@bajax @PonyPanda @JSDorn @Tactical it's the same with western animation too. Aside from reading tales about movies that were fucked by studio interference and movies that very famously snuck metaphors past the studio censors in the the old days (to the point tv tropes had a page for this), western (or outsourced) animation has 3 things it seems: shitty kids cartoons that assume you're braindead, cartoons that vary in quality for the 8-16 demographic give or take, and adult cartoons with as many lowbrow sex and pop culture jokes as possible that wind up becoming more popular with the kids and mentally stunted manchildren anyhow (family guy, south park, Simpsons, etc.)

This is because studios have the expectation that cartoons and animated movies are only for kids in the west meanwhile Japan in the 90s was producing anime that was cinematic in the way movies were, but how many Hollywood studios would dare make something like Akira, putting the sense of aesthetics aside? They know that some braindead mom who wants the tv to raise her kids will take their kids to the theater and ignore the warnings and cry and get the film pulled. Well Sausage Party was a film that existed but the entire premise was haha sex jokes.

It also took videogames forever to break out of this mold, and only when companies began to discover that shocking content sold in the early 90s in the USA did that change. While Nintendo of America was showing night trap to old congressmen to try to fuck over their competitor (whose mortal Kombat blood code led to more sales), in Japan they had games like Shin Megami Tensei which wouldn't have been able to be released in 90s America because you know, demons and the star of David.