>>99322966Because there's a huge factor of uncertainty.
Understand anon that the anime market is propped up by a very curious set of factors that developed just right, and while America's no stranger to enforcing insane working conditions on its employees (see: vidya industry) to pump out products there's just no assurance that American markets would respond similarly.
Of course, the inconvenient truth that the Big Three of western animation are unwilling to take note of is that even child-targeted children's cartoons are slowly but surely declining in relevancy. The whole business model isn't particularly stable itself, but the alternative would basically require them to somehow magically conjure a new generation of skilled animators from thin air.
This is why anime weebs in the spotlight (mainly e-celebs) are pushing so hard for the "anime in Hollywood" meme, and why every time a black celebrity comes out as a closet weeb the internet explodes; the best way to show execs that increased confidence in serialized animation aimed at wider audiences than kids 5-12 can be profitable is to show that it already is profitable for other markets.
In other words, if anime takes off in the west it'll prove that an anime-esque model for animation could still work in the west.
The only other option beyond that is slightly more of a long shot. New distribution/content platforms springing up in the next 5 years could make webcomic creation a viable pursuit, and if one or two more Homestucks take off from that it could start a new craze, which could die off as a fad or kickstart a tentative "manga" scene in the West, which could theoretically become popular enough to attract the attention of the major entertainment companies, which could spur on large scale adaptations that could possibly be animated.
If you look very carefully you'll see the magnitudes of likelihood between the first scenario and the second.
