No, not at all. All art has a message or belief (usually progressive, at that), anime is created in a conservative hellscape and so usually simply has ideas you already internalized and take for granted (freedom from oppressive systems, equality, etc etc). I won't make assumptions about you, but many idiots and tourists often also just ignore the message of Japanese works and claim it's 'apolitical' or whatever fake standard they pretend to have.

The reason eastern media tends to be better is because it usually has less fingers in the pie. Most of the best anime, manga, and even games can ultimately be attributed to a single person's vision, either because they had a hand in every production based on their creation or because the studies stayed true to their vision as a rule. That isn't the case with Western entertainment, Spider-Man has been recycled through dozens of different authors with even more interpretations, it is not the vision of any single person anymore. Not to mention design by committee nonsense that makes up the biggest names in Western media

What did the witcher tv series try to educate us about? havent seen it.

Anime exists to sell the manga which has much stronger profit.

In the US they are trying to sell the adaptation itself. The fact that that adaptation usually sucks speaks to American companies not loving the anime but looking at dollar signs.

This is the same reason all the D&D movies suck ass.

Also if you are paying for a streaming service, no matter how many times you watch something it will still go away because its not voting with dollars per show, they are experimenting with how much they can not pay for in licensing before you quit.

Or maybe anime storytelling is untapped creative ground that Western production does not cover. In other words, familiarity breeds contempt.

'Voting with your wallet' is an odd way of putting it though.

I'm no expert on manga publishing by any means, but you still have to get noticed by the industry before getting published. The difference I suspect has more to do with artists being able to present an individual, cohesive vision, and 'trialling' manga being relatively cheap and low-risk for the publisher when it's just a way to pad out a magazine which will sell regardless. Meaning there's more original, creative ideas presented to the audience, but it's not really a consumer issue until it consequently reaches a certain level of popularity.

You're probably right on the faithful adaptation though, the manga basically gives the producers a storyboard to work off of. Hollywood suffers from the exact opposite issue to being ideological I think, they're often produced by committee without a cohesive vision. A show's good because of a clear, purposeful narrative, which hinges on the author's messaging.

So you’re saying “go woke go broke”?

Now thats a showerthought