@XandryaFor the most part it's animation style and a bunch of tropes revolving around it. Also the whole marketing style and the linkage between literature and animation, since most anime are tied to a manga/light novel series, so there's that whole economic perspective of prioritizing profit. Then again lots of superhero cartoons have marvel/DC origins. I think there are those of who watch anime once in a blue moon, and then other who live and breathe the stuff >.>