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Originally Posted by Kyuu
Then here you have - some animation from Japan. Anime was already being brought into the states; but none of them (aside from Robotech) made it to television.
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That's overstating it -- Speed Racer and Astro Boy aired on American TV decades before Robotech, and Star Blazers and Voltron were more or less contemporary with it.
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Of course, we all know. The tables have turned through the 1990s and 2000s. "Anime" is the dominant force in animation today, while the former "American animation" is heading downward more and more. "Japanimation" managed to phase out rather quickly in favor of a more trendy word "anime". However, the "Japan" label never went away.
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Again I have to disagree. After-school and Saturday morning shows have largely disappeared from over-the-air television over the last twenty years, though Cartoon Network, Nick and Toon Disney still produce tons. But at the same time, we've seen a huge rise in adult-oriented American animation -- something that barely existed before The Simpsons came along. True, a lot of them are the crap that Panty, Stocking & Garter Belt was making fun of, but I'd put Futurama, King of the Hill, Daria, The Venture Bros. Home Movies, and Mission Hill above 90% of the anime produced in the last decade.