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@Niki Wonoto I don't really know if that's really the case. Anime with deep stories, thought provoking stories or specific themes still exist and are still being produce. Anime like Attack on Titan, Psychopass, Mushishi, do fit in this category. So I think the problem lies in not having searched enough.

I have also a question about what do you consider "old" and "like it USED to BE". Everything depends on this particular sentence. If you consider that something that has been produced 10 years ago like Paprika (2006), well anime like Psychopass, Attack on Titan or Mushishi won't fit in your category of "old" anime. And if you consider anime from the 90's to be "old", well you have a lot of counter examples as the ones you've just sited.

Where you are right though, is that "Moe" anime are quite numerous nowadays. These anime tend to follow a recurrent storyline or tend to use similar characters thus having you hate the anime.

However, the reason anime studio choose these types of anime is because, they are generally successful and appealing to the Japanese audience and that's where all the problem are (and I will now give my point of view on the various points of the article). The anime are originally made for the Japanese demographic and not an American, European or other country"s demographic. The studio can't take any risk and will take what seems to be working among the Japanese population (in manga, novels or games in rare cases). So if you want to blame someone, you need to blame the Japanese population for loving these kind of anime and not the government for not trying to protect the studios or the studios for making a certain type of anime.

And as for the outsourcing of Japanese animation studios, 92% of the anime production studios are located in Japan. Even if it is true that some parts of the anime are produced in foreign countries ( China, India or South Korea), they are used when they are really behind schedule. Finally, I highly doubt that China and Korea is going to be a threat to Japan. Korean animation and Chinese animation isn't that developed yet. Moreover, even if they manage to develop great anime, the Japanese television won't show the Chinese or Korean anime like they don't show any American or English series in Japan. It will maybe affect other countries in their choice of what to watch, but not for the Japanese in making anime.

So to resume, anime are made for Japanese people, serious themed anime are still made, Chinese and Korean anime won't change in the way things have been working up until now for the Japanese animation studios.