>>124646072>>124646146The 2000s was great for its diverse amount of cartoons rather than its improved budget for action cartoons. Nowadays we no longer have good comedy cartoons. We have some fanfic-tier action cartoons like Legend of Korra and Young Justice which feel boring as hell compared even to the vanilla 2000s.
I personally think the 2010s would have evolved into Madness Accelerant fights and finally good looking 3D animation like Poet Anderson and Tron Uprising's initial HD opening before they lowered the budget in favor of Star Wars.
>What did 2010s and 2000s cartoons lack? Where can we improve?Unironically 2000s and 2010 western american cartoons lack maturity. There's a reason why anime started taking off into the mainstream during these eras, most are juvenile sure, but even this juvenile sense of maturity is what cartoons lacked during this era.
>drama, romance or crimeAny of these elements came from action shows being the prime focus, or from one off episodes from comedic shows, yet japan has loads of series that the premise is just based on one of these three elements.
It goes to show that at a certain point, cartoons can stop growing with you.
Because America is obsessed with capitalism, comedic and action shows are the shows that sell, and in the 2000's and 2010's, many producers and studios strived to get in on that sweet cash money by reducing animation down to either appealing to action or appealing to comedy.