I have enjoyed both in my life, from Duck Tales, Garfield, Simpson's to Cardcaptor's, Dragon Ball Z, Yu-Gi-Oh!
And I just have to give it to Anime. Anime inspired my art style, took it somewhere it wasn't going at first and I'm glad. Anime's become a big part of my life and it's always been because of these main things: More focus on the art style, rather then the humour
More closer to the comics art (I'm sorry, but a lot of American cartoons like Batman fail to look half as good as the comics, well, depending on which comics you read)
The art style is just better to me
The focus on fight scenes just makes it more enjoyable for me. I love Batman the Animated Series, but a lot of its fight scenes aren't on par with some of the great fight scenes you'll see in Bleach or Full Metal Alchemist.
Backgrounds look amazing, I mean wow... Unlike a lot of American cartoons where skyscrapers look god awful, or some of the cartoons where the background was an afterthought.
And while I do love shows like: Batman, The Batman, Spiderman, Teen Titans, Avatar the Last Airbender, Avatar the Legend of Korra and shows like that, anime just sticks out as more appealing to me.
Won't stop me from loving American cartoons, but I just like anime more.
Also, my favourite thing about Japan's animation is it still makes animated moves that are released in theater that aren't crappy CGI.
Also they gave us Studio Freakkin Ghibli. Your argument is invalid.
