because the numerous people on the internet talk about Naruto and Avatar, and those kinds of kids that love that sort of thing pretty much don't go to message baords like these and talk about them. While people who do post on boards like this usually hate them, and for multiple reasons. So it's popular mainstream stuff, while Naruto and Avatar are popular geek counter culture stuff.
 
I liked "Krypto", though not sure how it'd help make animation more "mature" (however that's defined---assume something other than an endless tiresome stream of pop culture/sex-, ethnic-, and toilet-jokes...).
 
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