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NightMareBunny posted...

That stigma wont change until the big companies start reinforcing it and telling people its true

That's easier said than done, though, because it's not just a matter of *telling* people there's animation for adults out there, it's a matter of making it and getting people to watch it. It's hard to get projects greenlit at studios (especially these days, where revenue is down significantly from where it was even just 10-20 years ago) if you're pitching an unproven idea for what looks to them like a niche market.

Western animation used to be truly all-ages, but we can largely thank Hanna-Barbera studios for changing it into something aimed for kids (since they learned pretty quickly that kids had the greatest tolerance for cheaply-made garbage that they could churn out quickly); Japan never suffered the development of the "animation age ghetto" and their view of animation as being something for everyone persisted into the modern era. I think that's ultimately why adult-oriented anime has enjoyed significant success there, while non-comedic adult-oriented western cartoons are both rare and generally not successful.