

In [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XRe612LFvs), Digibro argues
anime's international appeal is that, whereas Western TV including its
animation is designed for financial reasons to meet a target demographic's
existing interests, anime can be more diverse and give us "something that we
never would’ve known we wanted". I'm sure I've simplified the argument
(transcript
[here](https://myswordisunbelievablydull.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/what-is-the-
appeal-of-anime/)), but my understanding is that Digibro feels financial
motives haven't homogenised anime as much as they have the animation of other
nations. But why would that be so?


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Funding and anime diversity


Anime is very homogenized and always has been. If you were a fan during the
1970s you could pick among a dozen flavors of different anime and that was it.
In the following picture, each cover represents a different franchise.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tol3l.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tol3l.jpg)

Nothing much has changed since then. Only there are more flavors of anime now.
But new anime are all derived from some older anime and the more you watch,
the more you realize all the similarities.


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