I’d rather gouge out my eyes than have to watch anime. Calling it an “art form” is much the same as calling rap or hip-hop “music”—it stretches the definitions of those words to the breaking point.
Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons weren’t exactly high art, but they were not grotesque mockeries of art, either.
We'd have to disagree on this. Both of the examples I gave are better than 90% of what WB ever produced.