@LostInCalifornia @EvilSandmich @William_The_Dragonborn I think youre conflating the exploitation in "worldwide appeal" with "the made the characters more childlike (which you really still havent proven)" where as the much more reasonable cause of anime's explosion across the globe was that distribution methods became more streamlined (not even to talk about the internet of the 2000s) with CDs, fan-dubbing, etc around that time.